Tameka Yallop ( Butt; born 16 June 1991) is an Australian professional

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who plays for Brann in the Norwegian

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. She previously played for the

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in the

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, German

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club

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, Japanese

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club Iga F.C. Kunoichi, Swedish

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club Mallbackens,

Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Brisbane, Queensland and has won the domestic title on three occasions, as well as holding the longest unbeaten record of 36 league matches without defeat. Brisba ...

in the Australian W-League,

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in the

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, and has been a member of the Australian national team since 2007.

Club career

Brisbane Roar, 2008–2018

Yallop joined the

(then the Queensland Roar) in 2008, as they were one of the founding members of the W-League. They won the W-League Championship and Premiership in 2008–09. In the

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season, Brisbane returned to the

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, where Yallop scored a goal in the 9th minute, helping the team to a 2–1 victory. She briefly played with the Ottawa Fury in 2010. Yallop won the Westfield W-League Players Player of the Year Award for the

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season. She was the recipient of the

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for W-League Player of the year in 2014. As of February 2018, Yallop ranks 5th in all-time W-League history with 108 appearances and ranks 3rd in goals with 49.

Boston Breakers, 2012

Yallop signed with the Boston Breakers in the

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(WPSL Elite), the top division of women's soccer in the United States at the time, for the 2012 season.

FFC Frankfurt, 2013–2014

In January 2013, Yallop signed for German

club

Iga F.C. Kunoichi, 2014

Yallop was loaned by Brisbane Roar to Iga F.C. Kunoichi along with

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in late May 2014, and returned to Brisbane Roar for the 7th W-League season.

Mallbackens IF, 2016

In March 2016, Yallop signed for Swedish club Mallbackens.

Klepp IL, 2017–2018

In March 2017, Yallop signed for Norwegian club

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Melbourne City, 2018–2019

After spending ten seasons with the Brisbane Roar, Yallop signed with Melbourne City for the

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season.

Brisbane Roar, 2019–2021

In October 2019, the Brisbane Roar announced that Yallop would be returning to Brisbane for the

2019–20 W-League The 2019–20 W-League season was the twelfth season of the W-League, the Australian national women's association football competition. Nine teams competed in the league, with most of the players from Australia but 33 of them from 11 other cou ...

season, where she scored in their first game of the season. On 5 December, Tameka became the first Brisbane Roar player (including men, women and youth) to score 50 goals for the club.

West Ham United, 2021–2022

In May 2021, Yallop joined English club

. Playing 16 games with 1 goal in the

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, 3 games in

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and 3 games in

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. In August 2022, she left the club by mutual consent.

Brann, 2022–

In August 2022, Yallop joined Norwegian club Brann on a one-year contract with a further six months option.

International career

Yallop has represented the Young Matildas at various age levels. She was a member of the 2007 AFC Women's U-17 Asian Championship team and 2008 AFC Women's U-20s Women's Asian Championship team. Yallop captained the Australian U-20s National Team from 2007 to 2009 which included winning the 2008

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. Yallop has been a member of the

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since 2007. She was part of the team that won the

2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup The 2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup was held from 19–30 May at the Chengdu Sports Centre in China PR. The winners, Australia, runners-up, Korea DPR, and third-place team, Japan qualified for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. With this victory, Austr ...

. Yallop played for Australia at the

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and the

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. Australia lost in the quarter-finals in 2011 and 2015. In 2016, Yallop was named to her first Olympic Team for

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. Australia lost in the quarter-finals and Yallop did not appear in any games. At the

2017 Tournament of Nations The 2017 Tournament of Nations was the inaugural Tournament of Nations, an international women's football tournament, consisting of a series of friendly games. It was held in the United States, from July 27 to August 3, 2017, and featured four t ...

Yallop scored the only goal in a 1–0 win over the

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. This was the first time Australia had ever defeated the United States. The Matildas won the 2017 Tournament of Nations At the

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Yallop appeared in three games for Australia. The Matildas advanced to the Final where they lost 1–0 to Japan. Australia qualified for the

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. Yallop was a member of the

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squad. The Matildas qualified for the quarter-finals and beat Great Britain before being eliminated in the semi-final with Sweden. In the playoff for the Bronze medal they were beaten by the USA.

Career statistics

International goals

Personal life

In December 2017, Yallop announced her engagement to her

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teammate

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on her Twitter account. The two were married in

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, New Zealand, on 9 February 2019. Following the marriage they both took on the surname Yallop.

Honours

Brisbane Roar * W-League Premiership: 2008–09,

, 2017–18 * W-League Championship: 2008–09,

Australia *

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2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

* AFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament:

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

Tournament of Nations The Tournament of Nations was a global invitational tournament for national teams in women's soccer in non-World Cup and non-Olympic years hosted by the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) in several American cities. The inaugural tournament ...

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

FFA Cup of Nations The Cup of Nations is an invitational women's soccer tournament held early in the year in Australia. In the first edition (in 2019), it was contested by Australia, Argentina, South Korea, and New Zealand. On 12 January 2023, Football Australia ...

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

Individual *

: 2013–14

References

External links

*
Brisbane Roar player profile

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