Early career Fleeting began her football career aged nine with Cunninghame Boys under-10s. Fleeting, the only girl playing in the entire league, also helped St Winning's Primary School beat 1,000 other schools to the 1992 national championship. The competition was sponsored by
Tudor Crisps and Fleeting's school prevailed 1–0 in the final at
Ibrox Stadium. She joined Prestwick Girls when SFA rules barred her from mixed football at age 12. In April 1995, Fleeting scored twice as Prestwick beat Cumbernauld Cosmos 7–5 in the final of the Under-16 Scottish Cup. The following season Prestwick came under the auspices of
Ayr United, and the
Sunday Mail newspaper was already describing Fleeting as: "the most gifted young footballer in Scotland." After finishing school in 1998 she resisted overtures from American Universities to continue playing for Ayr while training to become a PE teacher at
Moray House School of Education. Fleeting explained that: "I was only young when I had to decide which university to go to, and at the time, Edinburgh was far enough away from home. But when I graduate I will still only be 21 and young enough to go abroad if I want to." In the 2001
Scottish Women's Cup final at
Almondvale Stadium, Fleeting scored a
hat-trick but Ayr lost on
penalties to local rivals
Kilmarnock after a 3–3 draw. Having already won the league championship, Ayr manager Hugh Flynn consoled his players with the prospect of participation in the following season's inaugural
UEFA Women's Cup. In November 2001 Ayr hosted the group stage mini tournament after original hosts
Toulouse had their ground damaged by
an explosion at a factory. Fleeting found the net in draws with
Osijek and
Chernihiv but Ayr were eliminated after a third draw with Toulouse. As the 2001–02 season progressed and graduation neared, Fleeting began to consider her options: "I'm considering America but as it's the top league in the world the competition will be fierce. Italy or England are possibilities although it's a shame I must leave Scotland to make a career in football." When an offer came to join
San Diego Spirit in June 2002, Fleeting departed Ayr United after nine years, as the club
captain and with around 300 goals to her credit.
United States In moving to
California Fleeting signed a one-year contract, with an option for a further three years. She arrived mid-season, with San Diego Spirit languishing near the foot of the
WUSA table. The move had been called into question when the coach who signed Fleeting was sacked, but general manager and interim coach
Kevin Crow sanctioned the deal. Four days later she played her second match and scored her first goal, driving
Shannon MacMillan's centre off the underside of the crossbar from 18 yards to put San Diego 2–1 ahead in a 2–2 draw at home to
San Jose CyberRays. In Fleeting's third game on 20 July 2002 she scored a last-minute winner from close range as San Diego beat
New York Power 1–0 at
Mitchel Athletic Complex. She started a single-goal defeat to
Washington Freedom, before bringing her goal tally to three in five games by putting San Diego ahead at home to
Atlanta Beat. Unfortunately for Fleeting,
Homare Sawa then scored twice as the Beat won 4–1 and extinguished the Spirit's hopes of making the play-offs. Fleeting finished the campaign with three goals and one assist from eight games including seven starts. She returned to Scotland during the off-season but expressed delight at the whole experience and was keen to return for more the following season: "I got to live near the beach on the California coast and play football as my job – it was amazing and I'd be delighted to go back." The
Daily Record newspaper contrasted the poor performances of Scotland's male footballers with Fleeting's exploits in "setting the biggest women's football league in the world alight". Fleeting's American teammates had initially named her
Shrek, on account of her
accent. During the 2003 WUSA season she acquired a new nickname of Air Scotland after scoring a number of goals with her head. She had missed most of Spirit's pre-season while playing for Scotland but managed a 20-minute substitute appearance in an opening day defeat to Boston Breakers. The squad was much changed from the previous season and Fleeting now paired with Canadian striker
Christine Latham in attack. Fleeting scored in the next four consecutive games, equalling the club record as San Diego began a seven-match unbeaten run. The team then hit a slump when Shannon MacMillan, the main supplier of Fleeting's goals, tore her
anterior cruciate ligament. After scoring her ninth goal of the season, the equaliser in a 1–1 home draw with New York Power, Fleeting controversially mimicked a
urinating dog whilst celebrating. In the 2003 regular season Fleeting scored 11 goals from her 17 starts and single substitute appearance. Fleeting was named the team
MVP at the end of year dinner, while her 11 goals and four assists were enough to clinch the club Golden Boot. In addition Fleeting was named to the All-WUSA Second Team.
Return to Scotland Following the season Fleeting's next stop was the
Scottish Highlands where partner Colin Stewart had transferred from Kilmarnock to
Ross County. Fleeting had several Premier League outfits vying for her signature upon her return to Scotland. She signed on
loan for Ross County's women's section and scored twice in a 5–3 win over Raith Rovers two days later. She explained: "I'm just happy to play anywhere. But I was going to be spending a lot of time up there seeing Colin anyway so it makes sense." Later in September 2003 WUSA collapsed with reported debts of $100m. Fleeting had also arrived back in Scotland just as her old club Ayr United folded. In December she was forced to miss some Ross County games in order to rest, but was still hopeful that the American professional league could be resurrected in some form: "I'm really hoping something comes of this. It will be great if it does all go ahead but I'm just waiting to see what happens at the moment. The target seems to be a restart of the full league in 2005 but with a series of exhibition games this year, which will still involve the foreign players."
Arsenal {{quote_box| width=25% In January 2004 Fleeting signed for English club
Arsenal Ladies. Under the terms of the agreement, Fleeting would continue to work as a PE teacher in Scotland from Monday to Friday and would train twice a week with the Under-21 section of local men's club
Kilwinning Rangers. On Sunday mornings Fleeting was to catch a
budget airline flight to London, where she would be met by Arsenal manager
Vic Akers. After being briefed by Akers during the journey, Fleeting would then play in the match for Arsenal before flying back to Scotland late on Sunday evening. It was an arrangement which was to continue throughout Fleeting's time at Arsenal, despite the extensive travelling involved. In 2007 Fleeting said: "I can understand that people raise eyebrows about playing but not training with Arsenal. But when I arrive, they always give me a good briefing and, if there's something special that they've been working on during the week, it's explained to me before the game. It hasn't been a problem so far!"
2003–04 Fleeting bagged a brace on her Arsenal debut, in a 6–1
FA Women's Cup fifth round win over Middlesbrough played on 25 January 2004. In the next round of the Cup, played on 7 February, she scored a
hat-trick in Arsenal's 11–1 demolition of
Cardiff City, being substituted during the second half in order to catch an early flight home. Fleeting continued to score regularly and hit the winner in 2–1 league victory at
Leeds United on 7 March. Two weeks later, Fleeting scored in a 4–0 win at home to the same opponents. On the intervening weekend, she had scored the opening goal in a 2–0 semi final win over
Bristol Rovers in the FA Cup. In April, Fleeting scored the only goal of the game against
Charlton Athletic to leave the Gunners only two points behind Charlton in the league with a game in hand. Fleeting hit a hat-trick in an 8–0 destruction of relegated
Aston Villa at home on 18 April, bringing her tally to 12 goals in eight appearances. On 3 May, Fleeting scored a
hat-trick for Arsenal in their FA Women's Cup Final win over Charlton Athletic, just a day after suffering a
calf injury while playing the full game for
Scotland and scoring against reigning
World Champions Germany. It took her record to fifteen goals in nine games for Arsenal since joining in January. Arsenal sealed the league title on 15 May, as Fleeting scored the second goal in a 3–1 victory over
Fulham before 5,000 fans at
Highbury Stadium. Fleeting finished the season with sixteen goals from ten appearances.
2004–05 In November 2004, Fleeting scored in the
UEFA Women's Cup quarter final second leg victory over
Torres. She fired the decisive goal in a 3–2 win, with only eight minutes remaining. In December, Fleeting scored all three goals in Arsenal's
Premier League Cup semi-final victory against
Birmingham City. In February 2005, Fleeting netted twice in a 3–0 over Birmingham City in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. Fleeting hit a total of 24 goals for Arsenal over the course of the season, while she was the recipient of the FA Women's Players' Player of the Year at the end of season annual
FA awards for women's football in England.
2005–06 In January 2006, Fleeting scored twice in a 4–1 defeat of Cardiff City in an FA Cup fourth round match. In January, she followed this up by scoring the opener and winning the penalty that made it 2–0 in a 3–0 victory over
Aston Villa in a fifth round match of the FA Cup. In February, Fleeting netted the first goal for Arsenal in a 6–1 defeat of
Sunderland. On 1 May, Fleeting scored in a 5–0 FA Cup final win against
Leeds United. Fleeting hit a total of 17 goals in 15 appearances for Arsenal throughout the season, before spending the summer of 2006 on a month's loan in
Iceland with
Valur. Husband Colin was also in Iceland at the time, playing for
Grindavík. Fleeting netted four times in three games for Valur before returning to the UK.
2006–07 Fleeting was an integral part of the all-conquering Arsenal side that won an unprecedented six trophies;
Premier League,
FA Cup,
Premier League Cup,
Community Shield,
London FA Cup and
UEFA Women's Cup. Fleeting went on to play the full 180 minutes of the
two-legged final as Arsenal overcame
Umeå 1–0 on aggregate. In September 2006, Fleeting hit five out of the 11 goals scored by Arsenal in their first two UEFA Women's Cup second round group stage matches in wins over
Rossiyanka and
Budapest In October, in the
UEFA Women's Cup quarter finals, Fleeting notched a double in the 5–0 first leg home win on the 12th and the opener in the 4–1 second leg victory on the 19th against
Breiðablik. In domestic competition, Fleeting broke the deadlock against Everton as Arsenal prevailed 4–1. She scored in the semi-final return leg in the UEFA Women's Cup against
Brondby in a 3–0 victory in December.
2007–08 In October 2007, Fleeting netted three times for Arsenal in the
second round group stages of the
UEFA Women's Cup. On 13 October, Fleeting bagged a brace in a 7–0 win over
Neulengbach and on 16 October, she hit the opener in the final group game; a 3–3 draw against
Bardolino Verona. In February 2008, Fleeting scored twice in a 5–2 win over
Liverpool. Later that month she played as Arsenal were shocked 1–0 by Everton in the FA Women's Premier League Cup Final. It was Arsenal's first defeat in 58 domestic matches, stretching back two years. In the 2008 FA Women's Cup Final against Leeds United, Fleeting entered play as a 75th-minute substitute. Her shot which hit the post was turned in by teammate
Kelly Smith for Arsenal's final goal in their 4–1 win.
2008–09 to 2012 In November 2008, Fleeting scored against
Umeå at home in the
UEFA Women's Cup quarter final first leg to make it 2–2, before a late goal from
Kim Little won the game for Arsenal. Fleeting watched the return leg from the substitutes' bench, as Arsenal were thrashed 6–0. In December 2008, Fleeting announced she would be taking time out from the game on the advice of Arsenal's medical team, after discovering she was pregnant with her first child. With her due date at some point in July 2009, it meant she would be unavailable until the following summer at the earliest. In April 2010, a few days after appearing in her first matches for Scotland since taking time out from the game, she scored the first goal in Arsenal's FA Cup semi-final win over
Chelsea. Fleeting who had just returned to regular action, having not played a full ninety minutes all season, was identified by Arsenal manager Laura Harvey as the player who could "inspire" Arsenal to a fifth successive Premier League and FA Cup
double. In May's
FA Women's Cup Final, Fleeting scored Arsenal's second equaliser of the match to level the scores at 2–2 against
Everton but Arsenal lost 3–2 in extra time. Fleeting scored the second goal in Arsenal's 2–0 win over
Bristol Academy in the 2011 FA Women's Cup Final in May. In the inaugural
2011 FA WSL, Fleeting scored twice in her 11 appearances for champions Arsenal.
Return to Scotland 2013 On 1 March 2013,
SWPL newcomers
Kilwinning SC announced they had signed Fleeting. Her debut resulted in a 10–0
SWPL Cup defeat at
Celtic two days later. It was her first competitive match after 18 months away from football. Kilwinning manager Craig Hamilton stated Fleeting could be the difference between survival and relegation for the club. She made her league debut in the club's first ever top flight fixture, registering an assist for the first goal, in a 3–2 defeat at Hutchison Vale on 17 March 2013. Her first goal for the club came, when she opened the scoring, in a 2–1 home league defeat to
Aberdeen two weeks later. Fleeting returned to the team, in a 2–1 league defeat at
Hamilton Academical on 12 May 2013, winning the resulting free-kick, which made 1–1. She scored twice inside the last five minutes, having previously won a penalty as well, to help Kilwinning recover from 4–2 down to win 5–4 in a home defeat of
Falkirk one week later, which secured the club's first league win of the season. Fleeting left Kilwinning in June 2013, when she had her registration with the club cancelled. It was reported in
The Scotsman newspaper on 24 July 2013 that Fleeting had made a high-profile summer transfer to Kilwinning's SWPL rivals Celtic. Fleeting hit a
hat-trick on her Celtic debut, in a 9–0 friendly victory over
Piedmont College two days later. She marked her competitive Celtic debut with a goal, in a 3–0 home league win over
Spartans two days later again. Fleeting opened the scoring, in a 2–2 league draw at
Aberdeen on 4 August 2013. Two weeks later, Fleeting scored her first competitive hat-trick for Celtic, in a 9–1
Scottish Women's Cup home defeat of Queen's Park. This included a clever tight-angled overhead kick and a perfectly executed volley. She netted twice to help Celtic recover from 1–0 down and put them 2–1 up, in a 4–1 league win at
Glasgow rivals
Rangers on 1 September 2013. Fleeting netted fives times, in a 10–0 Scottish Women's Cup victory over Viewfield Rovers at home one week later. She scored the decisive goal, in a 2–1 home league win over Aberdeen on 29 September 2013. Fleeting also played in the Scottish Women's Cup semi-final defeat to
Glasgow City, which Celtic lost 3–0 on 6 October 2013. Her last appearance of the season came as a second-half substitute in the last SWPL match of the season, in a 2–1 win against Rangers, a result which secured a third-place finish for Celtic. Fleeting was earmarked as the catalyst for a resurgent Celtic side, who had a slow first half of the season, since signing in July 2013. She was integral as Celtic secured a top three finish and reached the Scottish Women's Cup semi-finals.
2014 Fleeting began the new
SWPL season with a goal in a 5–0 victory at
Aberdeen in Celtic's opening game. Fleeting made it 3–0, after slotting home from an acute angle. The following week, two Fleeting headers, either side of half-time gave Celtic a 2–0 home win over Hutchison Vale. In a 4–0 home defeat of Hamilton Academical in the
SWPL Cup on 13 April, Fleeting converted all four of Celtic's second half goals. In a 10–0 home demolition of bottom team Buchan on 27 April, Fleeting made it back-to-back hat-tricks in matches, taking her early season tally to ten goals in four matches. Fleeting netted twice in an 8–1 home thrashing of Queen's Park on 18 May. Flagged grabbed an obligatory goal in a 3–1 victory at Hamilton Academical on 23 May. She opened the scoring with a volley, after only three minutes. In a 3–2 defeat at
Hibernian on 10 August, Fleeting broke the deadlock after rounding off a well-worked team move. Fleeting scored the winner in 3–2 home win over
Spartans on 24 August. Fleeting would miss the second half of the season with injury. It was reported that
Celtic were looking to cut back their involvement in women's football. And as a result of this, a mass exodus of the first team squad left the club, with a number of players' citing their frustration at the club's lack of ambition. but has not officially left the club yet.
2015 It was announced on 19 March 2015 that Fleeting had joined
SWPL champions
Glasgow City. Fleeting finally made her debut, playing the first 45 minutes, in a 4–1 win at
Aberdeen in the
Scottish Women's Cup on 9 August 2015. Prior to her debut she had been out with a number of niggling injuries, with only one week of proper training under her belt, She made her
league debut, again playing the first 45 minutes and setting-up the opening goal, in a 3–3 home draw with
Hibernian one week later. Fleeting scored her first goals for the club, with a second half brace, in a 7–0 home league win over
Rangers on 30 August 2015. She grabbed her first hat-trick for City, with a second half treble, in a 6–0 league win at former club
Celtic six days later. Fleeting opened the scoring for City, in an 11–0 Scottish Women's Cup home win against
Kilmarnock on 13 September 2015.
2016 Fleeting gave City a 1–0 half-time lead, in a 2–1 defeat to
Hibernian, in the 2016 SWPL Cup final on 16 June 2016. She registered two more league goals, in an 8–0 home win over
Forfar Farmington on 31 July 2016. Fleeting scored a brace, in a 4–0 league win at
Hibernian on 14 August 2016. She notched another brace a week later, in a 7–0 home league defeat of
Rangers. == International career ==