Lucy Bronze

Lucia Roberta Tough Bronze was born on 28 October 1991 she was almost born on the island, but her mother did not want a potential helicopter transfer to hospital. She is British-Portuguese and has an older brother and a younger sister. They were raised bilingual, though Bronze has said she is not very comfortable when speaking Portuguese. first playing in Faro. Having played football for Belford, In the Alnwick juniors squad, Bronze was the best player on the team, picking up six "man of the match" awards from eight games; the manager was so intent for her to continue playing when she turned twelve that he helped open a discrimination case against the FA in the hopes they would allow an exception. They did not, but did set a target to support more girls' football teams in rural Northern areas as an alternative solution. After winning the UEFA Women's Euro 2022, a plaque honouring Bronze as part of the "Where Greatness Is Made" campaign was installed at the Alnwick Town ground. Bronze attended the Duchess's Community High School in Alnwick with middle-distance runner Laura Weightman and future England teammate Lucy Staniforth. Here, she played as a midfielder and was the captain in football, as well as taking part in numerous other team sports, including captaining the tennis and hockey teams (being county champion at least once in all three); Bronze took part in many others, including reaching the national finals in cross country and pentathlon, and moved to North Carolina to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and play for the Tar Heels women's soccer team at college level. She returned to England after a year, transferring to Leeds Metropolitan University to continue her sports science degree, graduating in 2013. She wrote her dissertation on ACL injuries in women's sport. At Leeds, she worked at a bar and at Domino's Pizza. ==Club career==

Sunderland Youth, 2002–07 No longer able to play for Alnwick, Bronze began attending summer training camps in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, so when she was old enough (the option of playing above her age group was also referred to the FA and denied), she played for Blyth Town WFC, a closer side that had an under-14 girls' team in the Northern Girls Tyne Tees League. but still played for Blyth Town at this age. Bronze then began playing at Sunderland as a midfielder, but was pushed into the back line when Jordan Nobbs, a natural 'number 8', joined the team. She then played as a left-back in the youth squads, basing her game on idol David Beckham. In 2007–08, Bronze was named Manager's Player of the Year as Sunderland finished third in the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division. Bronze also started in the 2009 FA Women's Cup Final, being awarded the Player of the Match award in Sunderland's 1–2 loss to Arsenal. After a semester in the United States, Bronze returned to England in December 2009 and was included on the Sunderland squad for initial matches in the National Division. College: North Carolina Tar Heels, 2009 Having been turned down for a Loughborough University programme that accepted girls to play football and study as a teenager, Bronze turned to North Carolina. during her time there, Bronze said that she did not feel nervous to live up to such a legacy or play in the college championships as she did not really understand it. Originally recruited to play as a true freshman defender and told she would not get many minutes behind more senior players, The youngest player on the team, Bronze volunteered to pair-up against senior Tobin Heath in competitive training. and, in December 2009, became the first British player to win an NCAA Cup after having assisted for the crucial goal in the semi-final and making an important clearance in the final. All-American honours as a midfielder followed for Bronze, who scored three goals and provided four assists in 24 games, with Dorrance saying that she brought a level of polish and savviness from English football to the team Bronze missed a match in September to train with the youth squad in England, and returned for international training again in December 2009. During England training, she injured her knee, which then became infected, and she spent much of the next year in a leg brace. She transferred to Leeds Metropolitan University in 2010. which won the BUCS North Premier Division in the 2010–11 year. Some of her North Carolina college teammates were already successful internationals, and Bronze has credited witnessing the "huge spectacle" of women's football in the United States, as well as experiencing the mentality in training there, with inspiring her career. Everton, 2010–12 Mo Marley, who coached Bronze in England youth squads, offered Bronze a spot on the Everton squad Marley was coaching in the summer of 2010; with Everton, Bronze could play in the newly established Women's Super League, which Sunderland would not be joining. and debuted for the club in a 0–0 draw against MTK in Hungary. For all of her time at Everton, Bronze was recovering from her knee injury; she did not play often, and continued to predominantly work at Domino's. She played in six matches for Everton during the 2011 FA WSL season, starting five of these on the bench. During the 2012 FA WSL, she started ten of the eleven matches she played. Bronze spent the two years following her knee surgeries using what she learnt in her sports science degree to create her own rehabilitation plan. Pundit and former player Alex Scott, who played in the same position as Bronze, later said that the years Bronze spent determined to overcome her injury were instrumental in her developing the physical and mental strength to reach the level she has. saying that her decision was driven by the medical and training support she would receive; 2014 During the 2014 FA WSL, Bronze started all matches for Liverpool, helping the team to another league championship and a record; a victory against Bristol Academy on the last day, including a goal from Bronze, saw Liverpool jump from third to first in the league. In 2014, Bronze was awarded the PFA Women's Players' Player of the Year. First stint with Manchester City 2015 Bronze signed for Manchester City in November 2014, following the team's successful opening season, with Bronze saying that what the club offered its female players, in terms of resource equity with the men's team, was "unheard of really". 2016 In 2016, her second season in Manchester, she scored two league goals as City went unbeaten for the entire season. She contributed to an outstanding record which saw Manchester City only concede four league goals. She played a part in both the home and away leg of Manchester City's first ever Champions League games, scoring two and assisting two in a 6–0 aggregate win over Russian champions Zvezda Perm. 2017 She ended competition with eight appearances, as Manchester City reached the semi-finals of the 2016–17 edition of the UEFA Women's Champions League, with their title hopes ended in late April when they lost to Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon) 3–2 on aggregate. On 23 April 2017, Bronze was named PFA Women's Players' Player of the Year for second time, and was selected in the PFA WSL Team of the Year and Women's Champions League Squad of the Season. In the 2017 Women's FA Cup Final in May, Bronze gave a strong display, scoring the opening goal and providing the assist for the second, with City winning 4–1 and, as a result, becoming the first team to hold all three England domestic trophies. Later that year, she was shortlisted for the UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award and The Best FIFA Women's Player Award, but finished eighth and ninth respectively in the voting. At the end of 2016, Bronze had been ranked tenth on The 100 Best Female Footballers in the World list by The Offside Rule/The Guardian, placing fifth in 2017. In the 2017–18 season of the UEFA Women's Champions League, Bronze made eight appearances, scoring two goals as Lyon reached the final, including a winning goal against Manchester City that was nominated for UEFA Goal of the Season. She featured in the final match of the UEFA Women's Champions League and helped Lyon win the competition. She was named in the Team of the Year for the D1 Feminine, as well as in the Women's Champions League Squad of the Season. In the Coupe de France, Lyon were unable to defend their Coupe de France title, losing to Paris Saint-German in the final. At the end of 2018, Bronze was shortlisted for the premiere women's football awards: the inaugural Ballon d'Or Féminin award, the UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award, and The Best FIFA Women's Player Award, finishing sixth, fifth and sixth respectively. She was number four on The Guardian's 2018 100 Best Female Footballers list. She was also shortlisted for the FWA Women's Footballer of the Year Award. 2018–19 During the 2018–19 season, Bronze made 29 appearances for Lyon in all competitions, scoring two goals on her way to a second Division 1 Féminine league title; she also helped Lyon to reclaim the Coupe de France Féminine title and win a second consecutive UEFA Women's Champions League trophy. was named UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award and finished third in the voting for The Best FIFA Women's Player Award. The Guardian ranked her second on the 100 best list. 2019–20 Bronze helped Lyon win Trophée des Championnes in 2019 – a first historic new trophy against Paris Saint-Germain. She had signed a short extension to see out the end of the Champions League, which they again won. In December 2020, having won a treble in her last season with Lyon, she won The Best FIFA Women's Player Award, becoming the first defender and the first English footballer to do so. Return to Manchester City 2020–21 On 8 September 2020, Bronze rejoined Manchester City on a two-year deal, following the conclusion of her contract with Lyon and her trophy-laden three-year spell there. Her new start at the club saw her beset with injury, but she recovered to have an impact later in the 2020–21 season. At the end of 2020, she placed third on the 100 best list produced by Offside Rule and The Guardian, and in March 2021 had contributed enough at City to still place fifth on the ESPN ranking of the top 50 women's players. 2021–22 She had another knee operation before the start of the 2021–22 season, restricting her play until the new year; at the end of 2021, she came in at 34th on the 100 best list, her first time outside the top 10 since the list began. In 2022, she won the League Cup with Manchester City, After leaving City again over the summer of 2022, Bronze said that in her last year with the club she had not been completely happy or confident. The Guardian reported around the time that while Bronze and City manager Gareth Taylor did not mention it in public, there were tensions between them about Bronze's role in the City team. In her second stint with City, Bronze was sometimes used as a central midfielder alongside Walsh during attacking play, offering more cover to allow the other midfielders to play as 'free 8' central attacking midfielders, with Bronze also taking build-up play duties, increasing her passing and attacking stats. Bronze said that she prefers playing abroad and wanted to take the opportunity to play for a club as renowned as Barcelona, In August 2022, Barcelona announced that they would register Bronze as a Portuguese national, due to Spanish footballing bodies and the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) having not agreed, shortly before the season began, how many non-EU citizens each team could register and so preventing new non-EU players from being registered until this was resolved. Spanish media reported heavily on the uncertainty, with Bronze at the time said to be "bemused by the fuss". While preferring to play outside of England, Bronze noted that the intensity and intelligence of the training at Barcelona was "an extra level up" from her years with Lyon. She was encouraged to be fluid in her position as a right back from the pre-season and, in their first league game, moved into the midfield in the 60th minute to make plays with England teammate and fellow new transfer Keira Walsh. She also felt that, besides the intensity, adapting to training at Barcelona was harder than at Lyon as the team's core were all Spanish and had been playing together for many years, thus requiring more off-pitch adaptation. Her second goal, in the very next game, was an 89th-minute match-winner, taking Barcelona ahead of Real Sociedad for the first time in the game to preserve their winning run. Earlier in the month, Bronze had been rested to prevent damage when experiencing a flare-up of her knee injury after a match against Real Madrid. Having been started by the team in all the important games, Bronze won her first title with them on 22 January 2023, providing an assist in the final of the 2022–23 Supercopa de España, helping the team to a 3–0 win. On 22 April 2023, facing Chelsea in the Champions League, Bronze sustained a knee injury and had to be taken off; on 25 April she had surgery, and was predicted to be unavailable for two to six weeks. On 30 April, Barcelona won the league at home with four matches to play and an all-wins record. 2023–24 Barcelona signed their youth product Ona Batlle, a wing-back similar in play to Bronze, ahead of the 2023–24 season. Batlle started the season playing mostly on the left, due to injury to Fridolina Rolfö; Batlle was expected to take over as starting right back when Rolfö recovered, but Bronze retained her position and was key in the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League, particularly the semi-finals and final that they won. Her experience was considered particularly important in Barcelona retaining the Champions League and winning all four titles in a perfect season. In achieving this, Bronze became the first English player to win five European cups. Her contract expired on 30 June 2024, with confirmation of her departure announced a few days earlier. Chelsea On 17 July 2024, it was announced that Bronze had signed a two-year contract with Chelsea, with Bronze saying she wanted to win the Champions League with an English team. She scored her first goal for the club during a 7–0 away win against Crystal Palace on 27 September 2024. On 30 April 2025, Bronze scored the only goal of the match in a 1–0 away win against Manchester United, a result which saw Chelsea win their sixth consecutive and eighth overall WSL title. On 12 October 2025, Bronze made her return from a fractured tibia injury which she had nursed through the 2025 Euros, coming on as a substitute in a 1–0 win at home against Tottenham. She was part of the Chelsea squad which the 2025–26 Women's League Cup following a 2–0 victory over Manchester United on 15 March 2026, marking Bronze's 24th trophy in club football. ==International career==

England 2007–2013: Youth squads (centre) and Demi Stokes during the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Bronze aspired to play for England but noticed scouts never went up to Sunderland to watch her matches; at a summer camp in North Carolina, Dorrance promised to help her, and used his contacts at Arsenal to have someone go to watch her play, after which she was taken into the England youth system. She was part of successful England youth teams at all age groups. Called up to the squad for the under-17 Euro qualifiers in 2007, she was also part of the team that came fourth in the finals of the 2008 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, the first instance of this tournament. She only made a starting appearance in the semi-final, but was still included in UEFA's list of players to watch from the tournament, both for her contributions to attacking play and her speed in defense. Later that year, she was part of the England squad that also came fourth in the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup (also its inaugural edition) in New Zealand, where she was only absent from the starting line-up for England's opening match against Brazil (coming on in the 69th minute) and picked up two yellow cards at the end of the tournament. From the middle of 2008, Bronze regularly played for both the under-17 and under-19 teams, with her first competitive under-19 games coming in September that year. She was called into an England under-20 training camp in January 2010. 2013–2014: Debut and playing as centre-half in 2014 When Bronze was 16, her parents were approached by Mónica Jorge of the Portuguese football association, who extended an invitation for Bronze to join and train with Portugal. Bronze later said she seriously considered this offer for several years and was prepared to switch to Portugal when she was 22; though she was playing for the England youth teams, she was consistently left out of the senior England squad under manager Hope Powell. Through relatives, she would also have been eligible to play for Scotland. Bronze made her debut for the England senior team on 26 June 2013 as a substitute in the 67th minute for Dunia Susi in a friendly against world champions Japan at the Pirelli Stadium in Burton-upon-Trent. She had a claimed goal disallowed in the 89th minute of the 1–1 draw. The following month, she was an unused member of the squad at Euro 2013 in Sweden, a group stage exit. Bronze scored her first England goal on 14 June 2014, in a 3–0 away win over Belarus in World Cup qualification; she scored again on 17 September 2014, as England concluded their qualification process with a 10–0 away win over Montenegro and a 100% record, with Bronze having played in nine of the ten matches. In her first years with England, she played as a centre-half alongside Steph Houghton, with Alex Scott first choice in Bronze's preferred right-back role. Coach Mark Sampson said after the match that Bronze could be the best right-back in the world. She also went on to score what proved to be the quarter-final winner against Canada as she netted England's second from a header in the 14th minute. She was widely praised as one of the best performers for England at the World Cup, winning England Player of the Year and being the first women's footballer to be nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, and shortlisted for the Golden Ball. England placed third at the 2015 World Cup, after defeating Germany in the bronze medal match. In July 2017, she was named in the squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2017, which England lost 3–0 to eventual winners Netherlands in the semi-final. For her performances in the tournament, Bronze was included in the 2017 UEFA Team of the Tournament. 2018–2019: Vice captaincy, World Cup and midfield experiment , with then-England coach Phil Neville; he is one of the people to call Bronze the best player in the world. She was the formal captain for this tournament with Steph Houghton out injured, as well as for several of the World Cup qualifying matches later in the year. She scored in one of these qualifying matches, a 6–0 win against Kazakhstan, after coming on to replace Walsh and taking the armband from her. In 2019, Bronze was part of the England team that won the SheBelieves Cup in the United States. In some matches at this tournament, she played in central midfield; under Phil Neville, Bronze was played as a midfielder on several occasions, with Neville each time giving much praise to her abilities in the role and the popularity of her playing there. He also lauded her ability to play alongside Walsh as the midfield anchor, describing the pair as "colossi". Neville positively compared Bronze's adaptability to that of Philipp Lahm under Pep Guardiola, noting that "[Lahm] was voted one of the best right-backs, but [Guardiola] put him into midfield." As Houghton's vice-captain, Bronze was selected for the 2019 World Cup squad; in the May 2019 squad announcement her name was revealed by Alex Scott as part of the social-media marketing for the tournament. Bronze was briefly taken ill at the tournament with a virus but was fit to play in England's quarter-final match against Norway; in it, she not only excelled in defense and down the wing, but also scored from just outside the area during a 3–0 victory, a goal reminiscent of the one she scored against the same opposition in 2015. After the game, Phil Neville said her performance solidified her status as "the best player in the world", something he had described Bronze as on previous occasions. England finished the tournament in fourth place. Bronze ended up winning the Silver Ball, behind Megan Rapinoe, and being included in the team of the tournament. After the World Cup, Bronze played as a central midfielder in friendlies against Belgium and Norway. Bronze did not convert to the midfield, continuing to play predominantly in her inverted full-back role. After winning the Euro, UEFA wrote that all Bronze was missing was a World Cup title. As European champions, England contested the 2023 Women's Finalissima in April 2023, defeating Copa América champions Brazil on penalties to win 1(4)–1(2), with Bronze being voted England player of the match. In November 2022, the FA introduced legacy numbers to honour the 50th anniversary of the women's team; Bronze was the 181st player to represent the Lionesses and her matchday shirts will feature this number. Bronze participated in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup; England reached the final for the first time for a second-placed finish behind Spain. Bronze played most of the tournament as a right wing-back. In the final, she lost possession of the ball in the lead-up to Spain's solitary goal in the 0–1 England loss, considered the fault of a lack of communication with Ella Toone. While sports media criticised Bronze for failing to regain possession, it also mentioned the "cruelty" of her involvement in the conceded goal, as the player who is considered to have "given more to English football than any [other] member of the squad". If England had won the World Cup, Bronze would have 'completed football'. Shortly after the 2023 World Cup, the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League began, with England in League A. Their opening match against Scotland was held in Sunderland, with supporters treating it as a homecoming for Bronze; she scored a header for England's first goal in their 2–1 victory. and the dramatic sixth goal in the 6–0 last-match win over Scotland. A header scored with the final touch of the game, Bronze's goal looked like it would advance England into the Nations League Finals (and a chance for Great Britain to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games) on goal difference, but the Netherlands scored another goal in the 95th minute of their own match to overtake England. In this victory over Scotland, Bronze played like a Total Footballer, covering positions from right back to left winger in what The Guardian described as "raging against the dying of the light" from the 32-year-old perpetually-injured Bronze. (centre right) during the victory parade after England won the Euro 2025 In June 2025, Bronze was again named to the squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2025. She scored England's first goal in their quarterfinal comeback victory over Sweden, before administering her own thigh strapping deep into extra time and then ripping it off as she stepped up to take their seventh and decisive penalty in the shoot-out. Scoring the penalty, a powerful shot down the middle of the goal, was called "her Boudica moment" in The Telegraph, which suggested it would be long-remembered. Manager Sarina Wiegman reflected that "Bronze is just one of a kind. I have never ever seen anything like this before in my life ... What defines her is that resilience, that fight. I think the only way to get her off the pitch is in the wheelchair." Bronze started in the tournament's final on 27 July 2025, and after England's win on penalties over Spain she revealed she had played through the tournament while having a fractured tibia. Bronze passed Karen Carney to became the third highest-capped player for the Lionesses on 7 March 2026, as she made her 145th appearance in a 2–0 victory over Iceland in England's 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification campaign, in which she scored the opening goal of the match. Great Britain Bronze was approached ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics and told that she was on the longlist for selection to the Great Britain women's Olympic football team; at this point she still had not been called up to the senior England team and was pleased she was being considered. She noted that this is when she first learnt that football is played at the Olympic Games. She was not picked for the final team, and GB did not send football teams to the 2016 Games. Bronze represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in 2021. Playing in all four games, she helped create many of Team GB's goals, providing for club teammate Ellen White from the right wing. ==Style of play==

A tactically versatile right-back She has good numbers of interceptions and recoveries. or makes underlapping runs into interior space, allowing her to receive the ball from wingers pinned wide by opposition defenders. Beyond her role as right-back, she often plays as an inverted full-back, taking positions in both central defense and the midfield, roles she can play naturally or temporarily when moving in from the full-back position to overload the middle or cover for other players that have moved forward to attack. Moving into the middle as an inverted right-back also allows her to continue playing defensively further up the pitch, gaining possession and aiding her team's counter-attack. In attack, Bronze is a goalscoring threat from set pieces off corner kicks and free kicks, is noted for ambitious runs into the box when not occupied, and has a high success rate in crossing the ball into the box for assists. She can also shoot with power from distance. In the midfield she may offer herself as a passing option to other midfielders, or exploit space they have created to move the ball forward. With Lyon, England and Barcelona, she has been utilised as both a conventional 'number 8' and a 'free 8', using her progressive right-back skills in the centre of the pitch or (at the latter two) as an option when an opposition makes it hard for Keira Walsh to play through balls. More likely to dribble than pass through the centre of the pitch, Bronze still boasts good vision for through balls, with a passing accuracy among England players in 2019 second only to Walsh. ==Other work and popular culture==

(centre) providing pitchside punditry for a Chelsea vs Notts County match in 2015 Bronze is also an advocate for other professional footballers. She is a player representative for global football union FIFPRO's Global Player Council, to advise on decision making around international football, having joined in 2020 and being elected to continue when it was expanded in 2022. She is also a representative for EE's Hope United, which, among other things, aims to tackle online abuse directed at players. Said to be a player that has shaped women's football in her career, Since 2019, in anticipation of the 2019 World Cup, she has written a column on football for the Metro. Since 2021, she has also written a column for Give Me Sport Women. Her likeness appears in the FIFA video games that include women's players, with her player rating being consistently one of the highest (in FIFA 22, 92, joint-second of all players behind only Lionel Messi; in FIFA 23, 90, joint-fifth of all). Before women's players were included in the video games, Bronze remarked that "when they are I'll know the women's game is big". She had previously said she enjoys playing the games. Later in 2022, Bronze featured in a football-related recruitment campaign for Domino's. ==Personal life==

As of 2025, Bronze's partner is former teammate Ona Batlle. She has been diagnosed with autism and ADHD. She is multilingual, speaking English, Portuguese, Spanish and French. Bronze learnt French while playing for Lyon, and Spanish at Barcelona; she did not use an interpreter for the latter, due to her knowledge of Portuguese and French. Bronze has several tattoos, despite a phobia of needles, including a prominent wrist tattoo composed of multiple designs. This features stars – which she and Tar Heels teammates got after winning the championship in 2009, when Bronze had just turned 18 – and designs she drew herself when she was about 21, of the word "família" (Portuguese for "family") and a silhouette of Lindisfarne Castle, reflecting her origins. She grew up with pet dogs and got one with her roommate in 2015; Before she saw football as a viable full-time career, Bronze planned to become an accountant and continue to play football as a hobby, Bronze has been an advocate for mental health support in general. ==Career statistics==

College Club International :Caps and goals correct as of 18 April 2026. :''Scores and results list England's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Bronze goal''. ==Honours==

University of North Carolina • ACC Women's Soccer Tournament: 2009 • NCAA Women's Soccer Championship: 2009 Sunderland • FA Women's Premier League Northern Division: 2008–09 • FA WSL: 2013, 2014 Manchester City 2018–19, 2019–20 • Division 1 Féminine: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20 • Coupe de France féminine: 2019, 2020 • Trophée des Championnes: 2019 Barcelona • Liga F: 2022–23, 2023–24 • UEFA Women's Champions League: 2022–23, 2023–24 • Copa de la Reina: 2023–24 • Supercopa de España Femenina: 2022–23, 2023–24 Chelsea • FA WSL: 2024–25 • FA Women's League Cup: 2024–25, 2025–26 England U19 • UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship: 2009; runner-up 2010 England • FIFA Women's World Cup runner-up: 2023; third place: 2015 • UEFA Women's Championship: 2022, 2025 • SheBelieves Cup: 2019 2023 Individual • Sunderland Manager's Player of the Year: 2007–08 • NCAA Soccer America All-Freshman Second Team: 2009 • PFA Team of the Year: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17 • PFA Women's Players' Player of the Year: 2013–14, 2016–17 • FIFA Women's World Cup All-Star Squad: 2015, 2019 • England Player of the Year: 2015, 2019 • BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award nominee: 2015 • FA WSL 1 Players' Player of the Year: 2016 • MCWFC Etihad Airways Player of the Season: 2016 • UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award: eighth 2016–17, fifth 2017–18, won 2018–19, third 2019–20 • Trophées FFF D1 Féminine Team of the Year: 2017–2018 • FIFA FIFPRO Women's World 11: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 • IFFHS Women's World Team: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2025 • BBC Women's Footballer of the Year: 2018, 2020 • Ballon d'Or Féminin: sixth 2018, second 2019, tenth 2022, ninth 2025 • FIFA Women's World Cup Silver Ball: 2019 • Globe Soccer Awards Best Women's Player of the Year: 2019 • The Best FIFA Women's Player: 2020 • The Best FIFA Women's 11: 2024, 2025 • IFFHS World All-time Women's Dream Team: awarded 2021 • IFFHS Europe All-time Women's Dream Team: awarded 2021 • FA WSL Player of the Month: February 2021 • IFFHS England All-time Women's Dream Team: awarded 2022 • Freedom of the City of London (announced 1 August 2022) • IFFHS Women's UEFA Team: 2020 2021, 2022, 2024 • UEFA Women's Championship Team of the Tournament: 2025 Orders • Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 2023 New Year Honours == See also ==