Chloe Morgan (footballer)

Chloe Morgan
Morgan in 2021 with Crystal Palace
Personal information
Date of birth (1989-12-19) 19 December 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth Leytonstone, England
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Crystal Palace Coach Staff
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Leyton Ladies
Leyton Orient
–2014 Tottenham Hotspur
2014–2015 Arsenal 0 (0)
2015–2020 Tottenham Hotspur 32 (0)
2020–2022 Crystal Palace 21 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 July 2020 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:54, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Chloe Morgan (born 12 December 1989) is an English lawyer, journalist and former footballer who last played as a goalkeeper for FA Women's Championship club Crystal Palace.[2]

Early life

Morgan is from Leytonstone in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.[3] As a youngster, the film Erin Brockovich inspired her to become a personal injury lawyer.[4] She also enjoyed football and played recreationally for local clubs including Leyton Orient alongside her studies.[5]

Club career

Morgan progressed to playing for Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Women's Premier League Southern Division. During the 2013–14 season, local rivals Arsenal required a goalkeeper for their reserve team and signed Morgan from Spurs. With Arsenal, she won the 2014 FA WSL Development Cup[6] and made 16 reserve team appearances in 2014–15.[7]

In 2019, Morgan was among 11 of Spurs' existing players to be offered a full-time professional contract to remain with the club following their promotion to the FA Women's Super League. She had started 18 of 20 league games in the 2018–19 FA Women's Championship campaign, in which Spurs finished as runners-up to Manchester United.[8]

Upon retiring at the end of the 2021–22 FA Women's Championship Morgan announced her retirement from football.[9]

Post-playing career

Morgan combined her football career with a full-time job as a personal injury lawyer.[10]

Morgan is a co-presenter on the woman's football podcast Upfront alongside Rachel O'Sullivan, co-founder of the Girls On The Ball platform.[11]

Personal life

Morgan is openly LGBT.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Chloe Morgan". Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Chloe Morgan - Goalkeeper | Women". Crystal Palace F.C. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  3. ^ "1 Chloe Morgan". Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Our People - Chloe Morgan". Irwin Mitchell. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  5. ^ "Chloe Morgan Ahead Of The North London Derby". Soccer Bible. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  6. ^ "Ladies Reserves win Development Cup". Arsenal F.C. 1 June 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  7. ^ Jamet, Sylvain (25 May 2015). "Arsenal Ladies Development team end of season review and statistics". Daily Cannon. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  8. ^ "Introducing our Tottenham Hotspur Women players". Tottenham Hotspur F.C. 5 July 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  9. ^ "I'm retiring!". Twitter. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  10. ^ Hyde2022-08-12T09:49:00+01:00, John. "Earning her Spurs: Meet the woman who combined law with top-flight football". Law Gazette.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "Upfront | Stak". stak.london. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  12. ^ "'The power football has is great'". BBC Sport.


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