List of foreign FA Women's Super League players
The FA Women's Super League (FA WSL or WSL) is the highest league of women's football in England. The league, which started in 2011, was divided in two separate divisions (WSL 1 and WSL 2) from 2014 with the latter rebranded as the FA Women's Championship following a restructure in 2019; only the WSL 1 is considered in this list. The following players must meet both of the following two criteria:
- Have played at least one FA WSL game. Players who were signed by WSL clubs, but only played in lower leagues, cup games and/or European games, or did not play in any competitive games at all, are not included.
- Are considered foreign, i.e., outside United Kingdom, or Ireland determined by the following:
- A player is considered foreign if she is not eligible to play for the national teams of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or Republic of Ireland
More specifically:
- If a player has been capped on international level, the national team is used; if she has been capped by more than one country, the highest level (or the most recent) team is used. These include British/Irish players with dual citizenship.
- If a player has not been capped on international level, her country of birth is used, except those who were born abroad from British parents or moved to the United Kingdom at a young age, and those who clearly indicated to have switched her nationality to another nation.
Clubs listed are those for which the player has played at least one FA WSL game.
In bold: players who are currently under contract by a WSL club.
As of 23 February 2020, 27 different nations have been represented in the WSL by 128 players. The Netherlands is the most represented nation with 20 players. Poland was the most recent nation to be newly-represented when Wiktoria Kiszkis made her WSL debut playing for West Ham United on 17 November 2019 against Manchester City.
- As of 9 August 2020.
Australia
- Laura Alleway – Lincoln – 2012[1]
- Danielle Brogan – Notts County – 2014[2]
- Isobel Dalton[b ENG] – Bristol Academy – 2015[3]
- Caitlin Friend – Notts County – 2014[4]
- Jacynta Galabadaarachchi – West Ham United – 2019– [5]
- Emily Gielnik – Liverpool – 2012[6]
- Alexandra Gummer – Doncaster Rovers Belles – 2016[7]
- Sam Kerr – Chelsea – 2020– [8]
- Chloe Logarzo – Bristol City – 2020– [9]
- Aivi Luik – Notts County – 2016[10]
- Collette McCallum[b SCO] – Lincoln – 2012[11]
- Tanya Oxtoby – Doncaster Rovers Belles – 2012[12]
Austria
- Simona Koren – Sunderland – 2017–2018[13]
- Viktoria Schnaderbeck – Arsenal – 2018– [14]
- Manuela Zinsberger – Arsenal – 2019– [15]
Belgium
- Julie Biesmans – Bristol City – 2017–2019[16]
- Yana Daniëls – Bristol City, Liverpool – 2017– [17]
- Lorca van de Putte – Bristol City – 2017–2018[18]
- Tessa Wullaert – Manchester City – 2018–2020[19]
Bulgaria
- Evdokiya Popadinova – Bristol Academy – 2015[21]
Canada
- Janine Beckie[b USA][c USA U20] – Manchester City – 2018– [22]
- Maddie Hill – Sunderland – 2016[23]
- Alyssa Lagonia – Doncaster Rovers Belles – 2012[24]
- Adriana Leon – West Ham United – 2019– [25]
- Desiree Scott – Notts County – 2014–2015[26]
- Kylla Sjoman – Doncaster Rovers Belles, Sunderland – 2011, 2016–2018[27]
Chile
- Christiane Endler – Chelsea – 2014[28]
Denmark
- Janni Arnth – Arsenal – 2019[29]
- Nina Frausing Pedersen – Liverpool – 2014[30]
- Mie Leth Jans – Manchester City – 2017–2018[31]
- Matilde Lundorf – Brighton & Hove Albion – 2019–2020[32]
- Nadia Nadim[b AFG] – Manchester City – 2018[33]
- Katrine Veje – Arsenal – 2019–2020[34]
Equatorial Guinea
- Jade Boho[b SPN][c SPN U19] – Bristol Academy, Reading – 2015–2016[35]
Finland
- Adelina Engman – Chelsea – 2018–2020[36]
- Juliette Kemppi – Bristol City – 2018–2019[37]
- Tinja-Riikka Korpela – Everton – 2019– [38]
France
- Karima Benameur – Manchester City – 2020– [39]
- Maéva Clémaron – Everton – 2019– [40]
- Daphne Corboz[b USA][c USA U23] – Manchester City – 2015–2016[41]
- Kenza Dali – West Ham United – 2019– [42]
- Anissa Lahmari – Reading – 2017[43]
- Léa Le Garrec – Brighton & Hove Albion – 2019–2020[44]
- Pauline Peyraud-Magnin – Arsenal – 2018–2020[45]
Germany
- Katharina Baunach – West Ham United – 2019–2020[46]
- Ann-Katrin Berger – Birmingham City, Chelsea – 2016– [47]
- Pauline Bremer – Manchester City – 2017–2020[48]
- Marisa Ewers – Birmingham City – 2016–2019[49]
- Josephine Henning – Arsenal – 2016, 2017–2018[50]
- Tabea Kemme – Arsenal – 2018–2020 [51]
- Turid Knaak – Arsenal – 2014[52]
- Isabelle Linden – Birmingham City – 2016–2018[53]
- Leonie Maier – Arsenal – 2019– [54]
- Anke Preuß – Sunderland, Liverpool – 2017–2020[55]
- Kathleen Radtke – Manchester City – 2014–2015[56]
- Nicole Rolser – Liverpool – 2013–2015[57]
- Corina Schröder – Liverpool, Birmingham City – 2013–2016[58]
- Julia Simic – West Ham United – 2018–2020[59]
- Laura Vetterlein – West Ham United – 2019– [60]
Iceland
- Edda Garðarsdóttir – Chelsea – 2013[61]
- Rakel Hönnudóttir – Reading – 2019[62]
- Katrín Ómarsdóttir[b GER] – Liverpool, Doncaster Rovers Belles – 2013–2016[63]
- Ólína Guðbjörg Viðarsdóttir – Chelsea – 2013[64]
Japan
- Yukari Kinga – Arsenal – 2014[65]
- Shinobu Ohno – Arsenal – 2014[66]
- Yūki Nagasato – Chelsea – 2013–2014[67]
Malta
- Emma Lipman[b ENG] – Manchester City – 2014–2015[68]
Netherlands
- Mandy van den Berg – Liverpool, Reading – 2016–2018[69]
- Dominique Bloodworth (née Janssen) – Arsenal – 2015–2019[70]
- Dominique Bruinenberg – Sunderland, Everton – 2017–2019[71]
- Marije Brummel – Bristol Academy – 2015[72]
- Daniëlle van de Donk – Arsenal – 2016– [73]
- Kika van Es – Everton – 2019– [74]
- Esmee de Graaf – West Ham United – 2018–2020[75]
- Jackie Groenen – Chelsea, Manchester United – 2014–2015, 2019– [76]
- Anouk Hoogendijk – Bristol Academy, Arsenal – 2011, 2014[77]
- Inessa Kaagman – Everton – 2018–2020[78]
- Danique Kerkdijk – Bristol City, Brighton & Hove Albion – 2017– [79]
- Vita van der Linden – Bristol City – 2019– [80]
- Tessel Middag – Manchester City, West Ham United – 2016–2020[81]
- Vivianne Miedema – Arsenal – 2017– [82]
- Marthe Munsterman – Everton – 2017–2018[83]
- Lucienne Reichardt – West Ham United – 2018–2019[84]
- Jill Roord – Arsenal – 2019– [85]
- Shanice van de Sanden – Liverpool – 2016–2017[86]
- Sari van Veenendaal – Arsenal – 2015–2019[87]
- Siri Worm – Everton, Tottenham Hotspur – 2017– [88]
New Zealand
- Hayley Bowden (née Moorwood) – Chelsea, Lincoln – 2011, 2013[89]
- Aroon Clansey – Liverpool – 2012[90]
- Olivia Chance – Everton, Bristol City – 2017–2020[91]
- Katie Duncan (née Hoyle) – Notts County – 2014[92]
- Anna Green[b ENG] – Notts County, Reading – 2014, 2017–2018[93]
- Sarah Gregorius – Liverpool – 2013[94]
- Betsy Hassett – Manchester City – 2014[95]
- Emma Kete – Lincoln, Manchester City – 2011, 2014[96]
- Ria Percival[b ENG] – West Ham United, Tottenham Hotspur – 2018– [97]
- Ali Riley[b USA] – Chelsea – 2018–2019[98]
- Katie Rood[b ENG] – Lincoln, Bristol City – 2012, 2018–2019[99]
- Rosie White – Liverpool – 2015–2016[100]
Nigeria
- Asisat Oshoala – Liverpool, Arsenal – 2015–2016[101]
- Ini-Abasi Umotong – Brighton & Hove Albion – 2018–2020[102]
Norway
- Kristine Bjørdal Leine – Reading – 2019– [103]
- Amalie Eikeland – Reading – 2019– [104]
- Andrine Hegerberg – Birmingham City – 2016–2018[105]
- Hilde Gunn Olsen – Sunderland – 2015–2017[106]
- Cecilie Kvamme – West Ham United – 2019– [107]
- Maren Mjelde – Chelsea – 2017– [108]
- Guro Reiten – Chelsea – 2019– [109]
- Ingrid Ryland – Liverpool – 2015[110]
- Line Smørsgård – Liverpool – 2015[111]
- Maria Thorisdottir – Chelsea – 2017– [112]
- Lisa-Marie Karlseng Utland – Reading – 2019–2020[113]
Poland
- Wiktoria Kiszkis – West Ham United – 2019– [114]
Portugal
- Ana Borges – Chelsea – 2014–2016[115]
- Amanda DaCosta[b USA][c USA U23] – Liverpool – 2013–2014[116]
- Matilde Fidalgo – Manchester City – 2019–2020[117]
- Tatiana Pinto – Bristol Academy – 2015[118]
Samoa
- Monique Fischer[b NZL] – Yeovil Town – 2018–2019[119]
South Korea
- Cho So-hyun – West Ham United – 2019– [120]
- Jeon Ga-eul – Bristol City – 2019–2020[121]
- Ji So-yun – Chelsea – 2014– [122]
- Lee Geum-min – Manchester City – 2019– [123]
Spain
- Marta Corredera – Arsenal – 2015–2016[124]
- Keka – Bristol Academy – 2013–2014[125]
- Lucia Leon – Tottenham Hotspur – 2019– [126]
- Vicky Losada – Arsenal – 2015–2016[127]
- Adriana Martín – Chelsea – 2012[128]
- Natalia Pablos – Bristol Academy, Arsenal – 2013–2016[129]
- Laura del Río – Bristol Academy – 2012–2014[130]
- Cristina Torkildsen – Birmingham City – 2011–2015[131]
Sweden
- Jonna Andersson – Chelsea – 2018– [132]
- Kosovare Asllani – Manchester City – 2016–2017[133]
- Marija Banušić – Chelsea – 2015[134]
- Magdalena Eriksson – Chelsea – 2017– [135]
- Sofia Jakobsson – Chelsea – 2013[136]
- Maria Karlsson – Doncaster Rovers Belles – 2011[137]
- Maja Krantz – Notts County – 2016[138]
- Hedvig Lindahl – Chelsea – 2015–2019[139]
- Emma Lundh – Liverpool – 2016[140]
- Amanda Nildén – Brighton & Hove Albion – 2018–2020[141]
- Lotta Ökvist – Manchester United – 2019– [142]
- Jessica Samuelsson – Arsenal – 2017–2019[143]
- Louise Schillgard (née Fors) – Liverpool – 2013[144]
- Julia Spetsmark – Manchester City – 2018[145]
- Filippa Wallén – West Ham United – 2020– [146]
- Emma Wilhelmsson – Chelsea – 2014[147]
Switzerland
- Ramona Bachmann – Chelsea – 2017–2020[148]
- Alisha Lehmann – West Ham United – 2018– [149]
- Lia Wälti – Arsenal – 2018– [150]
United States
- Crystal Dunn – Chelsea – 2017–2018[151]
- Whitney Engen – Liverpool – 2013[152]
- Lucy Gillett – Brighton & Hove Albion – 2017–2019[153]
- Brooke Hendrix – West Ham United – 2018–2019[154]
- Adrienne Jordan – Birmingham City – 2019–2020[155]
- Beverly Leon – Sunderland – 2016[156]
- Carli Lloyd – Manchester City – 2017[157]
- Heather O'Reilly – Arsenal – 2017–2018[158]
- Erin Simon – West Ham United – 2018–2020[159]
- Libby Stout – Liverpool – 2014–2015[160]
- Brianna Visalli – West Ham United, Birmingham City – 2018–2020[161]
- Zaneta Wyne – Sunderland – 2017–2018[162]
Notes
- ^ Born in Afghanistan
- ^ Born in England
- ^ Born in Germany
- ^ Born in New Zealand
- ^ Born in Scotland
- ^ Born in Spain
- ^ Born in United States
- ^ Capped for the Spain U19s
- ^ Capped for the United States U20s
- ^ Capped for the United States U23s
References
- Laura Alleway
- Danielle Brogan
- Isobel Dalton
- Caitlin Friend
- Jacynta Galabadaarachchi
- Emily Gielnik
- Alexandra Gummer
- Sam Kerr
- Chloe Logarzo
- Aivi Luik
- Collette McCallum
- Tanya Oxtoby
- Simona Koren
- Viktoria Schnaderbeck
- Manuela Zinsberger
- Julie Biesmans
- Yana Daniëls
- Lorca van de Putte
- Tessa Wullaert
- Ester
- Evdokiya Popadinova
- Janine Beckie
- Maddie Hill
- Alyssa Lagonia
- Adriana Leon
- Desiree Scott
- Kylla Sjoman
- Christiane Endler
- Janni Arnth
- Nina Frausing Pedersen
- Mie Leth Jans
- Matilde Lundorf
- Nadia Nadim
- Katrine Veje
- Jade Boho
- Adelina Engman
- Juliette Kemppi
- Tinja-Riikka Korpela
- Karima Benameur
- Maéva Clemaron
- Daphne Corboz
- Kenza Dali
- Anissa Lahmari
- Léa Le Garrec
- Pauline Peyraud-Magnin
- Katharina Baunach
- Ann-Katrin Berger
- Pauline Bremer
- Marisa Ewers
- Josephine Henning
- Tabea Kemme
- Turid Knaak
- Isabelle Linden
- Leonie Maier
- Anke Preuß
- Kathleen Radtke
- Nicole Rolser
- Corina Schröder
- Julia Simic
- Laura Vetterlein
- Edda Garðarsdóttir
- Rakel Hönnudóttir
- Katrín Ómarsdóttir
- Ólína Guðbjörg Viðarsdóttir
- Yukari Kinga
- Shinobu Ohno
- Yūki Nagasato
- Emma Lipman
- Mandy van den Berg
- Dominique Janssen
- Dominique Bruinenberg
- Marije Brummel
- Daniëlle van de Donk
- Kika van Es
- Esmee de Graaf
- Jackie Groenen
- Anouk Hoogendijk
- Inessa Kaagman
- Danique Kerkdijk
- Vita van der Linden
- Tessel Middag
- Vivianne Miedema
- Marthe Munsterman
- Lucienne Reichardt
- Jill Roord
- Shanice van de Sanden
- Sari van Veenendaal
- Siri Worm
- Hayley Bowden
- Aroon Clansey
- Olivia Chance
- Katie Hoyle
- Anna Green
- Sarah Gregorius
- Betsy Hassett
- Emma Kete
- Ria Percival
- Ali Riley
- Katie Rood
- Rosie White
- Asisat Oshoala
- Ini-Abasi Umotong
- Kristine Bjørdal Leine
- Amalie Eikeland
- Andrine Hegerberg
- Hilde Gunn Olsen
- Cecilie Kvamme
- Maren Mjelde
- Guro Reiten
- Ingrid Ryland
- Line Smørsgård
- Maria Thorisdottir
- Lisa-Marie Karlseng Utland
- Wiktoria Kiszkis
- Ana Borges
- Amanda DaCosta
- Matilde Fidalgo
- Tatiana Pinto
- Monique Fischer
- Cho So-hyun
- Jeon Ga-eul
- Ji So-yun
- Lee Geum-min
- Marta Corredera
- Keka Vega
- Lucia Leon
- Vicky Losada
- Adriana Martín
- Natalia Pablos
- Laura del Río
- Cristina Torkildsen
- Jonna Andersson
- Kosovare Asllani
- Marija Banušić
- Magdalena Eriksson
- Sofia Jakobsson
- Maria Karlsson
- Maja Krantz
- Hedvig Lindahl
- Emma Lundh
- Amanda Nildén
- Lotta Ökvist
- Jessica Samuelsson
- Louise Fors
- Julia Spetsmark
- Filippa Wallén
- Emma Wilhelmsson
- Ramona Bachmann
- Alisha Lehmann
- Lia Wälti
- Crystal Dunn
- Whitney Engen
- Lucy Gillett
- Brooke Hendrix
- Adrienne Jordan
- Beverly Leon
- Carli Lloyd
- Heather O'Reilly
- Erin Simon
- Libby Stout
- Brianna Visalli
- Zaneta Wyne