Chloe Morgan (footballer)
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.jpg) Morgan in 2021 with Crystal Palace | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 19 December 1989 | ||
| Place of birth | Leytonstone, England | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| 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) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 12 July 2020 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals 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]
Morgan is from Leytonstone in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.[3] She enjoyed football as a child and played recreationally for local clubs including Leyton Orient.[4] As a youngster, the film Erin Brockovich inspired her to become a personal injury lawyer.[5] Morgan studied law at Leeds University.[6] After qualifying as a solicitory she got a training contract at a law firm in Essex before joining Irwin Mitchell as a civil litigation lawyer.[7]
Club career
Despite having played football since she was 7 years old, Morgan's first experience of playing as a goalkeeper was as an adult, when the regular keeper for her grassroots team was injured and Morgan offered to take her place.[8] The following year she trialled for Tottenham Hotspur as a goalkeeper.
Morgan progressed to playing for Tottenham 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 loaned Morgan from Spurs.[6] With Arsenal, she won the 2014 FA WSL Development Cup and made 16 reserve team appearances in 2014–15.[9][10]
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 was allowed to take a sabbatical from her legal career to focus on football.[4]
Morgan 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.[11][12] After leaving the club Morgan was critical of Tottenham Hotspur's treatment of its women's team during her time there.[13][14]
After her contract with Tottenham expired in 2020, Morgan signed with Crystal Palace.[13][15] She announced her retirement from football after the conclusion of the 2021–22 FA Women's Championship .[16]
After football
Morgan combined her football career with a full-time job as a personal injury lawyer.[17][18] While playing for Crystal Palace she also served as a coach and diversity and inclusion officer for Goal Diggers FC, a London-based amateur club for women and non-binary people.[19] She also worked as a coach for the M-Power programme for goalkeepers in women's football and was an ambassador for KickOff@3, an initiative aiming to build relationships between young people and the police.[20][6]
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.[21][22] She was previously the first women's football editor at The Athletic.[23][24] In 2024, Morgan became head of She's a Baller, an independent women's football publisher and creative agency.[25][26]
In 2025, Morgan's 2017 Tottenham Hotspur shirt was added to the Football Heritage Collection at the National Football Museum in Manchester.[27][28]