Jody Brown
Jamaican footballer (born 2002)
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Jody Kimone Brown (born 16 April 2002) is a Jamaican footballer who plays as a forward for Première Ligue club Marseille and the Jamaica women's national team.[2] She played college soccer with the Florida State Seminoles.
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| Full name | Jody Kimone Brown[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 16 April 2002 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Portmore, Jamaica | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Marseille | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 11 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2020 | Montverde Academy | ||||||||||||||||
| College career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2023 | Florida State Seminoles | 84 | (24) | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024–2025 | Benfica | 14 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Marseille | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Jamaica U15 | 3+ | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Jamaica U17 | 5+ | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2022 | Jamaica U20 | 8 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018– | Jamaica | 46 | (20) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 10 November 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 29 November 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
Early life and education
Montverde Academy
Brown attended Montverde Academy in Montverde, Florida, a town near Orlando, where she helped lead the soccer team to back-to-back state championships in 2018–19.[3] As a junior in 2019, she recorded 32 goals and 9 assists. The same year, she was named Girls Soccer Player of the Year by the Orlando Sentinel and Florida Dairy Farmers Miss Soccer.[3]
Florida State University
After graduating from Montverde Academy,[4] Brown moved to Florida State University in August 2020.[5]
International career
Brown has represented Jamaica on the senior national team as well as the under-15, under-17, and under-20 national teams. She competed at two CONCACAF Girls' Under-15 Championship editions in (2014 and 2016), the 2016 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, the 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship and the 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualification. She made her senior debut in 2018 at the age of 16. The same year, she was the youngest player competing at the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship, the qualifying tournament for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Brown was the top scorer of the tournament with four goals.[6]
At age 17, Brown was selected for Jamaica's 2019 Women's World Cup squad.[7] She made her World Cup debut during the team's first group stage match against Brazil in Grenoble.[8]
Career statistics
International goals
Scores and results list Jamaica's goal tally first
Honours
Florida State Seminoles
- NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament: 2021, 2023
- ACC Women's Soccer Tournament: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- ACC Women's Regular Season Champions: 2020, 2022
Benfica
- Campeonato Nacional Feminino: 2024–25
- Taça da Liga: 2024–25
Jamaica
- CONCACAF Women's Championship third place: 2018,[9] 2022[10]
Individual
- CONCACAF Women's Championship Young Player of the Tournament: 2018[11]
- CONCACAF Women's Best XI: 2018[12]