Lucy Bronze

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Tough and the second or paternal family name is Bronze.
In this English name, the surname is Bronze.
Lucy Bronze
MBE
Bronze with Barcelona in 2024
Personal information
Full name Lucia Roberta Tough Bronze[1]
Date of birth (1991-10-28) 28 October 1991 (age 33)[1]
Place of birth Berwick-upon-Tweed, England
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.72 m)[1]
Position(s) Right-back,[2] right wing-back
Team information
Current team
 Chelsea
Number 22
Youth career
2002–2007 Sunderland
2004–2007 Blyth Town
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009 North Carolina Tar Heels 24 (3)
Leeds Met
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2010 Sunderland 25 (5)
2010–2012 Everton 20 (2)
2012–2014 Liverpool 28 (3)
2014–2017 Manchester City 34 (5)
2017–2020 Lyon 50 (3)
2020–2022 Manchester City 31 (2)
2022–2024 Barcelona 41 (4)
2024– Chelsea 6 (1)
International career‡
2007–2008 England U17 6 (0)
2009–2010 England U19 20 (0)
2010 England U20 3 (0)
2010–2013 England U23 5 (0)
2013– England 126 (16)
2021 Great Britain 4 (0)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  England
UEFA Women's Championship
Winner 2022 England
UEFA–CONMEBOL Finalissima
Winner 2023 England
FIFA Women's World Cup
Runner-up 2023 Australia and New Zealand
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Canada
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:00, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:05, 29 October 2024 (BST)

Lucia Roberta Tough Bronze MBE[n 1] (born 28 October 1991) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Women's Super League club Chelsea and the England women's national team. She has previously played for Sunderland, Everton, Liverpool, Lyon, Manchester City and Barcelona, as well as North Carolina at college level in the United States and Great Britain at the Olympics. Bronze has won a total of five Champions League titles, three with Lyon and two with Barcelona; three Women's Super League titles, with Liverpool and Manchester City, and the Euro 2022 with England.

Bronze represented England from under-17 level and has been part of the senior national team at every major tournament since the Euro 2013, having first captained them in 2018. She won the Silver Ball at the 2019 World Cup in France, helping England to a fourth-place finish. Bronze was named to the All-Star Squads at the 2015 World Cup in Canada, in which England finished third, as well as the Euro 2017 in the Netherlands and the 2019 World Cup.[15] She has won the PFA Women's Players' Player of the Year award twice – in 2014 and 2017.[16][17]

In 2018 and 2020, Bronze was named BBC Women's Footballer of the Year. In 2019, she became the first English footballer to win the UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award,[18] and won the inaugural Globe Soccer Award for the Women's Best Player.[19] Bronze was named The Best FIFA Women's Player in December 2020.[20] She is regarded as one of the best players in women's football,[21][22] with Phil Neville having described her as undoubtedly the "best player in the world".[23] Men in Blazers listed her as one of the 100 best footballers (men and women) of all time.[24]

  1. ^ a b c "FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015: List of players: England" (PDF). FIFA. 6 July 2015. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Lucy Bronze: Defender". England Women's Football. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  3. ^ "UEFA Women's Champions League Player: Lucia Bronze". UEFA.com. Archived from the original on 27 March 2011.
  4. ^ "UEFA Women's Champions League: Everton". UEFA.com. Archived from the original on 24 January 2011.
  5. ^ "England ease to opening-day victory". UEFA.com. 24 May 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Lucia Bronze". The FA. Archived from the original on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  7. ^ "2009 Women's Soccer Schedule". University of North Carolina Athletics. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference TarHeelsBio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ "A brief history of The Best". FIFA. 2022.
  10. ^ FIFA Women's World Cup. "#SkillOfTheWeek: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luzy Bronze". Retrieved 12 November 2022 – via Facebook.
  11. ^ "Luzy Bronze (City), millor jugadora de l'any en els premis 'The Best' – 17 des 2020". L'Esportiu de Catalunya (in Catalan). Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  12. ^ Tikas, Maria (28 September 2022). "Test con Luzy Bronze". Sport (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  13. ^ "Lucy Bronze: A história de uma inglesa que podia representar Portugal". TSF Rádio Notícias (in European Portuguese). 26 July 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  14. ^ "Melhor jogadora de 2020 tem costela portuguesa: Lucy Bronze podia ter jogado pela Seleção". Record (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  15. ^ "How brilliant is Barcelona and England's Lucy Bronze?". UEFA. 1 August 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  16. ^ "PFA Women's Players' Player of the Year: Lucy Bronze – PFA Awards – PFA – the PFA". Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
  17. ^ Cite error: The named reference PFA2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  18. ^ "Uefa Player of the Year: Lucy Bronze and Virgil van Dijk win awards". BBC Sport. 29 August 2019.
  19. ^ "2019 Wall of Fame". GlobeSoccer.
  20. ^ "Lucy Bronze and Robert Lewandowski are The Best of 2020". FIFA. 17 December 2020. Archived from the original on 17 December 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  21. ^ "Meet your Lionesses: the players to watch from our region". ITV News. 4 June 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  22. ^ Other sources:
  23. ^ Francombe, Amy (28 July 2022). "How Lucy Bronze became one of the all-time football greats". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  24. ^ Bennett, Roger; Davies, Michael; Davies, Miranda (11 October 2022). Men in Blazers Present Gods of Soccer: The Pantheon of the 100 Greatest Soccer Players (According to Us). Chronicle Books. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-79720-803-9.


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