Pauline Cope

Pauline Cope

Personal information
Full name	Pauline Cope-Boanas
Date of birth	(1969-02-16) 16 February 1969 (age 55)[1]
Place of birth	Lambeth, England
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[2]
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1982–1990	Millwall Lionesses
1990–1991	Arsenal Ladies
1991–1993	Millwall Lionesses
1994–1995	Arsenal Ladies
1995–1998	Millwall Lionesses
1998–2000	Croydon
2000–2006	Charlton Athletic
International career
1995–2004	England	60	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pauline Cope (born 16 February 1969), whose married name is Pauline Cope-Boanas, is an English former football goalkeeper. She won 60 caps for the England women's national football team between her debut in 1995 and retirement from international football in 2004. Cope was England's first choice goalkeeper at the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup and UEFA Women's Euro 2001. Ted Copeland, England's coach at the former competition, described Cope as the best female goalkeeper in the world.

Having started playing with Millwall Lionesses in her native South London, Cope remained until 1998. Her time at the club was interspersed with two separate spells with Arsenal and a season out of football in 1993–94. She moved on to Croydon, who came under the auspices of Charlton Athletic in 2000. Cope finished her club career playing for Charlton under the management of partner and future husband Keith Boanas, retiring in 2006. A League champion on three occasions, Cope won the FA Women's Cup four times and was a losing finalist twice.