Rachel Brown-Finnis

Rachel Brown-Finnis

Rachel Brown in February 2015
Personal information
Full name	Rachel Laura Brown[1]
Date of birth	(1980-07-02) 2 July 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth	Burnley, England
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[2]
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
	Accrington Ladies
College career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1998–2000	Alabama Crimson Tide	41	(0)
2000–2003	Pittsburgh Panthers
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1995–1998	Liverpool
2003–2014	Everton
2003	→ ÍBV (loan)	7	(0)
2014	→ Arsenal (loan)	0	(0)
International career‡
1997–2013	England	82	(0)
2012	Great Britain	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Rachel Brown (born 2 July 1980) is an English former football goalkeeper who played for Liverpool from 1995 to 1998, spent five years from 1998 playing varsity soccer for Alabama Crimson Tide and Pittsburgh Panthers in the US college system, and played for Everton from 2003 until 2014. She also spent the 2003 season on loan in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild, playing for ÍBV. Since making her debut for the England women's national football team in 1997, Brown won over 80 caps. She understudied Pauline Cope in her first years with the national team, then served as England's first choice goalkeeper at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup and UEFA Women's Euro 2009. Due to injuries, Brown was displaced in the team by Karen Bardsley for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. She was also selected in the Great Britain squad for the 2012 London Olympics. Brown was the goalkeeper on Channel Five's Superstars and is employed by Everton FC's Community Project.^[3] She married professional golf caddie Ian Finnis in 2013 and has since been known as Rachel Brown-Finnis.