Aoife Colvill

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Aoife Colvill
Personal information
Full name Aoife Colvill
Date of birth (2000-12-26) 26 December 2000 (age 22)
Place of birth Cairns, Australia
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Glasgow City
Number 19
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2017–2020 Canberra United 9 (0)
2020– Glasgow City 21 (9)
International career
2021– Republic of Ireland 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:13, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 June 2021 (UTC)

Aoife Colvill (born 26 December 2000) is an Irish Australian football forward, who plays for Glasgow City of the Scottish Women's Premier League and for the Republic of Ireland women's national football team.

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Club career

During the 2018 season, playing for Canberra United Academy, she finished as the highest scorer in the Capital Football's Premier League, scoring 42 goals in 19 games. [1] That year, she would also make a handful of appearances for Canberra United in the W-League. [2]

In 2020, she left Australia to move to Scotland, signing a two-year contract with Glasgow City in SWPL after a three-month trial. She was part of the Glasgow squad that became the first Scottish club in history to qualify for the UEFA Women's Champions League quarter-finals in 2020. [3] [4] In April 2022 Colville underwent surgery for an anterior cruciate ligament injury. [5]

International career

Colvill represented the junior Australian national team during the 2019 AFC Under-19 Women's Championship qualifiers. [6]

In April 2021 Colvill was one of four Irish-eligible players to be invited to a senior Republic of Ireland national team training camp. In the event she suffered an injury and was unable to attend. [7] Ireland coach Vera Pauw called up Colvill again in June 2021 for two friendlies against Iceland. [8] She won her first senior cap in the first game, starting Ireland's 3–2 defeat at Laugardalsvöllur. [9]

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References

  1. Seroukas, John (20 August 2018). "Aoife Colvill: She Cairns Do Anything". The Women's Game.
  2. Tiernan, Eamonn (8 September 2018). "The best W-League player you've never heard of". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  3. Lewis, Samantha (20 August 2020). "Meet the former W-League striker now in UEFA Women's Champions League quarter-finals". SBS.
  4. Beroldo, Lucie (5 September 2020). "Aoife Colvill's journey from Canberra United to Champions League". The Canberra Times.
  5. Duffy, Emma (12 May 2022). "Gleeson and Glasgow's Irish crew keep sights on silverware after being denied 15 in-a-row". The 42.ie. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
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  8. "Australia-born Aoife Colvill called up to Ireland squad". RTÉ Sport. 7 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
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