![]() Wardlaw in 2022 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Charlotte Wardlaw | ||
Date of birth | 20 February 2003 | ||
Place of birth | Carshalton, England | ||
Position(s) | Defender / Defensive midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Newcastle United | ||
Youth career | |||
Carshalton Athletic | |||
–2018 | Millwall Lionesses | ||
2018–2019 | Chelsea | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2019–2025 | Chelsea | 0 | (0) |
2021–2022 | → Liverpool (loan) | 18 | (1) |
2022–2023 | → Liverpool (loan) | 4 | (0) |
2023 | → Lewes (loan) | 12 | (0) |
2023–2024 | → Glasgow City (loan) | 28 | (2) |
2024–2025 | → Sheffield United (loan) | 9 | (0) |
2025– | Newcastle United | 0 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
England U15 | |||
2019– | England U17 | 4 | (0) |
2021– | England U19 | 6 | (0) |
2022– | England U23 | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:30, 17 January 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:06, 19 October 2022 (UTC) |
Charlotte Wardlaw (born 20 February 2003) is an English footballer, who plays for Women's Championship club Newcastle United. She has captained the England women's under-15, under-17 and under-19 teams, and represented the under-23 team.
Wardlaw started playing football at the age of six, for Carshalton Athletic. At the age of 13, she joined the Millwall Lionesses Academy, [1] and aged 15, she joined Chelsea Academy. [2] At the age of 16, Wardlaw made her senior debut for Chelsea in a 2018–19 FA Women's League Cup against Tottenham Hotspur. Chelsea won the match 5–1. [3] [4] She also made appearances in Chelsea's 2019–20 Women's FA Cup match against Charlton Athletic, and their 2020–21 Women's FA Cup match against London City Lionesses. [1]
In June 2021, Wardlaw signed a two-year professional contract with Chelsea. It was her first professional contract. [2] In August 2021, she joined FA Women's Championship club Liverpool on loan for the remainder of the season. [5] [6] She was Liverpool's eighth signing of the season. [7] She scored her first Liverpool goal as they beat Sheffield United 2–0 in October 2021, [8] and also scored in Liverpool's 2021–22 Women's FA Cup fourth round match against Lincoln City. [9] In September 2022, Wardlaw was re-loaned to Liverpool for the 2022–23 season. [10] She returned to Chelsea in January 2023. [11] A few weeks later, she was loaned out again, this time to Women's Championship side, Lewes. [12] At the beginning of the next season she was loaned to Scottish club Glasgow City for the season. [13] The following season saw her loaned to Championship side Sheffield United before being recalled in January 2025. [14] [15]
On 17 January 2025, Wardlaw signed a permanent deal with Championship club Newcastle United. [16]
Wardlaw has captained the England women's under-15, [2] under-17 [17] and under-19 teams. [2] In 2017, she was part of the England under-15s team that beat Wales under-15s 7–0. [18] She captained England under-17s in 2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification matches. [17] She was in the England squad for the 2022 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship. [19] In October 2022, she played for the England under-23 team in a match against Sweden. [20]
Wardlaw is in a relationship with fellow women's footballer Hannah Robinson. [21]
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