Colette Cavanagh

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Colette Cavanagh
Personal information
Full name Colette Cavanagh
Date of birth (1998-11-24) 24 November 1998 (age 25)
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland [1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Celtic
Number 11
Youth career
Rossvale
2011–2015 Celtic
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2015–2016 Celtic
2016–2017 Spartans 23 (4)
2018 Celtic
2019–2022 Hibernian
2022–2023 Rangers 11 (6)
2023– Celtic 27 (5)
International career
2012 Scotland U15 1 (0)
2013–2014 Scotland U16 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 May 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 October 2022

Colette Cavanagh (born 24 November 1998) is a Scottish footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Celtic in the Scottish Women's Premier League.

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Career

Cavanagh started her career at youth level with Rossvale, then joined Celtic Girls in 2011. She made her first team debut aged 16 [2] before joining Spartans [3] when she relocated to attend the University of Edinburgh. She returned to Celtic for a season in 2018 before moving to Hibernian, and was part of the team that won the 2019 Scottish Women's Premier League Cup. As a Hibs player she won the SWPL 1 Player of the Month for September 2021, [4] [5] becoming the first player to win the award with two different clubs (her first was with Celtic in May 2018), [6] and in 2022 was included in the first-ever PFA Scotland Women's Team of the Year. [7] [8]

In July 2022 Cavanagh joined Rangers [9] [10] where she spent one season, scoring 6 goals in 11 appearances, then returned to Celtic [11] for a third spell before the start of the 2023–24 season.

Honours

Hibernian

Rangers

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  10. "Rangers sign Colette Cavanagh". rangers.co.uk. Rangers FC. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2022.On signing for Rangers, Cavanagh said: “I am delighted, it is a huge club and I am excited to be a part of it.
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