Jenna Dear

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Jenna Dear
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Dear with Watford in 2015
Personal information
Full name Jenna May Dear [1]
Date of birth (1996-05-29) 29 May 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Hayes, England
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Sunderland
Number 23
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2014–15 Chelsea 2 (0)
2015 → Watford (loan) 7 (1)
2016–2017 Everton 8 (0)
2017–2018 Sheffield FC 15 (2)
2018–2019 Vålerenga 15 (1)
2019–2021 FC Fleury 91 18 (0)
2021–2023 Dijon 29 (3)
2023– Sunderland 26 (6)
International career‡
2014–2016 England U19 13 (2)
2016 England U20 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:24, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 9 October 2017

Jenna May Dear (born 29 May 1996) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Sunderland in the English Women's Championship.

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Career

Born in Hayes, Hillingdon, Dear spent her early years at the Reading FC Girls' Centre of Excellence and played for Yiewsley Predators and Hayes & Yeading Youth. [2] [3]

Dear joined Chelsea LFC at the age of 14, and went on loan to Watford Ladies in March 2015 for the first half of that season. [2] She joined Everton LFC in January 2016, [4] before moving to Sheffield in April 2017. [2]

Dear played for Vålerenga Fotball Damer in Norway. [5] Before this, she played for Sheffield F.C. Ladies. [6]

Dear joined Fleury in 2019, but left in 2021 due to problems with sexual harassment, misconduct and a toxic culture at the club. [7]

In July 2023, Dear returned to England, signing with Championship club Sunderland. [8]

International career

Dear has represented England at under-15 level, captaining the side at the age on 14. [3] She made the move up to under-19 level, where she made her debut against Sweden on 15 July 2014, and has since represented the under-20 team. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "List of Players under Written Contract Registered Between 01/12/2014 and 31/12/2014" (PDF). The Football Association. p. 1. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Johnson Adds Jenna Dear To Spring Series Squad". Sheffield FC Ladies. 1 April 2017. Archived from the original on 9 October 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Hayes footballer skippers England to glory". Get West London. 19 August 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "Spence's Happy New Dear". Everton LFC. 6 January 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  5. ↑ She is coming home [ permanent dead link ], from vif-damefotball.no, last accessed on August 22, 2018.
  6. ↑ O'Neill, Jen (1 April 2017). "Jenna Dear Joins Sheffield FC". She Kicks. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  7. ↑ "Bryter tausheten om uakseptabel oppførsel i toppklubb: – Tok på oss på upassende måter". www.nrk.no (in Norwegian).
  8. ↑ "Jenna Dear joins the Lasses". Sunderland . 24 July 2023.
  9. ↑ "Jenna Dear". TheFA.com. Retrieved 9 October 2017.


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