Kayla Rendell

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Kayla Rendell
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Rendell playing for Southampton in 2023
Personal information
Full name Kayla Shea Rendell [1]
Date of birth (2001-06-29) 29 June 2001 (age 23)
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Manchester United
Number 1
Youth career
Southampton
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2019–2025 Southampton [a] 79 (0)
2025– Manchester United 0 (0)
International career‡
2017–2018 England U17 5 (0)
2018 England U18 1 (0)
2019 England U19 1 (0)
2022– England U23 5 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:50, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19:14, 29 October 2024

Kayla Shea Rendell (born 29 June 2001) is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Women's Super League club Manchester United, and the England under-23 team. A product of the Southampton academy, she has represented England at every youth level.

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Early life

Rendell began playing football at the age of 6 with Merely, in Poole, joined the Dorset Centre of Excellence aged 8, and later played for Merley Cobham Girls. [5] Prior to becoming a full-time footballer, Rendell worked at Screwfix while playing non-league football for Southampton part-time. [6]

Club career

Southampton

Rendell playing in goal for Southampton against Lewes in 2023. Lewes FC Women 1 Southampton Women 4 27 08 2023-558.jpg
Rendell playing in goal for Southampton against Lewes in 2023.

Rendell joined Southampton aged 15, playing in the Region Talent Club under-16s team. [5]

On 27 February 2022, in the 2021–22 FA Cup, she scored a dramatic equalising goal from a corner against Ipswich Town in extra time, [7] [8] which was later awarded as Goal of the Season. [9]

In the 2022–23 season, Rendell was awarded Women's Championship Player of the Month for October 2022, having kept three clean sheets in the month in 1–0 victories. [10] In May 2023, she was nominated for Women's Championship Save of the Season for her fingertip save against Sunderland. [11] [12]

In June 2023, Rendell was awarded Southampton Women's Player of the Season by fans, [13] featuring in all but one of the Saints games, keeping nine clean sheets, and making a total of 89 saves. [11] She extended her contract with Southampton until 2025. [14]

Rendell didn't make a league appearance during the first half of the 2024–25 season, and was instead replaced by fellow youth international Fran Stenson. [15]

Manchester United

On 11 January 2025, Rendell signed for Women's Super League club Manchester United for an undisclosed fee, [16] [17] and was subsequently named as the new number 1 goalkeeper. [18]

International career

Youth

Rendell has represented England at every youth level from under-16 to under-23. [5] [15]

On 16 March 2018, Rendell was named as part of the England under-17 squad for 2018 U-17 Championship qualification. [19] She made her debut on 28 March 2018 against Switzerland, keeping a clean sheet in the 4–0 win. [20] In May 2018, in the final tournament, Rendell kept clean sheets in victories over Italy and Germany, [21] with England beaten 2–1 by Finland in the World Cup play-off. [22]

On 30 September 2022, Rendell was called up to the England under-23 squad for fixtures against Norway and Sweden, [23] where she would be an unused substitute, in favour of Emily Ramsey. [24]

On 20 February 2023, Rendell made her debut for the England U23 team, as the starting goalkeeper in a 4–1 victory over Belgium. [25] [26] On 30 October 2023, with the under-23s, she made a series of saves to keep a clean sheet against Portugal in a 2–0 win. [27] [28]

Senior

In April 2024, Rendell received her first call-up to the senior England team for their Euro 2025 qualifiers. [29] In May, she was named to the standby list for Euro qualifiers, [30] but later withdrew from the squad due to an ankle injury. [31]

Honours

External video
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg Southampton Women's Goal of the Season, 2021–22 FA Cup fifth round vs Ipswich, February 2022

Individual

Notes

  1. ↑ Domestic stats include 38 National League appearance in 2019–20 (8), [2] 2020–21 (4), [3] and 2021–22 (26). [4]

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