Lily Agg

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Lily Agg
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Personal information
Full name Lily Maria Phoebe Agg [1]
Date of birth (1993-12-17) 17 December 1993 (age 30)
Place of birth Brighton, England
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Birmingham City
Number 12
Youth career
Eastbourne Borough
Polegate Grasshoppers
Brighton & Hove Albion
2010–2012 Arsenal
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2012–2014 Brighton & Hove Albion 26 (7)
2014 London Bees 0 (0)
2014–2016 Millwall Lionesses 22 (6)
2016 Brighton & Hove Albion
2016 Cardiff Met 0 (0)
2017 Bristol City 3 (1)
2017–2018 Frankfurt 13 (1)
2018–2019 Charlton Athletic 19 (7)
2019–2023 London City Lionesses 36 (4)
2023– Birmingham City 29 (7)
International career‡
2022– Republic of Ireland 11 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:50, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 24 September 2023

Lily Maria Phoebe Agg (born 17 December 1993) is a professional footballer who currently plays for Birmingham City W.F.C. and the Republic of Ireland women's national football team.

Contents

Agg studied at the University of Brighton and has got a teaching degree. [2] Alongside her football career, Agg also currently works as a Sports Lecturer at Academy 1 Sports in Essex. [3]

Early life

Agg grew up in Eastbourne with her mother Ruth and three siblings including Poppy Agg. She attended Bishop Bell School and began playing youth football for Eastbourne Borough when she was five years old, before joining Polegate Grasshoppers when she was 11. [4] Afterwards, Agg earned trials with Chelsea and Arsenal and would end up joining the latter. [5]

Club career

Arsenal

After moving away from her home in the South East, Agg joined the Arsenal W.F.C. Academy. She did manage to get into the first team squad, but made only a handful of appearances. [6] She declined the offer of a full-time contract from Arsenal, preferring to prioritise her university studies. [7]

Brighton & Hove Albion

Agg started her professional career back at her hometown club, Brighton & Hove Albion, which she had initially joined at the Under 12's level in Brighton Centre's of Excellence before moving to Arsenal. [8]

London Bees

In January 2014 Agg left Brighton & Hove Albion, in order to play at a higher level. [9] She returned to London, joining the London Bees for a short period. She scored the club's first ever goal in their 3–1 FA Women's Cup win over Leeds United. [10]

Millwall Lionesses

She left the Bees after a very short spell to join the Millwall Lionesses for a season. She made a promising start, as the club's joint-leading goal scorer for 2014, and extended her contract for another year at the end of the campaign. [11]

Return to Brighton & Hove Albion

After a two-year period away, Lily rejoined her hometown club in 2015. During this spell she helped the club gain promotion, after winning the FA Women's Premier League Championship Play Off. [12]

Cardiff Metropolitan Ladies F.C.

Agg played for Cardiff Met. Ladies F.C., including during their 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League campaign, [2] where she scored both goals in Cardiff's 3–2 loss to Spartak Subotica. [13]

Bristol City

Agg moved to Women's Super League side Bristol City in January 2017. [2] She paused her teaching career in order to join her new club on a full-time basis. [14] Making the move to England's top division is something that she has described as one of her greater career achievements. [8] She made only three appearances, with one start, and scored one goal. [15]

FFC Frankfurt

In August 2017, Agg moved to the Frauen-Bundesliga to join FFC Frankfurt, after a successful trial. [16] At the time, she was the only British player play in Germany and it was seen to be a step up in her career. [17] [18] FFC Frankfurt had won seven Frauen-Bundesliga's, eight German Cups and the Champions League on four occasions. [17] Agg enjoyed playing in Germany, praising the professionalism of the club and the competitiveness of the Frauen-Bundesliga. [19] In her only season in Germany, the club managed an average 6th-placed finish. However, Agg struggled for game time, making only 13 appearances, with nine of them involving her coming on as a substitute. Her only goal came in a league defeat to Freiburg. [15]

Charlton

After a short stint in Germany, Agg joined Charlton for what was their inaugural season in the Championship. She made a total of six appearances and scored on two occasions on her return to English football. [20]

London City Lionesses

Agg subsequently joined Championship club London City Lionesses, ahead of the 2019–20 season. However, due to suffering a fractured tibia against Reading in a pre-season friendly, she missed the entirety of her debut season at the club. [8]

She returned to action in the 2020–21 season against Sheffield United. In total, she made eleven appearances that season, being rewarded with three player of the match awards netting her one and only goal against champions Leicester. [8]

Following the conclusion of the 2022–23 FA Women's Championship season, Agg left London City Lionesses. [21]

Birmingham City

On 19 August 2023, Birmingham City announced they had signed Agg on a one-year deal. [22] On 27 May 2024, she signed a new one year contract, with the option of a one year extension, with the club. [23]

International career

On 19 June 2022, Agg made her debut for the Republic of Ireland women's national football team in a friendly against the Philippines in Antalya, Turkey. [24] She marked the occasion by scoring the only goal in Ireland's 1–0 win. [25] Agg had previously represented England up to under-19 level, but changed her allegiance to Ireland after an approach from the team's coach Vera Pauw. Agg was eligible for Ireland due to her grandmother Breda Greene being from County Cork, but the process of obtaining citizenship and switching her football eligibility proved to be protracted, delayed several times by injury and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland. [26]

On 1 September 2022 Agg was named player of the match in Ireland's 1–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group A win over Finland at Tallaght Stadium. She entered play as a first-half substitute for the injured Ruesha Littlejohn then headed the winning goal, which secured Ireland's place in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA play-offs. [27]

International appearances

Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Republic of Ireland 202262
202351
Total113

International goals

Scores and results list Republic of Ireland's goals first. Score column indicates score after each Agg goal. Updated as of 24 September 2023.
International goals scored by Lily Agg
No.CapDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetitionRef.
1119 June 2022Bellis Hotel Sports Center, Antalya, Turkey Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines 1–01–0 Friendly [28]
231 September 2022 Tallaght Stadium, Dublin, Ireland Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1–01–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification [29]
31224 September 2023 Aviva Stadium, Dublin, IrelandUlster Banner.svg  Northern Ireland 3–03–0 2023-24 UEFA Women's Nations League [30]

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