![]() Laws with Liverpool in 2024 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Rachael Laws | ||
Date of birth | 5 November 1990 | ||
Place of birth | Newcastle, England | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Liverpool | ||
Number | 1 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2006–2018 | Sunderland | 128 | (0) |
2013 | → Liverpool (loan) | 9 | (0) |
2018–2020 | Reading | 5 | (0) |
2020– | Liverpool | 76 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:40, 31 January 2025 (UTC) |
Rachael Laws (born 5 November 1990) is an English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Women's Super League club Liverpool.
Laws was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and studied at Gateshead College. [1] [2]
Laws first played for Liverpool during the 2013 FA WSL season. She played 9 games and helped her side win the title while battling for a place in the first team with Sarah Quantrill. [3] She then signed for Sunderland on 31 December 2013 going on to make 36 appearances in the WSL. Following Sunderland's denial for a place in the 2018–19 FA WSL she joined Reading. [4] She said in an interview with BBC Sport: "Reading is somewhere I want to personally be and thrive hopefully while I am here". [5] On 8 June 2020, Reading announced that Laws had left the club after her contract had expired. [6] On 7 July 2020, it was announced that Laws had joined recently relegated side Liverpool F.C. Women having previously been on loan to the club in 2013. [7]
Laws was called up by Mark Sampson in 2014 for England's World Cup qualification but was an unused substitute in a 10–0 away win against Montenegro. [8]
Some entries may be missing or incomplete due to lack of historical statistics.
Club | Season | League | National Cup [a] | League Cup [b] | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Sunderland | 2005–06 | Women's Premier League | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
2006–07 | Women's Premier League | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
2007–08 | Women's Premier League North | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |
2008–09 | Women's Premier League North | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | |
2009–10 | Women's Premier League | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 0 | |
2010–11 | Women's Premier League | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 0 | |
2011–12 | Women's Premier League | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 17 | 0 | |
2012–13 | Women's Premier League | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 22 | 0 | |
2014 | Women's Super League 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
2015 | Women's Super League | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |
2016 | Women's Super League | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | |
2017–18 | Women's Super League | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | |
Total | 128 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 163 | 0 | ||
Liverpool (on loan) | 2013 | Women's Super League | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
Reading | 2018–19 | Women's Super League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
2019–20 | Women's Super League | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 0 | |
Total | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 0 | ||
Liverpool | 2020–21 | Women's Championship | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
2021–22 | Women's Championship | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 0 | |
2022–23 | Women's Super League | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | |
2023–24 | Women's Super League | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 0 | |
2024–25 | Women's Super League | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
Total | 76 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 86 | 0 | ||
Career total | 218 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 272 | 0 |
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