Rebecca Dempster

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Rebecca Dempster
Personal information
Full name Rebecca Eileen Dempster
Date of birth (1991-02-10) 10 February 1991 (age 33)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Fimauto Valpolicella
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2008 Inverness City Ladies
2009 Celtic Women
2010 Forfar Farmington
2011 Hibernian Ladies 17 (10)
2012–2013 Aberdeen Ladies 33 (11)
2016– Fimauto Valpolicella
International career
2007–2009 Scotland U17 4 (0)
2009–2010 Scotland U19 11 (12)
2011–2012 Scotland 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 May 2017
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19:52, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Rebecca Eileen Dempster (born 10 February 1991) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Fimauto Valpolicella. She has made three appearances for the Scotland national team.

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Early life

Dempster grew up in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, and was educated at Ellon Academy. [1]

Playing career

Club

Dempster played for Inverness City [2] before joining Celtic in 2009. After a spell with Forfar Farmington, she joined Hibernian ahead of the 2011 season. [3] on 25 May 2011, she was part of the Hibernian team that won the Scottish Women's Premier League Cup, beating Spartans 5–2 in the final. [4]

In 2012, Dempster joined Aberdeen, where she played for three seasons. She then spent a year out of official football before signing for Fimauto Valpolicella in Italy in 2016. [5] [6] In her first season, Valpolicella won promotion from Serie B.

International

Dempster made her debut for the Scotland under-17 team against Sweden in September 2007, going on to make four appearances at that level. [7] She then progressed to the under-19 squad, where she scored twelve goals in eleven appearances, including a hat-trick in a 5–1 win against Bulgaria in September 2009. [8] At the 2010 European Championships, she scored three times in three matches. [9]

Dempster was given her first call-up to the full Scotland squad in 2010. She won her first international cap in a friendly match against France on 18 May 2011. She made further appearances against Northern Ireland and Cameroon in 2012. [10]

Honours

Club

Hibernian :

Fimauto Valpolicella :

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