| Intro | English international association football player |
| Is |
Athlete Football player Association football player |
| From | United Kingdom |
| Type | Sports |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 25 July 1991, Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, North West England |
| Age: | 29 years |
Toni Duggan (born 25 July 1991) is an English footballer who plays as a winger or as a forward, for Manchester City and the England women’s national football team.
Club career
Everton: 2007-2013
Duggan broke into the Everton side in the 2007–08 season when the regular forwards suffered injuries. She scored the winning extra–time goal against Watford Ladies to put Everton into that season’s FA Women’s Premier League Cup final.
Duggan was the named the FA Women’s Young Player of the Year in 2009, the England Women’s Under-23 Player of the Year in 2012 and the North West Female Player of the Year in 2013.
Duggan also played in Everton’s 2010 FA Women’s Cup final win over Arsenal. Her form in the second part of the 2011 FA WSL season led team–mate Rachel Unitt to predict a call–up to the senior England squad.
Manchester City: 2014-present
After seven years at Everton, it was announced on 28 November 2013 that Duggan had signed with Manchester City. In August 2015, she became the first female player to receive the club’s Goal Of The Season award following an impressive goal against Chelsea in the Women’s Super League. She will also be part of the team when Manchester City plays in the Women’s Champions League for the first time. In November 2016, Duggan scored a noted goal in City’s Champions League match with Brøndby.
International career
In March 2007, 15-year–old Duggan came off the substitute’s bench to score on her debut for England Under–17s. She has since represented England at Under–19, Under–20 and Under–23 levels. She played in the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in both 2008 and 2010. On Duggan’s 18th birthday, she scored the opening goal in England’s 2009 UEFA Women’s Under-19 Championship final win, against Sweden in Belarus.
Duggan completed her first cap for Hope Powell’s senior team in England’s 3–0 win over Croatia at Bescot Stadium on 19 September 2012. She scored her first international hat-trick in a match against Turkey on 26 September 2013. She scored another hat-trick in England’s World Cup qualifying game against Montenegro in April 2014.
In 2015, Duggan was part of England’s squad for the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada. The team came third in the competition, securing the bronze medal, and were subsequently congratulated by Prince William at a reception held at Kensington Palace.
International goals
| Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 8 March 2013 | GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus | Scotland | 2–1 | 4–4 | 2013 Cyprus Cup |
| 2. | 11 March 2013 | GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus | New Zealand | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2013 Cyprus Cup |
| 3. | 15 July 2013 | Arena Linköping, Linköping, Sweden | Russia | 1–1 | 1–1 | Euro 2013 |
| 4. | 26 September 2013 | Fratton Park, Portsmouth, England | Turkey | 1–0 | 8–0 | World Cup 2015 qualification |
| 5. | 2–0 | |||||
| 6. | 5–0 | |||||
| 7. | 26 October 2013 | The Den, London, England | Wales | 2–0 | 2–0 | World Cup 2015 qualification |
| 8. | 31 October 2013 | Adana 5 Ocak Stadium, Adana, Turkey | Turkey | 3–0 | 4–0 | World Cup 2015 qualification |
| 9. | 5 March 2014 | Ammochostos Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus | Italy | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2014 Cyprus Cup |
| 10. | 5 April 2014 | Falmer Stadium, Brighton and Hove, England | Montenegro | 1–0 | 9–0 | World Cup 2015 qualification |
| 11. | 2–0 | |||||
| 12. | 8–0 | |||||
| 13. | 17 September 2014 | Stadion Pod Malim Brdom, Petrovac, Montenegro | Montenegro | 6–0 | 10–0 | World Cup 2015 qualification |
| 14. | 10–0 | |||||
| 15. | 6 March 2016 | Nissan Stadium, Nashville, United States | Germany | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2016 SheBelieves Cup |
Personal life
Duggan was a Morris dancer when she was a child and like nearly all of today’s professional women footballers, Duggan started playing with boys – for an under-eight team known as the Jellytots. Duggan attended Notre Dame Catholic College and graduated from Loughborough College in 2010.
Duggan is an ambassador for the FA’s Kick It Out anti-racism organisation and the charity Saving Lives.
In March 2014 she apologised after ‘blacking up’ for a fancy dress party to impersonate Whoopi Goldberg from the film Sister Act. In April 2015 she apologised after posting a picture of herself smiling with Manchester United manager Louis Van Gaal, only hours after United had defeated City. Many City fans were disappointed and called for her to be axed from their women’s team.
In May 2016, it was reported that Duggan was about to become the first of the England women’s football team to reach 100,000 Twitter followers. Duggan commented that, “I like social media and without social media the game wouldn’t be where it’s at.”