Chloe Morgan (footballer)

Chloe Morgan
Morgan in 2021 with Crystal Palace
Personal information
Date of birth (1989-12-19) 19 December 1989
Place of birth Leytonstone, England
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Position Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Leyton Ladies
Leyton Orient
–2014 Tottenham Hotspur
2014–2015 Arsenal 0 (0)
2015–2020 Tottenham Hotspur 32 (0)
2020–2022 Crystal Palace 21 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 12 July 2020 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals as of 15:54, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Chloe Morgan (born 12 December 1989) is an English lawyer, journalist and former footballer who last played as a goalkeeper for FA Women's Championship club Crystal Palace.[2]

Early life

Morgan is from Leytonstone in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.[3] She enjoyed football as a child and played recreationally for local clubs including Leyton Orient.[4] As a youngster, the film Erin Brockovich inspired her to become a personal injury lawyer.[5] Morgan studied law at Leeds University.[6] After qualifying as a solicitory she got a training contract at a law firm in Essex before joining Irwin Mitchell as a civil litigation lawyer.[7]

Club career

Despite having played football since she was 7 years old, Morgan's first experience of playing as a goalkeeper was as an adult, when the regular keeper for her grassroots team was injured and Morgan offered to take her place.[8] The following year she trialled for Tottenham Hotspur as a goalkeeper.

Morgan progressed to playing for Tottenham in the FA Women's Premier League Southern Division. During the 2013–14 season, local rivals Arsenal required a goalkeeper for their reserve team and loaned Morgan from Spurs.[6] With Arsenal, she won the 2014 FA WSL Development Cup and made 16 reserve team appearances in 2014–15.[9][10]

In 2019, Morgan was among 11 of Spurs' existing players to be offered a full-time professional contract to remain with the club following their promotion to the FA Women's Super League. She was allowed to take a sabbatical from her legal career to focus on football.[4]

Morgan started 18 of 20 league games in the 2018–19 FA Women's Championship campaign, in which Spurs finished as runners-up to Manchester United.[11][12] After leaving the club Morgan was critical of Tottenham Hotspur's treatment of its women's team during her time there.[13][14]

After her contract with Tottenham expired in 2020, Morgan signed with Crystal Palace.[13][15] She announced her retirement from football after the conclusion of the 2021–22 FA Women's Championship .[16]

After football

Morgan combined her football career with a full-time job as a personal injury lawyer.[17][18] While playing for Crystal Palace she also served as a coach and diversity and inclusion officer for Goal Diggers FC, a London-based amateur club for women and non-binary people.[19] She also worked as a coach for the M-Power programme for goalkeepers in women's football and was an ambassador for KickOff@3, an initiative aiming to build relationships between young people and the police.[20][6]

Morgan is a co-presenter on the woman's football podcast Upfront alongside Rachel O'Sullivan, co-founder of the Girls On The Ball platform.[21][22] She was previously the first women's football editor at The Athletic.[23][24] In 2024, Morgan became head of She's a Baller, an independent women's football publisher and creative agency.[25][26]

In 2025, Morgan's 2017 Tottenham Hotspur shirt was added to the Football Heritage Collection at the National Football Museum in Manchester.[27][28]

Personal life

Morgan is openly gay and has been a vocal advocate for LGBTQ representation in the football industry.[29][30][31] She has also spoken out about BAME representation in sports.[6][32] Her work raising awareness of black inclusion and LGBTQ representation in women's football led to her being included in the Football Black List in 2020, and named as Sports Star of the Year at the 2021 Diva Awards.[14][19] In 2022 she became a founding member of the LGBTQ+ Professionals in Football collective.[33]

References

  1. ^ "Chloe Morgan". Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Chloe Morgan - Goalkeeper | Women". Crystal Palace F.C. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  3. ^ "1 Chloe Morgan". Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  4. ^ a b Jones, Daniel (13 November 2019). "Chloe Morgan Ahead Of The North London Derby". Soccer Bible. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  5. ^ "Our People - Chloe Morgan". Irwin Mitchell. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  6. ^ a b c d Fifield, Dominic (16 October 2020). "Chloe Morgan: Lawyer, keeper, coach looking to break down barriers in the game". The Athletic. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  7. ^ Walker-Khan, Miriam (14 March 2021). "Work and play: Five elite sportswomen and their non-sporting careers". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  8. ^ "'Seeing Rachel Yankey in a magazine was my inspiration', says trailblazing goalkeeper Chloe Morgan". The Telegraph. 30 June 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  9. ^ Jamet, Sylvain (25 May 2015). "Arsenal Ladies Development team end of season review and statistics". Daily Cannon. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  10. ^ "Ladies Reserves win Development Cup". Arsenal F.C. 1 June 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  11. ^ "Introducing our Tottenham Hotspur Women players". Tottenham Hotspur F.C. 5 July 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  12. ^ Pentland, Daniel (12 July 2020). "Former Tottenham Hotspur keeper joins Crystal Palace". WSL Full Time. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  13. ^ a b "Tottenham must do more to integrate men's and women's squads, says Chloe Morgan". Sky Sports. Archived from the original on 30 January 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  14. ^ a b Sessions, George (25 December 2020). "Crystal Palace goalkeeper Chloe Morgan inspired in fight for equality after Black List inclusion". The Independent. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  15. ^ Frith, Wilf (12 July 2020). "Crystal Palace Women capture keeper Chloe Morgan". She Kicks. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  16. ^ "I'm retiring!". Twitter. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  17. ^ Hyde, John (12 August 2022). "Earning her Spurs: Meet the woman who combined law with top-flight football". Law Gazette.
  18. ^ Ingram, Sarah (17 July 2022). "As the Lionesses roar their way through the Euros, why women's football is the fastest growing sport right now". Metro. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  19. ^ a b "Chloe Morgan: Crystal Palace goalkeeper crowned Sports Star of the Year at DIVA Awards". Sky Sports. 30 April 2021. Archived from the original on 27 June 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  20. ^ Holmes, John (28 April 2021). "Chloe Morgan: Crystal Palace goalkeeper says her new coaching programme is both instructive and inclusive". Sky Sports. Archived from the original on 4 July 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  21. ^ "Upfront | Stak". stak.london. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  22. ^ "Rachel O'Sullivan & Chloe Morgan return with the definitive podcast on women's football". Podcasting Today. 6 September 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  23. ^ Morgan, Chloe (16 August 2023). "Special report: Women's goalkeeping has long been ridiculed but not any more – this is why". The Athletic. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  24. ^ Glennon, Jack (3 July 2024). "Chloe Morgan, head of She's A Baller". Behind Sport. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  25. ^ Sibiya, Nozibusiso (24 October 2025). "Former Spurs goalkeeper Chloe Morgan on building a life after retirement". SABC Sport. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  26. ^ Innes, Molly (24 February 2025). "Brands urged to 'invest ahead of the curve' in women's sport". Marketing Week. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  27. ^ "Football Changemakers create history at National Football Museum". Premier League. 5 March 2025. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  28. ^ "Football Changemakers create history at National Football Museum". National Football Museum. 5 March 2025. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  29. ^ "'The power football has is great'". BBC Sport.
  30. ^ "Chloe Morgan: Women's football far more inclusive than men's game, says goalkeeper". Sky Sports. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  31. ^ Medlicott, Phil (24 June 2021). "Chloe Morgan praises Manuel Neuer's 'significant' gesture of rainbow armband". The Independent. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  32. ^ Whyatt, Katie (11 June 2020). "Tottenham goalkeeper Chloe Morgan: 'Football can do much more for BAME girls'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
  33. ^ "LGBTQ+ group launched for players, professionals in football". ESPN. 17 June 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
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