Place of birth England 2012–2013 Lincoln Ladies Position Defender Years Team Current team Liverpool L.F.C. | Number 3 Role Footballer Playing position Name Martha Harris | |
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Date of birth (1994-08-19) 19 August 1994 (age 21) | ||
Martha Harris (born 19 August 1994) is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Liverpool in the FA Women's Super League.
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Club career
She made her league debut for Lincoln Ladies (since re-located and re-branded as Notts County) on 26 August 2012 in a FA WSL match against Liverpool, coming on as a 59th-minute substitute for Bonnie Horwood. In all she made three substitute appearances in the 2012 WSL season, with the team managed by her father Glen Harris. The following season saw new manager Rick Passmore take charge of the team, and this coincided with Harris becoming a key part of the Lincoln first team, making twelve starts and one substitute appearance in the Lady Imps' fourteen league games.
Her performances in the 2013 season were enough to earn her a move to Liverpool, where she signed a two-year contract, and she also became the first ever winner of the PFA Women's Young Player of the Year award in April 2014. In Harris's first season at Liverpool they retained their WSL title on the final day of the season. She also represented Liverpool in the UEFA Women's Champions League.
Harris was ever-present in the 2015 FA WSL season but the club limped to a seventh-place finish. In November 2015 she signed a new contract with Liverpool. On 12 May 2016, she was named Liverpool Ladies Player of the Season.
International career
Harris was part of the England women's national under-19 football team who finished as runners-up to France at the 2013 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Wales.
In her first season with Liverpool she was called up to the England squad for the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. She scored in England's opening match, a 1–1 draw with South Korea, but the next two matches were lost and England went out in the first round. Harris then graduated to England's under-23 team.
League appearances
As of 10 June 2017Personal life
Harris comes from a footballing family in Scothern, who in 2011 were all associated with Lincoln Ladies or Lincoln City. Her father Glen Harris had two spells as manager of Lincoln Ladies, and later managed Doncaster Rovers Belles. Older sister Meg was club captain at Lincoln until quitting football when she became pregnant with twins in 2014. Meg is married to former England captain Casey Stoney. Younger brother Liam is a youth team player at Lincoln City, and Martha's twin sister Emily plays recreationally, though she was formerly a team-mate of Martha's at Lincoln.