English footballer
Lauren May Hemp
MBE
(born 7 August 2000) is an English professional
footballer
who plays as a
forward
for
Women's Super League
club
Manchester City
and the
England national team
. With City, she is a
FA Cup
and
League Cup
winner, and with England; she is a
European Championship
and
Finalissima
winner, as well as
World Cup
runner-up. Since 2017, Hemp was twice named
FA England Young Player of the Year
and four times named
PFA Women's Young Player of the Year
.
Early life and career
[
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Hemp grew up in
North Walsham
, Norfolk, where she attended Millfield Primary School and North Walsham High School. In high school she played for the girls' and boys' teams, and the girls' team won the County Championship.
[2]
She took an interest in football at a young age and started playing for local club North Walsham Youth FC as one of only two girls on the team.
[3]
Her youth career started in 2008 at
Norwich City
where her sister Amy also played. Her sister had to stop playing after seriously injuring both knees.
[3]
Hemp joined North Walsham U16 boys while simultaneously playing with Norwich.
[4]
Hemp played her final game for Norwich in 2015 but continued her association with the club during the 2015?16 season playing for the Norwich City Elite Boys team.
[5]
The girls' centre closed down, so she joined the boys' team again.
[6]
When she was 17 she continued to train at the Boys’ Elite Player Development Centre.
[7]
[8]
As part of the "Where Greatness Is Made" campaign, a plaque honouring Hemp was installed at North Walsham Youth.
[9]
Club career
[
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]
Bristol City
[
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]
In 2016, after leaving Norwich City, Hemp joined
Bristol City
.
[10]
On 10 September 2016, she made her senior debut for the Vixens and scored the team's third goal in a 4?1 win over
Watford
.
[11]
On 19 March 2017, she made her first
FA Women's Cup
appearance, scoring two goals in a 5?0 win over
Millwall Lionesses
.
[12]
In the 2017
Spring Series
, Hemp made a total of four appearances, scoring one goal. In April 2018, she was named
PFA Women's Young Player of the Year
.
[13]
[14]
She finished the 2017?18 season with nine goals in 24 appearances in all competitions.
Manchester City
[
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]
On 31 May 2018, Hemp signed with
Manchester City
.
[15]
She scored her first goal for the club on 13 December 2018 in the 4-0 win over
Aston Villa
.
[16]
She won her first trophy with the club in the
2018?19 Continental Cup
. She scored a goal in the
2019 FA Cup final
, giving her team a 3-0 victory.
[17]
In the
2021/22 season
she was used in all 22 league games and was the fourth best goalscorer in the league with ten goals.
[18]
She was named to the WSL Team of the Year for 2021/22 while Manchester City won the
Conti Cup
.
[17]
She signed a two-year extension with the club on 9 January 2022.
[19]
Two weeks later she scored the club's 700th goal.
[20]
She missed a month of playing in November 2022 with a thigh injury.
[21]
She won PFA Women's Young Player of the Year for the fourth time in 2022.
[22]
In the
2022/23 season
, Hemp totaled 28 appearances in all competitions and had 21 goal involvements.
[17]
On 9 December 2023, when Manchester City was behind 1-0 to Aston Villa, Hemp scored a brace to give her team a 2-1 victory.
[23]
She scored in the 2-1 win against
Everton
on 2 March 2024 to put Manchester City at the top of the table.
[24]
On 26 April 2024, Manchester City announced Hemp’s three-year contract extension until 2027.
[25]
International career
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In February 2015, Hemp received her first call-up to the under-15 squad.
[26]
In May 2017, she captained England at the
UEFA Under-17 Championship
,
[27]
scoring a goal in a 5?0 win over the
Republic of Ireland
.
[28]
In September 2017, she was named
Vauxhall England Young Player of the Year
.
[29]
In August 2018, she helped England under-20 finish third at the
2018 FIFA U-20 World Cup
.
[30]
Hemp made her senior England debut on 8 October 2019, coming on as an 86th-minute substitute for
Beth Mead
in a 1?0 friendly win against
Portugal
.
[31]
On 27 May 2021, it was announced that she had been selected in the
Great Britain Olympic football team
for the
2020 Olympics
.
[32]
In January 2020, Hemp was named by
UEFA
as one of the ten most promising young players in Europe.
[33]
On 30 November 2021, she scored her first four goals for England, in a national record
20?0 win
over
Latvia
.
[34]
In June Hemp was included in the England squad which won the
Euro 2022
.
[35]
[36]
She played in all six games.
[37]
During the final it was Hemp's corner that was pressed home by teammate
Chloe Kelly
to create the winning second goal in front of over 87,000 spectators.
[38]
Although usually a winger, Hemp was played in the number 9 (
striker
) role when England played the
USA
in a
friendly
at
Wembley
on 7 October 2022. The experiment paid off for manager
Sarina Wiegman
with Hemp scoring within the first 10 minutes in a 2?1 England victory.
[39]
During the
2023
Finalissima
victory for England, Hemp was knocked on the nose and wore a protective face mask in subsequent games.
[40]
On 31 May 2023, Hemp was named to the squad for the
2023 World Cup
in July 2023.
[41]
Hemp scored a goal in England's 6?1 defeat of
China
.
[42]
In the quarter-final tie against
Colombia
, Hemp scored England's equaliser in first half added time as England won 2?1.
[43]
In the semi-final, Hemp scored the second and assisted for the third as England defeated
Australia
3?1 to reach the team's first ever World Cup final.
[44]
In the
2023?24 Nations League
, Hemp scored in the 1-0 victory over
Belgium
,
[45]
and she scored the tying goal in England's 3-2 victory over
Netherlands
.
[46]
Hemp was appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire
(MBE) in the
2024 New Year Honours
for services to association football.
[47]
Personal life
[
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]
As of 2023, Hemp has been in a relationship with fellow footballer, Sheffield United midfielder, Ashley Hodson. Hemp enjoys building Lego in her spare time.
[48]
Career statistics
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]
Club
[
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]
- As of match played 18 May 2024
.
[49]
[50]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club
|
Season
|
League
|
National cup
[a]
|
League cup
[b]
|
Europe
[c]
|
Other
[d]
|
Total
|
Division
|
Apps
|
Goals
|
Apps
|
Goals
|
Apps
|
Goals
|
Apps
|
Goals
|
Apps
|
Goals
|
Apps
|
Goals
|
Bristol City
|
2016
|
Women's Super League 2
|
2
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
?
|
?
|
2
|
1
|
2017
|
Women's Super League
|
4
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
5
|
3
|
2017?18
|
Women's Super League
|
18
|
7
|
1
|
0
|
5
|
2
|
?
|
?
|
24
|
9
|
Total
|
24
|
9
|
2
|
2
|
5
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
31
|
13
|
Manchester City
|
2018?19
|
Women's Super League
|
10
|
2
|
4
|
2
|
5
|
3
|
1
|
0
|
?
|
20
|
7
|
2019?20
|
Women's Super League
|
14
|
5
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
1
|
2
|
0
|
?
|
19
|
6
|
2020?21
|
Women's Super League
|
15
|
6
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
4
|
2
|
1
|
0
|
23
|
10
|
2021?22
|
Women's Super League
|
22
|
10
|
5
|
7
|
6
|
4
|
2
|
0
|
?
|
35
|
21
|
2022?23
|
Women's Super League
|
20
|
7
|
2
|
0
|
4
|
2
|
2
|
1
|
?
|
28
|
10
|
2023?24
|
Women's Super League
|
21
|
11
|
3
|
0
|
5
|
1
|
?
|
?
|
29
|
12
|
Total
|
102
|
41
|
16
|
10
|
24
|
12
|
11
|
3
|
1
|
0
|
154
|
66
|
Career total
|
126
|
50
|
18
|
12
|
29
|
14
|
11
|
3
|
1
|
0
|
185
|
79
|
International
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- As of match played 9 April 2024
[51]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team
|
Year
|
Apps
|
Goals
|
England
|
2019
|
3
|
0
|
2020
|
2
|
0
|
2021
|
9
|
4
|
2022
|
18
|
6
|
2023
|
19
|
6
|
2024
|
4
|
2
|
Total
|
55
|
18
|
- Scores and results list England's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Hemp goal.
List of international goals scored by Lauren Hemp
No.
|
Date
|
Venue
|
Opponent
|
Score
|
Result
|
Competition
|
1
|
30 November 2021
|
Keepmoat Stadium
,
Doncaster
, England
|
Latvia
|
5?0
|
20?0
|
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
|
2
|
8?0
|
3
|
15?0
|
4
|
20?0
|
5
|
12 April 2022
|
Windsor Park
,
Belfast
, Northern Ireland
|
Northern Ireland
|
1?0
|
5?0
|
6
|
3?0
|
7
|
24 June 2022
|
Elland Road
,
Leeds
, England
|
Netherlands
|
4?1
|
5?1
|
Friendly
|
8
|
11 July 2022
|
Falmer Stadium
,
Brighton and Hove
, England
|
Norway
|
2?0
|
8?0
|
UEFA Women's Euro 2022
|
9
|
6 September 2022
|
Bet365 Stadium
,
Stoke-on-Trent
, England
|
Luxembourg
|
9?0
|
10?0
|
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
|
10
|
7 October 2022
|
Wembley Stadium
,
London
, England
|
United States
|
1?0
|
2?1
|
Friendly
|
11
|
1 August 2023
|
Hindmarsh Stadium
,
Adelaide
, Australia
|
China
|
2?0
|
6?1
|
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
|
12
|
12 August 2023
|
Stadium Australia
,
Sydney
, Australia
|
Colombia
|
1?1
|
2?1
|
13
|
16 August 2023
|
Australia
|
2?1
|
3?1
|
14
|
22 September 2023
|
Stadium of Light
,
Sunderland
, England
|
Scotland
|
2?0
|
2?1
|
2023?24 UEFA Women's Nations League A
|
15
|
27 October 2023
|
King Power Stadium
,
Leicester
, England
|
Belgium
|
1?0
|
1?0
|
16
|
1 December 2023
|
Wembley Stadium
,
London
, England
|
Netherlands
|
2?2
|
3?2
|
17
|
27 February 2024
|
Estadio Nuevo Mirador
,
Algeciras
, Spain
|
Italy
|
2?0
|
5?1
|
Friendly
|
18
|
3?0
|
Honours
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]
Manchester City
England U20
England
Individual
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External links
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International tournaments
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Awards
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