Personal information | |||
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Full name | Rachel Elizabeth Unitt | ||
Date of birth | 5 June 1982 | ||
Place of birth | Walsall, England | ||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||
Playing position | Left-back | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Notts County | ||
Number | 6 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1998–2000 | Wolves Women | ||
2000–2001 | Everton Ladies | ||
2001–2004 | Fulham Ladies | ||
2004–2011 | Everton Ladies | ||
2005 | New Jersey Wildcats | 3 | (2) |
2010 | Leeds City Vixens | ||
2012–2013 | Birmingham City | 11 | (1) |
2014– | Notts County | 5 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2000– | England | 102 | (8) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12:54, 30 January 2014 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 12:54, 30 January 2014 (UTC) |
Rachel Elizabeth Unitt (born 5 June 1982) is an English footballer who plays for FA WSL club Notts County. After beginning her club career with Wolves, Unitt began a long association with Everton in 2000. This was intersected by a three-year spell at Fulham between 2001 and 2004 and a summer on loan to New Jersey Wildcats in 2005. She left Everton in 2012 for a two-year stint at Birmingham City. A sturdy left back, Unitt has won over 100 caps for the England women's national football team since her debut in August 2000. She represented England at the 2001, 2005 and 2009 editions of the UEFA Women's Championship as well as at the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2007 and 2011. She was ruled out of both the 2013 UEFA Women's Championship and the Great Britain squad for the 2012 London Olympics due to injury. In 2004 and 2006 Unitt was named The Football Association's (FA) International Player of the Year. In 2016, she was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame at the National Football Museum.