Leah Williamson

Honours

Arsenal

• FA WSL Champion: 2018–19, runners up: 2021-22
• FA Women’s Cup Winner: 2013–14, 2015–16
• FA WSL Cup: 2015, 2017–18

England

• SheBelieves Cup: 2019
• Arnold Clark Cup: 2022,2023
• UEFA Women’s Championship: 2022

Individual

• England Women’s Youth Player of the Year:  Winner: 2014 and  Runner-up: 2012
• FA WSL Continental Cup Player of the Year: 2014
• PFA Young Women’s Player of the Year: 2015

Leah Williamson’s background

Leah joined Arsenal’s Centre of Excellence in 2006 at the age of nine and made her senior debut in a Champions League quarter-final.

Leah made 12 appearances in the 2014 FA Women’s Super League and at the end of the season was named the FA WSL Cup Player of the Year. Leah then won the England Women’s Youth Player of the Year award and in April 2015 was named the 2014-15 PFA Young Women’s Player of the Year.

She was part of the Arsenal team who won the FA Cup at Wembley in a 1-0 win over Chelsea in 2016.

Leah has represented England since 2010 and captained the U17 side in the 2014 UEFA Women’s Under-17 Championship. She was also part of the England Women’s U20 team which competed in the 2014 FIFA Under 20 Women’s World Cup in Canada.

In November 2017, she was called up to the Lionesses Senior squad and made her debut in the 3-1 2019 FIFA World Cup qualifier, against Russia.

Leah made headlines in April 2015 when her successful penalty was disallowed for player encroachment in a qualifying match against Norway for the 2015 UEFA Under-19 championship. The match was ordered to be replayed five days after the original contest. The players returned to finish the last two minutes of their game with the score standing at 2-1 to Norway. Leah equalised and in doing so booked her team’s place in the tournament finals. Nerves of steel!

In 2019, Leah joined a host of other notable figures in jewelry brand Swarovski’s 2019 #FollowTheLight campaign and was also selected to represent England at the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France.

Leah has also represented Great Britain during the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and captained England to victory in two Arnold Clark Cups and UEFA Women’s Euro 2022.

Leah has worked with a number of household name brands such as Nike, Gucci, Vogue, Pepsi, Doritos, Cadbury’s, and Mastercard and has become one of the leading names and most well-known faces in English football.

Leah was awarded an OBE in the 2023 New Year Honours list for her services to Association Football. She has recently announced the news of her book launch, Leah Williamson: You Have the Power, which encompasses her own life experiences to give advice and inspiration to the younger generations.