Alex Greenwood

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Alex Greenwood
Personal information
Full name:	Alex Greenwood
Date of birth:	7 September 1993 (1993-09-07)
Place of birth:	Liverpool, England
Height:	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Playing position:	Defender
Club information
Current club	Manchester City
Number:	5
Youth clubs
2001–2010	Everton
Senior clubs
Years	Club	App (Gls)
2010–2014 2015 2016–2018 2018–2019 2019–2020 2020–	Everton Notts County Liverpool Manchester United Olympique Lyonnais Manchester City	038 00(1) 014 00(1) 032 00(5) 018 00(4) 011 00(0) 078 00(5)
National team
2008–2010 2010–2012 2013–2014 2014–	England U17 England U19 England U23 England	011 00(1) 014 00(1) 006 00(0) 095 00(7)

Alex Greenwood (born 7 September 1993) is an English footballer who plays for Manchester City in the FA Women's Super League and the England national team. Mainly a left-back, she can also play as a centre-back and is considered to be a set-piece specialist.

She has previously played for Olympique Lyonnais in the French Division 1 Féminine as well as English clubs Manchester United, Liverpool, Notts County and Everton where she began her career. Greenwood has played for the England national football team since 2014 and was named the FA Women's Young Player of the Year in 2012.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 26 November 2023

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National Cup		League Cup		Europe		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Everton	2009–10	Women's Premier League	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	—		5	0
	2011	Women's Super League	7	0	0	0	—		—		—		7	0
	2012	Women's Super League	10	0	0	0	3	0	—		—		13	0
	2013	Women's Super League	12	1	0	0	3	0	—		—		15	1
	2014	Women's Super League	14	0	0	0	5	0	—		—		19	0
	Total		44	1	0	0	11	0	4	0	0	0	59	1
Notts County	2015	Women's Super League	14	1	0	0	8	3	—		—		22	4
Liverpool	2016	Women's Super League	8	1	0	0	1	0	—		—		9	1
	2017	Women's Super League	6	2	0	0	0	0	—		—		6	2
	2017–18	Women's Super League	18	1	0	0	5	1	—		—		23	2
	Total		32	4	0	0	6	1	0	0	—		38	5
Manchester United	2018–19	Championship	18	4	3	1	6	0	—		—		27	5
Olympique Lyonnais	2019–20	D1 Féminine	11	0	4	0	—		1	0	1	0	17	0
Manchester City	2020–21	Women's Super League	18	0	4	1	4	0	6	0	—		32	1
	2021–22	Women's Super League	22	4	5	0	7	0	2	0	—		36	4
	2022–23	Women's Super League	21	0	3	0	3	0	2	0	—		29	0
	2023–24	Women's Super League	6	0	0	0	1	0	—		—		7	0
	Total		67	4	12	1	15	0	10	0	—		104	5
Career total			186	14	19	2	46	4	15	0	1	0	267	20

International

As of match played 1 December 2023

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
England	2014	6	1
	2015	8	0
	2016	6	1
	2017	6	0
	2018	6	0
	2019	11	1
	2020	2	0
	2021	9	2
	2022	16	0
	2023	17	0
Total		87	5

Scores and results list England's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Greenwood goal.

List of international goals scored by Alex Greenwood

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	17 September 2014	Stadion Pod Malim Brdom, Petrovac, Montenegro	Montenegro	8–0	10–0	2015 FIFA World Cup qualification
2	4 June 2016	Adams Park, Wycombe, England	Serbia	1–0	7–0	UEFA Euro 2017 qualification
3	23 June 2019	Stade du Hainaut, Valenciennes, Franc	Cameroon	3–0	3–0	2019 FIFA World Cup
4	21 September 2021	Stade de Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Luxembourg	4–0	10–0	2023 FIFA World Cup qualification
5				5–0

Honours

Manchester United

• FA Women's Championship: 2018–19

Olympique Lyonnais

• Trophée des Championnes: 2019
• Division 1 Féminine: 2019–20
• Coupe de France: 2019–20
• UEFA Women's Champions League: 2019–20

Manchester City

• Women's FA Cup: 2019–20
• FA WSL Cup: 2021–22

England

• FIFA Women's World Cup runner-up: 2023; third place: 2015
• UEFA Women's Championship: 2022
• Women's Finalissima: 2023
• Cyprus Cup: 2015
• SheBelieves Cup: 2019
• Arnold Clark Cup: 2022, 2023

Individual

• FA Young Player of the Year: 2012
• PFA WSL Team of the Year: 2015–16, 2021–22, 2022–23
• Freedom of the City of London (announced 1 August 2022)
• Freedom of the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton: 19 October 2023

External links

• Profile - Personal website
• Alex Greenwood at Soccerway

• Alex Greenwood on X

England – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup

1. Bardsley 2. A. Scott 3. Rafferty 4. Williams 5. Houghton (c) 6. Bassett 7. Nobbs 8. J. Scott 9. Aluko 10. Carney 11. Moore 12. Bronze 13. Chamberlain 14. Greenwood 15. Stoney 16. Chapman 17. Potter 18. Duggan 19. Taylor 20. Sanderson 21. Telford 22. Kirby 23. White Manager:   Mark Sampson

England – UEFA Women's Euro 2017 - Semi-finals

1. Bardsley 2. Bronze 3. Stokes 4. J. Scott 5. Houghton (c) 6. Potter 7. Nobbs 8. Christiansen 9. Taylor 10. Williams 11. Moore 12. Stoney 13. Chamberlain 14. Carney 15. Bassett 16. Bright 17. Parris 18. White 19. Duggan 20. Greenwood 21. Telford 22. A. Scott 23. Kirby Manager:   Mark Sampson

England – 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup – fourth place

1. Bardsley 2. Bronze 3. Greenwood 4. Walsh 5. Houghton (c) 6. Bright 7. Parris 8. Scott 9. Taylor 10. Kirby 11. Duggan 12. Stokes 13. Telford 14. Williamson 15. McManus 16. Moore 17. Daly 18. White 19. Stanway 20. Carney 21. Earps 22. Mead 23. Staniforth Manager:   Phil Neville

England – UEFA Women's Euro 2022 – Winners

1. Earps 2. Bronze 3. Daly 4. Walsh 5. Greenwood 6. Bright 7. Mead 8. Williamson (c) 9. White 10. Stanway 11. Hemp 12. Carter 13. Hampton 14. Kirby 15. Stokes 16. Scott 17. Parris 18. Kelly 19. England 20. Toone 21. Roebuck 22. Wubben-Moy 23. Russo Manager:   Wiegman

England – 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup – Runners-up

1. Earps 2. Bronze 3. Charles 4. Walsh 5. Greenwood 6. Bright (c) 7. James 8. Stanway 9. Daly 10. Toone 11. Hemp 12. Nobbs 13. Hampton 14. Wubben-Moy 15. Morgan 16. Carter 17. Coombs 18. Kelly 19. England 20. Zelem 21. Roebuck 22. Robinson 23. Russo Manager:   Sarina Wiegman