Lucy Bronze is an English defender regarded as one of the defining right-backs of her generation. After beginning her career with Sunderland, she represented Everton before winning consecutive Women's Super League titles with Liverpool in 2013 and 2014. She subsequently joined Manchester City, where she established herself among Europe's leading defenders before moving to Lyon in 2017.
Bronze enjoyed enormous success in France, winning three consecutive UEFA Women's Champions League titles with Lyon as well as domestic honours. After returning to Manchester City in 2020, she joined Barcelona in 2022 and won the Champions League in both of her seasons in Spain. She moved back to England with Chelsea in 2024, helping the club complete a domestic treble in her first season.
Bronze made her senior England debut in 2013 and has become one of the most-capped players in Lionesses history. She helped England finish third at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, reach the semi-finals in 2019 and the final in 2023, while winning UEFA Women's Euro 2022 and successfully defending the title in 2025. Individually, she was named UEFA Women's Player of the Year in 2019 and won The Best FIFA Women's Player award in 2020.
Bronze studied sports science at Leeds Metropolitan University and spent part of her early football career playing college soccer in the United States for the North Carolina Tar Heels. She was born in England to an English mother and Portuguese father and also holds Portuguese citizenship.
