Demi Stokes

Demi Stokes

File:Demi Stokes England Ladies v Montenegro 5 4 2014 326.jpg
Personal information
Full name	Demi Lee Courtney Stokes
Date of birth	(1991-12-12) 12 December 1991
Place of birth	South Shields, County Durham, England, UK
Height
Position(s)	Left back
Team information
Current team	Manchester City
Number	3
Youth career
–2007	Sunderland
2011–2015	South Florida Bulls
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2007–2011	Sunderland
2012	Vancouver Whitecaps	13	(0)
2015–	Manchester City	14	(0)
International career‡
2014–	England	11	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of April 5, 2015

Demi Lee Courtney Stokes (born 12 December 1991) is an English footballer who plays for Manchester City. She previously played for Sunderland in the English FA Women's Premier League. Stokes made her debut for the senior England women's national football team in January 2014.

Club career

Stokes joined Sunderland's youth academy as an 8-year-old and began playing in the first team at 16. She was part of the team which won the 2008–09 FA Women's Premier League Northern Division and lost the 2009 FA Women's Cup final 2–1 to Arsenal. She accepted a four-year scholarship to University of South Florida in 2011.

In 2012 Stokes played 13 games for Vancouver Whitecaps in the pro–am North American W-League. In 2015 Stokes signed a three-year professional contract with Manchester City.

International career

England

In July 2009 Stokes featured as England under-19 won the 2009 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Belarus, with a 2–0 final win over Sweden. In 2010 she helped England reach the final of the 2010 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Macedonia, where they lost their title to France. Later that summer Stokes started two of England's three games at the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany.

Newly-appointed England coach Mark Sampson included Stokes in a 30-player squad for the annual training camp in La Manga, which included a match against Norway on 17 January 2014. She started the 1–1 draw with Norway at left back, to win her first senior cap. In April 2014 she scored in England's 9–0 thrashing of Montenegro at Falmer Stadium, Brighton and Hove.

Stokes was disappointed to be left out of England's squad for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. She was restored to the squad for the subsequent UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying campaign.

International goals

Scores and results list England's goal tally first.

Goal	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	5 April 2014	Falmer Stadium, Brighton and Hove, England	Montenegro	7–0	9–0	World Cup 2015 qualification

Great Britain

In July 2013 Stokes captained Great Britain to a gold medal in the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia.

External links

• Demi Stokes – FIFA competition record
• Demi Stokes profile at the Football Association
• Demi Stokes at Soccerway