| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kristy Nicole Moore | ||
| Date of birth | (1977-01-28)28 January 1977 (age 48) | ||
| Place of birth | Adelaide, Australia | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Winger /Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1991–2000 | SASI Pirates | ||
| 1998–2001 | Barnet Ladies | ||
| 2001–2003 | Fulham Ladies | ||
| 2004–2008 | IF Fløya | ||
| 2009–2012 | Stabæk | 84 | (58) |
| 2012–2014 | Adelaide United | 27 | (8) |
| 2013 | Los Angeles Strikers | 11 | (7) |
| 2014 | Ottawa Fury | ||
| 2016–present | Metro United WFC | 11 | (7) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 1997 | Australia | 7 | (1) |
| 2002–2004 | England | 14 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 February 2014 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 May 2010 | |||
Kristy Nicole Moore (born 28 January 1977) is anassociation footballwinger orstriker who has represented bothAustralia andEngland at senior international level.[1] She was a full-time professional player withFulham Ladies before spending nine years in the NorwegianToppserien withIF Fløya andStabæk. Moore returned to Australia in December 2012, then signed forLos Angeles Strikers ahead of the 2013 season.
Born inAdelaide, Moore played for SASI Pirates in theWomen's National Soccer League before moving to England and joiningBarnet. In season 2000-01, she scored 41 goals in 32 games for Barnet and won thePremier League Southern Division Player of the Year award.[1] She was then signed by the professional clubFulham and won two consecutiveFA Women's Cups and thePremier League National Division in 2002–03.[2]
When Fulham reverted to semi-professional status that summer, Moore followed the club's Norwegian contingent to Norway to play in the top women's league, theToppserien. She played forIF Fløya inTromsø from 2003 to 2008 and thenStabæk inBærum, right outsideOslo, from 2009 onwards. Her new club finished second in the league in 2009 and won the league title in 2010 and the Cup competition in 2011 and 2012. Moore has the distinction of having played every one of Stabæk's first 100 matches.
Her career in Norwegian club football was a high-scoring one and in 2004 she was the top scorer in the Toppserien. In a match in that year she scored six goals against the legendary goalkeeperBente Nordby.[3] Again in 2008, she was the top scorer in the Toppserien. Moore's scoring record in the Toppserien is: 2003 5 goals, 2004 20, 2005 11, 2006 6, 2007 10, 2008 22, 2009 19, 2010 12, for a total of 105 at the start of 2011. On 6 August 2011, she scored twice to bring her total for the season to 12 and her overall total to 117, and with that, she entered the top ten in the all-time top-scorers' list for the Toppserien.[4]
By the end of 2011, she had claimed 20 goals, bringing her total to 125, one goal behindSolveig Gulbrandsen, and her place in the all-time list to 9th. In 2012 Moore scored another seven goals to bring her total in the Toppserien to 132 and she finished the season in sixth place in the all-time list.
In the autumn of 2011, Stabæk played two Champions League matches against FFC Frankfurt, winning the first one 1–0 in Oslo but losing 4–1 in Frankfurt a week later. Moore scored the only away goal of the tie but in spite of having scoring chances, Stabæk lost on aggregate.
In December 2012 Moore decided to return to Australia after 15 years away. She left Norway as fifth on the all-time Toppserien goalscorer list.[5] JoiningAdelaide United as a guest player, Moore scored on herW-League debut, a 2–0 home win overNewcastle Jets on 15 December 2012.[6]
At the beginning of 2013, Kristy Moore moved to California to play for LA Strikers in the US Soccer Leagues W-league.
After playing for Adelaide United during the 2014 Australian W-League season, Moore retired in December 2014.[7]
Moore made her debut forAustralia as a late substitute againstSweden inOstend, Belgium in August 1997. In her first start, against Hungary, she scored Australia's second goal in a 4–0 win. All of her seven full international appearances occurred in 1997, six during Australia's tour of Europe.[8][9]
She was alsoeligible forEngland through her English mother. England managerHope Powell needed another center forward becauseKelly Smith was injured andAngela Banks retired from international football due to afear of flying.[7][10][11]
FIFA ultimately granted permission for Moore's change of allegiance as her appearances for Australia were all infriendly matches. Her England debut came in a 1–0 home defeat byNigeria on 23 July 2002 atCarrow Road.[12] In September 2002 she made her competitive debut for England as a half-time substitute in a 1–0 home win overIceland.[13]
Moore then featured in both legs of England's2003 World Cup qualifying play-off defeat byFrance.[14] Although England's leading strikerKaren Walker retired in the aftermath of that loss, Moore continued to play most of her football for England on the wing, often as a substitute. She played the first half of a 1–0friendly win over the country of her birth atTurf Moor,Burnley in September 2003.[15]
In November 2003 she came close to scoring her first goal for England, in a 5–0 friendly win overScotland atDeepdale. After replacingJody Handley her 87th-minute corner kick was diverted in by Scotland goalkeeperClaire Johnstone for anown goal.[16] Moore had hoped to be selected forUEFA Women's Euro 2005,[17] but did not make the final20-player squad. Club teammatesMargunn Haugenes andKatrine Pedersen suggested that playing club football in Norway had harmed Moore's England career.[18][19]
She was allotted 143 when the FA announced their legacy numbers scheme to honour the 50th anniversary of England’s inaugural international.[20][21]
Moore wanted to playAustralian rules football as a child but was not allowed to because she was female.[12]