.jpg) Playing for Köln in October 2020 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Amber Barrett[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1996-01-16)16 January 1996 (age 29) | ||
| Place of birth | Milford, County Donegal, Ireland | ||
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Standard Liège | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Lagan Harps FC | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2015–2019 | Peamount United | ||
| 2019–2022 | 1. FC Köln | 48 | (16) |
| 2022–2023 | Turbine Potsdam | 17 | (0) |
| 2023– | Standard Liège | 32 | (22) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2017– | Republic of Ireland | 51 | (9) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 19 November 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 26 July 2023 (UTC) | |||
Amber Barrett (born 16 January 1996) is an Irish internationalfootballer who plays forSuper League clubStandard Liège. She made her debut for theRepublic of Ireland women's national football team in September 2017. A prolificforward, Barrett was theWNL Player of the Season in 2017 and top goalscorer in 2016, 2017 and 2018 withPeamount United.
Barrett's father, Shaun Paul Barrett, has managed numerous clubs and county teams forDonegal GAA, as has her brother, Luke.[2] Another brother, Kane, has also been involved with Milford.[2]
In 2017 Barrett, who was in the final year of a teacher training course atMaynooth University, quit Donegal GAA when a bout ofglandular fever forced her to choose betweenGaelic football and soccer.[3] She was namedWomen's National League Player of the Season and Top Goalscorer in the2017 season.[4] In2018 she lost out on the Player of the Season toRianna Jarrett but retained her Top Goalscorer award by scoring 30 goals, including sevenhat-tricks, in 21 league appearances.[5][6]
In 2019 she joined German side1. FC Köln, newly promoted to theFrauen-Bundesliga,[7] where she spent three years before signing forTurbine Potsdam in July 2022.[8]
In June 2023 Barrett signed forStandard Liège of theBelgian Women's Super League, the first tier of women's football in Belgium.[9]
National teamcoachColin Bell gave Barrett her senior debut in September 2017, as asubstitute in a 2–0FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying win overNorthern Ireland atMourneview Park inLurgan. She started an encouraging 0–0 draw away to European Champions theNetherlands in November 2017 and was praised by Bell for her performance.[10]
In April 2018, Barrett's 87th-minute winning goal secured a 2–1 win overSlovakia atTallaght Stadium, which kept Ireland in contention for World Cup qualification.[11]
On 11 October 2022, Barrett's scored the only goal in a 1-0 win againstScotland to send Ireland to theWorld Cup for the first time.[12] She was included inVera Pauw's team for the tournament, and made her debut as a substitute in Ireland's second game.
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Republic of Ireland | 2016 | 2 | 0 |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 7 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 6 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 6 | 2 | |
| 2022 | 6 | 1 | |
| 2023 | 5 | 2 | |
| 2024 | 8 | 0 | |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | |
| Total | 51 | 9 | |
| No. | Cap | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 6 April 2018 | Tallaght Stadium,Dublin,Ireland |  Slovakia | 2-1 | 2-1 | 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification | [13] |
| 2 | 18 | 12 November 2019 | Nea Smyrni Stadium,Athens,Greece |  Greece | 1-0 | 1-1 | UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying | [14] |
| 3 | 24 | 11 June 2021 | Laugardalsvöllur,Reykjavík,Iceland |  Iceland | 2-3 | 2-3 | Friendly | [15] |
| 4 | 28 | 30 November 2021 | Tallaght Stadium,Dublin |  Georgia | 10-0 | 11-0 | 2023 FIFA Women's World CupUEFA qual.Group A | [16] |
| 5 | 33 | 11 October 2022 | Hampden Park,Glasgow |  Scotland | 1-0 | 1-0 | 2023 FIFA Women's World CupUEFA play-offs | [17] |
| 6 | 36 | 22 June 2023 | Tallaght Stadium, Dublin |  Zambia | 1-1 | 3-2 | Friendly | [18] |
| 7 | 3-1 | |||||||
| 8 | 50 | 4 April 2025 | Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium,Heraklion,Greece | Greece | 4-0 | 4-0 | 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League | [19] |
| 9 | 51 | 8 April 2025 | Tallaght Stadium,Dublin | Greece | 1-0 | 2-1 | 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League | [20] |
Barrett shares a cat named Wee Bobby with fellowStandard Liège andRepublic of Ireland teammate,Claire O'Riordan.[21]
The Barrett household in Milford is a huge GAA house with brothers Luke and Kane members of the senior set-up there. Her dad Shaun Paul is also a household name in the north west having managed a host of Donegal underage sides over the years and is, of course, the current Milford senior boss.
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