Before taking up football, Millie Bright was a big fan of equestrian sport. But her younger years were plagued with ill health, developing pneumonia as a baby and spending some of her early childhood in the hospital with complications. At times she had a steroid machine at home to assist with overnight asthma attacks, which would mean less ambulance trips to hospital.

In time, her health improved and she began playing football at age nine, before being scouted by Sheffield United, joining their academy team until she was 16.

MILLIE BRIGHT | CLUB FOOTBALL

Millie has played for a small number of club teams in her professional career. As a youth, she played for Killamarsh Dynamos and Sheffield United, before roaring onto the senior stage in 2009 with the Doncaster Belles. Bar a year’s loan to Leeds, Millie stayed at Doncaster until 2015 when she signed for Chelsea. It was here that she, along with her team, won the WSL1 and Women’s FA Cup.

She was also named Chelsea Players’ Player of the Year in 2015 after totalling 906 minutes of gameplay over 14 games. She was then named Player of the Month for December 2019. In 2022 she signed a new three-year contract which will lead her to over a decade’s play for the club.

Her Chelsea team won three league titles in 2015, 2017-18 and 2019-20, as well as the 2015 and 2017-18 FA Women’s Cup, then in 2020 she helped the club win the 2020 Women’s FA Community Shield. Bright herself was named in the PFA Team of the Year for 2017-18 and 2019-20 as well as in the FIFA FIFPRO Women’s World 11 in 2020, where she was named one of the best defenders in the world.

MILLIE BRIGHT | INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL

She was also playing for the England national team at the same time as her club career, and it was this combination that launched her as a footballer to watch. She first represented England in their under-19 and under-23 squads before joining the senior team in 2016, the same year she was named the Vauxhall England Young Player of the Year.

She has played in the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the Arnold Clark Cup tournament 2022 – which they won; Millie winning a Golden Boot in the process – as well as the 2022 UEFA Women’s Euro tournament, which England would go on to win. Before the 2022 tournaments, Millie was handed the vice-captaincy by manager Sarina Wiegman, a responsibility she has more than lived up to.

MILLIE BRIGHT | MEDIA WORK

Millie has become an ever-growing presence on our television screens on programmes including The Women’s Football Social, Summer of Sport: Women’s Euro 2017, The Women’s Football Show, BBC Sport: Women’s FA Cup, Women’s International Football , Match of the Day and The One Show 

She has a following of almost 1,000,000 over a range of social media platforms, a number that is sure to grow as the popularity of women’s football does.

MILLIE BRIGHT | CHARITY WORK

Millie likes to use her growing profile for good and has supported charities and organisations such as Make a Wish UK, The Children’s Hospital in Sheffield, Rossall School and the Darby Rimmer Foundation.

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