Loraine Hunt

Loraine Hunt
Personal information
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Doncaster Belles
International career
1982-88[1] England 16 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Loraine Hunt is an English former international footballer who played as a defender for the Doncaster Belles.[2] She represented the England women's national football team at senior international level and won sixteen caps. Hunt was part of the team at the 1987 European Competition for Women's Football.[3][4] During her club career she won the Women's FA Cup four times with Doncaster Belles.

Doncaster Belles

Hunt played in nine WFA Cup finals with Doncaster Belles but her first three finals all ended in defeat, in 1984, 1985 and 1986. She won her first WFA Cup winners medal in 1987 when Doncaster Belles beat St Helens at the City Ground, home of Nottingham Forest and she won her second winners medal the following year in 1988 when Doncaster Belles beat Leasowe Pacific at Gresty Road, Crewe. She won her third WFA Cup in 1990 with victory over Friends of Fulham at the Baseball Ground in Derby. Doncaster Belles were runners-up to Millwall Lionesses in 1991 but Hunt was able to win her fourth WFA Cup in 1992 when her team defeated Red Star Southampton 4-0 in the final at Prenton Park. Her last final was in 1993 when Doncaster Belles lost 3-0 at the Manor Gound, Oxford to Arsenal.[5]

International career

In November 2022, Hunt was recognized by The Football Association as one of the England national team's legacy players, and as the 57th women's player to be capped by England.[6][7]

Honours

See also

References

  1. ^ WFA records
  2. ^ "Match: Arsenal 2–1 Doncaster Belles, 28 March 1993, Highbury Stadium". Women's Football Archive. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  3. ^ Elsey, Brenda; Pugliese, Stanislao G. (March 16, 2017). Football and the Boundaries of History: Critical Studies in Soccer. Springer. ISBN 9781349950065 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Football / Women's FA Cup Final: Arsenal on trail of the treble: Shipp". Independent. 25 April 1993.
  5. ^ Slegg Chris, Gregory Patricia (2021). A History of the Women's FA Cup. thehistorypress pages 85-124. ISBN 9780750996594.
  6. ^ "England player legacy and results archive". England football. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  7. ^ Lacey-Hatton, Jack (2022-11-18). "Lionesses introduce 'legacy numbers' for players past and present". Mirror. Retrieved 2023-06-19.