If you think of Beth England, you think of goals.
Whether it is in the Women's Super League or for the lion ribbons at international level, the striker is synonymous with its deadly capacity for the goal.
England has been a star in the WSL and has recently reached a huge milestone that just serves to further underline its great talent.
The leader of Tottenham scored a brace against Crystal Palace in Matchweek 12, a version that not only helped her with a 3-2 victory, but also handed over a unique WSL record.
That double saw England becoming the first player who scored against every club who had played in the WSL.
In the #barclayssl History Books!
Bethany England has now scored against every club to have played in the competition pic.twitter.com/alvcs0bwlt
– Barclays Women's Super League (@Barclayssl) January 26, 2025
Since the inaugural season in 2011, a total of 19 teams have been in the competition.
Even the great ones such as Vivianne Miedema, Khadija Shaw, Nikita Parris and Ellen White did not come close to achieving the performance.
In addition to emphasizing her targeted bravery, it also shows the lifetime and lasting power of the career of England. And the scary part of opposite defenders is that at the age of 30 she still has enough time to continue to collect the data.
Prior to the return of the WSL on February 16, when Spurs opposite Arsenal is in a huge derby collision as part of six games on that Sunday, we viewed the details behind the performance of England.
Who scored England her WSL goals?
In her time in the WSL, England played for four sides, starting with Doncaster Rovers Belles and her competition debut in that inaugural season.
However, she only got her first competition goal in 2012-13, which was an entertaining 3-2 loss for Bristol City.
After she left her mark with the belles, she made a large move to Chelsea in 2016-2017.
That season she only scored three goals such as a young and developed striker, so the blues lent her to Liverpool the following year.
And it was with the Reds that England announced itself as a force to take into account, enjoying her breakout season in the competition.
In a beautiful league campaign for Liverpool, she had 48 shots, of which 20 were on goal, and converted 10. That gave her a shot conversion of 20.83% over the 16 games in which she appeared.
Chelsea understandably wanted her back immediately.
England has had four brilliant consecutive seasons. Her two best campaigns saw her score 12 competition goals in 2018-2019 and 14 in 2019-2020, which by the way was the most goals she scored in the competition for 13 seasons.
Perhaps more impressive is the fact that England managed to score those 14 goals in 2019-2020 in just 15 performances, on average 0.9 goals per match that term in the WSL.
Under Emma Hayes she flourished in that campaign, nested 21 goals in all competitions and winning the WSL player of the seasonal prize and the PFA player of the year of the PFA Women's Player.
She also scored the winning goal in the final of the Women's League Cup to complete an emphatic campaign.
England enjoyed a trophy-loaded stint in Chelsea, won the WSL four times, as well as the WSL Spring Series, while also claiming two medals for ladies FA Cup winners and the Women's League Cup has lifted twice.
While the Chelsea team remained balloon with signing sessions of big money and with stars, England moved to Spurs in 2023 to get more playing time for the Women World Cup and to ensure that she would make the Lioneses team for the tournament.
Since then she has scored 24 goals for Spurs in the top flight, despite the fact that he missed a lot of a hip injury last season. In 2022-23, her first season at the club, she scored 12 goals in 12 games.
England also helped the team to their first FA Cup final previous term, with its equalizer against Manchester City in the quarterfinals that are vital to force a penalty shootout. However, she lost the showpiece to Manchester United.
England has tortured Bristol City more than any other WSL team and 12 times against them in just 13 games.
She also mainly thrive against Yeovil Town, West Ham (nine against both) and Brighton (eight).
England does not shy away from a great occasion and also scores against top opponents in several large matches.
She has noticed three times against Arsenal, one of the leading WSL teams, with her most striking achievements in a 2-1 victory for Chelsea in October 2019. Despite the fact Maria Thorisdottir to get the winner and the undefeated line of the Gunners to end.
She also scored three times against Man City. Twice she delivered the winner against the citizens and helped Liverpool to a 1-0 win in May 2018, but she proved her value at Chelsea in this luminaire, scored and assisted in a 2-1 victory in December 2019.
Her only goal against former club Chelsea came in a 3-2 Spurs defeat in February 2023, shortly after her move of the blues.
England is a complete forward with all types of goals. She scored seven times from outside the box in her WSL career, while she scored 16 times with her weaker foot and 40 from her right.
Where is England to the WSL all-time top goalscorers?
Some are perhaps surprised that England is so high as second in the list of all time.
The Tottenham star has scored a huge 81 goals from 175 games, as a result of which she scored none other than WSL legend Vivianne Miedema, who has scored 85 times in just 112 performances.
Beth Mead is in third place with 67 goals from 168 games, with only three other players scoring more than 60 goals: Parris (66), Fran Kirby (66) and White (61).
Man City star Shaw is of course quickly getting up the rankings. She already has 59 goals, with that total from only 67 games.
It sets something intriguing to watch in the coming seasons, with the race well and really to see who can be the first to reach 100 goals.
What is perhaps the most impressive about the great statistics of England are only three of her 81 goals from the penalty spot.
England has also left its mark on another WSL scoring record, with two cups against Palace, which draws her level with Shaw for the most head goals in the WSL history (24).
When we are looking for goals of all time and assist in the WSL, this time England is in third place (105), with Mead for her (114) and Miedema, again, in pole position, at 120.
England is also in the top three for all-time shots on Doel in the WSL (183), behind Paris (197) and Miedema (210).
She will certainly go down if one of the best WSL and has more years in the tank.
England's goals scored against every WSL team
Bristol City – 12yeovil Town – 9West Ham – 9Brighton – 8EVerton – 7reading – 6leicester City – 4ASTON City – 3Birmingham City – 3ARSSENAL – 3DonCaster Rovers – 2CryStal – 2TOTSTSTSTS TS County – 2notts County – 2notts County – 2notts County – 2notts County – 2notts County – 2notts County – 1Sunderland – 1Chelland – 1Sunderland – 1Sunderland – 1Sunderland – 1Chelland – 1Cheland – 1cheland
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