Honours: FA Women’s Championship (2021-22), Women’s Super League (2013)

Goalkeeper Rachael Laws is currently enjoying her second spell with Liverpool FC Women.

Laws was a Women’s Super League title-winner with the Reds in 2013 while on loan from her first club, Sunderland, making nine appearances under Matt Beard.

She returned to Merseyside in the summer of 2020 following two years in the WSL with Reading and has since been a model of consistency between the posts.

Laws played a major role in the team securing the FA Women’s Championship title in 2021-22 and with it a return to England’s top flight.

The Newcastle-born stopper registered 13 clean sheets in the league – a tally that set a new club record for a single season and earned the division’s Golden Glove award – to underpin a 20-game unbeaten run for Beard’s side.

Ahead of Liverpool’s 2022-23 WSL campaign, Laws committed her future to the club by signing a new contract, saying: “It was such an easy decision when Matt spoke to me and said he wanted me to stay on.

“The philosophy we have, to build on that and see where we can go, especially in the WSL now we’re there. I just said, ‘When do you want me to sign?’ because I’m ready and willing to push this club on.”