Katie McCabe profile
- Club
- Chelsea Women
- Position
- Left-Back
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Date of birth
- 1995-09-21
- Birthplace
- Kilnamanagh, Ireland
- Height
- 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
- Weight
- 55 kg (121 lbs)
- Shirt number
- 15
About Katie McCabe
Katie McCabe is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a versatile left-back, midfielder, or winger for Chelsea F.C. Women and captains the Republic of Ireland national team. Mainly a left back, she can also operate as a left winger and a left midfielder.
As a teenager, McCabe won the Irish Women's National League title twice and the FAI Women's Cup three times with Raheny United before signing with Arsenal in 2015. With Arsenal, she has since won the Women's FA Cup in 2016, the 2018–19 FA WSL league title, and was named to the PFA Team of the Year for 2021. After earning her first Ireland cap in 2015, she was named the country's captain in 2017, the youngest captain in the history of the team. The Guardian has described her as "the undoubted face of Irish women's football."