Charlton Athletic

WSL

Charlton Athletic Women's Football Club is a team founded in 1991 as Bromley Borough which plays in the Women's Super League since 2026/27 season.

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What makes Charlton Athletic what it is.

Community work has followed her to Charlton. In summer 2026, Waldie visited one of Charlton Athletic Community Trust's football camps in New Eltham to meet young players following the club's promotion to the WSL.

She once went around a full year without returning home while playing in Cyprus during the pandemic.

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Quirky facts from the Charlton Athletic squad.

She joined Arsenal at eight years old, and her whole family were lifelong Arsenal supporters.

Soccer was not her only sport. Kenney was also an accomplished track athlete and held Hanover High School records in the 400 metres, 800 metres and mile.

Mason is a Manchester United supporter, so Lewes drawing United in the 2023 FA Cup quarter-finals gave her the chance to play against the club she supports.

Her family history gave her an unusual international path. Mason was eligible for Gibraltar through family links and later qualified for Northern Ireland through her maternal grandfather from Ballymena.

Jade Bailey became a good friend during their Arsenal days, and the pair later reunited as teammates at Liverpool.

Her football journey began at Toulouse FC in 2011 before she joined the Olympique Lyonnais academy in 2015.

Her son Seb was born in September 2025, and he was in the crowd when she made her competitive comeback in Charlton's promotion play-off against Leicester City in May 2026, her first competitive match since December 2024, following knee surgery and her pregnancy.

She backed Wigan Council’s #BelieveInHer campaign and was recognised locally from appearing on its poster. Her message to other women as a teenager was: “If you can dream it, you can achieve it!”

Mason later switched to Northern Ireland and made her debut against Latvia in September 2022.

Whitehouse was only three months old when her family left England for East Africa, spending four years in Kenya before moving to Tanzania.

She once scored five goals in less than 45 minutes in a pre-season friendly against Lyon’s reserve team.

Her two older sisters were the biggest reason she started playing football, she wanted to join in with them. Football runs through her family, with her sisters and cousins all having played, while relatives regularly travel to watch her matches.