Name: Niamh Charles
Nationality: England
Date of Birth: June 21, 1999
Position: Defender
Current club: Chelsea
Women's Super League clubs played for: Liverpool, Chelsea
Niamh Charles, the Chelsea defender, has not taken part in the majority of the club's Women's Super League matches in 2025/2026, making 10 appearances overall and playing 548 minutes. She has been selected in the starting XI in seven of these appearances across their 21 fixtures and entered as a substitute on three occasions.
Charles last played in a league match on May 3 for Chelsea versus Leicester City. She provided an assist in that match for her team in the side's 3-1 victory. That assist represents her first of the 2025/2026 competition. She has been shown a yellow card once.
Chelsea play host to Manchester United on May 16 the next time the team are in Women's Super League action.
Charles played 12 Women's Super League games last season for Chelsea and created two assists.
Charles switched to Chelsea in July 2020 from Liverpool, for whom she made 48 league appearances in total, scoring six goals and providing four assists.
