Jill Roord

Jill Jamie Roord (born 22 April 1997) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Vrouwen Eredivisie club FC Twente and the Netherlands national team. She previously played for Arsenal and Manchester City in the English Women's Super League, Bayern Munich and VfL Wolfsburg in the German Frauen-Bundesliga and won multiple Dutch national titles with Twente in the top Dutch Vrouwen Eredivisie. During the 2015–16 Eredivisie season, she was the top scorer in the league.

In 2017, Roord represented the Netherlands in their victorious UEFA Women's Euro 2017 campaign and competed at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France two years later at the age of 22. She has gone on to earn over 100 senior international caps and is her country's seventh all-time top scorer.

Born and raised in Oldenzaal, a city in the eastern province of Overijssel, Jill is the daughter of former Dutch footballer and current FC Twente women's technical manager René Roord. Her mother played basketball. As a young child, Roord was always playing football outside with boys, her friends and brothers before and after school. She joined a club for the first time at age five. Her idol was Ronaldinho.

Roord started her career in 2008 at the under-13 team of FC Twente and quickly progressed through the youth teams. At the age of 16 she made her debut in the first team. She helped the team to win the BeNe League (Belgian and Dutch leagues combined in a single League played between 2012 and 2015) twice, the Eredivisie (Dutch League) once and the KNVB Women's Cup (Dutch Cup) once.

Roord fired Twente to the 2015-16 Eredivisie title, finishing as the league's top scorer with 20 goals and producing a career-best goal tally of 29 in all competitions. In addition to domestic trophies, she also made her UEFA Champions League debut with the club in 2013. On 1 April 2017, she played her 100th match for the club. Roord had a fantastic scoring record of 77 goals in 134 games for Twente.

Ahead of the 2017–18 season, Roord signed a two-year contract with Bayern Munich to play in Germany's top league, the Frauen-Bundesliga. On 2 September 2017, she made her debut for the club in a 3–0 win over SGS Essen. On 15 October 2017, she scored her first goal in a 2–0 home victory against SC Sand. During her first season with the club, Roord scored six goals in the 17 games in which she played. Bayern Munich finished in second place during the regular season with a 17–3–2 record. Her six goals tied with two other players as the third top goal scorers on the team.

On 4 October 2017, Roord made her first UEFA Champions League appearance for the club in a 1–0 away loss to Chelsea.

During the 2018–19 season, Roord scored 7 goals in 19 appearances for Bayern Munich. Early in the season, head coach Thomas Wörle was quoted, "You can already say that Jill is one of the greatest talents in Europe. In the past six months, she has been extremely tough, scoring and preparing a lot of goals." Bayern Munich finished in second place with a 17–1–4 record. On 5 May 2019, Roord announced she would be leaving Bayern München at the end of the season. Nine days later, her signing with Arsenal was announced.