Tameka Yallop (/təˈmiːkə/ tə-MEE-kə; née Butt; born 16 June 1991) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Brisbane Roar in the Australian A-League Women. She previously played for the Boston Breakers in the WPSL Elite, German Frauen-Bundesliga club 1. FFC Frankfurt, Japanese Nadeshiko League club Iga F.C. Kunoichi, Swedish Damallsvenskan club Mallbackens, Brisbane Roar in the Australian W-League, West Ham United in the FA Women's Super League, Brann in the Norwegian Toppserien, and has been a member of the Australian national team since 2007.
Yallop was born in Orange, New South Wales and moved with her family to the Gold Coast at five years of age.[4] She started playing junior football at Five years of age for Mudgeeraba Soccer Club[5] in the local Gold Coast league and attended All Saints Anglican School throughout her upbringing.[6]
Yallop joined the Brisbane Roar (then the Queensland Roar) in 2008, as they were one of the founding members of the W-League. They won the W-League Championship and Premiership in 2008–09. In the 2010–11 season, Brisbane returned to the Grand Final, where Yallop scored a goal in the 9th minute, helping the team to a 2–1 victory.[7]
She briefly played with the Ottawa Fury in 2010.[8]
Yallop won the Westfield W-League Players Player of the Year Award for the 2012–13 season. She was the recipient of the Julie Dolan Medal for W-League Player of the year in 2014.[9]
As of December 2024, Yallop ranks second in all-time A-League women history with 163 appearances and ranks third for goals with 66.[10]
Yallop signed with the Boston Breakers in the Women's Premier Soccer League Elite (WPSL Elite), the top division of women's soccer in the United States at the time, for the 2012 season.[11]
In January 2013, Yallop signed for German Frauen-Bundesliga club 1. FFC Frankfurt.[12]
Yallop was loaned by Brisbane Roar to Iga F.C. Kunoichi along with Elise Kellond-Knight in late May 2014, and returned to Brisbane Roar for the 7th W-League season.[13]
In March 2016, Yallop signed for Swedish club Mallbackens.
In March 2017, Yallop signed for Norwegian club Klepp.[14]
After spending ten seasons with the Brisbane Roar, Yallop signed with Melbourne City for the 2018–19 W-League season.[15]
In October 2019, the Brisbane Roar announced that Yallop would be returning to Brisbane for the 2019–20 W-League season,[16] where she scored in their first game of the season. On 5 December, Tameka became the first Brisbane Roar player (including men, women and youth) to score 50 goals for the club.[17]
In May 2021, Yallop joined English club West Ham United. Playing 16 games with 1 goal in the FAWSL, 3 games in Women's FA Cup and 3 games in FA Women's League Cup.[18] In August 2022, she left the club by mutual consent.[19]
In August 2022, Yallop joined Norwegian club Brann on a one-year contract with a further six months option.[20]
In August 2023, Yallop returned to Australia, signing again with Brisbane Roar on a multi-year contract.[21]
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Yallop has represented national women's teams at various age levels. She was a member of the Australia women's national under-17 soccer team (Junior Matildas) at the 2007 AFC Women's U-17 Asian Championships and Australia women's national under-20 soccer team (Young Matildas) for the 2008 AFC Women's U-20s Women's Asian Championship. Yallop captained the Young Matildas from 2007 to 2009, which included winning the 2008 AFF Women's Championship.
Yallop has been a member of the senior Australia women's national soccer team (Matildas) since 2007. In her debut game in August against Hong Kong she scored her maiden goal in the Australian's 1–8 victory in Hong Kong in an AFC Olympic Qualifier.[22] She was part of the team that won the 2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup. Yallop played for Australia at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. Australia lost in the quarter-finals in 2011 and 2015.
In 2016, Yallop was named to her first Olympic Team for Rio 2016.[23] Australia lost in the quarter-finals and Yallop did not appear in any games.[7]
At the 2017 Tournament of Nations Yallop scored the only goal in a 1–0 win over the United States. This was the first time Australia had ever defeated the United States. The Matildas won the 2017 Tournament of Nations[24]
At the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup Yallop appeared in three games for Australia. The Matildas advanced to the Final where they lost 1–0 to Japan. Australia qualified for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.[25]
Yallop was a member of the Matildas Tokyo 2020 Olympics squad. The Matildas qualified for the quarter-finals and beat Great Britain before being eliminated in the semi-final with Sweden. In the playoff for the Bronze medal they were beaten by the USA.[26]
On 4 June 2024, Yallop was named in the Matildas team which qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics, her third Olympic games selection.[27]
In December 2017, Yallop announced her engagement to her Klepp IL teammate Kirsty Yallop on her Twitter account.[32] The two were married in Mangawhai, New Zealand, on 9 February 2019.[33] Following the marriage, they both took on the surname Yallop.[34] In 2020, they had a daughter named Harley.[35] In March 2025, the couple announced on Instagram that they would be having a second child.[36]
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