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Husband
Katie McCabe has no husband or children as of June 2023.
Life & career
Katie Alison McCabe is a professional footballer who plays for the English Women’s Super League club Arsenal and captains the Republic of Ireland women’s national team. Mainly a left back, she can also operate as a left winger and a left midfielder.
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
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She has 10 siblings, including Gary McCabe, who played in the League of Ireland Premier Division from 2007 to 2018. She is openly lesbian. In June 2019, she revealed that she is in a relationship with fellow player Ruesha Littlejohn and that Women’s Association football is very accepting of LGBT people. The couple split in May 2023.
At the 2014 UEFA Women’s Under-19 Championship, McCabe featured as Ireland won their group, before crashing 4–0 to a Vivianne Miedema-inspired Netherlands in the semi-final.
In March 2015 national coach Susan Ronan gave McCabe a senior debut against Hungary at the 2015 Istria Cup, a 1–1 draw. A quad injury kept McCabe out of Ireland’s 3–0 UEFA Women’s Euro 2017 qualifying defeat by Spain on 26 November 2015 at Tallaght Stadium, Dublin. At the 2016 Cyprus Cup, McCabe scored her first international goal to secure a 1–1 draw with Italy.
McCabe featured in Ronan’s squad for the UEFA Women’s Euro qualifying stage, making seven appearances in total. In August 2017, new national team coach Colin Bell appointed 21-year-old McCabe as the Ireland captain, the youngest captain in the history of the team.
In April 2021, she earned her 50th cap for Ireland against Belgium. In September 2021, the FAI announced that it would implement equal pay for its men’s and women’s national teams, after negotiations led by McCabe and men’s captain Séamus Coleman. She was included in Vera Pauw’s squad for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Is Katie McCabe married?
As of June 2023, Katie McCabe is single and not married. The footballer rarely speaks about her personal life.
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