Scottish footballer Leanne Crichton is presently active in the field as a midfielder for the Motherwell Football Club Women and the Scottish national team. The thirty-six-year-old is known to have started her career with the Cumbernauld Cosmos, after which she moved to Whitehill Welfare, one of the top divisions of women’s football in Scotland.
She played with the Glasgow City Football Club in 2007 before joining the Celtic Football Club Women sometime during the same year. In 2011, Crichton joined the Hibernian Women’s Football Club after scoring a penalty against the Hibernian, who was ruling over the champion’s league at the time.
By early 2012, Leanne Crichton was back in Glasgow to join the team in her hometown. With Glasgow City, Leanne maintained her winning streak by claiming victory over all domestic games throughout the year. In 2015, the player moved to sign with Notts County for the Barclays Women’s Super League and came back to join Glasgow City in 2017 for her third spell.
Crichton is currently signed with Motherwell, a football team based in North Lanarkshire. She signed with the team for a playing and coaching role in 2021. As we mentioned, Crichton played for the Scottish national team, too, and during the 2017 UEFA European Women’s Championship, she helped her country qualify for the match.
It was also Crichton’s effort to the team that brought it its first-ever appearance at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. At the start of 2021, Crichton announced her retirement from international football after having played 72 international matches over the course of her career.
While fans of the player are sad that they will not be seeing more of her on international fields, the good news is that the player will continue to play her game at domestic matches. Crichton’s professional life seems settled, but fans have always been curious about her personal life too.
She has previously backed out of using social media because of sexist trolls who could not swallow the fact that a woman could be good at a sport, so not a lot has been revealed about her family and love life. Make sure you read till the end to know more about what we know about Crichton’s partner.
Who is Leanne Crichton’s partner?
Crichton, despite not playing the big matches, has made sure to continue being a part of the field. She has almost a permanent appearance on BBC TV and radio channels, covering news that is all football-related, along with commentaries on the games.
But it seems like she managed to find the time between her packed schedule to spend time with her partner, considering her recent announcement. It was during one of the BBC podcasts she hosts with Rachel Corsei. She revealed that her baby was going to arrive very soon, sometime around March 17th, 2024.
She gushed about how her baby was and how she was excited about it, and this news confirmed that the player must have someone special in her life. Crichton is known for not being very active on social media, where she rarely posts, and when she does, it is always about football.
Her family has been a secret to us all, and we have only ever heard her mention them but never really met them, even through social media. All we know about Leanne’s partner is that she is married to her wife, Marianne, with whom she is just trying to enjoy their pregnancy and bring their baby safely into this world.
There is not a lot we know about Leanne’s partner, who we are sure is successful in her way, living her life away from the limelight that Leanne is so used to. It was on this podcast that the news of her pregnancy was confirmed, with the two hosts gushing over the new life that was about to come and change Leanne’s life completely.
Confirming that Rachel Corsei was at the top of the list that Leanne was looking at for future babysitting appointments, the two women laughed and continued with their podcast. Leanne has since not posted much about the pregnancy or her partner, keeping fans curious about it all.
