{{Short description|English footballer (born 1990)}} {{Use British English|date=January 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Chelsea Ashurst | image = | fullname = Chelsea Louise Ashurst | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1990|04|22}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/player/chelsea|title=Chelsea Ashurst Liga F|website=Chelsea Ashurst}}</ref> | birth_place = Normanton, West Yorkshire, England | height = 1.70 m | position = Goalkeeper | currentclub = Sporting de Huelva | clubnumber = 1 | years1 = 2008–2012 | clubs1 = Atlético Málaga | caps1 = 84 | goals1 = 0 | years2 = 2012–2013 | clubs2 = Sporting de Huelva | caps2 = 19 | goals2 = 0 | years3 = 2013–2015 | clubs3 = Barcelona | caps3 = 10 | goals3 = 0 | years4 = 2015–2019 | clubs4 = Málaga | caps4 = 30 | goals4 = 0 | years5 = 2019– | clubs5 = Sporting de Huelva | caps5 = 91 | goals5 = 0 | years6 = | clubs6 = | caps6 = | goals6 = | years7 = | clubs7 = | caps7 = | goals7 = | nationalyears1 = | nationalteam1 = | nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 = | pcupdate = 8 January 2023 | ntupdate = }}
'''Chelsea Louise Ashurst''' (born 22 April 1990) is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Spanish Liga F club Sporting de Huelva.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://as.com/futbol/2019/06/25/mas_futbol/1561459342_238146.html|title=La portera inglesa Chelsea regresa al Sporting de Huelva|date=June 25, 2019|website=Diario AS}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.surinenglish.com/sport/201810/05/painful-when-other-side-20181005093042-v.html|title=It's painful when the other side scores, but we are learning to just keep fighting|first=Marina Rivas |last=Malaga|date=October 5, 2018|website=surinenglish.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eldeportefemenino.com/2013/07/05/el-barca-empieza-a-reforzarse/|title=El Barça empieza a reforzarse|date=July 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708173442/http://eldeportefemenino.com/2013/07/05/el-barca-empieza-a-reforzarse/ |archive-date=8 July 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.malagahoy.es/malaga_cf/costo-tomar-decision-marcharme-objetivos_0_1366663526.html|title="Me costó mucho tomar la decisión de marcharme, pero tengo mis objetivos"|first=Málaga|last=Hoy|date=June 24, 2019|website=Málaga Hoy}}</ref>
Ashurst was born in Normanton in West Yorkshire, in the north of England, but moved to Granada in Andalusia, in the south of Spain, as a child. Raised in Granada, she has spent her whole football career in Spain.<ref name=WSUBio1>{{cite web|last=Ashurst|first=Chelsea|date=2019-01-29|title=British-born, Spain-raised: meet Málaga keeper Chelsea Ashurst!|url=https://www.womenssoccerunited.com/chelsea-ashurst-malaga-goalkeeper/|access-date=2022-12-26|website=Womens Soccer United|archive-date=26 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226025144/https://www.womenssoccerunited.com/chelsea-ashurst-malaga-goalkeeper/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Ashurst began playing football several years after moving to Spain, and tried out goalkeeping at about fourteen; she joined Club Atlético Málaga in Spain's top division at the age of fifteen.<ref name=WSUBio1/>
==Honours== '''Barcelona''' *Primera División: 2013–14, 2014–15 *Copa de la Reina: 2014
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==External links== *{{Soccerway|chelsea-ashurst/318279}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ashurst, Chelsea}} Category:1990 births Category:Footballers from Normanton, West Yorkshire Category:English women's footballers Category:Women's association football goalkeepers Category:Málaga CF Femenino players Category:FC Barcelona Femení players Category:Sporting de Huelva players Category:English expatriate sportspeople in Spain Category:Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Category:Liga F players Category:Living people Category:English expatriate women's footballers Category:Footballers from Granada Category:21st-century English sportswomen
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