{{short description|English footballer}} {{notability|1=Biographies|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Louise Cross | image = | birth_date = |birth_place = |height = |position = Winger<ref>{{Cite web | title=SEE AFC TOTTON'S LOUISE GARDNER IN COPA'71 DOCUMENTARY ON BBC FOUR {{!}} AFC Totton | url=https://www.afctotton.com/news/see-afc-tottons-louise-gardner-copa71-documentary-bbc-four | access-date=2025-12-20 | website=www.afctotton.com}}</ref> |youthyears1 = |youthclubs1 = |years1 = 1972–1982 |clubs1 = Southampton Women's F.C. | nationalyears1 = 1971 | nationalteam1 = England | nationalcaps1 = 4 | nationalgoals1 = 0 }} '''Louise Cross''' is a British former amateur footballer. She played for the unofficial England women's national football team — calling themselves the "British Independents", now known as the "Lost Lionesses" in 1971, including at the 1971 Women's World Cup in Mexico.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Woman banned from playing football after taking part in 1971 world cup tells her story {{!}} ITV News Meridian | url=https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2022-07-06/woman-banned-from-playing-football-after-1971-world-cup-tells-her-story | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707071059/https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2022-07-06/woman-banned-from-playing-football-after-1971-world-cup-tells-her-story | access-date=2025-12-20 | archive-date=2022-07-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | title=Solent film premiere on forgotten female footballers | url=https://www.solent.ac.uk/media-hub/news/solent-film-premiere-on-forgotten-female-footballers | access-date=2025-12-20 | website=www.solent.ac.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | title=Lost Lioness features in film on forgotten Women's World Cup {{!}} Daily Echo | url=https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24169217.lost-lioness-features-film-forgotten-womens-world-cup/ | access-date=2025-12-20 | website=www.dailyecho.co.uk}}</ref>
In her club career, Cross was named on the substitutes bench for the first ever WFA Cup final in 1971. Southampton beat Stewarton Thistle 4{{nbnd}}1.<ref>{{cite web |title=1971 Southampton 4-1 Stewarton Thistle |url=http://www.womensfacup.co.uk/classic-finals-1971-southampton-4-1-stewarton-thistle/ |website=womensfacup.co.uk |access-date=15 January 2026}}</ref>
==Honours== ''' Southampton''' * FA Women's Cup: 1970–71<ref>{{Cite web | title=FA CUP WINNER BACK TO WATCH SIRENS | url=https://www.southamptonwomensfc.co.uk/news/fa-cup-winner-back-to-watch-sirens-2938118.html | access-date=2025-12-20 | website=www.southamptonwomensfc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-13 |title=Louise Gardner Representing England in Mexico, Playing at The San Siro & Azteca Stadium |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4Ifv7ODS4 |publisher=The FA |via=YouTube}}</ref>
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