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Jill Jamie Roord (born 22 April 1997) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Vrouwen Eredivisie club FC Twente and the Netherlands national team. She previously played for Arsenal and Manchester City in the English Women's Super League, Bayern Munich and VfL Wolfsburg in the German Frauen-Bundesliga and won multiple Dutch national titles with Twente in the top Dutch Vrouwen Eredivisie. During the 2015–16 Eredivisie season, she was the top scorer in the league.
In 2017, Roord represented the Netherlands in their victorious UEFA Women's Euro 2017 campaign and competed at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France two years later at the age of 22. She has gone on to earn over 100 senior international caps and is her country's seventh all-time top scorer.
Roord fired Twente to the 2015-16 Eredivisie title, finishing as the league's top scorer with 20 goals and producing a career-best goal tally of 29 in all competitions. In addition to domestic trophies, she also made her UEFA Champions League debut with the club in 2013. On 1 April 2017, she played her 100th match for the club. Roord had a fantastic scoring record of 77 goals in 134 games for Twente.
On 4 October 2017, Roord made her first UEFA Champions League appearance for the club in a 1–0 away loss to Chelsea.
During the 2018–19 season, Roord scored 7 goals in 19 appearances for Bayern Munich. Early in the season, head coach Thomas Wörle was quoted, "You can already say that Jill is one of the greatest talents in Europe. In the past six months, she has been extremely tough, scoring and preparing a lot of goals." Bayern Munich finished in second place with a record. On 5 May 2019, Roord announced she would be leaving Bayern München at the end of the season. Nine days later, her signing with Arsenal was announced.
During the 2020–21 FA WSL season, Roord scored two consecutive hat-tricks in the team's season-opening matches again Reading and West Ham United. She was named Player of the Month for September by the league and the first women's footballer ever to be named in the DAZN European Team of the Week. She sat out some games due to a knee injury she endured during an international match against Russia.
She returned from injury on September 29, 2024 for the 1–0 victory against Brighton, and scored her first goal since returning on October 20; a 70th minute winner in a 2–1 victory against Aston Villa. The attacking midfielder scored again in both of the following games, stating, "Physically, I feel stronger and fitter than I have ever been." Across her two seasons with Man City, Roord scored 14 goals and registered six assists in 47 appearances.
"I grew up here and developed here," explained Roord. "In recent years, I have lost my pleasure in football and my happiness more and more, and I am going to find that here, I can already feel it. FC Twente has always been my club and performing with your own club is the best thing there is."
2019–2024
In 2019, Roord was called to represent the Netherlands in the 2019 World Cup in France. She scored the Netherlands' game-winning goal during the team's first match of the tournament against New Zealand, marking the first Netherlands goal at the tournament. Her 92nd-minute goal after being subbed cemented the foundation for the Netherlands' group E lead. During the team's second group stage match against Cameroon, Roord was subbed in the 71st minute during the Netherlands' 3–1 win. After the Dutch defeated Canada 2–1 and finished at the top of Group E, they advanced to the knockout stage where they defeated 2011 champions, Japan 2–1, with Roord subbing in the 87th minute. Roord subbed in during the 87th minute of the team's quarterfinal win against Italy and advanced to the semifinals – a first in the Netherlands team's history. During the semi-final match against Sweden, Roord played in the defender position in front of 48,452 spectators in Lyon. The defense kept a clean sheet and the Netherlands won 1–0 advancing to the final against 2015 champions, the United States. Roord subbed in during the 66th minute of the Final after the United States took a 2–0 lead and eventual win.
Roord was named to the squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying matches (2021 was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic). During a match against Estonia on 30 August 2019, she scored the Netherlands' second goal of the team's 7–0 win. Roord scored the Netherlands' game-winning goal in the 1–0 win against Russia on 18 September further cementing the team's place at the Euro 2022.
On 31 May 2023, she was named as part of the Netherlands provisional squad for the 2023 World Cup. Roord scored in the Netherlands' second match against the USA.
Roord scored twice in the Netherland's blowout 15–0 win over Indonesia on 25 October 2024. In her next game, she recorded her 100th cap in a 2–1 friendly victory over Denmark on 29 October 2024.
| +Appearances and goals by club, season and competition ! rowspan="2" | Club ! rowspan="2" | Season ! colspan="3" | League ! colspan="2" | National Cup ! colspan="2" | League Cup ! colspan="2" | Continental ! colspan="2" | Total | |||||
| FC Twente | 2012–13 | BeNe League | 5 | 2 | ? | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | |
| 2013–14 | BeNe League | 27 | 13 | ? | 0 | — | 5 | 4 | 33 | 17 | ||
| 2014–15 | BeNe League | 24 | 13 | 4 | 2 | — | 2 | 0 | 30 | 15 | ||
| 2015–16 | Eredivisie | 24 | 20 | 2 | 1 | — | 7 | 8 | 33 | 29 | ||
| 2016–17 | Eredivisie | 25 | 9 | 2 | 3 | — | 7 | 2 | 34 | 14 | ||
| Bayern Munich | 2017–18 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | — | 1 | 0 | 23 | 12 | |
| 2018–19 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 19 | 7 | 2 | 2 | — | 6 | 4 | 27 | 13 | ||
| Arsenal | 2019–20 | Women's Super League | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 29 | 5 |
| 2020–21 | Women's Super League | 19 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | — | 23 | 11 | ||
| VfL Wolfsburg | 2021–22 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 22 | 10 | 4 | 4 | — | 12 | 6 | 38 | 20 | |
| 2022–23 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 18 | 6 | 4 | 3 | — | 9 | 2 | 31 | 11 | ||
| Manchester City | 2023–24 | Women's Super League | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | — | 16 | 8 | |
| 2024–25 | Women's Super League | 19 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 31 | 6 | |
| +Appearances and goals by national team and year !National team !Year !Apps !Goals | |||
| Netherlands | 2015 | 6 | 1 |
| 2016 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 13 | 2 | |
| 2018 | 12 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 20 | 2 | |
| 2020 | 4 | 3 | |
| 2021 | 15 | 7 | |
| 2022 | 11 | 5 | |
| 2023 | 14 | 6 | |
| 2024 | 4 | 3 | |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | |
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