Joanne Butland
Encyclopedia
Joanne Butland is an Australia
n who has played association football, Australian rules football
and international rules football
.
for Canberra Eclipse and QAS Sting.
in 1999 and 2000.
four times in five years between 2003 and 2008. She was selected in the All-Australian team between 2005 and 2007. She was, as of 2009, player-coach of North Cairns.
team to tour Ireland
.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n who has played association football, Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
and international rules football
International rules football
International rules football is a team sport consisting of a hybrid of football codes, which was developed to facilitate international representative matches between Australian rules football players and Gaelic football players....
.
Club career
Butland played in the Women's National Soccer LeagueWomen's National Soccer League
The Women’s National Soccer League was Australia's top women's football league and was the breeding ground of many of Australia's world-class players....
for Canberra Eclipse and QAS Sting.
International career
She played four matches for the Australia women's national association football teamAustralia women's national association football team
The Australia women's national association football team, nicknamed the Matildas , represents Australia in international women's association football and is governed by Football Federation Australia . The team has regularly qualified for both the Women's World Cup and the Olympics although has won...
in 1999 and 2000.
Australian rules football
After changing sports at the suggestion of her sister-in-law she soon became a star for North Cairns in the AFL Cairns Women's League. She was the league Best and FairestBest and Fairest
Best and Fairest is the term commonly used in Australian sport to describe the player adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition while not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season.In the...
four times in five years between 2003 and 2008. She was selected in the All-Australian team between 2005 and 2007. She was, as of 2009, player-coach of North Cairns.
International rules football
In 2006 she was part of the first Australian women's international rules footballInternational rules football
International rules football is a team sport consisting of a hybrid of football codes, which was developed to facilitate international representative matches between Australian rules football players and Gaelic football players....
team to tour Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
.