Tiffany Cameron

Tiffany Devonna Cameron (born October 16, 1991) is a Canadian-born Jamaican footballer who plays as a forward and at times as a midfielder for the Jamaica women's national team. She previously played for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the German Bundesliga, F.C. Ramat HaSharon in the Israeli top-division Israeli First League and TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in the German Bundesliga as well as Seattle Reign FC and FC Kansas City in the National Women's Soccer League. She has also played for Apolon Limassol in the Cypriot First Division and for the Canada women's national soccer team.

Tiffany Cameron
Personal information
Full name Tiffany Devonna Cameron[1][2]
Date of birth (1991-10-16) October 16, 1991
Place of birth Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Playing position(s) Forward
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2012 Ohio State Buckeyes
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2011 Toronto Lady Lynx 22 (9)
2013 Seattle Reign FC 7 (0)
2013 FC Kansas City 1 (0)
2014 1899 Hoffenheim 7 (1)
2015 Apollon Limassol 3 (3)
2015–2016 F.C. Ramat HaSharon 23 (35)
2016–2017 Borussia Mönchengladbach 21 (0)
2017–2018 FF USV Jena 14 (1)
2018 Vittsjö GIK 5 (0)
2019 Stabæk 20 (3)
National team‡
2008 Canada U17 9 (5)
2013 Canada 6 (0)
2019– Jamaica 8 (4)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of April 22, 2014
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 4:00, 12 June 2019

Early life

Born in Toronto, Ontario to Jamaican parents[3] Yvonne Brown and Steve Hunter, Cameron attended St. Joseph's Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario where she played basketball for three years and soccer for one year.[3]

Ohio State University

A NSCAA second team All-American and two-time first team All-Big Ten selection, Cameron left Ohio State as the Buckeyes' all-time leading goal scorer with 40 and earned 96 career points, also the most in the school's history. During her senior year in 2012, she led the Buckeyes with 21 goals, breaking the previous school record of 13. Cameron's nine game-winning goals were the most in the country and her 19 career game-winners tied for fourth-most in Big Ten history.[4]

Playing career

Club

NWSL: Seattle Reign FC and FC Kansas City, 2013

In February 2013, Tiffany Cameron signed with the Seattle Reign FC for the inaugural season of the NWSL.[5][6]

On June 19, 2013 Seattle Reign FC released Tiffany Cameron and Lyndsey Patterson shortly after signing with Megan Rapinoe, Stephanie Cox and Kennya Cordner due NWSL rules. On June 26, 2013, Cameron signed with FC Kansas City.[7]

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, 2014

On February 2, 2014, Cameron signed for German team TSG 1899 Hoffenheim .[8]

Apollon Limassol, 2015

On March 9, 2015, Cameron signed with Apollon Limassol to participate in the UEFA Champions League group stage matches in August. She made three Champions League appearances and scored three goals. Her team needed either a win or tie in their last match in order to move on to the round of 32 and failed to do so.

F.C Ramat HaSharon, 2015–2016

On October 1, 2015, Cameron signed with F.C. Ramat HaSharon in the Israeli top-division Israeli First League. She won the golden boot, scoring 38 goals in 24 matches and helped her team capture their first ever League Championship.

Borussia Mönchengladbach, 2016

On June 7, 2016, Cameron signed with Borussia Mönchengladbach who was promoted to the German Bundesliga for the 2016/2017 season.

International career

Canada

Cameron earned her first three caps with the Canada women's national soccer team in January 2013 during the Four Nations Tournament in China.[4] She previously represented Canada as a member of the Canada U-17 women's national team. She played in four matches at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, held in Auckland, New Zealand where she started all four matches and helped the team to the quarterfinal round. She also played in the CONCACAF U17 championships in 2008 in Trinidad and Tobago and led the bronze-medal winning Canadian team in scoring. Tiffany also won a bronze medal with Ontario at the 2007 U16 Girls National All-Star Championship, an event where she won the Top Scorer award.[9]

Jamaica

As the six matches Cameron played for Canada at senior level were all friendlies, she could still change her affiliation to the Jamaica women's national team. Following the historic FIFA Women's World Cup qualification by the Reggae Girlz, she was named to the training camp roster in January 2019.[10] She made her debut in a 1–0 friendly win against Chile on 28 February 2019.

International goals

Scores and results list Jamaica's goal tally first

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1
30 September 2019National Stadium, Kingston, Jamaica Cuba
5–0
12–1
2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification
2
6–0
3
6 October 2019 Saint Lucia
7–0
11–0
4
4 February 2020H-E-B Park, Edinburg, United States Saint Kitts and Nevis
2–0
7–0
2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship

References
  1. Tiffany Cameron – Israel Football Association league player details
  2. "Tiffany Devonna Cameron - Profil" (in Norwegian). Norges Fotballforbund.
  3. "Tiffany Cameron player profile". Canada Soccer. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
  4. "Tiffany Cameron Signed by Seattle Reign of NWSL". Ohio State University. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  5. "Seattle Reign sign four free agents: Kate Deines, Jess Fishlock, Tiffany Cameron, Lindsay Taylor". Sounder at Heart. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  6. "Seattle Reign FC signs Welsh captain Jess Fishlock, former Sounder Kate Deines, 2 others". Equalizer Socceer. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 1, 2013. Retrieved June 27, 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "Von der NWSL in die Bundesliga – Kanadas Nationalspielerin Tiffany Cameron wechselt zur intensiven Vorbereitung der heimischen WM 2015 zur TSG 1899 Hoffenheim und verstärkt dort die Offensive". weltexpress.info. February 2, 2014. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  9. "Tiffany Cameron player profile". Ohio State University. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  10. De Souza, Ana (January 10, 2019). "January Activities for ConcacafW". Fútbol Ace. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
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