Jodie Bartle

Jodie Anne Bartle (19 November 1991) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Wrexham, which she captains, in the Adran Premier. She has formerly played for Women's Championship teams Coventry and Newcastle United, and for Celtic in the Scottish Women's Premier League. With Wrexham she has won both the league and League Cup, while at Celtic she won the Scottish FA Cup and League Cup; in the English regional and national leagues, she won promotion to the fourth tier with Peterborough Northern Star, to the third tier with Loughborough Foxes, and to the second tier with Newcastle.

Jodie Anne Bartle was born on 19 November 1991 in Peterborough to Jane and Alan Bartle. Her older brother Sam, known by the stage name Look Mum No Computer, is a DJ and musician who represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with "Eins, Zwei, Drei"; Bartle (and Wrexham's Adran Premier title trophy) appeared in the song's music video.

Bartle grew up riding horses and wanted to pursue show jumping but found it was too expensive; she began playing recreational football aged 15 and only joined a team after leaving secondary school. Alongside her non-professional and semi-professional career in the lower leagues of English women's football, Bartle achieved a personal trainer qualification so that she could manage her fitness and nutrition at clubs without these provisions. She also became a PE teacher at Stanground Academy, a position she held until she was offered a professional football contract.

Bartle joined Yaxley when she was 17, a local club whose players had previously approached her to join after seeing her on the park where they trained; Bartle played with them for a year before joining Peterborough Northern Star F.C. women's team in the fifth tier of English football. She quickly became captain and stayed there for "five or six seasons", captaining the side to promotion.

Bartle then joined Loughborough Foxes in the fourth tier mid-season. The team had ambition for promotion and Bartle travelled 500 miles a week to play for them, where she also played in the five-a-side and seven-a-side men's teams. In 2017–18, her second season at Loughborough, they won what was the Women's Premier League Midlands Division One of the FA Women's National League to be promoted to the third tier National League South, where Bartle played another season.

In September 2019, Bartle moved up another level to second-tier Women's Championship to play for Coventry City.

When Fran Alonso became manager of Celtic, he brought in Bartle as his first signing after being impressed with her playing for Coventry against his Lewes side. Aged 27, she received her first fully professional contract on winter deadline day in January 2020 and had to get permission to resign without notice from the headteacher of Stanground Academy, where she taught. This made her the first fully professional women's footballer from Peterborough.

After an underwhelming first full season, with many games and competitions cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in the 2021–22 season, Bartle played in two UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying matches and won both the 2021–22 Scottish Women's Premier League Cup and 2021–22 Scottish Women's Cup, despite being sent off in the final.

Bartle returned to England to captain the renamed Coventry United.

Following Coventry's relegation and relocation in 2023, Bartle signed for National League North club Newcastle United. She struggled with injuries at Newcastle, with a serious back injury including partial leg paralysis a few months into her first season putting her out for seven months. During her recovery time, she provided co-commentary for the club's in-house game broadcasts. Newcastle had won the league and promotion to the Women's Championship the week before Bartle's return from injury. Picking up another injury in summer 2024 pre-season, Bartle was released at the end of her contract having made seven appearances for the club.

Bartle joined Wrexham, playing in the top tier of Welsh women's football, in August 2025, signed for her experience in top-level Scottish and European football and contracted until summer 2027. Captain in her first season with the club, they won both the league (to enter the Champions League) and league trophy for the first times. She had scored her first goal for Wrexham in their second league game in September 2025, against Barry Town, and scored again in November against Pontypridd United to reach three goals in ten appearances in all competitions.

As of match played 5 April 2026

Peterborough

• East Midlands Regional Women's Premier Division: 2014–15

Loughborough

• FA Women's Premier League Midlands Division One: 2017–18

Celtic

• Women's Scottish Cup: 2021–22
• Scottish Women's Premier League Cup: 2021–22

Newcastle

• FA Women's National League Premier Division North: 2023–24

Wrexham

• Adran Premier: 2025–26
• Adran Trophy: 2025–26

Individual

• Peterborough Telegraph Footballer of the Year: 2015
• Loughborough Foxes Players' Player of the Year: 2017–18
• Loughborough Foxes Supporters' Player of the Year: 2017–18