Shameeka Nikoda Fishley (born 19 September 1993) is an English footballer who plays as a forward in the D1 Féminine for Bordeaux in France.

Early life

Sameeka Nikoda Fishley was born to Tracey Fishley in Leeds, England, on 19 September 1993.

Shameeka Fishley

She attended St Augustine's Catholic Primary School in Leeds in 2005 and completed her high school education in 2010. Between 2010 and 2012, she studied Sports Development, Coaching and Fitness at Merrist Wood College, England. In May 2011, she obtained an FA Coaching Diploma Level 1 from The Football Association, which is equivalent to a UEFA Pro Licence.

Shameeka Fishley

She then went to the United States, where she was educated in Personnel Administration in Human Resources Management at Davenport University in Michigan between 2013 and 2017.

Shameeka Fishley

Playing career

Fishley began playing football during her high school years. She was with Leeds United Women F.C. U14, Seacroft Colts AFC U16, Huddersfield Town A.F.C. and Leeds City Vixens before she entered the youth academy team of Chelsea in 2011, where she played until 2013. She was with Davenport Panthers in the United States, She then played for the Icelandic club İB Vestmannaeyja in 2018, with the Italian A.S.D. AGSM Verona in 2017–18, and U.S. Sassuolo Calcio in the 2018–19 season, with UMF Stjarnan in Iceland again between 2019 and 2021, and with the Spanish EdF Logroño in 2021. In November 2021, she moved to Turkey and signed with the newly established team Fenerbahçe.

She scored a hat trick in her first game with Fenerbahçe against archrivals Galatasaray that was the first match of both newly established teams. The friendly match was played under the motto "End Violence Against Women" () before the start of the 2021-22 Turkcell Women's Football Super League. It ended 7–0 for Fenerbahçe.

References

1993 births

Living people

Footballers from Leeds

English women's footballers

Women's association football forwards

Leeds United F.C. players

Huddersfield Town A.F.C. players

Leeds City Vixens L.F.C. players

Chelsea F.C. Women players

US Sassuolo Calcio (women) players

Stjarnan women's football players

Dux Logroño players

Fenerbahçe S.K. (women's football) players

FC Girondins de Bordeaux (women) players

Ferencvárosi TC (women) footballers

Turkish Women's Football Super League players

English expatriate women's footballers

English expatriate sportspeople in the United States

Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States

English expatriate sportspeople in Italy

Expatriate women's footballers in Italy

English expatriate sportspeople in Turkey

Expatriate women's footballers in Turkey

English expatriate sportspeople in Hungary

Expatriate women's footballers in Hungary

English expatriate sportspeople in France

Expatriate women's footballers in France

Black British sportswomen

English sportspeople of Jamaican descent