Safe Hands: Hannah Hampton (Birmingham City)

The goalkeepers’ slot goes to Birmingham City’s teenage keeper, and her route into the position is unusually well dated. She was a striker until about 14, but at 12, playing for Stoke City’s centre of excellence, the goalkeeper was injured in the warm-up, volunteers were called for and her hand went up first. An England scout on the touchline that day asked her coach to forward her name as an Under-15 goalkeeper, and she was at her first England camp at 12. She rates her distribution first – modern keepers, she argues, have to play with both feet and deliver to multiple positions at different heights – then her agility around the goal. Her favourite save is a 90th-minute fingertip stop against Italy that took England Under-17s to a Euro finals.