Career
She has previously represented Bristol Academy, Chelsea and Cardiff City. Ingle plays as either a defender or midfielder. Ingle began her football career with boys" team Vale Wanderers.
Despite making an appeal to the Football Association of Wales (FAW), rules prevented Ingle from playing with the boys beyond the age of 12.
She spent a year away from football and then had brief spells with Vale Wanderers" girls and Dinas Powys Ladies. This preceded the teenaged Ingle"s move to Cardiff City Ladies.
After a period in the reserves, Ingle broke into Cardiff"s FA Women"s Premier League team during season 2007-2008. After winning the Welsh Cup twice with Cardiff, Ingle signed for Forest, Snow and Landscape outfit Chelsea Ladies ahead of the 2012 campaign.
Chelsea manager Matt Beard deployed Ingle as a central defender and praised her impact after Chelsea"s 2012 FA Women"s Cup Final defeat to Birmingham: "Sophie Ingle, we initially brought in as a left back but you can see from her quality on the ball and distribution and reading of the game is good as well, she has created a few goals for us with balls in behind which something we haven’t had before."
In February 2014, Ingle left Chelsea and moved nearer to home by joining Bristol Academy.
She rose to captain The Vixens, but the club were relegated after the 2015 season. Ingle became a transfer target for other clubs and decided to join Liverpool in December 2015: "Liverpool is a massive club and once I was aware of their interest there was only one team I wanted to sign for". Ingle was called–up to represent Wales at Under–17 level, and later rose to captain the Under–19 squad.
In December 2011 Ingle was named in the preliminary Team Great Britain squad for the 2012 Olympics.
Wales manager Jayne Ludlow named Ingle the new national team captain ahead of the 2015 Istria Cup, replacing Jess Fishlock who was surprisingly dropped from the squad.