Career
She previously played for Sunderland in the English FA Women"s Premier League. Stokes made her debut for the senior England women"s national football team in January 2014. Stokes joined Sunderland"s youth academy as an 8-year-old and began playing in the first team at 16.
She accepted a four-year scholarship to University of South Florida in 2011.
In 2012 Stokes played 13 games for Vancouver Whitecaps in the pro–am North American West-League. In 2015 Stokes signed a three-year professional contract with Manchester City.
England
In 2010 she helped England reach the final of the 2010 Union of European Football Associations Women"s Under-19 Championship in Macedonia, where they lost their title to France. Later that summer Stokes started two of England"s three games at the 2010 Fédération internationale de football association U-20 Women"s World Cup in Germany.
Newly-appointed England coach Mark Sampson included Stokes in a 30-player squad for the annual training camp in Louisiana Manga, which included a match against Norway on 17 January 2014.
In April 2014 she scored in England"s 9–0 thrashing of Montenegro at Falmer Stadium, Brighton and Hove. Stokes was disappointed to be left out of England"s squad for the 2015 Fédération internationale de football association Women"s World Cup. She was restored to the squad for the subsequent Union of European Football Associations Women"s Euro 2017 qualifying campaign.
International goals
Scores and results list England"s goal tally first.
Great Britain
In July 2013 Stokes captained Great Britain to a gold medal in the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia.