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In a career disrupted by serious injury, Hall attended Union of European Football Associations Women"s Euro 2001 and Union of European Football Associations Women"s Euro 2005 as a reserve goalkeeper.
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She has spent much of her career in Yorkshire, starting at Sheffield Wednesday and enjoying two separate spells with both Doncaster Rovers Belles and Leeds United. Hall also played FA Women"s Premier League football for Fulham and Leicester City Women, while the 2000 summer season was spent in Iceland with Fachhochschule . She most recently played for Birmingham City in the 2011 FA Forest, Snow and Landscape. Hall is a Union of European Football Associations A licensed coach and runs her own soccer school. She is a coach at Sheffield Football Club Ladies and the technical director of Leeds United Ladies" Centre of Excellence.
Hall joined Doncaster Belles in 1995 from Sheffield Wednesday, leaving to join Leeds United Ladies in 2002.
In the summer of 2000 Hall had played professional football in Iceland, making seven appearances for Fachhochschule . In February 2003 Hall suffered a broken leg in Leeds" 3–0 FA Women"s Cup defeat to Aston Villa. From Leeds she moved to Fulham Ladies in 2004, with whom she featured in a Union of European Football Associations Women"s Cup quarter final.
She rejoined Doncaster Rovers Belles in the 2006 close season. Within a month of joining she was ruled out for a number of months due to requiring surgery for a persistent neck injury.
In July 2007 she rejoined Leeds Carnegie, as player-assistant-manager.
She left Leeds to join Leicester City Women in October 2008. During her career to date Hall has been a finalist in three FA Women"s Cups and a League Cup. In summer 2011 Hall was signed by FA Forest, Snow and Landscape leaders Birmingham City.
Hall represented England, playing 24 times at full international level
She made her senior debut in August 2000, in a 1–0 friendly defeat to France, before 50,000 spectators at Stade Vélodrome. In April 2004 Hall was elevated to first choice for England when Pauline Cope retired from international football and Rachel Brown damaged her anterior cruciate ligament.
In 2004, Hall founded the Leanne Hall Sports & Goalkeeping School. She landed a job with Sheffield Wednesday"s football in the community department in January 2007.
Rotherham–born Hall attended Brinsworth Comprehensive School and was a guest of honour at their 40th anniversary celebrations in April 2009.
