Chelsea Ashurst

{{Short description|English footballer (born 1990)}}

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| name = Chelsea Ashurst

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| fullname = Chelsea Louise Ashurst

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1990|04|22}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/player/chelsea|title=Chelsea Ashurst Liga F|website=Chelsea Ashurst}}

| birth_place = Normanton, West Yorkshire, England

| height = 1.70 m

| position = Goalkeeper

| currentclub = Sporting de Huelva

| clubnumber = 1

| years1 = 2008–2012

| clubs1 = Atlético Málaga

| caps1 = 84

| goals1 = 0

| years2 = 2012–2013

| clubs2 = Sporting de Huelva

| caps2 = 19

| goals2 = 0

| years3 = 2013–2015

| clubs3 = Barcelona

| caps3 = 10

| goals3 = 0

| years4 = 2015–2019

| clubs4 = Málaga

| caps4 = 30

| goals4 = 0

| years5 = 2019–

| clubs5 = Sporting de Huelva

| caps5 = 91

| goals5 = 0

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| pcupdate = 8 January 2023

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Chelsea Louise Ashurst (born 22 April 1990) is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Spanish Liga F club Sporting de Huelva.{{Cite web|url=https://as.com/futbol/2019/06/25/mas_futbol/1561459342_238146.html|title=La portera inglesa Chelsea regresa al Sporting de Huelva|date=June 25, 2019|website=Diario AS}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.surinenglish.com/sport/201810/05/painful-when-other-side-20181005093042-v.html|title=It's painful when the other side scores, but we are learning to just keep fighting|first=Marina Rivas |last=Malaga|date=October 5, 2018|website=surinenglish.com}}{{Cite web|url=http://eldeportefemenino.com/2013/07/05/el-barca-empieza-a-reforzarse/|title=El Barça empieza a reforzarse|date=July 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708173442/http://eldeportefemenino.com/2013/07/05/el-barca-empieza-a-reforzarse/ |archive-date=8 July 2013 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.malagahoy.es/malaga_cf/costo-tomar-decision-marcharme-objetivos_0_1366663526.html|title="Me costó mucho tomar la decisión de marcharme, pero tengo mis objetivos"|first=Málaga|last=Hoy|date=June 24, 2019|website=Málaga Hoy}}

Ashurst was born in Normanton in West Yorkshire, in the north of England, but moved to Granada in Andalusia, in the south of Spain, as a child. Raised in Granada, she has spent her whole football career in Spain.{{cite web|last=Ashurst|first=Chelsea|date=2019-01-29|title=British-born, Spain-raised: meet Málaga keeper Chelsea Ashurst!|url=https://www.womenssoccerunited.com/chelsea-ashurst-malaga-goalkeeper/|access-date=2022-12-26|website=Womens Soccer United|archive-date=26 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226025144/https://www.womenssoccerunited.com/chelsea-ashurst-malaga-goalkeeper/|url-status=dead}}

Ashurst began playing football several years after moving to Spain, and tried out goalkeeping at about fourteen; she joined Club Atlético Málaga in Spain's top division at the age of fifteen.