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Carly Hunt

English footballer (born 1982)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ5043106
Source-derived summary

Carly Hunt (born 9 February 1982) is a retired English footballer. She played as a midfielder and has represented England at senior international level.

Throughout her career she played alongside her identical twin sister Gemma and they were nicknamed the rottweilers for their aggressive style of play.

Club career

Hunt started playing for Millwall Lionesses' first team as a 14-year-old. The sisters switched to Croydon Women at 16 when the family moved to Dartford.

Croydon won the FA Women's Cup in 2000. Gemma scored the winning goal but Carly missed the final following a cartilage operation. The pair were strongly in favour of Charlton Athletic's controversial and hostile takeover of Croydon Women during that summer.

In December 2000 both sisters were sent off in the same match, Carly for attacking a teammate. The duo were "kicked out" of Charlton Athletic a year later after a huge squad bust-up.

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“Carly Hunt” enters the record as english footballer (born 1982). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Carly, Hunt and English can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-02-09. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Carly, Hunt and English.
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“Carly Hunt” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Carly, Hunt and English provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5043106. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from Carly Hunt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.