Caitlin Foord

Central Coast Mariners (2009)

At the age of 14, Foord signed with Central Coast Mariners ahead of the 2009 W-League season, but did not play in a match for the club.

Sydney FC (2010–14)

With the announcement that the Central Coast Mariners would not field a women's team in the 2010–11 W-League season, Foord, along with fellow Mariners players Teresa Polias, Lydia Vandenbergh, and Renee Rollason, switched to nearby club, Sydney FC. Foord spent four straight seasons with Sydney FC, where she appeared in 44 games and scored 10 goals. Foord scored her first goal for Sydney FC during a 4–1 win against Adelaide United on 20 November 2010. It was her only goal during the 2010–11 season. She was a starting player in 10 of the 11 games she played. Sydney finished first in the league with a 8–2–0 record. During the 2011–12 W-League season, Foord started in five of the eleven matches she played and scored two goals. On 12 November, she scored a goal in a 4–1 win against Newcastle Jets, pouncing on an errant back pass from the Jets defence and coolly slotting the ball into goal. Sydney FC finished third during the regular season with a 5–3–2 record. Returning to Sydney for the 2012–13 W-League season, Foord scored three goals in eleven matches. During a match against Melbourne Victory on 8 December, she scored the game-opening goal in the fifth minute. Sydney finished in fourth place during the regular season with a 6–4–2 record. After defeating Brisbane Roar 3–2 in…

Foord has represented Australia on the senior national team as well as the under-16 and under-17 national teams. As part of the Australian under-16 national team, Foord helped the team progress undefeated through to the AFC U17 Women's Championship by scoring a hat-trick in a match against the Philippines.

Senior national team, 2011–present

Foord made her debut for the Australia national team, the Matildas, on 12 May 2011 in a friendly against New Zealand in Gosford. She scored a goal in her debut, as Australia won the match 3–0. At the age of 16, Foord was named to the Matildas squad for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany. Foord started in two of the three group matches as a right back. She then started in the midfield for Australia's quarter-final match against Sweden. She returned to the full-back position after Ellyse Perry was substituted for Tameka Butt in the 59th minute. The Matildas were eliminated from the competition after losing the match 3–1. Foord was given the "Best Young Player" award for the tournament. As a result of her play at the 2011 Women's World Cup, Foord was named AFC Youth Player of the year for 2011. Foord was named to the Australian roster for the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup. She appeared in all 5 matches for Australia and scored a goal in their 2–2 draw against Japan in the group stage. Australia lost 1–0 to Japan in the final, but had already clinched a qualifying spot at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. In 2015, Foord was…

Raised with her sister Jamie by their mother Simone in Shellharbour, a suburb 100 kilometres south of Sydney in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Foord attended Illawarra Sports High School. Her mother would frequently drive Foord three-four hours round-trip to Sydney for training and games: "She'd pick me up straight after school and drive me to Sydney Olympic Park and back four times a week for training – and again on the weekend for a game." Her sister Jamie recommended to their mother to let Caitlin try football after seeing her play on the playground at school with boys. "She was just doing so many sports. We took her down and signed her up for the Warilla Wanderers ... I think in the first game she scored six goals." Foord is the only member of her family to play football. Foord played for local teams Illawarra Stingrays and the Sutherland Sharks before spending some time at the New South Wales Institute of Sport. In 2009, she was named Junior Sports Star of the Year at the Shellharbour Sports Awards. She also played futsal for the NSW Under 13 team who competed in the Australian Championships in Canberra. At age 13, she earned her first cap for Australia's under-17 national team.

Foord has been in a relationship with former Arsenal teammate and Irish international, Katie McCabe since May 2023. She was previously in a relationship with Swiss footballer Lia Wälti from 2020 until 2022.