Jen Beattie

Queen's Park

Beattie began her senior career in the Scottish Women's Premier League with Queen's Park FC Ladies as a 15-year-old. She helped the club reach the final of the Scottish Women's Premier League Cup in November 2007; Queen's Park lost 4–0 to a Hibernian Ladies team containing Beattie's future Arsenal teammate Kim Little.

Celtic

In January 2008 Beattie moved to Celtic Ladies. She spent a year and a half with the club before leaving to join Arsenal Ladies.

Arsenal

Beattie joined Arsenal in July 2009; her first goals for Arsenal came on 8 November 2009 where she scored a stunning treble to seal a comeback against Chelsea after being 2–0 down at half-time. In March 2010, Beattie played in attack during Arsenal's 2–0 defeat by FCR 2001 Duisburg in the quarter-final of the UEFA Women's Champions League. While at Arsenal, she won the 2009 Women's Premier League, the 2011 and 2012 FA Women's League Cup, now called the Continental Cup, and the 2011 and 2013 FA Cups. In the 2012–13 Champions League, she scored the opening goal when Arsenal defeated Barcelona 3–0 in the round of 16 first leg at the Mini Estadi; Barcelona managed to keep the return leg at Meadow Park goalless by half time, at which point Beattie was brought on as a second-half substitute to replace forward Kelly Smith. Beattie scored the first goal in the 53rd minute and completed her hat-trick by converting a penalty in added time, with Arsenal winning 4–0.

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Beattie represented Scotland at under-17 level, and made her debut for the under-19s at the age of 14. Beattie made her debut for the senior Scotland side in March 2008, against the United States in Cyprus, as second-half substitute for Leanne Ross. She went on to establish herself in the national side during the 2009 European Championships qualifying campaign. She scored her first international goal as Scotland beat Portugal 4–1 in a European Championship qualifying game in May 2008. Beattie played in both legs of the qualifying play-off defeat to Russia in October and November 2008. After the first leg, Beattie and Kim Little were identified by football writer Graham Spiers as talented youngsters. In March 2011, Beattie played as a striker and scored in Scotland's 2–0 win over England, the first time Scotland had beaten England since 1977. Beattie became a regular with the Scotland national team. While she was instrumental in helping Scotland reach its first major tournament, the 2017 UEFA Women's Euro Championship, she missed out on the tournament due to injury. She continued her contribution helping Scotland qualify for its first FIFA Women's World Cup, the 2019 tournament in France. On 15 May 2019 Beattie was named to the Scotland's 2019 Women's World Cup squad. In the group stage, she scored in the 3–3 tie with Argentina. On 27 January 2023, Beattie announced her retirement from international football, having made 143 appearances and scoring 24 goals.

Beattie began playing football with her brother Johnnie and his friends, while at primary school. She was eventually selected to the Glasgow Primary School select team, as the only girl, and was named captain. Beattie then played with Hamilton Academical's boys' teams.

Beattie is the daughter of former Scotland and British Lions rugby union player John Beattie, and the sister of former Scottish rugby union international Johnnie Beattie. She attended Jordanhill School in Glasgow and on signing for Arsenal enrolled at Hertfordshire University. In October 2020, Beattie was diagnosed with breast cancer. Despite this Beattie scored in Arsenal's 5–0 win over Brighton just three days after being diagnosed. She had surgery to remove the lump and, as the cancer had not spread, began radiotherapy instead of chemotherapy. Despite treatment Beattie continued to appear for both Arsenal and Scotland. Beattie won the Helen Rollason Award for 2021, in recognition of her work since the cancer diagnosis. Beattie was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to association football and charity. She was dating television personality and former Love Island winner Amber Gill. However, they split in November 2023 due to conflicting work schedules. Together with Rachel Yankey and Izzy Christiansen, Beattie presented a podcast on Sky Sports Football YouTube channel, 3 Players and A Podcast. On Thanksgiving 2024, Ali Krieger confirmed that she and Jen Beattie were in a relationship.