Casey Phair

Angel City

Following her strong performance at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, Phair trialed with local NWSL club NJ/NY Gotham FC and fellow league clubs Kansas City Current and Angel City FC. On 18 January 2024, Angel City announced that the club had signed Phair to her first professional contract on a three-year deal under the NWSL Under-18 Entry Mechanism. She was the youngest player to sign with the club. On 26 July, she made her professional debut in the NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup, coming on as a second-half substitute for Messiah Bright in a 2–0 win over Bay FC. On 22 February 2025, Phair scored her first goal for Angel City in the preseason Coachella Valley Invitational, heading a late 1–1 equalizer against the Seattle Reign FC. On 18 April, she made her NWSL regular-season debut against Gotham FC, replacing Riley Tiernan in a 4–0 loss to the eventual champions. On 21 July, Angel City announced that Phair had signed a three-year contract extension with the club. The same day, Phair was loaned out to Swedish club Djurgården for the rest of the year. She debuted for the club on 9 August 2025, coming on for Urara Watanabe in a 4–0 defeat to eventual champions BK Häcken. She made 12 appearances for the club, including one start in a 2–1 win over Brommapojkarna. On 20 May 2026, Phair made her first career NWSL regular-season start, playing 82 minutes in Angel City's 2–1 victory over the Kansas City Current. Her head coach Alexander Straus said she "worked…

Phair was called up to the United States under-15 team in March 2022. She also played for the South Korea under-17 team before she was called up to the senior team for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. She helped the under-17 team qualify for the 2024 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup, scoring two goals against Tajikistan and three goals against Hong Kong. At the 2023 Women's World Cup, Phair became the youngest player to ever appear in a senior World Cup— men's or women's— at the age of 16 years and 26 days, coming on as a substitute in South Korea's opening game against Colombia on 25 July 2023; the distinction had been previously held by Ifeanyi Chiejine. In the process, she also became the youngest footballer to have reportedly won a cap for a women's senior national team, a record that was later broken by Una Rankić in September of the same year. She was also the first multiracial player to represent South Korea at a World Cup. Phair played in all three of South Korea's group stage matches and went on to make her first start in the team's final match against Germany, which ended in a 1–1 draw. On 26 October 2023, Phair scored her first senior goal, as well as her first hat-trick, in a 10–1 win over Thailand in the second round of the 2024 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament: in the process, at 16 years and 119 days of age, she became the second youngest goalscorer in the history of the South Korean women's senior national team, behind only Ji So-yun. She also became the…

Club

As of match played 23 May 2026

International

As of match played 18 April 2026

Scores and results list South Korea's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Phair goal.

Phair was born in South Korea to an American father and South Korean mother. Her family moved to the United States when she was one month old. Formerly residing in Exeter, New Hampshire, she then moved to Warren Township, New Jersey, where she played soccer at the Pingry School and trained at the Players Development Academy (PDA) in New Jersey. She played one season for the Pingry School as a freshman in 2022, scoring 25 goals in 15 games and earning first-team all-conference honors. In 2023, recognizing her performance for PDA in the ECNL, she was named her ECNL conference player of the year and tabbed ECNL All-American.