Moya Dodd

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title: "Moya Dodd" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["living-people", "1965-births", "asian-football-confederation-executives", "australian-women's-soccer-players", "fifa-officials", "officers-of-the-order-of-australia", "women-fifa-officials", "women's-association-football-midfielders", "australian-people-of-chinese-descent", "sportspeople-of-chinese-descent", "australia-women's-international-soccer-players", "women-association-football-executives", "20th-century-australian-lawyers", "20th-century-australian-women-lawyers", "21st-century-australian-lawyers", "soccer-players-from-adelaide", "sportswomen-from-south-australia", "20th-century-australian-sportswomen"] description: "Australian association football player and administrator" topic_path: "law" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moya_Dodd" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Australian association football player and administrator ::

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Field	Value
name	Moya Dodd
honorific-suffix
birth_date
birth_place	Adelaide, South Australia
baptised
nationality	Australian
alma_mater	University of Adelaide (LLB)
University of New South Wales (MBA)
occupation	Lawyer
Football official
employer	Gilbert + Tobin
boards	FFA (2007–2017)
AFC (2009–2019)
FIFA (2013–2016)
embed	yes
position	Midfield
youthyears1	1979–1981
youthclubs1	Port Adelaide
years1	1982–1988
clubs1	University of Adelaide
nationalyears1	1986–1995
nationalteam1	Australia
nationalcaps1	24
nationalgoals1	1
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| nationality = Australian | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = University of Adelaide (LLB) University of New South Wales (MBA) | occupation = Lawyer Football official | years_active = | employer = Gilbert + Tobin | organization = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = FFA (2007–2017) AFC (2009–2019) FIFA (2013–2016) |module= |embed = yes |position = Midfield |youthyears1 = 1979–1981 |youthclubs1 = Port Adelaide |years1 = 1982–1988 |clubs1 = University of Adelaide |caps1 = |goals1 = |totalcaps = |totalgoals = |nationalyears1 = 1986–1995 |nationalteam1 = Australia |nationalcaps1 = 24 |nationalgoals1 = 1 Moya Dodd (born 30 April 1965) is an Australian soccer official, a lawyer and former national team player. She is a former executive committee member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and a former member of the FIFA Council.

Football administration career

Dodd joined the board of Football Federation Australia (FFA) in 2007. In 2009, she was elected as a vice-president of the Asian Football Confederation.

In 2013, she was appointed to the executive committee of FIFA, the 27-member body which governs football, as a co-opted member.

In October 2015, Moya Dodd sent a submission in for a gender reform proposal. This was sent to the Chair of FIFA Reform Committee, Francois Carrard. In this proposal, Dodd's main goals were for women to have more inclusion in the decision-making process and for there to be a larger investment in the women's game. Following this proposal, in 2016, FIFA passed the proposal and added a requirement that every continent must have a seat filled by a woman.

In 2017, Dodd lost her place on the FIFA Council as the Asia female seat to Mahfuza Akhter Kiron of Bangladesh. Kiron beat Dodd by 10 votes, with a final vote of 27–17. Some were critical of the election results because in an interview with the BBC World Service Kiron seemed to lack knowledge of current women's world champions. On her Facebook, Dodd wrote, "Naturally I'm disappointed that I wasn't able to return to the FIFA Council today."

Playing career

Dodd played 24 times for Australia, including 12 in full international matches. By the time Dodd was 21 years old, she was playing on Australia's national team, and later on became vice-captain. In 1988, she played in the first-ever FIFA world tournament for women. That tournament was a successful event that led to the first FIFA Women's World Cup in 1991.

Legal career

Moya is a partner in law firm Gilbert + Tobin.

Honours and awards

In 2016, Dodd was named the overall winner of The Australian Financial Review Westpac 2016 Women of Influence. In 2018, Forbes, ranked number seven in their list of Most Powerful Women in International Sports.

Dodd was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours for "distinguished service to football as a player and administrator at the national and international level, as a role model to women, and to the law".

References

References

1. "Moya Dodd is first Australian representative on FIFA". University of Adelaide.
2. "AFC Executive Committee". The [[Asian Football Confederation]].
3. (30 May 2014). "Moya Dodd scores for women's soccer". The Sydney Morning Herald.
4. Smithies, Tom. (15 May 2007). "Lowy shakes up soccer board". [[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney).
5. (8 May 2009). "FFA welcomes outcome in Asia". Football Federation Australia.
6. Glass, Alana. "The Case For FIFA's Gender Reform".
7. "Dodd's election loss exposes FIFA gender reform farce".
8. (9 May 2017). "Moya Dodd disappointed to lose FIFA spot". Special Broadcasting Service.
9. "Teams of the Decades – Women's 1990–1999". Football Federation Australia.
10. Howe, Andrew. "Official Media Guide of Australia at the FIFA Women's World Cup Germany 2011". Football Federation Australia.
11. Settimi, Christina. "Moya Dodd, One Of Soccer's Most Powerful Women, Isn't Done Playing".
12. Merritt, Chris. (27 June 2008). "G+T beats the benchmark for promoting women". The Australian.
13. (20 October 2016). "100 Women of Influence 2016". The Australian Financial Review.
14. Stewart, Claire. (28 October 2016). "Global aims drive winners". The Australian Financial Review.
15. Settimi, Christina. "Moya Dodd, One Of Soccer's Most Powerful Women, Isn't Done Playing". Forbes.
16. (11 June 2023). "King's Birthday 2023 Honours - the full list". Nine Entertainment Co.

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