Editing Ashley Moriarty (section)

== Club Career (2018 - present) ==

=== Olympique Lyonnais (2018 - 2020) ===
Moriarty made her professional soccer debut with Olympique Lyonnais Féminin for the 2018-19 season, signing a two-year contract. She was top goal-scorer of the league, with 28 goals, and helped Lyon to their thirteenth consecutive title. She also heavily contributed Lyon's seventh Women's Champions League title, including scoring two goals in the final against Barcelona.

In the 2019-20 season, Moriarty once again topped the league as highest goal-scorer, this time scoring 34 times. OL won their fourteenth title, and eighth Champions League title.

=== Paris Saint-Germain (2020 - 2021) ===
Despite her success with the team, Moriarty opted to sign with Paris Saint-Germain Féminine for the 2020-21 season. She was top goal-scorer in the league for the third season in a row, and played a key role in Paris' championship victory that season, narrowly defeating her former club Lyon.

=== 2021 Bidding War ===
Despite great success with PSG, and the club showing great interest in keeping her, Moriarty announced her intention to leave the French capital after the 2020-21 season. Although Paris set a record-breaking $1 million price tag on Moriarty—four times the women's soccer transfer record, which was £250,000 at the time—, a number of teams quickly jumped in to attempt to sign Moriarty. Most notably, her former club Lyon made a record transfer bid of $1.5 million, which was broken two days later by Barcelona, with a $1.75 million offer. Real Madrid then stepped in with a $3 million offer, hoping to quickly secure the transfer with a near-double bid. Both Barcelona and Lyon responded within a few days, with $4 and $4.5 million offers respectively. Real Madrid once more attempted to end things with a massive bid, offering PSG $6 million. This bid was once again beaten by both other teams. Barcelona offered $7.5 million, and, a few days later, Lyon offered $8 million, which they declared to be their final offer. Both Real Madrid and Barcelona responded to Lyon's withdrawal with even larger offers, bidding $10 and $11 million respectively.

The bidding war became a major focus in the media, as the transfer record in women's soccer was being broken several times over with each new bid. It was especially amplified by Barcelona and Real Madrid's rivalry: Moriarty's presence on either team would make them strong contenders for the league title and champions league. Real Madrid's keen interest was drawn to the fact Barcelona had long been above Madrid in the Liga F. Most of the media leaned towards Moriarty going to Real Madrid, pushing a rivalry between Moriarty and Barcelona captain Alexia Putellas, widely considered to be the two best female players in the world, and closely resembling the Messi–Ronaldo rivalry in the men's game. Although some, including Moriarty and Putellas themselves, condemned the media's rumors as "false and deceitful," the large spotlight on the women's game was generally seen as a positive influence. It also further propelled Moriarty to mainstream stardom, especially back home in Valoria, where then-prime minister Mark Newman even hinted at conferring upon her the Order of the Osprey, Valoria's highest state honor.

The bidding war continued to escalate until Barcelona pulled out after a final offer of $17.5 million, unwilling to outbid Real Madrid's subsequent $20 million offer. PSG allowed Real Madrid to negotiate with Moriarty, who ended up signing a three-year contract reportedly worth around $33 million (with a $3 million yearly salary and $4 million sign-on bonus). The $20 million transfer fee broke the record for highest transfer fee in women's soccer eighty-fold, and Moriarty's contract made her the highest-paid female soccer player in history.

=== Real Madrid (2021 - present) ===
Expectations were high for Moriarty for the 2021-22 season, mainly due to the monumental contract she had signed. Despite it being her first season, she was made captain, which she had been promised by PSG if she were to remain there another year. Despite their new acquisition, however, Real Madrid struggled, as the team seemed disjointed and unable to get Moriarty the ball. Faced on top of this with a dominant Barcelona, Madrid were unable to defeat their Catalan rivals in either of their meetings in the league. While Barcelona won the league, Madrid struggled to a third-place finish. To add to her woes, Moriarty failed to top the league in goals scored, finishing third with 19. Real Madrid were also knocked out of the Copa de la Reina in the semi-finals, by none other than Barcelona. In the Champions League, Real Madrid made it into the knockout stage, where they immediately faced Barcelona. Moriarty scored three goals in the two matches, but Real Madrid lost 3 - 8 on aggregate.

After an uncertain 2022 summer (see below: ''Controversies, 2022 Real Madrid Controversy'') Moriarty returned as captain of Real Madrid for the 2022-23 season. After a number of structural and strategic changes had been made in the team, Moriarty found far more success in her second season with ''las Blancas''. With the team build around her, and aiming to supply her with the ball as much as possible, Moriarty broke her own record and topped the league with 44 goals, en-route to Real Madrid's first Liga F title. She also led the club to their first Copa de la Reina victory (with a 3 - 1 victory over Madrid rivals Atletico, in which she scored a hat-trick), and led her team to a Champions League victory, defeating Barcelona 3 - 2 in the final to secure the continental treble (and also scoring a hat-trick in that match).