Parr played her final documented representative match on 7 October 1950, scoring in an 11–1 win for Preston Ladies over Scotland, closing an elite career of roughly 1,000 goals.
On 7 October 1950, Lily Parr played her final documented representative match, turning out for Preston Ladies in an emphatic 11–1 victory over Scotland. Now in her mid-forties, Parr reportedly scored in the match, a fitting conclusion to a playing career that had begun over three decades earlier in 1919.
Across her career with Dick, Kerr Ladies, St Helens Ladies, and Preston Ladies, Parr is estimated to have scored close to 1,000 goals, an extraordinary tally achieved despite the Football Association's 1921 ban restricting access to proper pitches and formal competitive structures for women's football.
This match represents the effective end of her elite-level representative career, though she would continue playing recreationally for a further year before fully retiring in 1951. Her longevity — spanning from the explosive popularity of women's football in 1919-1921, through the barren, ban-era decades of the 1920s-1940s, to the early stirrings of post-war revival — makes her one of the most enduring figures in the sport's history. Few footballers, male or female, have sustained elite performance across such a politically and socially hostile span of decades, underscoring both her extraordinary talent and her personal resilience in the face of institutional discrimination against women in sport.