Lia Gal Barkai (Hebrew: ליה גל ברקאי; born 5 April 1999) is an Israeli footballer who plays as a defender and has appeared 9 times (till now [when?])

Barkai started to play at the age of 8 for a boys' team in a township of Pardes Hanna, and after 3 years she moved to play for 2 famous local teams: Maccabi Kishronot Hadera and ASA Tel Aviv University.

As a student, she played for the College Women Football Team, known in Israel as "The Academia" in the premier Israeli League.

She became famous when the army refused to let her join the National Israeli Women team to the European Championship campaign in Spain, but the army regretted a day before the game, after the story got published in the Israeli media.

This biographical article related to women's association football in Israel is a stub.