Ana-Maria Crnogorčević

Ana-Maria Crnogorčević (born 3 October 1990) is a Swiss professional footballer who currently plays for Atlético Madrid and the Switzerland national team. A fast player with good heading ability,[2] she is considered one of Switzerland's most talented footballers.[3][4]

Ana-Maria Crnogorčević
Crnogorčević in 2011
Personal information
Full name Ana-Maria Crnogorčević[1]
Date of birth (1990-10-03) 3 October 1990
Place of birth Steffisburg, Switzerland
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Winger, right-back
Team information
Current team
 Atlètico de Madrid
Number 21
Youth career
2001–2004 FC Steffisburg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2009 FC Rot-Schwarz Thun
2009 FC Thun
2009–2010 Hamburger SV 39 (13)
2011–2018 FFC Frankfurt 112 (21)
2018–2019 Portland Thorns FC 34 (6)
2019–2023 Barcelona 82 (17)
2023- Atlético Madrid 0 (0)
International career‡
2009– Switzerland 150 (71)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 July 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 July 2023

Early and personal life

Ana-Maria Crnogorčević was born on 3 October 1990 in Steffisburg, by Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland,[5][6] to Croat parents from Ruma, in Vojvodina, with origins in Drniš, Croatia.[7] She has dual nationality[2] and considers herself both Swiss and Croatian;[8] her first language was Croatian.[9] She speaks many languages and received scorn from some rival fans while playing for Barcelona and responding in Catalan to a question asked in Spanish.[10][11][12] Crnogorčević has a sister and was raised Catholic.[9]

Club career

Crnogorčević began her club career with FC Steffisburg at age 11. In 2004, she moved to FC Rot-Schwarz Thun, then later to FC Thun. In 2009, she helped Rot-Schwarz win the Swiss Cup final. Crnogorčević scored a hat-trick in the 8–0 win over FC Schlieren.[13] She was the top-scorer with 24 goals in 16 games in the Nationalliga A.[13] In September 2009 she joined German Bundesliga team Hamburger SV. She made her debut for HSV on 27 September, scoring in a 3–2 win against SG Essen-Schönebeck. Crnogorčević finished her first season in Germany with eight goals from 19 appearances.[14] For the 2011/12 season she moved to 1. FFC Frankfurt, with which she won the Champions League in 2015.[15]

She signed with Portland Thorns FC ahead of the 2018 National Women's Soccer League season.[16][17] In December 2019, Crnogorčević signed with Barcelona.[18] She won the Champions League with Barcelona in the 2020–21 and 2022-23 seasons.[19][20]

International career

Youth

Aged 17, she scored 25 goals in 29 games for the Switzerland U19 team.[2] At the 2009 UEFA U19 Championship in Belarus, she reached the semi-final with her team. She was selected in the U20 for the 2012 U20 World Cup in Japan. She played in all three matches but was eliminated in the group stage.

Senior

Crnogorčević was approached to play for Croatia when she was 17;[2] though raised with Croatian culture,[9] she always wanted to play for Switzerland.[8]

On 12 August 2009 she made her debut for the Swiss senior team in a friendly against Sweden.[21] In August 2010, she scored five goals in an 8–0 World Cup qualifying win over Kazakhstan.[22]

Crnogorčević succeeded with the Swiss national team in qualifying for the 2017 European Championship in the Netherlands, where she was top scorer with seven goals. On 4 June 2016 she surpassed previous Swiss all-time goalscorer Lara Dickenmann by adding two goals in a qualifier against the Czech Republic.[23] At the European Championship, she scored a goal in the 1–1 draw with France, but her team was eliminated after the group stage. In the subsequent qualification for the 2019 World Cup, she scored two goals in eleven games. However, the Swiss did not qualify this time because they lost in the last play-off round against European champions Netherlands.

On 13 April 2021, she converted her team's last penalty to 3–2 in the second leg of qualifying play-off for the Euro 2022 against the Czech Republic, succeeding in qualifying for the Euro finals. In the first leg, she scored the goal for the 1–1 equalizer with a penalty in the 90th minute.[24]  In all, she scored six goals in qualifying, once again being her team's top scorer.

On 30 June 2022 Crnogorčević matched Lara Dickenmann's national cap record with her 135th international match in the 4–0 defeat in the European Championship preparatory game against England.[25]  At the European Championship in 2022, she played in all three group games in the starting lineup. Switzerland was eliminated after the preliminary round.

Career statistics

Club summary
As of 9 July 2023[26]
Club Season League Cup Other Continental Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Hamburger SV 2009–10 Frauen-Bundesliga 1981[lower-alpha 1]0––208
2010-11 206224[lower-alpha 2]1–269
Total 39142241–4617
FFC Frankfurt 2011–12 Frauen-Bundesliga 1583[lower-alpha 1]2–8[lower-alpha 3]32613
2012-13 15200––152
2013-14 22451––275
2014-15 20130–90321
2015-16 18020–71271
2016-17 12410––134
2017–18 14230––172
Total 11621173–24415728
Portland Thorns FC 2018 NWSL 225–––225
2019 121–––121
Total 346–––346
Barcelona 2019–20 Primera División 603[lower-alpha 4]02[lower-alpha 5]00[lower-alpha 3]0110
2020–21 274201050354
2021–22 205210091317
2022–23 2980020923810
Total 8217715023311521
Career total 271582769147735472
  1. Appearances in DFB-Pokal
  2. Appearances in Women's Bundesliga Cup
  3. Appearances in UEFA Women's Champions League
  4. Appearances in Copa de la Reina
  5. Appearances in Supercopa de España

International goals
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.27 March 2010Stadion Niedermatten, Wohlen, Switzerland Israel6–06–02011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
2.21 August 2010Stade Universitaire Saint-Léonard, Fribourg, Switzerland Kazakhstan1–08–0
3.4–0
4.5–0
5.7–0
6.8–0
7.3 October 2010Vejle Stadion, Vejle, Denmark Denmark1–03–12011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA play-offs
8.21 September 2011Stadion Brügglifeld, Aarau, Switzerland Romania1–04–1UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying
9.4–1
10.4 March 2012Paralimni Stadium, Paralimni, Cyprus Finland1–31–32012 Cyprus Women's Cup
11.6 March 2012Ammochostos Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus Northern Ireland1–05–0
12.4–0
13.31 March 2012Stadion Brügglifeld, Aarau, Switzerland Turkey4–05–0UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying
14.16 June 2012 Spain2–24–3
15.21 June 2012Stadionul CNAF, Buftea, Romania Romania1–02–4
16.13 March 2013GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus New Zealand1–01–22013 Cyprus Women's Cup
17.6 April 2013Centre sportif de Colovray Nyon, Nyon, Switzerland Norway2–03–1Friendly
18.3–1
19.21 September 2013 Serbia2–09–02015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
20.5–0
21.7–0
22.9–0
23.14 January 2014Estádio do Marítimo, Funchal, Portugal Portugal2–12–1Friendly
24.16 January 2014Estádio Municipal de Machico, Machico, Portugal Portugal1–02–1
25.12 February 2014HaMoshava Stadium, Petah Tikva, Israel Israel5–05–02015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
26.12 March 2014GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus Netherlands1–11–42014 Cyprus Women's Cup
27.19 June 2014Inđija Stadium, Inđija, Serbia Serbia5–07–02015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
28.20 August 2014WakeMed Soccer Park, Cary, United States United States1–21–4Friendly
29.17 September 2014Victor Tedesco Stadium, Ħamrun, Malta Malta1–05–02015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
30.4–0
31.5–0
32.27 May 2015Esp Stadium, Baden, Switzerland Germany1–01–3Friendly
33.16 June 2015Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Canada Cameroon1–01–22015 FIFA Women's World Cup
34.22 September 2015Tissot Arena, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland Denmark1–04–1Friendly
35.4–1
36.24 October 2015Stadio Dino Manuzzi, Cesena, Italy Italy3–03–0UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying
37.27 October 2015Tissot Arena, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland Georgia2–04–0
38.27 November 2015Mourneview Park, Lurgan, Northern Ireland Northern Ireland6–18–1
39.1 December 2015Stade de la Maladière, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Czech Republic4–05–1
40.4 June 2016Stadion Střelnice, Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic Czech Republic3–05–0
41.4–0
42.15 September 2016Tengiz Burjanadze Stadium, Gori, Georgia Georgia1–03–0
43.6 March 2017Ammochostos Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus Italy5–06–02017 Cyprus Women's Cup
44.6–0
45.26 July 2017Rat Verlegh Stadion, Breda, Netherlands France1–11–1UEFA Women's Euro 2017
46.15 September 2017Elbasan Arena, Elbasan, Albania Albania3–04–12019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
47.2 March 2018GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus Finland3–04–02018 Cyprus Women's Cup
48.12 June 2018FC Minsk Stadium, Minsk, Belarus Belarus1–05–02019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
49.27 February 2019Estádio Algarve, Algarve, Portugal Sweden1–11–42019 Algarve Cup
50.4 March 2019VRS António Sports Complex, Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal Portugal1–13–1
51.3 September 2019LIPO Park Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland Lithuania4–04–0UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
52.4 October 2019Savivaldybė Stadium, Šiauliai, Lithuania Lithuania1–03–0
53.8 October 2019Stockhorn Arena, Thun, Switzerland Croatia1–02–0
54.12 November 2019LIPO Park Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland Romania3–06–0
55.10 March 2020Estadio Municipal de Marbella, Marbella, Spain Austria1–02–1Friendly
56.2–1
57.27 October 2020Football Centre FRF, Mogoșoaia, Romania Romania2–02–0UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
58.9 April 2021Letní stadion, Chomutov, Czech Republic Czech Republic1–11–1UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying play-offs
59.21 September 2021Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău, Moldova Moldova1–06–02023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
60.22 October 2021Letzigrund, Zürich, Switzerland Romania1–02–0
61.2–0
62.26 October 2021 Croatia1–05–0
63.26 November 2021Stadio Renzo Barbera, Palermo, Italy Italy2–02–1
64.30 November 2021LFF Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania Lithuania4–07–0
65.6 September 2022Stade de la Tuilière, Lausanne, Switzerland Moldova10–015–0
66.13–0
67.30 June 2023Tissot Arena, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland Zambia1–03–3Friendly

Honours
FC Rot-Schwarz Thun
FFC Frankfurt
FC Barcelona

Individual

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