Amel Majri (born 25 January 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger and left-back for Division 1 Féminine club Lyon and the France national team.[3][4] With Lyon, she has won thirteen league titles and eight UEFA Women's Champions League titles.
 Majri with Lyon in 2019 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Amel Majri[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 25 January 1993 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Monastir, Tunisia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Winger, left-back | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Lyon | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2010 | Lyon B | 21 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010– | Lyon | 183 | (56) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Tunisia U20 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | France U23 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014– | France | 74 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 April 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 28 February 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
Born in Tunisia, Majri moved to France at a young age. She played for the Tunisia U20s and France U23s before making her senior France debut in 2014.
Early life
editMajri was born in Monastir, Tunisia and moved to France at the age of 1 alongside her twin sister, Rachida, and her mother, Hafsia. They settled in Vénissieux in the residential area of Minguettes, located in the suburbs of Lyon. She returns to Tunisia every summer.[5]
She began playing football in Tunisia at the age of 4 with her uncle. She perfected her technique using tennis balls and spent her summers on the beaches of Tunisia playing beach football. In France, she played five-a-side pick up games with boys in her neighbourhood until the age of 12, and at school. Upon seeing her play in the schoolyard, her primary school teacher insisted that she join a club, something Majri was initially against. Eventually, she joined l'AS Minguettes where she was the only girl on her team. Two years later, she was recruited by Lyon aged 14.[6]
Personal life
editMajri is a Muslim. She got married in 2012.[7]
Majri gave birth to a daughter, Maryam, in July 2022. Majri returned to playing football in December 2022 after five months away and became the first woman French international to report for duty with a young child.[8] She brought her daughter to training at Clairefontaine before the 2023 World Cup.[9]
Career statistics
editClub
edit- As of 31 August 2023
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Lyon[10] | 2010–11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 5 | 1 | |
| 2011–12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | |
| 2012–13 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 3 | |
| 2013–14 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | |
| 2014–15 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 11 | |
| 2015–16 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 29 | 8 | |
| 2016–17 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 28 | 7 | |
| 2017–18 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 32 | 9 | |
| 2018–19 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 31 | 15 | |
| 2019–20 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 25 | 7 | |
| 2020–21 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 24 | 10 | |
| 2021–22 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | |
| 2022–23 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 2 | |
| Career total | 165 | 52 | 38 | 12 | 60 | 19 | 259 | 77 | |
International
edit- As of match played 28 February 2024[11]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 2014 | 5 | 1 |
| 2015 | 9 | 1 | |
| 2016 | 13 | 2 | |
| 2017 | 7 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 8 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 13 | 4 | |
| 2020 | 6 | 1 | |
| 2021 | 5 | 2 | |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 7 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 74 | 11 | |
- Scores and results list France's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Majri goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 May 2014 | Stade Léo Lagrange, Besançon, France |  Hungary | 4–0 | 4–0 | 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
| 2 | 27 October 2015 | Arena Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine |  Ukraine | 3–0 | 3–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying |
| 3 | 11 April 2016 | Stade Nungesser, Valenciennes, France | Ukraine | 4–0 | 4–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying |
| 4 | 3 August 2016 | Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, Brazil |  Colombia | 4–0 | 4–0 | 2016 Summer Olympics |
| 5 | 4 October 2019 | Stade des Costières, Nîmes, France |  Iceland | 4–0 | 4–0 | Friendly |
| 6 | 9 November 2019 | Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France |  Serbia | 1–0 | 6–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying |
| 7 | 2–0 | |||||
| 8 | 5–0 | |||||
| 9 | 18 November 2020 | City Stadium, Subotica, Serbia | Serbia | 2–0 | 2–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying |
| 10 | 17 September 2021 | Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras, Greece |  Greece | 1–0 | 10–0 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
| 11 | 21 September 2021 | Fazanerija City Stadium, Murska Sobota, Slovenia |  Slovenia | 3–2 | 3–2 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
Honours
editLyon
- Division 1 Féminine: 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24[12]
- Coupe de France Féminine: 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2022–23[13]
- Trophée des Championnes: 2019,[14] 2023[15]
- UEFA Women's Champions League: 2010–11, 2011–12, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22
France
Individual
References
edit- ^ "FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019 List of Players" (PDF). fifa.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
- ^ 2015 World Cup
- ^ Profile in Lyon's web
- ^ Profile Archived 22 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine in UEFA's website
- ^ "Amel Majri : "ado, je savais que je devais en faire deux fois plus que les mecs"" (in French). Paris Match. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ "Mondial féminin : Tunisie, Minguettes et jumelles...Aux origines d'Amel Majri" (in French). Le Parisien. 26 June 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ "Amel Majri : "ado, je savais que je devais en faire deux fois plus que les mecs"" (in French). Paris Match. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ "Majri talks motherhood, Renard and World Cup hopes". FIFA+. 22 July 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ Jucobin, Raphaël (4 April 2023). "FRANCE LEFT-BACK AMEL MAJRI BRINGS HER BABY DAUGHTER TO NATIONAL TEAM SET-UP". Get French Football News. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ "La Carriere de Amel Majri". StatsFootoFeminin. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ "Equipe de France A - Amel Majri" (in French). statsfootofeminin.fr. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "LYON GARDE SA COURONNE" (in French). 17 May 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ "ET DE 10 POUR LYON" (in French). 13 May 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ "ET À LA FIN, C'EST LYON QUI GAGNE". 21 September 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ "Trophée des Championnes 2023 - Finale - Lyon (D1)-PSG (D1) 2-0". Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ "Spain 2-0 France: World champions win Women's Nations League final". 28 February 2024. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ "Trophées UNFP : Amel Majri élue meilleure joueuse" (in French). 8 May 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- ^ "MAJRI SIGNE SON RETOUR". 14 April 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
External links
edit- Amel Majri – UEFA competition record (archive)
- Amel Majri at the French Football Federation (in French)
- Amel Majri at the French Football Federation (archived 2020-10-01) (in French)
- Amel Majri at Olympedia
- Amel Majri at Olympics.com
- Amel Majri at Équipe de France (in French)
- Amel Majri at Équipe de France Olympique (archived) (in French)
