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Amel Majri

Amel Majri (born 25 January 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger and left-back for Première Ligue 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.

Amel Majri
Majri with Lyon in 2019
Personal information
Full name Amel Majri[1]
Date of birth (1993-01-25) 25 January 1993 (age 31)
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
Women's football
Representing  France
UEFA Women's Nations League
Runner-up 2024
*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

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Majri 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

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Majri 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

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Club

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As of 31 August 2023
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
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

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As of match played 28 February 2024[11]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
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.
List of international goals scored by Amel Majri
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

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Lyon

France

Individual

References

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ 2015 World Cup
  3. ^ Profile in Lyon's web
  4. ^ Profile Archived 22 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine in UEFA's website
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "Mondial féminin : Tunisie, Minguettes et jumelles...Aux origines d'Amel Majri" (in French). Le Parisien. 26 June 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "Majri talks motherhood, Renard and World Cup hopes". FIFA+. 22 July 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "La Carriere de Amel Majri". StatsFootoFeminin. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  11. ^ "Equipe de France A - Amel Majri" (in French). statsfootofeminin.fr. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  12. ^ "LYON GARDE SA COURONNE" (in French). 17 May 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  13. ^ "ET DE 10 POUR LYON" (in French). 13 May 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  14. ^ "ET À LA FIN, C'EST LYON QUI GAGNE". 21 September 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  15. ^ "Trophée des Championnes 2023 - Finale - Lyon (D1)-PSG (D1) 2-0". Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  16. ^ UEFA.com. "History: Wolfsburg 1-1 Lyon | UEFA Women's Champions League 2015/16 Final". UEFA.com. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  17. ^ "Women's Champions League final: Lyon 0-0 Paris St-Germain (7-6 pens)". BBC Sport. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  18. ^ UEFA.com. "History: Wolfsburg 1-4 Lyon | UEFA Women's Champions League 2017/18 Final". UEFA.com. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  19. ^ UEFA.com. "History: Lyon 4-1 Barcelona | UEFA Women's Champions League 2018/19 Final". UEFA.com. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  20. ^ UEFA.com. "History: Wolfsburg 1-3 Lyon | UEFA Women's Champions League 2019/20". UEFA.com. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  21. ^ Smyth, Rob; Magee, Will (21 May 2022). "Barcelona 1-3 Lyon: Women's Champions League final 2022 – as it happened". the Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  22. ^ "Spain 2-0 France: World champions win Women's Nations League final". 28 February 2024. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  23. ^ "Trophées UNFP : Amel Majri élue meilleure joueuse" (in French). 8 May 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  24. ^ "MAJRI SIGNE SON RETOUR". 14 April 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
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