Guro Reiten

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Guro Reiten
Reiten with Chelsea in 2019
Personal information
Date of birth (1994-07-26) 26 July 1994 (age 29)
Place of birth Sunndalsøra, Norway[1]
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
Chelsea
Number 11
Youth career
Sunndal
Kattem
Trondheims-Ørn
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010 Sunndal 1 (0)
2011–2012 Kattem 35 (11)
2013–2016 Trondheims-Ørn 82 (25)
2017–2019 LSK Kvinner 53 (51)
2019– Chelsea 87 (25)
International career
2008–2009 Norway U15 7 (1)
2009–2010 Norway U16 17 (5)
2010–2011 Norway U17 8 (2)
2011–2013 Norway U19 26 (10)
2012 Norway U20 8 (1)
2013–2016 Norway U23 14 (2)
2014– Norway 88 (19)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 March 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 27 February 2024

Guro Reiten (born 26 July 1994) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a winger for English Women's Super League club Chelsea and the Norway national team. Before joining Chelsea in 2019, she played in Norway for Sunndal, Kattem, Trondheims-Ørn, and LSK Kvinner.

She made her debut for Norway in 2014 and appeared with the team at the UEFA European Championship 2017, 2019 FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship 2022, and 2023 FIFA World Cup.

Club career

Sunndal

Born in Sunndalsøra, Møre og Romsdal, Reiten grew up in the village of Nordmøre and began her senior career with her local side Sunndal, then in the second division of the Norwegian football.[2][3][4][5]

Kattem

At age 16, Reiten joined Toppserien side Kattem in 2011.[6] During her year-and-a-half spell with Kattem, she made 35 league appearances and scored 11 goals in her second season, becoming the club's 2012 top scorer.[7][4][5]

Trondheims-Ørn

After Kattem pulled out of the Toppserien, Reiten joined Trondheims-Ørn in 2013. During her four seasons with Trondheims, she made 82 league appearances and scored 25 goals. With Trondheims-Ørn, she has also reached the final of the 2014 Norwegian Cup.[4][5][8]

LSK Kvinner

Reiten then transferred to Toppserien side LSK Kvinner for the 2017 season.[9] With the club, she won the league title in 2017 and was the Toppserien's regular season top scorer with 18 goals.[10] Reiten repeated both feats in 2018, this time with 21 goals,[11] as well as winning the 2018 Norwegian Cup, scoring a brace in the final against IL Sandviken.[12] In addition, she won the 2018 Toppserien Player of the Year and Goal of the Year awards.[2][13] Her performances in 2018 saw her shortlisted for the Norway's Footballer of the Year award.[14] At the time of her departure from LSK Kvinner, Reiten was the Toppserien's leading scorer in the 2019 season.[4][5][15]

Chelsea

On 31 May 2019, Reiten signed with the Women's Super League (WSL) side Chelsea.[16] It was reported that the transfer fee was around £12,000.[17] In her first season with Chelsea, Reiten made 23 appearances and scored 7 goals across all competitions.[18] She featured less frequently for Chelsea in the 2020–21 season, mostly coming off the bench, scoring one goal in nineteen league appearances.[4] In the same season, she scored in the 2021 FA Women's League Cup final against Bristol City as Chelsea retained the trophy.[18] Reiten's third season at Chelsea saw her play more often as a left wing-back.[18] In this campaign, Reiten scored eleven goals and earned a place in the PFA WSL Team of the Year.[19]

In 2022–23, Reiten won her fourth consecutive WSL title with Chelsea and made 39 appearances in all competitions, the most of any player in the squad.[20] She scored 13 goals across the season, including the winning goal in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Lyon, and also scored Chelsea's only goal in the 2–1 aggregate semi-final defeat against Barcelona.[21][22] At the start of the 2023–24 season in October, Reiten scored a 96th-minute equaliser against Manchester City in a 1–1 draw.[23] In the same month, she suffered an ankle ligament injury and was sidelined until December.[24] During this period, she extended her contract with Chelsea until 2026[20] and was nominated for the 2023 Ballon d'Or Féminin.[25]

International career

Youth career

Reiten has represented Norway at all youth international levels from under-15 to under-23.[26] As a 13-year-old, she was already selected for the under-15 national team to play a match in Kristiansund.[27] In April 2010, Reiten represented the under-17 team at the 2010 UEFA Under-17 Championship in Switzerland, where Norway were eliminated in the second qualifying round, finishing second in their group behind Germany.[28]

She made her under-19 debut on 30 May 2011 in the opening game of the 2011 UEFA Under-19 Championship against Germany, which her team lost 3–1.[26] Reiten made four appearances at the tournament and scored one goal,[4] against Spain in the group stage.[4] Norway eventually reached the final where they lost 8–1 to Germany and finished the tournament as silver medalists.[29] The semi-final finish qualified Norway for the 2012 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Japan, where the team was once again defeated by Germany, this time in the quarter-finals, with Reiten appearing in three of Norway's four games at the tournament, including a 4–1 group stage victory over Argentina where she played full 90 minutes.[4][26]

After a successful qualifying campaign for the 2013 UEFA Under-19 Championship, in which Reiten scored three goals in six matches and was the team's joint top scorer,[4][30] she led Norway at the main tournament in Wales as team captain.[31] The team failed to qualify for the knockout stages after finishing third in Group B, behind Germany and Finland, with three points from three matches, winning the only game of the tournament against Sweden 5–0.[32] Reiten played in all three matches.[4]

Between 2013 and 2016, Reiten made 14 appearances for the under-23 team, but did not feature in any UEFA or FIFA tournaments.[26]

Senior career

On 14 January 2014, Reiten made her senior team debut in a friendly tournament in La Manga against Spain, coming on as a 63rd-minute substitute for Elise Thorsnes in an eventual 2–1 victory.[33][34] Three days later, she was included in the starting lineup for the first time, in a 1–1 draw with England, where she played the full 90 minutes.[35] On 13 February, Reiten played her first competitive match against Greece in a 2015 World Cup qualifiers, where she again played the full 90 minutes,[36] before representing Norway at the 2014 Algarve Cup a month later.[37]

After two appearances in the last two World Cup qualifying matches in September 2014, through which Norway qualified for the 2015 World Cup,[38][39] Reiten had to wait more than two years for her next appearance, and in the meantime she played for the under-23 national team.[26] She returned to the Norwegian squad in March 2017 for the 2017 Algarve Cup and made three appearances at the tournament.[26][40] Reiten also managed to score her first senior goal in the process, against tournament hosts Portugal, scoring her team's second goal in a 2–0 win only three minutes after being substituted in.[41]

Reiten represented Norway at UEFA Euro 2017,[42][43] where she came on as a substitute in the opening game against the Netherlands.[44] She also played in the last group match against Denmark,[45] however, she was unable to prevent her team from being eliminated without a single point or goal for the first time in a major tournament.[46] After an unsuccessful European Championship campaign, Norway played qualifiers for the 2019 World Cup. Reiten played in all eight matches and scored four goals, including a brace against Northern Ireland in the opening game,[47] as Norway qualified for the World Cup finals with a first-place finish and seven wins from eight games.[48]

Reiten had her first tournament success in 2019 by winning the Algarve Cup.[49][50] On 2 May, she was included in the squad for the 2019 World Cup, her first World Cup.[51][52] At the World Cup, she played in all five of Norway's matches.[53] In the opening game against Nigeria, she scored the first goal of the tournament for Norway[54] and was named the best player on the pitch for her goal and assist.[55][56] A 3–0 defeat to England in the quarter-finals saw her and her team eliminated, also missing out on the 2020 Summer Olympics.[57]

In the Euro 2022 qualifiers, Reiten featured in all six of Norway's matches and scored four goals, including the 1–0 winner against Wales.[58][59] In the 2023 World Cup qualifiers that followed, she also played in all ten games and netted two goals.[60]

In June 2022, Reiten was called-up to the Norwegian national team for the 2022 European Championship finals.[61] She appeared in three group matches, starting with a 4–1 win against Euro newcomers Northern Ireland, in which she scored Norway's last goal in a 4–1 win.[62][63] They then suffered the heaviest defeat in their international history against England, 8–0.[64] Third in their group, they failed to qualify for the knockout stage at the second consecutive European Championship after losing 1–0 to Austria in the last game.[65]

On 19 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player Norwegian squad for the 2023 World Cup.[66] She appeared in all four of Norway's matches at the final tournament, scoring two goals.[67]

Personal life

Following the 2022 Oslo shooting, Reiten publicly came out as a lesbian in an interview with the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang.[68]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 27 March 2024
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season Division League National cup[a] League cup[b] Continental[c] Other Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Kattem 2011 Toppserien 13 0 0 0 13 0
2012 22 11 1 1 1[d] 0 24 12
Total 35 11 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 37 12
Trondheims-Ørn 2013 Toppserien 21 6 2 0 23 6
2014 20 7 4 1 24 8
2015 20 3 4 0 24 3
2016 21 9 4 0 25 9
Total 82 25 14 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 96 26
LSK Kvinner 2017 Toppserien 22 18 3 1 25 19
2018 21 21 5 6 4 0 30 27
2019 10 12 1 2 6 1 17 15
Total 53 51 9 9 0 0 10 1 0 0 72 61
Chelsea 2019–20 WSL 15 5 3 1 6 1 24 7
2020–21 19 1 3 1 5 4 8 0 1[e] 0 36 6
2021–22 21 7 3 3 3 0 6 1 33 11
2022–23 21 9 5 1 3 1 10 2 39 13
2023–24 11 3 2 0 1 0 6 2 20 5
Total 87 25 16 6 18 6 30 5 1 0 152 42
Career total 257 112 40 17 18 6 40 6 2 0 357 141
  1. ^ Includes Norwegian Women's Cup, Women's FA Cup
  2. ^ Includes FA Women's League Cup
  3. ^ Includes UEFA Women's Champions League
  4. ^ Appearance(s) in Toppserien relegation play-offs
  5. ^ Appearance(s) in Women's FA Community Shield

International

As of match played 27 February 2024[26]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Norway 2014 9 0
2017 11 4
2018 11 1
2019 16 4
2020 5 1
2021 8 4
2022 15 3
2023 11 2
2024 2 0
Total 88 19
Scores and results list Norway's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Reiten goal.
List of international goals scored by Guro Reiten
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 8 March 2017 Bela Vista Municipal Stadium, Parchal, Portugal  Portugal 2–0 2–0 2017 Algarve Cup
2 15 September 2017 Nye Fredrikstad Stadion, Fredrikstad, Norway  Northern Ireland 1–0 4–1 2019 World Cup qualification
3 4–1
4 19 September 2017 Sarpsborg Stadion, Sarpsborg, Norway  Slovakia 3–0 6–1 2019 World Cup qualification
5 31 August 2018 NTC Senec, Senec, Slovakia 2–0 4–0 2019 World Cup qualification
6 8 June 2019 Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims, France  Nigeria 1–0 3–0 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
7 30 August 2019 Seaview, Belfast, Northern Ireland  Northern Ireland 1–0 6–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
8 4 October 2019 Borisov Arena, Barysaw, Belarus  Belarus 4–1 7–1 UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
9 8 November 2019 Viking Stadion, Stavanger, Norway  Northern Ireland 3–0 6–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
10 22 September 2020 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway  Wales 1–0 1–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
11 8 April 2021 King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium  Belgium 1–0 2–0 Friendly
12 13 April 2021 BRITA-Arena, Wiesbaden, Germany  Germany 1–0 1–3 Friendly
13 25 November 2021 Arena Kombëtare, Tirana, Albania  Albania 2–0 7–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
14 30 November 2021 Yerevan Football Academy Stadium, Yerevan, Armenia  Armenia 5–0 10–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
15 29 June 2022 Viborg Stadium, Viborg, Denmark  Denmark 1–1 2–1 Friendly
16 2–1
17 7 July 2022 St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England  Northern Ireland 4–1 4–1 UEFA Women's Euro 2022
18 30 July 2023 Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand  Philippines 5–0 6–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
19 5 August 2023 Wellington Regional Stadium, Wellington, New Zealand  Japan 1–1 1–3 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup

Honours

LSK Kvinner

Chelsea

Norway

Individual

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