Amel Majri

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 twelve 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
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)
2010– Lyon 165 (52)
International career‡
2012 Tunisia U20
2014 France U23 2 (0)
2014– France 70 (11)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 May 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2 August 2023

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

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

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

Club
As of 31 August 2023
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Continental Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Lyon[10] 2010–11 4110–51
2011–12 31102162
2012–13 904142173
2013–14 1103020160
2014–15 20853302811
2015–16 1745371298
2016–17 1862180287
2017–18 1934393329
2018–19 181041943115
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 165523812601925977

International
As of 31 August 2023[11]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
France 201451
201591
2016132
201770
201880
2019134
202061
202152
202200
202340
Total7011
As of 31 August 2023[12]
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
17 May 2014Stade Léo Lagrange, Besançon, France Hungary4–04–02015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
227 October 2015Arena Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine Ukraine
3–0
3–0
UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying
311 April 2016Stade Nungesser, Valenciennes, France Ukraine4–04–0UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying
43 August 2016Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Colombia4–04–02016 Summer Olympics
54 October 2019Stade des Costières, Nîmes, France Iceland4–04–0Friendly
69 November 2019Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France Serbia1–06–0UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
72–0
85–0
918 November 2020City Stadium, Subotica, Serbia Serbia2–02–0UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
1017 September 2021Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras, Greece Greece1–010–02023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
1121 September 2021Fazanerija City Stadium, Murska Sobota, Slovenia Slovenia3–23–22023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification

Honours

Lyon

France

Individual

References
  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. "Equipe de France A – Amel Majri". footofeminin.fr. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  13. "Trophées UNFP : Amel Majri élue meilleure joueuse" (in French). 8 May 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2016.


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