Stephanie Al-Naber

Stephanie Mazen Yousef Al-Naber (Arabic: ستيفاني مازن يوسف النبر; born 27 October 1988) is a Jordanian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Jordan Women's Football League club Shabab Al-Ordon and captains the Jordan national team.

Stephanie Al-Naber
Personal information
Full name Stephanie Mazen Yousef Al-Naber
Date of birth (1988-10-27) 27 October 1988
Place of birth Amman, Jordan
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Shabab Al-Ordon
Number 8
Youth career
Shabab Al-Ordon
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004– Shabab Al-Ordon
2009–2010 → Fortuna Hjørring (loan)
2014 → Sadaka (loan)
International career‡
2005–2019 Jordan 128 (79)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20 April 2021

Club career

Al-Naber learned to play football in the street with her family.[1] She later played on her school's team and began her career with Shabab Al-Ordon, one of the first Jordanian clubs in the country to start a women's team.[1]

Al-Naber later became the first Jordanian woman to play football in leagues abroad. She played for clubs in Denmark, the United Arab Emirates, and Lebanon.[2]

International career

Al-Naber has been a main-stay of the Jordan women's national team since its inception in 2005.[2]

She helped the national team win the West Asian Football Federation Women's Championship in 2005, 2007, and 2014 as well as the 2010 Arabia Women's Cup. Al-Naber was part of the Jordan national squads that played in the 2006, 2010, and 2014 Asian Games.

She was also part of the squad that participated in the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualifiers helping Jordan qualify for the continental tournament for the first time.[3]

Personal life

As of January 2017, Al-Naber's father is a director at Shabab Al-Ordon. Both her siblings, Yousef and Natasha, are footballers.[2][3]

International goals
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.25 April 2009KLFA Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Kyrgyzstan2–07–12010 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification
2.6–0
3.29 April 2009 Maldives5–09–0
4.6–0
5.8–0
6.9–0
7.1 May 2009 Palestine1–05–0
8.5–0
9.3 May 2009 Uzbekistan1–12–2
10.12 March 2011Prince Mohammed Stadium, Zarqa, Jordan Palestine2–06–02012 Summer Olympics qualification
11.3 October 2011Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE Palestine1–18–12011 WAFF Women's Championship
12.7 October 2011 Iraq1–04–0
13.9 September 2013Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon, Myanmar Malaysia1–01–02013 AFF Women's Championship
14.15 April 2014Petra Stadium, Amman, Jordan Bahrain2–03–02014 WAFF Women's Championship
15.3–0
16.19 April 2014 Palestine9–010–0
17.16 May 2014Thống Nhất Stadium, Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam Australia1–31–32014 AFC Women's Asian Cup
18.13 March 2015Petra Stadium, Amman, Jordan Palestine3–06–02016 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
19.5–0
20.15 March 2015 Uzbekistan1–02–0
21.15 January 2019Al-Muharraq Stadium, Muharraq, Bahrain Bahrain1–01–02019 WAFF Women's Championship

References
  1. "Football : en Jordanie, la pelouse se féminise" (in French).
  2. "Realising a Dream:Stephanie Al-Naber". The AFC. 9 April 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  3. "Al Naber: Jordan are aiming higher and higher". FIFA. 27 January 2017. Archived from the original on April 9, 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2018.


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