Amel Majri
![]() Majri with Lyon in 2019 | |||
Personal information | |||
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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 | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Lyon | ||
Number | 7 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010– | Lyon | 151 | (47) |
National team‡ | |||
2012 | Tunisia U20 | ||
2014– | France | 55 | (8) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 April 2019 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 9 November 2019 |
Amel Majri (born 25 January 1993) is a French-Tunisian professional footballer, who currently plays in the French First Division for Olympique Lyon,[3] with whom she has also played the Champions League with, and won.[4] She is naturally a midfielder, but has been playing as a left-back for Lyon in recent seasons. She also plays for the France national team.
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 Olympique Lyonnais aged 14.[6]
Personal life[]
Majri is a Muslim. She became married in 2012.[7]
Club statistics[]
As of 6 August 2018
Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Total | ||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Lyon[8] | 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 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 14 | |
Career total | 116 | 32 | 32 | 13 | 41 | 11 | 189 | 56 |
International goals[]
# | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | |||||
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1 | 7 May 2014 | Stade Léo Lagrange, Besançon, France | ![]() |
4–0 | 4–0 | 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification | |||||
2 | 27 October 2015 | Arena Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine | ![]() |
UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying | |||||||
3 | 11 April 2016 | Stade Nungesser, Valenciennes, France | ![]() |
4–0 | 4–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying | |||||
4 | 3 August 2016 | Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, Brazil | ![]() |
4–0 | 4–0 | 2016 Summer Olympics | |||||
5 | 4 October 2019 | Stade des Costières, Nîmes, France | ![]() |
4–0 | 4–0 | Friendly | |||||
6 | 9 November 2019 | Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France | ![]() |
1–0 | 6–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying | |||||
7 | 2–0 | ||||||||||
8 | 5–0 | ||||||||||
Correct as of 9 November 2019[9] |
Honours[]
Club[]
- Lyon
- Division 1 Féminine: Winner 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20
- Coupe de France Féminine: Winner 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20
- UEFA Women's Champions League: Winner 2010–11, 2011–12, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20
National Team[]
- SheBelieves Cup: Winner 2017
- Tournoi de France: Winner 2020
Individual[]
References[]
- ^ "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 in UEFA's website
- ^ "Amel Majri : "ado, je savais que je devais en faire deux fois plus que les mecs"" (in French). Paris Match. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ "Mondial féminin : Tunisie, Minguettes et jumelles...Aux origines d'Amel Majri" (in French). Le Parisien. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ "Amel Majri : "ado, je savais que je devais en faire deux fois plus que les mecs"" (in French). Paris Match. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ "La Carriere de Amel Majri". StatsFootoFeminin. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
- ^ "Equipe de France A – Amel Majri". footofeminin.fr. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
- ^ "Trophées UNFP : Amel Majri élue meilleure joueuse" (in French). Retrieved 19 May 2016.
External links[]
- 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 the Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français (in French)
- Amel Majri at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1993 births
- Living people
- Tunisian women's footballers
- Expatriate women's footballers in France
- People from Monastir Governorate
- Naturalized citizens of France
- Tunisian emigrants to France
- France women's international footballers
- Olympique Lyonnais Féminin players
- Women's association football midfielders
- Women's association football fullbacks
- 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers of France
- French women's footballers
- Division 1 Féminine players
- Women's Olympic footballers of France
- 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- French women's football biography stubs
- Tunisian football biography stubs
- African women's football biography stubs