Magdalena Eriksson

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Magdalena Eriksson
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Eriksson after a match with Chelsea in November 2019
Personal information
Full name Magdalena Lilly Eriksson[1]
Date of birth (1993-09-08) 8 September 1993 (age 28)
Place of birth Stockholm, Sweden
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Position(s) Centre-back / Full-back
Club information
Current team
 Chelsea
Number 16
Youth career
Enskede IK
2009–2010 Hammarby IF
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011 Hammarby IF 19 (0)
2012 Djurgårdens IF 19 (1)
2013–2017 Linköping 77 (5)
2017– Chelsea 118 (11)
National team‡
2008 Sweden U15 2 (0)
2009 Sweden U16 8 (1)
2009–2010 Sweden U17 18 (3)
2011–2012 Sweden U19 24 (0)
2013 Sweden U23 4 (0)
2014– Sweden 81[3] (10)
Honours
Women's soccer
Representing  Sweden
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team
FIFA Women's World Cup
Bronze medal – third place 2019 France Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23:16, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17:27, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Magdalena "Magda" Lilly Eriksson (also Ericsson, born 8 September 1993)[4] is a Swedish footballer who plays as a defender for Chelsea Women in the English Women's Super League as well as for the Swedish national team.[5] A left and centre-back, she used to play for Hammarby IF, Djurgårdens IF and Linköpings FC in the Swedish Damallsvenskan. In November 2020, she was awarded the Diamantbollen award.[6]

Eriksson is, like her girlfriend Pernille Harder, also known for her LGBTQ+ advocacy.[7]

Club career[]

Eriksson began her football career with local team Enskede IK, but was encouraged by her father to join Hammarby IF in order to improve her game. Aged 17, she broke into Hammarby's first team in the 2011 Damallsvenskan season and made her debut against Umeå IK.[8]

In November 2011, Eriksson left relegated Hammarby for their Stockholm rivals Djurgården.[9] After scoring one goal in 19 appearances in the 2012 Damallsvenskan, she left Djurgårdens, who were facing relegation, for Linköpings FC.[10]

In July 2017, after almost 5 years with Linköpings FC, she signed a two-year contract with Women's Super League team Chelsea FC Women.[11][12] On 20 August 2018, she extended her contract until 2021.[13] On 6 September 2019, Chelsea announced that Eriksson would be the new captain.[14] On 12 November 2020, she extended her contract until 2023.[15] On 9 December 2020, Eriksson made her 100th appearance for Chelsea in a Champions League win over Benfica.[16]

Eriksson (16) playing against Everton women, September 2021

For her performance over the years, and especially after Chelsea's WSL title winning 2020–21 season, Eriksson was hailed as one of the best defenders in Europe.[17]

International career[]

As a Swedish under-19 international, Eriksson was part of the victorious squad at the 2012 U-19 European Championship.[18] In November 2013, national team coach Pia Sundhage called up Eriksson to a senior squad training camp at Bosön.[19] Eriksson made her debut for the senior Sweden team in a 3–0 friendly defeat by France in Amiens on 8 February 2014. In early 2014, she had a knee injury after colliding with her own goalkeeper, which left her injured for three months.[5] She was part of the Swedish squad that won silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[20] In July 2017, Pia Sundhage named Eriksson to Sweden's UEFA Women's Euro 2017 squad.

International goals[]


Goal 		Date Location Opponent Score Result Competition
1 2016-01-26 Gothenburg, Sweden  Scotland

2–0

6–0

Friendly
2 2016-10-21  Iran

7–0

3

4–0

4

7–0

5 2018-08-30  Ukraine

2–0

3–0

2019 World Cup qualification
6 2019-10-04 Miskolc, Hungary  Hungary

0–1

0–5

Euro 2022 qualifying
7 2020-09-17 Gothenburg, Sweden

4–0

8–0

8 2020-10-22  Latvia

7–0

9 2021-07-30 Saitama, Japan  Japan

1–0

3–1

2020 Olympic quarterfinal
10 2021-09-21 Gothenburg, Sweden  Georgia

2–0

4–0

2023 World Cup qualification

Honours[]

Club[]

Linköpings FC

Chelsea

International[]

Sweden U19

Sweden

Individual[]

Personal life[]

As a young player at Hammarby, Eriksson's pre-match ritual included listening to "Heroes" (David Bowie song).[8] She is openly lesbian and since May 2014, in a relationship with current Chelsea teammate and Danish international, Pernille Harder.[21][22][23]

During her upbringing, she assumed her last name was spelled with a C because that was how her father spelled it. It wasn't until she was 17 and looked in her passport that she realised it was actually spelled with a K. As such, her last name is often misspelled as "Ericsson" rather than the correct "Eriksson".[24]

Eriksson has a Bachelor's degree in Political science and is currently taking a course in Feminist Theory and Intersectional Power Analysis.[25]

References[]

  1. ^ "FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019™ List of Players – Sweden" (PDF). FIFA. 27 May 2019. p. 22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  2. ^ [1]. chelseafc.com
  3. ^ "Magdalena Eriksson – Spelarstatistik Svensk Fotboll". Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Magdalena Eriksson – Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté". sok.se.
  5. ^ a b Magdalena Eriksson Archived 2016-09-20 at the Wayback Machine. nbcolympics.com
  6. ^ Louise Andersson (24 November 2020). "Magdalena Eriksson vinner Diamantbollen 2020" (in Swedish). SVT Sport. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  7. ^ Burhan, Asif. "Chelsea's Pernille Harder And Magda Eriksson Proud To Be LGBTQ+ Ambassadors". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  8. ^ a b Andersdotter, Anna (19 May 2011). "Morsning Magda!". Hammarby IF DFF. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  9. ^ "Hammarby tappar Magdalena Ericsson". Damfotboll.com (in Swedish). 22 November 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  10. ^ "Ännu en vinnare till LFC" (in Swedish). Linköpings FC. 6 December 2012. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  11. ^ "Linköpings FC – Linköpings Fotboll Club". Linköpings Fotboll Club.
  12. ^ "Ladies sign Sweden international". www.chelseafc.com.
  13. ^ "ERIKSSON EXTENDS AND AIMS TO BE EVEN BETTER".
  14. ^ "MAGDALENA ERIKSSON TO CAPTAIN CHELSEA WOMEN".
  15. ^ "CAPTAIN ERIKSSON PENS NEW DEAL".
  16. ^ "WOMEN'S MATCH REPORT: BENFICA 0 CHELSEA 5".
  17. ^ Ruszkai, Ameé (10 May 2021). "Miedema, Kerr and the Women's Super League team of the season". goal.com. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  18. ^ Hammarlund, Pauline (13 July 2012). "Hammarlund's inside track on finalists Sweden". Uefa.com. Antalya: UEFA. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  19. ^ Åhlin, Per. "Ericsson uttagen i landslaget" (in Swedish). Östgöta Correspondenten. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  20. ^ Magdalena Eriksson. rio2016.com
  21. ^ Wrack, Suzanne (13 February 2018). "Pernille Harder: 'I was the only girl in the team but they wanted to play with me'". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  22. ^ Ames, Nick (7 Aug 2019). "Harder and Eriksson: 'After the photo people wrote and said how much we'd helped'". The Guardian. Wolfsburg. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  23. ^ "Pernille Harder & Magdalena Eriksson: Chelsea's football power couple". BBC. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  24. ^ Bråstedt, Mats. ""Det är min pappa som har lurat mig"" (in Swedish). Expressen. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  25. ^ "Eriksson hemma" (in Swedish). Sport Bladet. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.

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