Kheira Hamraoui

Kheira Hamraoui (born 13 January 1990) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish club FC Barcelona.

Kheira Hamraoui
Hamraoui in 2014
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-01-13) 13 January 1990
Place of birth Croix, France
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Barcelona
Number 10
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2007 CNFE Clairefontaine 11 (1)
2007–2008 Hénin-Beaumont 15 (5)
2008–2012 St.-Étienne 74 (30)
2012–2016 Paris St-Germain 55 (9)
2016–2018 Lyon 28 (7)
2018– Barcelona 21 (1)
National team‡
2012– France 35 (3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 08:05, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 4 April 2019 (UTC)
Hamraoui in 2017 on the field

Club career

Hamraoui began her football career with CNFE Clairefontaine, a renowned football academy for female French youth players.[2]

She's played the majority of her career in the Division 1 Féminine, for clubs including Hénin-Beaumont, AS Saint-Étienne, and PSG.[3][4] At St. Étienne, she was a crucial part of the club's first and only major title win, the 2011 Challenge de France.[5]

Hamraoui signed for Lyon from PSG in 2016 after spending 4 years with the club.[6] It was here that she won two continental trebles by winning the Champions League twice, winning the Coupe de France Féminine twice, and finishing first in the Division 1 Féminine for two consecutive seasons. In June 2018, she announced her departure from the French league and that she was looking for a new opportunity abroad.[7]

She left Lyon in 2018 to sign a two-year contract with FC Barcelona, her first club venture outside of France.[2]

In her first season with the club, she helped them progress to the semifinals of the UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time. They played Bayern, and Hamraoui bagged an important away goal in the first leg with a low shot to the bottom left corner. In the return leg at the Mini Estadi, Barcelona increased their aggregate score after a goal scored from a penalty, but Hamraoui found herself getting sent off after receiving a second yellow card. Barcelona won 2–0 on aggregate to advance to their first ever UWCL final, but Hamraoui was suspended and was not able to play against her former club.[8] Lyon won the match 4–1.

International career

In October 2012 she made her debut for the French national team in a friendly game against England.[9]

She was part of the French squad at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.

Hamraoui has not received a national team call-up since April 2019 and was not selected to the France squad at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.

International goals
Kheira Hamraoui – goals for  France
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.11 April 2016Stade Nungesser, Valenciennes, France Ukraine1–04–0UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying
2.30 September 2016Stade Sébastien Charléty, Paris, France Albania2–06–0
3.4–0
Correct as of 4 April 2019[10]

Honors

Club
AS St. Etienne
Paris Saint-Germain
Olympique Lyonnais
FC Barcelona

International

References
  1. 2015 World Cup
  2. "Hamraoui". fcbarcelona.com. FC Barcelona. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  3. PSG women's summer refit. UEFA, 16 August 2012
  4. Profile in footofeminin.fr
  5. "L'AS Saint-Etienne écrit une belle page de sa jeune histoire". footofeminin.fr. footofeminin.fr. 21 May 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  6. "Lyon sign Kenza Dali, Kheira Hamraoui, Jessica Houara and Caroline Seger from PSG". womenssoccerunited.com. womenssoccerunited.com. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  7. "Kheira Hamraoui quitte l'OL". lequipe.fr. L'Équipe. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  8. Jiménez, Mayca (13 May 2019). "Kheira Hamraoui se queda sin reencuentro ante el Lyon". as.com. Diario AS. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  9. Hamraoui: "I don't want to make just one appearance". French Football Federation, 17 October 2012
  10. "Equipe de France A - Kheira Hamraoui". footofeminin.fr. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
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