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Amel Majri
	Majri with Lyon in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Amel Majri
Date of birth	25 January 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth	Monastir, Tunisia
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s)	Winger, Left-back
Team information
Current team	Lyon
Number	7
Senior career*
Years	Team
2010–	Lyon
International career‡
2012	Tunisia U20
2014	France U23
2014–	France
Medal record
Women's football
Representing France
UEFA Women's Nations League
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 May 2023; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 28 February 2024

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.

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

Club edit

As of 31 August 2023

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League		Cup		Continental		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Lyon^[10]	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	18	10	4	1	9	4	31	15
	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		165	52	38	12	60	19	259	77

International edit

As of 31 August 2023^[11]

Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team	Year	Apps	Goals
France	2014	5	1
	2015	9	1
	2016	13	2
	2017	7	0
	2018	8	0
	2019	13	4
	2020	6	1
	2021	5	2
	2022	0	0
	2023	4	0
Total		70	11

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
1	7 May 2014	Stade Léo Lagrange, Besançon, France	Hungary	4–0	4–0	2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
2	27 October 2015	Arena Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine	Ukraine	3–0	3–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying
3	11 April 2016	Stade Nungesser, Valenciennes, France	Ukraine	4–0	4–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying
4	3 August 2016	Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, Brazil	Colombia	4–0	4–0	2016 Summer Olympics
5	4 October 2019	Stade des Costières, Nîmes, France	Iceland	4–0	4–0	Friendly
6	9 November 2019	Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France	Serbia	1–0	6–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
7				2–0
8				5–0
9	18 November 2020	City Stadium, Subotica, Serbia	Serbia	2–0	2–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
10	17 September 2021	Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras, Greece	Greece	1–0	10–0	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
11	21 September 2021	Fazanerija City Stadium, Murska Sobota, Slovenia	Slovenia	3–2	3–2	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification

Honours edit

Lyon

Division 1 Féminine: 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22
Coupe de France Féminine: 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20
UEFA Women's Champions League: 2010–11, 2011–12, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22

France

Individual

UNFP Female Player of the Year: 2015–16^[13]

References edit

^ "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 Archived 22 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine in UEFA's website
^ "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.
^ "Mondial féminin : Tunisie, Minguettes et jumelles...Aux origines d'Amel Majri" (in French). Le Parisien. 26 June 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
^ "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.
^ "Majri talks motherhood, Renard and World Cup hopes". FIFA+. 22 July 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
^ 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.
^ "La Carriere de Amel Majri". StatsFootoFeminin. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
^ "Equipe de France A - Amel Majri" (in French). statsfootofeminin.fr. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
^ "Equipe de France A – Amel Majri". footofeminin.fr. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
^ "Trophées UNFP : Amel Majri élue meilleure joueuse" (in French). 8 May 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2016.