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| Full name | Eugénie Anne Claudine Le Sommer[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1989-05-18)18 May 1989 (age 36) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Grasse, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Toluca | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 99 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1998 | Trélissac | ||||||||||||||||
| 1998–2004 | AS Guermeur | ||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2007 | Lorient | ||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | CNFE Clairefontaine | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2010 | Stade Briochin | 65 | (33) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2025 | Lyon | 262 | (202) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021 | →OL Reign (loan) | 17 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Toluca | 12 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | France U17 | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | France U19 | 26 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | France U20 | 8 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009– | France | 200 | (94) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 7 May 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 4 April 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
Eugénie Anne Claudine Le Sommer-Dariel[3] (born 18 May 1989) is a French professionalfootballer who plays as aforward forLiga MX Femenil clubToluca and theFrance national team.[4] She primarily plays as a creativeattacking midfielder and left winger, but has also played as asecond striker for her country.
Le Sommer is one of the most decorated players in modern women's club football and has scored more goals for France than any player of both men and women.[5] She has won 13 French domestic league titles and is one of just three players to have won a record eightUEFA Women's Champions League with Lyon.
Le Sommer is one of seven children, five girls and two boys. Her father, Thierry, was a retired policeman.[6] Her mother had played football in her youth.[6]
Le Sommer began playing football at the age of five joining the women's section ofTrélissac FC.[7] After a four-year stint at the club, she joined AS Guermeur in theBrittanyregion. She later played at one of the biggest clubs in the region,FC Lorient, and earned many honors in the youth section of the club helping her youth sides win theCoupe Fédérale 16 ans in 2005 and theMozaïc Foot Challenge in 2006, with the latter being held at the prestigiousClairefontaine academy.[citation needed]
Le Sommer was later selected to attendCNFE Clairefontaine, the women's section of the Clairefontaine academy. After a short stint there, she joined D1 Féminine clubStade Briochin. In her debut season with Saint-Brieuc, Le Sommer appeared in all 22 league matches scoring four goals. The2008–09 season saw her score 10 goals in 22 matches. For her efforts, she was nominated for theUNFP Female Player of the Year losing out toLyon playerLouisa Necib.[citation needed]
Le Sommer got off to a fast start for the2009–10 season scoring ten goals in her first seven league matches, which included ahat trick againstToulouse in a 5–4 defeat. She finished the season as the league's top scorer and was awarded theUNFP Female Player of the Year the following season.[citation needed]
On 30 June 2010, Le Sommer announced she would be joining the four-time defending champions Lyon departing her former club, Stade Briochin, after three seasons.[8]
On 30 August 2020, Le Sommer scored the opening goal in Lyon's 3–1 defeat ofWolfsburg in thefinal of the2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League.[9] It was both Le Sommer and Lyon's seventh overall win in the competition and fifth in a row.[10]
On 12 May 2021, it was announced that Le Sommer would be joiningOL Reign in the US on loan for the 2021 season.[11]
Le Sommer has earned caps with the women's under-17, under-19, and under-20 teams. With the under-19 team, she participated in both the 2007 and 2008 editions of theLa Manga Cup, as well as both the 2007UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, as an underage player, and2008 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, with the latter being held onhome soil. France reached the semi-finals at the 2007 finals and were eliminated in the group stage in 2008. Le Sommer later featured with the under-20 team at the2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, held inChile. In the tournament, Le Sommer scored a team-leading four goals, which included a brace againstArgentina in the final group stage match, which sent France through to the knockout rounds to faceNigeria. In the match against Nigeria, with France trailing 2–1, Le Sommer equalised in the 49th minute. France won 3–2 with a late goal fromNora Coton-Pélagie, but were eliminated in the next round byNorth Korea. Le Sommer was awarded theBronze Ball as the tournament's third best player.[citation needed]
On 12 February 2009, Le Sommer made her international debut in a 2–0 win over theRepublic of Ireland coming on as a substitute.[12] After appearing consistently with the national team, which included scoring two goals over the course of four matches at a tournament inCyprus, Le Sommer was selected by coach Bruno Bini to play atUEFA Women's Euro 2009, despite the player not appearing with the team during thequalification process. During the tournament, Le Sommer played in all four matches her nation contested. France reached as far as the quarterfinals losing to theNetherlands 4–5 on penalties with Le Sommer converting her penalty shot. On 23 September 2009, Le Sommer scored her third international goal againstSerbia in a2011 FIFA Women's World Cupqualification match.[citation needed]
She played for France at the 2012 Summer Olympics, scoring one goal, in the 2–1 loss to Japan in the semifinals.[13]
Le Sommer was a striker for France at the2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. She scored against England on 9 June 2015 in France's opening 1–0 victory. She also scored two of France's goals in their 3–0 victory over South Korea in the quarterfinal.[6]
She played in France's2016 Olympic campaign, scoring two goals in the group stage, one against Colombia and one against New Zealand.[13]
On 22 September 2020, Le Sommer scored two goals in a 7–0 win overNorth Macedonia in theEuro 2021 qualifiers, to become the all-time top scorer with 82 goals, breaking the previous record of 81 goals byMarinette Pichon.[5]
Le Sommer was called up to the France squad for the2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.[14] In France's second match of the2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, she scored the opening goal of the match againstBrazil.[15]
In July 2024, Le Sommer was named in France's squad for the2024 Olympics.[16]
Le Sommer married Florian Dariel, an Olympique Lyon employee, inBrittany on 11 August 2020, two days after winning the 2019–20 Coupe de France féminine.[17] Current and former teammates such asAda Hegerberg andCorine Franco attended the ceremony.[citation needed]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Total | |||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Stade Briochin | 2007–08 | Division 1 Féminine | 22 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 4 |
| 2008–09 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 12 | ||
| 2009–10 | 22 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 22 | ||
| Total | 65 | 33 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 38 | ||
| Lyon | 2010–11 | Division 1 Féminine | 20 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 33 | 28 |
| 2011–12 | 21 | 22 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 35 | 36 | ||
| 2012–13 | 20 | 20 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 35 | 31 | ||
| 2013–14 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 26 | 17 | ||
| 2014–15 | 22 | 29 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 31 | 38 | ||
| 2015–16 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 32 | 24 | ||
| 2016–17 | 19 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 32 | 29 | ||
| 2017–18 | 20 | 17 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 34 | 33 | ||
| 2018–19 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 31 | 21 | ||
| 2019–20 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 20 | 12 | ||
| 2020–21 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 7 | ||
| 2021–22 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 2 | ||
| 2022–23 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 30 | 9 | ||
| 2023-24 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 9 | ||
| Total | 245 | 194 | 61 | 60 | 94 | 48 | 400 | 302 | ||
| Career total | 301 | 223 | 62 | 65 | 94 | 48 | 457 | 336 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 2008–09 | 16 | 3 |
| 2009–10 | 11 | 5 | |
| 2010–11 | 20 | 7 | |
| 2011–12 | 20 | 10 | |
| 2012–13 | 16 | 10 | |
| 2013–14 | 14 | 4 | |
| 2014–15 | 19 | 13 | |
| 2015–16 | 14 | 6 | |
| 2016–17 | 17 | 6 | |
| 2017–18 | 9 | 9 | |
| 2018–19 | 11 | 7 | |
| 2019–20 | 7 | 6 | |
| 2020–21 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2021–22 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2022–23 | 7 | 6 | |
| Total | 182 | 92 | |
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