 Reiten withChelsea in 2019 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1994-07-26)26 July 1994 (age 30) | ||
| Place of birth | Sunndalsøra, Norway[1] | ||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Chelsea | ||
| Number | 11 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Sunndal | |||
| Kattem | |||
| Trondheims-Ørn | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2010 | Sunndal | 1 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | Kattem | 35 | (11) |
| 2013–2016 | Trondheims-Ørn | 82 | (25) |
| 2017–2019 | LSK Kvinner | 53 | (51) |
| 2019– | Chelsea | 105 | (36) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2008–2009 | Norway U15 | 7 | (1) |
| 2009–2010 | Norway U16 | 17 | (5) |
| 2010–2011 | Norway U17 | 8 | (2) |
| 2011–2013 | Norway U19 | 26 | (10) |
| 2012 | Norway U20 | 8 | (1) |
| 2013–2016 | Norway U23 | 14 | (2) |
| 2014– | Norway | 99 | (21) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 February 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 February 2025 | |||
Guro Reiten (Norwegian:[ɡʉːru̞ˈʁaɪ̯tn̩]; born 26 July 1994) is a Norwegian professionalfootballer who plays as awinger for EnglishWomen's Super League clubChelsea and theNorway national team. Before joining Chelsea in 2019, she played in Norway forSunndal,Kattem,Trondheims-Ørn, andLSK Kvinner.
She made her debut for Norway in 2014 and appeared with the team at theUEFA European Championship 2017,2019 FIFA World Cup,UEFA European Championship 2022, and2023 FIFA World Cup.
Born inSunndalsøra,Møre og Romsdal, Reiten began her senior career with local sideSunndal, then in the second division of the Norwegian football.[2][3][4][5]
At age 16, Reiten joinedToppserien sideKattem in 2011.[6] During her year-and-a-half spell with Kattem, she made 35 league appearances and scored 11 goals in her second season, becoming the club's 2012 top scorer.[7][4][5]
After Kattem pulled out of the Toppserien, Reiten joinedTrondheims-Ørn in 2013. During her four seasons with Trondheims, she made 82 league appearances and scored 25 goals. With Trondheims-Ørn, she has also reached the final of the 2014Norwegian Cup.[4][5][8]
Reiten then transferred to Toppserien sideLSK Kvinner for the2017 season.[9] With the club, she won the league title in 2017 and was the Toppserien's regular season top scorer with 18 goals.[10] Reiten repeated both feats in2018, this time with 21 goals,[11] as well as winning the 2018 Norwegian Cup, scoring a brace in the final againstIL Sandviken.[12] In addition, she won the 2018 Toppserien Player of the Year and Goal of the Year awards.[2][13] Her performances in 2018 saw her shortlisted for the Norway'sFootballer of the Year award.[14] At the time of her departure from LSK Kvinner, Reiten was the Toppserien's leading scorer in the2019 season.[4][5][15]
On 31 May 2019, Reiten signed with theWomen's Super League (WSL) sideChelsea.[16] It was reported that the transfer fee was around 100,000Norwegian kroner.[17] In herfirst season with Chelsea, Reiten made 23 appearances and scored 7 goals across all competitions.[18] She featured less frequently for Chelsea in the2020–21 season, mostly coming off the bench, scoring one goal in nineteen league appearances.[4] In the same season, she scored in the2021 FA Women's League Cup final againstBristol City as Chelsea retained the trophy.[18] Reiten's third season at Chelsea saw her play more often as a left wing-back.[18] In this campaign, Reiten scored eleven goals and earned a place in thePFA WSL Team of the Year.[19]
In2022–23, Reiten won her fourth consecutive WSL title with Chelsea and made 39 appearances in all competitions, the most of any player in the squad.[20] She scored 13 goals across the season, including the winning goal in the first leg of theChampions League quarter-final againstLyon, and also scored Chelsea's only goal in the 2–1 aggregate semi-final defeat againstBarcelona.[21][22] At the start of the2023–24 season in October, Reiten scored a 96th-minute equaliser againstManchester City in a 1–1 draw.[23] In the same month, she suffered an ankle ligament injury and was sidelined until December.[24] During this period, she extended her contract with Chelsea until 2026[20] and was nominated for the 2023Ballon d'Or Féminin.[25]
In the final home game of the 2023–24 season against Bristol City, Reiten scored four goals in an 8–0 win, putting Chelsea one goal ahead of Manchester City on goal difference with two games to go.[26] On the final day of the season, she provided two assists in a 6–0 win againstManchester United to win her fifth successive WSL title as Chelsea won the title on goal difference.[27]
Reiten has represented Norway at all youth international levels from under-15 to under-23.[28] As a 13-year-old, she was already selected for the under-15 national team to play a match inKristiansund.[29] In April 2010, Reiten represented theunder-17 team at the2010 UEFA Under-17 Championship in Switzerland, where Norway were eliminated in the second qualifying round, finishing second in their group behindGermany.[30]
She made herunder-19 debut on 30 May 2011 in the opening game of the2011 UEFA Under-19 Championship againstGermany, which her team lost 3–1.[28] Reiten made four appearances at the tournament and scored one goal,[4] againstSpain in the group stage.[4] Norway eventually reached the final where they lost 8–1 to Germany and finished the tournament as silver medalists.[31] The semi-final finish qualified Norway for the2012 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Japan, where the team was once again defeated by Germany, this time in the quarter-finals, with Reiten appearing in three of Norway's four games at the tournament, including a 4–1 group stage victory overArgentina where she played full 90 minutes.[4][28]
After a successful qualifying campaign for the2013 UEFA Under-19 Championship, in which Reiten scored three goals in six matches and was the team's joint top scorer,[4][32] she led Norway at the main tournament in Wales asteam captain.[33] The team failed to qualify for the knockout stages after finishing third in Group B, behind Germany and Finland, with three points from three matches, winning the only game of the tournament againstSweden 5–0.[34] Reiten played in all three matches.[4]
Between 2013 and 2016, Reiten made 14 appearances for the under-23 team, but did not feature in any UEFA or FIFA tournaments.[28]
On 14 January 2014, Reiten made hersenior team debut in afriendly tournament inLa Manga againstSpain, coming on as a 63rd-minute substitute forElise Thorsnes in an eventual 2–1 victory.[35][36] Three days later, she was included in the starting lineup for the first time, in a 1–1 draw withEngland, where she played the full 90 minutes.[37] On 13 February, Reiten played her first competitive match againstGreece in a2015 World Cup qualifiers, where she again played the full 90 minutes,[38] before representing Norway at the2014 Algarve Cup a month later.[39]
After two appearances in the last two World Cup qualifying matches in September 2014, through which Norway qualified for the2015 World Cup,[40][41] Reiten had to wait more than two years for her next appearance, and in the meantime she played for the under-23 national team.[28] She returned to the Norwegian squad in March 2017 for the2017 Algarve Cup and made three appearances at the tournament.[28][42] Reiten also managed to score her first senior goal in the process, against tournament hostsPortugal, scoring her team's second goal in a 2–0 win only three minutes after being substituted in.[43]
Reiten represented Norway atUEFA Euro 2017,[44][45] where she came on as a substitute in the opening game against theNetherlands.[46] She also played in the last group match againstDenmark,[47] however, she was unable to prevent her team from being eliminated without a single point or goal for the first time in a major tournament.[48] After an unsuccessful European Championship campaign, Norway played qualifiers for the2019 World Cup. Reiten played in all eight matches and scored four goals, including a brace againstNorthern Ireland in the opening game,[49] as Norway qualified for the World Cup finals with a first-place finish and seven wins from eight games.[50]
Reiten had her first tournament success in 2019 by winning theAlgarve Cup.[51][52] On 2 May, she was included in the squad for the 2019 World Cup, her first World Cup.[53][54] At the World Cup, she played in all five of Norway's matches.[55] In the opening game againstNigeria, she scored the first goal of the tournament for Norway[56] and was named the best player on the pitch for her goal and assist.[57][58] A 3–0 defeat to England in the quarter-finals saw her and her team eliminated, also missing out on the2020 Summer Olympics.[59]
In theEuro 2022 qualifiers, Reiten featured in all six of Norway's matches and scored four goals, including the 1–0 winner againstWales.[60][61] In the2023 World Cup qualifiers that followed, she also played in all ten games and netted two goals.[62]
In June 2022, Reiten was called-up to the Norwegian national team for the2022 European Championship finals.[63] She appeared in three group matches, starting with a 4–1 win against Euro newcomersNorthern Ireland, in which she scored Norway's last goal in a 4–1 win.[64][65] They then suffered the heaviest defeat in their international history against England, 8–0.[66] Third in their group, they failed to qualify for the knockout stage at the second consecutive European Championship after losing 1–0 toAustria in the last game.[67]
On 19 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player Norwegian squad for the2023 World Cup.[68] She appeared in all four of Norway's matches at the final tournament, scoring two goals.[69]
Following the2022 Oslo shooting, Reiten publicly came out as a lesbian in an interview with the Norwegian newspaperVerdens Gang.[70]
| Club | Season | Division | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Continental[c] | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Kattem | 2011 | Toppserien | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 13 | 0 | |||
| 2012 | 22 | 11 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1[d] | 0 | 24 | 12 | ||||
| Total | 35 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 12 | ||
| Trondheims-Ørn | 2013 | Toppserien | 21 | 6 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 23 | 6 | |||
| 2014 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 1 | — | — | — | 24 | 8 | |||||
| 2015 | 20 | 3 | 4 | 0 | — | — | — | 24 | 3 | |||||
| 2016 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 0 | — | — | — | 25 | 9 | |||||
| Total | 82 | 25 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 26 | ||
| LSK Kvinner | 2017 | Toppserien | 22 | 18 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | 25 | 19 | |||
| 2018 | 21 | 21 | 5 | 6 | — | 4 | 0 | — | 30 | 27 | ||||
| 2019 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 2 | — | 6 | 1 | — | 17 | 15 | ||||
| Total | 53 | 51 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 61 | ||
| Chelsea | 2019–20 | WSL | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | — | — | 24 | 7 | ||
| 2020–21 | 19 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 1[e] | 0 | 36 | 6 | ||
| 2021–22 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | — | 33 | 11 | |||
| 2022–23 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 2 | — | 39 | 13 | |||
| 2023–24 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | — | 29 | 9 | |||
| 2024–25 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | — | 23 | 11 | |||
| Total | 105 | 36 | 19 | 7 | 21 | 7 | 38 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 184 | 57 | ||
| Career total | 275 | 123 | 43 | 18 | 21 | 7 | 48 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 389 | 156 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway | 2014 | 9 | 0 |
| 2017 | 11 | 4 | |
| 2018 | 11 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 16 | 4 | |
| 2020 | 5 | 1 | |
| 2021 | 8 | 4 | |
| 2022 | 15 | 3 | |
| 2023 | 11 | 2 | |
| 2024 | 11 | 2 | |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 99 | 21 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 March 2017 | Bela Vista Municipal Stadium,Parchal, Portugal |  Portugal | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2017 Algarve Cup |
| 2 | 15 September 2017 | Nye Fredrikstad Stadion,Fredrikstad, Norway |  Northern Ireland | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2019 World Cup qualification |
| 3 | 4–1 | |||||
| 4 | 19 September 2017 | Sarpsborg Stadion,Sarpsborg, Norway |  Slovakia | 3–0 | 6–1 | 2019 World Cup qualification |
| 5 | 31 August 2018 | NTC Senec,Senec, Slovakia | Slovakia | 2–0 | 4–0 | 2019 World Cup qualification |
| 6 | 8 June 2019 | Stade Auguste-Delaune,Reims, France |  Nigeria | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup |
| 7 | 30 August 2019 | Seaview,Belfast, Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | 1–0 | 6–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying |
| 8 | 4 October 2019 | Borisov Arena,Barysaw, Belarus |  Belarus | 4–1 | 7–1 | UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying |
| 9 | 8 November 2019 | Viking Stadion,Stavanger, Norway | Northern Ireland | 3–0 | 6–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying |
| 10 | 22 September 2020 | Ullevaal Stadion,Oslo, Norway |  Wales | 1–0 | 1–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying |
| 11 | 8 April 2021 | King Baudouin Stadium,Brussels, Belgium |  Belgium | 1–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
| 12 | 13 April 2021 | BRITA-Arena,Wiesbaden, Germany |  Germany | 1–0 | 1–3 | Friendly |
| 13 | 25 November 2021 | Arena Kombëtare,Tirana, Albania |  Albania | 2–0 | 7–0 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
| 14 | 30 November 2021 | Yerevan Football Academy Stadium,Yerevan, Armenia |  Armenia | 5–0 | 10–0 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
| 15 | 29 June 2022 | Viborg Stadium,Viborg, Denmark |  Denmark | 1–1 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 16 | 2–1 | |||||
| 17 | 7 July 2022 | St Mary's Stadium,Southampton, England | Northern Ireland | 4–1 | 4–1 | UEFA Women's Euro 2022 |
| 18 | 30 July 2023 | Eden Park,Auckland, New Zealand |  Philippines | 5–0 | 6–0 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup |
| 19 | 5 August 2023 | Wellington Regional Stadium,Wellington, New Zealand |  Japan | 1–1 | 1–3 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup |
| 20 | 12 July 2024 | Veritas Stadion,Turku, Finland |  Finland | 1–0 | 1–1 | UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying |
| 21 | 29 October 2024 | Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway | Albania | 8–0 | 9–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying play-offs |
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