.jpg) Fernández with the Liga F trophy in May 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Martina Fernández Vila | ||
| Date of birth | (2004-10-01)1 October 2004 (age 20) | ||
| Place of birth | Spain | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Everton | ||
| Number | 5 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2014–2016 | Borrassà | ||
| 2018–2022 | Barcelona | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016–2018 | Girona B | ||
| 2020–2024 | Barcelona B | 83 | (7) |
| 2022– | Barcelona | 21 | (1) |
| 2025– | →Everton (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2020 | Spain U16 | 1 | (0) |
| 2021–2023 | Spain U19 | 24 | (4) |
| 2023– | Spain U23 | 4 | (0) |
| 2024 | Spain U20 | 2 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:21 15 March 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:11, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[1][2] | |||
Martina Fernández Vila (Spanish:[maɾˈtinafeɾˈnandeθˈbila]; born 1 October 2004) is a Spanish professionalfootballer who plays as adefender ormidfielder forWomen's Super League clubEverton, on loan fromBarcelona, andSpain under-23 national team.
With Barcelona, Fernández has won theSpanish league multiple times, including as part of their continental quadruple in2023–24.
Martina Fernández Vila was born on 1 October 2004 and is fromOrdis in theProvince of Girona,Catalonia.[3] She grew up near to her maternal grandparents, with whom she maintains a close relationship.[4]
She began studyingbiomedicine but, in 2023, stopped pursuing this as a career to focus on football. As of 2024, she continues part-time study at a biomedical laboratory.[4]
Fernández' first sport was tennis, but she told her mother that she preferred football; her mother looked for ways to enable this and went to the football club in the next town,Borrassà. Though the girls' team was fully subscribed, the coach allowed Fernández to take part in a trial session with the boys' team at her mother's insistence: after three sessions, the coach promised to sign her. She spent three years at Borrassà before signing forGirona FC Femení B.[4]
At Girona, she played with the second team (considered its youth cadet team, generally 19-year-olds) from the start, rather than age group teams, staying for two seasons.[4]
Fernández joinedBarcelona in the women's youth section in 2018. In her first year with the club she stayed with her family in the province of Girona, over 150 kilometres (93 miles) from Barcelona, and travelled with other players to train. Often ignoring the toll this took, her family then asked that she be supported to live at a school in Barcelona; after half a season of this situation, theCOVID-19 pandemic forced her back to Ordís. Fernández moved back to Barcelona later in the year with her older sister. When the club opened Oriol Tort Training Centre, including a girls' student dormitory as part ofLa Masia, in 2021, one of the nine places was given to Fernández.[4]
She played her first official match for the first team in February 2022, becoming one of the youngest debutants in the senior squad. She made five appearances in theleague andCopa de la Reina in the2021–22 and2022–23 seasons. She then had a larger role in the2023–24 season, due to a large number of injuries to the squad's first team defenders, establishing herself as acentral defender.[4][5] She made herUEFA Women's Champions League debut on 13 December 2023 againstRosengård, and scored her first goal for Barcelona in the 92nd minute of this game.[6]
Fernández was fully promoted to the first team ahead of the 2024–25 season, but experienced injury and spent the first half of the season recovering from knee surgery.[citation needed] Having appeared for the team, Fernández won the2024–25 Liga F when Barcelona were confirmed as champions in May 2025.[7]
On 4 January 2025, Fernández was announced at Everton on a loan deal until the end of the season.[8]
Fernández was first called up to theSpain under-19 squad in October 2021, for European matches, but did not make the final travelling squad.[9] On 9 November 2022 she scored the opening goal in Spain's 3–0 defeat ofCzech Republic atPinatar Arena.[10] In 2022, she won theUnder-19 Euro title,[11] and helped Spain defend it when they won again in the2023 Under-19 Euro. She played the whole 120 minutes of the final that was eventually decided onpenalties.[10]
On 30 November 2023, Fernández debuted with theunder-23 team, starting and playing the full match in a friendly against Sweden.[12]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Supercup | UWCL | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Barcelona | 2021–22 | Primera División | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022–23 | Liga F | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2023–24 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 2 | ||
| 2024–25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 29 | 2 | |||
| Everton (loan) | 2024–25 | Women's Super League | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 8 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 49 | 2 | ||
Spain under-19[10]