Magdalena Eriksson

Magdalena Lilly Eriksson (also Ericsson, born 8 September 1993)[4] is a Swedish footballer who plays as a defender for Chelsea Women in the English Women's Super League as well as for the Swedish national team.[5] A left-back and centre-back, she used to play for Hammarby IF, Djurgårdens IF and Linköpings FC in the Swedish Damallsvenskan. In November 2020, she was awarded the Diamantbollen award.[6]

Magdalena Eriksson
Eriksson after a match with Chelsea in 2019
Personal information
Full name Magdalena Lilly Eriksson[1]
Date of birth (1993-09-08) 8 September 1993
Place of birth Stockholm, Sweden
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Position(s) Centre-back, left-back
Club information
Current team
 Chelsea
Number 16
Youth career
Enskede IK
2009–2010 Hammarby IF
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011 Hammarby IF 19 (0)
2012 Djurgårdens IF 19 (1)
2013–2017 Linköping 77 (5)
2017– Chelsea 67 (5)
National team‡
2008 Sweden U15 2 (0)
2009 Sweden U16 8 (1)
2009–2010 Sweden U17 18 (3)
2011–2012 Sweden U19 24 (0)
2013 Sweden U23 4 (0)
2014– Sweden 83[3] (10)
Honours
Women's soccer
Representing  Sweden
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
2020 TokyoTeam
FIFA Women's World Cup
2019 FranceTeam
UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
Winner2012 Turkey
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:09, 01 May 2022 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20:45, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Eriksson, is like her girlfriend Pernille Harder, also known for her LGBTQ+ advocacy.[7]

Club career

Eriksson began her football career with local team Enskede IK, but was encouraged by her father to join Hammarby IF in order to improve her game. Aged 17, she broke into Hammarby's first team in the 2011 Damallsvenskan season and made her debut against Umeå IK.[8]

In November 2011, Eriksson left relegated Hammarby for their Stockholm rivals Djurgården.[9] After scoring one goal in 19 appearances in the 2012 Damallsvenskan, she left Djurgårdens, who were facing relegation, for Linköpings FC.[10]

In July 2017, after almost five years with Linköpings FC, she signed a two-year contract with Women's Super League team Chelsea FC Women.[11][12] On 20 August 2018, she extended her contract until 2021.[13] On 6 September 2019, Chelsea announced that Eriksson would be the new captain.[14] On 12 November 2020, she extended her contract until 2023.[15] On 9 December 2020, Eriksson made her 100th appearance for Chelsea in a Champions League win over Benfica.[16]

Eriksson (16) playing against Everton women, September 2021

For her performance over the years, and especially after Chelsea's WSL title winning 2020–21 season, Eriksson was hailed as one of the best defenders in Europe.[17]

International career

As a Swedish under-19 international, Eriksson was part of the victorious squad at the 2012 U-19 European Championship.[18] In November 2013, national team coach Pia Sundhage called up Eriksson to a senior squad training camp at Bosön.[19] Eriksson made her debut for the senior Sweden team in a 3–0 friendly defeat by France in Amiens on 8 February 2014. In early 2014, she had a knee injury after colliding with her own goalkeeper, which left her injured for three months.[5] She was part of the Swedish squad that won silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[20] In July 2017, Pia Sundhage named Eriksson to Sweden's UEFA Women's Euro 2017 squad.

Personal life

As a young player at Hammarby, Eriksson's pre-match ritual included listening to "Heroes" (David Bowie song).[8] She is openly lesbian and since May 2014, in a relationship with current Chelsea teammate and Danish international, Pernille Harder.[21][22][23]

During her upbringing, she assumed her last name was spelled with a C because that was how her father spelled it. When she was 17 and looked in her passport she realised it was actually spelled with a K. As such, her last name is often misspelled as "Ericsson" rather than the correct "Eriksson".[24]

Eriksson has a Bachelor's degree in Political science and is taking a course in Feminist Theory and Intersectional Power Analysis.[25]

Career statistics

Club
As of matches played 16 December 2021 [26]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season Leagues National Cup[lower-alpha 1] League Cup[lower-alpha 2] Continental[lower-alpha 3] Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Hammarby IF 2011 Damallsvenskan 19 0 1 0 — — — 20 0
Djurgardens 2012 Damallsvenskan 19 1 2 0 — — — 21 1
Linköpings 2013 Damallsvenskan 19 2 — — — — 19 2
2014 16 0 4 0 — — — 20 0
2015 22 1 3 0 — 6 1 1[lower-alpha 4] 0 32 2
2016 21 2 4 0 — — 1 0 26 2
2017 10 0 4 2 — — — 14 2
Total 88 5 15 2 — 6 1 2 0 111 8
Chelsea 2017–18 FA WSL 15 2 — 3 0 8 0 — 26 2
2018–19 19 2 — 5 0 7 0 — 31 2
2019–20 14 1 2 0 7 2 — — 23 3
2020–21 20 1 4 0 5 1 6 0 1[lower-alpha 5] 0 36 2
2021–22 9 1 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 15 1
Total 77 7 6 0 20 3 27 0 1 0 131 10
Career total 203 13 24 2 20 3 33 1 3 0 283 19
  1. Includes Svenska Cupen Women, Women's FA Cup
  2. Includes FA Women's League Cup
  3. Appearances in UEFA Women's Champions League
  4. Appearance in Svenska Supercupen (women)
  5. Appearances in Women's FA Community Shield

International
Scores and results list Templatonia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Template goal.
List of international goals scored by Tim Template
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 2016-01-26 Gothenburg, Sweden  Scotland

2–0

6–0

Friendly
2 2016-10-21 Gothenburg, Sweden  Iran

2–0

7–0

Friendly
3

4–0

4

7–0

5 2018-08-30 Gothenburg, Sweden  Ukraine

2–0

3–0

2019 FIFA World Cup qualification
6 2019-10-04 Miskolc, Hungary  Hungary

1–0

5–0

UEFA Euro 2022 qualifying
7 2020-09-17 Gothenburg, Sweden  Hungary

4–0

8–0

UEFA Euro 2022 qualifying
8 2020-10-22 Gothenburg, Sweden  Latvia

4–0

7–0

UEFA Euro 2022 qualifying
9 2021-07-30 Saitama, Japan  Japan

1–0

3–1

2020 Olympic quarterfinal
10 2021-09-21 Gothenburg, Sweden  Georgia

2–0

4–0

2023 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Linköpings FC

Chelsea

Sweden U19

Sweden

Individual

References
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  4. "Magdalena Eriksson – Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté". sok.se.
  5. Magdalena Eriksson Archived 20 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine. nbcolympics.com
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  7. Burhan, Asif. "Chelsea's Pernille Harder And Magda Eriksson Proud To Be LGBTQ+ Ambassadors". Forbes. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  8. Andersdotter, Anna (19 May 2011). "Morsning Magda!". Hammarby IF DFF. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  9. "Hammarby tappar Magdalena Ericsson". Damfotboll.com (in Swedish). 22 November 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  10. "Ännu en vinnare till LFC" (in Swedish). Linköpings FC. 6 December 2012. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
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  12. "Ladies sign Sweden international". www.chelseafc.com.
  13. "ERIKSSON EXTENDS AND AIMS TO BE EVEN BETTER".
  14. "MAGDALENA ERIKSSON TO CAPTAIN CHELSEA WOMEN".
  15. "CAPTAIN ERIKSSON PENS NEW DEAL".
  16. "WOMEN'S MATCH REPORT: BENFICA 0 CHELSEA 5".
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  20. Magdalena Eriksson. rio2016.com
  21. Wrack, Suzanne (13 February 2018). "Pernille Harder: 'I was the only girl in the team but they wanted to play with me'". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  22. Ames, Nick (7 August 2019). "Harder and Eriksson: 'After the photo people wrote and said how much we'd helped'". The Guardian. Wolfsburg. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
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