Guro Reiten

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Guro Reiten

Guro Reiten (born 26 July 1994) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a winger for English Women's Super League club Chelsea and the Norway national team. Before joining Chelsea in 2019, she played in Norway for Sunndal, Kattem, Trondheims-Ørn, and LSK Kvinner.

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Reiten with Chelsea 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
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She made her debut for Norway in 2014 and appeared with the team at the UEFA European Championship 2017, 2019 FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship 2022, and 2023 FIFA World Cup.

Club career

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Sunndal

Born in Sunndalsøra, Møre og Romsdal, Reiten began her senior career with local side Sunndal, then in the second division of the Norwegian football.[2][3][4][5]

Kattem

At age 16, Reiten joined Toppserien side Kattem 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]

Trondheims-Ørn

After Kattem pulled out of the Toppserien, Reiten joined Trondheims-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 2014 Norwegian Cup.[4][5][8]

LSK Kvinner

Reiten then transferred to Toppserien side LSK Kvinner for the 2017 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 in 2018, this time with 21 goals,[11] as well as winning the 2018 Norwegian Cup, scoring a brace in the final against IL 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's Footballer of the Year award.[14] At the time of her departure from LSK Kvinner, Reiten was the Toppserien's leading scorer in the 2019 season.[4][5][15]

Chelsea

On 31 May 2019, Reiten signed with the Women's Super League (WSL) side Chelsea.[16] It was reported that the transfer fee was around 100,000 Norwegian kroner.[17] In her first season with Chelsea, Reiten made 23 appearances and scored 7 goals across all competitions.[18] She featured less frequently for Chelsea in the 2020–21 season, mostly coming off the bench, scoring one goal in nineteen league appearances.[4] In the same season, she scored in the 2021 FA Women's League Cup final against Bristol 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 the PFA WSL Team of the Year.[19]

In 2022–23, 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 the Champions League quarter-final against Lyon, and also scored Chelsea's only goal in the 2–1 aggregate semi-final defeat against Barcelona.[21][22] At the start of the 2023–24 season in October, Reiten scored a 96th-minute equaliser against Manchester 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 2023 Ballon 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 against Manchester United to win her fifth successive WSL title as Chelsea won the title on goal difference.[27]

International career

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Youth career

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 in Kristiansund.[29] In April 2010, Reiten represented the under-17 team at the 2010 UEFA Under-17 Championship in Switzerland, where Norway were eliminated in the second qualifying round, finishing second in their group behind Germany.[30]

She made her under-19 debut on 30 May 2011 in the opening game of the 2011 UEFA Under-19 Championship against Germany, which her team lost 3–1.[28] Reiten made four appearances at the tournament and scored one goal,[4] against Spain 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 the 2012 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 over Argentina where she played full 90 minutes.[4][28]

After a successful qualifying campaign for the 2013 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 as team 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 against Sweden 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]

Senior career

On 14 January 2014, Reiten made her senior team debut in a friendly tournament in La Manga against Spain, coming on as a 63rd-minute substitute for Elise 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 with England, where she played the full 90 minutes.[37] On 13 February, Reiten played her first competitive match against Greece in a 2015 World Cup qualifiers, where she again played the full 90 minutes,[38] before representing Norway at the 2014 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 the 2015 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 the 2017 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 hosts Portugal, scoring her team's second goal in a 2–0 win only three minutes after being substituted in.[43]

Reiten represented Norway at UEFA Euro 2017,[44][45] where she came on as a substitute in the opening game against the Netherlands.[46] She also played in the last group match against Denmark,[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 the 2019 World Cup. Reiten played in all eight matches and scored four goals, including a brace against Northern 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 the Algarve 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 against Nigeria, 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 the 2020 Summer Olympics.[59]

In the Euro 2022 qualifiers, Reiten featured in all six of Norway's matches and scored four goals, including the 1–0 winner against Wales.[60][61] In the 2023 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 the 2022 European Championship finals.[63] She appeared in three group matches, starting with a 4–1 win against Euro newcomers Northern 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 to Austria in the last game.[67]

On 19 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player Norwegian squad for the 2023 World Cup.[68] She appeared in all four of Norway's matches at the final tournament, scoring two goals.[69]

Personal life

Following the 2022 Oslo shooting, Reiten publicly came out as a lesbian in an interview with the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang.[70]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 12 April 2025
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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season Division League National cup[a] League cup[b] Continental[c] Other Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Kattem 2011 Toppserien 13000130
2012 2211111[d]02412
Total 3511110000103712
Trondheims-Ørn 2013 Toppserien 21620236
2014 20741248
2015 20340243
2016 21940259
Total 82251410000009626
LSK Kvinner 2017 Toppserien 2218312519
2018 212156403027
2019 101212611715
Total 53519900101007261
Chelsea 2019–20 WSL 1553161247
2020–21 1913154801[e]0366
2021–22 2173330613311
2022–23 21951311023913
2023–24 167302082299
2024–25 1372121622311
Total 105361972173871018457
Career total 275123431821748820389156
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  1. Appearance in Toppserien relegation play-offs

International

As of match played 25 February 2025[28]
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Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Norway 201490
2017114
2018111
2019164
202051
202184
2022153
2023112
2024112
202520
Total9921
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Scores and results list Norway's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Reiten goal.
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List of international goals scored by Guro Reiten
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
18 March 2017Bela Vista Municipal Stadium, Parchal, Portugal Portugal2–02–02017 Algarve Cup
215 September 2017Nye Fredrikstad Stadion, Fredrikstad, Norway Northern Ireland1–04–12019 World Cup qualification
34–1
419 September 2017Sarpsborg Stadion, Sarpsborg, Norway Slovakia3–06–12019 World Cup qualification
531 August 2018NTC Senec, Senec, Slovakia Slovakia2–04–02019 World Cup qualification
68 June 2019Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims, France Nigeria1–03–02019 FIFA Women's World Cup
730 August 2019Seaview, Belfast, Northern Ireland Northern Ireland1–06–0UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
84 October 2019Borisov Arena, Barysaw, Belarus Belarus4–17–1UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
98 November 2019Viking Stadion, Stavanger, Norway Northern Ireland3–06–0UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
1022 September 2020Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway Wales1–01–0UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
118 April 2021King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium Belgium1–02–0Friendly
1213 April 2021BRITA-Arena, Wiesbaden, Germany Germany1–01–3Friendly
1325 November 2021Arena Kombëtare, Tirana, Albania Albania2–07–02023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
1430 November 2021Yerevan Football Academy Stadium, Yerevan, Armenia Armenia5–010–02023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
1529 June 2022Viborg Stadium, Viborg, Denmark Denmark1–12–1Friendly
162–1
177 July 2022St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England Northern Ireland4–14–1UEFA Women's Euro 2022
1830 July 2023Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand Philippines5–06–02023 FIFA Women's World Cup
195 August 2023Wellington Regional Stadium, Wellington, New Zealand Japan1–11–32023 FIFA Women's World Cup
2012 July 2024Veritas Stadion, Turku, Finland Finland1–01–1UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying
2129 October 2024Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway Albania8–09–0UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying play-offs
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Honours

LSK Kvinner

Chelsea

Norway

Individual

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