Maysa Jbarah

Maysa Zaid Mahmoud Jbarah (Arabic: ميساء زيد محمود جبارة; born 20 September 1989) is a Jordanian footballer who plays as a forward for Saudi Women's First Division League club NEOM and the Jordan national team. She is her country's top goalscorer and most-capped player.^[5]

Maysa Jbarah

Personal information
Full name	Maysa Zaid Mahmoud Jbarah[1]
Date of birth	(1989-09-20) 20 September 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth	Kuwait City, Kuwait[1]
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[2]
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	NEOM
Number	9
Youth career
2000–2005	Amman
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2005–2007	Amman
2007–2010	Sadaka
2010–2016	Amman
2016–2017	Abu Dhabi Ladies Club
2017–2018	Zouk Mosbeh
2018–2019	Grenoble	10	(4)
2019–2020	Thonon Évian [fr]	13	(5)
2021–2022	Ankara BB Fomget	24	(16)
2021	→ Amman (loan)
2022–2024	Al Nassr	21	(14)
2024	Etihad Club
2024–	NEOM
International career‡
2005–	Jordan[3][4]	133	(137)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 February 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 29 February 2024

Club career

Jbarah began her career with Amman SC in 2000, before moving to Lebanese Women's Football League side Sadaka in 2007, remaining there until 2010,^[6] as she returned to her first club. In 2016, she moved to Abu Dhabi Ladies Club, staying one year, when she returned to Lebanon, signing for Zouk Mosbeh.^[6]

In 2018, Jbarah moved to France, at Grenoble for one season, and then joined Thonon Évian [fr] in 2019.^[6] In August 2021, she signed with Ankara BB Fomget to play in the Turkish Super League.^[7] She opened the 2021–22 league season scoring her team's first goal in the home match.^[8] She netted 16 goals in 24 league matches at the 2021–22 season.^[9] In November 2021, she played for Amman SC in the AFC Women's Club Championship, where she won the tournament scoring two goals, both from the penalty spot.^[10]

In 2022, Jbarah joined Saudi club Al Nassr, where she won consecutive league titles in 2022–23 and 2023–24.^[11] In summer 2024, she returned to Jordan to join Etihad Club.^[12]

International career

Jbarah scored her first goal for the Jordan national team on her debut on 18 September 2005 in a friendly match which ended in a 6–1 win over Bahrain.^[3] At the 2010 Asian Games, she scored her country's only goal in a 10–1 defeat to hosts China.^[13] She also scored Jordan's first goal at the AFC Women's Asian Cup in the 2014 edition in a 3–1 defeat to hosts Vietnam.^[14]

Career statistics

International

Scores and results list Jordan's goal tally first.

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	25 April 2009	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Kyrgyzstan	4–0	7–1	2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification
2.				6–0
3.	29 April 2009		Maldives	2–0	9–0
4.				4–0
5.	1 May 2009		Palestine	2–0	5–0
6.				3–0
7.	3 May 2009		Uzbekistan	2–2	2–2
8.	19 October 2010	Manama, Bahrain	Iraq	?–0	20–0	2010 Arabia Women's Cup
9.				?–0
10.				?–0
11.				12–0
12.				18–0
13.				19–0
14.				20–0
15.	21 October 2010		Lebanon	1–?	3–1
16.				?–?
17.	14 November 2010	Guangzhou, China	China	1–4	1–10	2010 Asian Games
18.	10 March 2011	Zarqa, Jordan	Iran	1–0	1–1	2012 Summer Olympics qualification
19.	12 March 2011		Palestine	1–0	6–0
20.				4–0
21.	15 September 2011	Amman, Jordan	Lebanon	8–1	10–1	Friendly
22.				9–1
23.				10–1
24.	17 September 2011		Lebanon	1–0	2–0
25.	3 October 2011	Abu Dhabi, UAE	Palestine	2–1	8–1	2011 WAFF Women's Championship
26.				3–1
27.				4–1
28.				5–1
29.				8–1
30.	5 October 2011		Bahrain	2–1	2–2
31.	7 October 2011		Iraq	2–0	4–0
32.	26 April 2013	Hanoi, Vietnam	Vietnam	1–0	1–1	Friendly
33.	7 June 2013	Amman, Jordan	Kuwait	2–0	21–0	2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification[15]
34.				4–0
35.				5–0
36.				7–0
37.				8–0
38.				12–0
39.				13–0
40.				19–0
41.	15 April 2014	Amman, Jordan	Bahrain	5–0	5–0	2014 WAFF Women's Championship
42.	19 April 2014		Palestine	6–0	10–0
43.				7–0
44.	14 May 2014	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	Vietnam	1–1	1–3	2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup
45.	15 September 2014	Incheon, South Korea	Chinese Taipei	2–2	2–2	2014 Asian Games
46.	11 March 2015	Amman, Jordan	Hong Kong	1–0	1–0	2016 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
47.	13 March 2015		Palestine	2–0	6–0
48.				4–0
49.				6–0
50.	20 September 2015	Mandalay, Myanmar	Vietnam	1–2	1–2
51.	3 April 2017	Dushanbe, Tajikistan	Bahrain	2–0	6–0	2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification
52.				4–0
53.				5–0
54.	5 April 2017		United Arab Emirates	1–0	6–0
55.				2–0
56.				5–0
57.				6–0
58.	7 April 2017		Iraq	4–0	10–0
59.				8–0
60.				9–0
61.				10–0
62.	12 April 2017		Philippines	2–0	5–1
63.				3–0
64.	31 July 2017	Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–1	2–4	Friendly
65.	3 August 2017		Bosnia and Herzegovina	?–2	2–2
66.	27 November 2017	Istanbul, Turkey	Turkey	1–1	2–1
67.	12 December 2017	Nonthaburi, Thailand	Thailand	1–1	2–1
68.				2–1
69.	2 February 2018	Amman, Jordan	Afghanistan	3–0	5–0
70.	5 February 2018		Afghanistan	3–0	6–0
71.				4–0
72.	4 March 2018	Side, Turkey	Latvia	2–0	3–2	2018 Turkish Women's Cup
73.	6 March 2018	Alanya, Turkey	Romania	1–2	1–2
74.	6 April 2018	Amman, Jordan	Philippines	1–0	1–2	2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup
75.	10 April 2021	Charentsavan, Armenia	Armenia	1–1	1–1	2021 Armenia Women's International Friendly Tournament
76.	12 April 2021		Lebanon	1–0	6–0
77.				5–0
78.	10 June 2021	Amman, Jordan	Tunisia	1–1	1–2	Friendly
79.	25 August 2021	Cairo, Egypt	Algeria	1–1	1–3	2021 Arab Women's Cup
80.	31 August 2021		Palestine	1–0	4–1
81.				4–1
82.	3 September 2021		Egypt	1–0	2–5
83.				4–1
84.	6 September 2021		Tunisia	1–0	1–0
85.	19 September 2021	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Bangladesh	3–0	5–0	2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification
86.				4–0
87.				5–0
88.	28 June 2022	Buftea, Romania	Romania	1–2	1–3	Friendly
89.	29 August 2022	Amman, Jordan	Syria	1–0	4–0	2022 WAFF Women's Championship
90.				2–0
91.				4–0
92.	4 September 2022		Palestine	1–0	4–0
93.				3–0
94.				4–0
95.	19 March 2023		India	1–0	2–1	Friendly
96.	5 April 2023	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	East Timor	2–0	3–1	2024 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
97.	8 April 2023		Bhutan	1–2	1–2
98.	19 February 2024	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia	2–1	3–1	2024 WAFF Women's Championship
99.	21 February 2024		Guam	1–0	3–0
100.				2–0
101.	27 February 2024		Palestine	1–0	5–0
102.				4–0

Honours

Club

Sadaka

• Lebanese Women's Football League: 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10
• Lebanese Women's FA Cup: 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10

Amman

• Jordan Women's Football League: 2010–11, 2014–15
• AFC Women's Club Championship: 2021

Zouk Mosbeh

• Lebanese Women's Football League: 2017–18
• Lebanese Women's FA Cup: 2017–18

Al Nassr

• Saudi Women's Premier League: 2022–23, 2023–24

International

Jordan

• WAFF Women's Championship: 2005, 2007, 2014, 2019, 2022, 2024
• Arab Women's Cup: 2010

See also

• List of top international women's football goal scorers by country

References

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6. "ميساء جبارة لاعبة أردنية تخوض أكثر من 100 مباراة دولية" [Maysa Jbara is a Jordanian player who has played more than 100 international matches]. رؤيا الأخباري (in Arabic). Retrieved 20 April 2021.
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9. "Futbolcu Bilgileri - Maysa Ziad Mahnoud Jbarah" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
10. "2021 AFC Women's Club Championship: Participating teams, fixtures, tables, top scorers, squads, stadium and all you need to know". Goal.com. 14 November 2021.
11. "Al-Nassr Are The 2023/2024 Saudi Women's Premier League Champions". Forbes. 15 March 2024.
12. "الدوري الأردني للسيدات يعد الاتحاد بقوة لأبطال آسيا" (in Arabic). Kooora. 16 August 2024.
13. "More than a goal for Jordan". Al Jazeera. 15 November 2010. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
14. "Women | AFC Women's Asian Cup 2014" (PDF). 26th AFC Congress 2015 (Activity Report 2013-2015). Asian Football Confederation: 42. 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
15. "Jordan stun Kuwait 21-0 in women's Asia football qualifiers". ammonnews.net. 9 June 2013.

External links

• Maysa Jbarah at the Turkish Football Federation
• Maysa Jbarah at Soccerway
• Maysa Jbarah at Footofeminin.fr
• Maysa Jbarah at Kooora.com (in Arabic) (archived in English at Goalzz.com)