Ana-Maria Crnogorčević

Ana-Maria Crnogorčević (born 3 October 1990) is a Swiss professional footballer who currently plays for Atlético Madrid and the Switzerland national team. A fast player with good heading ability, she is considered one of Switzerland's most talented footballers.
Early and personal life
Ana-Maria Crnogorčević was born on 3 October 1990 in Steffisburg, by Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, to Croat parents from Ruma, in Vojvodina, with origins in Drniš, Croatia. She has dual nationality and considers herself both Swiss and Croatian; her first language was Croatian. She speaks many languages and received scorn from some rival fans while playing for Barcelona and responding in Catalan to a question asked in Spanish. Crnogorčević has a sister and was raised Catholic.
Club career
Crnogorčević began her club career with FC Steffisburg at age 11. In 2004, she moved to FC Rot-Schwarz Thun, then later to FC Thun. In 2009, she helped Rot-Schwarz win the Swiss Cup final. Crnogorčević scored a hat-trick in the 8–0 win over FC Schlieren. She was the top-scorer with 24 goals in 16 games in the Nationalliga A. In September 2009 she joined German Bundesliga team Hamburger SV. She made her debut for HSV on 27 September, scoring in a 3–2 win against SG Essen-Schönebeck. Crnogorčević finished her first season in Germany with eight goals from 19 appearances. For the 2011/12 season she moved to 1. FFC Frankfurt, with which she won the Champions League in 2015.
She signed with Portland Thorns FC ahead of the 2018 National Women's Soccer League season. In December 2019, Crnogorčević signed with Barcelona. She won the Champions League with Barcelona in the 2020–21 and 2022-23 seasons.
International career
Youth
Aged 17, she scored 25 goals in 29 games for the Switzerland U19 team. At the 2009 UEFA U19 Championship in Belarus, she reached the semi-final with her team. She was selected in the U20 for the 2012 U20 World Cup in Japan. She played in all three matches but was eliminated in the group stage.
Senior
Crnogorčević was approached to play for Croatia when she was 17; though raised with Croatian culture, she always wanted to play for Switzerland.
On 12 August 2009 she made her debut for the Swiss senior team in a friendly against Sweden. In August 2010, she scored five goals in an 8–0 World Cup qualifying win over Kazakhstan.
Crnogorčević succeeded with the Swiss national team in qualifying for the 2017 European Championship in the Netherlands, where she was top scorer with seven goals. On 4 June 2016 she surpassed previous Swiss all-time goalscorer Lara Dickenmann by adding two goals in a qualifier against the Czech Republic. At the European Championship, she scored a goal in the 1–1 draw with France, but her team was eliminated after the group stage. In the subsequent qualification for the 2019 World Cup, she scored two goals in eleven games. However, the Swiss did not qualify this time because they lost in the last play-off round against European champions Netherlands.
On 13 April 2021, she converted her team's last penalty to 3–2 in the second leg of qualifying play-off for the Euro 2022 against the Czech Republic, succeeding in qualifying for the Euro finals. In the first leg, she scored the goal for the 1–1 equalizer with a penalty in the 90th minute. In all, she scored six goals in qualifying, once again being her team's top scorer.
On 30 June 2022 Crnogorčević matched Lara Dickenmann's national cap record with her 135th international match in the 4–0 defeat in the European Championship preparatory game against England. At the European Championship in 2022, she played in all three group games in the starting lineup. Switzerland was eliminated after the preliminary round.
Career statistics
Club summary
International goals
Honours
FC Rot-Schwarz Thun
Swiss Cup: 2009
FFC Frankfurt
DFB-Pokal: 2014
UEFA Women's Champions League: 2014-15
FC Barcelona
Primera División: 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
UEFA Women's Champions League: 2020–21, 2022–23, runner-up: 2021–22
Supercopa Femenina: 2019–20, 2021–22, 2022–23
Copa de la Reina: 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
Individual
Swiss Nationalliga A Top goalscorer: 2009
References
External links
Ana-Maria Crnogorčević at UEFA
Ana-Maria Crnogorčević at FC Barcelona
Ana-Maria Crnogorčević at Football.ch
Ana-Maria Crnogorčević at BDFutbol
Hamburger SV women's team
Interview at dfb.de
Photoshoot in Bild
1990 births
Living people
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Croatian expatriate women's footballers
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate women's footballers in Germany
Expatriate women's footballers in Spain
Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Swiss expatriate women's footballers
Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Spain
People from Thun District
Hamburger SV (women) players
1. FFC Frankfurt players
Swiss people of Croatian descent
Switzerland women's international footballers
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Women's association football forwards
Frauen-Bundesliga players
National Women's Soccer League players
Portland Thorns FC players
FIFA Women's Century Club
FC Barcelona Femení players
Atlético Madrid Femenino players
Footballers from the canton of Bern
UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players
UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players