Ana-Maria Crnogorčević (born 3 October 1990) is a Swiss professional

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who plays as a winger or a

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for Spanish

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club

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and the Switzerland national team. A fast player with good heading ability, she is considered, alongside

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, one of Switzerland's most talented footballers.

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

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final. Crnogorčević scored a

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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

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team

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. She made her debut for HSV on 27 September, scoring in a 3–2 win against

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. Crnogorčević finished her first season in Germany with eight goals from 19 appearances. For the 2011/12 season she moved to

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, with which she won the Champions League in

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. She signed with

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ahead of the

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In December 2019, Crnogorčević signed with

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. She won the Champions League with Barcelona in the 2020–21 season.

International career

Crnogorčević, who has

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, turned down an approach to play for

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when she was 17. Instead 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. On 12 August 2009 she made her debut for the Swiss senior team in a friendly against

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. In August 2010, she scored five goals in an 8–0

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qualifying win over

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. 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 June 4, 2016, she surpassed previous Swiss all-time goalscorer

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by adding two goals in a qualifier against the

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. At the European Championship, she scored a goal in the 1-1 draw with

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, 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

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. 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 June 30, 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

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. 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

Club

;FC Rot-Schwarz Thun *

: Winner, 2009 ;FFC Frankfurt *

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: Winner,

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: Winner,

;Portland Thorns *

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: Runner-up,

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;FC Barcelona * Primera División: 2019–20,

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, 2021–22 *

: Winner,

, Runner-up, 2021–22 * Supercopa Femenina: 2019–20, 2021–22 *

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: 2019–20,

, 2021–22

Individual

* Swiss Nationalliga A Top goalscorer: 2009

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Crnogorcevic, AnaMaria 1990 births Living people Swiss women's footballers 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 Sportspeople from the canton of Bern UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players