Emma Nanny Charlotte Kullberg (born 25 September 1991) is a Swedish professional

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who plays as a defender for Brighton & Hove Albion of the English FA Women's Super League. She previously played for the

Damallsvenskan The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...

team BK Häcken. Kullberg made her debut for the

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in November 2019 and won a

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with the team at the

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Club career

Kullberg transferred to Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC in October 2019, after a successful 2019 season with

KIF Örebro DFF KIF Örebro DFF is a Swedish women's football club based in Örebro. Founded in 1980 as the women's football section of multi-sports association Karlslunds IF, the club's first team currently plays in the Damallsvenskan, the top level of the wome ...

in which she played in all 22 Damallsvenskan matches and broke into the national team. In January 2022 she joined FA Women's Super League club Brighton & Hove Albion. She signed an 18-month contract in a double transfer with team mate

Julia Zigiotti Olme Julia Margareta Zigiotti Olme (born 24 December 1997) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Frauen-Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Sweden women's national team. She played for the Damallsvenskan team BK Häcken ...

International career

On 7 November 2019 Kullberg made her senior

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debut, in a 3–2

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defeat by the United States in

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. Kullberg was selected in Sweden's

squad, appearing as a late substitute in the final as Sweden lost to Canada on

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Private life

Kullberg lives together with Swedish footballer

in a same-sex relationship.L-Mag.de: Das sind die 59 lesbischen Stars der Fussball-EM 2022 (German)
July 2022

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* * * * 1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Umeå Swedish women's footballers Sweden women's international footballers Damallsvenskan players Women's association football defenders BK Häcken FF players Umeå IK players KIF Örebro DFF players Vittsjö GIK players Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of Sweden Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Brighton & Hove Albion W.F.C. players Women's Super League players Expatriate women's footballers in England Swedish expatriate sportspeople in England Swedish expatriate women's footballers UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players Swedish LGBT sportspeople LGBT association football players Lesbian sportswomen 21st-century LGBT people {{Sweden-women-footy-bio-stub