Guro Reiten (born 26 July 1994) is a Norwegian professional

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who plays as a winger for English club

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and the Norway national team. Before joining Chelsea in 2019, she played in Norway for

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, Kattem,

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

Club career

Sunndal

Born in

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, Møre og Romsdal, Reiten grew up in the village of

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and began her senior career with her local side

, then in the second division of the Norwegian football.

Kattem

At age 16, Reiten joined

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side Kattem in 2011. 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.

Trondheims-Ørn

After Kattem pulled out of the Toppserien, Reiten joined

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

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LSK Kvinner

She then transferred to Toppserien side LSK Kvinner for the

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season. During her two-and-a-half seasons with the club, she made 53 league appearances, scoring 51 goals in the process. With LSK Kvinner, Reiten was a back-to-back Toppserien league winner in 2017, also winning the Toppserien's regular season golden boot in the same season. Reiten and LSK Kvinner repeated both these feats in

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, including winning the 2018 Norway Women's Cup. Reiten also went on to win the 2018 Toppserien Player of the Year and Goal of the Year awards. At her time of departing LSK Kvinner, Reiten was the Toppserien's leading top scorer for the

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season.

Chelsea

On 31 May 2019, Reiten signed with the

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side

. It was reported that the transfer fee was around £12,000.

International career

Reiten has represented Norway at all youth international levels. She made her full international debut for

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in January 2014, against

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. She was a member of the Norwegian squad at the UEFA European Championship 2017. In March 2019, Reiten was in the Norwegian squad that went on to win the 2019 Algarve Cup. She was subsequently named to the Norwegian 2019 FIFA World Cup squad in May 2019.

Personal life

Following the 2022 Oslo shooting, Reiten publicly came out as a lesbian in an interview with the Norwegian newspaper ''

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''.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Norway's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Reiten goal.''

Honours

LSK Kvinner *

: 2018; runner-up: 2014 Chelsea *

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runner-up:

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: 2019–20,

, 2021–22 *

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, 2021–22 *

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: 2019–20,

; runner-up: 2021–22, 2022–23 *

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Norway *

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Individual *Toppserien Golden Boot: 2017, 2018 *Toppserien Player of the Year: 2018 *Toppserien Goal of the Year: 2018 *FA WSL PFA Team of the Year: 2021–22 * Norwegian Golden Ball: 2022

References

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