Jessica Marie Wik (, born 30 January 1992) is a Swedish professional

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who plays as a defender for

FC Rosengård FC Rosengård, formerly Malmö FF Dam (1970–2007) and LdB FC Malmö (2007–2013), is a professional football club based in Malmö, Scania, Sweden. The team was established as Malmö FF Dam in 1970. It started out with playing 7 seasons in th ...

and the Swedish national team. In the 2013–14 winter season she played for Australian W-League club

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. She is predominantly a

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, although she also plays on the right side.

Club career

Linköping, 2010–17

Wik joined

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from

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on a three-year contract in 2010, but was initially loaned back to Smedby. In November 2011 she extended her contract with Linköpings after winning her place in the first team.

Melbourne Victory, 2013–14

Wik joined

ahead of the 2013–14 season, and was named the 2014 Player of the Year in Australia.Jessica Samuelsson
. nbcolympics.com

Arsenal, 2017–19

On 18 August 2017, Arsenal announced that they had signed Wik ahead of the new season. In March 2019 Wik left Arsenal to play for

FC Rosengård, 2019–

Wik returned to Sweden in 2019 to increase her chances of being named to the national team squad for the

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in France. She signed with

and played in seven games during the 2019 Damallsvenskan season. Rosengård finished the season in first place with a record. After returning to Rosengård for the 2020 Damallsvenskan season, Wik was a starting defender in 15 of the 18 matches she played. During a match against Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC on 23 August, she scored the team's second goal of the match in Rosengård's 3–0 win. Rosengård finished in second place with a record.

International career

Wik made her debut for the senior

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team in a 2–1 loss to

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on 22 November 2011. Later

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named Wik in the Sweden squad for

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Honours

Club

;Melbourne Victory FC * W-League: 2013–14 ;Linköpings FC *

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: 2013–14, 2014–15 *

Svenska Supercupen Svenska Supercupen, ''Swedish Super Cup'', was a one-off fixture in Swedish football played between the Allsvenskan champions and the winners of Svenska Cupen. The fixture was played in November, after the Allsvenskan season. In the event of a ...

: 2010 *

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 ...

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; Arsenal * WSL Cup: 2017–18 ;FC Rosengård *

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International

;Sweden *

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: 2012 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship *

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: Silver Medal,

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* * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wik, Jessica Living people 1992 births Sportspeople from Norrköping Swedish women's footballers Sweden women's international footballers Women's association football fullbacks Damallsvenskan players Linköpings FC players Melbourne Victory FC (A-League Women) players Arsenal W.F.C. players 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of Sweden Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in football Expatriate women's soccer players in Australia Expatriate women's footballers in England Swedish expatriates in Australia Swedish expatriates in England Women's Super League players Footballers from Östergötland County UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players