Sarah Joelle Gregorius (born 6 August 1987), is an
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
player who has represented
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
at international level.
She plays for AFC Amsterdam since august 2021.
International career
Gregorius was a member of the New Zealand side at the
2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship
The 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship was held in Russia from 17 August to 3 September 2006. It was the officially recognized world championship for women's under-20 national association football teams. Matches were held in four Moscow sta ...
playing in all three games at the finals in Russia, where they lost to
Australia
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(0–3) and
Russia
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(2–3), before holding Brazil to a goalless draw.
She made her senior
Football Ferns
The New Zealand women's national football team, nicknamed the Football Ferns, is governed by New Zealand Football (NZF). The New Zealand national team qualified for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, held in China in September 2007, sending the t ...
debut in a 14–0 win over
Vanuatu
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in the Oceania Women's Nations Cup on 29 September 2010.
She scored her first senior international goal in her second appearance as she claimed a
hat-trick
A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match, or another achievement based on the number three.
Origin
The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three wic ...
in a 10–0 win over
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on 1 October 2010.
She played all New Zealand's matches at both the
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup competition, the world championship for women's national association football teams. It was held from 26 June to 17 July 2011 in Germany, which won the right to host the even ...
in Germany and
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup was the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international soccer championship contested by the women's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament was hosted by Canada for the ...
in Canada, 6 matches overall (3 in each tournament).
Gregorius scored a goal against
England
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in a
friendly
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match on June 1st 2019, helping New Zealand win 1–0.
She was part of New Zealand's
2012
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and
2016 Olympic teams. She also played in the
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
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in France.
On 4 March 2020, Gregorius played her 100th match for New Zealand against
Belgium
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in the
2020 Algarve Cup
The 2020 Algarve Cup was the 27th edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational Women's association football, women's football tournament held annually in Portugal. It took place from 4-11 March 2020.
The final was scratched and Germany was awarded ...
, when she also announced her retirement from international football.
International goals
Club career
In July 2013, Gregorius signed for
FA WSL
The Women's Super League (WSL), currently known as the Barclays Women's Super League (BWSL) for sponsorship reasons, is the highest league of women's football in England. Established in 2010, it is run by the Football Association and features t ...
league-leaders
Liverpool from German
Frauen-Bundesliga
The Frauen-Bundesliga (German for ''Women's Federal League''), currently known as the FLYERALARM Frauen-Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of league competition for women's association football in Germany. In 1990 the German Foo ...
club
SC 07 Bad Neuenahr.
Honours
Club
; Liverpool
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Women's Super League (1):
2013
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Individual
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IFFHS OFC Woman Team of the Decade 2011–2020
References
External links
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Profileat
NZF
Profile at
AS Elfen Saitama
*
1987 births
Living people
New Zealand women's association footballers
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic association footballers of New Zealand
SC 07 Bad Neuenahr players
Liverpool F.C. Women players
Expatriate women's footballers in Germany
Expatriate women's footballers in England
Expatriate women's footballers in Japan
New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Germany
New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in England
New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Sportspeople from Lower Hutt
Women's association football forwards
New Zealand women's international footballers
Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players
FIFA Century Club
New Zealand expatriate women's association footballers
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