Lina Hurtig

Lina Hurtig
Hurtig playing for Arsenal in 2023
Personal information
Full name Lina Mona Andréa Hurtig[1]
Date of birth (1995-09-05) 5 September 1995 (age 29)
Place of birth Avesta, Sweden
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Arsenal
Number 17
Youth career
Avesta AIK
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011 Gustafs GoIF 20 (14)
2012–2016 Umeå IK 88 (24)
2017–2020 Linköping 54 (17)
2020–2022 Juventus 34 (11)
2022– Arsenal 15 (2)
International career‡
2011–2012 Sweden U17 6 (2)
2012–2014 Sweden U19 23 (7)
2014– Sweden 71 (21)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  Sweden
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team
FIFA Women's World Cup
Bronze medal – third place 2019 France
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Australia-New Zealand
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:35, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:30, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Lina Mona Andréa Hurtig (born 5 September 1995) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a forward for English Women's Super League club Arsenal and the Sweden national team.[2]

Club career

When she was 15 years old, Hurtig played the 2011 season with Gustafs GoIF in the Norrettan, which at the time was the second division of Swedish football.[3] She scored 14 goals and made four assists in 20 games.[4] At the end of that campaign she was approached by Damallsvenskan clubs LdB FC Malmö and Umeå IK. She joined the latter after a short training spell.[5]

Upon Umeå's relegation following the 2016 season, Hurtig transferred to league champions Linköping FC on a two-year contract.[6] In 2017, she and her team won the 2017 Damallsvenskan league title.

On 31 August 2020, Hurtig joined Juventus.[7] She won back to back league titles with Juventus in the 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons. In the 2021–22 Champions League, Hurtig scored the first goal in a 4-0 victory against Servette FC, helping send Juventus to the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time.[8]

On 18 August 2022, Hurtig joined Arsenal on a permanent transfer,[9] for a fee later reported by Juventus as € 73k.[10] She scored her first goal for Arsenal on 6 September 2023 in the 3-0 victory against her former club Linköping in the 2023–24 Champions League first qualifying round.[11]

International career

Hurtig with Sweden in 2013

As a Swedish under-19 international, Hurtig was a regular starter at the 2012 U-19 European Championship.[12] She started the victorious Swedish team's 1–0 extra time win over Spain in the final.

In December 2012, national team coach Pia Sundhage called up 17-year-old Hurtig to a senior squad training camp at Bosön.[13] Hurtig was also named in the senior squad for a 1–1 friendly draw with Brazil on 19 June 2013.[14] She was hopeful of making the hosts' final squad for UEFA Euro 2013, but was not selected.

After leaving Hurtig out of the final pre-tournament friendly against Norway in May 2013, Sundhage described her as a potentially world class player.[15]

Hurtig won her first senior cap as a substitute in a 1–1 draw with Canada in November 2014.[16]

Hurtig was selected in the Sweden squad that travelled to France for the 2019 World Cup. She scored her first goal in the tournament in a 5–1 win against Thailand.[17] In July 2021, she was selected in the Sweden squad for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[18] On 21 July, she scored in the 3–0 victory over United States.[19]

On 13 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player squad for the 2023 World Cup.[20] In the Round of 16, she successfully converted on a video-confirmed penalty in the shootout against the United States, knocking the two-time defending champions out of the tournament.[21]

Personal life

On 16 August 2019, Lina Hurtig announced that she had married Lisa Lantz, her teammate at Umeå IK and Linköping FC.[22] On 11 June 2021, Hurtig's daughter was born. In early December 2024 Lina’s second child was born, after wife Lisa gave birth.[23]

Career statistics

International

As of goal scored on 22 September 2023
Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Hurtig goal.
List of international goals scored by Lina Hurtig
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Ref.
1 22 September 2015 Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden  Poland 1–0 3–0 UEFA Euro 2017 qualification
2 19 September 2017 Stadion Varteks, Varaždin, Croatia  Croatia 2–0 2019 FIFA World Cup qualification
3 24 October 2017 Borås Arena, Borås, Sweden  Hungary 5–0
4 16 June 2019 Allianz Riviera, Nice, France  Thailand 4–0 5–1 2019 FIFA World Cup
5 8 October 2019 Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden  Slovakia 2–0 7–0 UEFA Euro 2022 qualification
6 7 March 2020 Lagos Municipal Stadium, Lagos, Portugal  Denmark 1–0 1–2 2020 Algarve Cup [24]
7 17 September 2020 Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden  Hungary 8–0 UEFA Euro 2022 qualification
8 5–0
9 22 October 2020  Latvia 1–0 7–0
10 19 February 2021 Hibernians Stadium, Paola, Malta  Austria 3–1 6–1 Friendly
11 10 April 2021 Friends Arena, Stockholm, Sweden  United States 1–0 1–1 [25]
12 13 April 2021 Widzew Stadium, Łódź, Poland  Poland 4–2
13 21 July 2021 Ajinomoto Stadium, Chofu, Japan  United States 3–0 2020 Summer Olympics
14 24 July 2021 Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama, Japan  Australia 2–2 4–2
15 25 November 2021 Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden  Finland 2–1 2023 FIFA World Cup qualification
16 30 November 2021 Stadion, Malmö, Sweden  Slovakia 1–0 3–0
17 7 April 2022 Tengiz Burjanadze Stadium, Gori, Georgia  Georgia 9–0 15–0
18 11–0
19 28 June 2022 Friends Arena, Stockholm, Sweden  Brazil 2–1 3–1 Friendly
20 6 September 2022 Tampere Stadium, Tampere, Finland  Finland 2–0 5–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
21 22 September 2023 Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden  Spain 2–2 2–3 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League

Honours

Linköpings FC

Juventus

Arsenal

Sweden

References

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