Sarah Abu-Sabbah

Sarah Abu-Sabbah
Personal information
Full name Sarah Basem Najem Abu-Sabbah
Date of birth (1999-10-27) 27 October 1999 (age 25)
Place of birth Düsseldorf, Germany
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 1. FC Union Berlin
Number 9
Youth career
2014–2015 SGS Essen
2015–2016 Bayer Leverkusen U17
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2016 Bayer Leverkusen 1 (0)
2017–2018 Bayer Leverkusen II 22 (22)
2018–2021 Borussia Mönchengladbach 65 (46)
2022–2023 SV Meppen 9 (0)
2023– 1. FC Union Berlin 22 (42)
International career‡
2016 Jordan U17 3 (1)
2017– Jordan 14 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 July 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Sarah Basem Najem Abu-Sabbah (Arabic: سارة باسم نجم أبو صباح; born 27 October 1999) is a German-born Jordanian footballer who plays for 1. FC Union Berlin in Germany's 2. Frauen-Bundesliga.[2] She has also played for the Jordan under-17 team that played in the 2016 FIFA U-17 World Cup and the senior national team of Jordan.

Early life

Abu-Sabbah was born on October 27, 1999[3] in Düsseldorf, Germany. Her father migrated to Germany in 1994. She started playing football at age 4 with her mother registering her at a boys' football club.[4]

Youth career

Abu-Sabbah played for the youth teams of SGS Essen and Bayer Leverkusen at the U17 Bundesliga South/SouthWest division in the 2014–15 and 2015–16 season respectively.

Club career

On March 20, 2016 she made her first appearance for the senior team of Bayer Leverkusen at the Frauen-Bundesliga,[3] becoming the first female Jordanian to play in a league outside Jordan[4] and the first Arab to play in the German women's league.[5] She only played in one match. In 2017, she is playing for Bayer Leverkusen II of third-tier league Regionalliga West.[6]

In June 2018, she joined Borussia Mönchengladbach,[7] where she achieved the top scorer in the 2020–21 2. Bundesliga with 11 goals.[8] She played for newly promoted Bundesliga club SV Meppen in 2022.[9] In July 2023, she signed for 1. FC Union Berlin in the Regionalliga Nordost,[10] contributing to their promotion to the 2. Bundesliga in her debut season at the club.[11]

International career

Abu-Sabbah first joined the Jordan U-17 team in 2015.[5] At the 2016 FIFA U-17 World Cup which was hosted in Jordan, she debuted for the under-17 team of Jordan in the match against Spain.[12] She later scored the first goal of the Jordan U-17 team in the tournament in their 1-4 loss to Mexico.[4]

She debuted for the senior team in September 2017 in the 2–1 friendly win against Latvia in Riga.[6] She was among the players that represented Jordan at the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup.[2][13]

International goals

Scores and results list Jordan's goal tally first.
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 12 April 2018 Amman International Stadium, Amman, Jordan  China 1–1 1–8 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup
2. 5 April 2023 Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan  East Timor 3–0 3–1 2024 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
3. 27 February 2024 Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Sports City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia  Palestine 3–0 5–0 2022 WAFF Women's Championship

References

  1. ^ "List of Players" (PDF). FIFAdata. 20 October 2016. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Group A - Final squad list". the-afc.com. 29 March 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Sarah Abu Sabbah". DFB Data Center. Deutscher Fußball-Bund. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Freij, Muath (8 October 2016). "Sara Abu Sabbah's passion for football brings her closer to Jordan". The Jordan Times. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Jordan's Abu-Sabbah proud to make history". FIFA. 4 October 2016. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Sarah (17): Nationalspielerin Aus der 3.Liga" [Sarah (17): National team player of 3. Liga]. Fussball.de (in German). 22 October 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  7. ^ Glose, Jana (17 December 2021). ""In Jordanien kommen 20.000 Zuschauer zur Frauen-Nationalmannschaft"" (in German). RP Online.
  8. ^ "2. Frauen-Bundesliga Nord – Torjäger 2020/21" [2. Frauen-Bundesliga North – Goalscorers 2020–21]. weltfussball.de (in German).
  9. ^ "Frauen: Sarah Abu Sabbah verlässt Borussia" (in German). Borussia Mönchengladbach. 18 May 2022.
  10. ^ "Sarah Abu Sabbah verstärkt den 1. FC Union Berlin" (in German). 1. FC Union Berlin. 4 July 2023.
  11. ^ "Union Berlin und Bochum steigen in 2. Frauen-Bundesliga auf" (in German). Kicker. 16 June 2024.
  12. ^ "Sarah ABU-SABBAH". FIFA. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  13. ^ "AFC Women's Asian Cup : Jordan 1-2 Philippines (Lineups)". Retrieved 7 April 2018.