Zsanett Kaján

The native form of this personal name is Kaján Zsanett. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Zsanett Kaján
Personal information
Full name Zsanett Bernadett Kaján[1]
Date of birth (1997-09-16) 16 September 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Budapest, Hungary
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Lazio
Number 5
Youth career
2006–2013 Ferencvárosi TC
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2021 St. John's Red Storm 86 (45)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2014 Ferencvárosi TC 36 (43)
2014–2016 MTK Hungária FC 46 (29)
2022 OL Reign 0 (0)
2022–2024 Fiorentina 24 (9)
2024 → Como (loan) 11 (4)
2024– Lazio 10 (0)
International career‡
2013– Hungary 35 (6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 July 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 March 2019

Zsanett Bernadett Kaján (born 16 September 1997) is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Lazio and the Hungary national team.[2][3]

Collegiate career

Kaján played forward for the St. John's University Red Storm women's soccer team in Queens, New York City, from 2017 to 2021, scoring 45 goals and 11 assists in nearly 6,000 minutes played and 86 appearances. She was one of eight players to score more than 40 total points in the 2021 NCAA Division I women's soccer season.[4][5]

Club career

Ferencvárosi TC

While playing with the youth teams of Ferencvárosi TC,[6] Kaján began her club career with the senior team in 2012. She left the team after the 2013–14 JET-SOL Liga Női NB I season, having tied for second-most goals scored on the team's season with 9.[7]

MTK Hungária FC

Kaján played for MTK Hungária FC from 2014 to 2016. In the JET-SOL Liga 2015–16 season, she scored 10 goals in 14 matches, the league's sixth-largest tally.[5] With MTK, she started at forward in 2014–15 UEFA Women's Champions League Round of 32 matches against SV Neulengbach.[8] She scored and assisted in the first leg of the 2016 JET-SOL Liga finals,[9] which MTK lost to Kaján's former team Ferencvárosi TC on aggregate.[10] She then departed for St. John's University.[5]

OL Reign

Kaján was selected eighth overall in the 2022 NWSL Draft by OL Reign of the National Women's Soccer League and signed with the team on 20 January 2022.[4] She did not appear for the Reign in her six months with the team before being transferred for an undisclosed fee to ACF Fiorentina on 27 June 2022.[2]

Fiorentina

On 18 July 2022, ACF Fiorentina announced that the club had signed Kajan to a contract through June 2023.[11]

International career

Kaján earned her first cap with the Hungary women's national football team at the age of 18.[4]

International goals

Scores and results are list Hungary's goal tally first.
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 15 November 2022 Haladás Sportkomplexum, Szombathely, Hungary  Uzbekistan 5–0 5–0 Friendly
2. 7 April 2023 Alcufer Stadion, Győr, Hungary  Israel 1–1 3–1
3. 3–1

References

  1. ^ "Kaján Zsanett Bernadett". Hungarian Football Federation (in Hungarian). Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b "OL Reign Transfers Forward Zsani Kaján to ACF Fiorentina". OL Reign. 27 June 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Women's World Cup – Zsanett Kaján". www.uefa.com. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  4. ^ a b c "Hungarian International Zsani Kaján Signs with Reign" (Press release). OL Reign. 20 January 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  5. ^ a b c "Zsanett Kaján". St. John's Red Storm. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Ferencvárosi TC – FC Barcelona 2–1 (2–0)". Sport Banyaszat. 12 May 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  7. ^ "Jet-Sol Liga: Mérlegen a szezon – 6. rész: Ferencvárosi TC" (in Hungarian). FociClub.hu. 12 June 2014.
  8. ^ "Neulengbach-MTK Hungária". UEFA. 15 October 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  9. ^ "Ferencvárosi TC – MTK Hungária FC 3–2 (2–1)" (Press release) (in Hungarian). MTK Hungária FC. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  10. ^ "MTK Hungária FC – Ferencvárosi TC 1–3 (0–2) (GALÉRIA)" (Press release) (in Hungarian). MTK Hungária FC. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  11. ^ "Fiorentina Femminile: ufficiale l'arrivo in maglia viola di Kaján" (in Italian). fiorentina.it. 18 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.


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