Cristiana Girelli

Cristiana Girelli

Girelli with Juventus in 2019
Personal information
Date of birth	(1990-04-23) 23 April 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth	Gavardo, Italy
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Juventus
Number	10
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2005–2013	Bardolino	66	(60)
2013–2018	Brescia	115	(98)
2018–	Juventus	74	(61)
International career‡
2013–	Italy	102	(53)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 August 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 February 2023

Cristiana Girelli (born 23 April 1990) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Juventus and the Italy women's national team.

Girelli joined Juventus in 2018, after five seasons with Brescia.^[1] She was the second top scorer of the 2014–15 season with 27 goals,^[2] the top scorer of the 2019–20 season with 16 goals,^[3] and the top scorer of the 2020–21 season.^[3]

International career

She made her debut for the senior Italian national team in a March 2013 friendly against England,^[4] and soon afterwards she was selected for the 2013 UEFA Euro's final tournament. She led the Italian scoring in the qualifiers for the 2017 UEFA Euro, where she scored a late winner against Olympic runner-up Sweden. She has also been an Under-19 international.^[5]

In Italy's first game of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, Girelli scored the only goal against Argentina.^[6]

Goals for the Italian WNT in official competitions

Competition	Stage	Date	Location	Opponent	Goals	Result	Overall
2015 FIFA World Cup	Qualifiers	2013–09–26	Bassano del Grappa	Romania	1	1–0	4
		2014–05–08	Skopje	Macedonia	3	11–0
2017 UEFA Euro	Qualifiers	2015–09–18	La Spezia	Georgia	2	6–1	7
		2016–06–07	Gori	Georgia	2	7–0
		2016–09–16	Lurgan	Northern Ireland	2	3–0
	First Stage	2017–07–25	Doetinchem	Sweden	1	3–2
2019 FIFA World Cup	Qualifiers	2017–09–15	La Spezia	Moldova	2	5–0	10
		2017–10–24	Castel di Sangro	Romania	2	3–0
		2018–04–10	Ferrara	Belgium	1	2–1
		2018-06-08	Florence	Portugal	1	3–0
		2018-09-04	Leuven	Belgium	1	1–2
	First Stage	2019-06-14	Reims	Jamaica	3	5–0

International goals

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	26 September 2013	Stadio Rino Mercante, Bassano del Grappa, Italy	Romania	1–0	1–0	2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
2.	7 March 2014	GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus	Canada	1–3	1–3	2014 Cyprus Women's Cup
3.	8 May 2014	Petar Miloševski Training Centre, Skopje, North Macedonia	North Macedonia	2–0	11–0	2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
4.				3–0
5.				6–0
6.	6 March 2015	GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus	Scotland	1–0	3–2	2015 Cyprus Women's Cup
7.				3–0
8.	18 September 2015	Stadio Alberto Picco, La Spezia, Italy	Georgia	5–1	6–1	UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying
9.				6–1
10.	7 June 2016	Tengiz Burjanadze Stadium, Gori, Georgia	Georgia	6–0	7–0
11.				7–0
12.	16 September 2016	Mourneview Park, Lurgan, Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland	1–0	3–0
13.				3–0
14.	8 March 2017	GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus	Czech Republic	1–1	6–2	2017 Cyprus Women's Cup
15.				2–1
16.	25 July 2017	De Vijverberg, Doetinchem, Netherlands	Sweden	3–2	3–2	UEFA Women's Euro 2017
17.	15 September 2017	Stadio Alberto Picco, La Spezia, Italy	Moldova	3–0	5–0	2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
18.				5–0
19.	24 October 2017	Stadio Teofilo Patini, Castel di Sangro, Italy	Romania	1–0	3–0
20.				2–0
21.	20 January 2018	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, France	France	1–0	1–1	Friendly
22.	28 January 2018	Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus	Switzerland	3–0	3–0	2018 Cyprus Women's Cup
23.	2 March 2018	GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus	Wales	1–0	3–0
24.				2–0
25.	10 April 2018	Stadio Paolo Mazza, Ferrara, Italy	Belgium	2–1	2–1	2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
26.	8 June 2018	Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence, Italy	Portugal	1–0	3–0
27.	4 September 2018	Den Dreef, Leuven, Belgium	Belgium	1–1	1–2
28.	6 March 2019	GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus	North Korea	1–0	3–3 (a.e.t.) (6–7 p)	2019 Cyprus Women's Cup
29.	29 May 2019	Stadio Paolo Mazza, Ferrara, Italy	Switzerland	2–0	3–1	Friendly
30.	14 June 2019	Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims, France	Jamaica	1–0	5–0	2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
31.				2–0
32.				3–0
33.	29 August 2019	Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan, Israel	Israel	1–1	3–2	UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
34.	3 September 2019	Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia	Georgia	1–0	1–0
35.	4 October 2019	Centenary Stadium, Ta' Qali, Malta	Malta	2–0	2–0
36.	8 October 2019	Stadio Renzo Barbera, Palermo, Italy	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–0	2–0
37.	8 November 2019	Stadio Ciro Vigorito, Benevento, Italy	Georgia	3–0	6–0
38.	4 March 2020	Estádio Algarve, Faro, Portugal	Portugal	2–1	2–1	2020 Algarve Cup
39.	7 March 2020	Vista Municipal Stadium, Parchal, Portugal	New Zealand	1–0	3–0
40.	22 September 2020	Bosnia and Herzegovina FA Training Centre, Zenica, Bosnia & Herzegovina	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2–0	5–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
41.				3–0
42.				4–0
43.	24 February 2021	Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence, Italy	Israel	5–0	12–0
44.	10 June 2021	Stadio Paolo Mazza, Ferrera, Italy	Netherlands	1–0	1–0	Friendly
45.	17 September 2021	Stadio Nereo Rocco, Trieste, Italy	Moldova	1–0	3–0	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
46.				2–0
47.	21 September 2021	Stadion Branko Čavlović-Čavlek, Karlovac, Croatia	Croatia	4–0	5–0
48.	22 October 2021	Stadio Teofilo Patini, Castel di Sangro, Italy	Croatia	2–0	3–0
49.	30 November 2021	Stadionul Anghel Iordănescu, Voluntari, Romania	Romania	2–0	5–0
50.				3–0
51.				5–0
52.	12 April 2022	Stockhorn Arena, Thun, Switzerland	Switzerland	1–0	1–0
53.	24 July 2023	Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand	Argentina	1–0	1–0	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup

Honours

Bardolino

• Serie A: 2007, 2008, 2009
• Italian Women's Cup: 2006, 2007, 2009
• Italian Women's Super Cup: 2005, 2007, 2008

Brescia

• Serie A: 2015–16
• Italian Women's Cup: 2015, 2016
• Italian Women's Super Cup: 2014, 2015, 2016; runners-up 2017

Juventus

• Serie A: 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
• Coppa Italia: 2018–19, 2021–22 [it]
• Supercoppa Italiana: 2019, 2020–21, 2021–22

Individual

• Serie A Female Footballer of the Year: 2020^[7]
• Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2022^[8]

See also

• List of FIFA Women's World Cup hat-tricks

References

External links

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