Melissa Bjånesøy
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| Full name | Melissa Linn Berman Bjånesøy | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 18 April 1992 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Chicago, Illinois, United States | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Stabæk | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2013 | IL Sandviken | 71 | (31) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014– | Stabæk | 129 | (73) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Norway U19 | 23 | (28) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Norway U20 | 6 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Norway U23 | 1 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2015 | Norway | 21[1] | (4) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 December 2020 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2020 | |||||||||||||||||
Melissa Linn Berman Bjånesøy (born 18 April 1992) is an American-born Norwegian football striker, currently playing for Stabæk in Norway's Toppserien.[2] She previously played for IL Sandviken. In the 2011 season she scored ten goals to help Sandviken avoid relegation.[3]
Career[edit]
An Under-19 international, she was the top scorer of the 2011 U-19 European Championship with seven goals.[4] She scored in all five games from the group stage to the final, which Norway lost 8–1 to Germany.
Veteran national coach Even Pellerud selected Bjånesøy in Norway's squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.[5] In the final at Friends Arena, she was an unused substitute as Norway lost 1–0 to Germany.[6]
Career statistics[edit]
- As of 1 December 2020
| Club | Season | Division | League | Cup | Continental | Total | ||||
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| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Sandviken | 2009 | Toppserien | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | 9 | 1 | |
| 2011 | 18 | 10 | 0 | 0 | - | 18 | 10 | |||
| 2012 | 22 | 13 | 3 | 1 | - | 25 | 14 | |||
| 2013 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 4 | - | 24 | 11 | |||
| Total | 71 | 31 | 5 | 5 | - | - | 76 | 36 | ||
| Stabæk | 2014 | Toppserien | 22 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 12 |
| 2015 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 0 | - | 23 | 6 | |||
| 2016 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | - | 13 | 1 | |||
| 2017 | 21 | 11 | 3 | 1 | - | 24 | 12 | |||
| 2018 | 19 | 9 | 0 | 0 | - | 19 | 9 | |||
| 2019 | 20 | 9 | 1 | 1 | - | 21 | 10 | |||
| 2020 | 1. divisjon | 17 | 25 | 2 | 1 | - | 19 | 26 | ||
| Total | 129 | 73 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 145 | 76 | ||
| Career total | 200 | 104 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 221 | 112 | ||
International goals[edit]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1. | 14 January 2013 | Yongchuan Sports Center, Chongqing, China |  China |
1–0 | 1–0 | 2013 Four Nations Tournament |
| 2. | 13 February 2014 | Komotini Municipal Stadium, Komotini, Greece |  Greece |
5–0 | 5–0 | 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
| 3. | 11 March 2015 | Estádio Municipal, Albufeira, Portugal |  Denmark |
5–1 | 5–2 | 2015 Algarve Cup |
References[edit]
- ^ "Profile". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on June 9, 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ Jakter EM-Medalje og toppkarakter Archived 2012-07-31 at archive.today Football Association of Norway
- ^ 2011 Toppserien table and scorers Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine in Soccerway.com
- ^ Seven-goal Bjånesøy takes scoring prize UEFA.com
- ^ Aarre, Eivind (13 June 2013). "Pellerud 'excited' by Norway squad". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- ^ Burke, Chris (28 July 2013). "Angerer the hero as Germany make it six in a row". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Melissa Bjånesøy.
- Melissa Bjånesøy – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Melissa Bjånesøy at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
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