 Schelin in 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Charlotta Eva Schelin | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 27 February 1984[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Trångsund, Sweden[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1990 | Kållereds SK | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1991–1998 | Hällesåkers IF | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Mölnlycke IF | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2008 | Göteborg | 123 | (92) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2016 | Lyon | 138 | (143) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2018 | FC Rosengård | 17 | (10) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Sweden U17 | 6[3] | (3[3]) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | Sweden U19 | 7[3] | (2[3]) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2017 | Sweden | 185[3] | (88[3]) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:49, 5 August 2016 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:32, 25 July 2017 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Charlotta Eva Schelin (born 27 February 1984) is a Swedish former professional footballer who most recently played as a striker for FC Rosengård of the Damallsvenskan. She made her debut for the Sweden national team in March 2004 and was appointed joint captain alongside Caroline Seger in October 2012. Schelin has represented her country in the 2005, 2009, 2013, and 2017 editions of the UEFA Women's Championship, as well as the 2007, 2011, and 2015 FIFA Women's World Cups. She also played at the Olympic football tournaments in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016.[4]
In October 2014, Schelin became Sweden's all time record goalscorer by scoring her 73rd international goal in a friendly defeat by Germany.
Schelin began her senior club career with Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC (then known as Landvetter FC) in 2001. She developed into a prolific goalscorer in the Damallsvenskan then made a lucrative transfer to Lyon in 2008, rejecting a competing offer from the American Women's Professional Soccer league. During her eight-season stay at Lyon, she won eight consecutive Division 1 Féminine titles, five Coupes de France Féminine, three UEFA Women's Champions Leagues and was the top goalscorer in the 2012–13 and 2014–15 Division 1 Féminine seasons. In 2013, she became the first foreign UNFP Player of the Year. In 2016, she returned to Swedish football with FC Rosengård, departing Lyon as the French club's all time record goalscorer with 225 goals in 225 appearances.[5] She has been awarded Diamantbollen (the Diamond Ball), given to the Swedish player of the year, a record five times, including four consecutive times from 2011 to 2014.
On 30 August 2018, she announced her retirement due to chronic head and neck pain resulting from an injury suffered while playing for FC Rosengård in 2017.[6][7]
- ^ a b "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
- ^ "Profile". Svenska Fotbollförbundet (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f Caps and Goals
- ^ "Lotta SCHELIN". Olympics. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- ^ "Lotta Schelin, Player Profile". OLWeb.fr. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ Bråstedt, Mats (30 August 2018). "Lotta Schelin avslutar karriären" (in Swedish). Expressen. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ "Swedish legend Lotta Schelin announces retirement due to ongoing pain". 30 August 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2018.