Frida Maanum

Frida Maanum
Maanum with Linköping in 2020
Personal information
Full name Frida Leonhardsen Maanum
Date of birth (1999-07-16) 16 July 1999 (age 24)
Place of birth Norway
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Midfielder, defender
Team information
Current team
Arsenal
Number 12
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2016 Lyn 45 (8)
2017 Stabæk 11 (2)
2017–2021 Linköping 80 (22)
2021– Arsenal 43 (12)
International career
2014–2015 Norway U16 12 (3)
2014–2016 Norway U17 24 (5)
2016–2017 Norway U19 10 (1)
2017 Norway U23 2 (0)
2017– Norway 66 (11)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 May 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 3 May 2023
Maanum on Linköpings FC versus IK Uppsala, September 27, 2020

Frida Leonhardsen Maanum (born 16 July 1999) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or defender for FA WSL club Arsenal and the Norway national team.

Club career

2014–2016: Lyn

Maanum played youth football for Bærumløkka, Stabæk, and eventually Lyn. She was part of a talented age-specific team in Lyn, together with Heidi Ellingsen and Andrea Wilmann, among others. The team won both the Dana Cup and the Norway Cup in 2014. In the autumn of 2014, she made her debut for Lyn's A team in the 1st division. As a 16-year-old, in 2015 she was on a training stay at the big Germany club VfL Wolfsburg, where she received very good feedback.

2017: Stabæk

In the winter of 2017, she went to Stabæk in the Toppserien. She played all the games for Stabæk in the spring season, before it became known in August that she announced a transfer to Swedish Linköpings FC after only half a season in Stabæk.

2017–2021: Linköping

She joined Linköpings FC in Sweden in 2017, at the age of 18. She would win the 2017 Damallsvenskan title in her first season with the club. In her first season in Linköping, she helped win the series championship in the Damallsvenskan. She became a key player in the Swedish top club. She scored three goals in ten games during the 2021 Damallsvenskan season, serving as the club's captain. She scored in her final game for the club in June 2021, a 4–1 victory over Örebro. Before the 2021 season, at the age of 21, she was named the team's captain. When the local newspaper Corren in May 2021 named the 30 best Linköping players of all time, they placed Maanum in 14th place.

2021–: Arsenal

On 27 July 2021 it was announced that Maanum had signed a deal to join English FA WSL side Arsenal. She quickly established herself in the first team of her new club, and Arsenal coach Jonas Eidevall stated, "I knew she was good, but she was better than I expected." On 5 October 2021, she scored her first goal for Arsenal in a Champions League match against Barcelona. Despite a very good start at her new club, there was significantly less playing time the following spring. She was nevertheless nominated as "young player of the year" in the Women's Super League 2021/22.

In the Women's Super League 2022/23 season, Maanum was nominated for Barclay's WSL player of the season. She also won the Arsenal Women's supporter's club player of the season and came second in the Arsenal Women's player of the season vote, as voted for by fans. Her goal against Bayern Munich in the knockout stages of the UEFA Women's Champions League won goal of the tournament. The same goal missed out on Arsenal Women's goal of the season by 2 votes.

National team career

Maanum has national matches for U16, U17, U19, U23, and the Norwegian senior national team.

At the age of 17, she was selected for the squad at the UEFA European Championship 2017 in Netherlands. At this point, she had only played 10 matches at the top level in Norway. She made her debut on the senior national team on 11 July 2017, when she started the dress rehearsal before the Euro against France. Less than a week later on her 18th birthday, 16 July 2017, she started Norway's opening match at the Euro against the host country the Netherlands.

In October 2020, she scored the game-winning goal against Wales to qualify Norway for the 2022 Euros.

She was also in Norway's squad for the World Cup in France 2019 and the Euro in England 2022.

In November 2022 she was again part of Norway's team who held England to a draw with her equaliser. England's Lionesses had been unbeaten in 2022 and this friendly was their last match of the year.

On 19 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player Norwegian squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023.

Personal life

Maanum is in a relationship with Swedish footballer Emma Lennartsson.

Career statistics

Club

As of 27 May 2023
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Continental Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Lyn 2014 1. divisjon 7 0 0 0 7 0
2015 20 4 1 0 21 4
2016 18 4 0 0 18 4
Total 45 8 1 0 0 0 46 8
Stabæk 2017 Toppserien 11 2 2 1 13 3
Linköping 2017 Damallsvenskan 6 1 1 0 7 1
2018 22 5 6 2 6 0 34 7
2019 22 6 2 0 3 2 27 8
2020 20 7 0 0 20 7
2021 0 0 1 1 1 1
Total 70 19 10 3 9 2 89 24
Arsenal 2021–22 FA WSL 21 3 5 0 12 1 34 4
2022–23 22 9 5 2 11 5 38 16
Total 43 12 10 2 23 6 76 20
Career total 169 41 23 6 32 8 224 55

International

Scores and results list Norway's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Maanum goal.
List of international goals scored by Frida Maanum
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 3 September 2019 Brann Stadion, Bergen, Norway  England 1–1 2–1 Friendly
2 8 October 2019 Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands  Faroe Islands 9–0 13–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
3 27 October 2020 Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff, Wales  Wales 1–0 1–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
4 25 November 2021 Arena Kombëtare, Tirana, Albania  Albania 1–0 7–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
5 5–0
6 30 November 2021 Yerevan Football Academy Stadium, Yerevan, Armenia  Armenia 4–0 10–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
7 7 April 2022 Sandefjord Arena, Sandefjord, Norway  Kosovo 3–0 5–1 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
8 7 July 2022 St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England  Northern Ireland 2–0 4–1 UEFA Women's Euro 2022
9 15 November 2022 Pinatar Arena, Murcia, Spain  England 1–1 1–1 Friendly
10 11 April 2023 Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden  Sweden 1–1 3–3 Friendly
11 3–3

Honours

Linköping

Arsenal

Norway


This page was last updated at 2023-07-30 11:59 UTC. Update now. View original page.

All our content comes from Wikipedia and under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.


Top

If mathematical, chemical, physical and other formulas are not displayed correctly on this page, please useFirefox or Safari