Kheira Hamraoui


Kheira Hamraoui is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish club FC Barcelona.

Club career

Hamraoui began her football career with CNFE Clairefontaine, a renowned football academy for female French youth players.
She's played the majority of her career in the Division 1 Féminine, for clubs including Hénin-Beaumont, AS Saint-Étienne, and PSG. At St. Étienne, she was a crucial part of the club's first and only major title win, the 2011 Challenge de France.
Hamraoui signed for Lyon from PSG in 2016 after spending 4 years with the club. It was here that she won two continental trebles by winning the Champions League twice, winning the Coupe de France Féminine twice, and finishing first in the Division 1 Féminine for two consecutive seasons. In June 2018, she announced her departure from the French league and that she was looking for a new opportunity abroad.
She left Lyon in 2018 to sign a two-year contract with FC Barcelona, her first club venture outside of France.
In her first season with the club, she helped them progress to the semifinals of the UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time. They played Bayern, and Hamraoui bagged an important away goal in the first leg with a low shot to the bottom left corner. In the return leg at the Mini Estadi, Barcelona increased their aggregate score after a goal scored from a penalty, but Hamraoui found herself getting sent off after receiving a second yellow card. Barcelona won 2-0 on aggregate to advance to their first ever UWCL final, but Hamraoui was suspended and was not able to play against her former club. Lyon won the match 4-1.

International career

In October 2012 she made her debut for the French national team in a friendly game against England.
She was part of the French squad at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
Hamraoui has not received a national team call-up since April 2019 and was not selected to the France squad at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.

International goals

Honors

Club

;AS St. Etienne
;Paris Saint-Germain
;Olympique Lyonnais
;FC Barcelona