Tessa Wullaert
![]() Wullaert in 2019 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Tessa Wullaert | ||
Date of birth | 19 March 1993 | ||
Place of birth | Tielt, Belgium | ||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2008–2012 | Zulte Waregem | ||
2012–2013 | Anderlecht | 15 | (6) |
2013–2015 | Standard Liège | 51 | (34) |
2015–2018 | VfL Wolfsburg | 37 | (7) |
2018–2020 | Manchester City | 31 | (6) |
International career‡ | |||
2008 | Belgium U15 | 2 | (1) |
2008–2010 | Belgium U17 | 17 | (3) |
2008–2011 | Belgium U19 | 14 | (8) |
2011– | Belgium | 86 | (42) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 February 2020 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 8 November 2019 |
Tessa Wullaert (born 19 March 1993) is a Belgian footballer who plays as a forward for the Belgian national team.
Club career
Belgium
Wullaert's first team was SV Zulte Waregem in the Belgian First Division, where she played from 2008 to 2012.[1] For the 2012–13 season, when a new joint league between Belgium and the Netherlands called BeNe League was created, she moved to RSC Anderlecht, with which she won the Belgian Cup. She left after one year at the club and signed for Standard Liège, scoring 16 league goals during the 2013–14 season and winning the Belgian Cup again. On her second season (2014–15) playing for Standard, she won the BeNe League top scorer award with 18 goals helping the club to win the title.[2]
Wolfsburg
In May 2015, Wullaert moved to VfL Wolfsburg.[3]. She spent three seasons with the club, winning two Bundesliga and three DFB-Pokal titles. She also appeared in two Champions League finals, both as a substitute.
Manchester City
In June 2018, Wullaert signed for English FA WSL club Manchester City.[4] In her first season with the club, Wullaert won the FA Cup and League Cup double, finishing runner-up in the league. Following two seasons with the club, Wullaert announced she had declined a new contract and would be leaving.[5][6]
International career
Wullaert represented Belgium at the 2011 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship[7] and in the same year made her debut for the senior national team.[8][9] After only a few years, she achieved the record for highest number of international goals by a Belgian female football player: she caught up with team captain Aline Zeler in November 2015 and overtook her in March 2016.
Career statistics
International goals
- As of match played 8 November 2019. Belgium score listed first, score column indicates score after each Wullaert goal.
Honours
Club
RSC Anderlecht
- Belgian Women's Cup winner: 2013
Standard Liège
- BeNe League winner: 2014–15
- Belgian Women's Cup winner: 2014
VfL Wolfsburg
- DFB-Pokal winner: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18
- Bundesliga winner: 2016–17, 2017–18
- UEFA Women's Champions League runner-up: 2015–16, 2017–18
Manchester City
- FA Women's League Cup winner: 2018–19
- FA Cup winner: 2018–19
Individual
- BeNe League Top Scorer: 2014–15
- Belgian Golden Shoe: 2016 & 2018 & 2019
References
- ^ 2011–12 squad Archived 2012-03-15 at the Wayback Machine in Zulte Waregem's website -> Info DZW -> Speelsters
- ^ "Standard Liege are BeNe League champions" (in Dutch). BeNeLeague.com. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
- ^ "Tessa Wullaert switches Standard Liège for Wolfsburg" (in German). VfL Wolfsburg. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
- ^ "Manchester City Women sign Tessa Wullaert from Wolfsburg". Sky Sports. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
- ^ "Tessa Wullaert: Manchester City's Belgium forward to leave club". BBC Sport. 26 June 2020.
- ^ Oatway, Caroline. "Tessa Wullaert to depart". www.mancity.com.
- ^ Quick-fire goals beat Belgium and keep Italy perfect. UEFA
- ^ Profile in UEFA's website
- ^ Tessa Wullaert scores for the Red Devils against Northern Ireland. Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch)
External links
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- Tessa Wullaert – UEFA competition record (archive)
- Belgium national profile (in Dutch) at KBVB / URBSFA
- Player German domestic football stats (in German) at DFB
- Tessa Wullaert at Soccerway
- 1993 births
- Living people
- Women's association football forwards
- Belgian women's footballers
- Belgium women's international footballers
- Belgian expatriate footballers
- Belgian footballers
- Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Belgian expatriate sportspeople in England
- Expatriate women's footballers in Germany
- VfL Wolfsburg (women) players
- Standard Liège (women) players
- Manchester City W.F.C. players
- FA Women's Super League players
- RSC Anderlecht (women) players
- People from Tielt
- Frauen-Bundesliga players
- BeNe League players
- Belgian women's football biography stubs