Ana-Maria Crnogorčević

Ana-Maria Crnogorčević (born 3 October 1990) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a winger or right-back for Première Ligue club Strasbourg and the Switzerland national team. A fast player with good heading ability, she is considered one of Switzerland's most talented footballers.

Early and personal life Ana-Maria Crnogorčević was born on 3 October 1990 in Steffisburg, by Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, to Croat parents from Ruma, in Vojvodina, with origins in Drniš, Croatia. She has dual nationality her first language was Croatian. She speaks many languages and received scorn from some rival fans while playing for Barcelona and responding in Catalan to a question asked in Spanish. Crnogorčević has a sister and was raised Catholic. She was the top-scorer with 24 goals in 16 games in the Nationalliga A. For the 2011–12 season she moved to 1. FFC Frankfurt, with which she won the Champions League in 2015.

She signed with Portland Thorns FC ahead of the 2018 National Women's Soccer League season. In December 2019, Crnogorčević signed with Barcelona. She won the Champions League with Barcelona in the 2020–21 and 2022–23 seasons.

On 5 August 2024, Seattle Reign FC announced that they had signed Crnogorčević from Spanish club Atlético Madrid through the 2025 season for an undisclosed transfer fee. Crnogorčević made her debut for the club on 25 August 2024, starting and playing 75 minutes in a 1–0 victory against North Carolina Courage. She made 22 league appearances across two seasons before departing from the Reign at the end of 2025.

International career

Youth Aged 17, she scored 25 goals in 29 games for the Switzerland U19 team. In August 2010, she scored five goals in an 8–0 World Cup qualifying win over Kazakhstan.

Crnogorčević succeeded with the Swiss national team in qualifying for the 2017 European Championship in the Netherlands, where she was top scorer with seven goals. On 4 June 2016, she surpassed previous Swiss all-time goalscorer Lara Dickenmann by adding two goals in a qualifier against the Czech Republic. At the European Championship, she scored a goal in the 1–1 draw with France, but her team was eliminated after the group stage. In the subsequent qualification for the 2019 World Cup, she scored two goals in eleven games. However, the Swiss did not qualify this time because they lost in the last play-off round against European champions Netherlands.

On 13 April 2021, she converted her team's last penalty to 3–2 in the second leg of qualifying play-off for the Euro 2022 against the Czech Republic, succeeding in qualifying for the Euro finals. In the first leg, she scored the goal for the 1–1 equaliser with a penalty in the 90th minute. In all, she scored six goals in qualifying, once again being her team's top scorer.

On 30 June 2022, Crnogorčević matched Lara Dickenmann's national cap record with her 135th international match in the 4–0 defeat in the European Championship preparatory game against England. At the European Championship in 2022, she played in all three group games in the starting line-up. Switzerland was eliminated after the preliminary round.

On 23 June 2025, Crnogorčević was called up to the Switzerland squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025.

Career statistics Club

International goals Scores and results list Switzerland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Crnogorčević goal.

Honours FC Rot-Schwarz Thun Swiss Cup: 2009

FFC Frankfurt DFB-Pokal: 2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League: 2014–15

Barcelona Primera División: 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League: 2020–21, 2022–23, runner-up: 2021–22 Copa de la Reina: 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22 Supercopa Femenina: 2019–20, 2021–22, 2022–23

Individual Swiss Nationalliga A top scorer: 2009