Caroline Graham Hansen

Caroline Graham Hansen (born 18 February 1995) is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a winger for Primera División club FC Barcelona and the Norway women's national team. She spent the second part of the 2013 Damallsvenskan season in Sweden, playing for Tyresö FF. Hansen represented Norway at youth international level, and made her debut for the senior team in 2011. In 2013, she was a part of the Norwegian team that won silver at UEFA Women's Euro 2013.

Caroline Graham Hansen
Graham Hansen playing for Wolfsburg in 2015
Personal information
Full name Caroline Graham Hansen[1]
Date of birth (1995-02-18) 18 February 1995
Place of birth Oslo, Norway
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position(s) Right winger
Club information
Current team
 Barcelona
Number 16
Youth career
Lyn
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2013 Stabæk 71 (32)
2013 Tyresö 7 (3)
2014 Stabæk 9 (2)
2014–2019 VfL Wolfsburg 88 (29)
2019– Barcelona 13 (7)
National team‡
2009–2010 Norway U15 3 (0)
2009–2010 Norway U16 11 (5)
2010–2011 Norway U17 5 (1)
2011–2012 Norway U19 14 (5)
2012 Norway U20 7 (3)
2011– Norway 84 (38)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 February 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 10 March 2020[2]

Club career

Lyn

Born and brought up in Oslo,[3] Hansen played for Lyn up to age 15, and was a part of the team that won the under-16 girls' class in the Norway Cup.[4]

Stabæk

She transferred to Stabæk in August 2010, and made her Toppserien debut the same week, as a 73rd-minute substitute in the match against FK Donn. Hansen made an assist as Stabæk won 3–0.[5] Stabæk won the league title later that year with a 3–0 home win over Trondheims-Ørn.[6] She was a part of Stabæk's 2011 Norwegian Women's Cup winning team, who beat Røa on penalties after extra time. Hansen assisted Katrine Pedersen's equalizer during the extra time, but was the only Stabæk player to miss in the shoot out.[7]

Tyresö
Playing for Tyresö in 2013

In August 2013 Hansen signed for Swedish Damallsvenskan champions Tyresö FF.[8] In the second half of the season she started five of her seven league appearances and scored three goals.[9] She also helped Tyresö qualify for the 2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League quarter finals.

Hansen returned to Stabæk in January 2014 to complete her high school education, as she did not get the grades necessary to do so in Sweden. She continued to be monitored by several leading European clubs and intended to move away again after finishing school in June 2014. Realising that female footballers do not earn enough money to retire on, Hansen was planning for her career after football. At Stabæk she arranged to play Toppserien matches for the women's team while training with the male youth teams.[10]

Wolfsburg
Hansen representing German club Wolfsburg in 2018.

On 8 May 2014, German club VfL Wolfsburg announced they had signed a two-year contract with Hansen.[11] Norwegian media stated her annual salary as around £100,000.[12]

Hansen with Wolfsburg managed to reach the UEFA Women's Champions League Final twice in 2016 and 2018, which both lost to Lyon. In the 2016–17 and 2018–19 seasons, Wolfsburg was defeated in the quarterfinals against Lyon as well.

Barcelona

In May 2019, it was announced Hansen had signed with FC Barcelona on a two-year contract.[13] Her first title with the club came on 24 August 2020, winning the Copa Cataluña.[14] On 10 February 2020, Hansen beat Real Sociedad by 10-1 to archive the Supercopa de España title.[15] On 6 May 2020, the Royal Spanish Football Federation announced the premature end of the league, naming Barcelona as league champions.[16]

International career

In 2011, 16-year-old Hansen was a part of the Norwegian under-19 team who finished as runners-up in the 2011 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship, after losing the final against Germany. Hansen was also included in the Norwegian squad for the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Japan, where the team reached the quarter-final.[17]

She made her senior debut for Norway against Belgium in November 2011.[18] In June 2012 Hansen scored her first senior international goal in an 11–0 rout of Bulgaria, a match in which she also assisted more than half of Norway's goals.[19]

Hansen was named in Norway's squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 by veteran coach Even Pellerud.[20] Winger Hansen and fellow teenager Ada Hegerberg at centre forward were important players in the Norwegian team which reached the competition final.[21][22] In the final at Friends Arena, Hansen won a 61st-minute penalty after drawing a foul from Saskia Bartusiak, but Germany's goalkeeper Nadine Angerer made her second penalty save of the match. Anja Mittag's goal gave the Germans their sixth successive title.[23]

She was ruled out of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup after failing to recover from a serious knee injury in time for the competition.[24]

Hansen was named to the squad ahead of the UEFA Women's Euro 2017.

In 2019, it was announced that she would represent Norway in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.[25] She helped the team reach the quarter-finals, where they were knocked out of the tournament by England.[26]

Career statistics
As of 22 February 2020
Club Season Division League Cup1 Continental2 Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Stabæk 2010 Toppserien 71000071
2011 1982020238
2012 21754302911
2013 151022001712
Total 622696507632
Tyresö FF 2013 Damallsvenskan 731040123
Total 731040123
Stabæk 2014 Toppserien 921100103
Total 921100103
Wolfsburg 2014–15 Frauen-Bundesliga 17742622711
2015–16 13622431911
2016–17 1663141238
2017–18 2023382317
2018–19 22844622712
Total 88291612281013251
Barcelona 2019–20 Primera Iberdrola 1373240209
Total 1373240209
Career total 179673021411025098

International goals
As of 10 March 2020
GoalDateVenueOpponentResultCompetition
1.16 June 2012Sarpsborg Stadion, Sarpsborg, Norway Bulgaria11–0UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying
2.6 March 2013Municipal Stadium Bela Vista, Portimao, Portugal Portugal0–22013 Algarve Cup
3.7 July 2013Melløs Stadion, Moss, Norway Russia2–3Friendly
4.
5.25 September 2013Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway Belgium4–12015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)
6.26 October 2013Sarpsborg Stadion, Sarpsborg, Norway Albania7–0
7.
8.
9.30 October 2013Kras Stadion, Volendam, Netherlands Netherlands1–2
10.14 June 2014Brann Stadion, Bergen, Norway Greece6–02015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)
11.13 September 2014Niko Dovana Stadium, Durres, Albania Albania0–11
12.
13.22 January 2016La Manga Club Football Stadium, La Manga, Spain Romania0–6Friendly
14.9 March 2016Woudestein Stadium, Rotterdam, Netherlands  Switzerland2–12016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
15.15 September 2016Aker Stadion, Molde, Norway Kazakhstan10–0UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying
16.15 September 2017Fredrikstad Stadion, Fredrikstad, Norway Northern Ireland4–12019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
17.19 September 2017Sarpsborg Stadion, Sarpsborg, Norway Slovakia6–1
18.
19.28 November 2017Estadio Municipal de Marbella, Marbella, Spain Canada3–2Friendly
20.10 April 2018Shamrock Park, Portadown, Northern Ireland Northern Ireland0–32019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
21.
22.12 June 2018SR-Bank Arena, Stavanger, Norway Republic of Ireland1–0
23.17 January 2019La Manga Club Football Stadium, La Manga, Spain Scotland1–3Friendly
24.
25.6 March 2019Estadio Bela Vista Parchel, Algarve, Portugal Poland0–32019 Algarve Cup
26.17 June 2019Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims, France South Korea1–22019 FIFA Women's World Cup
27.30 August 2019Seaview Stadium, Belfast, Northern Ireland Northern Ireland0–6UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
28.
29.
30.3 September 2019Brann Stadion, Bergen, Norway England2–1Friendly
31.4 October 2019Borisov Arena, Borisov, Belarus Belarus1–7UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
32.
33.8 October 2019Tórsvøllur Stadium, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands Faroe Islands0–13
34.
35.
36.8 November 2019SR-Bank Arena, Stavanger, Norway Northern Ireland6–0
37.
38.10 March 2020Estádio Algarve, Faro, Portugal New Zealand2–12020 Algarve Cup


Honours
Stabæk
VfL Wolfsburg
FC Barcelona

References
  1. "List of Players – Norway" (PDF). FIFA. 4 August 2014. p. 14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  2. "Graham Hansen".
  3. "Norway Mediaguide 2013" (PDF). Football Association of Norway. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  4. Norway Cup 2010 results
  5. Match report Stabæk-Donn, retrieved 18 September 2013
  6. Stabæk win the league title
  7. "Match report, 2011 Cup Final, retrieved 18 September 2013". Archived from the original on 16 May 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  8. "Graham Hansen valgte svensk klubb". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Oslo. 8 August 2013. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  9. "Caroline Graham Hansen" (in Swedish). Swedish Football Association. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  10. Hoel, Yasmin Sunde; Pedersen, Kaj (6 January 2014). "Graham Hansen bryter med storklubb – skal trene med Stabæk-herrene". NRK (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
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  12. Archived 12 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine Article in English with further references
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  14. "4-0: el Barça femenino gana la Copa Catalunya y el derbi" (in Spanish).
  15. "La goleada del Barcelona en la final de la Supercopa" (in Spanish).
  16. "El Barça se proclama campeón de la Liga femenina 2019-20" (in Spanish).
  17. "FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Japan 2012 List of Players Norway" (PDF). FIFA. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
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