Guro Reiten

Guro Reiten (born 26 July 1994) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a winger for English Women's Super League club Chelsea and the Norway national team.

In April 2010, Reiten represented the under-17 team at the 2010 UEFA Under-17 Championship in Switzerland, where Norway were eliminated in the second qualifying round, finishing second in their group behind Germany.

At age 16, Reiten joined Toppserien side Kattem in 2011.

She made her under-19 debut on 30 May 2011 in the opening game of the 2011 UEFA Under-19 Championship against Germany, which her team lost 3–1.

Reiten made four appearances at the tournament and scored one goal, against Spain in the group stage.

Norway eventually reached the final where they lost 8–1 to Germany and finished the tournament as silver medalists.

During her year-and-a-half spell with Kattem, she made 35 league appearances and scored 11 goals in her second season, becoming the club's 2012 top scorer.

The semi-final finish qualified Norway for the 2012 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Japan, where the team was once again defeated by Germany, this time in the quarter-finals, with Reiten appearing in three of Norway's four games at the tournament, including a 4–1 group stage victory over Argentina where she played full 90 minutes.

After Kattem pulled out of the Toppserien, Reiten joined Trondheims-Ørn in 2013.

During her four seasons with Trondheims, she made 82 league appearances and scored 25 goals.

After a successful qualifying campaign for the 2013 UEFA Under-19 Championship, in which Reiten scored three goals in six matches and was the team's joint top scorer, she led Norway at the main tournament in Wales as team captain.

The team failed to qualify for the knockout stages after finishing third in Group B, behind Germany and Finland, with three points from three matches, winning the only game of the tournament against Sweden 5–0.

Reiten played in all three matches.

Between 2013 and 2016, Reiten made 14 appearances for the under-23 team, but did not feature in any UEFA or FIFA tournaments.

She made her debut for Norway in 2014 and appeared with the team at the UEFA European Championship 2017, 2019 FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship 2022, and 2023 FIFA World Cup.

Born in Sunndalsøra, Møre og Romsdal, Reiten grew up in the village of Nordmøre and began her senior career with her local side Sunndal, then in the second division of the Norwegian football.

With Trondheims-Ørn, she has also reached the final of the 2014 Norwegian Cup.

On 14 January 2014, Reiten made her senior team debut in a friendly tournament in La Manga against Spain, coming on as a 63rd-minute substitute for Elise Thorsnes in an eventual 2–1 victory.

Three days later, she was included in the starting lineup for the first time, in a 1–1 draw with England, where she played the full 90 minutes.

Reiten then transferred to Toppserien side LSK Kvinner for the 2017 season.

With the club, she won the league title in 2017 and was the Toppserien's regular season top scorer with 18 goals.

Reiten repeated both feats in 2018, this time with 21 goals, as well as winning the 2018 Norwegian Cup, scoring a brace in the final against IL Sandviken.

In addition, she won the 2018 Toppserien Player of the Year and Goal of the Year awards.

Her performances in 2018 saw her shortlisted for the Norway's Footballer of the Year award.

Before joining Chelsea in 2019, she played in Norway for Sunndal, Kattem, Trondheims-Ørn, and LSK Kvinner.

At the time of her departure from LSK Kvinner, Reiten was the Toppserien's leading scorer in the 2019 season.

On 31 May 2019, Reiten signed with the Women's Super League (WSL) side Chelsea.

It was reported that the transfer fee was around £12,000.

In her first season with Chelsea, Reiten made 23 appearances and scored 7 goals across all competitions.

She featured less frequently for Chelsea in the 2020–21 season, mostly coming off the bench, scoring one goal in nineteen league appearances.

In the same season, she scored in the 2021 FA Women's League Cup final against Bristol City as Chelsea retained the trophy.

Reiten's third season at Chelsea saw her play more often as a left wing-back.

In this campaign, Reiten scored eleven goals and earned a place in the PFA WSL Team of the Year.

In 2022–23, Reiten won her fourth consecutive WSL title with Chelsea and made 39 appearances in all competitions, the most of any player in the squad.

She scored 13 goals across the season, including the winning goal in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Lyon, and also scored Chelsea's only goal in the 2–1 aggregate semi-final defeat against Barcelona.

At the start of the 2023–24 season in October, Reiten scored a 96th-minute equaliser against Manchester City in a 1–1 draw.

In the same month, she suffered an ankle ligament injury and was sidelined until December.

During this period, she extended her contract with Chelsea until 2026 and was nominated for the 2023 Ballon d'Or Féminin.

Reiten has represented Norway at all youth international levels from under-15 to under-23.

As a 13-year-old, she was already selected for the under-15 national team to play a match in Kristiansund.