Ana Tejada

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Tejada and the second or maternal family name is Jiménez.

Ana Tejada
Tejada with the Utah Royals in 2025
Personal information
Full name Ana Tejada Jiménez
Date of birth (2002-06-02) 2 June 2002[1]
Place of birth Logroño, Spain[2]
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Centre back, defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Utah Royals
Number 17
Youth career
2015–2017 Logroño
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2019 Logroño 24+ (1+)
2019–2024 Real Sociedad 86 (1)
2024– Utah Royals 16 (2)
International career‡
2018–2019 Spain U17 18 (0)
2019 Spain U19 2 (0)
2021–2023 Spain U23 7 (0)
2022 Spain U20 6 (0)
2022– Spain 1 (0)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  Spain
UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
2018 Lithuania
FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
2018 Uruguay
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
2022 Costa Rica
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 04:56, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 02:34, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Ana Tejada Jiménez (born 2 June 2002) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a centre back or defensive midfielder for the Utah Royals of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the Spain national team.

Club career

Longroño

Raised in the village of Lumbreras in La Rioja, Tejada started her career at Logroño,[3] where she was already playing for the first team when they achieved promotion to the Primera División in 2018,[4] making her the youngest active player in the top league, aged barely 16.[5][6]

Real Sociedad

A solid campaign with Logroño led to her being signed by Real Sociedad in 2019. With her first campaign in San Sebastián interrupted by injury and then the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain,[7] she became a regular for the txuri-urdin in the 2020–21 season, starting 24 matches.[2]

Utah Royals

On 22 April 2024, the Utah Royals announced that they had signed Tejada to a three-year contract.[8] She made her NWSL debut on 25 May, starting in a 1–0 loss to the Kansas City Current.[9] Tejada scored her first goal with the Royals on 31 August as the team beat the Houston Dash, 3–1.[10] Three games later, she was awarded the NWSL Goal of the Week award following a long-distance strike against Racing Louisville FC.[11] She made 15 total appearances with Utah in 2024 as the team finished 11th in the league standings.

International career

Tejada was a member of the Spain under-17 squad that qualified for the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship in May 2018 (Lithuania) and the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup played six months later (Uruguay),[5] winning both competitions.[12] She was still young enough to play in the 2019 Under-17 Euros (Bulgaria)[13] and was named in the 'Team of the Tournament', as she had been in the previous year.[5] She later won the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Tejada made her senior debut on 11 November 2022, as a 76th-minute substitute in a 7–0 friendly home win over Argentina.

Honours

Spain U17

Spain U20

Individual

References

  1. ^ Ana Tejada at Soccerway. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Tejada". BDFutbol. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Tejada". Txapeldunak. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Lumbreras homenajea a la futbolista Ana Tejada" [Lumbreras honours footballer Ana Tejada]. Rioja 2 (in Spanish). 19 August 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  5. ^ a b c "Ana Tejada, el talento precoz de la Liga que sueña con hacer historia en el Mundial" [Ana Tejada, the Liga's precocious talent looking to make history at the World Cup]. Eurosport (in Spanish). 14 November 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Ana Tejada, una veterana de 16 años" [Ana Tejada, a 16-year-old veteran]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 3 May 2019. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Ana Tejada: "Venir a la Real Sociedad me ha venido muy bien para madurar"" [Ana Tejada: "Coming to Real Sociedad has been very good for me to mature"]. El Desmarque (in Spanish). 18 May 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  8. ^ rsl. "Ana Tejada: Fast Facts | Utah Royals". rsl. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  9. ^ rsl. "Newcomers Ana Tejada And Macey Fraser Make NWSL Debuts In 1-0 Loss To Kansas City Current | Utah Royals". rsl. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
  10. ^ rsl. "Magical Utah Royals Hammer Houston | Utah Royals". rsl. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
  11. ^ @NWSL (1 October 2024). "Felicidades Ana Tejada! 🥳" (Tweet). Retrieved 16 March 2025 – via Twitter.
  12. ^ "El planeta a sus pies con 16 años: Ana Tejada, campeona del mundo" [The planet at her feet at 16 years old: Ana Tejada, world champion]. nuevecuatrouno (in Spanish). 2 December 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  13. ^ "Las riojanas Ana Tejada y Sara Carrillo, al Europeo de Bulgaria sub-17" [The Riojans Ana Tejada and Sara Carrillo, to the European Under-17 Bulgaria]. nuevecuatrouno (in Spanish). 18 April 2019. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  14. ^ "Pina-inspired Spain win maiden U-17 Women's World Cup title". FIFA.com. 1 December 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  15. ^ "Germany win Women's 17 EURO: At a glance". UEFA. 16 May 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  16. ^ "Paralluelo propels Spain to revenge and glory". FIFA.com. 28 August 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  17. ^ "2018 Women's Under-17 EURO team of the tournament". UEFA. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  18. ^ "2019 WU17 EURO team of the tournament". UEFA. 20 May 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
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