Jessica Marie Wik (, born 30 January 1992) is a Swedish professional

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who plays as a defender for

IFK Norrköping Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, more commonly known as IFK Norrköping or simply Norrköping, is a Swedish professional association football, football club based in Norrköping. The club is affiliated to Östergötlands Fotbollför ...

and the Swedish national team. In the 2013–14 winter season she played for Australian W-League club

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. She is predominantly a

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, although she also plays on the right side.

Club career

Linköping, 2010–17

Wik joined

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from

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on a three-year contract in 2010, but was initially loaned back to Smedby. In November 2011 she extended her contract with Linköpings after winning her place in the first team.

Melbourne Victory, 2013–14

Wik joined

ahead of the 2013–14 season, and was named the 2014 Player of the Year in Australia.Jessica Samuelsson
. nbcolympics.com

Arsenal, 2017–19

On 18 August 2017, Arsenal announced that they had signed Wik ahead of the new season. In March 2019 Wik left Arsenal to play for

FC Rosengård FC Rosengård (), known as Malmö FF Dam () until 2007 and later LdB FC Malmö until 2013, is a professional football club based in Malmö, Scania, Sweden. The team was established as Malmö FF Dam in 1970. It started out with playing 7 seasons ...

FC Rosengård, 2019–

Wik returned to Sweden in 2019 to increase her chances of being named to the national team squad for the

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in France. She signed with

and played in seven games during the

2019 Damallsvenskan The 2019 Damallsvenskan was the 32nd season of the Swedish women's association football top division, Damallsvenskan. It began on 13 April 2019, and ended on 26 October. Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC are the defending champions, having won the compe ...

season. Rosengård finished the season in first place with a record. After returning to Rosengård for the 2020 Damallsvenskan season, Wik was a starting defender in 15 of the 18 matches she played. During a match against Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC on 23 August, she scored the team's second goal of the match in Rosengård's 3–0 win. Rosengård finished in second place with a record.

International career

Wik made her debut for the senior

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team in a 2–1 loss to

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on 22 November 2011. Later

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named Wik in the Sweden squad for

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Honours

Club

;Melbourne Victory FC * W-League: 2013–14 ;Linköpings FC *

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: 2013–14, 2014–15 *

Svenska Supercupen Svenska Supercupen, ''Swedish Super Cup'', was a one-off fixture in Swedish football played between the Allsvenskan champions and the winners of Svenska Cupen. The fixture was played in November, after the Allsvenskan season. In the event of a ...

: 2010 *

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

; Arsenal * WSL Cup: 2017–18 ;FC Rosengård *

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2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

: 2021–22

International

;Sweden *

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: Silver Medal,

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wik, Jessica Living people 1992 births Footballers from Norrköping Swedish women's footballers Sweden women's international footballers Women's association football fullbacks Damallsvenskan players Linköpings FC players Melbourne Victory FC (women) players Arsenal W.F.C. players 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Sweden Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in football Expatriate women's soccer players in Australia Expatriate women's footballers in England Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Australia Swedish expatriate sportspeople in England Women's Super League players UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players 21st-century Swedish sportswomen IFK Norrköping (women) players