Julia Karlernäs (also spelled Karlenäs; born 6 October 1993) is a Swedish professional

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who plays as a

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for Italian

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club FC Como Women and the Sweden women's national team.

Club career

In the

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season, Karlernäs's 11 goals from midfield helped Piteå secure the League title and won her the

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award. She signed a new contract with the club shortly afterwards.

International career

Karlernäs was called up to the senior

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squad for the first time in June 2018. On 30 August 2018 she won her first

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as a substitute in a 3–0 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying win over

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. She won a second cap and made her first start for the national team in October, in a 2–1 win over rivals

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. Karlernäs has competed in the UEFA Women's champions league with Piteå IF in 2019 and with BK Häcken in 2021.

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* 1993 births Living people People from Torsby Municipality Swedish women's footballers Women's association football midfielders Mallbackens IF players Embry–Riddle Eagles athletes College women's soccer players in the United States Hammarby Fotboll (women) players Piteå IF (women) players Sevilla FC (women) players Damallsvenskan players Sweden women's international footballers Swedish expatriate women's footballers Swedish expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Footballers from Värmland County 21st-century Swedish sportswomen {{Sweden-footy-midfielder-stub