Coumba Louisa Sow (born 27 August 1994) is a Swiss

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who plays as a

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for

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in the

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and has appeared for the Switzerland national team.

Career

At the age of 12 she started playing football for SV Höngg. After two years she switched to the youth department of

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. She went to the USA and played for two years for

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. In 2016, she joined the Oklahoma State Cowgirls for two years. After the first two games with Oklahoma, she suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in training and had to sit out the entire year of 2016. In 2017 she was able to play for Oklahoma State again. In 2018, Sow returned to FC Zurich. During her time at FCZ, she worked 75% in a day care center. In 2019 he switched to

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. At the end of January 2023, she moved back to Switzerland, to

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, to get more match practice ahead of the World Cup. At the end of the season she left the club. From the 2023/24 season she plays for

. She signed for three years.

National team

Sow made her debut for the national team on November 13, 2018 in the World Cup qualifier against the

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. She appeared for the team during the 2019 World Cup qualifying cycle. Sow took part in the Euro 2022 and was in the starting lineup for the Swiss in all three group games. Switzerland was eliminated after the preliminary round. On 23 June 2025, Sow was called up to the Switzerland squad for the

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International goals

Personal life

Sow grew up in the Oerlikon district. She is of

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ese descent through her father. She is the cousin of

Djibril Sow Mohameth Djibril Ibrahima Sow (born 6 February 1997) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for La Liga club Sevilla and the Switzerland national team. Club career Borussia Mönchengladbach Sow made his professio ...

, another Swiss international footballer.YB Djibril und seine FCZ Cousine Coumba famille Sow mischt den Schweiser fussball = Blick.ch
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* * * 1994 births Living people Swiss people of Senegalese descent Footballers from Zurich Swiss women's footballers Women's association football midfielders FC Zürich Frauen players Oklahoma State Cowgirls soccer players Paris FC (women) players Servette FC Chênois Féminin players FC Basel Frauen players Première Ligue players Women's Super League (Switzerland) players Switzerland women's international footballers UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players UEFA Women's Euro 2025 players Swiss expatriate women's footballers Swiss expatriate sportspeople in the United States Swiss expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Expatriate women's footballers in France 21st-century Swiss sportswomen {{Switzerland-footy-midfielder-stub