Guro Reiten (; born 26 July 1994) is a Norwegian professional

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who plays as a winger for English

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club Chelsea and the Norway national team. Before joining Chelsea in 2019, she played in Norway for

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, Kattem,

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, and LSK Kvinner. 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.

Club career

Sunndal

Born in

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, Reiten began her senior career with local side

, then in the second division of the Norwegian football.

Kattem

At age 16, Reiten joined

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side Kattem in 2011. 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.

Trondheims-Ørn

After Kattem pulled out of the Toppserien, Reiten joined

in 2013. During her four seasons with Trondheims, she made 82 league appearances and scored 25 goals. With Trondheims-Ørn, she has also reached the final of the 2014

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LSK Kvinner

Reiten then transferred to Toppserien side LSK Kvinner for the

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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

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, this time with 21 goals, as well as winning the 2018 Norwegian Cup, scoring a brace in the final against

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. 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

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

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season.

Chelsea

On 31 May 2019, Reiten signed with the

(WSL) side Chelsea. It was reported that the transfer fee was around 100,000

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. 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

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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

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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

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, 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

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, and also scored Chelsea's only goal in the 2–1 aggregate semi-final defeat against

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

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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

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. In the final home game of the 2023–24 season against Bristol City, Reiten scored four goals in an 8–0 win, putting Chelsea one goal ahead of Manchester City on goal difference with two games to go. On the final day of the season, she provided two assists in a 6–0 win against

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to win her fifth successive WSL title as Chelsea won the title on goal difference.

International career

Youth career

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

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. 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

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. She made her under-19 debut on 30 May 2011 in the opening game of the 2011 UEFA Under-19 Championship against

, which her team lost 3–1. Reiten made four appearances at the tournament and scored one goal, against

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

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where she played full 90 minutes. 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

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. 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

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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.

Senior career

On 14 January 2014, Reiten made her senior team debut in a friendly tournament in

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against

, coming on as a 63rd-minute substitute for

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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

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, where she played the full 90 minutes. On 13 February, Reiten played her first competitive match against

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in a 2015 World Cup qualifiers, where she again played the full 90 minutes, before representing Norway at the

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a month later. After two appearances in the last two World Cup qualifying matches in September 2014, through which Norway qualified for the 2015 World Cup, Reiten had to wait more than two years for her next appearance, and in the meantime she played for the under-23 national team. She returned to the Norwegian squad in March 2017 for the

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and made three appearances at the tournament. Reiten also managed to score her first senior goal in the process, against tournament hosts

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, scoring her team's second goal in a 2–0 win only three minutes after being substituted in. Reiten represented Norway at UEFA Euro 2017, where she came on as a substitute in the opening game against the

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. She also played in the last group match against

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, however, she was unable to prevent her team from being eliminated without a single point or goal for the first time in a major tournament. After an unsuccessful European Championship campaign, Norway played qualifiers for the 2019 World Cup. Reiten played in all eight matches and scored four goals, including a brace against

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in the opening game, as Norway qualified for the World Cup finals with a first-place finish and seven wins from eight games. Reiten had her first tournament success in 2019 by winning the

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. On 2 May, she was included in the squad for the 2019 World Cup, her first World Cup. At the World Cup, she played in all five of Norway's matches. In the opening game against

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, she scored the first goal of the tournament for Norway and was named the best player on the pitch for her goal and assist. A 3–0 defeat to England in the quarter-finals saw her and her team eliminated, also missing out on the

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. In the Euro 2022 qualifiers, Reiten featured in all six of Norway's matches and scored four goals, including the 1–0 winner against

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. In the 2023 World Cup qualifiers that followed, she also played in all ten games and netted two goals. In June 2022, Reiten was called-up to the Norwegian national team for the 2022 European Championship finals. She appeared in three group matches, starting with a 4–1 win against Euro newcomers

, in which she scored Norway's last goal in a 4–1 win. They then suffered the heaviest defeat in their international history against England, 8–0. Third in their group, they failed to qualify for the knockout stage at the second consecutive European Championship after losing 1–0 to

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in the last game. On 19 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player Norwegian squad for the 2023 World Cup. She appeared in all four of Norway's matches at the final tournament, scoring two goals.

Personal life

Following the 2022 Oslo shooting, Reiten publicly came out as a lesbian in an interview with the Norwegian newspaper ''

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''.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Norway's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Reiten goal.''

Honours

LSK Kvinner *

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: 2018 Chelsea *

: 2019–20,

, 2021–22,

, 2023–24, 2024–25 *

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, 2021–22,

, 2024–25 *

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: 2019–20,

, 2024–25; runner-up: 2021–22,

, 2023–24 *

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runner-up:

Norway *

Individual *Toppserien Golden Boot: 2017, 2018 *Toppserien Player of the Year: 2018 *Toppserien Goal of the Year: 2018 *Women's Super League

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: 2021–22,

* Norwegian Golden Ball: 2022

References

External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Reiten, Guro 1994 births Living people People from Sunndal Footballers from Møre og Romsdal Norwegian women's footballers Norway women's international footballers Women's association football wingers SK Trondheims-Ørn players LSK Kvinner FK players Chelsea F.C. Women players Toppserien players Women's Super League players Norwegian expatriate women's footballers Expatriate women's footballers in England Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in England UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players Norwegian LGBTQ footballers 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players 21st-century Norwegian LGBTQ people 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen Norwegian lesbian sportswomen FIFA Women's Century Club