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Mariem "Maryama" Houij (born 8 August 1994) is a Tunisian
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, who plays as a
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for Saudi club
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and the Tunisia women's national team.


Private life

Mariem Houij was born in
Sousse Sousse, Sūsah , or Soussa (, ), is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which ...
,
Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...
on 8 August 1994.


Club career


FC Vendenheim

She played in the Championnat de France de Football Féminine de Division 2 – Group B for the French club FC Vendenheim. She capped in 13 matches in the 2017–18 season.


Ataşehir Belediyespor

Houij joined the
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-based team
Ataşehir Belediyespor Ataşehir Belediyespor is a Turkish sports club based in the Ataşehir district of Istanbul. It is known for its women's association football, women's football team that won the Turkish League championship in 2011, the fourth year of its existence. ...
on 20 July 2018. She took part at the
2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round The 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round was played between 7 and 13 August 2018. A total of 40 teams competed in the qualifying round to decide 12 of the 32 places in the knockout phase of the 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions L ...
. She played in all three matches of the qualification round, and scored two goals.


ALG Spor

In the 2021-22 Turkcell Women's Super League season, she transferred to the
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-based club
ALG Spor ALG Spor, formerly known as Güneykent Spor, is a women's association football, women's football club based in Gaziantep, southeastern Turkey. Founded in 1998. The club is named after its local sponsor ALG Textile. The club's president is Ali Göz ...
. She enjoyed the 2021-22 Women's Super League champion title of her team. On 18 August 2022, she played in the
2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League The 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League was the 22nd edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 14th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League. It was the second edition to f ...
.


Galatasaray

She signed a one-year contract with
Galatasaray Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club''), more commonly referred to as simply Galatasaray and familiarly as Cimbom, is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul including basketball, wheelchair ...
on 4 August 2023.


International career

She was a member of the
Tunisia women's national football team The Tunisia women's national football team has represented Tunisia in women's international association football. The team is administered by the Tunisian Football Federation (TFF), which governs football in Tunisia. On a continental level, the t ...
at the
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, played in all two matches each of the First and Second Round, and scored one goal.


Career statistics

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Honours


Club

; Turkish Women's Super League :; ALG Spor :: ''Champions'' (1): 2021-22


Individual

* ''Top goalscorer'': 2018–19 (15 goals)


See also

* List of Tunisia women's international footballers


References


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Houij, Mariem 1994 births Living people Footballers from Sousse Tunisian women's footballers Women's association football forwards Tunisia women's international footballers Tunisian expatriate women's footballers Expatriate women's footballers in France Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate women's footballers in Turkey Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey 21st-century Tunisian sportswomen Ataşehir Belediyespor players ALG Spor players Turkish Women's Football Super League players Galatasaray S.K. (women's football) players Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia Expatriate women's footballers in Saudi Arabia