Signy Aarna (born 4 October 1990) is an Estonian footballer who plays as a

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for Finnish club

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and for the Estonia national team. She previously played for Finnish club

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of the Estonian Naiste Meistriliiga.

Club career

From Ahja, Põlva County, Aarna started training with the youth team of

as a goalkeeper in 2003. In 2005, 2007 and 2008 she won Estonian youth titles with the club's different age groups.

FC Lootos

In 2008, she started in

' senior squad in the Esiliiga, the second level of women's football in Estonia. FC Lootos won the league and Aarna was the top scorer with 48 goals. From 2009 she played for FC Lootos in the top level Naiste Meistriliiga. She remains the club's most capped player with 121 games in all competitions and 166 goals in Estonian league and cup games.

Pallokissat

Despite offers from other Meistriliiga clubs, Aarna opted to stay with her hometown club until leaving the country. After the end of season 2013, Aarna signed her first professional contract with

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in Finland. In her debut season Aarna scored 13 goals in 21 matches, she became the club's top scorer and helped the team to reach third place and the first ever medals in the club's history.

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proved to be another productive season for Aarna, as she scored 17 goals in Naisten Liiga and she became again the club's top scorer.

Åland United

Before the 2018 season, Aarna joined

International career

Aarna debuted for the senior national team in the 2009 Baltic Cup, starting her first game on 29 April 2009 against

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and scoring Estonia's fifth and final goal on her home ground, Lootospark. She previously played at Under-17 and under-19 levels. On 26 November 2021, she played her 100th match for Estonia during the

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Career statistics

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Club

Personal life

Aarna attended Ahja Keskkool. In 2009, she moved to University of Tartu to study sports development with coaching.

Awards

In 2010 Aarna was awarded Female Meistriliiga Footballer of the Season. In 2011 and 2015 Female Footballer of the Year.

References

External links

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Players profile at UEFA.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aarna, Signy 1990 births Living people People from Põlva Parish Estonian women's footballers Estonia women's international footballers Expatriate women's footballers in Finland Kansallinen Liiga players Pallokissat players Estonian expatriate footballers Estonian expatriate sportspeople in Finland Women's association football forwards FIFA Century Club