Sarah Abu-Sabbah
Personal information
Full name Sarah Basem Najem Abu-Sabbah
Date of birth (1999-10-27) 27 October 1999
Place of birth Düsseldorf, Germany
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 1. FC Union Berlin
Number 9
Youth career
2014–2015 SGS Essen U17
2015–2016 Bayer Leverkusen U17
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2016 Bayer Leverkusen 1 (0)
2017–2018 Bayer Leverkusen II 22 (22)
2018–2021 Borussia Mönchengladbach 65 (46)
2022-2023 SV Meppen 9 (0)
International career‡
2016 Jordan U17 3 (1)
2017– Jordan 14 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 July 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Sarah Basem Najem Abu-Sabbah (born 27 October 1999) is a German-born Jordanian footballer who plays for SV Meppen in Germany's Frauen-Bundesliga.[2] She has also played for the Jordan under-17 team that played in the 2016 FIFA U-17 World Cup and the senior national team of Jordan.

Early life

Abu-Sabbah was born on October 27, 1999[3] in Düsseldorf, Germany. Her father migrated to Germany in 1994. She started playing football at age 4 with her mother registering her at a boys' football club.[4]

Youth career

Abu-Sabbah played for the youth teams of SGS Essen and Bayer Leverkusen at the U17 Bundesliga South/SouthWest division in the 2014–15 and 2015-16 season respectively.

Club career

On March 20, 2016 she made her first appearance for the senior team of Bayer Leverkusen at the Frauen-Bundesliga,[3] becoming the first female Jordanian to play in a league outside Jordan[4] and the first Arab to play in the German women's league.[5] She only played in one match. In 2017, she is playing for Bayer Leverkusen II of third-tier league Regionalliga West.[6]

International career

Abu-Sabbah first joined the Jordan U-17 team in 2015.[5] At the 2016 FIFA U-17 World Cup which was hosted in Jordan, she debuted for the under-17 team of Jordan in the match against Spain.[7] She later scored the first goal of the Jordan U-17 team in the tournament in their 1-4 loss to Mexico.[4]

She debuted for the senior team in September 2017 in the 2-1 friendly win against Latvia in Riga.[6] She was among the players that represented Jordan at the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup.[2][8]

International goals

Scores and results list Jordan's goal tally first.
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.12 April 2018Amman International Stadium, Amman, Jordan China1–11–82018 AFC Women's Asian Cup
2.5 April 2023Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Timor-Leste3–03–12024 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

References

  1. ↑ "List of Players" (PDF). FIFAdata. 20 October 2016. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Group A - Final squad list". the-afc.com. 29 March 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Sarah Abu Sabbah". DFB Data Center. Deutscher Fußball-Bund. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 Freij, Muath (8 October 2016). "Sara Abu Sabbah's passion for football brings her closer to Jordan". The Jordan Times. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Jordan's Abu-Sabbah proud to make history". FIFA. 4 October 2016. Archived from the original on October 5, 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  6. 1 2 "Sarah (17): Nationalspielerin Aus der 3.Liga" [Sarah (17): National team player of 3. Liga]. Fussball.de (in German). 22 October 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  7. ↑ "Sarah ABU-SABBAH". FIFA. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  8. ↑ "AFC Women's Asian Cup : Jordan 1-2 Philippines (Lineups)". Retrieved 7 April 2018.
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