Personal information | |||
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Full name | Cecilía Rán Rúnarsdóttir | ||
Date of birth | 26 July 2003 | ||
Place of birth | Iceland | ||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Bayern Munich | ||
Number | 44 | ||
Youth career | |||
200?–2010 | Þróttur Reykjavík | ||
2010–2018 | Afturelding | ||
2018–2020 | Fylkir | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2017–2018 | Afturelding/ Fram | 18 | (0) |
2018–2020 | Fylkir | 30 | (0) |
2021 | KIF Örebro | 4 | (0) |
2021–2022 | Everton | 0 | (0) |
2021 | → KIF Örebro (loan) | 3 | (0) |
2022 | → Bayern Munich (loan) | 1 | (0) |
2022 | → Bayern Munich II (loan) | 1 | (0) |
2022– | Bayern Munich | 0 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2018 | Iceland U-16 | 9 | (0) |
2018–2019 | Iceland U-17 | 12 | (0) |
2019 | Iceland U-19 | 3 | (0) |
2020– | Iceland | 5 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 April 2021 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 February 2022 |
Cecilía Rán Rúnarsdóttir (born 26 July 2003) is an Icelandic professional footballer for who plays as a goalkeeper for Bayern Munich of the German Frauen-Bundesliga and the Icelandic national football team.
Cecilía started playing football around the age of 6 with Afturelding. At the age of 10, she started playing as a goalkeeper. [1]
Cecilía started her senior career with Afturelding/Fram, a joint team off Afturelding and Knattspyrnufélagið Fram, in 2017 in the 2. deild kvenna where she helped the team finish first. [2] In 2018, she played 13 matches in the second-tier Inkasso league and was named the league's Best Young Player by opposing coaches and team captains. [3] After the season, in October 2018, she signed with Fylkir which had won promotion from the Inkasso league to the top-tier Úrvalsdeild kvenna. [4] She had a great start with Fylkir in the beginning of the season, [5] [6] including an outstanding performance when Fylkir unexpectedly knocked out the reigning Cup holders, Breiðablik, in the Icelandic Cup. [7] After the season she was named the best Young Player of the Year. [8]
In March 2021, Cecilía signed with KIF Örebro for the 2021 season. [9]
In August 2021, Cecilía signed a three-year contract with English club Everton and was immediately loaned back to KIF Örebro for the remainder of the 2021 Damallsvenskan season. [10]
In January 2022, Cecilía joined German club FC Bayern Munich on loan until 30 June 2022. [11] In July 2022, Bayern Munich announced that Cecilía had signed a 4-year contract with the club. [12]
In August 2019, Cecilía was selected to the Icelandic national team for the first time by head coach Jón Þór Hauksson [13] ahead of its UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying matches. [14] On 4 March 2020, she started her first match in a 1–0 victory against Northern Ireland, [15] becoming the youngest ever goalkeeper for Iceland and breaking Þóra Björg Helgadóttir's record by 148 days. [16]
Afturelding/Fram
Fylkir
Bayern Munich
Iceland
Individual