Caroline Graham Hansen


Caroline Graham Hansen is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a winger for Primera División club FC Barcelona and the Norway women's national team. She spent the second part of the 2013 Damallsvenskan season in Sweden, playing for Tyresö FF. Hansen represented Norway at youth international level, and made her debut for the senior team in 2011. In 2013, she was a part of the Norwegian team that won silver at UEFA Women's Euro 2013.

Club career

Lyn

Born and brought up in Oslo, Hansen played for Lyn up to age 15, and was a part of the team that won the under-16 girls' class in the Norway Cup.

Stabæk

She transferred to Stabæk in August 2010, and made her Toppserien debut the same week, as a 73rd-minute substitute in the match against FK Donn. Hansen made an assist as Stabæk won 3–0. Stabæk won the league title later that year with a 3–0 home win over Trondheims-Ørn. She was a part of Stabæk's 2011 Norwegian Women's Cup winning team, who beat Røa on penalties after extra time. Hansen assisted Katrine Pedersen's equalizer during the extra time, but was the only Stabæk player to miss in the shoot out.

Tyresö

In August 2013 Hansen signed for Swedish Damallsvenskan champions Tyresö FF. In the second half of the season she started five of her seven league appearances and scored three goals. She also helped Tyresö qualify for the 2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League quarter finals.
Hansen returned to Stabæk in January 2014 to complete her high school education, as she did not get the grades necessary to do so in Sweden. She continued to be monitored by several leading European clubs and intended to move away again after finishing school in June 2014. Realising that female footballers do not earn enough money to retire on, Hansen was planning for her career after football. At Stabæk she arranged to play Toppserien matches for the women's team while training with the male youth teams.

Wolfsburg

On 8 May 2014, German club VfL Wolfsburg announced they had signed a two-year contract with Hansen. Norwegian media stated her annual salary as around £100,000.
Hansen with Wolfsburg managed to reach the UEFA Women's Champions League Final twice in 2016 and 2018, which both lost to Lyon. In the 2016–17 and 2018–19 seasons, Wolfsburg was defeated in the quarterfinals against Lyon as well.

Barcelona

In May 2019, it was announced Hansen had signed with FC Barcelona on a two-year contract. Her first title with the club came on 24 August 2020, winning the Copa Cataluña. On 10 February 2020, Hansen beat Real Sociedad by 10-1 to archive the Supercopa de España title. On 6 May 2020, the Royal Spanish Football Federation announced the premature end of the league, naming Barcelona as league champions.

International career

In 2011, 16-year-old Hansen was a part of the Norwegian under-19 team who finished as runners-up in the 2011 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship, after losing the final against Germany. Hansen was also included in the Norwegian squad for the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Japan, where the team reached the quarter-final.
She made her senior debut for Norway against Belgium in November 2011. In June 2012 Hansen scored her first senior international goal in an 11–0 rout of Bulgaria, a match in which she also assisted more than half of Norway's goals.
Hansen was named in Norway's squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 by veteran coach Even Pellerud. Winger Hansen and fellow teenager Ada Hegerberg at centre forward were important players in the Norwegian team which reached the competition final. In the final at Friends Arena, Hansen won a 61st-minute penalty after drawing a foul from Saskia Bartusiak, but Germany's goalkeeper Nadine Angerer made her second penalty save of the match. Anja Mittag's goal gave the Germans their sixth successive title.
She was ruled out of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup after failing to recover from a serious knee injury in time for the competition.
Hansen was named to the squad ahead of the UEFA Women's Euro 2017.
In 2019, it was announced that she would represent Norway in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. She helped the team reach the quarter-finals, where they were knocked out of the tournament by England.

Career statistics

International goals

GoalDateVenueOpponentResultCompetition
1.16 June 2012Sarpsborg Stadion, Sarpsborg, Norway11–0UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying
2.6 March 2013Municipal Stadium Bela Vista, Portimao, Portugal0–22013 Algarve Cup
3.7 July 2013Melløs Stadion, Moss, Norway2–3Friendly
4.7 July 2013Melløs Stadion, Moss, Norway2–3Friendly
5.25 September 2013Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway4–12015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
6.26 October 2013Sarpsborg Stadion, Sarpsborg, Norway7–02015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
7.26 October 2013Sarpsborg Stadion, Sarpsborg, Norway7–02015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
8.26 October 2013Sarpsborg Stadion, Sarpsborg, Norway7–02015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
9.30 October 2013Kras Stadion, Volendam, Netherlands1–22015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
10.14 June 2014Brann Stadion, Bergen, Norway6–02015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
11.13 September 2014Niko Dovana Stadium, Durres, Albania0–112015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
12.13 September 2014Niko Dovana Stadium, Durres, Albania0–112015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
13.22 January 2016La Manga Club Football Stadium, La Manga, Spain0–6Friendly
14.9 March 2016Woudestein Stadium, Rotterdam, Netherlands2–12016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
15.15 September 2016Aker Stadion, Molde, Norway10–0UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying
16.15 September 2017Fredrikstad Stadion, Fredrikstad, Norway4–12019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
17.19 September 2017Sarpsborg Stadion, Sarpsborg, Norway6–12019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
18.19 September 2017Sarpsborg Stadion, Sarpsborg, Norway6–12019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
19.28 November 2017Estadio Municipal de Marbella, Marbella, Spain3–2Friendly
20.10 April 2018Shamrock Park, Portadown, Northern Ireland0–32019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
21.10 April 2018Shamrock Park, Portadown, Northern Ireland0–32019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
22.12 June 2018SR-Bank Arena, Stavanger, Norway1–02019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
23.17 January 2019La Manga Club Football Stadium, La Manga, Spain1–3Friendly
24.17 January 2019La Manga Club Football Stadium, La Manga, Spain1–3Friendly
25.6 March 2019Estadio Bela Vista Parchel, Algarve, Portugal0–32019 Algarve Cup
26.17 June 2019Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims, France1–22019 FIFA Women's World Cup
27.30 August 2019Seaview Stadium, Belfast, Northern Ireland0–6UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
28.30 August 2019Seaview Stadium, Belfast, Northern Ireland0–6UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
29.30 August 2019Seaview Stadium, Belfast, Northern Ireland0–6UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
30.3 September 2019Brann Stadion, Bergen, Norway2–1Friendly
31.4 October 2019Borisov Arena, Borisov, Belarus1–7UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
32.4 October 2019Borisov Arena, Borisov, Belarus1–7UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
33.8 October 2019Tórsvøllur Stadium, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands0–13UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
34.8 October 2019Tórsvøllur Stadium, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands0–13UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
35.8 October 2019Tórsvøllur Stadium, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands0–13UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
36.8 November 2019SR-Bank Arena, Stavanger, Norway6–0UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
37.8 November 2019SR-Bank Arena, Stavanger, Norway6–0UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
38.10 March 2020Estádio Algarve, Faro, Portugal2–12020 Algarve Cup


Honours

;Stabæk
;VfL Wolfsburg
;FC Barcelona