Leila Ouahabi

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Leila Ouahabi
Leila Ouahabi-UEFA Women's Champions League.jpg
Ouahabi with Barcelona in 2019
Personal information
Full name Leila Ouahabi El Ouahabi
Date of birth (1993-03-22) 22 March 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Mataró, Spain
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Left-back
Team information
Current team
 Manchester City
Number 15
Youth career
Vilassar de Mar
2007–2009 Barcelona
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2009–2011 Barcelona B
2011–2013 Barcelona 21 (2)
2013–2016 Valencia 85 (3)
2016–2022 Barcelona 86 (1)
2022– Manchester City 44 (1)
International career‡
2010–2012 Spain under-19 11 (1)
2016– Spain 57 (1)
2014– Catalonia 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:10, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 02:00, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Leila Ouahabi El Ouahabi (born 22 March 1993) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Women's Super League club Manchester City and the Spain national team. She has also played for Catalonia regional team.

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Born in Catalonia, Ouahabi played youth football with Barcelona before being elevated to become a first team player for the 2011–12 season. She left Barcelona to join Valencia in 2013, before returning to the club in 2016. She had won numerous accolades with Barcelona, which includes the UEFA Women's Champions League, Primera División, and Copa de la Reina. She left Barcelona to join Manchester City in the summer of 2022.

A full international since 2016, Ouahabi had represented the Spain national team in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and the UEFA Women's Euro 2022.

Early life

Ouahabi was born in Mataró, Spain to a family of Moroccan origin. [1] Growing up, she would play futsal with her brother and at one point joined a futsal team of eleven other boys. [2] The first club she joined was a girl's youth team of the club UE Vilassar de Mar. [3]

Club career

Barcelona

Ouahabi was thirteen when she joined Barcelona's youth teams in 2007. [4] After five years of elevating through the ranks of La Masia, she became a first-team player for the 2011–12 season. This season saw Barcelona achieve their first ever league title win. Ouahabi was frustrated with a lack of playing time after playing a second year in the Spanish Primera División with Barcelona.

Valencia

She joined Valencia in 2013, [5] where she remained until 2016.

Return to Barcelona

In the summer of 2016, Ouahabi re-signed with Barcelona from Valencia. [6]

She won three Primera División titles, five Copa de la Reina titles, two Supercopa de España titles and the UEFA Women's Champions League in her second spell at Barcelona, including the continental treble of Primera División, Copa de la Reina and Champions League in 2021. [7]

Manchester City

Ouahabi joined Manchester City from Barcelona in 2022 on a two-year deal. [8] She made her club debut in a UEFA Women's Champions League tie against FC Tomiris Turan on 19 August 2022, [9] and her goal debut in the first minute of a 5-0 victory against West Ham United, on 21 April 2024. [10]

International career

Ouahabi has played for Spain's U19 national team. [11]

Ouahabi earned her first senior national team callup in February 2016 under newly appointed Spain coach Jorge Vilda. [12] A month later, Ouahabi made her senior international debut for Spain on 4 March 2016, starting a 0–0 friendly draw with Romania in Mogoșoaia. [13]

In February 2017, Ouahabi was called up to the Spain squad for the 2017 Algarve Cup, her first call-up for a senior national team tournament. [14] Her first international goal turned out to be the winning goal in the 2017 Algarve Cup final against Canada.

At the 2019 Women's World Cup Ouahabi started one group stage match, a 0–0 draw against China. The draw was enough to get them past the group stages for the first time in Spain's history where they would then face the United States in the Round of 16. Ouahabi started that Round of 16 match, where Spain had a convincing performance but lost 1–2 against the eventual tournament winners. She ended the tournament having played 180 minutes. [15]

She was one of Las 15 , a group of players who made themselves unavailable for international selection in September 2022 due to their dissatisfaction with head coach Jorge Vilda, and among the dozen who were not involved 11 months later as Spain won the World Cup. [16] [17]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 25 January 2025 [18]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational cup [a] League cup [b] ContinentalOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Barcelona 2010–11 Primera División 2010———30
2011–12 Primera División13100———131
2012–13 Primera División6100———61
Total21210———222
València 2013–14Primera División29020———310
2014–15Primera División26230———292
2015–16Primera División30120———321
Total85370———923
Barcelona 2016–17 Primera División21030—7 [c] 1—311
2017–18 Primera División6000—3 [c] 0—90
2018–19 Primera División21030—6 [c] 0—300
2019–20 Primera División14030—5 [c] 02 [d] 0240
2020–21 Primera División22130—8 [c] 01 [d] 0341
2021–22 Primera División25140—9 [c] 12 [d] 0402
Total1092 [c] 160—382501684
Manchester City 2022–23 Women's Super League 16020402 [c] 0—240
2023–24 Women's Super League1713030——231
2024–25 Women's Super League11010106 [c] 0—190
Total441608080—661
Career total2597300804625034810

International

As of match played 3 December 2024 [19]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Spain 201680
2017121
201810
2019120
202030
202180
202290
202440
Total571
Scores and results list Spain's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ouahabi goal.
List of international goals scored by Leila Ouahabi
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetitionRef.
18 March 2017 Estádio Algarve, Algarve Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1–01-0 2017 Algarve Cup [20]

Honours

Barcelona

Spain

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