Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Maite Oroz Areta | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 25 March 1998 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Huarte, Spain | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.56 m (5 ft 1 in) [1] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Tottenham Hotspur | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
2004–2010 | Huarte | ||||||||||||||||
2010–2013 | Osasuna | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2013–2014 | Osasuna | ||||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Athletic Club B | 23 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
2015–2020 | Athletic Club | 107 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
2020–2024 | Real Madrid | 110 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
2024– | Tottenham Hotspur | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2013 [2] [3] | Spain U16 | ||||||||||||||||
2013–2015 | Spain U17 | 13 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
2016–2017 | Spain U19 | 16 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
2016–2018 | Spain U20 | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2017–2020 | Basque Country | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2017–2020 | Navarre | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2021– | Spain | 15 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 04:20, 23 September 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 00:18, 2 July 2024 (UTC) |
Maite Oroz Areta (born 25 March 1998) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Women's Super League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Spain national team. She made her senior club debut with Athletic Club in 2015 and departed in 2020.
Born in Huarte, Navarre, Oroz began playing football with boys in the village team CD Huarte from the age of 6, [2] joining the youth system at Osasuna in nearby Pamplona aged 12. From that early age, she was marked out as a promising talent due to her skill on the ball, creativity and confidence. [2] [3] She played with Osasuna's senior team for a season in the Segunda División before the women's section of the club was disbanded in 2014, leading her to join Athletic Club. [4] [5]
Following a year with the club's B-team, [2] she made her senior team debut in September 2015 and became a regular from then on, making 30 appearances in the 2015–16 Primera División as Athletic finished as champions. She played and scored in the subsequent 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, [6] but the club did not progress beyond the opening knockout round.
In September 2018, Oroz sustained a serious injury, rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament of her left knee during a league match against Atlético Madrid [7] (one of several such injuries suffered by players in Athletic's various teams over a short period) [8] which ruled her out for the entire 2018–19 season. [9] Along with teammate and friend Damaris Egurrola, [10] she decided to leave the club when her contract expired in summer 2020. [11] In July 2020, after she had already agreed to join Real Madrid Femenino, a court case regarding the legality of 'compensation lists' for players in Spanish women's football confirmed that her new employers would not have to pay a fee to Athletic Club. [12]
She immediately became a part of Real Madrid's history by being one of the 11 players to start in their first official match in October 2020 (with almost a full team of new signings, they lost 4–0 at home to Barcelona). [13] Two weeks later she was among the scorers in their first victory, and by March 2023 had made her 100th appearance for the Merengues, reaching the milestone in the same match as goalkeeper Misa Rodríguez. [14]
On 13 September 2024, Oroz signed for Tottenham Hotspur on a four-year contract. [15]
Oroz was involved with Spanish national age-group teams at several levels and with much success, being a member of the under-17 squad that claimed the bronze medal at the 2013 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, [3] silver at the 2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and gold at the 2015 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship; [2] the under-19 squad which reached the final of the 2016 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship then won the 2017 tournament; and the under-20 squad who were runners-up at the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, [16] having also been involved in the 2016 edition. [1]
In October 2019, she was called up to the inaugural squad for España Promesas (essentially Spain B), along with two clubmates. [17] [18]
She has also played for the unofficial Basque Country and Navarre representative teams, making her debut for both in 2017. [19] [20]
Club | Season | League | National cup [a] | League cup [b] | Continental [c] | Other [d] | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Athletic Club | 2015–16 | Primera División | 30 | 5 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 31 | 5 | |||
2016–17 | Primera División | 27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 1 | — | 30 | 2 | |||
2017–18 | Primera División | 26 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — | — | 29 | 2 | ||||
2018–19 | Primera División | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 3 | 0 | ||||
2019–20 | Primera División | 21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 23 | 0 | ||||
Total | 107 | 8 | 7 | 0 | — | 2 | 1 | — | 116 | 9 | ||||
Real Madrid | 2020–21 | Primera División | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 31 | 1 | |||
2021–22 | Primera División | 26 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 3 | ||
2022–23 | Liga F | 29 | 3 | 4 | 0 | — | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 3 | ||
2023–24 | Liga F | 24 | 5 | 2 | 0 | — | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 5 | ||
2024–25 | Liga F | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Total | 110 | 12 | 10 | 0 | — | 23 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 136 | 13 | |||
Tottenham Hotspur | 2024–25 | Women's Super League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||
Career total | 218 | 20 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 253 | 22 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Spain | 2021 | 1 | 0 |
2022 | 4 | 1 | |
2023 | 7 | 3 | |
2024 | 3 | 0 | |
Total | 15 | 4 |
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 11 November 2022 | Estadio Municipal Álvarez Claro, Melilla, Spain | Argentina | 2–0 | 7–0 | Friendly |
2 | 16 February 2023 | Industree Group Stadium, Gosford, Australia | Jamaica | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2023 Cup of Nations |
3 | 26 September 2023 | Estadio Nuevo Arcángel, Córdoba, Spain | Switzerland | 5–0 | 5–0 | 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League |
4 | 31 October 2023 | Letzigrund, Zürich, Switzerland | Switzerland | 7–1 | 7–1 | 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League |
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