Viviane Asseyi

Viviane Asseyi

Asseyi playing for Montpellier in 2013
Personal information
Full name	Viviane Marie-Louise Blanche Asseyi [1]
Date of birth	(1993-11-20) 20 November 1993 (age 30)
Place of birth	Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	West Ham United
Number	26
Youth career
2000–2008	US Queuvillaise
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2008–2009	Rouen	25	(23)
2010–2016	Montpellier	124	(43)
2016–2018	Marseille	42	(13)
2018–2020	Bordeaux	38	(24)
2020–2022	Bayern Munich	36	(13)
2022–	West Ham United	32	(8)
International career‡
2008–2009	France U16	10	(5)
2009	France U17	5	(1)
2010–2012	France U19	17	(4)
2014–2017	France U23	10	(1)
2013–	France	66	(14)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 03:50, 27 December 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 5 December 2023

Viviane Marie-Louise Blanche Asseyi (born 20 November 1993) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Super League club West Ham United and the France national team.

Club career

Asseyi began her career with amateur club US Quevilly at age 6. Due to Quevilly not having a women's section, at age 16 she played on a mixed team composed mostly of male players. ^[2] She later joined the women's section of football club FC Rouen, where the youngster scored 23 goals in 28 total appearances. She joined Montpellier midway through the 2009–10 season in January 2010 and played there until moving to Olympique de Marseille ahead of the 2016–17 season. ^[3]

In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, she transferred to Bayern Munich in Germany. Upon her arrival at the club, she was welcomed by fellow French citizen Benjamin Pavard, who played for the men's side. She had been in conversations with Bayern about a transfer for a year prior to the move. ^[4]

In her Bundesliga debut on the first matchday against SC Sand, Asseyi scored, giving Bayern Munich the lead just two minutes in. In November she injured her ankle during a national team training course and had surgery a few days later. ^[5]  At the beginning of March 2021, she returned to the pitch, immediately scored another goal in Freiburg and won the Bundesliga championship with Bayern Munich at the end of the season. A year later, one of her goals - scored with a bicycle kick against 1. FC Köln - was voted goal of the month for March 2022 by the spectators of the Sportschau by a large margin. ^[6]

On 2 August 2022, Asseyi joined Super League club West Ham United. ^[7] In the 2023–24 home game against Manchester United, she scored the equalizer making it 1-1 in the 85th minute. ^[8]

National player

Youth

Viviane Asseyi played a total of 32 games for the French youth selection teams in the U-16, U-17, and U-19 age groups. In the second qualifying round for the 2012 U-19 European Championship, she scored the goal of the day against the Netherlands. ^[9]

Senior

In June 2013, the coach of the senior national team, Bruno Bini, invited her for the first time to a course in preparation for the European Championship and then subsequently called Asseyi into the squad in place of Laëtitia Tonazzi who was retiring. ^[10] On June 29, 2013, she made her debut for France at age 19 in a friendly against Norway. Bini's successor Philippe Bergeroo occasionally and mainly used her as a substitute. The new national coach Corinne Diacre even put Asseyi in the starting line-up in autumn 2017, with the striker scoring her first goal. Viviane Asseyi was also named in France's 23-player squad for the 2019 World Cup on home soil. ^[11]

She was nominated for the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, played in two of her team's five games. Her team was eliminated in the quarter-finals after penalties against Australia. ^[12]

Personal life

Asseyi was born in France, and is of Gabonese descent. ^[13]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 17 December 2023 ^[14]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National cup [lower-alpha 1]		League cup [lower-alpha 2]		Continental		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
FC Rouen	2008–09	D2 Féminine	16	10	0	0	—		—		16	10
	2009–10	D2 Féminine	9	13	0	0	—		—		9	13
	Total		25	23	0	0	—		—		25	23
Montpellier	2010–11	D1 Féminine	11	3	3	0	—		2	0	16	3
	2011–12	D1 Féminine	20	9	4	0	—		—		24	9
	2012–13	D1 Féminine	18	7	3	0	—		—		21	7
	2013–14	D1 Féminine	18	8	6	5	—		—		24	13
	2014–15	D1 Féminine	20	9	4	3	—		—		24	12
	2015–16	D1 Féminine	19	3	6	2	—		—		25	5
	2016–17	D1 Féminine	18	4	6	2	—		—		24	6
	Total		124	43	32	12	—		2	0	158	55
Marseille	2016–17	D1 Féminine	21	9	1	0	—		—		22	9
	2017–18	D1 Féminine	21	4	2	0	—		—		23	4
	Total		42	13	3	0	—		—		45	13
Bordeaux	2018–19	D1 Féminine	22	12	1	0	—		—		23	12
	2019–20	D1 Féminine	16	12	3	1	—		—		19	13
	Total		38	24	4	1	—		—		42	25
Bayern Munich	2019–20	Frauen-Bundesliga	0	0	0	0	—		1	0	1	0
	2020–21	Frauen-Bundesliga	15	9	3	1	—		4	0	22	10
	2021–22	Frauen-Bundesliga	20	5	3	1	—		6	1	29	7
	Total		35	14	6	2	—		11	1	52	17
West Ham United	2022–23	Women's Super League	22	6	2	0	5	1	—		29	7
	2023–24	Women's Super League	10	2	0	0	2	0	—		12	2
			32	8	2	0	7	1	—		41	9
Career total			296	125	47	15	7	1	13	1	363	142

1. Includes Women's FA Cup, Coupe de France Féminine, DFB-Pokal Frauen
2. Includes FA Women's League Cup

International

As of match played 5 December 2023 ^[15]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
France	2013	1	0
	2014	6	0
	2015	4	0
	2016	2	0
	2017	5	4
	2018	7	0
	2019	14	2
	2020	7	3
	2021	7	3
	2022	5	2
	2023	8	0
Total		66	14

Scores and results list France's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Asseyi goal.

List of international goals scored by Viviane Asseyi

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref
1	15 September 2017	Stade Michel d'Ornano, Caen, France	Chile	1–0	1–0	Friendly	[16]
2	21 October 2017	Stade du Hainaut, Valenciennes, France	England	1–0	1–0	Friendly	[17]
3	24 October 2017	Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims, France	Ghana	4–0	8–0	Friendly	[18]
4				7–0
5	4 March 2019	Stade de la Vallée du Cher, Tours, France	Uruguay	1–0	6–0	Friendly	[19]
6	9 November 2019	Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France	Serbia	6–0	6–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying	[20]
7	5 March 2020	Stade de l'Épopée, Calais, France	Canada	1–0	1–0	2020 Tournoi de France	[21]
8	22 September 2020	Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje, North Macedonia	North Macedonia	6–0	7–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying	[22]
9	23 October 2020	Stade de la Source, Orléans, France	North Macedonia	6–0	11–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying	[23]
10	9 April 2021	Stade Michel d'Ornano, Caen, France	England	2–0	3–1	Friendly	[24]
11	17 September 2021	Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras, Greece	Greece	9–0	10–0	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification	[25]
12	26 November 2021	Stade de la Rabine, Vannes, France	Kazakhstan	1–0	6–0	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification	[26]
13	7 October 2022	Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, Dresden, Germany	Germany	1–2	1–2	Friendly	[27]
14	11 November 2022	Estadi Olímpic Camilo Cano, La Nucia, Spain	Norway	2–1	2–1	Friendly	[28]

Honours

Bayern Munich

• Bundesliga: 2020-21

Montpellier

• Coupe de France: Finalist 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015

Individual

• Goal of the Month (Germany): March 2022

References

1. "FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019 List of Players" (PDF). fifa.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
2. "L'occasion de m'aguerrir". French Football Federation (in French). 26 June 2008. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
3. "Viviane Asseyi au Montpellier-Hérault SC". 12 Rouennais (in French). 19 January 2010. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
4. Taylor, Louise (1 May 2021). "Bayern's Viviane Asseyi: 'Women's football is stronger across Europe'". The Guardian.
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8. "Late West Ham goal dents Man Utd European hopes". BBC Sport. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
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13. "Football féminin: le PSG s'adjuge le Classico". 25 September 2016.
14. "France - V. Asseyi - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway".
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22. "Footofeminin.fr - Equipe de France A - Macédoine du Nord-France 0-7". www.statsfootofeminin.fr. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
23. "Footofeminin.fr - Equipe de France A - France-Macédoine du Nord 11-0". www.statsfootofeminin.fr. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
24. "Footofeminin.fr - Equipe de France A - France-Angleterre 3-1". www.statsfootofeminin.fr. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
25. "Footofeminin.fr - Equipe de France A - Grèce-France 0-10". www.statsfootofeminin.fr. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
26. "Footofeminin.fr - Equipe de France A - France-Kazakhstan 6-0". www.statsfootofeminin.fr. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
27. "Footofeminin.fr - Equipe de France A - Allemagne-France 2-1". www.statsfootofeminin.fr. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
28. "Footofeminin.fr - Equipe de France A - Norvège-France 1-2". www.statsfootofeminin.fr. Retrieved 25 February 2023.

External links

• Viviane Asseyi at the French Football Federation (in French)
• Viviane Asseyi at the French Football Federation (archived2020-12-09) (in French)
• FFF profile (in French)
• Profile at Montpellier HSC (in French)
• Player French football stats at footofeminin.fr (in French)