38-Goal Felicia Schröder Leading List Of European Club Scorers In 2025

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN – OCTOBER 28: Felicia Schroder of Sweden arrives on the stadium previous to the Girls’s Nations League 2025 Semi-Remaining second leg match between Sweden and Spain at Gamla Ullevi on October 28, 2025 in Gothenburg, Sweden. (Photograph by Linnea Rheborg – UEFA/UEFA by way of Getty Pictures)

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Felicia Schröder, hailed as a “future famous person”, performed her final membership recreation of the calendar 12 months having scored extra for her crew than another European girl in 2025.

Schröder ends the 12 months having discovered the online on 38 events for the brand new Swedish champions BK Häcken. That’s three greater than FC Barcelona’s Ewa Pajor, the latest winner of the first-ever Gerd Müller Trophy within the ladies’s recreation, having scored 52 instances through the 2024/25 season.

Pajor has additionally scored 5 objectives for Poland in 2025 giving her an total complete of 41 for the calendar 12 months. Each Schröder and Pajor path Charlyn Corral who has an unbelievable 48 objectives for her Mexican membership aspect Pachuca and is about to win the title of the world’s main feminine goalscorer for a second year in succession.

Thirty of Schröder’s objectives have are available her home league, solely Katie Wilkinson of Glasgow Rangers has scored extra in a European prime flight throughout 2025. Schröder thus turned the primary participant to hit the thirty-goal mark within the Damallsvenskan in over 20 years since Hanna Ljungberg for Umeå IK in 2002, 4 years earlier than the 18-year-old Schröder was even born.

Talking to me completely this week, Schröder stated “truthfully, I didn’t go into the season fascinated by the numbers. I simply needed to enhance my recreation and assist the crew, particularly from final 12 months after I scored 12. The objectives began to come back and I felt increasingly assured. Reaching 30 objectives is one thing I am actually pleased with. It is a particular milestone, particularly contemplating how lengthy it has been since somebody hit that mark too.”

Schröder might add to her tally throughout two UEFA Nations League matches for Sweden towards France however is unconcerned with scoring information. “I’m conscious of them, in fact. Individuals ship me issues or tag me, nevertheless it’s one thing I am not centered on a lot. For me, an important factor is consistency and serving to my crew win. Particular person numbers are extra of a bonus than the objective itself.”

It’s no shock that Schröder admires Sam Kerr, one other serial goalscorer in tbe ladies’s recreation, however rising up she was impressed by a ahead within the males’s recreation. She revealed to me that “one participant I at all times appeared as much as was Didier Drogba. His power and motion within the field and talent to point out up within the greatest moments are qualities I actually admire.”

Schröder has developed a deadly partnership with Anna Anvegård, a participant ten years her senior. Anvegård returned to play within the Damallsvenskan after a 12 months in England with Everton, Schröder was stuffed with reward for her strike accomplice. “Anna is implausible to play with, I’ve stated that so many instances.”

“She sees issues earlier than they occur. As a striker, that’s truly what you need behind you. We’ve developed a very good understanding to one another. She is aware of the runs that I prefer to make and I do know when she needs to obtain the ball. She’s undoubtedly a creator but additionally somebody who works extremely onerous for the crew.”

Final week, BK Häcken lifted their first Damallsvenskan title for the reason that ladies’s crew got here underneath the membership’s umbrella in 2021. After ending second in 4 successive years, Schröder’s objectives helped them lastly attain the summit. “It was unbelievable to be trustworthy,” she stated. “A lot pleasure, but additionally a little bit of reduction I believe, particularly for myself. After being so shut within the earlier seasons, lastly lifting a trophy means all the things to the membership and to us gamers. The celebrations have been emotional and loud, undoubtedly one thing I’ll always remember.”

Schröder already has expertise of taking part in within the UEFA Girls’s Champions League. In 2024, she stared a quarter-final within the Parc des Princes on the age of sixteen. Within the two years since, BK Häcken have gone out within the qualifying rounds, agonisingly dropping to Atlético in September after additional time in spite a objective from Schröder within the first leg. She admitted to me that “the loss was robust, it stayed with us for some time as a result of it was so shut.”

This season nevertheless, BK Häcken have been provided a second likelihood, dropping into the brand new UEFA Girls’s Europa Cup. There they’ve prospered, progressing to the final eight after narrowly overcoming Italian aspect Inter over two legs this week. “Soccer strikes quick,” Schröder instructed me, “you need to transfer with it and dwell with it. Enjoying within the Europa Cup provides us a brand new alternative to compete internationally.”

Regardless of being referred to as up and making her first nationwide crew begin forward of the match, Schröder was in the end not noted of Sweden’s closing squad for the UEFA Girls’s Euro this summer time. She has performed in each of Sweden’s video games since towards world champions Spain and was named once more of their squad this week.

“Lacking out on the Euros was a disappointment in fact, being again now has given me a brand new alternative to enhance. Now I’m simply specializing in working onerous and enhancing taking any likelihood I get. My objective is in fact to be part of the nationwide crew long run however I do know it requires consistency each single day.”

Final week, long-time captain Magda Eriksson made the shock resolution to retire from playing in international matches. Schröder is on the forefront of a brand new teenage era of Swedish stars breaking into what had develop into an ageing nationwide crew alongside Bella Andersson of Actual Madrid and Smilla Holmberg of Hammarby.

Schröder was nevertheless grateful for the gracious welcome she acquired into the nationwide crew from senior gamers like Eriksson. She instructed me “Magda was wonderful within the instances I met her. She made everybody really feel included, particularly youthful gamers coming for the primary time. As a captain, she led by instance, calm {and professional}.”

Amid curiosity from a number of main European golf equipment, Schröder signed a new four-year contract with the Swedish crew in the summertime. BK Häcken’s soccer supervisor Martin Ericsson stated “Felicia is a future famous person who we’re very proud to have reached an extension with. Phrases are superfluous on the subject of Felicia and she or he has proven time and time once more that she will be able to deal with most issues on the pitch. We’re very grateful that we get the possibility to proceed our improvement along with Felicia.”

In accordance with reports Barcelona, Chelsea, Manchester Metropolis and VfL Wolfsburg have been monitoring her progress however for now, the priorty for Schröder is getting minutes on the pitch. “I believe that’s actually essential for younger gamers, that taking part in time and consistency. That’s the way you develop, enhance and get higher. You need to play. So I believe that is a giant motive why I stayed too.”