Vivianne Miedema

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Anna Margaretha Marina Astrid “Vivianne” Miedema (* 15). July 1996 in Hoogeveen, Netherlands is a Dutch footballer. She has played for the national team since 2013 and for Arsenal Women FC since 2017. Since 2019 she is the record scorer of the Netherlands.

Career

Clubs
Miedema started playing football at the five-year-old Hoogeveense Zaterdag Voetbal Vereniging (HZVV), who was based in her birth and residence, and after eight years moved to the city rival VV de Weide. In 2011, she signed the first division sc Heerenveen, with which she occupied the last place in the league in her premiere season. At the time of her debut for Heerenveen, she was the youngest player to be used in the Eredivisie. In the first season of the BeNe League, which has been played since 2012/13, she was best scorer of the BeNe League B with 22 goals in 14 games. The striker was even more successful in the 2013/14 season: With 39 goals she became queen scorer. The runner-up in this standings, Ellen Jansen, had scored 24 goals in 26 games.

For the 2014/15 season she signed the Bundesliga club FC Bayern Munich and provided her with a three-year contract. On 31 August 2014 (1st matchday) she made her debut in the 1-1 draw in the home game against FFC Frankfurt, when she was replaced in the 75th minute for Mana Iwabuchi. Her first two league goals for FC Bayern Munich she scored on 5. October 2014 (6th matchday) at the 6-0 victory in the home game against MSV Duisburg with the goals for 4-0 in the 68th and 5-0 in the 75th. Minute after she went for Eunice Beckmann in 65. The minute was changed. In 2015 she became German Champion with the Munich women, as well as in 2016. On 18 May 2017, FC Bayern Munich announced that Miedema will leave the club at the end of the 2016/2017 season. On 23 May 2017 Miedema signed with the English first division team Arsenal Ladies FC. In her first season in England, she scored four goals in eleven games. In the 2018/19 season, she had 22 goals, which made her also queen goal scorer, a significant part of the fact that Arsenal became champion again after five seasons without a championship title. With Arsenal, she reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Women’s Champions League 2019/20, where they lost 1-2 against Paris Saint-Germain. With 10 goals she was the best scorer of the final round. The 2019/20 season, which ended prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ended Arsenal in third place, missing participation in the UEFA Women’s Champions League 2020/21. Until the end of the season she was the best scorer.

For the group phase of the UEFA Women’s Champions League 2021/22 she could qualify with Arsenal, the group phase they finished second, whereby the direct comparison with the same-pointed Hoffenheimers was decisive, because in the first leg they had won with 4-0, but lost the second leg with 1: 4. Im Vie