Sarah Basem Najem Abu-Sabbah (born 27 October 1999) is a German-born Jordanian footballer who plays for SV Meppen in Germany's Frauen-Bundesliga.[2] She has also played for the Jordan under-17 team that played in the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and the senior national team of Jordan.
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Sarah Basem Najem Abu-Sabbah | ||
Date of birth | (1999-10-27) 27 October 1999 (age 22) | ||
Place of birth | Düsseldorf, Germany | ||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | SV Meppen | ||
Number | 9 | ||
Youth career | |||
2014–2015 | SGS Essen U17 | ||
2015–2016 | Bayer Leverkusen U17 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014–2016 | Bayer Leverkusen | 1 | (0) |
2017–2018 | Bayer Leverkusen II | ||
2018–2021 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 48 | (20) |
2022- | SV Meppen | 1 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2016 | Jordan U17 | 3 | (1) |
2017– | Jordan | 4 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 March 2020 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20 April 2018 |
Abu-Sabbah was born on October 27, 1999[3] in Düsseldorf, Germany. Her father migrated to Germany in 1994. She started playing football at age 4 with her mother registering her at a boys' football club.[4]
Abu-Sabbah played for the youth teams of SGS Essen and Bayer Leverkusen at the U17 Bundesliga South/SouthWest division in the 2014–15 and 2015-16 season respectively.
On March 20, 2016 she made her first appearance for the senior team of Bayer Leverkusen at the Frauen-Bundesliga,[3] becoming the first female Jordanian to play in a league outside Jordan[4] and the first Arab to play in the German women's league.[5] She only played in one match. In 2017, she is playing for Bayer Leverkusen II of third-tier league Regionalliga West.[6]
Abu-Sabbah first joined the Jordan U-17 team in 2015.[5] At the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup which was hosted in Jordan, Abu-Sabbah debuted for the under-17 team of Jordan in the match against Spain.[7] She later scored the first ever goal of the Jordan U-17 team in the tournament in their 1-4 loss to Mexico.[4]
She debuted for the senior team in September 2017 in the 2-1 friendly win against Latvia in Riga.[6] She was among the players that represented Jordan at the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup.[2][8]
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 12 April 2018 | Amman International Stadium, Amman, Jordan | ![]() | 1–1 | 1–8 | 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup |
Jordan squad – 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup | ||
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