Alèxia Putellas i Segura ( , Alexia Putellas Segura; born 4 February 1994), often known mononymously as Alexia, is a Spanish professional footballer from Catalonia who plays as a midfielder or forward for Liga F club Barcelona, which she captains, and the Spain women's national team. She previously played for Espanyol and Levante, and has represented Catalonia. Having won all major club and individual awards available to a European player by 2022, she is widely regarded as one of the greatest female footballers of all time.
Putellas started her youth career at CE Sabadell, passing through Barcelona before she moved to Espanyol, where she played most of her youth football. After a year at Levante she returned to Barcelona in 2012, where she has won eight league titles, eight Copas de la Reina and three UEFA Women's Champions League trophies. In Barcelona's 2020–21 season, she played an essential role as her team won the Champions League as well as the resulting continental treble, both for the first time in their history. Putellas then went on to win the UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award, the Ballon d'Or Féminin, and The Best FIFA Women's Player in 2021, becoming the first player to win all three in the same year. In 2022, despite missing the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 due to an ACL injury, she won all three awards again, becoming the first woman to win any of them in consecutive years. Barcelona won the league and Champions League again in 2022–23, though Putellas was largely absent with the injury, before taking the continental quadruple in 2023–24.
On the international stage, Putellas had success with Spain's youth national teams, winning two UEFA Women's U-17 Euros (in 2010 and 2011) as well as finishing third in the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and second in the 2012 UEFA Women's U-19 Euro. She made her debut for Spain's senior national team for the 2013 UEFA Women's Euro, and has since featured in four other major international competitions with the team: Spain's FIFA Women's World Cup debut in 2015, the 2017 Euro, the 2019 World Cup and the 2023 World Cup that Spain won. She captained Spain during the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League, which they also won.
As of October 2023, Putellas has the second-most all-time appearances for Barcelona behind former left-back Melanie Serrano, and is their all-time top goalscorer. She is the record holder for most Spain appearances, having surpassed Marta Torrejón's previous record of 90 caps in 2021, and became the first player to make over 100 appearances for the Spain women's team, which she achieved in 2022.
Born into a basketball-playing family, Putellas took part in basketball as well as roller hockey, tennis, and , as a child. She began playing football at school, and attended football camps run by Xavi for two summers, before joining a club in 2001 at seven years old. Her mother allowed her to join a football team on the condition she stop playing at school, though she continued. Putellas interpreted her mother's request as a reflection of machismo, specifically prejudice towards girls playing football, in society, saying that her family themselves always accepted her ambitions. A mature and reserved but not shy child, Putellas showed leadership qualities from a young age. She enjoyed football at school, where she was embraced, but still did not think she could have a football career due to being female. Putellas' first club was the local CF Mollet UE boys' team; she only had three training sessions there, leaving as she did not like the atmosphere and soon after joining the Sabadell girls' team.
In 2013, Putellas began studying Business Administration and Management at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, later taking a break from her studies to focus on football. She had decided to study for a Academic degree due to a lack of professionalism in Spanish women's football; Barcelona Femení became professional in 2015.
On 5 May 2013, Putellas won her first league title with Barcelona when they defeated Athletic Bilbao 2–1 at the San Mamés to a crowd of over 25,000. In 2021, Putellas said this was one of her favourite matches because it "made her feel like a footballer". In the 2013 final of the Copa de la Reina she scored Barcelona's third goal against Zaragoza CFF by dribbling past two Zaragoza defenders, past their keeper, and poking the ball into the net. The goal went viral and attracted more attention for Putellas from Spanish and international media. Barcelona won 4–0, the first domestic double in their history. Putellas was chosen as MVP of the Copa de la Reina final for her performance.
By 2014 Putellas was "widely recognised as the future of both FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team," and an integral part of Barcelona's 2014 Copa de la Reina campaign, scoring in each round of the knockout stage: her goal in the away leg of the quarter-finals against Real Sociedad saw Barcelona through with an aggregate 1–0. She was one of Barcelona's three goals for a 3–1 aggregate victory in the semi-finals, before her goals were again crucial in the final against Athletic Bilbao: her shot from outside the box in extra time took the tie to penalties, in which she scored the game-winning fifth penalty, earning her fifth major trophy with Barcelona. She was named MVP of the Copa de la Reina for the second season in a row.
Putellas missed Barcelona's first UEFA Women's Champions League match of the 2015–16 season against BIIK Kazygurt, returning in the second leg to provide an assist for Jennifer Hermoso in a 4–0 win. She scored the first four-goal game of her career in 2015, having never scored a hat-trick before, in a 10–0 win against Fundación Albacete in the league.
Ahead of the quarter-finals of the Champions League, which Barcelona closely lost on aggregate to Paris Saint-Germain, Putellas looked to the match as an opportunity to develop; she said that her perspective had changed, that when she first joined Barcelona she felt just playing in the Champions League was a prize to enjoy, but she wanted to be able to "reach a final in three or four years" and knew they had to be challenging teams like PSG. They held PSG to a 0–0 draw at the Mini Estadi before losing 0–1 in Paris. Acknowledging PSG's superiority between the fixtures, Putellas still said she wanted to be able to put pressure on them; fielded as Barcelona's striker in the deciding match, she was described by Sport as their joker for "doing anything the team needed" throughout the game, including playing across the attack and dropping into midfield to retain possession.
In the quarter-finals of the 2016 Copa de la Reina, Putellas scored a brace and provided an assist for Míriam Diéguez in a 5–1 win against Real Sociedad. She finished her season as Barcelona's second-highest goalscorer in the league with 18 goals.
In February of the following year, she started and captained both legs of the first ever Supercopa de España Femenina. In the final, she scored a brace in a 10–1 thrashing of Real Sociedad, winning her first major title with the club in two years. Later in the month, she made her 300th appearance for Barcelona against Sporting Huelva, the fourth player in Barcelona's history to reach that many appearances after Melanie Serrano, Marta Unzué, and Vicky Losada. She was honored at Estadi Johan Cruyff for the milestone in March. Following the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the 2019–20 league season was suspended, with Barcelona being crowned the winner with 21 out of 32 matchdays played. It was Putellas' first league title since 2015, and her fourth with the club overall. She ended up contributing 10 goals and 8 assists in 20 league matches. At the end of the season, Putellas was named the best player of the 2019–20 league campaign.
Upon the resumption of the 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League, Barcelona played Atlético Madrid in the single-legged quarter-final, where they won 1–0. Barcelona advanced to the semi-final of the competition, where they were knocked out 1–0 by VfL Wolfsburg. In a post-match interview, when asked about the gap in quality between Barcelona and other elite European teams, Putellas claimed "there is no distance." On the continental stage, Putellas was named as a candidate for the UEFA Women's Team of the Year for 2020.
Although the 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League was completed, Barcelona were still due to complete the remaining matches of that season's Copa de la Reina campaign. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the semi-finals and final of the 2019–20 Copa de la Reina were pushed back to be played during the 2020–21 season. On 13 February 2021, Putellas played the 2020 Copa de la Reina final against Logroño, and drew a penalty which she scored to put Barcelona 1–0 up. Barcelona won the final 3–0, Putellas' fifth Copa de la Reina title with the club.
Later in the month of May, she competed in the final stages of the 2020–21 Copa de la Reina. Putellas was sidelined for the two league matches between the Champions League Final and the semi-final of the Copa de la Reina due to her previous injury, but started the semi-final against Madrid CFF where she scored two goals in a 4–0 win. Her two goals made her the first player in Barcelona's history to exceed 10 goals in the Copa de la Reina. In the final, played on 30 May 2021, Putellas scored two goals against Levante – a header from a Lieke Martens corner service and another coming from a shot from open play into the far right corner. The match ended with a 4–2 victory to Barcelona as they completed the continental treble, a first for a Spanish women's club team. Putellas also won MVP of the Copa de la Reina final for the third time in her career, and scored the most goals in the tournament with five. The cup was her sixth Copa de la Reina with Barcelona and her seventh overall. Putellas ended her season as the highest-scoring midfielder in Europe with 26 goals in all competitions.
On 29 November 2021, Putellas was awarded the 2021 Ballon d'Or Féminin. She became the first Spanish woman to win any World Player of the Year/Ballon d'Or award, and was the first Spaniard since Luis Suárez in 1960 to win a Ballon d'Or. She dedicated the award to her father and thanked her teammates. In January of the following year, Putellas was named as the winner of FIFA's The Best Women's Player Award, the second FC Barcelona Femení player to win the award after Lieke Martens in 2017. Days later, Putellas scored a 91st-minute winner in a 1–0 match against Real Madrid in the semi-finals of the 2021–22 Supercopa Femenina. She later started and played 65 minutes of the Supercopa Femenina final, which ended 7–0 in Barcelona's favor against Atlético Madrid.
Putellas began Barcelona's 2021–22 Copa de la Reina campaign by scoring a goal in a 3–1 win against Rayo Vallecano in the Round of 16 of the tournament. In the quarter-final of the tournament, played on 16 March 2022, Putellas scored 2 goals in a 3–0 win against Real Sociedad to advance Barcelona to the semi-finals. Later that month, Putellas competed in Barcelona's UWCL quarter-final matches against domestic rivals Real Madrid. In the first leg, she scored 2 goals to help Barcelona to a narrow 3–1 away win. In the following home leg, Putellas started and scored Barcelona's 4th goal in a 5–2 win over Real Madrid at the Camp Nou. The match broke the record for attendance at a women's football match with 91,553 fans in attendance. In April 2022, Putellas started and scored two goals in a 5–1 UWCL semi-final win over VfL Wolfsburg. The match, again hosted at the Camp Nou, broke the women's football world attendance record once more with 91,648 people in attendance.
On 21 May 2022, Putellas started Barcelona's second-consecutive UEFA Women's Champions League final against Olympique Lyon. She played all 90 minutes and scored Barcelona's only goal in a 1–3 loss. At the conclusion of the tournament, she was named the 2021–22 UWCL Player of the Season, included in the 2021–22 UWCL Team of the Season, and was recognized as the 2021–22 UWCL Top Scorer, scoring 11 goals throughout the competition. She also had the most direct goal involvements of any player in the competition with a combined 13 goals and assists.
Putellas returned to domestic competition on 25 May 2022 in Barcelona's semi-final Copa de la Reina clash against Real Madrid. She assisted Lieke Martens' opening goal in a match that ended as a 4–0 win. In Barcelona's final match of the season, the Copa de la Reina final against Sporting Huelva, Putellas played the entire match of a 6–1 win and scored Barcelona's sixth and final goal. Putellas finished as the joint-top scorer of the 2021–22 Copa de la Reina, tied with Anita Marcos and Alicia Martínez with 4 goals.
By the end of the season, Putellas' teammates agreed that "Barcelona is Alexia and Alexia is Barcelona". She finished her league season with 18 goals and a league-best 15 assists as Barcelona had a Perfect season. Her 2021–22 season was also the first time in her career that she had scored over 30 goals in a single season, and the first season since 2018–19 that she was Barcelona's top scorer in all competitions. Like last season, Putellas finished as Europe's highest-scoring midfielder with 34 goals in all competitions.
At the start of February 2023, Putellas had begun more intensive training with Barcelona again, and at the end of March 2023 she was back in group training with the team. She returned to the matchday squad on 27 April 2023, for the second leg of the UEFA Women's Champions League semi-final against Chelsea, and made her first appearance on 30 April 2023, when she came on as a substitute in the 73rd minute in the league-winning victory against Sporting Huelva. She scored her first goal after returning from injury on 21 May, in Barcelona's final league game of the season; again a substitute, she scored a minute after coming on. It was the team's only goal in a 1–2 loss to Madrid CFF, their first league loss in nearly two years. In Barcelona's final match of the season, the 2023 UEFA Women's Champions League final against Wolfsburg in Eindhoven, Putellas entered the pitch in the 90th minute and played out the nine minutes of stoppage time in their 3–2 comeback victory.
She continued experiencing issues with her injury which, along with the team's new midfield, led The Equalizer to question where she fit at Barcelona in January 2024, and to describe her season as "a significant juncture in a glittering career"; El País said in March that during Putellas' mid-season absence, other forwards had become efficient goalscorers, and she may no longer fit there, either. The absence lasted four months. Having not played since November 2023, Putellas had another knee surgery in late December, followed by an intense rehabilitation plan; she was called up to play for Spain at the end of February 2024 without having been deemed match fit by Barcelona's medical staff, which reportedly soured negotiations for a new contract between Putellas and Barcelona. She returned to play for Barcelona on 10 March 2024, scoring within 15 minutes of being substituted on, also returning to her typical midfield role. With the goal, Putellas' 185th for the club, she overtook Josep Samitier to enter the top five of all-time goalscorers for Barcelona, men and women.
Barcelona suffered a surprising home loss at the hands of Chelsea in the Champions League semi-finals on 20 April; Mundo Deportivo felt that once Putellas came on she brought more fluidity and was one of the team's more impressive players in breaking down Chelsea's defense. She missed a potential equaliser in the 100th minute, before Barcelona defeated Chelsea at Stamford Bridge a week later to progress to the Champions League final. Putellas had entered the pitch in the 92nd minute (during stoppage time) of the semi-final second leg, and did so again in the final. Barcelona was leading 1–0 over European rivals Lyon when Putellas came on; she recovered the ball from a Lyon attack within the Barcelona box, before scoring from well-built team play in the 95th minute to make it 2–0. She took her shirt off and ran to celebrate with the fans, bowing to them – Barcelona set a new record for the largest travelling contingent in women's football – and receiving a yellow card in one of the last actions of the match. In winning the match, Barcelona secured their third Champions League title and an historic continental quadruple for the season.
Following a good start to the season in goals and assists, Putellas was named 2024–25 Liga F player of the month for October 2024. In their match against Madrid CFF at the start of the month, Putellas scored her first goal from open play in the season to take her Barcelona career tally to 194 goals, equal with László Kubala as the fourth all-time top goalscorer for FC Barcelona. Come the end of November 2024, Putellas had reached 200 goals for Barcelona and overtaken Kubala and Luis Suárez on the all-time ranking list to stand as FC Barcelona's third-highest goalscorer.
In 2016, Putellas played with the Catalan senior national team in a friendly against Galicia. She said that whenever possible she would play for Catalonia, as she had good memories winning with the youth teams. The Catalan team often use the same international window as the Spain team, with Putellas unable to join Catalonia to play Chile in 2019 due to being called up for Spain.
The win at the 2010 UEFA U-17 Women's Championship gave Spain qualification for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, played in the same year. Putellas scored in Spain's first match of the competition, as they won 4–1 against Japan. Again finishing first in the group stages, Spain went on to face Brazil in the quarter-finals, where Putellas assisted both of Spain's goals in a 2–1 win. When Spain reached the semi-final against South Korea, Putellas assisted Amanda Sampedro's match-opening goal, but Spain eventually lost 2–1. They then won against North Korea in the third-place playoff match.
Spain went on to replicate their under-17 Euro success in 2011. In the first match of the final round, Putellas scored twice against Iceland in a 4–0 win, sending Spain to the final. Spain, who had been favourites, won 1–0 against France in the final, Putellas' second UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship win.
The following year, Putellas moved into Spain's under-19 team. She competed in the 2012 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, playing as an attacker and captaining the Spanish team: she said that rather than find captaining to weigh on her, she instead felt that it gave her a boost in tough moments. Though the tournament took place less than a month after Putellas' father died, she has said she had no hesitation deciding to go, adding that football was both her escape and her connection to him. She scored in Spain's second match of the group stage in a 4–0 win against England. After finishing top of their group, Spain played in the semi-final against Portugal, where Putellas assisted Raquel Pinel's match-winning goal. Spain advanced to the final, where Putellas started and captained the match but was taken off in the 83rd minute as Spain were defeated by Sweden in the second period of extra time.
The 2012 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship was Putellas' last tournament for Spain's youth national teams. In the second round of qualifying for the 2013 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Spain were placed in group 6 with Germany, the Czech Republic and Greece. Despite the high-ranking opposition, Putellas had gone into the group confident, comparing her side's gameplay to that of the Spain men's senior team and saying they would "defend the shirt to the death". She captained Spain in the group and scored twice in their three matches, but they finished third with one win and two losses, and failed to qualify. With Putellas and nearly two-thirds of the under-19 team aging out of the bracket in 2013 and 2014, and the group failing to qualify to contest any major tournament for those years, Marca said it was the end of an era for what had been a dominant period for La Rojita, Spain's youth women's teams.
In May 2015, Putellas was called up as part of Spain's squad at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada, their first ever participation in a World Cup. Already a reference in Spanish women's football at the age of 20, she started every game in the tournament, where Spain put up an uninspiring display of two losses and a draw. Her and her 22 teammates in the squad called for the resignation of long-Academic tenure coach Ignacio Quereda, citing poor preparation for the tournament and lost confidence.
Under Putellas' former coach with Spain's U-17s, Jorge Vilda, she was called up to Spain's 2017 UEFA Women's Euro squad. She started in each of Spain's group stage games at the UEFA Women's Euro 2017, where they advanced to the knockouts on a head-to-head tiebreaker with a record of one win and two losses. Spain was defeated by Austria on penalties, where she was subbed in at the 68th minute.
Nine months after the World Cup, Spain competed in the 2020 SheBelieves Cup, against Japan, England, and the United States. Putellas scored once against Japan and scored a late match-winner with a header against England. Her performances earned her player of the tournament and took Spain to second place.
In April 2021, Putellas was named one of the three captains of the Spanish national team, with Irene Paredes and Jennifer Hermoso, and on 26 October 2021, Putellas surpassed Torrejón's record for Spain national team appearances, picking up her 91st cap in a 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying match against Ukraine. On 2 November 2021, she was named the Spain women's national team Player of the Year.
On 1 July 2022, she became the first player to reach 100 caps with the national team, achieving this in a friendly match against Italy. Days later she was included in Jorge Vilda's final list to represent Spain at the 2022 UEFA Women's Euro but, on 5 July, the day before the Euro began, suffered an ACL tear in her left knee, leading her to miss the tournament. She attended Spain's debut match at the Euro, a 4–1 victory against Finland, as a spectator in the stands before returning to Barcelona and having a knee operation on 12 July 2022.
After recovering from her ACL injury, Putellas was recalled to the squad in June 2023. She scored on her return to the national team after almost a year, in a 7–0 friendly win against Panama on 29 June; the next day she was called up to the squad for the 2023 World Cup. Having not started or played a full match in over a year, Putellas was not as involved in the World Cup campaign as Spain may have hoped, still not entirely match fit. She provided an assist in the group stage game against Zambia, but more in-form players instead led the squad during the tournament. Despite her lack of minutes ahead of the later stages, sports media felt that Spain would not be able to go the distance without Putellas' influence. In the World Cup final against England, Putellas came off the bench in the 90th minute to replace Mariona Caldentey. The match ended in a 1–0 victory for Spain to achieve their first ever major trophy.
Turmoil in the squad returned immediately following the World Cup victory, due to the Rubiales affair, including the #SeAcabó movement started by Putellas; most eligible players refused to play for the team but were called up anyway for the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League in September 2023. Under legal threat if they did not attend, causing public outcry, Putellas was part of a meeting in Oliva that saw the RFEF agree to make significant structural changes promptly. Having been named Spain captain ahead of the 2022 Euro but unable to take the role due to her ACL injury, Putellas had been blacklisted from captaining Spain at the 2023 World Cup by Vilda due to her support for Las 15; following the start of restructuring in the RFEF, including removal of Vilda, the team voted for Putellas to be captain again. With her position as the team's unifier, leader, and spokesperson, it was reported that some people in power at the RFEF were unhappy with the influence Putellas holds over football in Spain and that they want to try to remove her.
While Putellas was an impactful player during the Nations League in September and October 2023, another injury absence saw her miss some group matches later that year, and hand the captaincy to Irene Paredes, before returning in February 2024 for the 2024 UEFA Women's Nations League Finals. Coach Montserrat Tomé considered Putellas as Spain's captain and too important to miss the games, though Paredes retained the captaincy and Putellas did not play in either of their matches as a promise to FC Barcelona. With Putellas said to be a great leader in the locker room, Spain won the final and thus qualification for the 2024 Summer Olympics women's football tournament.
In the summer of 2024, Spain played both qualifying matches for the 2025 UEFA Women's Euro and the 2024 Olympics football tournament.
On 10 June 2025, Putellas was called up to the Spain squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025.
Normally situated in the central midfield of the set-up, Putellas is one of the main contributors to Barcelona's attack, with the ability to play as an attacking midfielder and a second striker. Putellas regularly finishes each season as one of Barcelona's top contributors in terms of both goals and assists. In the 2018–19 season she was the club's highest scorer in all competitions, and in the 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons, she was Europe's highest-scoring midfielder. Her statistics around attacking play reflect those of a centre forward, and she is most typically positioned in the opposition half as the furthest-forward midfielder, occupying a "half-space" between the opposition's back lines, and between their full-back and centre-back; her ability to receive with either foot helps her to keep the ball in this tight space, opening up attacking routes forward. In attack, she is often the player to receive the ball from deep as the final stage of build-up play, quickly pressing or passing forward. When the attack is less advanced, Putellas is able to move further back and become a passing option for her backlines when they are looking for options to break through and attack; when positioned further back, she does not act as a deep-lying playmaker, with her creative play instead occurring in the final third.
With the ball played down the left, Putellas often provides assists, using her skills on the ball to create goal-scoring opportunities in the final third. Her creative play is described by Give Me Sport as regularly "terrorising players with her fancy flicks and deft body feints". The website also noted her exceptional passing ability; though typically playing shorter passes, and more unsuccessful than not at playing through balls, Putellas otherwise has good statistics for pass accuracy and pass importance, and is often successful at passing into the penalty area. Not known for her speed, her ball management skills still allow her to dribble and keep possession, successfully dribbling an above-average amount.
When the ball is played down the right, Putellas will position herself in the box, often at the back post, taking advantage of her relative height as an option to score. As a midfielder, she sometimes takes shots from outside the area, though these are less accurate than her shots inside the box, of which she takes many; her ability to find space in the box poses a significant attacking threat. When making forward runs instead of creating the attack, Putellas will come from behind her team's forward line and so is harder for the opposition defence to detect, allowing her to identify precise routes through and time her runs to receive a ball. In this play, she is also difficult to conventionally mark due to roaming.
When needed, she can find herself in defensive midfield and left-back positions to help Barcelona open up spaces and retain possession. Spain presses high, with Putellas able to contribute to defensive play high up the pitch. In both teams, Putellas' defensive play is typically blocking the opposition's deepest midfielder, winning over 60% of defensive duels, though she has a frequent tendency to foul players she tries to recover balls from. She makes a significant number of loose ball recoveries in the opposition half and has a good work rate when Gegenpressing.
After Lionel Messi and Johan Cruyff, Putellas was the third footballer to be awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi, one of the highest civilian orders in Catalonia. She also received the , one of the highest civilian orders in Barcelona. For International Women's Day 2023, the Scenic viewpoint ( mirador) overlooking historic Romanesque monuments in Sant Joan les Fonts was named for Putellas. A children's book, Quin nom li posarem?, was published about the process, focusing on the importance of recognising important women.
Also named after Putellas is the gymnasium at her childhood school in Mollet, with the munipality having honoured her with the International Sports Award in both 2010 and 2011. In 2021, after she won the Ballon d'Or, Mollet announced plans to award Putellas the civic title (akin to Freedom of the City) " Per Mollet". The municipality also proposed renaming their football pitch after her; she turned this down, saying that she wanted the pitch to continue honouring the Gonzalvo brothers (Juli Gonzalvo, Josep Gonzalvo, and Marià, after whom it was originally named), fellow FC Barcelona footballers from Mollet.
At the Globe Soccer Awards in Dubai in 2021, an image of Putellas – named Women's Player of the Year at the ceremony – was displayed on the Burj Khalifa, the first time a woman's image has been displayed on the building. Artwork depicting her (combining her head and a golden ball) was included in the 2022 "Fútbol. Arte. Iconos. En ese orden." exhibit of famous footballers at the Casa Seat in Barcelona and, later that year, a wax figure of her was added to the Barcelona wax museum. Both of Putellas' Ballons d'Or are on display in the FC Barcelona Museum.
In 2022, Putellas was given an overall rating of 92 in the football simulation video game FIFA 23, the highest rating in the game for any player, including men. When the franchise rebranded in 2023, releasing EA Sports FC 24 as the next installment, Putellas had the joint-highest overall rating, at 91. Her player card's total statistics in FC 24 made her the highest-rated Ultimate Team player in the history of the franchise; as the first game with women's players available in Ultimate Team mode, Putellas' rating received some criticism from gamers who do not watch women's football.
The first song on Brazilian band Skank's 2014 album is a tribute to Putellas. Titled "Alexia", it was inspired by her viral goal in the 2013 Copa de la Reina final and compares her to global icons including Messi, and Catalan icons Antoni Gaudí and Joan Miró, as well as commenting on her style of play. The band visited Putellas in Barcelona to play her the song and seek her approval before releasing it. The 2023 song "Alexia Putellas" by Ochoa featuring Laüra Bonsai is also named for her.
For Holy Week 2022, Easter mona depicting her in some way were the most popular design of mona in Catalonia, overtaking Messi designs.
She speaks Catalan as her primary language, having learnt Spanish language in school as a child and English language in the 2020s. She has a pet dog, a Pomeranian dog called Nala, who has an Instagram account. While Putellas does not discuss her relationships, she has shared social media posts featuring partners. After winning the Champions League in 2023, a video of Putellas greeting her girlfriend in the stands went viral on TikTok. Putellas has a large number of tattoos, including various Latin phrases (prominently Labor omnia vincit); a Hand of Fatima; an Eye of Horus; a Barcelona panot tile with "Made in" written above; a football; the number 112 (combining her first Spain shirt number, 12, with her iconic shirt number, 11); and a silhouette of her father holding her as an infant and handing her a football.
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Espanyol | 2009–10 | Superliga Femenina | 0 | |||||||||
2010–11 | 4 | |||||||||||
Levante | 2011–12 | Primera División | 15 | |||||||||
Barcelona | 2012–13 | Primera División | 13 | |||||||||
2013–14 | 12 | |||||||||||
2014–15 | 8 | |||||||||||
2015–16 | 20 | |||||||||||
2016–17 | 15 | |||||||||||
2017–18 | 13 | |||||||||||
2018–19 | 19 | |||||||||||
2019–20 | 18 | |||||||||||
2020–21 | 26 | |||||||||||
2021–22 | 34 | |||||||||||
2022–23 | Liga F | 1 | ||||||||||
2023–24 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | – | 27 | 11 | |
2024–25 | 23 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 3 | – | 25 | 17 | |
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2 | 1 | 0 |
3 | 1 | 1 |
3 | 0 | 0 |
4 | colspan=2 | |
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+ List of international goals scored by Alexia Putellas |
UEFA Women's Euro 2013 |
Friendly |
UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying |
7–0 |
4–1 |
13–0 |
Friendly |
3–0 |
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
Friendly |
2018 Cyprus Women's Cup |
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
Friendly |
2–1 |
2020 SheBelieves Cup |
1–0 |
UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying |
10–0 |
Friendly |
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
6–0 |
12–0 |
8–0 |
2022 Arnold Clark Cup |
1–0 |
Friendly |
1–1 |
7–0 |
2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League |
4–0 |
2024 Summer Olympics |
2–0 |
2025 UEFA Women's Nations League |
6–0 |
UEFA Women's Euro 2025 |
6–2 |
6–2 |
Friendly |
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