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Nadia Nadim (; born 2 January 1988) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for the Damallsvenskan club Hammarby, on loan from Italian Serie A club AC Milan. Born in Afghanistan, she has played for the Denmark national team.
Nadim is considered the most influential and greatest Afghan female footballer of all time, particularly because she has won league titles in two countries, the USA league title in 2017 with the Portland Thorns and the French league title in 2020–21 with Paris Saint-Germain. Nadim was named the Danish Footballer of the Year in 2016 and 2017.
On 26 July 2018, while on the US tour with Manchester City, the BBC reported that Nadim had requested a transfer out of the club, stating that she had never felt at home there and wanted to leave. On 19 December 2018, Manchester City announced that Nadim would be departing the club and her contract would be terminated on 1 January 2019, allowing her to sign with another club.
On 9 July 2019, Nadim extended her contract for Paris Saint-Germain after a successful first season. She was later rewarded with the captain's armband and named the team's vice captain for the 2019–20 season. She scored 13 goals and made 13 assists in 16 league and cup games.
In September 2021, with the NWSL reeling from abuse scandals, she accused NJ/NY Gotham FC management of forging her signature on a contract extension so they could trade her rights to Portland in January 2016. She also accused league staffers of pressuring her to have a surgery for her season-ending ACL injury in the United States rather than abroad, threatening that "if something went wrong with the surgery outside of US they could consider taking actions against me."
Nadim's Racing Louisville contract expired in December 2023. She left Racing Louisville as the club's best ever goal scorer.
Nadim immediately became a member of the Denmark national team, making her debut in the 2009 Algarve Cup in a 2–0 defeat by the United States. In doing so, she became the first Naturalization Dane to represent a Denmark senior national football team. She participated in all three of Denmark's games at UEFA European Championship 2009 in Finland.
She was named in national coach Kenneth Heiner-Møller's Denmark squad for UEFA European Championship 2013. In Denmark's opening group match against hosts Sweden Nadim featured as a substitute in an eventful 1–1 draw.
In the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 tournament, she was instrumental in Denmark's advancement, scoring the tying goal in Denmark's eventual 2–1 win over favorites Germany in the knockout stages, and scoring a go-ahead goal in the final, which Denmark ultimately lost to the hosts Netherlands 4–2.
On 27 October 2020, Denmark had to win away against Italy to qualify for the UEFA European Championship 2022, and Nadim was crowned player of the match after scoring two crucial goals in Denmark's 3–1 win over Italy in Florence. The two goals secured Denmark's spot in the upcoming Euros.
On 24 June 2022, she played her 100th match for Denmark in a friendly match against Brazil, an historic occasion for the national team as their first ever match in the Parken Stadium.
After 16 years with the national team, Nadim announced on 23 June 2025 that she would be retiring after the 2025 Euros. She was called up for the tournament after not having featured in a match for Denmark since December 2023.
As a consequence of her role as an ambassador for World Cup in Qatar, Danish Refugee Council removed Nadim from her role as a goodwill ambassador. Nadim stated on her Twitter that her collaboration with the Danish Refugee Council had been inactive since the beginning of 2019. However, B.T. demonstrated that this statement was inaccurate.
Nadim is Islam, and speaks eight languages.
Afghan singer Aryana Sayeed is her aunt.
In 2018, Forbes ranked her Number 20 in their "Most Powerful Women in International Sports" list.
In 2024, Corriere della Sera included her in its "Women of the year" list.
Her mother, Hamida Nadim, was killed in a motor vehicle accident on 23 November 2022, aged 57. When Nadia learned that her mother had died, she departed during her work as a pundit for British broadcaster ITV at the Denmark–Tunisia match in the Men's World Cup.
On August 9, 2024, Nadim married her long-term partner Idrees in Istanbul, Türkiye. Nadim's aunt Aryana Sayeed performed at the wedding. According to Nadim's sister, the couple had met when they both resided in Viby near Aarhus.
In 2016, Danish TV station DR released a four-episode long documentary about Nadia that followed her from Denmark to the United States, documenting her player development with the Portland Thorns.
In 2018, Danish publisher JP/Politiken published Nadia Nadim's autobiography called "Min Historie" which translates to "My Story". The book got nominated for Sports book of the year. The book was released in French on 26 May 2021, through the French publisher Hachette Book Group. (2025). 9782501152983, Marabout. ISBN 9782501152983
In 2023, Nadia entered a collaboration with H&M along with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, to be the face of H&M's sports section called H&M Move
| 2009-03-09 | Silves | 1.1 | 36 | Algarve Cup | |||||
| 2010-03-01 | Albufeira | 1.1 | 80 | Algarve Cup | |||||
| 2012-09-15 | Vejle | 1.1 | 55 | UEFA Championship qualifier | |||||
| 2012-06-20 | St. Pölten | Start | 1.1 | 92 | UEFA Championship qualifier | ||||
| 2013-06-20 | Viborg | 1.1 | 34 | Exhibition game | |||||
| 2013-11-24 | Valletta | Start | 2.1 | 26 | Exhibition game | ||||
| 2.2 | 46 | ||||||||
| 2014-03-20 | Albufeira | Start | 1.1 | 35 | Algarve Cup | ||||
| 2014-09-13 | Vejle | Start | 2.1 | 28 | World Cup qualifier | ||||
| 2.2 | 67 | ||||||||
| 2015-10-22 | Viborg | Start | 2.1 | 52 | UEFA Championship qualifier | ||||
| 2.2 | 89 | ||||||||
| 2016-03-02 | Albufeira | Start | 1.1 | 55 | Algarve Cup | ||||
| 2016-03-04 | Albufeira | Start | 1.1 | 53 | Algarve Cup | ||||
| 2016-06-02 | Viborg | 2.1 | 49 | UEFA Championship qualifier | |||||
| 2.2 | 60 | ||||||||
| 2016-09-15 | Chișinău | Start | 2.1 | 3 | UEFA Championship qualifier | ||||
| 2.2 | 68 | ||||||||
| 2016-09-20 | Viborg | Start | 1.1 | 47 | UEFA Championship qualifier | ||||
| 2017-07-30 | Rotterdam | Start | 1.1 | 49 | UEFA Championship | ||||
| 2017-08-06 | Enschede | Start | 1.1 | 6 | UEFA Championship Final | ||||
| 2017-09-19 | Győr | 1.1 | 28 | World Cup qualifier | |||||
| 2018-01-22 | San Diego | Start | 1.1 | 14 | Exhibition game | ||||
| 2018-06-08 | Lviv | 2.1 | 6 | World Cup qualifier | |||||
| 2.2 | 52 | ||||||||
| 2018-06-12 | Viborg | Start | 2.1 | 44 | World Cup qualifier | ||||
| 2.2 | 45 | ||||||||
| 2018-08-30 | Viborg | Start | 1.1 | 90+2 | World Cup qualifier | ||||
| 2018-10-09 | Viborg | Start | 1.1 | 5 | World Cup qualifier play-offs | ||||
| 2019-02-27 | Algarve | 1.1 | 18 | Algarve Cup | |||||
| 2019-09-03 | Ramat Gan | 1.1 | 80 | UEFA Championship qualifier | |||||
| 2019-11-12 | Viborg | 3.1 | 4 | UEFA Championship qualifier | |||||
| 3.2 | 26 | ||||||||
| 3.3 | 36 | ||||||||
| 2020-09-17 | Zenica | Start | 1.1 | 37 | UEFA Championship qualifier | ||||
| 2020-09-22 | Ta' Qali | 2.1 | 7 | UEFA Championship qualifier | |||||
| 2.2 | 42 | ||||||||
| 2020-10-27 | Empoli | 2.1 | 17 | UEFA Championship qualifier | |||||
| 2.2 | 47 |
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