Nathalie Björn

On March 3, she opened scoring in the 4-0 victory against Leicester City in the 38th minute, her first goal for Chelsea.

Björn went through the Swedish junior national teams.

Gun Nathalie Björn (born 4 May 1997) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays for Women's Super League club Chelsea and the Swedish national team.

A versatile player, Björn can play as a centre-back, right-back, or central midfielder.

She previously played for Everton, as well as with teams in the top tier of women's football in Sweden: Rosengård, Eskilstuna, and AIK.

Björn started at Vaksala SK, a sports club in Uppsala, for which she played in the Swedish Cup at age 14.

In 2013, as a 16-year-old, she played for IK Sirius in the Elitettan, the second division in Swedish football that was newly founded that year.

Finishing third, the club narrowly missed promotion to the Damallsvenskan.

Björn then moved to second-placed AIK and played for them in the first division the following season, where they narrowly avoided relegation as third-to-last.

She was runner-up with the U17 team in the 2013 European Championship.

She made her debut for the club on January 14 in the 3-1 FA Cup victory against West Ham, coming on as a substitute for Jess Carter in the 59th minute.

She made her first start for the team the following week, playing a full 90 minutes and assisting a goal in the 3-1 win over Manchester United.

In the 2015 season, the club came last and was relegated again.

Björn then moved to runners-up Eskilstuna United.

In the first match of the 2015 U19 European Championship, she opened scoring in the 3-0 win against Israel, and her team ultimately won a title.

With this she came third in 2016 and 2017 and took part in the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League, where she played over 90 minutes in the two wins against Glasgow City FC in the round of 16.

In the round of 16 against VfL Wolfsburg she was substituted in after 81 minutes.

She then took part in the first qualifying round for the 2016 U19 European Championship, which Sweden successfully completed with three wins.

However, she did not play in the elite round in April 2016, in which Sweden were eliminated.

On October 21, 2016, she made her first appearance in the senior national team.

In the 7-0 win against Iran, who were playing in Europe for the first time, she was in the starting line-up and was one of only three players not substituted.

Three days later she played in her second senior international match in a goalless draw against Norway, but was only substituted on four minutes before the end of the game.

After two seasons with Eskilstuna, Björn moved to runner-up FC Rosengård, with whom she finished third in the 2018 season.

On May 18, 2018, she became cup winner with Rosengård and won her first national title.

In the 2018/19 Champions League, she played the full distance in four games, but was eliminated in the round of 16 after a 3-2 home defeat and a goalless away draw against Slavia Prague.

After several games as captain with the U-23 team in 2018, she was back in the starting line-up on October 9, 2018 in the 0-1 away defeat against Italy.

She came on as a substitute after an hour in the 2-0 win against England at the end of the international season.

On the first matchday of the 2019 season, she scored the only goal of the game in the 90th minute against her old club Eskilstuna United, making her her first ever league goal.

Overall, she was used in 17 of 22 games in the season that ended with her team winning the championship.

She played over 90 minutes in the 1-2 defeat against Portugal in the 2019 Algarve Cup, where she scored her first international goal.

On May 16th she was nominated for the 2019 World Cup.

At the World Cup she was used for the first time in the group final against the USA and played over 90 minutes.

In the 2020 season she was used in all 22 games.

In 2021, after eight games in the Damallsvenskan season, Björn moved to Everton where she received a three-year contract.

In the final fixture of the 2021–22 season, she scored her first goal for Everton in the 1-1 draw against Brighton.

In the 2022–23 season, she was in the 81st percentile for tackles among center backs.

She was named Player of the Season for 2022–23.

Along with her Swedish teammate Hanna Bennison, Björn progressed the furthest in the 2023 World Cup of any Everton player.

After coming back from injury earlier in November, her successful penalty kick against Aston Villa gave Everton a 2-1 win in one of her last games with the club.

On January 10, 2024, Björn signed for Chelsea in a three-and-a-half-year deal as the club's first signing of the year.