Manon Melis

Manon Melis

Personal information
Full name	Gabriëlla Maria Melis
Date of birth	(1986-08-31) 31 August 1986
Place of birth	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC
Youth career
	RVVH
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2006–2007	Be Quick '28
2007–2011	LdB FC Malmö	73	(60)
2012–2013	Linköpings FC	42	(32)
2013	LdB FC Malmö	21	(11)
2014–	Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC
National team‡
2004–	Netherlands	101	(45)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:46, 17 July 2013 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20:46, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Gabriëlla Maria "Manon" Melis (born 31 August 1986) is a Dutch professional football player who plays as a forward in the Swedish Damallsvenskan for Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC. Since making her debut in 2004, she has won over 100 caps for the Netherlands women's national football team. She is the daughter of former Feyenoord player Harry Melis.

Playing career

Club

Melis was the Damallsvenskan top-scorer in 2010 and 2011,^[1] playing for LdB Malmö.

In November 2011 she announced she was moving from Malmö to Sky Blue FC in the American Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league.^[2] In her last match she helped LdB secure a spot in Champions League quarterfinals with a goal.^[3] Before Melis could play for Sky Blue the WPS suspended operations, so she returned to Sweden to sign for Linköpings FC.^[4] Two seasons with Linköpings both yielded 16 goals in 21 Damallsvenskan appearances. Melis agreed a return to Malmö in December 2012.^[5]

Melis collected another league winner's medal with Malmö in 2013, before receiving a lucrative contract offer from Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC which she felt unable to turn down.^[6]

International

Melis scored on her debut for the senior Netherlands women's national football team in April 2004, a 3–0 win over Belgium in Leuven. She represented the Netherlands in the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying rounds^[7] and the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 finals.^[8] In August 2010 Melis scored twice against Belarus, her 29th and 30th international goals, which made her the national team's all-time top goalscorer.^[9]

Melis scored four goals in the 6–0 won UEFA Women's EURO 2013 qualification opening match for The Netherlands against Serbia on 21 September 2011, stating, "It is a great feeling to score four goals, I had never done that before for the national team."^[10]

In June 2013, national team coach Roger Reijners selected Melis in the Netherlands squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.^[11]

References

External links

• SvFF Profile
• Linköpings Profile

v t e Netherlands squad – 2009 UEFA Women's European Championship 1 Geurts 2 Bito 3 Koster 4 Meulen 5 Hogewoning 6 Hoogendijk 7 Kiesel-Griffioen 8 Van de Ven 9 Melis 10 Stevens 11 Smit 12 Brummel 13 Christ 14 De Boer 15 Van den Heiligenberg 16 Dugardein 17 Spitse 18 De Vries 19 Pieëte 20 Van Dalen 21 De Ridder 22 Van de Sanden Coach: Pauw

v t e Netherlands squad – 2013 UEFA Women's European Championship 1 Geurts 2 Bito 3 Koster 4 Van Dongen 5 Van den Heiligenberg 6 Hoogendijk 7 Van de Ven 8 Spitse 9 Melis 10 Van de Donk 11 Martens 12 Heuver 13 Smit 14 Slegers 15 Stentler 16 Van Veenendaal 17 Worm 18 Dekker 19 Versteegt 20 Van Lunteren 21 De Ridder 22 Roelvink 23 Christ Coach: Reijners