Stephanie Al-Naber

Stephanie Mazen Yousef Al-Naber (Arabic: ستيفاني مازن يوسف النبر; born 27 October 1988) is a Jordanian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Jordan Women's Football League club Shabab Al-Ordon and captains the Jordan national team.

Stephanie Al-Naber
Personal information
Full name Stephanie Mazen Yousef Al-Naber
Date of birth (1987-07-12) 12 July 1987
Place of birth Amman, Jordan
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Shabab Al-Ordon
Number 8
Youth career
Shabab Al-Ordon
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004– Shabab Al-Ordon
2009–2010 → Fortuna Hjørring (loan)
2014 → Sadaka (loan)
National team‡
2005– Jordan 128 (79)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 12:24, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Club career

Al-Naber learned to play football in the street with her family.[1] She later played on her school's team and began her career with Shabab Al-Ordon, one of the first Jordanian clubs in the country to start a women's team.[1]

Al-Naber later became the first Jordanian woman to play football in leagues abroad. She played for clubs in Denmark, the United Arab Emirates, and Lebanon.[2]

International career

Al-Naber has been a main-stay of the Jordan women's national team since its inception in 2005.[2]

She helped the national team win the West Asian Football Federation Women's Championship in 2005, 2007, and 2014 as well as the 2010 Arabia Women's Cup. Al-Naber was part of the Jordan national squads that played in the 2006, 2010, and 2014 Asian Games.

She was also part of the squad that participated in the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualifiers helping Jordan qualify for the continental tournament for the first time.[3]

Personal life

As of January 2017, Al-Naber's father is a director at Shabab Al-Ordon. Both her siblings, Yousef and Natasha, are footballers.[2][3]

Career statistics

International
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
15 June 2013Amman International Stadium, Amman, Jordan Lebanon2–05–02014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification
23–0
37 June 2013 Amman International Stadium, Amman, Jordan Kuwait3–021–0 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification
4.9–0
510–0
617–0
79 June 2013 Amman International Stadium, Amman, Jordan Uzbekistan3–04–0 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification
89 September 2013Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon, Myanmar Malaysia1–01–02013 AFF Women's Championship
914 May 2014Thong Nhat Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Australia1–11–32014 AFC Women's Asian Cup

References
  1. "Football : en Jordanie, la pelouse se féminise" (in French).
  2. "Realising a Dream:Stephanie Al-Naber". The AFC. 9 April 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  3. "Al Naber: Jordan are aiming higher and higher". FIFA. 27 January 2017. Archived from the original on April 9, 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2018.


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