Sara B. Gunnarsdottir

Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir (born 29 September 1990) is an Icelandic footballer who plays for Olympique Lyonnais of the French Division 1 Feminine. She previously played for Swedish Damallsvenskan club FC Rosengard and VfL Wolfsburg. Sara Bjork has been part of Iceland's national team since 2007 and represented her country at the 2009, 2013 and 2017 editions of the UEFA Women's Championship. She is the only woman to have been named the Icelandic Sportsperson of the Year twice, in 2018 and 2020. In August 2020, she became the first Icelander to win the UEFA Women's Champions League.

Club Career

Sara Bjork joined local team Haukar at the age of six and remained until she was 18. After three subsequent seasons with Breiðablik, she left Iceland in 2011, to sign a three-year professional contract with Swedish club LdB FC Malmo. She was an immediate success in Sweden, contributing 12 goals as Malmo won the Damallsvenskan title. In August 2013 she announced the extension of her Malmo contract for another two and a half seasons via Twitter.

In May 2016, Sara Bjork announced that she would not extend her contract with Malmo (now known as FC Rosengard) and planned to leave Sweden after winning four Damallsvenskan titles in five years. At that stage she did not confirm speculation that she was heading for German club VfL Wolfsburg. Shortly afterwards the transfer to Wolfsburg was made official, ahead of their 2016–17 season. In her four seasons with Wolfsburg, the club won the Frauen-Bundesliga and the German Cup each year.

On 1 July 2020, she joined Olympique Lyonnais. On 9 August, she won her first title with the club when it defeated Paris Saint-Germain in the Coupe de France after penalties. On 30 August, she scored one goal in Olympique Lyonnais' 3–1 win against her former club, Wolfsburg, in the UEFA Women's Champions League final.

In December 2020, Sara was named the Icelandic Sportsperson of the Year, becoming the first woman to win it twice.

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