Leonarda Balog

Leonarda Balog is a Croatian football defender currently playing for SKN St. Pölten in the Austrian ÖFB-Frauenliga.

Leonarda Balog
Personal information
Full name Leonarda Balog
Date of birth (1993-02-05) 5 February 1993
Place of birth Križevci, Croatia
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 SKN St. Pölten
Number 4
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2009 Plamen Križevci
2009–2011 ŽNK Osijek
2011–2012 Unia Racibórz
2013 1. FFC Recklinghausen 3 (0)
2013–2016 Zagłębie Lubin
2016–2017 FC Neunkirch
2018–2019 Osijek
2019– SKN St. Pölten
National team‡
2008–2009 Croatia U-17 8 (1)
2009–2011 Croatia U-19 10 (2)
2009– Croatia 25 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 November 2016
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22 November 2016

Career

Balog played for Plamen Križevci and ŽNK Osijek of the Croatian 1. HNLŽ from 2005 to 2011. While at ŽNK Osijek in 2010, she played her first Champions League match.[1] In 2011, she then joined Unia Racibórz of the Polish Ekstraliga, had a brief spell at German 2. Bundesliga side 1. FFC Recklinghausen in 2013 before returning to Poland later that year to settle at Zagłębie Lubin.[2][3][4]

In 2016, she moved to Swiss Nationalliga A side FC Neunkirch[2]

She played for the Croatian national team in the 2011 World Cup qualifying.[5]

Goals scored for the Croatian WNT in official competitions
CompetitionStageDateLocationOpponentGoalsResultOverall
2015 FIFA World CupQualifiers2014–05–08Ptuj Slovenia13–01

References
  1. Profile in UEFA's website
  2. "Player profile". FC Neunkirch (in German). Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  3. "Player profile". PZPN (in Polish). Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  4. "Profile". Soccerway. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  5. Profile in UEFA's website
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