Aitana Bonmatí
Barcelona and Spain midfielder, World Cup winner and three-time Ballon d’Or recipient who also speaks up for equality in football.
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UEFAOverview
- Born
- 18 January 1998 · Sant Pere de Ribes, Catalonia
- Known for
- Midfield play for FC Barcelona and Spain
- Barça beginnings
- Joined the academy in 2012; first-team debut in 2015/16
- Breakthrough
- Player of the Match in Barcelona’s first Champions League final win in 2021
Mini bio
How it started.
Aitana began playing at seven with CD Ribes, then spent two years at CF Cubelles before joining Barcelona’s academy in summer 2012. In 2015/16 she helped Barça’s B team win its first Second Division title and made her first-team debut in the cup.
Finding a future in football.
As a teenager, she considered studying and playing in the United States because she could not see a professional future at home. Barcelona’s decision to professionalise the women’s first team changed that. She joined the senior squad permanently in summer 2016.
The breakthrough.
Her performance in the 2021 Champions League final brought wider recognition: she scored against Chelsea and was named Player of the Match in Barcelona’s first European title win. In 2023, she helped Spain win its first Women’s World Cup and received the tournament’s Golden Ball.
Beyond the match.
Her autobiography, Totes unides fem força!, shares the journey behind her football career. In her own writing, she also discusses helping refugee women through football and the importance of fighting for women’s rights.
Creditschronological, newest first
Football
- 2026UEFA Women’s Champions LeagueBarcelona midfielder · Champion
- 2025UEFA Women’s EUROSpain midfielder · Runner-up and Player of the Tournament
- 2023FIFA Women’s World CupSpain midfielder · Champion and Golden Ball winner
- 2016–presentFC Barcelona FemeníFirst-team midfielder
Books and writing
- 202310 Things You Should Know About MeAuthor · The Players’ Tribune
- 2022Aitana Bonmatí. Totes unides fem força!Autobiography, written with Cristian Martín
Awards
- FIFPRO Women’s World XI2026 · Selected by fellow professional players
- The Best FIFA Women’s Player2023, 2024 and 2025 · Three consecutive wins
- Women’s Ballon d’Or2023, 2024 and 2025 · First woman to win three times
- UEFA Women’s EURO Player of the Tournament2025 · Spain
- UEFA Women’s Champions League Player of the Season2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25 · Three successive awards
- FIFA Women’s World Cup Golden Ball2023 · Best player of the tournament
Quotes
Every year the goal is the same: Win everything.Aitana Bonmatí, The Players’ Tribune
Writing in July 2023 about the expectations and daily work that come with playing for Barcelona.
Trivia
- Bonmatí is her mother’s surname; Conca is her father’s. She writes about her parents’ fight to put her mother’s name first.
- She grew up studying how Xavi and Andrés Iniesta moved and looked for space while watching Barça matches in a local bar.
- Her original autobiography had 14 chapters, matching her shirt number and Johan Cruyff’s.
- She offered to translate for Keira Walsh and Lucy Bronze when they joined Barcelona in 2022, partly to practise her English.
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