Malena Josephsen

Malena Josephsen

Playing for the Faroe Islands in October 2013
Personal information
Full name	Malena Josephsen
Date of birth	(1977-01-03) January 3, 1977 (age 40)
Place of birth	Klaksvík, Faroe Islands
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current team	KÍ
Number	8
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1994–	KÍ	373	(307)
National team‡
2004–2015	Faroe Islands	41	(10)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 9 April 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 9 April 2017

Malena Josephsen (born 3 January 1977) is a Faroese football midfielder who captains KÍ Klaksvík of the Faroese 1. deild kvinnur. From 2004 until 2015, she represented the Faroe Islands women's national football team at senior international level.

Josephsen broke into the team at KÍ Klaksvík in 1994 and remained loyal to the club for two decades, during which she captained the team to a period of sustained dominance at domestic level. Speaking in 2005, following KÍ's sixth successive league title, she admitted to concerns about the level of competition: "We know when we go on the pitch that we will win the match, the only question is how much we will win. We are not getting any better by playing in this league."

As of 2013–14, Josephsen has made 39 appearances and scored seven goals for KÍ in the UEFA Women's Champions League, formerly known as the UEFA Women's Cup.

The Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF) scrapped their women's team in 1996, following a fruitless 1997 UEFA Women's Championship qualification campaign which culminated in a 9–0 defeat to Belgium. The association was unwilling to fund travel to away fixtures.

When the senior women's national team was relaunched in 2004 after an eight-year hiatus, Malena Josephsen started their first match, a 2–1 friendly defeat to Ireland. The game was staged in Klaksvík on 12 October 2004, the day before the nations' senior men's teams met at Lansdowne Road, Dublin.