Fanny Peterson

Midfielder • Age 17 • #25

Fanny Peterson is a Swedish footballer who plays as a midfielder. She has represented Sweden at youth level.

Photo: IMAGO | Bildbyran

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She started playing at FoC Farsta's football school when she was six and stayed with her first club until she was 13.

She played for FoC Farsta before joining Hammarby’s academy in autumn 2022.

She says technique has been part of her game since she was “very little,” and that it became especially important because she was not the biggest player on the pitch.

She has described the step into senior football as a learning process because she went from leading youth teams to listening and adapting more in the A-team environment.

She was balancing school with first-team football after her senior breakthrough and hoped distance learning could help her keep up when football took her away.

She was only 16 when selected for that U19 European Championship, something she described as a huge step, and her longer-term ambition is to test herself at the highest levels abroad.

She looks up to Viktor Gyökeres, especially for his goalscoring ability. After scoring a spectacular European goal for Hammarby against Sparta Prague, she copied his trademark mask celebration in front of the supporters behind the goal.