HB Køge

HB Køge, is a Danish women's football club based in Køge, Denmark. Founded in 2009 as HB Køge Pigefodbold, the club plays in the A-Liga.

Signature Fun Facts

What makes HB Køge what it is.

After winning the Puchar Tymbarku as a child, Zuzanna fulfilled a dream by meeting Poland’s senior internationals, chatting and exchanging high-fives with them — then watched Robert Lewandowski score a hat-trick against Romania.

She founded Kids Kick Back, a nonprofit that collects used football boots and athletic shoes for people in need around the world.

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Quirky facts from the HB Køge squad.

She was born in Herat, Afghanistan and raised there during her early childhood before having to flee to Denmark with her mother and four sisters.

At the age of 17 (in 2021), she became the youngest scorer in the Japanese WE League.

At times, she played barefoot because she could not afford proper football boots.

While building her football career, she also studied medicine for years. She described that period as “sleep, study, train, repeat” and said she worked in hospital operating theatres assisting surgeons.

She had a chorus dedicated to her, in the official European Championship song for the national team, with the stanza: "You need to Gejl out".

She truly fell in love with football in a Danish refugee camp, where the children played on a rough grass patch with two smashed goals. She wrote that football became “our love” and “our language” during that period.

Her 2017 Puchar Tymbarku final could have been written for a movie: Zuzanna scored in the opening minute, switched from outfield to goalkeeper for the shootout, saved a penalty and then converted her own kick to seal the national title.