US Sassuolo Calcio

Serie A Women

Unione Sportiva Sassuolo Calcio Femminile is an Italian women football club based in Sassuolo. The club was found in 2016.

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What makes US Sassuolo Calcio what it is.

One of her childhood football trips became a real winter adventure: before a 2017 friendly in the Czech Republic, more than a metre of snow had to be cleared from the pitch so the match could even take place.

At 14, Jacynta and her mother successfully challenged a decision that prevented her from joining an U15 boys’ Premier League team, making her the only girl in the competition.

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Quirky facts from the US Sassuolo Calcio squad.

Her debut goal made her the youngest goalscorer in Argentina's senior women's national-team history.

Emma’s first Serie A goal was an improvised airborne backheel from Lana Clelland’s cross — and she initially did not even realise that the ball had crossed the line.

Emma chose number 58 at Sassuolo because it represents the average of the birth years of her parents and grandparents, allowing her to carry the people who shaped her journey onto the pitch.

Palakovics announced herself at Puskás by scoring an extraordinary 52 goals in 18 matches during her first season with the club’s U19 side.

Her father named her Valentina after motorcycle racing legend Valentino Rossi and passed his passion for motorsport on to her.

Lana wears number 26 in memory of her close friend Tasha Laird, who died from cystic fibrosis at the age of 26. She has also used her platform to share Tasha’s story and raise awareness of the condition alongside Italian rally driver Rachele Somaschini.

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Whenever highlights from Poland’s historic U17 World Cup win over Zambia appear, Kinga still clicks on them to watch her goal again.

Football runs through three generations of Emma’s family: her grandmother founded CF Musano in 1997, her mother played as high as Serie B and her father reached Italy’s Promozione division.

During Javier Zanetti’s first training session with Inter Women, Martina failed to see him during a small-sided game, crashed into the club legend and fell “as if she had been hit by a truck” — before Zanetti helped her up and apologised.

An anonymous note appeared in Paola’s kindergarten locker telling her parents to send her to play football — and her family still has no idea who wrote it.

One of her earliest football memories is asking her mother for shoes with tacchini—the Italian word for turkeys—when she was actually trying to say tacchetti, meaning football studs.

At 13, Pellinghelli voluntarily gave up a penalty by telling the referee that she had slipped and had not been fouled. Her honesty earned her a Green Card, a youth fair-play recognition introduced within the FIGC competition format.

Although Paola secretly wanted Cesena’s number 10 shirt, she initially requested number 8 because she believed the iconic number should go to a more established player — unaware that the club had already reserved it especially for her.