Lina Hurtig


Lina Mona Andréa Hurtig is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian Serie A club Fiorentina and the Sweden national team.

Club career

When she was 15 years old, Hurtig played the 2011 season with Gustafs GoIF in the Norrettan, which at the time was the second division of Swedish football. She scored 14 goals and made four assists in 20 games. At the end of that campaign she was approached by Damallsvenskan clubs LdB FC Malmö and Umeå IK. She joined the latter after a short training spell.
Upon Umeå's relegation following the 2016 season, Hurtig transferred to league champions Linköping FC on a two-year contract. In 2017, she and her team won the 2017 Damallsvenskan league title.
On 31 August 2020, Hurtig joined Juventus. She won back to back league titles with Juventus in the 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons. In the 2021–22 Champions League, Hurtig scored the first goal in a 4–0 victory against Servette FC, helping send Juventus to the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time.
On 18 August 2022, Hurtig joined Arsenal on a permanent transfer, for a fee later reported by Juventus as €73k. She scored her first goals for Arsenal on 27 October 2022 with a brace against FC Zurich at the Emirates Stadium. In the new year she scored immediately after coming off the bench in the FA Cup match vs Leeds United at Meadow Park. Following an injury affected end of her first season she scored in the first game of the 22/23 season on 6 September 2023 in the 3–0 victory against her former club Linköping in the 2023–24 Champions League first qualifying round. On 12 November 2023 she scored the final goal in a 6-2 win over Leicester City at the King Power Stadium. She missed most of the rest of the season due to personal issues.
She continued to struggle for minutes in the 24/25 season but scored a crucial last minute winner against her former club, Juventus in a result that ultimately helped Arsenal win the group.
In her final game as an Arsenal player, she came on at the end of the 2025 Women's Champions League final to help see out the win in Lisbon. She left Arsenal upon the expiry of her contract at the end of the 2024–25 season, having scored 7 goals in 36 appearances for the club.

International career

As a Swedish under-19 international, Hurtig was a regular starter at the 2012 U-19 European Championship. She started the victorious Swedish team's 1–0 extra time win over Spain in the final.
In December 2012, national team coach Pia Sundhage called up 17-year-old Hurtig to a senior squad training camp at Bosön. Hurtig was also named in the senior squad for a 1–1 friendly draw with Brazil on 19 June 2013. She was hopeful of making the hosts' final squad for UEFA Euro 2013, but was not selected.
After leaving Hurtig out of the final pre-tournament friendly against Norway in May 2013, Sundhage described her as a potentially world class player.
Hurtig won her first senior cap as a substitute in a 1–1 draw with Canada in November 2014.
Hurtig was selected in the Sweden squad that travelled to France for the 2019 World Cup. She scored her first goal in the tournament in a 5–1 win against Thailand. In July 2021, she was selected in the Sweden squad for the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|2020 Summer Olympics]. On 21 July, she scored in the 3–0 victory over United States.
On 13 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player squad for the 2023 World Cup. In the Round of 16, she successfully converted on a video-confirmed penalty in the shootout against the United States, knocking the two-time defending champions out of the tournament.

Personal life

On 16 August 2019, Hurtig announced that she had married Lisa Lantz, her teammate at Umeå IK and Linköping FC. On 11 June 2021, Hurtig had a daughter, Lo. In early December 2024, she had a son.

Honours

Linköpings FC
Juventus
Arsenal
Sweden