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Maelys Mpomé (born 23 February 2003) is a French footballer who plays as a defender for Women's Super League club Chelsea and represents France national under-23 team.

Club career

Maelys Mpomé began her football career at the age of seven at VGA Saint-Maur, a sports club with a long tradition in women's football, based not far from her hometown of Champigny-sur-Marne. She would spend ten years there and made her debut in the first team on 16 September 2018, at the age of 15, on the third matchday of the Division 2 Féminine. That season, Mpomé made three appearances for the A-squad and six more followed in 2019/20. In the summer of 2020, she took the step to move to first division club Montpellier HSC, where she made her debut on 17 October of that year in a match against Reims.
During her first season in French professional football, the young central defender made five appearances in the championship and one in the cup. The following year, Mpomé was finally able to play her way into the regular team alongside Maëlle Lakrar, played in 17 league and two cup matches and scored her first goal on the eighth matchday of the championship against Issy. Her club finished the season in fifth place. In the 2022/23 season, she faced competition in the centre-back position from the newly signed Luna Gevitz, but still made 20 league appearances and scored two goals, although she was only in the starting lineup half of the time and was often substituted on. In the cup competition, she reached the round of 16 with Montpellier, while the championship again ended in fifth place.

International career

Mpomé made her debut for the French U17 national team on 23 March 2019, during the qualification for the European Championship 2019; her team failed in the elite round and thus could not take part in the final round. In April of this year, Mpomé won the Montaigu Tournament with France U16. In September 2019, she played in all three matches of the qualification for the European U17 Championship and scored her first goal against Belarus. However, the elite and final rounds were later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2021, she made her debut for France U19 and qualified for the final round of the 2022 U19 Championship, but did not take part in it. In November 2021, she had already taken part in the Costa Daurada Trophy with the U20. On October 5, 2022, Maelys Mpomé played for the first time for the U23 national team.

References

1. "Maelys Mpome". Chelsea FC. Archived from the original on 7 September 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
2. "Maëlys Mpome, elle a tout d'une grande". mhscfoot.com (in French). 3 April 2021. Archived from the original on 2 July 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
3. "Maëlys Mpome, bien plus qu'un effet de mode". mhscfoot.com (in French). 30 March 2022. Archived from the original on 2 July 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
4. "Victoire devant le Finlande (3-1)". fff.fr (in French). 5 October 2022. Retrieved 2 July 2023.

External links

• Maelys Mpomé at Chelsea F.C.
• Maelys Mpomé on Instagram

• 2003 births
• Living people
• French women's footballers
• Women's association football defenders
• France women's youth international footballers
• Women's Super League players
• 21st-century French sportswomen