Martina Fernández
Personal information
Full name Martina Fernández Vila
Date of birth (2004-10-01)1 October 2004
Place of birth Spain
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Barcelona / Barcelona B
Number 34 / 2
Youth career
2014–2016 Borrassà
2018–2022 Barcelona
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2018 Girona B
2020– Barcelona B 83 (7)
2022– Barcelona 9 (0)
International career‡
Spain U19 24 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 04:13, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 04:13, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Martina Fernández Vila (born 1 October 2004) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for Liga F club Barcelona and Spain under-19. She also captains Barcelona Femení B.

Early and personal life

Martina Fernández Vila was born on 1 October 2004 and is from Ordis in Girona, Catalonia.[1] She grew up near to her maternal grandparents, with whom she maintains a close relationship.[2]

She began studying biomedicine but, in 2023, stopped pursuing this as a career to focus on football. As of 2024, she continues part-time study at a biomedical laboratory.[2]

Club career

Borrassà and Girona

Fernández' first sport was tennis, but she told her mother that she preferred football; her mother looked for ways to enable this and went to the football club in the next town, Borrassà. Though the girls' team was fully subscribed, the coach allowed Fernández to take part in a trial session with the boys' team at her mother's insistence: after three sessions, the coach promised to sign her. She spent three years at Borrassà before signing for Girona FC Femení B.[2]

At Girona, she played with the second team (considered its youth cadet team, generally 19-year-olds) from the start, rather than age group teams, staying for two seasons.[2]

Barcelona

Fernández joined Barcelona in the women's youth section in 2018. In her first year with the club she stayed with her family in the province of Girona, over 150 kilometres (93 mi) from Barcelona, and travelled with other players to train. Often ignoring the toll this took, her family then asked that she be supported to live at a school in Barcelona; after half a season of this situation, the COVID-19 pandemic forced her back to Ordís. Fernández moved back to Barcelona later in the year with her older sister. When the club opened Oriol Tort Training Centre, including a girls' student dormitory as part of La Masia, in 2021, one of the nine places was given to Fernández.[2]

She played her first official match for the first team in February 2022, becoming one of the youngest debutants in the senior squad. She made five appearances in the league and Copa de la Reina in the 2021–22 and 2022–23 seasons. She then had a larger role in the 2023–24 season, due to a large number of injuries to the squad's first team defenders, establishing herself as a central defender.[2] She made her UEFA Women's Champions League debut on 13 December 2023 against Rosengård, and scored her first goal for Barcelona in the 92nd minute of this game.[3]

Career statistics

As of match played 6 January 2024[1][4]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Supercup UWCL Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Barcelona 2021–22 Primera División 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
2022–23 Liga F 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
2023–24 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 7 1
Career total 9 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 12 1

Honours

Barcelona[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Martina Fernández stats | FC Barcelona Players". FCB Jugadors. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pedraza i Sopena, Pau (2024-01-06). "L'estudiant de biomedicina (i fan de Nil Moliner) que s'ha convertit en indiscutible a la defensa del Barça". Ara.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 2024-01-07.
  3. ↑ "Rosengård 0-6 FC Barcelona: Six in the cold". FC Barcelona. 13 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "Martina, Martina Fernández Vila - Footballer". BDFutbol. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
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