Ana Tejada

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Tejada and the second or maternal family name is Jiménez.

Ana Tejada Jiménez (born 2 June 2002) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a centre back or defensive midfielder for the Utah Royals of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the Spain national team.

Ana Tejada

Tejada with the Utah Royals in 2025
Personal information
Full name	Ana Tejada Jiménez
Date of birth	(2002-06-02) 2 June 2002 (age 23)[1]
Place of birth	Logroño, Spain[2]
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Centre back, defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team	Utah Royals
Number	17
Youth career
2015–2017	Logroño
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2017–2019	Logroño	24+	(1+)
2019–2024	Real Sociedad	86	(1)
2024–	Utah Royals	16	(2)
International career‡
2018–2019	Spain U17	18	(0)
2019	Spain U19	2	(0)
2021–2023	Spain U23	7	(0)
2022	Spain U20	6	(0)
2022–	Spain	1	(0)
Medal record Women's football Representing  Spain UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship 2018 Lithuania FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup 2018 Uruguay FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup 2022 Costa Rica
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 04:56, 16 March 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 02:34, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Club career

Tejada as Logroño captain in 2019

Longroño

Raised in the village of Lumbreras in La Rioja, Tejada started her career at Logroño,^[3] where she was already playing for the first team when they achieved promotion to the Primera División in 2018,^[4] making her the youngest active player in the top league, aged barely 16.^[5][6]

Real Sociedad

A solid campaign with Logroño led to her being signed by Real Sociedad in 2019. With her first campaign in San Sebastián interrupted by injury and then the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain,^[7] she became a regular for the txuri-urdin in the 2020–21 season, starting 24 matches.^[2]

Utah Royals

On 22 April 2024, the Utah Royals announced that they had signed Tejada to a three-year contract.^[8] She made her NWSL debut on 25 May, starting in a 1–0 loss to the Kansas City Current.^[9] Tejada scored her first goal with the Royals on 31 August as the team beat the Houston Dash, 3–1.^[10] Three games later, she was awarded the NWSL Goal of the Week award following a long-distance strike against Racing Louisville FC.^[11] She made 15 total appearances with Utah in 2024 as the team finished 11th in the league standings.

International career

Tejada was a member of the Spain under-17 squad that qualified for the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship in May 2018 (Lithuania) and the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup played six months later (Uruguay),^[5] winning both competitions.^[12] She was still young enough to play in the 2019 Under-17 Euros (Bulgaria)^[13] and was named in the 'Team of the Tournament', as she had been in the previous year.^[5] She later won the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Tejada made her senior debut on 11 November 2022, as a 76th-minute substitute in a 7–0 friendly home win over Argentina.

Honours

Spain U17

• FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup: 2018^[14]
• UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship: 2018^[15]

Spain U20

• FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup: 2022^[16]

Individual

• UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2018,^[17] 2019^[18]