Arsenal ahead Stina Blackstenius has signed a brand new two-year contract with the membership.
The 30-year-old, who joined from Swedish facet BK Hacken in 2022, has scored 64 targets in 152 video games for Arsenal in all competitions.
This season, she has seven targets and three assists in 15 Girls’s Tremendous League matches – and in addition netted within the Champions League quarter-final win over Chelsea.
Blackstenius has gained a repute for being one among Arsenal’s simplest gamers off the bench and scored the late winner in final season’s Champions League remaining victory over Barcelona.
The Sweden striker additionally hit an extra-time aim towards Chelsea to clinch the Girls’s League Cup trophy in 2024 and a late winner towards Manchester Metropolis within the semi-finals in 2023.
She has began six WSL video games this season, forming a robust partnership with England ahead Alessia Russo, for the third-placed Gunners – who’re two factors behind Chelsea in second with two video games in hand.
Membership sources say she offers a unique risk to Russo and it was due to this fact a precedence for them to agree a brand new cope with Blackstenius earlier than the summer time.
In addition to a helpful behavior of scoring in large moments, she is valued at Arsenal for her contribution off the ball and skill to create house for others.
Blackstenius has gained 4 main trophies with Arsenal – the Champions League, Champions Cup and two League Cups.
She additionally completed because the membership’s prime scorer within the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons.
At worldwide stage, Blackstenius helped Sweden win Olympic silver medals in 2016 and 2020, in addition to ending third on the 2019 and 2023 World Cups.
The Gunners presently sit third within the WSL and face record-winners Lyon within the Champions League semi-finals on Sunday (15:30 BST).
