Manchester City Sign Spanish Defender
Manchester City has confirmed the signing of Spanish international Leila Ouahabi, subject to international clearance.
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The 29-year-old defender has agreed to a two-year deal and will officially join the Club on 1 July, following the conclusion of her current contract with UEFA Women’s Champions League finalists and Primera Division champions, FC Barcelona Femeni.
Widely regarded as one of the leading wing-backs in the Spanish game, Ouahabi is a tireless presence up and down the left flank and won every trophy on offer during 11 years with the Catalan giants, which was split by three years at Valencia.
Ouahabi was born in Mataro, Catalonia, and made her first venture into football with Vilassar de Mar as a child.
She joined Barcelona’s famed La Masia academy in 2007 at the age of 13 and went on to spend a total of 13 years in their ranks as a youngster and then professionally either side of her brief stint with Valencia.
Whilst on the books of the Blaugranes, Ouahabi played an integral role in their five Primera Division titles, seven Copa de la Reina de Futbol triumphs, and two Supercopa Femeninas, three Copa Catalunyas, and one UEFA Women’s Champions League success.
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Her international career began with Spain’s Under-19s and she went on to make her senior debut against Romania in February 2016 before helping the team to win the Algarve Cup just a year later, when she scored the winning goal in the final against Canada.
Ouahabi, who has won 46 caps to date, also represented her homeland at the 2019 Women’s World Cup where they progressed past the group stages of the competition for the first time in their history before narrowly losing to the United States of America in the Round of 16.
She is set to feature in this summer’s UEFA Women’s European Championships and will stay in England permanently after the tournament having put pen to paper on a two-year contract at the Academy Stadium.
Meanwhile…
Leila took part in two games in front of more than 90,000 fans at Barcelona’s Camp Nou Stadium earlier this year that both set a new world record for a women’s attendance.
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First, 91,553 fans were present for the women’s El Clasico between Barcelona and Real Madrid.
That was swiftly followed in April by an attendance of 91,648 for Barca’s UEFA Women’s Champions League clash with Wolfsburg.
Across two separate spells with Barcelona, Ouahabi won the Spanish Women’s Primera Division title five times, firstly in 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 and then on three more occasions in her second spell at the club in 2019/2020, 2020/2021 and 2021/2022.
Source: Manchester City
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