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Zsanett Kaján

Zsanett Bernadett Kaján (born 16 September 1997) is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Parma and the Hungary national team.[2][3]

Zsanett Kaján
Kaján with Hungary in 2013
Personal information
Full name Zsanett Bernadett Kaján[1]
Date of birth (1997-09-16) 16 September 1997 (age 28)
Place of birth Budapest, Hungary
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Position Forward
Team information
Current team
 Parma
Number 5
Youth career
2006–2013 Ferencvárosi TC
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2021 St. John's Red Storm 86 (45)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2014 Ferencvárosi TC 36 (43)
2014–2016 MTK Hungária FC 46 (29)
2022 OL Reign 0 (0)
2022–2024 Fiorentina 24 (9)
2024 → Como (loan) 11 (4)
2024–2025 Lazio 10 (0)
2025– Parma
International career‡
2013– Hungary 54 (11)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 21 July 2024
‡ National team caps and goals as of 6 March 2019

Collegiate career

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Kaján played forward for the St. John's University Red Storm women's soccer team in Queens, New York City, from 2017 to 2021, scoring 45 goals and 11 assists in nearly 6,000 minutes played and 86 appearances. She was one of eight players to score more than 40 total points in the 2021 NCAA Division I women's soccer season.[4][5]

Club career

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Ferencvárosi TC

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While playing with the youth teams of Ferencvárosi TC,[6] Kaján began her club career with the senior team in 2012. She left the team after the 2013–14 JET-SOL Liga Női NB I season, having tied for second-most goals scored on the team's season with 9.[7]

MTK Hungária FC

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Kaján played for MTK Hungária FC from 2014 to 2016. In the JET-SOL Liga 2015–16 season, she scored 10 goals in 14 matches, the league's sixth-largest tally.[5] With MTK, she started at forward in 2014–15 UEFA Women's Champions League Round of 32 matches against SV Neulengbach.[8] She scored and assisted in the first leg of the 2016 JET-SOL Liga finals,[9] which MTK lost to Kaján's former team Ferencvárosi TC on aggregate.[10] She then departed for St. John's University.[5]

OL Reign

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Kaján was selected eighth overall in the 2022 NWSL Draft by OL Reign of the National Women's Soccer League and signed with the team on 20 January 2022.[4] She did not appear for the Reign in her six months with the team before being transferred for an undisclosed fee to ACF Fiorentina on 27 June 2022.[2]

Fiorentina

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On 18 July 2022, ACF Fiorentina announced that the club had signed Kajan to a contract through June 2023.[11]

International career

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Kaján earned her first cap with the Hungary women's national football team at the age of 18.[4]

International goals

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Scores and results are list Hungary's goal tally first.
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.23 November 2013ETO Park, Győr, Hungary Kazakhstan2–14–12015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
2.15 November 2022Haladás Sportkomplexum, Szombathely, Hungary Uzbekistan5–05–0Friendly
3.7 April 2023Alcufer Stadion, Győr, Hungary Israel1–13–1
4.3–1
5.5 December 2023Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion, Budapest, Hungary Albania2–06–02023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League
6.27 February 2024Den Dreef, Leuven, Belgium Belgium1–01–52023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League play-off matches
7.12 July 2024Dalga Arena, Baku, Azerbaijan Azerbaijan2–05–0UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying
8.16 July 2024Ménfői úti Stadion, Győr, Hungary Turkey1–31–4
9.24 October 2025Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion, Budapest, Hungary Luxembourg3–04–0Friendly
10.29 November 2025Marbella Football Center, Marbella, Spain Republic of Ireland2–32–3
11.18 April 2026Pancho Aréna, Felcsút, Hungary North Macedonia5–07–02027 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
12.9 June 2026Illovszky Rudolf Stadion, Budapest, Hungary Andorra2–06–1

Personal life

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Her brother, Norbert Kaján, is a Hungarian international footballer who was also developed at Ferencváros. Her father was also a footballer, playing for Ganz-Mávag.[12]

References

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  1. ↑ "Kaján Zsanett Bernadett". Hungarian Football Federation (in Hungarian). Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  2. 1 2 "OL Reign Transfers Forward Zsani Kaján to ACF Fiorentina". OL Reign. 27 June 2022. Archived from the original on 9 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  3. ↑ "Women's World Cup – Zsanett Kaján". UEFA. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 "Hungarian International Zsani Kaján Signs with Reign" (Press release). OL Reign. 20 January 2022. Archived from the original on 7 June 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 "Zsanett Kaján". St. John's Red Storm. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  6. ↑ "Ferencvárosi TC – FC Barcelona 2–1 (2–0)". Sport Banyaszat. 12 May 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  7. ↑ "Jet-Sol Liga: Mérlegen a szezon – 6. rész: Ferencvárosi TC" (in Hungarian). FociClub.hu. 12 June 2014.
  8. ↑ "Neulengbach-MTK Hungária". UEFA. 15 October 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  9. ↑ "Ferencvárosi TC – MTK Hungária FC 3–2 (2–1)" (Press release) (in Hungarian). MTK Hungária FC. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  10. ↑ "MTK Hungária FC – Ferencvárosi TC 1–3 (0–2) (GALÉRIA)" (Press release) (in Hungarian). MTK Hungária FC. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  11. ↑ "Fiorentina Femminile: ufficiale l'arrivo in maglia viola di Kaján" (in Italian). fiorentina.it. 18 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  12. ↑ ""Az első edzőtábor közben mentem érettségizni"" [“I was taking my school-leaving exams during the first training camp”] (in Hungarian). Ferencváros. 28 June 2023. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
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