Kyra Cooney-Cross and Courtney Nevin sign with Hammarby Football
Kyra Cooney-Cross and Courtney Nevin have signed with Swedish Hammarby Football, with contracts that will see them in the OBOS Damallsvenskan until 2023.
The duo makes the move from Melbourne Victory to Sweden, the first time both have played for a foreign club.
After the end of this season’s A-League Women’s Final Series, there Kyra Cooney-Cross and Courtney Nevin is still in Melbourne Victory, both players will join their new club in Sweden with the season starting on Sunday 27 March.
Cooney-Cross and Nevin made their debut for Australia together in June 2021 against Denmark, after competing in youth teams together for a number of years, and now they are signing their first professional contracts abroad together.
They join Hammarby Fotboll until the end of the Damallsvenska season 2023, with their new team making history last year after setting an audience record in Sweden with 18,537 fans who showed their support for the team from Stockholm.
The duo is the third Australian to sign with the club, following in the footsteps of Elise Kellond-Knight, who last played for Hammarby before the Olympics in Tokyo 2020.
“I am very happy to come to Hammarby and take on a new challenge and a new chapter in my career. I have heard very nice things about the club and the team,” Cooney-Cross told hammarbyfotboll.se.
Cooney-Cross joins the team after making nearly 50 appearances for the A-League Women’s, and playing for Western Sydney Wanderers and Melbourne Victory.
The midfielder, after making his Australian debut in June, went on to make his Olympic debut, coming off the bench in the 75th minute of Australia’s opening match win against New Zealand.
“I am extremely happy to come to Hammarby! I am grateful for the opportunity to come to such a nice club and look forward to getting started and meeting my new teammates. OBOS Damallsvenskan is a very good league that will develop me as a player , “said Nevin hammarbyfotboll.se.
Nevin joins Hammarby after moving to Melbourne Victory for the A-League Women’s season 2021/22. The defender made the switch from the hometown club Western Sydney Wanderers after spending three years with the reds and blacks.
The defender sees the move abroad as an opportunity to develop himself against some of the best players in the world. Nevin and Cooney-Cross will join Teagan Micah, Charlotte Grant, Clare Polkinghorne and Katrina Gorry in Sweden this season, where FC Rosengård, Vittsjö GIK and now Hammarby have an Australian duo.
Hammarby finished in seventh place last year in the OBOS Damallsvenskan, and hopes that a reinforcement in the attack will help to take a UWCL place for next season.
Their season starts against Eskilstuna on Sunday 27 March at 12:00.