# Beata Olsson
**Beata Karin Eleonora Olsson** (born 2001) is a Swedish forward who plays for Liverpool in England's Women's Super League (WSL). She joined Liverpool in September 2025 from Kristianstads DFF in Sweden's Damallsvenskan, in a transfer Kristianstad described as the largest sale fee in the club's history, and took the No. 11 shirt.[2](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-women-complete-signing-striker-beata-olsson) • [14](https://www.svt.se/sport/fotboll/officiellt-beata-olsson-till-liverpool)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 2001, Sweden[1](https://www.wslfootball.com/players/beata-olsson) |
| Position | Forward (attacker)[1](https://www.wslfootball.com/players/beata-olsson) |
| Current club | Liverpool, WSL, No. 11, since September 2025[2](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-women-complete-signing-striker-beata-olsson) |
| Previous clubs | Enköping, Uppsala, Florida Gators and Florida State Seminoles (college), AIK, Kristianstads DFF[2](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-women-complete-signing-striker-beata-olsson) |
| College honors | Two NCAA national championships and back-to-back ACC conference titles with Florida State[2](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-women-complete-signing-striker-beata-olsson) |
| WSL record | Six goals in her first eight league starts, a mark no other player had achieved in the Women's Super League[3](https://www.svt.se/sport/fotboll/experten-vill-se-beata-olsson-i-landslaget-kan-gora-stor-skillnad) |
| International | Sweden U23 international; called into the senior squad in November 2025 without taking the field[2](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-women-complete-signing-striker-beata-olsson) • [3](https://www.svt.se/sport/fotboll/experten-vill-se-beata-olsson-i-landslaget-kan-gora-stor-skillnad) |
## Early career in Sweden
Olsson began her professional career as a teenager in her homeland with Enköping before moving to Uppsala.[4](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/teams/womens-team/beata-olsson) Her first two senior years were played in Division 2, and ahead of the 2017 season Enköping moved up to Division 1, where she scored 13 goals in 19 matches.[5](https://aik-site-production.herokuapp.com/spelare/2024-dam-beata-olsson) She was born in 2001 and completed her studies at the Celsiusskolan sports gymnasium before her move abroad.[6](https://www.eposten.se/sport/fotboll/artikel/beata-olsson-fotbollen-har-alltid-kommit-i-forsta-hand/1l74mexl)
## College soccer in the United States
Olsson moved to the United States for university, first representing the [Florida Gators](https://www.edgepedia.org/florida-gators) and then switching to the [Florida State Seminoles](https://www.edgepedia.org/florida-state-seminoles).[2](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-women-complete-signing-striker-beata-olsson) With Florida State she won two NCAA national championships, including the 2021 title decided in a final against [Brigham Young University](https://www.edgepedia.org/brigham-young-university), and back-to-back ACC conference titles.[2](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-women-complete-signing-striker-beata-olsson) • [7](https://sportstatistik.nu/fotboll/spelare/beata-olsson)
She has described the college route as deliberate: she wanted to develop in a good environment while getting a good education, and pointed to the United States national team's history of drawing on college players.[8](https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/qP0zJw/beata-olsson-klar-for-liverpool-natt-och-dag)
## Return to Sweden: AIK and Kristianstads DFF
In January 2024 Olsson signed for AIK in the Damallsvenskan, Sweden's top division, on a contract running to 31 December 2024, and later that year transferred to Kristianstads DFF.[2](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-women-complete-signing-striker-beata-olsson) • [5](https://aik-site-production.herokuapp.com/spelare/2024-dam-beata-olsson) Her best Damallsvenskan season was 2025, when she scored 9 goals for Kristianstad.[7](https://sportstatistik.nu/fotboll/spelare/beata-olsson) Liverpool's own announcement credited her with nine goals in 15 games that term.[2](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-women-complete-signing-striker-beata-olsson)
## Liverpool
Liverpool completed the signing on 4 September 2025, the first addition under new head coach Gareth Taylor, with Kristianstad calling it the biggest transfer fee in the club's history.[2](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-women-complete-signing-striker-beata-olsson) • [14](https://www.svt.se/sport/fotboll/officiellt-beata-olsson-till-liverpool) Olsson said she had always wanted to play in England and called joining Liverpool a dream.[2](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-women-complete-signing-striker-beata-olsson) She had planned to stay at Kristianstad about a year and a half as a springboard to Europe, ideally England, and said Liverpool's vision of challenging for Champions League places convinced her to move after only half a season.[9](https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/lnKO2e/beata-olsson-succe-i-liverpool-redo-for-landslaget)
**A slow start, then a record run.** Liverpool's season began poorly, with the club at the bottom of the table on two points in mid-November, but Olsson scored in three consecutive matches, including against defending champion Chelsea in a 1-1 draw that salvaged a point.[10](https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/739ep9/beata-olsson-visar-fin-malform-raddade-poang) Once she broke into the starting lineup, she scored six goals in eight league starts, a mark no other player had achieved in the [Women's Super League](https://www.edgepedia.org/womens-super-league), a record she said she had not known about until others told her.[3](https://www.svt.se/sport/fotboll/experten-vill-se-beata-olsson-i-landslaget-kan-gora-stor-skillnad) • [9](https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/lnKO2e/beata-olsson-succe-i-liverpool-redo-for-landslaget) She also scored a hat-trick for Liverpool in the league cup.[11](https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/aJ1jMM/beata-olsson-hattrickskytt-for-liverpool)
Across the 2025/26 WSL season she made 17 appearances, 13 of them starts, totaling 1,198 minutes, with six league goals and two assists that made her Liverpool's top league scorer; her last league goal came in a 2-0 win over Leicester City on 15 March, and her final league appearance was a 90-minute outing in a 3-1 defeat to Arsenal on 16 May.[1](https://www.wslfootball.com/players/beata-olsson) SVT reported 11 goals in all competitions during her first season, as Liverpool avoided relegation.[12](https://www.svt.se/sport/fotboll/beata-olsson-om-mediebruset-soker-inte-upp-det?mobilmeny=1) WSL Football's analysis framed her contribution as efficiency: for a team that struggled to create chances, she converted the few opportunities she received into goals.[13](https://www.wslfootball.com/news/wsl/beata-olsson-proof-that-quality-can-beat-quantity)
## Playing style
Olsson describes her own game in unglamorous terms: she says she does not score the prettiest goals, sometimes with a toe, a knee, or a body arriving in the right place at the right moment, but that she is very good at being in the right place, with timing, pressing, and runs that arrive a second early.[9](https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/lnKO2e/beata-olsson-succe-i-liverpool-redo-for-landslaget) She calls herself a good pressing player who likes to set the first press high up the pitch and wants to be first to balls in the penalty area.[9](https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/lnKO2e/beata-olsson-succe-i-liverpool-redo-for-landslaget) SVT expert and former Sweden international Hanna Marklund highlighted her decisive goals and a physical profile she sees as fitting the national team.[3](https://www.svt.se/sport/fotboll/experten-vill-se-beata-olsson-i-landslaget-kan-gora-stor-skillnad)
## International career
Olsson is a Sweden U23 international.[2](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-women-complete-signing-striker-beata-olsson) She received her first senior call-up in November 2025, replacing the withdrawn Rebecka Blomqvist after a hat-trick against [Sheffield](https://www.edgepedia.org/sheffield), but did not play.[9](https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/lnKO2e/beata-olsson-succe-i-liverpool-redo-for-landslaget) By early 2026 she had made her first senior minutes and hoped to make her debut in Sweden's World Cup qualifying campaign.[3](https://www.svt.se/sport/fotboll/experten-vill-se-beata-olsson-i-landslaget-kan-gora-stor-skillnad) • [9](https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/lnKO2e/beata-olsson-succe-i-liverpool-redo-for-landslaget)
## References
1. [Beata Olsson, WSL Football player profile](https://www.wslfootball.com/players/beata-olsson)
2. [Liverpool FC Women complete signing of striker Beata Olsson, Liverpool FC](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-women-complete-signing-striker-beata-olsson)
3. [Experten vill se Beata Olsson i landslaget, SVT Sport](https://www.svt.se/sport/fotboll/experten-vill-se-beata-olsson-i-landslaget-kan-gora-stor-skillnad)
4. [Beata Olsson, Liverpool FC Women squad page](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/teams/womens-team/beata-olsson)
5. [Beata Olsson, AIK Fotboll player page](https://aik-site-production.herokuapp.com/spelare/2024-dam-beata-olsson)
6. [Beata Olsson: Fotbollen har alltid kommit i första hand, E-tidningen Enköping](https://www.eposten.se/sport/fotboll/artikel/beata-olsson-fotbollen-har-alltid-kommit-i-forsta-hand/1l74mexl)
7. [Beata Olsson: Statistik, mål och karriär, Sportstatistik.nu](https://sportstatistik.nu/fotboll/spelare/beata-olsson)
8. [Beata Olsson klar för Liverpool: "Natt och dag", Aftonbladet](https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/qP0zJw/beata-olsson-klar-for-liverpool-natt-och-dag)
9. [Svenska succén i Liverpool – nu vill Olsson ta plats i Blågult, Aftonbladet](https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/lnKO2e/beata-olsson-succe-i-liverpool-redo-for-landslaget)
10. [Stjärnan visar storform – räddade poäng, Aftonbladet](https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/739ep9/beata-olsson-visar-fin-malform-raddade-poang)
11. [Svensk hattricksuccé i ligacupen, Aftonbladet](https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/aJ1jMM/beata-olsson-hattrickskytt-for-liverpool)
12. [Beata Olsson om mediebruset: "Söker inte upp det", SVT Sport](https://www.svt.se/sport/fotboll/beata-olsson-om-mediebruset-soker-inte-upp-det?mobilmeny=1)
13. [Beata Olsson: Proof That Quality Can Beat Quantity, WSL Football](https://www.wslfootball.com/news/wsl/beata-olsson-proof-that-quality-can-beat-quantity)
14. [Officiellt: Beata Olsson till Liverpool, SVT Sport](https://www.svt.se/sport/fotboll/officiellt-beata-olsson-till-liverpool)
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