Viviane Marie-Louise Blanche Asseyi (;https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSDPRt2CY/ born 20 November 1993) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Women Super League club West Ham United.

Club career Asseyi began her career with amateur club US Quevilly at age 6. Due to Quevilly not having a women's section, at age 16 she played on a mixed team composed mostly of male players. She later joined the women's section of football club FC Rouen, where the youngster scored 23 goals in 28 total appearances. She joined Montpellier midway through the 2009–10 season in January 2010 and played there until moving to Olympique de Marseille ahead of the 2016–17 season.

In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, she transferred to Bayern Munich in Germany. Upon her arrival at the club, she was welcomed by fellow French citizen Benjamin Pavard, who played for the men's side. She had been in conversations with Bayern about a transfer for a year prior to the move.

In her Bundesliga debut on the first matchday against SC Sand, Asseyi scored, giving Bayern Munich the lead just two minutes in. In November she injured her ankle during a national team training course and had surgery a few days later.  At the beginning of March 2021, she returned to the pitch, immediately scored another goal in Freiburg and won the Bundesliga championship with Bayern Munich at the end of the season. A year later, one of her goals - scored with a bicycle kick against 1. FC Köln - was voted goal of the month for March 2022 by the spectators of the Sportschau by a large margin.

On 2 August 2022, Asseyi joined Super League club West Ham United. In the 2023–24 home game against Manchester United, she scored the equalizer making it 1–1 in the 85th minute.

International career

Youth Viviane Asseyi played a total of 32 games for the French youth selection teams in the U-16, U-17, and U-19 age groups. In the second qualifying round for the 2012 U-19 European Championship, she scored the goal of the day against the Netherlands.

Senior In June 2013, the coach of the senior national team, Bruno Bini, invited her for the first time to a course in preparation for the European Championship and then subsequently called Asseyi into the squad in place of Laëtitia Tonazzi who was retiring. On June 29, 2013, she made her debut for France at age 19 in a friendly against Norway. Bini's successor Philippe Bergeroo occasionally and mainly used her as a substitute. The new national coach Corinne Diacre even put Asseyi in the starting line-up in autumn 2017, with the striker scoring her first goal. Viviane Asseyi was also named in France's 23-player squad for the 2019 World Cup on home soil.

She was nominated for the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, played in two of her team's five games. Her team was eliminated in the quarter-finals after penalties against Australia.

Personal life Asseyi was born in France, and is of Gabonese descent.

Career statistics Club

+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competitionClubSeasonLeagueNational cupLeague cupContinentalTotalDivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsFC Rouen2008–09D2 Féminine161000——16102009–10D2 Féminine91300——913Total252300——2523Montpellier2010–11D1 Féminine11330—201632011–12D1 Féminine20940——2492012–13D1 Féminine18730——2172013–14D1 Féminine18865——24132014–15D1 Féminine20943——24122015–16D1 Féminine19362——2552016–17D1 Féminine18462——246Total124433212002015855Marseille2016–17D1 Féminine21910——2292017–18D1 Féminine21420——234Total42133000004513Bordeaux2018–19D1 Féminine221210——23122019–20D1 Féminine161231——1913Total38244100004225Bayern Munich2019–20Frauen-Bundesliga0000—10102020–21Frauen-Bundesliga15931—4022102021–22Frauen-Bundesliga20531—61297Total351462001115217West Ham United2022–23Women's Super League2262051—2972023–24Women's Super League2261130—2672024–25Women's Super League2191044—26132025–26Women's Super League2122142—2752026–27Women's Super League320000—328925621670011134Career total3531425117167131433167

International

+ Appearances and goals by national team and yearNational teamYearAppsGoalsFrance2013102014602015402016202017542018702019142202073202173202252202380Total6614

Scores and results list France's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Asseyi goal.

+ List of international goals scored by Viviane AsseyiNo.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetitionRef115 September 2017Stade Michel d'Ornano, Caen, France1–01–0Friendly221 October 2017Stade du Hainaut, Valenciennes, France1–01–0Friendly324 October 2017Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims, France4–08–0Friendly47–05 4 March 2019 Stade de la Vallée du Cher, Tours, France 1–0 6–0 Friendly6 9 November 2019 Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France 6–0 6–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying75 March 2020Stade de l'Épopée, Calais, France1–01–02020 Tournoi de France8 22 September 2020 Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje, North Macedonia 6–0 7–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying9 23 October 2020 Stade de la Source, Orléans, France 6–0 11–0UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying10 9 April 2021 Stade Michel d'Ornano, Caen, France 2–0 3–1 Friendly11 17 September 2021 Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras, Greece 9–0 10–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification12 26 November 2021 Stade de la Rabine, Vannes, France 1–0 6–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification13 7 October 2022 Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, Dresden, Germany 1–2 1–2 Friendly14 11 November 2022 Estadi Olímpic Camilo Cano, La Nucia, Spain 2–1 2–1 Friendly

Honours Bayern Munich Bundesliga: 2020–21

Montpellier Coupe de France: Finalist 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015

Individual Goal of the Month (Germany): March 2022 West Ham United Goal of the Season: 2023–24

References

External links

FFF profile Profile at Montpellier HSC Player French football stats at footofeminin.fr