After joining the GCZ youth academy from FC Dietikon in 2017, Noemi Ivelj also enjoyed a spell with the Young Fellows Juventus boys’ team. She made her first-team debut for Grasshoppers at just 15 years of age and has gone on to play 52 competitive games for the club, including 42 in the Swiss Women’s Super League, finding the net on two occasions.
The highly rated teenager has won ten senior caps for Switzerland since making her debut as a 16-year-old on 26 September 2023, in a UEFA Women’s Nations League game against Spain. She has been named in Switzerland’s preliminary squad for the upcoming European Championship and is hoping to be part of the Nati’s final selection, which will be announced on 23 June.
We’ve signed a very exciting player in Noemi, a huge Swiss talent.
Eintracht head coach and sporting director Niko Arnautis
Ivelj said: “I’m really looking forward to the move and spending the coming years in Frankfurt. It’s been a dream of mine since I was young to move abroad, and I’m all the more pleased that I’ve ended up in the German Woman’s Bundesliga and with Eintracht Frankfurt in particular. I can’t wait to take my next steps here as an athlete and as a person, bring my qualities to the team and contribute to their success. Nadine Riesen and Géraldine Reuteler, who I know from the national team, have only had positive things to say about the club and the city, and I’m really looking forward to getting to know everything.”
Niko Arnautis, Eintracht head coach and sporting director, said: “We’ve signed a very exciting player in Noemi, a huge Swiss talent who has already won ten caps at senior level. She has a very positive and determined character as well as the ambition she needs to fulfil her potential. She’s also very versatile and can play in pretty much any position centrally. It’s our job to help her settle as quickly and as well as possible. One advantage is definitely that she’s linking up with familiar faces here, and that Géry Reuteler in particular is a shining example of how to move from Switzerland to Frankfurt as a youngster and develop into a top player, one step at a time. We’re looking forward to embarking on this journey together with Noemi.”
