Quick Facts
Biography
Tessa Wullaert (born 19 March 1993) is a Belgian football forward currently playing for Manchester City in the English FA WSL and the Belgian national team.
Career
Club career
Wullaert's first team was SV Zulte Waregem in the Belgian First Division, where she played from 2008 to 2012. For the 2012–13 season, when a new joint league between Belgium and the Netherlands called BeNe League was created, she moved to RSC Anderlecht, with which she won the Belgian Cup. She left after one year at the club and signed for Standard Liège, scoring 16 league goals during the 2013–14 season and winning the Belgian Cup again. On her second season (2014–15) playing for Standard, she won the BeNe League top scorer award with 18 goals helping the club to win the title.
In May 2015 she moved to VfL Wolfsburg for 3 years before continuing her career 2018 in England at Manchester City.
International career
Wullaert represented Belgium at the 2011 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship and in the same year made her debut for the senior national team. After only a few years, she achieved the record for highest number of international goals by a Belgian female football player: she caught up with team captain Aline Zeler in November 2015 and overtook her in March 2016.
International goals
| Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 20 August 2011 | Stade Armand-Melis, Dessel, Belgium |  Russia | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
| 2. | 17 September 2011 |  Hungary | 1–0 | 2–1 | UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying | |
| 3. | 15 February 2012 |  Northern Ireland | 2–1 | 2–2 | ||
| 4. | 4 April 2012 |  Iceland | 1–0 | 1–0 | ||
| 5. | 9 June 2012 | Henri Houtsaegerstadion, Koksijde, Belgium |  North Korea | 2–2 | 2–2 | Friendly |
| 6. | 15 September 2012 | Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway |  Norway | 1–2 | 2–3 | UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying |
| 7. | 9 February 2013 | Stade Arc-en-ciel, Waregem, Belgium |  Netherlands | 1–0 | 2–3 | Friendly |
| 8. | 13 February 2013 | PGB-Stadion, Oostakker, Belgium |  Austria | 1–0 | 2–0 | |
| 9. | 2 June 2013 | Stade Edmond-Leburton, Tubize, Belgium |  Ukraine | 3–0 | 3–0 | |
| 10. | 26 October 2013 | Levadia Municipal Stadium, Livadia, Greece |  Greece | 4–1 | 7–1 | 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
| 11. | 7–1 | |||||
| 12. | 31 October 2013 | Bosuilstadion, Antwerpen, Belgium |  Portugal | 2–1 | 4–1 | |
| 13. | 4–1 | |||||
| 14. | 5 April 2014 | Niko Dovana Stadium, Durres, Albania |  Albania | 2–0 | 6–0 | |
| 15. | 13 September 2014 | Stade Eneco, Leuven, Belgium | Greece | 4–0 | 11–0 | |
| 16. | 6–0 | |||||
| 17. | 8–0 | |||||
| 18. | 11–0 | |||||
| 19. | 17 September 2014 | Estádio Municipal de Abrantes, Abrantes, Portugal | Portugal | 1–0 | 1–0 | |
| 20. | 22 November 2014 | Stadion Ludowy, Sosnowiec, Poland |  Poland | 2–1 | 4–1 | Friendly |
| 21. | 11 February 2015 | Estadio José Antonio Pérez, San Pedro del Pinatar, Spain |  Spain | 1–0 | 1–2 | |
| 22. | 3 March 2015 | Paralimni Stadium, Paralimni, Cyprus |  Czech Republic | 2–2 | 2–2 | 2015 Cyprus Cup |
| 23. | 23 May 2015 | Stayen, Sint-Truiden, Belgium | Norway | 3–2 | 3–2 | Friendly |
| 24. | 27 October 2015 | Bilino Polje Stadium, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3–0 | 5–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying |
| 25. | 4–0 | |||||
| 26. | 9 March 2016 | Complexo Desportivo de Vila Real de Santo António, Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal | Russia | 1–0 | 5–0 | 2016 Algarve Cup |
| 27. | 12 April 2016 | Stade Eneco, Leuven, Belgium |  Estonia | 3–0 | 6–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying |
| 28. | 5–0 | |||||
| 29. | 3 March 2017 | AEK Arena - Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca, Cyprus |  Italy | 1–1 | 4–1 | Friendly |
| 30. | 8 March 2017 | Austria | 1–0 | 1–1 | ||
| 31. | 11 April 2017 | Stade Eneco, Leuven, Belgium |  Scotland | 3–0 | 5–0 | |
| 32. | 11 July 2017 | Van Roystadion, Denderleeuw, Belgium | Russia | 1–0 | 2–0 | |
| 33. | 24 July 2017 | Koning Willem II Stadion, Tilburg, Netherlands | Netherlands | 1–1 | 1–2 | UEFA Women's Euro 2017 |
| 34. | 19 September 2017 | Stade Eneco, Leuven, Belgium |  Moldova | 2–0 | 12-0 | |
| 35. | 3–0 | |||||
| 36. | 5–0 | |||||
| 37. | 20 Oktober 2017 |  Romania | 3–2 | 3-2 | ||
| 38. | 7 March 2018 | athlitiko Kentro Zenon, South Africa |  South Africa | 1–1 | 2-1 | |
| 39. | 20 June 2018 | Chisinau, Moldova | Moldova | 6–0 | 7-0 | |
| 40. | 24 Mai 2019 | pylos, Greece | Greece | 2–0 | 2-1 | Friendly |
| 41. | 1 June 2019 | Stade Eneco, Leuven, Belgium |  Thailand | 2–0 | 6-1 | |
| 42. | 8 November 2019 | SRC Zapresic, Croatia |  Croatia | 1–0 | 4-1 |
Honours
Club
- RSC Anderlecht
- Belgian Women's Cup:Winner 2013
- Standard Liège
- BeNe League: Winner 2014–15
- Belgian Women's Cup: Winner 2014
- VfL Wolfsburg
- DFB-Pokal: Winner 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18
- Bundesliga: Winner 2016–17
- Manchester City
- FA Women's League Cup: Winner 2018–19
Individual
- BeNe League Top Scorer: 2014–15
- Belgian Golden Shoe: 2016 & 2018 & 2019
