E. Gielnik

Emily Gielnik is an Australian professional football attacker from Queensland who has represented the CommBank Matildas at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the 2018 AFC Women’s Asian Cup and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The supplied provider record—E. Gielnik, attacker, Pumas UNAM W, inactive—matches the Australian forward Emily Gielnik, born in 1992. Her most recent publicly verified club move was a permanent transfer from C.F. Monterrey to Pumas UNAM in 2026; the supplied inactive status is…

Emily Gielnik was born in Melbourne and grew up in Queensland, initially focusing on basketball before recurring injuries led her to take up football at age 12. She developed with Redlands United and later the Queensland Academy of Sport. Her first major break came during a school trip to Canberra, where she joined a Matildas training session at the Australian Institute of Sport and impressed then-national coach Tom Sermanni. That intervention helped her enter the QAS pathway.

Gielnik made her senior domestic breakthrough with Brisbane Roar. Her late-game impact earned her the “super sub” reputation, and she became a prominent W-League attacker. She later played for clubs in Australia, England, Canada, Japan, Norway, Germany, Sweden and Mexico, including Liverpool, Ottawa Fury, Urawa Red Diamonds, Avaldsnes, Bayern Munich, Vittsjö, Aston Villa, Melbourne Victory, Monterrey and Pumas UNAM.

A powerful forward capable of playing centrally or from wide attacking positions, Gielnik is noted for direct running, pace, physicality and an ability to threaten the goal. She made her Matildas debut against Japan in July 2012 and scored her first international goal against Vietnam during Australia’s 2016 Olympic qualifying campaign. After missing the final Rio 2016 Olympic squad and the 2015 World Cup, she rebuilt her career and returned to major-tournament football.

Gielnik was selected for Australia’s 2018 AFC Women’s Asian Cup squad and appeared in all three of Australia’s matches. She then made the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup squad, appearing in three matches, including two starts. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, she was part of the Matildas team that reached the bronze-medal match and finished fourth, Australia’s best Olympic result in women’s football at that time.

Domestically, her most productive documented season came with Brisbane Roar in 2020–21, when she won the W-League Golden Boot. She returned to Melbourne Victory in 2023 and recorded 21 goals in 35 appearances across two seasons, winning the club’s 2025 Golden Boot. Victory announced her departure in July 2025 for C.F. Monterrey. Monterrey later confirmed that she had completed a permanent transfer to Pumas UNAM. As at 18 August 2026, the provider lists her with Pumas UNAM W as inactive; no reliable public source located for this profile explains the inactivity.