Salma Paralluelo

Paralluelo is a product of UD San José in Zaragoza. She has played for Zaragoza CFF and Villarreal in Spain. She is also a 2022 FIFA Puskás Award nominee. Paralluelo signed for FC Barcelona at the end of the 2021–22 season, after her contract with Villarreal ended. In the 2023–24 season, she scored four goals in the 7–1 away win against Real Sociedad, one of two "pokers" on her way to being Barcelona's top goalscorer in all competitions (Caroline Graham Hansen eventually took the league Pichichi title) as the team won four trophies. Still struggling in some tougher games, her growth as a footballer "made leaps" in the season. On 23 May 2026, she scored two late goals in a 4–0 victory over Lyon in the Champions League final, sealing her club's fourth title in the competition. A month later, on 30 June, Paralluelo left Barcelona after her contract expired, having won 15 titles with the club. On 25 July 2026, French club OL Lyonnes announced the signing of Paralluelo to a four-year contract until 2030.

Paralluelo won the 2018 UEFA Under-17 Championship and the 2018 FIFA U-17 World Cup. In April 2021, her anterior cruciate ligament was torn during a match. She returned to win the 2022 FIFA U-20 World Cup. She made her senior debut on 11 November 2022, starting and scoring a hat-trick in a 7-0 friendly home win over Argentina. She was included in the Spain squad list for the 2023 World Cup. During the quarter-final match against the Netherlands on 11 August, she scored the winning goal in a 2–1 victory after extra time, to qualify Spain for the first time in history into the semi-finals of a World Cup. On 15 August 2023, she scored a goal in Spain's 2–1 victory over Sweden to take her team to its first senior World Cup final. After winning the final against England, in which she played as a starter, she was proclaimed the best young player of the tournament. In October 2024, she announced that she would take an indefinite break from football due to physical and mental fatigue. She made 92 appearances with the Spanish national team and Spanish football clubs in just two years from 2022 to 2024. In June 2025, she was called up by the Spanish national team for the UEFA Euro 2025 tournament in Switzerland.

Club

As of match played 26 January 2025

International

As of match played 9 June 2026

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

Paralluelo was born in Zaragoza to a Spanish father and an Equatorial Guinean Fang mother. Her mother had moved from Equatorial Guinea so that her son, Florencio, from a previous relationship, who had a severe congenital vision deficiency, could receive better medical treatment in Spain. She has two other brothers, José Jaime and Lorenzo, both footballers. She was raised in a working class neighbourhood in Zaragoza with her three older brothers. She began playing football with classmates as a young child. Her father lost his job during her early childhood, which worsened her family's financial position. Her mother later moved to Switzerland for work and had limited contact with Paralluelo, who remained in Spain and was raised primarily by her father. Paralluelo saw her mother during Christmas and summer holidays for most of her childhood. Her father described her as a student who passed her classes but was not "brilliant". She is close friends with triple jump bronze Olympic medalist, Ana Peleteiro, whom she met during her athletics career as a teenager. In December 2012, her older half-brother, Florencio, disappeared while going to meet with friends from his university. His body was found in a reservoir 35 days later in the Ebro River in Zaragoza. No violence or foul play was suspected in his death. Paralluelo participated in sports to cope with her brother's death.