Sara Agrež (born 9 December 2000) is a Slovenian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Women's Super League club Liverpool and the Slovenia national team.
Club career Agrež started her career at ŽNK Žalec and joined ŽNK Rudar Škale in the 2014–15 winter break. At Škale, she qualified for the first team at the age of 16 and made her Slovenian Cup debut on 12 March 2017. In the 1–0 win over ŽNK Ankaran, she scored the decisive goal. After her debut season, in which she played in seven games, she moved to ŽNK Radomlje and a year later signed with league rivals ŽNK Pomurje Beltinci. On May 10, 2019, Agrež moved to Germany to join Bundesliga side Turbine Potsdam. In 2022, she signed to join VfL Wolfsburg. She was used since the first day of the championship, taking over for Felicitas Rauch in the 66th minute in the home match won 4–0 over the opponents of SGS Essen, then making her debut in the Champions League, as a starter, on 20 October 2022 in the match won 4–0 over the Austrians of St. Pölten, the first match of group B of the group stage of the 2022–2023 edition.
On 21 May 2026, Agrež was announced at Liverpool ahead of the 2026–27 season.
International career Agrež was called up by the Slovenian Football Federation in 2015 at age 14 to the Under-17 team for the qualifiers for the 2016 European Championship in Belarus. She was used in two of the three matches of the first phase where her national team, despite having the same number of points (6) with two wins and one defeat, failed to pass the round due to a worse goal difference than Switzerland and Serbia. She also remained at altitude for the subsequent qualification for the 2017 European Championship in the Czech Republic, taking the field in all six matches of the two phases, where Slovenia got a good performance by closing the elite phase in second position one point from the Netherlands, however not enough to access the final phase.
After she had played for the U-19 team in the qualifiers for the 2018 U19 European Championship, Agrež was called up to the senior team for the first time on May 25, 2017. She earned a cap for the Slovenia national team, making her debut with the first in the two-legged friendly against Albania on June 6 and 9, and appearing for the team during the 2019 World Cup qualifying cycle.
Personal Agrež graduated from Gimnazija Šiška in Ljubljana in the summer of 2018.
Career statistics Club
+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competitionClubSeasonLeagueNational cupLeague cupContinentalTotalDivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsŽNK Rudar Škale2016–17SŽNL7221——93ŽNK Radomlje2017–18SŽNL16510——175Pomurje2018–19SŽNL16721——188Turbine Potsdam2019–20Frauen-Bundesliga11210——1222020–21Frauen-Bundesliga16110——1712021–22Frauen-Bundesliga16140——201Total434600000494VfL Wolfsburg2022–23Frauen-Bundesliga7000—10802023–24Frauen-Bundesliga2000—0020Total900000101001. FC Köln2023–24Frauen-Bundesliga11000——1102024–25Frauen-Bundesliga10010——1102025–26Frauen-Bundesliga25100——261Total461100000471Liverpool2026–27Women's Super League200010—30Career total13919122101015321
International
+ Appearances and goals by national team and yearNational teamYearAppsGoalsSlovenia2017412018402019802020202021412022602023902024812025120202660Total633
Scores and results list Slovenia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Agrež goal.
+ List of international goals scored by Sara AgrežNo.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition124 November 2017Ajdovščina Stadium, Ajdovščina, Slovenia2–05–02019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification217 September 2021Pärnu Rannastaadion, Pärnu, Estonia4–04–02023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification331 May 2024Fazanerija City Stadium, Murska Sobota, Slovenia1–06–0UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying
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