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Marta Cox
Cox with Panama in 2018
Personal information
Full name Marta Alexandra Cox Villarreal[1]
Date of birth (1997-07-20) 20 July 1997 (age 29)
Place of birth Panama City, Panama
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)[2]
Position Attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Fenerbahçe
Number 20
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018 Deportes Quindío 10 (8)
2019 Cortuluá
2020 Universitario
2020–2021 Alajuelense 23 (8)
2021–2022 León 21 (3)
2022–2023 Pachuca 50 (12)
2024 Tijuana 30 (3)
2025– Fenerbahçe 24 (13)
International career
2011–2012 Panama U17 9 (6)
2011–2012 Panama U20 6 (3)
2013– Panama 63 (26)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marta Alexandra Cox Villarreal (born 20 July 1997) is a Panamanian professional football midfielder who plays for the Turkish Super League club Fenerbahçe, and Panama women's national team.[3][4][5] She is nicknamed Keky.[6]

Personal life and early years

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Marta Alexandra Cox Villarreal was born in El Chorrillo neighborhood of Panama City, Panama on 20 July 1997.[7][8]

She started in football when she was only six years old at the local club Chorrillo FC. She was supported by her parents in her career. Her father kept supporting her also after her mother's death. At the age of 14, she debuted in the Panama national senior team.[7]

Club career

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Cox is 1.64 m (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in) tall, and plays in the midfielder/striker position.[citation needed]

She played in her country for Universitario (formerly Chorrillo FC) in the Liga de Fútbol Femenino. She then went abroad, and was with the clubs Cortuluá in Colombia and Indiana in the United States.[7]

Alajuelense

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In the 2020–21 season, she was with Alajuelense in the Costa Rican Women's Premier Division.[9][7] At the end of the season, she left the club for Mexico.[7][10]

León

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In July 2021, Cox signed with Club León. In doing so, she became the first foreign player to join the Liga MX Femenil team.[7][11]

Pachuca

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She played for Pachuca in the Liga MX Femenil, leaving the club at the end of 2023.[7][12]

Tijuana

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She transferred to Tijuana, and played in the first halof the 2024–25 Liga MX Femenil season.[citation needed]

Fenerbahçe

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Mid January 2025, Cox moved to Turkey, and signed a one-and-half-year deal with the Istanbul-based club Fenerbahçe to start playing in the second half of the 2024-25 Super League season.[13][8][14]

International career

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Cox was admitted to the Panama national senior team when she was 14 years old.[7]

She made her debut with the senior national team in a UNCAF tournament in Guatemala on 20 May 2014 in a game where Panama lost 1-0 to Guatemala.[15]

She took part at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification.[7]

Honours

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Fenerbahçe

Career statistics

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Scores and results list Panama's goal tally first

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.22 May 2014Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City, Guatemala Belize4–113–12014 CONCACAF Women's Championship qualification
2.5–1
3.8–1
4.11–1
5.14 December 2017Estadio Independencia, Estelí, Nicaragua Nicaragua1–11–12017 Central American Games
6.4 October 2018WakeMed Soccer Park, Cary, United States Trinidad and Tobago1–03–02018 CONCACAF Women's Championship
7.3 August 2019Estadio Universidad San Marcos, Lima, Peru Peru1–01–12019 Pan American Games
8.4 October 2019Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama City, Panama Honduras2–03–02020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification
9.8 October 2019 Guatemala2–03–1
10.19 February 2021CAR de la Futefutbol, Guatemala City, Guatemala Guatemala1–31–3Friendly
11.20 February 2021Estadio Pinula Contreras, Guatemala City, Guatemala Guatemala3–03–0
12.19 September 2021Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica Costa Rica2–12–1
13.22 September 2021 Costa Rica1–32–3
14.9 April 2022FFB Stadium, Belmopan, Belize Aruba5–09–02022 CONCACAF W Championship qualification
15.9–0
16.11 July 2022Estadio Universitario, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico Trinidad and Tobago1–01–02022 CONCACAF W Championship
17.11 October 2022Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado, Quito, Ecuador Ecuador1–01–1Friendly
18.19 February 2023North Harbour Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand Papua New Guinea1–02–02023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
19.9 April 2023Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama City, Panama Dominican Republic1–04–3Friendly
20.26 June 2023Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar Gibraltar5–07–0
21.2 August 2023Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney, Australia France1–03–62023 FIFA Women's World Cup
22.20 September 2023Estadio Pensativo, Antigua, Guatemala Guatemala2–03–02024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup qualification
23.29 November 2023Independence Park, Kingston, Jamaica Jamaica1–01–1
24.30 October 2024Complejo Deportivo FCRF, Alajuela, Costa Rica Costa Rica1–02–0Friendly
25.29 May 2025Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama City, Panama Bolivia1–02–0
26.3 June 2025 Bolivia4–05–1

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "Marta Alexandra Cox Villarreal". Liga MX Femenil (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  2. ↑ "Play-Off Tournament for the FIFA Women's World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023" (PDF). FIFA. 12 February 2023. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 February 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  3. ↑ "Marta Cox, talento de barrio". dia a dia. Archived from the original on 26 April 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "Yerenis de León and Marta Cox join the women's team". RPC TV. 26 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "Marta Cox reforzará a las Dragonas mexicanas". TV Max. 27 March 2014. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  6. ↑ "Panamá tiene sus 23 convocadas para clasificar al Mundial femenino de la FIFA". 26 June 2022. Archived from the original on 13 June 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Marta Cox: la 10 que quiere ser mundialista" (in Spanish). Federación Panameña de Fútbol. 9 February 2023. Archived from the original on 15 March 2025. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  8. 1 2 "Marta Alexandra Cox Villarreal" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Archived from the original on 18 March 2025. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  9. ↑ "Marta Cox salta de Alajuelense al fútbol mexicano". Nacion (in Spanish). 23 June 2021. Archived from the original on 14 September 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  10. ↑ "Panameña Marta Cox deja Alajuelense y jugará en México". Everardoherrera (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  11. ↑ Vázquez, Rodrigo (21 July 2021). "Marta Cox es la primer extrajera en reforzar a La Fiera". El Sol de León (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 26 January 2023. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  12. ↑ "Pachuca se despide de Marta Cox: ¿Con destino a Europa?". RCP TV (in Spanish). 31 December 2023. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  13. ↑ "Ailemize Hoş Geldin Marta Cox" (in Turkish). Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü. 15 January 2025. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  14. ↑ "Marta Cox jugará en la primera división de Turquía con Fenerbahce". RPC TV (in Spanish). 15 January 2025. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  15. ↑ "Nacho Quintana chooses the 23 players who will go to Monterrey" (in Spanish). 25 June 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
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