Diana Ordóñez

Diana Ordóñez
Ordóñez with the Houston Dash in 2025
Personal information
Full name Diana Rosario Ordóñez Torres[1][2]
Date of birth (2001-09-26) 26 September 2001
Place of birth Riverside, California, U.S.
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position Forward
Team information
Current team
 UANL
Number 12
Youth career
2010–2019 FC Dallas Girls
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019–2021 Virginia Cavaliers 62 (45)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2022 North Carolina Courage 19 (11)
2023–2025 Houston Dash 47 (8)
2025– UANL 26 (24)
International career‡
2017–2018 United States U17 7 (4)
2019 United States U20 2 (0)
2020 United States U19 3 (1)
2022– Mexico 40 (16)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  Mexico
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place2023 SantiagoTeam
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 6:41, 2 September 2025 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals as of 9 June 2026

Diana Rosario Ordóñez Torres (born 26 September 2001) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga MX Femenil club Tigres UANL. Born in the United States, she plays for the Mexico national team. Ordóñez played college soccer for the Virginia Cavaliers, being named first-team All-American in 2021. She was drafted sixth overall by the North Carolina Courage in the 2022 NWSL Draft and broke the league's rookie scoring record in her first season.

Early life

Ordóñez was born in Riverside, California, United States, to an Ecuadorian father and an American mother of Mexican descent.[3] She was the youngest of five children. While still a small child, the family moved to Frisco, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. She played soccer for the FC Dallas youth team from 2010 to 2019, winning the Elite Clubs National League U-16 championship in 2017.[4][5][6] Ordóñez played for Prosper High School,[7] where she was named the Gatorade Texas Girls Soccer Player of the Year in 2017.[8]

College career

Ordóñez initially committed to play college soccer at Texas A&M University, but was urged instead to play at the University of Virginia by a friend, fellow soccer player Taryn Torres. She finished high school a semester early and enrolled at Virginia in January 2019, barely 17 years old. During her Virginia career (2019–2021) she scored 45 goals, tied for third most all time at the university, although she only played three years of her four-year eligibility. In 2021 she was a first-team All-American and a semifinalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy.[5]

Club career

On 18 December 2021, the North Carolina Courage selected Ordóñez sixth overall in the 2022 National Women's Soccer League Draft.[9] Ordóñez made her first appearance for the Courage in the 2022 NWSL Challenge Cup on 19 March and scored her first goal on 4 May.[10] On 13 August, Ordóñez eighth goal broke the NWSL record for goals scored in a rookie season.[11] She came second in voting for NWSL Rookie of the Year.[12]

Following the 2022 season, on January 12, 2023, Ordóñez was traded to the Houston Dash along with a third-round 2023 NWSL Draft pick for a first-round pick and $100,000 in allocation funds.[13]

On 30 May 2025, the Houston Dash announced that they had transferred Ordóñez to Tigres UANL for an undisclosed fee.[14] Ordóñez scored 14 goals in her first season at Tigres, and later won her first trophy with the club as part of the Apertura 2025 championship team. In the second leg of the final against Club America, Ordóñez scored the decisive goal in a game that ended 1-0.

International career

Ordóñez made her senior debut for Mexico women's national team on 9 April 2022.[15]

Ordóñez was selected to represent Mexico at the 2023 Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile, where the Mexican squad went undefeated to win the gold medal for the first time in their history at the Pan American Games, defeating Chile 1–0.[16][17]

Career statistics

International goals

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.9 April 2022Raymond E. Guishard Technical Centre, The Valley, Anguilla Anguilla
7–0
11–0
2022 CONCACAF W Championship qualification
2.
9–0
3.12 April 2022Estadio Nemesio Díez, Toluca, Mexico Puerto Rico5–06–02022 CONCACAF W Championship qualification
4.28 June 2022Cancha de Entrenamiento TSM, Torreón, Mexico Peru2–03–0Friendly
5.10 October 2022Cancha Centenario No. 5, Mexico City, Mexico Chile1–11–1Friendly
6.22 October 2023Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, Valparaíso, Chile Jamaica4–07–02023 Pan American Games
7.25 October 2023Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar, Chile Chile3–13–12023 Pan American Games
8.28 October 2023Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar, Chile Paraguay2–14–12023 Pan American Games
9.23 February 2024Dignity Health Sports Park, Carson, United States Dominican Republic6–08–02024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup
10.3 June 2025Estadio Tlahuicole, Tlaxcala City, Mexico Uruguay1–01–0Friendly
11.2 July 2025Estadio Agustín "Coruco" Díaz, Zacatepec, Mexico Colombia1–01–0Friendly
12.27 October 2025Estadio Olímpico Benito Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico New Zealand1–02–0Friendly
13.2 December 2025Complejo Deportivo FCRF-Plycem, San José, Costa Rica Costa Rica2–02–0Friendly
14.2 March 2026Daren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia Saint Lucia7–07–02026 CONCACAF W Championship qualification
15.6 June 2026McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle, Australia Australia1–01–0Friendly
16.9 June 2026CommBank Stadium, Sydney, Australia Australia1–11–3Friendly

References

  1. ↑ "National team roster – 2022 Concacaf W Championship: Mexico" (PDF). CONCACAF. 8 June 2022. p. 9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 June 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  2. ↑ "D Ordóñez (@dordonezz)". Instagram. Retrieved 14 August 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. ↑ "Ordonez Leads From Front for No. 1 Cavaliers". Virginia Cavaliers Official Athletic Site. 18 October 2019.
  4. ↑ "Diana Ordonez". Virginia Cavaliers Official Athletic Site. 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  5. 1 2 Melcer, Garrett (1 December 2021). "Former FC Dallas Girls Academy Forward Diana Ordonez Named MAC Hermann Trophy Semifinalist" (Press release). FC Dallas. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  6. ↑ Melcer, Garrett (7 July 2022). "Three FCD Girls Academy Teams Advance to ECNL National Finals" (Press release). FC Dallas. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  7. ↑ "Former Prosper standout Diana Ordoñez drafted by North Carolina Courage". Dallas News. 18 December 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  8. ↑ "Prosper's Diana Ordonez, Highland Park's Rachel Wasserman earn All-America honors in soccer". Dallas News. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  9. ↑ "2022 NWSL Draft Result". The Equalizer. 18 December 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  10. ↑ "NWSL Challenge Cup". National Women's Soccer League. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  11. ↑ Vertelney, Seth (22 August 2022). "Diana Ordóñez is wrecking the NWSL in her rookie season". Pro Soccer Wire. USA Today. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  12. ↑ Lauletta, Dan (27 October 2022). "Naomi Girma named 2022 NWSL Rookie of the Year". The Equalizer. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  13. ↑ "Dash acquire Diana Ordóñez in trade with Courage". Houston Chronicle. 12 January 2023. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
  14. ↑ FC, Houston Dynamo. "Houston Dash Transfer Forward Diana Ordóñez to Tigres UANL Femenil | Houston Dynamo". Houston Dynamo FC. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  15. ↑ "Se brONCEó". www.oncediario.com.
  16. ↑ "Mexico takes soccer gold with 1-0 win over Chile". Reuters. 3 November 2023. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  17. ↑ "Santiago 2023: Mexico beats shorthanded Chile for women's football gold". olympics.com. 4 November 2023. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
Wikimedia Commons logo
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Diana Ordóñez.
This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.