Poland international goalkeeper Kinga Szemik joined West Ham United on a three-year contract on 1 July 2024.

Szemik started her senior career with local club Mitech Żywiec, before spending four seasons in the United States playing collegiate football for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros between 2016-19.

On returning to Europe, Szemik spent two seasons each with French clubs FC Nantes and Stade de Reims Féminines. She earned her first senior cap for Poland in a friendly win in Estonia in October 2018, aged 21.

Career

2025/26

Kept first clean sheet of the season in a 3-0 success over Newcastle United in the Adobe Women's FA Cup in January 2026... Kept first Barclays Women's Super League clean sheet of the season in a goalless draw at home to Manchester United in March... Helped the Hammers shut out Liverpool in a 1-0 win on the road in in April... Made 22 appearances across all competitions.

2024/25

Joined West Ham United on a three-year contract on 1 July 2024...Started for Poland in UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying defeats by Austria and Iceland in July 2024... Kept her first West Ham clean sheet in a 1-0 Barclays Women’s Super League win at home to Leicester City in November 2024… Helped Poland qualify for UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 - their first-ever major tournament - in December 2024 as she kept two clean sheets in a pair of 1-0 victories over Austria... Won the women's team Save of the Season award for her stop away at Arsenal in March... Played every minute of West Ham's WSL campaign...Called up to Poland's UEFA Women's Euro 2025 squad.

Before West Ham

Born in the village of Pietrzykowice in southern Poland on 25 June 1997...Played junior football for local club Bory Pietrzykowice before joining top-flight club Mitech Żywiec at the age of 14 in 2011...Moved to the United States in the summer of 2016 and spent four seasons playing collegiate football for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros between 2016-19, making 59 appearances...Returned to Europe for the 2020/21 season by joining French Second Ligue club FC Nantes and spent two seasons in Brittany...Moved to French top-flight Première Ligue club Stade de Reims Féminines in the summer of 2022...Topped the Première Ligue charts for clean sheets for Reims in 2023/24, keeping nine from her 22 matches.