Lea_Schüller
Lea Schüller
German footballer (born 1997)
Lea Schüller (born 12 November 1997) is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Frauen-Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Germany national team.
 Schüller with Germany in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lea Schüller[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1997-11-12) 12 November 1997 (age 26) | ||
| Place of birth | Tönisvorst, Germany | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Bayern Munich | ||
| Number | 11 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 0000–2012 | Hülser SV | ||
| 2012–2014 | SGS Essen | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2013–2020 | SGS Essen | 125 | (62) |
| 2020– | Bayern Munich | 57 | (41) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2013–2014 | Germany U17 | 6 | (5) |
| 2014–2016 | Germany U19 | 15 | (6) |
| 2013–2015 | Germany U20 | 4 | (2) |
| 2017– | Germany | 58 | (38) |
Medal record | |||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 06:46, 22 March 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:29, 9 April 2024 (UTC) | |||
SGS Essen
Schüller started playing football at Hülser SV before joining the youth department of SGS Essen in 2012. She made her Frauen-Bundesliga debut aged 16 on 1 December 2013, in a 2–0 home defeat against VfL Wolfsburg.[2] She scored her first two Bundesliga goals on 26 February 2014, in a 3–1 away win against BV Cloppenburg. In July 2017, Schüller extended her contract with SGS Essen for two years until June 2020.[3]
Bayern Munich
In July 2020, Schüller signed a three-year contract with FC Bayern Munich. She made her debut for her new team in a preseason match, scoring the first two goals for a 3–1 win against SC Freiburg on 9 August.[4] At the next preseason friendly, against UWCL qualifiers SK Slavia Prague, Schüller contributed a goal in a 4–0 win.[5]
Schüller also made her first ever UEFA Women's Champions League appearance in a 2–1 loss against defending champions Olympique Lyonnais on 23 August. Bayern was subsequently knocked out on a 2–2 aggregate loss with Olympique Lyonnais moving to the semi-finals with an away-goal advantage.[6]
FC Bayern began the 2020–21 Frauen-Bundesliga against SC Sand on 4 September, with Schüller in the starting XI and scoring her first Bundesliga goal with the team, ending with a 6–0 victory. Bayern would go on to win their third league title. Schüller scored a total of 16 goals in her first season with Bayern Munich, finishing third place behind Nicole Billa of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (23 goals) and Laura Freigang of Eintracht Frankfurt (17 goals) as top scorers of the season.
She continued her impressive displays in the 2021–22 Frauen-Bundesliga season, finishing as the league's top goalscorer with 16 goals as well as the club's top goalscorer with 20 goals in all competitions.[7]
In the 2023–24 season, she scored the game winner in the 77th minute of the 2-1 away victory over Eintracht Frankfurt.[8]
Schüller appeared for Germany under-17 national team at the 2014 U-17 Women's World Cup in Costa Rica, playing in all three group matches. With the under-19 team, she participated in the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Israel, again playing in all three group matches and the defeat on penalties to Sweden in the semi-finals. She was then a member of the German under-20 squad at the U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea in 2016, where they lost to France in the quarter-finals.[9]
Schüller was first called up by coach Steffi Jones to train with the full Germany national squad in June 2017,[10] but didn't make the final squad for the 2017 UEFA Women's Championship.[11] She made her full international debut against Iceland in a 2019 World Cup qualifying match on 20 October 2017, coming on as a late substitute and scoring the final goal in a 3–2 defeat for Germany. Later in qualifying in April 2018, Schüller scored all 4 goals against the Czech Republic in a 4–0 win.
Since 2019, Schüller is together with Austrian sport sailor Lara Vadlau.[12]
Club
- As of match played 21 March 2023[13]
| Club | Season | League | DFB Pokal | Continental[lower-alpha 1] | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| SGS Essen | 2013–14 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | – | 7 | 2 | |
| 2014–15 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 18 | 7 | 1 | 0 | – | 19 | 7 | ||
| 2015–16 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 22 | 8 | 2 | 1 | – | 24 | 9 | ||
| 2016–17 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 13 | 8 | 1 | 0 | – | 14 | 8 | ||
| 2017–18 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 21 | 7 | 4 | 4 | – | 25 | 11 | ||
| 2018–19 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 22 | 14 | 2 | 4 | – | 24 | 18 | ||
| 2019–20 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 22 | 16 | 5 | 6 | – | 27 | 22 | ||
| Total | 125 | 62 | 18 | 15 | – | 143 | 77 | |||
| Bayern Munich | 2019–20 | Frauen-Bundesliga | – | – | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2020–21 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 20 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 31 | 26 | |
| 2021–22 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 22 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 31 | 21 | |
| 2022–23 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 15 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 27 | 14 | |
| Total | 57 | 41 | 9 | 9 | 24 | 11 | 90 | 61 | ||
| Career total | 182 | 103 | 27 | 24 | 24 | 11 | 233 | 138 | ||
- Includes UEFA Women's Champions League
International
- As of 9 April 2024[14]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2017 | 3 | 1 |
| 2018 | 8 | 6 | |
| 2019 | 8 | 3 | |
| 2020 | 4 | 2 | |
| 2021 | 11 | 11 | |
| 2022 | 10 | 7 | |
| 2023 | 10 | 5 | |
| 2024 | 4 | 3 | |
| Total | 58 | 38 | |
- Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Schüller goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 October 2017 | Wiesbaden, Germany |  Iceland | 2–3 | 2–3 | 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
| 2 | 7 April 2018 | Zwickau, Germany |  Czech Republic | 1–0 | 4–0 | |
| 3 | 2–0 | |||||
| 4 | 3–0 | |||||
| 5 | 4–0 | |||||
| 6 | 4 September 2018 | Tórshavn, Faroe Islands |  Faroe Islands | 1–0 | 8–0 | |
| 7 | 6 October 2018 | Essen, Germany |  Austria | 3–1 | 3–1 | Friendly |
| 8 | 28 February 2019 | Laval, France |  France | 1–0 | 1–0 | |
| 9 | 22 June 2019 | Grenoble, France |  Nigeria | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup |
| 10 | 31 August 2019 | Kassel, Germany |  Montenegro | 9–0 | 10–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying |
| 11 | 7 March 2020 | Lagos, Portugal |  Norway | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2020 Algarve Cup |
| 12 | 19 September 2020 | Essen, Germany |  Republic of Ireland | 3–0 | 3–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying |
| 13 | 21 February 2021 | Aachen, Germany |  Belgium | 2–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
| 14 | 18 September 2021 | Cottbus, Germany |  Bulgaria | 1–0 | 7–0 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
| 15 | 5–0 | |||||
| 16 | 21 September 2021 | Chemnitz, Germany |  Serbia | 1–1 | 5-1 | |
| 17 | 2–1 | |||||
| 18 | 3–1 | |||||
| 19 | 4–1 | |||||
| 20 | 26 November 2021 | Braunschweig, Germany |  Turkey | 2–0 | 8–0 | |
| 21 | 3–0 | |||||
| 22 | 5–0 | |||||
| 23 | 30 November 2021 | Faro, Portugal |  Portugal | 1–0 | 3–1 | |
| 24 | 17 February 2022 | Middlesbrough, England |  Spain | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2022 Arnold Clark Cup |
| 25 | 12 April 2022 | Stara Pazova, Serbia | Serbia | 1–2 | 2–3 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
| 26 | 8 July 2022 | London, England |  Denmark | 2–0 | 4–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2022 |
| 27 | 3 September 2022 | Bursa, Turkey | Turkey | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
| 28 | 6 September 2022 | Plovdiv, Bulgaria | Bulgaria | 1–0 | 8–0 | |
| 29 | 3–0 | |||||
| 30 | 4–0 | |||||
| 31 | 7 July 2023 | Fürth, Germany |  Zambia | 1–2 | 2–3 | Friendly |
| 32 | 24 July 2023 | Melbourne, Australia |  Morocco | 6–0 | 6–0 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup |
| 33 | 26 September 2023 | Bochum, Germany | Iceland | 3–0 | 4–0 | 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League |
| 34 | 27 October 2023 | Sinsheim, Germany |  Wales | 1–0 | 5–1 | |
| 35 | 2–1 | |||||
| 36 | 28 February 2024 | Heerenveen, Netherlands |  Netherlands | 2–0 | 2–0 | |
| 37 | 9 April 2024 | Aachen, Germany | Iceland | 1–0 | 3–1 | UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying |
| 38 | 2–1 |
Bayern Munich
Germany
- UEFA Women's Championship runner-up: 2022[16]
- UEFA Women's Nations League third place: 2023–24[17]
Individual
- "FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019 – List of Players: Germany" (PDF). FIFA. 7 July 2019. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- "Lea Schüller unterschreibt bis 2020 bei der SGS Essen" (in German). SGS Essen. 11 July 2017. Archived from the original on 5 March 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- "FC Bayern holt Islacker aus Frankfurt" (in German). DFB. 27 May 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- "Schüller mit Doppelpack: Bayern-Frauen schlagen Freiburg mit 3:1" [Schüller with a brace: Bayern women beat Freiburg 3-1] (in German). FC Bayern München. 9 August 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- "UWCL-Generalprobe: Bayern-Frauen mit 4:0-Sieg gegen Slavia Prag" [UWCL dress rehearsal: Bayern women with a 4-0 win against Slavia Prague] (in German). FC Bayern München. 16 August 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- "Bayern-Frauen scheitern nach großem Kampf im UWCL-Viertelfinale" [Bayern women fail after big fight in UWCL quarterfinals] (in German). FC Bayern München. 23 August 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- "Unsere 𝖳𝖮𝖯 𝖲𝖢𝖮𝖱𝖤𝖱 der Saison 2021/2022!". Twitter. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
- "Live Commentary - Eintracht Frankfurt Ladies vs FC Bayern Women | 09.03.2024". Sky Sports. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
- "0:1 gegen Frankreich: U 20 unglücklich im Viertelfinale ausgeschieden" (in German). DFB. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- Burgner, Benedict (27 June 2017). "SGS Essen: Lea Schüller war bei der Nationalmannschaft". RevierSport (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- "EM-Generalprobe gegen Brasilien: Testphase für DFB-Frauen vorbei". Eurosport Deutschland (in German). 3 July 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- "Fußball-EM 2022: Das sind die 59 lesbischen, bisexuellen und queeren Spielerinnen". L.MAG (in German). 6 July 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- "Lea Schüller". dfb.de. 18 September 2021.
- Mehta, Kalika; Ford, Matt (28 May 2023). "Women's Bundesliga: Bayern Munich's title reveals problems". Deutsche Welle (dw.com). Retrieved 11 June 2023.
- Sanders, Emma (31 July 2022). "England beat Germany to win first major women's trophy". BBC. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- "Germany win Nations League play-off to reach Olympics". BBC Sport. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
- "Fußballer, Fußballerin und Trainer des Jahres: kicker-Awards an Nkunku, Schüller und Streich". kicker.de (in German). 31 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- Lea Schuller at DFB (also available in German)
- Lea Schüller at Soccerway
- Lea Schueller – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Lea Schüller – UEFA competition record (archive)
