Lena_Goeßling
Lena Goeßling
German footballer
Lena Goeßling (born 8 March 1986) is a German former footballer. She played as a midfielder.
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| Full name | Lena Goeßling[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1986-03-08) 8 March 1986 (age 38) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bielefeld, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SV Löhne-Obernbeck | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SV Sundern | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| FC Gütersloh 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2006 | FC Gütersloh 2000 | 35 | (7) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2011 | SC 07 Bad Neuenahr | 98 | (19) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2021 | VfL Wolfsburg | 178 | (29) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Germany U17 | 12 | (7) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2005 | Germany U19 | 29 | (9) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Germany U20 | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Germany U23 | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2019 | Germany | 106 | (10) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Club
Goeßling began her career at her local football club SV Löhne-Obernbeck. She later joined FC Gütersloh 2000, where she won the German Under-17 championship. Goeßling played two seasons in the second Bundesliga with Gütersloh, before joining the top division side SC 07 Bad Neuenahr in 2006. After five years and 97 games for the club, she announced her transfer to VfL Wolfsburg for the 2011–12 season.
After the 2020–21 season, she announced her retirement.[2]
International
Goeßling won the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship with Germany. She had three appearances for the team and scored twice in the first group game against Thailand. Two years later, she again competed at the 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship. Now a regular starter, she was eliminated with her team in the quarter-finals against the United States.
In February 2008, Goeßling made her debut for the German national team against China. Twice she has been denied a place in a German squad at international tournaments. She was named to the 26 player preliminary squads at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2009 European Championship, but failed to make the final 21 player squad at both tournaments. Goeßling has been called up for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, which was her first major tournament.
She was part of the squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics, where Germany won the gold medal.[3]
She announced her retirement after the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.[4]
International goals
Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first:
| Goeßling – goals for Germany | ||||||
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| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
| 1. | 22 October 2011 | Bucharest, Romania |  Romania | 1–0 | 3–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying |
| 2. | 24 November 2011 | Motril, Spain |  Spain | 1–0 | 2–2 | |
| 3. | 15 September 2012 | Karaganda, Kazakhstan |  Kazakhstan | 7–0 | 7–0 | |
| 4. | 15 June 2013 | Essen, Germany |  Scotland | 1–0 | 3–0 | Friendly |
| 5. | 21 September 2013 | Cottbus, Germany |  Russia | 7–0 | 9–0 | 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
| 6. | 26 October 2013 | Koper, Slovenia |  Slovenia | 11–0 | 13–0 | |
| 7. | 12–0 | |||||
| 8. | 5 March 2014 | Albufeira, Portugal |  Iceland | 4–0 | 5–0 | 2013 Algarve Cup |
| 9. | 18 September 2015 | Halle, Germany |  Hungary | 6–0 | 12–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying |
| 10. | 7–0 | |||||
Source:[5]
International
- Summer Olympic Games: Gold medal, 2016
- UEFA Women's Championship: Winner 2013
- Algarve Cup: Winner 2012, 2014
- FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup: Winner 2004
- UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship: Runner-up 2004
Club
- VfL Wolfsburg
Individual
- IFFHS World's Best Woman Playmaker: 2013[6]
- UEFA Women's Championship All-Star Team: 2013
- Silbernes Lorbeerblatt: Winner 2016
- IFFHS Women's World Team: 2020[7]
- IFFHS World's Woman Team of the Decade 2011–2020[8]
- IFFHS UEFA Woman Team of the Decade 2011–2020[9]
- "FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019 – List of Players: Germany" (PDF). FIFA. 10 June 2019. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- "Lena Goeßling beendet Karriere als Spielerin". dfb.de. 13 July 2021.
- "Gold for Germany as Neid finishes in style". fifa.com. 19 August 2016. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016.
- "DFB-Frauen: Lena Goeßling tritt zurück". dfb.de. 4 July 2019.
- "Players Info Goeßling Goals". DFB. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
- "Awards 2013". IFFHS. 18 July 2022.
- "IFFHS WORLD AWARDS 2020 - THE WINNERS". IFFHS. 4 December 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- "IFFHS WORLD'S WOMAN TEAM OF THE DECADE 2011-2020". IFFHS. 25 January 2021.
- "IFFHS WOMAN TEAM - UEFA - OF THE DECADE 2011-2020". IFFHS. 31 January 2021.
- Lena Goeßling – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Player German domestic football stats at DFB (in German)
- Lena Goeßling at WorldFootball.net
- Lena Goeßling at Olympics.com
- Lena Goeßling at the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (in German)
- Lena Goeßling at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
