Stenia Michel

Stenia Michel
Personal information
Full name	Stenia Liliane Michel
Date of birth	23 October 1987 (age 37)
Place of birth	Uster, Switzerland
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1996–2000	FC Uster
2000–2002	FC Wetzikon
Senior career*
Years	Team
2001–2013	Zürich
2013–2016	USV Jena
2016–2018	Basel
International career‡
2004–2006	Switzerland U19
2006	Switzerland U20
2014–2017	Switzerland
Managerial career
2018–2020	Grasshopper Club Zürich (goalkeeping coach)
2021–	Basel (goalkeeping coach)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 July 2023; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 29 July 2023

Stenia Liliane Michel (born 23 October 1987) is a retired Swiss footballer who last played as a goalkeeper for FC Basel of the Swiss Nationalliga A. She previously played for FF USV Jena of the German Bundesliga, and FC Zürich of Switzerland's Nationalliga A, who were known as SV Seebach until 2008. Michel has been a member of the Switzerland national team since 2005, but did not make her debut until March 2014, a 1–1 draw with South Korea at the 2014 Cyprus Cup.^[3]

Michel became Switzerland's first-choice goalkeeper in the run up to the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, because rival Gaëlle Thalmann had suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury.^[4]

Honours

^ "List of Players – Switzerland" (PDF). FIFA. 30 May 2015. p. 22. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Stenia Michel". soccerdonna.de. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
^ Portrait in the Swiss Football Association's page
^ "Steht Stenia Michel an der WM gegen den Weltmeister im Tor?" (in German). Zürcher Oberländer. 6 December 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2015.

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