Tabea Sellner
 Sellner in the national team shirt (2023) | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 25 August 1996 | ||
| Place of birth | Giessen, Germany | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | VfL Wolfsburg | ||
| Number | 28 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2009 | Karlsruher FV | ||
| 2009–2014 | 1899 Hoffenheim | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2017 | 1899 Hoffenheim II | 44 | (9) |
| 2015–2021 | 1899 Hoffenheim | 96 | (28) |
| 2021– | VfL Wolfsburg | 38 | (20) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2020– | Germany | 25 | (5) |
Medal record | |||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:50, 9 August 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17:52, 25 June 2023 (UTC) | |||
Tabea Sellner (née Waßmuth; born 25 August 1996) is a German footballer who plays as a forward for Frauen-Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the Germany national team.[1]
Club career
[edit]Sellner began her career with TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and won the German B-Junior Championship there in 2012. For the second half of the 2012/13 season, she was promoted to the second Hoffenheim team and achieved promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga for the first time in the summer of 2014. She made her debut in the Bundesliga in February 2015.[2] With Hoffenheim, she appeared in 96 Bundesliga matches, scoring 28 goals.[3]
Sellner signed to join VfL Wolfsburg in July 2021.[2][3] In her first season, she finished the group stage at the top of the scoring charts with 8 goals.[4] In May 2022, she extended her contract with Wolfsburg through June 2025.[5]
Sellner is on maternity leave from the beginning of the 2023/24 season.[6]
Personal life
[edit]Sellner became the ambassador for the petition "End discrimination against breastfeeding mothers" campaigned by the Health FemTec company Elvie. [7]
International career
[edit]Sellner made her international debut for Germany on 22 September 2020, starting in the away match against Montenegro in the UEFA Euro 2022 qualifying, which finished as a 3–0 win.[8] On 1 December 2020 in Dublin, she scored her first two international goals for Germany, in a 3–1 win over the Republic of Ireland, scoring 2–0 in the 29th minute and 3–1 in the 85th minute.[9]
Sellner was named in the Germany squad for the UEFA Euro 2022 by national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg.[10] She played in four games in the tournament.
Career statistics
[edit]- As of 24 June 2023[11]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2020 | 2 | 2 |
| 2021 | 11 | 2 | |
| 2022 | 9 | 1 | |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | |
| Total | 25 | 5 | |
- Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sellner goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 December 2020 | Tallaght, Ireland |  Republic of Ireland |
2–0 | 3–1 | UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying |
| 2 | 3–1 | |||||
| 3 | 18 September 2021 | Cottbus, Germany |  Bulgaria |
6–0 | 7–0 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
| 4 | 26 October 2021 | Essen, Germany |  Israel |
6–0 | 7–0 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
| 5 | 12 April 2022 | Stara Pazova, Serbia |  Serbia |
2–3 | 2–3 | 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
Honours
[edit]Germany
- UEFA Championship runner-up: 2022[12]
Hoffenheim
- German B-Junior Football Championship: 2012
- Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga: 2014
Wolfsburg
- Frauen-Bundesliga: 2022
- German Cup: 2022
References
[edit]- ^ Tabea Sellner at WorldFootball.net
- ^ a b "Weiterer Neuzugang". www.vfl-wolfsburg.de.
- ^ a b ""Wenn, dann nach Wolfsburg"". www.vfl-wolfsburg.de.
- ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Fußballerin Tabea Waßmuth und der Traum vom ersten großen Titel | DW | 13.12.2021". DW.COM (in German). Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ "Tabea Waßmuth verlängert in Wolfsburg". DFB – Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V.
- ^ "Tabea Sellner to become mother". vfl-wolfsburg.de. 20 September 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
- ^ "Fußballerin Tabea Sellner über Mutterschaft im Profisport und Diskriminierung beim Stillen: "Erst durch Aufmerksamkeit können wir Akzeptanz schaffen"". vogue.de. 4 July 2024. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
- ^ "Women EURO Qualifiers 2019/2020 » Group I » Montenegro – Germany 0:3". WorldFootball.net. 22 September 2020. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ^ "Waßmuth ist "Spielerin des Irland-Spiels"". DFB – Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V.
- ^ "Voss-Tecklenburg beruft endgültigen Kader für die EM in England". DFB – Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V.
- ^ "Tabea Waßmuth". dfb.de. 18 September 2021.
- ^ Sanders, Emma (31 July 2022). "England beat Germany to win first major women's trophy". BBC. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
External links
[edit]- Tabea Sellner at DFB (also available in German)
- Tabea Sellner – UEFA competition record (archive)
- Tabea Sellner at kicker (in German)
- Tabea Sellner at Soccerway
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- 1996 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Giessen
- Footballers from Giessen (region)
- German women's footballers
- Germany women's international footballers
- Women's association football forwards
- VfL Wolfsburg (women) players
- TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (women) players
- Frauen-Bundesliga players
- 2. Frauen-Bundesliga players
- UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players
- German women's football biography stubs