Conny Pohlers
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Full name | Conny Pohlers | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 16 November 1978 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Halle, East Germany | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
1985–1994 | FSV 67 Halle | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1994–1997 | 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam | 1 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1997 | TuS Niederkirchen | 4 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
1997–2007 | 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam | 151 | (171) | ||||||||||||||
2003 | Atlanta Beat | ||||||||||||||||
2007–2011 | 1. FFC Frankfurt | 59 | (60) | ||||||||||||||
2011–2014 | VfL Wolfsburg | 63 | (41) | ||||||||||||||
2013 | → Washington Spirit (loan) | 13 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
2001–2011 | Germany | 67 | (28) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Conny Pohlers (born 16 November 1978) is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward. From 1998 she played in the Women's Bundesliga and from 2001 in the Germany national team.
Club career
Born, Halle, Pohlers comes from a football playing family. Her father played and her mother was once the top goal scorer in a regional league. She first played at the age of seven with FSV '67 Halle. In 1994, she moved to 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam. In the 2003 season, she played in the American professional league, WUSA, with the Atlanta Beat. In February 2007 she announced that she would be transferring to 1.FFC Frankfurt for the 2007–08 season. In 2013, playing for VfL Wolfsburg, she again became a Bundesliga champion, and on 19 May she scored a goal in Wolfsburg's 3–2 Cup Final win against her old team, Turbine Potsdam.
After the 2013–14 season she ended her career.
International goals
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 27 September 2003 | Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington D.C., United States | Argentina | 5–1 | 6–1 | 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup |
Honours
Club
- Bundesliga: 2004, 2006, 2008, 2013, 2014
- DFB-Pokal: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013
- UEFA Women's Champions League 2005, 2008, 2013, 2014
International
- FIFA Women's World Cup: 2003
- Football at the Summer Olympics: Bronze medal 2004, 2008
- UEFA Women's Championship: 2005
- Algarve Cup: 2006
Individual
- Bundesliga top goal scorer 2002, 2006, 2011
- Third all-time top scorer UEFA Women's Champions League with 48 goals
- UEFA Women's Champions League top scorer: 2004–05
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Women's association football forwards
- German women's footballers
- Germany women's international footballers
- 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
- VfL Wolfsburg (women) players
- Women's United Soccer Association players
- 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam players
- Footballers from Halle (Saale)
- 1. FFC Frankfurt players
- Atlanta Beat (WUSA) players
- Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States
- Olympic medalists in football
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- FIFA Women's World Cup-winning players
- Washington Spirit players
- National Women's Soccer League players
- Olympic footballers for Germany
- UEFA Women's Championship-winning players
- German expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- 1. FFC 08 Niederkirchen players
- German women's football biography stubs