Tabea Sellner

Tabea Sellner
Sellner in the national team shirt (2023)
Personal information
Date of birth (1996-08-25) 25 August 1996 (age 28)
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
0000–2009 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
UEFA Women's Championship
Silver medal – second place 2022 England
*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

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

Sellner became the ambassador for the petition "End discrimination against breastfeeding mothers" campaigned by the Health FemTec company Elvie.[7]

International career

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

As of 24 June 2023[11]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
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.
List of international goals scored by Tabea Sellner
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

Germany

Hoffenheim

  • German B-Junior Football Championship: 2012
  • Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga: 2014

Wolfsburg

References

  1. ^ Tabea Sellner at WorldFootball.net Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b "Weiterer Neuzugang". www.vfl-wolfsburg.de.
  3. ^ a b ""Wenn, dann nach Wolfsburg"". www.vfl-wolfsburg.de.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Tabea Waßmuth verlängert in Wolfsburg". DFB – Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V.
  6. ^ "Tabea Sellner to become mother". vfl-wolfsburg.de. 20 September 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "Women EURO Qualifiers 2019/2020 » Group I » Montenegro – Germany 0:3". WorldFootball.net. 22 September 2020. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  9. ^ "Waßmuth ist "Spielerin des Irland-Spiels"". DFB – Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V.
  10. ^ "Voss-Tecklenburg beruft endgültigen Kader für die EM in England". DFB – Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V.
  11. ^ "Tabea Waßmuth". dfb.de. 18 September 2021.
  12. ^ Sanders, Emma (31 July 2022). "England beat Germany to win first major women's trophy". BBC. Retrieved 31 July 2022.