Anja Mittag (; born 16 May 1985) is a German

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coach and a former player who played as a striker. Mittag is currently a

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for

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. In July 2020, Mittag announced that she would end her playing career after the women's Saxony Cup final on 30 August 2020 and become a full-time coach with

. She made her comeback in the winter season 2021/22 SV Eintrach Leipzig-Süd in the German Regionalliga Nordost.

Club career

In December 2011, Mittag negotiated a release from 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam after nine and a half years in order to sign a two-year deal with Swedish Damallsvenskan club FC Rosengård (then known as LdB FC Malmö). In May 2015, she signed a two-year deal with French club

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. On 30 August 2016, Mittag joined German club VfL Wolfsburg on a two-year deal. On 31 March 2017, Mittag signed a contract with Rosengård once again. Mittag became the first player to 50 goals in the UEFA Women's Champions League and its predecessor the UEFA Women's Cup on 11 October 2017. Mittag ended her playing career after the women's Saxony Cup final on 30 August 2020.

International career

Mittag made her debut for the senior national team as a substitute in a friendly match with

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on 31 March 2004. Her first goal with the senior national team came on 11 March 2005 in an Algarve Cup match against

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. She was part of the squad for the

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, where Germany won the gold medal. On 22 August 2017, she announced her retirement from international football.

Coaching career

In June 2019, Mittag joined third-tier German club

as a

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. After scoring 17 goals and helping the team win promotion to the 2. Frauen-Bundesliga, Mittag announced that she would focus on coaching full-time from the 2020–21 season onward.

Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Mittag goal.''

Honours

1. FFC Turbine Potsdam *

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: 2003–04, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11 *

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: 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06 * UEFA Women's Champions League: 2004–05, 2009–10 * DFB-Hallenpokal for women: 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010 FC Rosengård * Damallsvenskan:

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

* Svenska Supercupen:

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

, 2015 Germany *

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2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

* UEFA Women's Championship:

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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: Bronze medal

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

, Gold medal

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

* Algarve Cup:

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

Germany U20 *

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

Germany U19 * UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship:

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

Individual *Sweden's Player of the Year 2012, 2014 * Damallsvenskan top scorers:

, 2018 * FIFA Women's World Cup Bronze Boot:

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

* FIFA Women's World Cup All Star Team:

* FIFA Women's World Cup Dream Team:

* UEFA Women's Champions League All-Time Top Scorer *

Bronze Ball:

Silver Shoe:

* Fritz Walter Medal: Gold 2005 * UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship: Golden Player

* FIFPro: FIFA FIFPro World XI

* Silbernes Lorbeerblatt: 2007, 2016 Records *2nd all-time UEFA women's club competition top scorer: 51 goals

Others

Together with her former teammate Josephine Henning she runs the podcast ''Mittag’s bei Henning.''

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mittag, Anja 1985 births Living people Footballers from Chemnitz German women's footballers Germany women's international footballers 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Women's association football forwards 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam players Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in football FC Rosengård players Damallsvenskan players Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics FIFA Women's World Cup–winning players FIFA Women's Century Club QBIK players Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Paris Saint-Germain FC (women) players Expatriate women's footballers in France German expatriate women's footballers German expatriate sportspeople in Sweden German expatriate sportspeople in France VfL Wolfsburg (women) players Frauen-Bundesliga players Première Ligue players Olympic footballers for Germany UEFA Women's Championship–winning players UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players UEFA Women's Champions League–winning players 21st-century German sportswomen