Conny Pohlers (born 16 November 1978) is a German former professional

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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,

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, 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,

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, with the Atlanta Beat. In February 2007 she announced that she would be transferring to

1.FFC Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt is a German women's association football club based in Frankfurt. Its first team currently plays in the German top flight, Frauen-Bundesliga. From 1998 to 2020, the club was known as 1. FFC Frankfurt. Eintracht have won s ...

for the 2007–08 season. In 2013, playing for

VfL Wolfsburg Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg () or Wolfsburg, is a German professional sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of W ...

, 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

Honours

Club

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footbal ...

: 2004, 2006, 2008, 2013, 2014 *

DFB-Pokal The DFB-Pokal ( is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is considere ...

: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013 *

UEFA Women's Champions League The UEFA Women's Champions League, previously called the UEFA Women's Cup (2001–2009), is a European women's association football competition. It involves the top club teams from countries affiliated with the European governing body UEFA. The ...

2005, 2008, 2013, 2014

International

FIFA Women's World Cup The FIFA Women's World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's international governing bo ...

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

Football at the Summer Olympics Football at the Summer Olympics, referred to as the Olympic Football Tournament, has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition sport, except 1896 (the inaugural Games) and 1932 (in an attempt to promote the new FIFA Wo ...

: Bronze medal

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 ...

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ...

UEFA Women's Championship The UEFA European Women's Championship, also called the UEFA Women's Euro, held every four years, is the main competition in women's association football between national teams of the UEFA confederation. The competition is the women's equivalen ...

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris (dwarf planet), Er ...

* Algarve Cup: 2006

Individual

* Bundesliga top goal scorer 2002, 2006, 2011 * Third all-time top scorer

with 48 goals *

top scorer: 2004–05

References

External links

* National Team information �
Conny Pohlers
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 Sportspeople 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 of Germany UEFA Women's Championship-winning players Footballers from Saxony-Anhalt German expatriate sportspeople in the United States 1. FFC 08 Niederkirchen players {{Germany-women-footy-bio-stub