Kathrin Längert (born 4 June 1987) is a German former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a

goalkeeper In many team sports that involve scoring goal (sport), goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie, or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or i ...

Career

Längert played in Germany for

FCR 2001 Duisburg FCR 2001 Duisburg (full name: ''Fußballclub Rumeln 2001 Duisburg'') was a German women's football club from Duisburg. The first team played in the Bundesliga (women), Bundesliga. They originate from a women's team formed in 1977 under the umbrel ...

and Bayern Munich until May 2014, when she signed with FC Rosengård to play in the Swedish

Damallsvenskan The (; ), known as OBOS for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is one of the best women's leagues in the world, and was founded in 1988. The division consists of a league of 14 teams. From 2013, t ...

. On 11 January 2016, almost two years since her move to Sweden, she returned to the

Frauen-Bundesliga The Frauen-Bundesliga (German language, German for ''Women's Federal League''), currently known as the Google Pixel Frauen-Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of league competition for women's association football in Germany. I ...

signing with FF USV Jena.

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Profile at DFB
* * 1987 births Living people Footballers from Essen German women's footballers Women's association football goalkeepers Germany women's youth international footballers Frauen-Bundesliga players Damallsvenskan players SGS Essen players FCR 2001 Duisburg players FC Bayern Munich (women) players FC Rosengård players German expatriate women's footballers German expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden 21st-century German sportswomen {{Germany-footy-goalkeeper-stub