Lisa Kolb (born 4 May 2001) is an Austrian

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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and the Austria national team.

Club career

Kolb has played for

Neulengbach Neulengbach is a municipality in the district of Sankt Pölten-Land in Lower Austria. Population Historical personalities In 1911, the twenty-one year-old artist Egon Schiele met the seventeen-year-old Wally Neuzil, Walburga (Wally) Neuzil, who ...

in Austria. Lisa Kolb started her club career in 2009 at VBSC Vöcklabrucker Sportclub, in the 2015/16 season she played for Sportunion Volksbank Vöcklamarkt. In 2015 she was top scorer in the U-14 national championship. In July 2016 she moved to Union Kleinmünchen in

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, and from 2018/19 she played for Sturm Graz. At the end of 2018, she came in sixth place in the election for Footballer of the Year. A back injury forced her to take a break from spring 2019 to summer 2020, and she moved to

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in autumn 2019. In

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she attended the ÖFB Women's Academy from 2015 to 2020, where she graduated from high school in 2020. In April 2021, her move to German Bundesliga club

was announced at the start of the 2021/22 season. In the election organized by the Austrian Football Association (ÖFB) and carried out among the coaches and fans of the ''Planet Pure Women's Bundesliga,'' she was elected player of the 2020/21 season ahead of

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and

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. At the beginning of 2023, her contract with SC Freiburg was extended. In the 2023–24 season, Kolb scored the winner in the 1–0 away victory against

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International career

Kolb played in the U17 and U19 national teams. ÖFB team coach Irene Fuhrmann called her up for the first time in the Austrian squad for the European Championship qualifier against

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on October 27, 2020 in

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. She made her debut in the Austrian senior team on November 27, 2020 in the 3–0 defeat in the away game against France, where she came on as a substitute for

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in the 75th minute. She scored her first goal for the national team on February 23, 2022 in a 3–0 friendly win against

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. Kolb capped for the Austria national team at senior level during the UEFA Euro 2022 qualifying. She was initially named in the squad for the European Championship finals, but was unable to travel to England due to a positive COVID-19 test.

International goals

Achievements

;Club Freiburg *

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finalist

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Individual *

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top scorer: 2020–21 (19 goals)

Awards

* 2021: Awarded Player of the Season

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in the ''Planet Pure Women's Bundesliga'' * 2021: Awarded ''Player of the Season'' at the 25th Bruno Gala

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kolb, Lisa 2001 births Living people Sportspeople from Gmunden Footballers from Upper Austria Austrian women's footballers Women's association football forwards Austria women's international footballers ÖFB Frauen Bundesliga players SV Neulengbach (women) players SC Freiburg (women) players Austrian expatriate women's footballers Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Germany 21st-century Austrian sportswomen