Tanja Pawollek (born 18 January 1999) is a professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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. Born in Germany, she plays for the Poland national team.

Club career

Pawollek started her club career aged 5 at TV Hausen. After 6 years at her hometown club she moved to SG Rosenhöhe where she rose through the ranks up to the boy's under 17 team. In summer 2016 she signed for a 3-year contract with

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side

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 sev ...

. After just playing a 90 minutes match 2. Frauen-Bundesliga for the 1.FFC reserves team on 28 August 2016 against

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reserves, she debuted in the Bundesliga on 4 September 2016 against

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when she was subbed in for

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in the 68th minute. Pawollek would win the bronze

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in 2016 and the gold medal in 2018. Pawollek scored her first Bundesliga goal on 30 April 2017 in a 2–2 away draw at

Bayer 04 Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen, officially known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH () and commonly known as Bayer Leverkusen or simply Leverkusen, is a German professional association football, football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. ...

. She has captained the team since the 2019–20 season. Pawollek helped Eintracht Frankfurt reach the final of the

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, where she would suffer a serious knee injury. In July 2020, 1. FFC Frankfurt was integrated into

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, forming the clubs's women's football section. In February 2023, Pawollek signed a contract extension to remain at Eintracht Frankfurt until 30 June 2025. On 30 May 2025, Pawollek moved on a free transfer to Frauen-Bundesliga newcomers

International career

Since the first call up for the Germany under-15 national team on 30 October 2013 against Scotland, when she contributed a goal, Pawollek became a regular member for Germany's youth teams with 49 appearances, including being named to the Team of the Tournament in the

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won by Germany. In December 2018,

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called her up for

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during the winter training camp between 14 and 21 January 2019 in

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, Spain. In May 2021, Pawollek, whose parents were born in Poland, was called up to the Poland national team. However, she could not play due to an injury. In June 2022, she was called up again and made her debut in a friendly match against

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on 29 June 2022. She also made two appearances for Poland in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifiers against

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and

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, and in friendlies in 2023.

Career statistics

International

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

Honours

Germany U17 * UEFA Under-17 Championship:

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 ...

References

External links

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Tanja Pawollek - Spielerinnenprofil
dfb.de

soccerdonna.de
Eintracht Frankfurt player profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pawollek, Tanja 1999 births Living people German people of Polish descent People from Offenbach (district) Footballers from Darmstadt (region) Polish women's footballers German women's footballers Women's association football midfielders Eintracht Frankfurt (women) players Frauen-Bundesliga players 2. Frauen-Bundesliga players Germany women's youth international footballers Poland women's international footballers UEFA Women's Euro 2025 players 21st-century German sportswomen 21st-century Polish sportswomen