Klara Bühl

German footballer (born 2000)

Klara Bühl
Bühl with Germany in 2023
Personal information
Full name Klara Gabriele Bühl[1]
Date of birth (2000-12-07) 7 December 2000 (age 23)
Place of birth Haßfurt, Germany[2]
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Bayern München
Number 17
Youth career
2010–2013 Spvgg Untermünstertal
2013–2016 SC Freiburg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2020 SC Freiburg 70 (21)
2020– Bayern München 75 (20)
International career‡
2014–2015 Germany U15 6 (4)
2015–2016 Germany U16 4 (1)
2016– Germany U17 9 (4)
2017– Germany U19 11 (5)
2018– Germany U20 6 (1)
2019– Germany 48 (22)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 4:26, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:29, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Klara Gabriele Bühl (German pronunciation: [ˈklaːʁa ˈbyːl]; born 7 December 2000) is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger for Frauen-Bundesliga club FC Bayern München and the Germany national team.

Club career

Bühl first played in various boys' teams of the Spvgg Untermünstertal before moving to the youth department of the Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in the summer of 2013. From the 2014–15 season on, she competed with the B-Juniors in the Bundesliga South and reached the semi-finals of the German Championship with the 2016 team. There she scored all three goals for Freiburg in the 3–2 victory in the second leg against FSV Gütersloh 2009, but the team missed the final after a 2–0 loss in the first leg. For the 2016–17 season, Bühl moved up early to the women's team of Freiburg and made her debut on 11 September 2016 (2nd matchday) in the 5–0 victory in the home game against MSV Duisburg as a substitute for Lena Petermann in the Bundesliga. After she had been mainly substituted in 2016–17, she regularly played in Freiburg's starting eleven in 2017–18 and scored her first three Bundesliga goals in the 7–0 win in the away game against 1. FC Köln on 1 October 2017 (4th matchday) with the goals for 3–0, 4–0 and 5–0.[3]

It was announced in April 2020 that she would sign for Bayern Munich.[4] The following year, she signed a contract extension that would keep her at the club until 2025.[5] In the 2021–22 season, Bühl was Bayern's joint second-highest goalscorer with 13 goals in all competitions.

International career

Bühl made her debut for the national team on 23 April 2014 as part of the U-15 national team's friendly match against the Dutch team and scored her first three goals on 28 October 2014 in a 13–0 win over Scotland. After four appearances for the U-16 national team, in 2016 she was the youngest player in the German squad for the European Championship, which took place in Belarus from 4 to 16 May 2016. She played in all five matches and won the Under-17 European Championship title after a 3–2 final victory in penalty shootout against the Spanish team. Bühl was also part of the German line-up for the 2016 U-17 World Cup in Jordan and reached the quarter-finals with the team where Spain lost 2–1.

In March 2017, she made her debut for the U-19 national team, with which she qualified for the Under-19 European Championship in Northern Ireland in the same year and reached the semi-finals there against France. Bühl scored 1–0 in this game but the French won 2–1 in the end. The following year Bühl was part of the German line-up for the U-20 World Cup in France and played in all three group games as well as in the quarter-finals, which were lost 3–1 to the future World Champion from Japan.

In December 2018, she was appointed by national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg to the senior national squad for the winter training camp in Marbella from 14 to 21 January 2019 for the first time.[6] On 28 February 2019, she was substituted for Verena Schweers in the 90th minute in a test match against France, thus completing her first game for the senior national team.[7] For the 2019 World Cup, she was called to the German team by Voss-Tecklenburg.[8]

For the Euro 2022 in England, she was called up to the squad by the national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg. She started the first four games of the finals. In the semi-finals and finals she could not be used due to testing positive for COVID-19. In the final, Germany lost to England and finished as runners-up. After the tournament, Bühl was voted into the "Eleven of the Tournament" by the UEFA coaching staff.[9]

Personal life

Bühl likes to crochet in her spare time. For the 2023 World Cup she crafted the team's mascot, a koala dressed in a white jumper bearing the German flag. In a short time the crochet koala, called Waru, became very popular among fans.[10] After the tournament, she donated the mascot to the German Football Museum in Dortmund.[11]

Career statistics

As of 9 April 2024[12]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Germany[13] 2019 10 7
2020 3 0
2021 6 1
2022 12 6
2023 13 5
2024 4 3
Total 48 22
Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Bühl goal.
List of international goals scored by Klara Bühl[12]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 31 August 2019 Kassel, Germany  Montenegro 4–0 10–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
2 8–0
3 5 October 2019 Aachen, Germany  Ukraine 1–0 8–0
4 5–0
5 6–0
6 8 October 2019 Thessaloniki, Greece  Greece 5–0 5–0
7 9 November 2019 London, England  England 2–1 2–1 Friendly
8 26 November 2021 Braunschweig, Germany  Turkey 8–0 8–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
9 9 April 2022 Bielefeld, Germany  Portugal 2–0 3–0
10 24 June 2022 Erfurt, Germany  Switzerland 1–0 7–0 Friendly
11 3–0
12 4–0
13 12 July 2022 London, England  Spain 1–0 2–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2022
14 3 September 2022 Bursa, Turkey  Turkey 2–0 3–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
15 24 July 2023 Melbourne, Australia  Morocco 3–0 6–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
16 26 September 2023 Bochum, Germany  Iceland 1–0 4–0 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League
17 4–0
18 31 October 2023 Reykjavík, Iceland  Iceland 2–0 2–0
19 1 December 2023 Rostock, Germany  Denmark 3–0 3–0
20 28 February 2024 Heerenveen, Netherlands  Netherlands 1–0 2–0
21 5 April 2024 Linz, Austria  Austria 1–2 3–2 UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying
22 2–2

Honours

SC Freiburg

Bayern Munich

Germany U17

Germany

Individual

References

  1. ^ "FIFA Women's World Cup France 2017– List of Players: Germany" (PDF). FIFA. 27 May 2019. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Über mich" [About Me]. Klara Bühl (in German). Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  3. ^ Sport, S. W. R. "Klara Bühl – die WM-Stürmerin des SC Freiburg". swr.online (in German). Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  4. ^ CSmith1919 (29 April 2020). "Official: Bayern Munich inks SC Freiburg star Klara Bühl". Bavarian Football Works. Retrieved 18 June 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ CSmith1919 (15 December 2021). "Bayern Munich Frauen ink five key players to contract extensions". Bavarian Football Works. Retrieved 18 June 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "Voss-Tecklenburg holt 30 Spielerinnen ins Wintertrainingslager". DFB - Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V. (in German). Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  7. ^ "Frankreich - Deutschland 0:1 (Frauen Freundschaft 2019, Februar)". weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  8. ^ "ZEIT ONLINE | Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl". www.zeit.de. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  9. ^ "Im Nachgang der Women's EURO - Vier Titelheldinnen in der Turnier-Elf – Diacre bleibt". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 2 August 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  10. ^ "'Waru' the knitted koala: crocheted mascot becomes Germany's secret World Cup weapon". The Guardian. 29 July 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  11. ^ "Nach WM-Debakel: Koala "Waru" kommt ins Fußballmuseum". sportsillustrated.de (in German). 24 September 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  12. ^ a b "Klara Bühl". dfb.de. 18 September 2021.
  13. ^ "Klara Bühl – Spielerinnenprofil". DFB Datencenter (in German). Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  14. ^ Mehta, Kalika; Ford, Matt (28 May 2023). "Women's Bundesliga: Bayern Munich's title reveals problems". Deutsche Welle (dw.com). Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  15. ^ Sanders, Emma (31 July 2022). "England beat Germany to win first major women's trophy". BBC. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  16. ^ "Germany win Nations League play-off to reach Olympics". BBC Sport. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  17. ^ "UEFA Women's EURO 2022 Team of the Tournament announced". UEFA.com. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  18. ^ "Gold Fritz Walter Medals for Kühn, Bühl and Adeyemi". dfb.de. German Football Association. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2023.

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