Lea Schüller
Schüller with Germany in 2023
Personal information
Full name Lea Schüller[1]
Date of birth (1997-11-12) 12 November 1997
Place of birth Tönisvorst, Germany
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Bayern Munich
Number 11
Youth career
0000–2012 Hülser SV
2012–2014 SGS Essen
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2020 SGS Essen 125 (62)
2020– Bayern Munich 57 (41)
International career‡
2013–2014 Germany U17 6 (5)
2014–2016 Germany U19 15 (6)
2013–2015 Germany U20 4 (2)
2017– Germany 54 (35)
Medal record
UEFA Women's Championship
Silver medal – second place2022 England
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 06:46, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10:07, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Lea Schüller (born 12 November 1997) is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Frauen-Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Germany national team.

Club career

SGS Essen

Schüller started playing football at Hülser SV before joining the youth department of SGS Essen in 2012. She made her Frauen-Bundesliga debut aged 16 on 1 December 2013, in a 2–0 home defeat against VfL Wolfsburg.[2] She scored her first two Bundesliga goals on 26 February 2014, in a 3–1 away win against BV Cloppenburg. In July 2017, Schüller extended her contract with SGS Essen for two years until June 2020.[3]

Bayern Munich

In July 2020, Schüller signed a three-year contract with FC Bayern Munich. She made her debut for her new team in a preseason match, scoring the first two goals for a 3–1 win against SC Freiburg on 9 August.[4] At the next preseason friendly, against UWCL qualifiers SK Slavia Prague, Schüller contributed a goal in a 4–0 win.[5]

Schüller also made her first ever UEFA Women's Champions League appearance in a 2–1 loss against defending champions Olympique Lyonnais on 23 August. Bayern was subsequently knocked out on a 2–2 aggregate loss with Olympique Lyonnais moving to the semi-finals with an away-goal advantage.[6]

FC Bayern began the 2020–21 Frauen-Bundesliga against SC Sand on 4 September, with Schüller in the starting XI and scoring her first Bundesliga goal with the team, ending with a 6–0 victory. Bayern would go on to win their third league title. Schüller scored a total of 16 goals in her first season with Bayern Munich, finishing third place behind Nicole Billa of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (23 goals) and Laura Freigang of Eintracht Frankfurt (17 goals) as top scorers of the season.

She continued her impressive displays in the 2021–22 Frauen-Bundesliga season, finishing as the league's top goalscorer with 16 goals as well as the club's top goalscorer with 20 goals in all competitions.[7]

International career

Schüller appeared for Germany under-17 national team at the 2014 U-17 Women's World Cup in Costa Rica, playing in all three group matches. With the under-19 team, she participated in the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Israel, again playing in all three group matches and the defeat on penalties to Sweden in the semi-finals. She was then a member of the German under-20 squad at the U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea in 2016, where they lost to France in the quarter-finals.[8]

Schüller was first called up by coach Steffi Jones to train with the full Germany national squad in June 2017,[9] but didn't make the final squad for the 2017 UEFA Women's Championship.[10] She made her full international debut against Iceland in a 2019 World Cup qualifying match on 20 October 2017, coming on as a late substitute and scoring the final goal in a 3–2 defeat for Germany. Later in qualifying in April 2018, Schüller scored all 4 goals against the Czech Republic in a 4–0 win.

Personal life

Since 2019, Schüller is together with Austrian sport sailor Lara Vadlau.[11]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 21 March 2023[12]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League DFB Pokal Continental[lower-alpha 1] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
SGS Essen 2013–14 Frauen-Bundesliga 7230–72
2014–15 Frauen-Bundesliga 18710–197
2015–16 Frauen-Bundesliga 22 8 2 1 – 24 9
2016–17 Frauen-Bundesliga 13 8 1 0 – 14 8
2017–18 Frauen-Bundesliga 21 7 4 4 – 25 11
2018–19 Frauen-Bundesliga 22 14 2 4 – 24 18
2019–20 Frauen-Bundesliga 22 16 5 6 – 27 22
Total 125621815–14377
Bayern Munich 2019–20 Frauen-Bundesliga – – 1 0 1 0
2020–21 Frauen-Bundesliga 201647733126
2021–22 Frauen-Bundesliga 221621743121
2022–23 Frauen-Bundesliga 15931942714
Total 57419924119061
Career total 18210327242411233138

International

As of 31 October 2023[13]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Germany 201731
201886
201983
202042
20211111
2022107
2023105
Total5435
Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Schüller goal.
List of international goals scored by Lea Schüller[13]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
120 October 2017Wiesbaden, Germany Iceland2–32–32019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
27 April 2018Zwickau, Germany Czech Republic1–04–0
32–0
43–0
54–0
64 September 2018Tórshavn, Faroe Islands Faroe Islands1–08–0
76 October 2018Essen, Germany Austria3–13–1Friendly
828 February 2019Laval, France France1–01–0
922 June 2019Grenoble, France Nigeria3–03–02019 FIFA Women's World Cup
1031 August 2019Kassel, Germany Montenegro9–010–0UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
117 March 2020Lagos, Portugal Norway1–04–02020 Algarve Cup
1219 September 2020Essen, Germany Republic of Ireland3–03–0UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
1321 February 2021Aachen, Germany Belgium2–02–0Friendly
1418 September 2021Cottbus, Germany Bulgaria1–07–02023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
155–0
1621 September 2021Chemnitz, Germany Serbia1–15-1
172–1
183–1
194–1
2026 November 2021Braunschweig, Germany Turkey2–08–0
213–0
225–0
2330 November 2021Faro, Portugal Portugal1–03–1
2417 February 2022Middlesbrough, England Spain1–11–12022 Arnold Clark Cup
2512 April 2022Stara Pazova, Serbia Serbia1–22–32023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
268 July 2022London, England Denmark2–04–0UEFA Women's Euro 2022
273 September 2022Bursa, Turkey Turkey3–03–02023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
286 September 2022Plovdiv, Bulgaria Bulgaria1–08–0
293–0
304–0
317 July 2023Fürth, Germany Zambia1–22–3Friendly
3224 July 2023Melbourne, Australia Morocco6–06–02023 FIFA Women's World Cup
3326 September 2023Bochum, Germany Iceland3–04–02023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League
3427 October 2023Sinsheim, Germany Wales1–05–1
352–1

Honours

Bayern Munich

Germany

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019 – List of Players: Germany" (PDF). FIFA. 7 July 2019. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  2. ↑ "Lea Schüller unterschreibt bis 2020 bei der SGS Essen" (in German). SGS Essen. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "FC Bayern holt Islacker aus Frankfurt" (in German). DFB. 27 May 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  4. ↑ "Schüller mit Doppelpack: Bayern-Frauen schlagen Freiburg mit 3:1" [Schüller with a brace: Bayern women beat Freiburg 3-1] (in German). FC Bayern München. 9 August 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "UWCL-Generalprobe: Bayern-Frauen mit 4:0-Sieg gegen Slavia Prag" [UWCL dress rehearsal: Bayern women with a 4-0 win against Slavia Prague] (in German). FC Bayern München. 16 August 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  6. ↑ "Bayern-Frauen scheitern nach großem Kampf im UWCL-Viertelfinale" [Bayern women fail after big fight in UWCL quarterfinals] (in German). FC Bayern München. 23 August 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  7. ↑ "Unsere 𝖳𝖮𝖯 𝖲𝖢𝖮𝖱𝖤𝖱 der Saison 2021/2022!". Twitter. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  8. ↑ "0:1 gegen Frankreich: U 20 unglücklich im Viertelfinale ausgeschieden" (in German). DFB. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  9. ↑ Burgner, Benedict (27 June 2017). "SGS Essen: Lea Schüller war bei der Nationalmannschaft". RevierSport (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  10. ↑ "EM-Generalprobe gegen Brasilien: Testphase für DFB-Frauen vorbei". Eurosport Deutschland (in German). 3 July 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  11. ↑ "Fußball-EM 2022: Das sind die 59 lesbischen, bisexuellen und queeren Spielerinnen". L.MAG (in German). 6 July 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  12. ↑ "Germany - L. Schüller - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway".
  13. 1 2 "Lea Schüller". dfb.de. 18 September 2021.
  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. ↑ "Fußballer, Fußballerin und Trainer des Jahres: kicker-Awards an Nkunku, Schüller und Streich". kicker.de (in German). 31 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
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