Merle Barth

Merle Barth
Personnel
birthday	April 21, 1994
place of birth	Waldbröl ,  Germany
size	166 cm
position	Defense , midfield
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2008	SSV Homburg-Nümbrecht
2009-2011	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2010-2020	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	137 (10)
2020–	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2010-2011	Germany U17	5 0(1)
2012-2013	Germany U19	12 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20

Merle Barth (born April 21, 1994 in Waldbröl ) is a German soccer player .

Career

societies

Merle Barth moved from SSV Homburg-Nümbrecht to Bayer 04 Leverkusen's youth department in January 2009 . There she first played for the B-Juniors and with them managed to qualify for the intermediate round of the German B-Junior Championships in 2011 . She made her Bundesliga debut in the championship game against FCR 2001 Duisburg on November 6, 2010 , when she came on for Kerstin Stein in the 86th minute . She has been a member of the Leverkusen national league squad since the 2011/12 season and scored her first Bundesliga goal on the last match day of the 2012/13 season in the match against VfL Sindelfingen with the goal that made it 1-1. Due to a torn cruciate ligament in February 2014 , she had to take a long break, but immediately after her comeback in February 2015 she was back in the regular formation before tearing a cruciate ligament again in the last game of the 2014/15 season against SC Sand . In summer 2020, Barth moved to league competitor 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam .

National team

Barth made his debut on December 14, 2010 in the U-17 national team in the international test match against Israel. Two days later she scored her only international goal - again against Israel. In 2011 she took part in the U-17 European Championship in Nyon and came to her only tournament appearance in the game for third place, which Germany won 8-2 against Iceland. On November 21, 2012, she made her debut for the German U-19 national team in a 4-0 friendly win against Sweden when she came into play after half-time for Sarah Romert . In 2013 she qualified with this team for the European vintage championships in Wales , where she was eliminated in the semi-finals against France.

Others

Barth began training as a bank clerk in summer 2014 .

successes

National team

• 3rd place at the U-17 European Championship 2011
• Semi-finals at the U-19 European Football Championship 2013

society

• Promotion to the Bundesliga 2018 (with Bayer 04 Leverkusen)

Web links

• Merle Barth in the database of weltfussball.de
• Merle Barth in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From the youth to the Bundesliga squad. (No longer available online.) Bayer 04 Leverkusen , June 11, 2011, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved April 25, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Torn cruciate ligament in Leverkusen's Merle Barth. German Football Association , May 12, 2015, accessed April 25, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Merle Barth shortly before the Bundesliga comeback. oberberg-aktuell.de, February 2, 2016, accessed April 25, 2016 .