Footballer of the Year (Germany)

Pernille Harder - reigning soccer player of the year in Germany and also the first foreigner to receive this title.

As football player of the year in Germany, one player is honored every year as the outstanding player of the season. The soccer player of the year is chosen by the members of the Association of German Sport Journalists (VDS) and honored together with the trade journal Kicker . All German players as well as foreign players who are under contract with a Bundesliga club are eligible candidates . The award has been made since 1996. Martina Voss was the first title holder. The current soccer player of 2020 is the first non-German Pernille Harder . Previously, Dzsenifer was Marozsántitle holder for three years in a row from 2017 to 2019. Marozsán was the first female footballer of the year to play for a foreign club in the year of the honor.

The most successful prizewinner is Birgit Prinz , who has been voted Footballer of the Year a total of eight times. Inka Grings and Dzsenifer Marozsán are in second place with three awards each, ahead of Martina Voss-Tecklenburg , Célia Šašić and Alexandra Popp , who were each elected twice. Grings was the youngest elected player in 1999 and Martina Voss-Tecklenburg was the oldest elected player at 33 in 2000. At ten years of age, there is the longest period of time between the first and second selection of Inka Grings for a new award. Silke Rottenberg was elected in 1998 as the only goalkeeper to date . The most successful club is 1. FFC Frankfurt , which nominated the female soccer player of the year nine times. In 2003, 2004 and 2005 Birgit Prinz was elected both German and world soccer player of the year . So far, all German female soccer players of the year are German citizens. Fatmire Bajramaj was the first non-German born awardee.

List of titleholders

Silke Rottenberg

Birgit Prinz

• Year : Calls the year in which the player was elected.
• Name : Give the name of the player.
• Club: Name the club the player was playing for at the time.
• Position : states the position of the player: goal , defense , midfield , forward .

year	Surname	society	position	nationality
1996	Martina Voss	FC Rumeln-Kaldenhausen	midfield
1997	Bettina Wiegmann	Grün-Weiß Brauweiler	midfield
1998	Silke Rottenberg	Sports fans victories	gate
1999	Inca grings	FCR Duisburg	Storm
2000	Martina Voss	FCR Duisburg	midfield
2001	Birgit Prinz	1. FFC Frankfurt	Storm
2002	Birgit Prinz	1. FFC Frankfurt	Storm
2003	Birgit Prinz	1. FFC Frankfurt	Storm
2004	Birgit Prinz	1. FFC Frankfurt	Storm
2005	Birgit Prinz	1. FFC Frankfurt	Storm
2006	Birgit Prinz	1. FFC Frankfurt	Storm
2007	Birgit Prinz	1. FFC Frankfurt	Storm
2008	Birgit Prinz	1. FFC Frankfurt	Storm
2009	Inca grings	FCR 2001 Duisburg	Storm
2010	Inca grings	FCR 2001 Duisburg	Storm
2011	Fatmire Bajramaj	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	midfield
2012	Celia Okoyino da Mbabi	SC 07 Bad Neuenahr	midfield
2013	Martina Müller	VfL Wolfsburg	Storm
2014	Alexandra Popp	VfL Wolfsburg	Storm
2015	Celia Šašić	1. FFC Frankfurt	Storm
2016	Alexandra Popp	VfL Wolfsburg	Storm
2017	Dzsenifer Marozsán	Olympique Lyon	midfield
2018	Dzsenifer Marozsán	Olympique Lyon	midfield
2019	Dzsenifer Marozsán	Olympique Lyon	midfield
2020	Pernille Harder	VfL Wolfsburg	midfield
2021	Nicole Billa	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Storm

Leaderboards

This ranking lists players and their clubs who have received the title several times.

Players

• Place : states the position of the player within this ranking list. This is determined by the number of titles. If the number of titles is the same, they are sorted alphabetically.
• Name : Give the name of the player.
• Number : states the number of titles won.
• Years : states the season (s) in which the player was named soccer player of the year.

city ​​square	Surname	number	years
1.	Birgit Prinz	8th	2001-2008
2.	Inca grings	3	1999, 2009, 2010
	Dzsenifer Marozsán		2017-2019
4th	Alexandra Popp	2	2014, 2016
	Célia Šašić (formerly Célia Okoyino da Mbabi)		2012, 2015
	Martina Voss		1996, 2000

societies

• Place : states the position of the club within this ranking list. This is determined by the number of titles. If the number of titles is the same, they are sorted alphabetically.
• Club : gives the name of the club.
• Number : states the number of titles won.
• Years : States the season (s) in which the club's female players became Footballer of the Year.

city ​​square	society	number	years
1.	1. FFC Frankfurt	9	2001–2008, 2015
2.	FCR 2001 Duisburg 1st	5	1996, 1999, 2000, 2009, 2010
3.	VfL Wolfsburg	4th	2013, 2014, 2016, 2020
4th	Olympique Lyon	3	2017-2019

¹In 1997, FC Rumeln-Kaldenhausen was renamed FCR Duisburg. The women's football department founded its own club on June 8, 2001 under the name FCR 2001 Duisburg.

Positions

• Place : states the position of the position within this ranking list. This is determined by the number of titles. If the number of titles is the same, they are sorted alphabetically.
• Position : Name the position.
• Number : states the number of titles won.

city ​​square	position	number
1.	Storm	16
2.	midfield	9
3.	gate	1
4th	Defense	0

See also

• Footballer of the Year (Germany)
• Football coach of the year (Germany)

This version was added to the selection of informative lists and portals on August 16, 2009 .