Nicole Bender

Nicole Bender
Personnel
birthday	November 16, 1982
place of birth	Ludwigshafen am Rhein ,  Germany
size	171 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Post sports club Ludwigshafen
	Blue and white oppau
	TuS Niederkirchen
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1998-2000	TuS Niederkirchen	11 0(0)
2000-2006	SC 07 Bad Neuenahr	112 0(7)
2006-2008	FCR 2001 Duisburg	26 0(3)
2008	TuS Cologne rrh.	3 0(0)
2008-2009	FFC Brauweiler Pulheim	22 0(9)
2009–	1. FC Cologne	124 (17)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2000-2001	Germany U-18	2 (0)
2002-2003	Germany U-21	6 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2014/15

Nicole Bender (born November 16, 1982 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German soccer player who is under contract with the first division club 1. FC Köln .

Career

societies

In her youth, Bender played at the Postsportverein Ludwigshafen , Blau-Weiß Oppau and TuS Niederkirchen , for which she made her Bundesliga debut on October 18, 1998 at the age of 15 . After Niederkirchens were relegated to the Bundesliga, he switched to SC 07 Bad Neuenahr in 2000 . In the following six seasons, she played a total of 112 times in the Bundesliga for the spa townspeople and scored seven goals. In the summer of 2006, the midfielder joined the league competitor FCR 2001 Duisburg , with whom she became German runner-up in 2007 and reached the final in the cup, which the team lost on penalties against 1. FFC Frankfurt .

In the winter break 2007/08 she dissolved her contract in Duisburg and joined the second division club TuS Köln rrh. before he switched to FFC Brauweiler Pulheim, who had recently been relegated from the second Bundesliga, in the summer of 2008. With Pulheim she succeeded in 2008/09 as champions of the Regionalliga West, the immediate rise. Since Pulheim's transfer to 1. FC Köln on July 1, 2009, she has been a regular player at the second division and just barely missed promotion to the Bundesliga as runner-up with the team in the 2010/11 and 2012/13 seasons . After another runner-up in 2013/14 , she was promoted to the Bundesliga as the undefeated champion in 2014/15 .

National team

Between 2000 and 2003, Bender made two appearances for the German U-18 national team and six for the U-21 national team .

successes

• German runner-up in 2007 with FCR 2001 Duisburg
• 2007 DFB Cup final with FCR 2001 Duisburg
• Champion of the Regionalliga West 2008/09 with the FFC Brauweiler Pulheim
• Champion 2. Bundesliga South 2014/15 and promotion to the Bundesliga with 1. FC Cologne

Web links

• Nicole Bender in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile on fc-brett.de ( Memento from April 14, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ ^{a b} All deployment data according to Das Fußball Studio (databases for women's Bundesliga , women's Regionalliga West and women's international matches )