Klara Gabriele Bühl (German pronunciation: [ˈklaːʁa ˈbyːl]; born 7 December 2000) is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Frauen-Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Germany national team.
 Bühl with Germany in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Klara Gabriele Bühl[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 7 December 2000 | ||
| Place of birth | Haßfurt, Germany[2] | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Bayern Munich | ||
| 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 Munich | 81 | (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 | 60 | (27) |
|
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9:27, 9 September 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:26, 29 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
Club career
editBühl 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, 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
editBühl 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
editBühl 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] For Summer Olympics in Paris she crocheted a new mascot, an otter named Ottienne. [12] Bühl is completing a distance learning course in media management at the IU International University.[13]
Career statistics
editClub
edit- As of match played 30 August 2024[14]
| Club | Season | League | DFB Pokal | Continental[a] | Other[b] | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| SC Freiburg | 2016–17 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 11 | 1 | ||
| 2017–18 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 18 | 7 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 20 | 7 | |||
| 2018–19 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 21 | 3 | 5 | 2 | – | – | 26 | 5 | |||
| 2019–20 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 21 | 11 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 23 | 12 | |||
| Total | 70 | 21 | 10 | 4 | – | – | 80 | 25 | ||||
| Bayern Munich | 2020–21 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 19 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | – | 28 | 10 | |
| 2021–22 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 18 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | – | 27 | 8 | ||
| 2022–23 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 22 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 3 | – | 36 | 10 | ||
| 2023–24 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 21 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | 29 | 4 | ||
| 2024–25 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
| Total | 81 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 122 | 33 | ||
| Career total | 151 | 41 | 25 | 10 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 202 | 58 | ||
- ^ Includes UEFA Champions League
- ^ Includes DFB-Supercup
International
edit- As of 28 October 2024
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany[14] | 2019 | 10 | 7 |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 6 | 1 | |
| 2022 | 12 | 6 | |
| 2023 | 13 | 5 | |
| 2024 | 16 | 8 | |
| Total | 60 | 27 | |
- Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Bühl goal.
| 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 | |||||
| 23 | 4 June 2024 | Gdynia, Poland |  Poland |
3–1 | 3–1 | |
| 24 | 16 July 2024 | Hanover, Germany | Austria |
1–0 | 4–0 | |
| 25 | 4–0 | |||||
| 26 | 31 July 2024 | Saint-Étienne, France |  Zambia |
2–0 | 4–1 | 2024 Summer Olympics |
| 27 | 25 October 2024 | London, England | England |
3–0 | 4–3 | Friendly |
Honours
editSC Freiburg
Bayern Munich
Germany U17
Germany
- Summer Olympics bronze medal: 2024[17]
- UEFA Women's Championship runner-up: 2022[18]
- UEFA Women's Nations League third place: 2023–24[19]
Individual
- UEFA Women's Championship Team of the Tournament: 2022[20]
- Fritz Walter Medal Gold: 2019[21]
References
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ "Über mich" [About Me]. Klara Bühl (in German). Retrieved 25 July 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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) - ^ 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) - ^ "Voss-Tecklenburg holt 30 Spielerinnen ins Wintertrainingslager". DFB - Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V. (in German). Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ "Frankreich - Deutschland 0:1 (Frauen Freundschaft 2019, Februar)". weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ Hellmann, Frank (8 June 2019). "Frauenfußball-WM - Na die traut sich was". zeit.de (in German). Zeit Online. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "'Waru' the knitted koala: crocheted mascot becomes Germany's secret World Cup weapon". The Guardian. 29 July 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
- ^ "Nach WM-Debakel: Koala "Waru" kommt ins Fußballmuseum". sportsillustrated.de (in German). 24 September 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
- ^ ""Die Münstertäler Fußballerin Klara Bühl hat einen besonderen Olympia-Glücksbringer namens Ottienne". Badische Zeitung (in German). 16 July 2024. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
- ^ "Klara Bühl - Die Fußballerin des FC Bayern München im Porträt". swp.de (in German). Südwest Presse. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
- ^ a b c "Klara Buhl - Player Profile". datencenter.dfb.de. DFB. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ Mehta, Kalika; Ford, Matt (28 May 2023). "Women's Bundesliga: Bayern Munich's title reveals problems". Deutsche Welle (dw.com). Retrieved 11 June 2023.
- ^ "Google Pixel Supercup der Frauen, 2024, Finale". dfb.de. Deutscher Fußball-Bund. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
- ^ "Spain 0-1 Germany: Germany win women's football bronze at Paris 2024". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
- ^ Sanders, Emma (31 July 2022). "England beat Germany to win first major women's trophy". BBC. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ "Germany win Nations League play-off to reach Olympics". BBC Sport. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
- ^ "UEFA Women's EURO 2022 Team of the Tournament announced". UEFA.com. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ "Gold Fritz Walter Medals for Kühn, Bühl and Adeyemi". dfb.de. German Football Association. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
External links
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- Profile at the FC Bayern Munich website
- Klara Bühl at DFB (also available in German)
- Klara Bühl – UEFA competition record (archive)
- Klara Bühl at Soccerway
- Interview mit Klara Bühl, dfb 26 May 2019
