Personal information | |||
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Full name | Emily Kraft | ||
Date of birth | 18 February 2002 | ||
Place of birth | Frankfurt, Germany | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Southampton | ||
Number | 17 | ||
Youth career | |||
SV Concordia Gernsheim | |||
RSV Germania Pfungstadt | |||
FFC Frankfurt | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2019–2020 | FFC Frankfurt II | 2 | (0) |
2020–2022 | Eintracht Frankfurt II | 15 | (3) |
2022–2023 | Lewes | 17 | (3) |
2023– | Southampton | 10 | (1) |
International career‡ | |||
2016 | Germany U15 | 1 | (0) |
2017 | Germany U16 | 3 | (0) |
2018–2019 | Republic of Ireland U17 | ||
2019– | Republic of Ireland | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 01:05, 16 April 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14:26, 20 January 2019 (UTC) |
Emily Kraft (born 18 February 2002) is a German-Irish international footballer who plays for Southampton of the Women's Championship. She made her debut for the Republic of Ireland women's national football team in January 2019.
Kraft played for SV Concordia Gernsheim and RSV Germania Pfungstadt, before joining FFC Frankfurt's youth structure as a 14-year-old. [1] She remained with Frankfurt when they were taken over by the local men's club and became Eintracht Frankfurt in 2020. In July 2022 she transferred to Lewes in the FA Women's Championship. [2]
After scoring five goals in twenty appearances across all competitions, Kraft signed for fellow Championship side Southampton in July 2023. [3]
After previously representing the Germany women's national youth football team at under-15 and under-16 level, Kraft accepted a call-up to the Republic of Ireland women's national under-17 football team in October 2018. She was able to represent Ireland as her mother Orla is from Dublin. In her first match for Ireland under-17s she scored four goals in a 14–0 win over Albania. [4]
Ireland's senior national team coach Colin Bell called up Kraft for the first time in January 2019, for a friendly against Belgium, staged at San Pedro del Pinatar, Spain. [5] She started the match to win her first cap. [6]
In March 2019, Kraft suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury in Ireland under-17's 1–1 draw with Norway. [7] She injured her cruciate again in July 2020 while training with her German club. [8]
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