Mara Alber

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Mara Alber
Personal information
Date of birth (2005-09-06) 6 September 2005 (age 19)
Place of birth Brackenheim, Germany
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
TSG Hoffenheim
Number 11
Youth career
TGV Dürrenzimmern
2016–2017 TSG Hoffenheim
2017–2019 VfB Eppingen
2019–2020 FC Astoria Walldorf
2020–2021 SpVgg Neckarelz
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2021–2023 TSG Hoffenheim II 36 (14)
2021– TSG Hoffenheim 30 (6)
International career
2019 Germany U15 3 (1)
2021–2022 Germany U17 20 (7)
2023– Germany U19 14 (7)
2024– Germany U20 4 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:00, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 00:00, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Mara Alber (born 6 September 2005) is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for Frauen-Bundesliga club TSG Hoffenheim. [1]

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Career

Alber started playing football at the local multi-sports club TGV Dürrenzimmern. She then spent a year playing for TSG Hoffenheim's under-15s youth team before joining VfB Eppingen for three years. Afterwards, she spent a season each at FC Astoria Walldorf and SpVgg Neckarelz.

At the age of 15, Alber was signed by TSG Hoffenheim, for whose second team she would play from 2021 until 2023 in the 2. Bundesliga. [2] Three weeks before her 16th birthday, she made her senior debut in a 4-1 home win over SV Henstedt-Ulzburg on the first matchday and scored a brace. [3] The German finished her debut season with seven goals in 18 appearances and repeated the exact same statistics the following year. [4]

Alber made her Bundesliga debut for the first team in April 2022 during a 3-0 away win over Bayer Leverkusen, coming on as a late substitute. [5] [6] She played six Bundesliga games for the club the 2022–23 season.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 15 April 2024
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueCupTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
TSG Hoffenheim II 2021–22 2. Bundesliga 187187
2022–232. Bundesliga187187
Total36143614
TSG Hoffenheim 2021–22 Bundesliga 1010
2022–23Bundesliga6060
2023–24Bundesliga17630206
Total24630276
Career total6020306320

Honours

Germany U17

Germany U19

Individual

    References

    1. Hoffenheim, TSG 1899 (19 February 2024). "Mara Alber". www.tsg-hoffenheim.de (in German). Retrieved 19 February 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
    2. Neue Talente für die U20 auf tsg-hoffenheim.de
    3. Spielpaarung auf soccerdonna.de
    4. "Mara Alber - Leistungsdaten - Frauenfußball auf soccerdonna.de". www.soccerdonna.de. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
    5. Nächster Schritt für Alber und Janzen auf tsg-hoffenheim.de
    6. Spielpaarung auf soccerdonna.de
    7. "Final: Spain - Germany". uefa.com. UEFA. 30 July 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
    8. "Fritz-Walter-Medaille: Gold für Brand, Adeyemi, Moukoko und Wirtz". Kicker (in German). Olympia-Verlag. 9 November 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2024.