Spielvereinigung Unterhaching is a German sports club in Unterhaching, a semi-rural municipality on the southern outskirts of the Bavarian capital Munich. The club is widely known for playing in the first-division association football league Bundesliga alongside its more famous cousins, Bayern Munich and 1860 Munich, for two seasons between 1999 and 2001, while the club's bobsleigh department has captured several world and Olympic titles. The football team won promotion into the 3. Liga after beating Cottbus 4–1 on aggregate in June 2023.
FC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German football club based in Jena, Thuringia. Founded in 1903 it was initially associated with the company Carl Zeiss. From the 1960s to the 1980s it was one of the top-ranked clubs in East Germany, won the DDR-Oberliga and the FDGB-Pokal three times each and reached the 1981 European Cup Winners' Cup Final. Since the German reunification in 1990, the club has competed no higher than the second tier. Since the 2021–22 season, Jena is playing in the Regionalliga Nordost.
Robert Enke was a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Bernd Schneider is a German former professional footballer. He was mainly a midfielder but could play anywhere on the left and right flanks. After retiring in June 2009, he took up an advisory role at his first club, Carl Zeiss Jena, and a scouting position at Bayer Leverkusen.
The 1997–98 2. Bundesliga season was the twenty-fourth season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system.
The 2. Frauen-Bundesliga is the second league competition for women's association football in Germany. For its first 14 seasons the league was divided into two groups: Nord and Süd. The winner and the runner-up are promoted to the Bundesliga ; the last three places are relegated to the Regionalliga. Until the 2017–18 season, in each group, the winner was promoted and the bottom two were relegated.
Martina Voss-Tecklenburg is a German football manager and former player who last coached the German national team. She previously coached FCR 2001 Duisburg and FF USV Jena. As a player, she played as a midfielder or forward, featuring for KBC Duisburg, TSV Siegen and FCR 2001 Duisburg. She made 125 appearances for the Germany national team.
FC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German women's football club from Jena, Thuringia. The club currently plays in the Bundesliga, the highest level of women's football in Germany.
The 1990–91 season of the former DDR-Oberliga, renamed NOFV-Oberliga for this season, was the last season of the top East German league.
Ria Dawn Percival is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder. Born in England, she played for the New Zealand women's national team and represented New Zealand 166 times, more than any other player, male or female. She previously played for FFC Frankfurt and FF USV Jena of the Bundesliga, FC Basel in the Swiss league and West Ham United.
Torsten Ziegner is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Nils Petersen is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward. He appeared in the 2016 Summer Olympics and remains the first and only German footballer who has scored five goals in a single game with the national team.
Amber Liarnie Rose Hearn is a New Zealand former professional soccer player who represented New Zealand between 2004 and 2018. A prolific scorer, she is the country's all-time top scorer and the highest scoring international for the Oceania Football Confederation.
Jana Burmeister is a German football goalkeeper. She started her senior career at FF USV Jena and from 2005 to 2011 played 53 2nd Bundesliga and 60 Bundesliga games. In 2011, she transferred to Wolfsburg.
Genoveva Añonman Nze is an Equatorial Guinean football manager and former professional player who played as a forward. She coaches Santa Bibiana in the Equatoguinean Primera División femenina. She is the historical captain and top scorer of the Equatorial Guinea women's national team, for which she played for 16 years.
Lucie Voňková is a Czech former football striker, who was a member of the Czech Republic national team. As well as playing six seasons in her native country, she played for six seasons in Germany and two in the Netherlands.
Fata Salkunič is a currently unattached Slovenian football midfielder, currently playing for USV Jena in the German Bundesliga. She previously played for ZNK Maribor and Krka Novo Mesto in the Slovenian League, Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga and FC Basel in the Swiss Nationalliga A.
Jana Petříková, born Sedláčková is a former Czech footballer who played as a defender for German Frauen-Bundesliga club FC Carl Zeiss Jena and the Czech Republic women's national team. For most of her career She played for Sparta Prague in the Czech Women's First League and the Champions League.
Nicole Ellen Stratford is a New Zealand association footballer who plays as a defender for German 2. Frauen-Bundesliga club FC Carl Zeiss Jena and the New Zealand women's national team.
Sabrina Wittmann is a German professional football manager who is the head coach of 3. Liga club FC Ingolstadt. She is the first female head coach in Germany's top three divisions of football.
