Germany competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 422 competitors, 241 men and 181 women, took part in 234 events in 29 sports.
Inka Grings is a German former international footballer who played as a striker. She played sixteen years for FCR 2001 Duisburg before joining FC Zürich Frauen. She also played for the Germany national team. Grings is the second all-time leading goalscorer in Germany's top division, the Frauen-Bundesliga, with 195 goals and claimed the league's top-scorer award for a record six seasons. Playing for Germany, she was the top-scorer at two UEFA European Championships. Grings was named Women's Footballer of the Year (Germany) in 1999, 2009 and 2010.
Eintracht Frankfurt is a German women's association football club based in Frankfurt. Its first team currently plays in the German top flight, Frauen-Bundesliga. From 1998 to 2020, the club was known as 1. FFC Frankfurt.
Simone Melanie Laudehr is a German former footballer who played as a central midfielder or winger.
Fatmire "Lira" Alushi is a German former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder for the Germany national team. She placed third in 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or competition, an annual award given to the world's best player.
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.
Maren Meinert is a German football coach and former player who played as a midfielder and striker. She was most recently the head coach of Germany women's national under-20 football team.
Nicole Brandebusemeyer is a retired German football defender. She got 8 caps for the German national team between 1998 and 2000.
FCR 2001 Duisburg was a German women's football club from Duisburg. The first team played in the Bundesliga. They originate from a women's team formed in 1977 under the umbrella of FC Rumeln-Kaldenhausen and have existed as an independent club since 8 June 2001. The colors of the 400-member-strong club are green and white. The first team of FCR 2001 Duisburg, who carry the nickname of "Die Löwinnen" (lionesses), have played in the Bundesliga since gaining promotion in 1993. Winning the UEFA Women's Cup in 2009 and with past success in the German championship (2000) and the cup (twice), FCR Duisburg was one of the top teams in German women's football. In 2013 the club filed for insolvency and players joined and formed a new women's section at MSV Duisburg.
FFC Brauweiler Pulheim 2000 was a German women's football club based in Pulheim, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was founded when the women's section of Grün-Weiß Brauweiler in 2000 established its own club. The team played its last season in the Regionalliga, the German third division. Afterwards the clubs disbanded to join 1. FC Köln.
The 2009–10 season of the 2nd Fußball-Bundesliga (women) is the sixth season of Germany's second-tier women's football league. It began on 20 September 2009 and the date set for the final relegation game is 30 May 2009. Herforder SV Borussia Friedenstal and Bayer Leverkusen achieved promotion to the Bundesliga.
The DFB-Pokal 2009–10 was the 30th season of the cup competition, Germany's second-most important title in women's football. The tournament started on 13 September 2009 and the final was held on 15 May 2010 in Cologne. FCR 2001 Duisburg defeated FF USV Jena 1–0, thus defending their title from the previous season and claiming their third. The final set a European record for the largest attendance of a national women's club game with 26,282 visitors in the RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne.
Emily Louise van Egmond is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for San Diego Wave FC and the Australia women's national team. She previously played for German side 1. FFC Frankfurt and VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga, Danish side Fortuna Hjørring in the Elitedivisionen, Chicago Red Stars and Orlando Pride in the NWSL, West Ham United in the FA Women's Super League, as well as Canberra United, Western Sydney Wanderers, Newcastle Jets and Melbourne City in Australia's W-League.
Alexandra Popp-Höppe is a German professional footballer who plays as a striker for Frauen-Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the Germany national team. Popp was named German Footballer of the Year twice, in 2014 and 2016, and in February 2019 was named captain of the national team.
The SwissWomen's Super League is the highest-level league competition for women's football clubs in Switzerland. It was established in 1970.
FC Zürich Frauen is a women's association football club from Zürich, Switzerland. Its first team plays since the founding of the Swiss national league in 1970 in the first division. It is the most successful women's football club in the country, with a total of 24 league titles and 15 Cup titles.
The 2011–12 season of the Frauen-Bundesliga is the 22nd season of Germany's premier women's football league. The season commenced on 21 August 2011 and will conclude on 28 May 2012. Turbine Potsdam were the defending champions and successfully defended their title on the last matchday. Potsdam became the first team to win Bundesliga title a fourth year in a row.
Corina Schröder is a German footballer who plays as a left-back most recently for Birmingham City in the FA WSL, having previously played for Liverpool Ladies. Before moving to England she played for FCR 2001 Duisburg, 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam and SC 07 Bad Neuenahr in her native Germany. Nicknamed "Coco", she has also been capped for the Germany women's national under-20 football team.
1. FC Köln Frauen is a German women's football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, currently competing in the Bundesliga, the top flight of German football.
Anke Preuß is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for SV Meppen. She previously played for FCR 2001 Duisburg, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, 1. FFC Frankfurt, AGSM Verona Calcio, Sunderland and Liverpool.
