Personal information | |||
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Full name | Tabea Kemme [1] | ||
Date of birth | 14 December 1991 | ||
Place of birth | Stade, Germany | ||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Position(s) | Full-back, winger | ||
Youth career | |||
2000–2006 | SG Freiburg/Oederquart | ||
2006–2008 | 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2008–2010 | 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam II | 6 | (2) |
2008–2018 | 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam | 145 | (24) |
2018–2020 | Arsenal | 3 | (0) |
Total | 154 | (26) | |
International career | |||
2007–2008 | Germany U17 | 15 | (6) |
2009–2010 | Germany U19 | 11 | (0) |
2010 | Germany U20 | 10 | (0) |
2013–2018 | Germany | 47 | (6) |
Medal record | |||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Tabea Kemme (born 14 December 1991) is a German former professional footballer who played as a full-back or winger for Frauen-Bundesliga 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam for twelve years [2] and for Arsenal of the FA Women's Super League. [3]
During her youth career and the first two seasons of her senior career, Kemme played as an attacker. She switched to more defensive playing positions [4] while playing for Germany U20 during the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. [5] Two of Kemme's goals for 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam, both long-range shots, were included in the 10 best goals of the German Football Association's Women's Goal of the Season 2014–2015 shortlist. [6]
Kemme combined her football career with her police studies at Brandenburg's police training college. [7]
Kemme attended the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Potsdam Sport School, [8] [9] which has an elite program for girls' football. The school has very close links with the FFC Turbine Potsdam club. [10]
In 2006, Kemme started training and playing with the junior teams of FFC Turbine, progressing to the senior first team in 2008.
She joined Arsenal in July 2018. [11] After persistent injuries, Kemme announced her retirement from professional football on 14 January 2020. [12]
Kemme's first involvement with the Germany national team was in the squad of players selected for a 2013 UEFA Women's Championship qualifying match against Romania on 22 October 2011, [13] but she did not play in the match. Kemme made her international debut for Germany during their 8–0 win against Croatia on 27 November 2013, a match in Germany's FIFA Women's World Cup 2015 qualification campaign. [14] She came on as a substitute for Leonie Maier, in the 76th minute. [15] Kemme was selected for the German squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2015 and played six matches in the tournament.
She was one of Germany's starting full-backs for the 2016 Summer Olympics, starting and playing every minute of all but one match. Germany would go on to win the gold medal. [16]
In 2012, Kemme began her studies as a police commissioner at the University of Applied Sciences of the Brandenburg Police, which she successfully completed in September 2017. [17] Kemme completed the practical part in Oranienburg. The theory part took place in Potsdam and Oberhavel.
Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first:
Kemme – goals for Germany | ||||||
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# | Date | Location | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
1. | 18 September 2015 | Halle, Germany | Hungary | 3–0 | 12–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying |
2. | 25 October 2016 | Aalen, Germany | Netherlands | 4–1 | 4–2 | Friendly |
3. | 16 September 2017 | Ingolstadt, Germany | Slovenia | 4–0 | 6–0 | 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying |
4. | 5–0 | |||||
5. | 24 October 2017 | Großaspach, Germany | Faroe Islands | 2–0 | 11–0 | |
6. | 3–0 |
Source: [18]
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