German footballer
Lena Petermann (born 5 February 1994) is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Women's Super League club Leicester City and has appeared for the Germany national team.
Club career
Petermann played at TSV Otterndorf, where she had to play in a team with boys up until the C-Youth level. This was followed by a few years in the JugendSpielgemeinschaft Otterndorf/Altenwalde/Wanna (JSG OttAWA), before she moved to SV Ahlerstedt/Ottendorf in the winter of 2009.
Petermann started her club career at Hamburger SV. On September 20, 2009 (1st matchday) she made her Bundesliga debut in the 1-4 defeat in the home game against FCR 2001 Duisburg. She scored her first Bundesliga goal on November 8, 2009 (8th matchday) in a 4-2 win in the away game against 1. FC Saarbrücken.
In 2013, she moved to the United States to play college football (soccer) for the UCF Knights in Florida, where in her first year she was named the Conference rookie of the year.[2] At the Knights she played together with her compatriots Karoline Heinze and Sophie Howard.
After a successful campaign with Germany national U-20 team[3] at the 2014 U-20 World Cup she had an opportunity and decided to move back to Germany to pursue a professional career, by joining SC Freiburg.[4][5]
After 74 league and 13 cup games for SC Freiburg, she joined Turbine Potsdam for the 2018/19 season. After just one year, in which she scored 7 goals in 10 games, she left Turbine Potsdam and moved to France to play for Montpellier HSC for 4 years.
In 2023 Petermann signed for WSL side Leicester City on a two-year contract.[3]
International career
Youth
As an under-17 international she played the UEFA U-17 Championship in 2010 and in 2011, achieving third place in both.[6] As well as the 2010 FIFA U-17 World Cup, where she scored five goals.[7]
She played for U-20 national team and was part of the winning team of the 2014 FIFA U-20 World Cup where she scored three goals. The first was in a 2–0 victory against the United States at the group stage, she scored the first goal of that match.[8][9] Her second goal came during the semifinal against France, with the scores at 1–1 and France dominating the match, she scored the winning goal (2–1) at the 81st minute.[10] Her third goal was the title winning goal during the 1–0 triumph over Nigeria, scored at the 98th minute during the match extra-time.[11][12]
Senior
Petermann made her debut for the senior German team on 6 March 2015 at the Algarve Cup against China.[13] She was part of the German squad of the 2015 World Cup in Canada,[14] where she scored her first two senior international goals for Germany, making it 2-0 and 3-0 in the 56th and 58th minutes in the group stage 4–0 win against Thailand.[13]
