Monika Staab

Staab in 2011
Personal information
Date of birth	(1959-01-09) 9 January 1959 (age 65)
Place of birth	Dietzenbach, West Germany[1]
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1970–1974	SG Rosenhöhe Offenbach
1974–1977	Kickers Offenbach
1977–1978	NSG Oberst Schiel
1978–	Paris Saint-Germain
	Queens Park Rangers
0000–1984	Southampton WFC
1984–1992	SG Praunheim
Managerial career
1993–1999	SG Praunheim
1999–2004	1. FFC Frankfurt
2007	Bahrain
2013–2014	Qatar
2021–2023	Saudi Arabia
2023–	Saudi Arabia (technical director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Monika Staab (born 9 January 1959) is a former German football player and currently the technical director of Saudi Arabia.

Career

From 2012 until 2014, Staab was 15 months in charge of Qatar women's national football team.^[2] She was the manager of the women’s Bundesliga side 1. FFC Frankfurt from 1993 to 2004. She was also the chairman of the club.^[3][4]

She won the UEFA Women's Cup in 2002, the German championship in 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2003 and the German cup in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.

As a player, she represented the senior team of SG Rosenhöhe Offenbach already at the age of 11, furthermore Kickers Offenbach and NSG Oberst Schiel in Germany and played for clubs abroad such as Paris Saint-Germain and Queens Park Rangers.^[5]

In August 2021, Staab was appointed as the coach of Saudi Arabia's women's national team.^[6] In February 2023, she became a technical director of the Saudi women's department.^[7]