Bianca Schmidt

Bianca Schmidt
	Schmidt playing for Potsdam in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Bianca Ursula Schmidt
Date of birth	23 January 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth	Gera, East Germany
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Wing back, Winger
Team information
Current team	Turbine Potsdam
Number	20
Youth career
1997–2003	TSV 1880 Gera-Zwötzen
2003–2006	1. FC Gera 03
Senior career*
Years	Team
2006–2012	Turbine Potsdam
2012–2015	1. FFC Frankfurt
2015–2021	Turbine Potsdam
2021–2023	FC Rosengård
2023–	Turbine Potsdam
International career‡
2005	Germany U15
2006	Germany U17
2007	Germany U19
2007–2010	Germany U20
2009–2015	Germany
Medal record
Women's football
Representing Germany
UEFA Women's Championship
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:15, 22 April 2019 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:17, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Bianca Ursula Schmidt (born 23 January 1990) is a German footballer. She plays as a defender for Turbine Potsdam and the German national team.

Career

Bianca Schmidt has combined her football career with her duties as a soldier in the Sports Promotion Group of the German Army.^[4]^[5]

Club

Schmidt began her career at the age of seven with TSV 1880 Gera-Zwötzen. The club changed its name to 1. FC Gera 03 after a merger in 2003. During her entire youth career up to Under-15 level in the 2005–06 season, she played as the only girl on the team and only knew women's football from state selection squads and junior national teams.

In 2006, Schmidt moved to the reigning German club champions 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam while she attended the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Potsdam Sport School,^[6] which has an elite programme for girls' football. The school has very close links with the FFC Turbine Potsdam club.^[7] Schmidt soon became a regular starter for the team. She scored eight goals in her first Bundesliga season and won the Fritz Walter bronze medal as the third best female junior player of the year. At Potsdam, Schmidt won four Bundesliga titles in a row from 2009 to 2012.^[2] She also claimed the UEFA Women's Champions League in the 2009–10 season with the team, where she scored during the penalty shoot-out in the final.^[8] One year later, Potsdam again made it to the final, but lost against Olympique Lyonnais.

In summer 2012, Schmidt was transferred to 1. FFC Frankfurt. In summer 2015, she rejoined 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam.

In July 2021, Schmidt joined FC Rosengård with a two-year contract until the summer 2023.^[9]

International

Starting at Under-15 level, Schmidt played for several German junior national teams. She won the 2007 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship and claimed third-place at the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. She made her debut for Germany's senior national team in February 2009 against China. Later that year Schmidt was called up and was a regular starter for Germany at the 2009 European Championship, which the team won. In 2010, she returned to play in a junior competition, winning the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup on home soil in Germany. Schmidt was called up for Germany's 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup squad.^[2]

International goals

Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first:

Schmidt – goals for Germany
#	Date	Location	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	15 September 2012	Karaganda, Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	5–0	7–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying
2.	13 February 2013	Strasbourg, France	France	1–0	3–3	Friendly
3.	21 September 2013	Cottbus, Germany	Russia	9–0	9–0	2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification