Personal information | |||
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Full name | Janina Madeleine Minge [1] | ||
Date of birth | 11 June 1999 | ||
Place of birth | Lindau, Germany | ||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | SC Freiburg | ||
Number | 9 | ||
Youth career | |||
TSG Lindau Zech | |||
VfB Friedrichshafen | |||
2013–2015 | FC Wangen 05 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2015–2016 | SC Freiburg II | 11 | (8) |
2015– | SC Freiburg | 129 | (18) |
International career‡ | |||
2013–2014 | Germany U15 | 6 | (6) |
2014 | Germany U16 | 3 | (3) |
2015–2016 | Germany U17 | 26 | (10) |
2017 | Germany U19 | 11 | (2) |
2017–2018 | Germany U20 | 9 | (2) |
2023– | Germany | 3 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 4 December 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:34, 9 April 2024 (UTC) |
Janina Madeleine Minge (born 11 June 1999) is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for SC Freiburg and the Germany national team.
Minge started playing football in 2002 as a three-year-old at TSG Lindau Zech. After seven years she moved to VfB Friedrichshafen. After another four years, she moved to FC Wangen 05, where she played in the male B youth team.
Minge joined Bundesliga team SC Freiburg for the 2015–16 season at 16 years old. [2] On September 13 she was part of the squad for the first time. On December 6th in the 6-1 home win against Bayer 04 Leverkusen, she debuted as a substitute for Sandra Starke. [3] She scored her first goal on November 20, 2016 in her team's 2-1 win against FF USV Jena, making it 1-0. [4]
In the 2021–22 season, Minge appeared for SC Freiburg a total of 22 times. She didn't miss a single minute of the 1,980 possible minutes of play.
With nine goals, she was the best German goalscorer during the winter break of the 2022–23 season and scored a remarkable goal in the 4-1 win against MSV Duisburg. This goal was voted SC Freiburg's Goal of the Year and was voted Goal of the Month for December by the Sportschau. [5] [6]
Minge will move to VfL Wolfsburg for the 24/25 season, where she signed a contract that runs until 2027. [7]
Minge made her debut for the U-15 national team in April 2013, [8] in an 8–0 win over the Netherlands. She made three appearances for the under-16 national team in 2014. [9] In 2015, she was the second youngest player in the U-17 national team squad for the European Championship in Iceland where the team reached the semi-finals but were defeated 1–0 by the Swiss selection. [10] In May 2016, the team won the 2016 UEFA Under-17 Championship after a penalty shootout against Spain in Belarus. [11] The four Freiburg players in the squad contributed seven of Germany's ten goals at the tournament and two of them, including Minge, successfully converted their kicks in the shootout. [12]
Janina Minge joined the police force of the state of Baden-Württemberg in 2019. She was accepted into the BW police's elite sports program and successfully completed her training as a police officer in September 2022. She was then transferred to a police station and is currently working on patrol duty. [13]
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Germany | 2023 | 2 | 1 |
2024 | 1 | 0 | |
Total | 3 | 1 |
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 25 June 2023 | Offenbach, Germany | Vietnam | 2–0 | 2–1 | Friendly |
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