Josephine Giard (born 22 March 1996) is a German
footballer
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who plays as a
forward
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for
Scottish Women's Premier League
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club
Hamilton Academical
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. She previously played for
FSV Gütersloh in Germany and in Scotland with
Celtic
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Sports Fo ...
.
Club career
FSV Gütersloh
From 2013 to 2017, Giard played for
FSV Gütersloh in the
2. Frauen-Bundesliga.
On 1 September 2013, she made her senior debut for the club and scored the team's fourth goal in a 4–0 win over
Halle in the first round of the
DFB-Pokal
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. On 8 September 2013, she made her league debut in a 1–0 loss to
VfL Wolfsburg II
VfL Wolfsburg II was a German association football team from the city of Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. It is the reserve team of VfL Wolfsburg. The team's greatest success has been two league championships in the tier four Regionalliga Nord in 2013†...
. Giard made a total of 98 appearances during her 5 years at Gütersloh, scoring 39 goals.
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Celtic
On 23 February 2018, Giard left Gütersloh to join Scottish Women's Premier League
The Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL) is the highest level of league competition in women's football in Scotland. Its two divisions are SWPL 1 and SWPL 2. The league was formed when the Premier Division of the Scottish Women's Football League ...
(SWPL) club Celtic
Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to:
Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
* Celtic music
*Celtic nations
Sports Fo ...
. On 25 February 2018, she made her debut in a 4–0 home victory against St Johnstone in the first round of the SWPL Cup. On 11 March 2018, she made her league debut in a 2–0 win over Forfar Farmington. On 25 March 2018, she scored twice in a 3–0 away victory against Hamilton Academical
Hamilton Academical Football Club, often known as Hamilton Accies, or The Accies, is a Scottish association football, football club from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire who currently compete in the Scottish Championshi ...
in the second round of the SWPL Cup. Her first goal for Celtic was also the team's 1,000th goal in all competitions since it was established in 2007.
Hamilton Academical
Giard signed for Hamilton Academical in the second tier of the SWPL in November 2020, after leaving Celtic earlier that month.
Career statistics
Club
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References
External links
Josephine Giard
at DFB Datencenter
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1996 births
Living people
Celtic F.C. Women players
German women's footballers
German expatriate women's footballers
Women's association football forwards
2. Frauen-Bundesliga players
Scottish Women's Premier League players
Expatriate women's footballers in Scotland
German expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
FSV Gütersloh 2009 players
Hamilton Academical W.F.C. players
Footballers from Rostock
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