Lara Katinka Marti (born 21 September 1999) is a Swiss

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for

Bayer Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, also known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen (), Bayer Leverkusen, or simply Leverkusen, is a professional football club based in Leverkusen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The club competes in the Bundesliga, th ...

and the Switzerland national team.

Career

Club

Marti started playing football in 2008 at FC Lausen 72 and switched to the youth department of

FC Basel Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 13 times, and ...

via FC Liestal in 2014 . After initially being part of the U19 squad there, she made her debut in the Nationalliga in February 2016 at the age of 16. In the following four seasons, she made a total of 62 league appearances for her team, scoring nine goals. For the 2020/21 season, Marti moved to German

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...

club

Bayer 04 Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, also known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen (), Bayer Leverkusen, or simply Leverkusen, is a professional football club based in Leverkusen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The club competes in the Bundesliga, t ...

, where she signed a two-year contract. She made her Bundesliga debut on 4 October 2020 (4th matchday) against

VfL Wolfsburg Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg () or Wolfsburg, is a German professional sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of W ...

National Team

Marti went through all the junior selections of the Swiss Football Association and was, among other things, part of the U19 national team at the home European Championship in 2018, where she made three appearances and was eliminated with the team after the group stage. She made her debut for the Switzerland national team on 14 June 2019 against

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

, starting the match.

References

1999 births Living people Women's association football midfielders Swiss women's footballers Switzerland women's international footballers Bayer 04 Leverkusen (women) players Footballers from Basel FC Basel Frauen players Swiss Women's Super League players Frauen-Bundesliga players Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate women's footballers in Germany UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players Swiss expatriate women's footballers 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players {{Switzerland-women-footy-bio-stub