Monika Staab (born 9 January 1959) is a former German football player and currently the

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Career

From 2012 until 2014, Staab was 15 months in charge of

Qatar women's national football team ) , Association = Qatar Football Association (QFA) , Sub-confederation = WAFF (West Asia) , Confederation = AFC (Asia) , Coach = Fedha Al-Abdullah , Captain = Suaad AlHashemi , Most caps = , ...

. She was the manager of the women’s Bundesliga side

1. FFC Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt is a German women's association football club based in Frankfurt. Its first team currently plays in the German top flight, Frauen-Bundesliga. From 1998 to 2020, the club was known as 1. FFC Frankfurt. Eintracht have won sev ...

from 1993 to 2004. She was also the chairman of the club. She won the

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in 2002, the German championship in 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2003 and the

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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

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and NSG Oberst Schiel in Germany and played for clubs abroad such as

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and

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

References

External links

Player profile
at soccerdonna.de

at soccerdonna.de 1959 births Living people German women's footballers German women's football managers 1. FFC Frankfurt players Paris Saint-Germain Féminine players Expatriate women's footballers in England Expatriate women's footballers in France Women's association football midfielders Southampton Women's F.C. players West German expatriate sportspeople in England Saudi Arabia women's national football team managers West German expatriate sportspeople in France West German expatriate women's footballers Expatriate football managers in Bahrain Expatriate football managers in Qatar Expatriate football managers in Saudi Arabia German expatriate sportspeople in Bahrain German expatriate sportspeople in Qatar German expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia West German women's footballers Female association football managers German expatriate football managers People from Offenbach (district) Footballers from Darmstadt (region) {{Germany-women-footy-bio-stub