Åsa Nilla Maria Fischer (born 2 August 1984) is a Swedish

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for Linköpings. She played in the Swedish national team between 2001 and 2022. She was previously the

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Career

Fischer won most of her

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for Sweden as a

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after her debut versus

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in January 2001. Approaching a century of appearances, she was converted to a

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by coach

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in 2013. The change in position coincided with an upturn in goalscoring form for Fischer, who scored three times for hosts Sweden at

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. Her performances in Sweden's run to the semi-finals prompted a contract offer from European Champions

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 ...

and Fischer agreed to move to Germany from 1 January 2014. In August 2013, the clubs reached a deal for "grateful" Fischer's immediate transfer. Fischer played the first competitive game for her new side in the Bundesliga 2013–14 season opener against

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in front of a home crowd of 8,249 fans on 7 September 2013. On 28 March 2022 Fischer announced through her

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that she wouldn’t take part in the fortcoming Team Sweden campaign in

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on grounds that she didn’t want to spend most of the summer away from her family. During the championship she appeared as a studio expert in the broadcasts from Swedish public service channel SVT. On 27 September 2022, Nilla Fischer announced her retirement from Team Sweden. On 12 December the same year, she announced her retirement from soccer, and instead educate herself to become a police officer.

Matches and goals scored at World Cup and Olympic tournaments

Nilla Fischer has represented Sweden in four

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( China 2007, Germany 2011, Canada 2015, France 2019) and three

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(

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Rio 2016 ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

.) Her squad finished in third place in two of those World Cups (2011 and 2019), and won a silver medal in Rio. Twice during Olympic play she scored her team's only goal of the match, securing wins against

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in 2008 and

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in 2016. Her 35th-minute goal against the

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on the final day of group play in the 2011 World Cup would prove to be the match winner. That result put Sweden atop their group, and is the only time the Americans have suffered defeat in the group stage of a World Cup.

International goals

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Sweden - Switzerland, 5 April 2015 (16862297759)

Matches and goals scored at European Championship tournaments

Nilla Fischer has appeared at three European Championship tournaments: Finland 2009, Sweden 2013, and Netherlands 2017.

Gender equality and LGBT rights

In regards to women's football, Fischer was described in 2017 as "one of the sport’s most important voices in support of gender equality and LGBT rights".

Personal life

In 2013, Fischer gave an interview to '' QX'' magazine in which she announced her intention to marry her partner Mariah-Michaela. They married in December 2013.

Honours

Club

LdB FC Malmö

Damallsvenskan The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...

: Winner 2010,

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Svenska Supercupen Svenska Supercupen, ''Swedish Super Cup'', was a one-off fixture in Swedish football played between the Allsvenskan champions and the winners of Svenska Cupen. The fixture was played in November, after the Allsvenskan season. In the event of a ...

: Winner 2011

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 ...

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: Winner 2013–14 *

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: Winner 2013–14, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 *

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: Winner 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19

Country

;

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2007 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, the fifth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, was an international association football competition for women held in China from 10 to 30 September 2007. Originally, China was to host the 2003 edition, but th ...

: Group stage *

2011 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup competition, the world championship for women's national association football teams. It was held from 26 June to 17 July 2011 in Germany, which won the right to host the even ...

: Third place *

2015 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup was the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international soccer championship contested by the women's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament was hosted by Canada for the ...

: Round of 16 *

2019 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup was the eighth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international Women's association football championship contested by 24 women's national teams representing member associations of FIFA. It ...

: Third place * 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing: Quarter-final * 2012 Summer Olympics in London: Quarter-final * 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio: Runner-up *

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: Quarter-final *

: Semi-finals *

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(Participated from 2007 to 2015): Winner

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; Sweden U19 *

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: Group stage

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, Semi-finals

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* Nordic Cup: Runner-up 2004 ; Sweden U17 * Nordic Cup: Winner 2000, Runner-up 2001

Individual

*2013: Silver Boot UEFA Women's European Championship *2013: UEFA Women's European Championship All Star Team *2013: Best female defense in Sweden *2014: Best female defense in Sweden *2014:

UEFA Best Women's Player in Europe Award The UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award (previously known as the UEFA Best Women's Player in Europe Award) is an association football award given to the female footballer that is considered the best player playing for a women's football club i ...

Third place *2016: FIFPro: FIFA FIFPro World XI

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* IFFHS World's Woman Team of the Decade 2011–2020 * IFFHS UEFA Woman Team of the Decade 2011–2020

References

;Match reports

External links

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Olympic profile

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fischer, Nilla 1984 births Living people People from Kristianstad Municipality Swedish women's footballers Olympic footballers of Sweden Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sweden women's international footballers 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Kristianstads DFF players Damallsvenskan players Linköpings FC players FC Rosengård players FIFA Century Club Swedish LGBT rights activists Swedish LGBT sportspeople Lesbian sportswomen LGBT association football players VfL Wolfsburg (women) players Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Swedish expatriate women's footballers Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Germany Women's association football defenders Women's association football midfielders Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in football 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players Sportspeople from Skåne County UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players