Thekla Krause (born 18 May 1969) is a former German international footballer who played as a
forward
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. She was a member of the
Germany national team. She was part of the team at the
1989 European Championship.
Career
Clubs
Krause began her career at
Fortuna Sachsenroß Hannover. With her club she reached the semi-finals of the German championship in 1988, but did not advance after two 0-1 defeats against
KBC Duisburg
KBC Duisburg is a German sports club based in Kaßlerfeld, a suburb of Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded in 1888 and is renowned for its defunct Women's association football, women's football team, which won a List of German ...
. A year later she became champion of the
Oberliga Nord
The Oberliga Nord was the fourth tier of the German football league system in the north of Germany. It covered the states of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. With the introduction of the 3. Liga, the league ceased to exist f ...
with her club. She qualified in 1990 for the then newly introduced two-pronged
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 ...
. After her club gave up the starting place in 1997 despite sporting qualification for the single-track Bundesliga, she switched to the
Sportfreunde Siegen
Sportfreunde Siegen is a German association football club based in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia. After going through insolvency in 2008, the first team was forcibly relegated to the fifth-tier NRW-Liga. Promotion to fourth division Regionallig ...
. On the first day of the 1997/98 season, she scored the first goal of the single-track Bundesliga.
For the 1999/2000 season she moved to
Hamburger SV
Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (), commonly known as Hamburger SV () or Hamburg (), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its football section. Though the current HSV was founded in June 1919 from a merger of three ...
.
In 2002, the bank clerk joined the then district league club FFC Oldesloe 2000. The team initially managed to get promoted to the
Verbandsliga
The Verbandsliga ( en, Football Association League) is usually a tier-six football league in the German football league system, covering the area of a '' Bundesland'' or a regional part of such Bundesland.[Regionalliga Nord
The Regionalliga Nord ( en, Regional League North) is the fourth tier of the German football league system in the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg. It is one of five leagues at this level, together with the Regional ...]
in 2004, she retired.
National Team
Krause gained five caps for the senior national team in 1988, for which she scored two goals.
External links
Thekla Krausein the weltfussball.de database
in the soccerdonna.de database
Thekla Krausein the database of the German Football Association
References
1969 births
Living people
German women's footballers
Germany women's international footballers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Women's association football forwards
UEFA Women's Championship-winning players
Hamburger SV (women) players
West German women's footballers
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