Vanessa Bürki (born 1 April 1986) is a

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striker who plays for BSC YB. She has also been a member of the Swiss national team.

Club career

On 18 April 2016, she extended her contract with

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until 2018. However, she transferred to BSC YB in 2017.

Clubs

Bürki started playing football at FC Wacker Grenchen at the age of twelve and stayed until the C Youth level together with boys, before moving to DFC Zuchwil, a women's football club from

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in the canton of

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, in 2001. For this club she played from 2002 to 2006 (from March 13, 2005 under the name FFC Zuchwil 05) in the National League A , was twice second in the championship, won the Torjägerkanone and was awarded Footballer of the Year. Becoming aware of this,

signed her. She made her debut on September 10, 2006 (Day 1) in a 4-1 home win over

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and crowned it with their first

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goal, the goal for the final score in the 80th minute. From 18 April to 10 May 2009, on four consecutive matchdays, she scored two goals and on 31 October 2009 (7th matchday), and she even scored four goals in a 6-2 home win over 1. FC Saarbrücken. In 2015 and 2016 she won the German championship with the Munich team. At the end of the 2016/17 season, she said goodbye to FC Bayern Munich after eleven seasons. For the 2017/18 season they committed the Swiss division club BSC YB.

National Team

On March 26, 2003, she made her debut in the U-19 national team, which lost 3-0 to

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. She took part in the U-19 European Championship in Hungary from 20 to 31 July 2005, and was eliminated after three games in the preliminary round. She scored scored five out of eight of her team's goals. She made her U-20 debut on June 5, 2006 in Oberdorf in a 2-1 defeat against

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. She crowned her second appearance for this national team on June 8, 2006 in

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, in a 5-1 victory over

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with three goals. From August 17 to September 3, 2006, she took part in the U-20 World Cup in Russia and played 90 minutes in all three group games. She scored both goals for Switzerland in the first group match on August 18, in the 4-2 defeat by

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. On May 22, 2004, she made her debut in the senior national team, which scored a 0-0 draw in

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in the European Championship qualifier against the selection of

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. She scored her first international goal on February 25, 2006 in

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in the 2-3 defeat against

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with the opening goal to make it 1-0 in the 20th minute.

Honours

Club

; Bayern München *

(2): 2014–15, 2015–16 *

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(1): 2011–12 * Bundesliga Cup (1): 2011 * 2017: Cyprus Cup - Winner * 2004, 2006: Swiss Vice Champion * 2009, 2017: German Vice Champion * 2006: Swiss top scorer

Individual

She was named Best Swiss Footballer of 2006.List of recipients
in the ASF-SFV's website

References

1986 births Living people Swiss women's footballers Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate women's footballers in Germany FC Bayern Munich (women) players Switzerland women's international footballers Frauen-Bundesliga players Women's association football forwards 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Swiss Women's Super League players BSC YB Frauen players Sportspeople from the canton of Solothurn UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players Swiss expatriate women's footballers FFC Zuchwil 05 players {{Switzerland-footy-forward-stub Expatriate footballers in Germany Association football forwards Swiss expatriate footballers