Tabea Sellner (; born 25 August 1996) is a German

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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and the Germany national team.

Club career

Sellner began her career with

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and won the German B-Junior Championship there in 2012. For the second half of the 2012/13 season, she was promoted to the second Hoffenheim team and achieved promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga for the first time in the summer of 2014. She made her debut in the

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in February 2015. With Hoffenheim, she appeared in 96 Bundesliga matches, scoring 28 goals. Sellner signed to join

in July 2021. In her first season, she finished the group stage at the top of the scoring charts with 8 goals. In May 2022, she extended her contract with Wolfsburg through June 2025. Sellner is on maternity leave from the beginning of the 2023/24 season.

Personal life

Sellner became the ambassador for the petition ''"End discrimination against breastfeeding mothers"'' campaigned by the Health FemTec company Elvie.

International career

Sellner made her international debut for

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on 22 September 2020, starting in the away match against

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in the UEFA Euro 2022 qualifying, which finished as a 3–0 win. On 1 December 2020 in

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, she scored her first two international goals for Germany, in a 3–1 win over the

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, scoring 2–0 in the 29th minute and 3–1 in the 85th minute. Sellner was named in the Germany squad for the UEFA Euro 2022 by national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg. She played in four games in the tournament.

Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sellner goal.''

Honours

Germany * UEFA Championship runner-up:

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Hoffenheim * German B-Junior Football Championship: 2012 * Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga: 2014 Wolfsburg *

: 2022 *

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: 2022

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* * 1996 births Living people Footballers from Giessen German women's footballers Germany women's international footballers Women's association football forwards VfL Wolfsburg (women) players TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (women) players Frauen-Bundesliga players 2. Frauen-Bundesliga players UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players 21st-century German sportswomen {{Germany-women-footy-bio-stub