 Freigang withGermany in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Laura Freigang[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1998-02-01)1 February 1998 (age 28) | ||
| Place of birth | Kiel, Germany | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2011 | FSV Oppenheim | ||
| 2011–2014 | Holstein Kiel | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016–2017 | Penn State Nittany Lions | 37 | (11) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2016 | TSV Schott Mainz | 13 | (4) |
| 2018– | Eintracht Frankfurt | 138 | (86) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2013 | Germany U15 | 3 | (1) |
| 2013–2014 | Germany U16 | 7 | (4) |
| 2014 | Germany U17 | 5 | (3) |
| 2015–2017 | Germany U19 | 24 | (16) |
| 2015–2018 | Germany U20 | 17 | (7) |
| 2020– | Germany | 43 | (17) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23:00, 9 February 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 17:56, 31 October 2025 (UTC) | |||
Laura Freigang (born 1 February 1998) is a German professionalfootballer who plays as aforward forBundesliga clubEintracht Frankfurt and theGermany national team.[2][3][4][5]
Freigang started playing football at FSV Oppenheim. After nine years, she moved to Holstein Kiel in 2011 due to her family moving. In the 2012/2013 season she made her first appearances in the B junior team in the first-class Bundesliga North/Northeast. She scored two goals on her debut on 3 November 2012 againstWerder Bremen. She scored another goal in a total of eight appearances this season. In the following season, Freigang was an integral part of the team and scored 15 goals in 17 Bundesliga appearances, the fifth most in the North/Northeast season.[citation needed]
After three years inKiel, Freigang moved back toRhineland-Palatinate in the summer of 2014, to the regional league team TSV Schott Mainz. In her first season she scored 20 goals in 18 games, the third most in the league.[citation needed] With TSV Schott they achieved promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga as undefeated champions.[citation needed] In the following season she scored four goals in 13 second division games.
As of August 2016, Freigang studied atPennsylvania State University on a sports scholarship and at the same time played for the university's soccer team in theBig Ten Conference. Freigang scored a goal in the first game of the season and was then namedFreshman of the Week in the Big Ten Conference.
For the2018–19 season she moved toBundesliga club1. FFC Frankfurt.[6] She finished her first season with Frankfurt in fifth place and scored 10 goals in 20 games.[7] In the second season of2019–20, she and two other players were the third-best goalscorer in the league with 16 goals in 22 games[8] and finished sixth with Frankfurt.
In July 2020, 1. FFC Frankfurt was integrated into the Eintracht Frankfurt club and formed the club's women's football department. In 2021 she extended her contract early until 2025.[9] In the2020–21 season she was second in thescorers list behindNicole Billa with 17 goals.
Freigang made her first national appearance in 2013 with the U15 national team.[10] She scored four goals in seven international matches for the U16 team. She scored two goals at the Nordic Cup for the U16 national teams in 2014, including the 2-0 goal in the final win against Sweden.[11] She was appointed to theU17 national team squad for the first time at the2014 U17 World Cup in Costa Rica. She came on as a substitute in two group games. In the other games for the U17 team she scored three goals.
In 2015 she made her debut for theU19 national team, for which she took part in threeEuropean Championships in2015,2016, and2017. She scored a total of two goals and reached the semi-finals in 2015 and 2017. In total, Freigang played 24 international matches for the U19 team, in which she scored 16 goals.[12]
Freigang played her first game for theU20 national team in October 2015. In 2016 and 2018 she and her team reached the quarterfinals of theU20 World Cup. She scored two goals during the 2018 tournament.[13] Freigang scored seven goals in 17 international matches for the U20 team.
She made hersenior national team debut on 7 March 2020, coming on as a substitute forLinda Dallmann in the 73rd minute in theAlgarve Cup semi-final againstNorway. She scored her first international goal on 22 September 2020 in a 3–0 win in theEuropean Championship qualifier against the national team ofMontenegro to make it 1–0 in the second minute. In her third international match on 27 November 2020, she scored a hat trick in a 6–0 win in the European Championship qualifier againstGreece.[14]
She was named to the squad by national coachMartina Voss-Tecklenburg for the2022 European Championship in England. Germany reached the final, but lost toEngland and became European runners-up. Freigang was used in one game.
Freigang was called back into the squad for the2023 World Cup and played a short seven-minute appearance in the 6–0 win against World Cup newcomersMorocco, but was eliminated with Germany in the preliminary round.[15]
On 3 July 2024, Freigang was called up to the Germany squad for the2024 Summer Olympics.[16]
Freigang studied communication sciences and later psychology atPennsylvania State University from 2016 to 2018. She has been studying sports science at theGoethe University Frankfurt since the 2018/19 winter semester.[17]
In December 2023, Freigang published a book with personal photographs from Germany's World Cup campaign.[18] The limited edition was sold out in ten minutes.[19]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2020 | 3 | 4 |
| 2021 | 7 | 5 | |
| 2022 | 7 | 3 | |
| 2023 | 7 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 10 | 2 | |
| 2025 | 9 | 3 | |
| Total | 43 | 17 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 September 2020 | Podgorica, Montenegro |  Montenegro | 1–0 | 3–0 | UEFA Euro 2021 qualifying |
| 2 | 27 November 2020 | Ingolstadt, Germany |  Greece | 2–0 | 6–0 | UEFA Euro 2021 qualifying |
| 3 | 3–0 | |||||
| 4 | 4–0 | |||||
| 5 | 24 February 2021 | Venlo, Netherlands |  Netherlands | 1–1 | 1–2 | Friendly |
| 6 | 10 April 2021 | Wiesbaden, Germany |  Australia | 4–0 | 5–2 | Friendly |
| 7 | 13 April 2021 | Wiesbaden, Germany |  Norway | 1–1 | 3–1 | Friendly |
| 8 | 26 October 2021 | Essen, Germany |  Israel | 3–0 | 7–0 | 2023 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 9 | 26 November 2021 | Braunschweig, Germany |  Turkey | 6–0 | 8–0 | |
| 10 | 6 September 2022 | Plovdiv, Bulgaria |  Bulgaria | 2–0 | 8–0 | |
| 11 | 6–0 | |||||
| 12 | 8–0 | |||||
| 13 | 29 November 2024 | Zurich, Switzerland |  Switzerland | 2–0 | 6–0 | Friendly |
| 14 | 4–0 | |||||
| 15 | 25 February 2025 | Nuremberg, Germany |  Austria | 1–1 | 4–1 | 2025 UEFA Nations League |
| 16 | 8 April 2025 | Wolfsburg, Germany |  Scotland | 5–1 | 6–1 | |
| 17 | 3 June 2025 | Vienna, Austria | Austria | 2–0 | 6–0 |
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