Paulina Krumbiegel

Paulina Krumbiegel
Krumbiegel in 2025
Personal information
Full name Paulina Käte Krumbiegel[1]
Date of birth (2000-10-27) 27 October 2000
Place of birth Mannheim, Germany
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Juventus
Number 27
Youth career
2006–2010 TV Kindenheim
2010–2012 SC Siegelbach
2012–2016 TSG Hoffenheim
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2019 TSG Hoffenheim II 59 (13)
2019–2024 TSG Hoffenheim 66 (10)
2024– Juventus 20 (3)
International career
2016 Germany U16 4 (1)
2016–2017 Germany U17 8 (1)
2017–2019 Germany U19 19 (15)
2020– Germany 11 (4)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 6 April 2025
‡ National team caps and goals as of 16:07, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Paulina Käte Krumbiegel (born 27 October 2000) is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for Juventus in the Italian Serie A and represents Germany internationally. She has previously played for TSG Hoffenheim in the German Frauen-Bundesliga.

Club career

Youth

Krumbiegel started playing football at the age of six with her local club TV Kindenheim, winning with them the district championship. In 2010 she started playing with SC Siegelbach and won with them the district cup.[2]

TSG Hoffenheim

Krumbiegel joined TSG Hoffenheim at the age of eleven, initially playing for the under-15 and under-17 before debuting for TSG Hoffenheim II in 2016. She made 54 2. Frauen-Bundesliga appearances in three seasons. She was promoted to the senior squad for the 2019–20 Frauen-Bundesliga season and made her debut in September 2020. She played 65 league matches for the club, scoring 10 goals, as well as 10 DFB-Pokal Frauen matches.[3] In August 2021, she tore her anterior cruciate ligament during training.[4]

Juventus

In May 2024, Krumbiegel signed with Italian Serie A club Juventus on a two-year for the 2024–25 and 2025–26 seasons. She became the first German woman to play for Juventus.[5]

International career

In July 2018, Krumbiegel represented Germany under-19 at the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, finishing runners-up of the tournament after losing 1–0 to Spain in the final at Tissot Arena.[6]

In September 2020, Krumbiegel was called-up for the first time for the German senior team. She was called-up together with Sandra Starke to replace Linda Dallmann and Kristin Demann who were withdrawn due to injury.[7] She made her senior international debut that month, assisting two goals during a 3–0 victory over Montenegro in the UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying stage.[8] Two months later, she scored her debut senior international goal against Greece.[9]

Career statistics

International

As of 8 April 2025[10]
Germany
Year Apps Goals
2020 2 1
2021 3 1
2022 2 1
2023 3 0
2025 1 0
Total 11 4

International goals

Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first:[10]

Krumbiegel – goals for Germany
# Date Location Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 27 November 2020 Ingolstadt, Germany  Greece 6–0 6–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
2. 13 April 2021 Wiesbaden, Germany  Norway 3–1 3–1 Friendly
3. 10 November 2022 Fort Lauderdale, United States  United States 2–1 2–1
4. 25 June 2023 Offenbach, Germany  Vietnam 1–0 2–1

Style of play

Krumbiegel plays as a right-back, though she can also adapt to midfield allowing her to play as a winger or central midfielder.[11]

Personal life

Krumbiegel's brother, Felix, played football and she followed in his path. She was also trained three years by her father, Andreas.[2] Krumbiegel studied speech therapy at the SRH University of Applied Sciences in Heidelberg.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Paulina Käte Krumbiegel | Hoffenheim | UEFA Women's Champions League". UEFA. Archived from the original on 17 February 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Krumbiegel lässt's im Kraichgau krachen" [Krumbiegel rocks the Kraichgau]. Die Rheinpfalz (in German). 29 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Krumbiegel schließt sich Juventus Turin an" [Krumbiegel joins Juventus Turin] (in German). TSG Hoffenheim. 7 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Paulina Krumbiegel erleidet Kreuzbandriss" [Paulina Krumbiegel Suffers ACL Tear] (in German). TSG Hoffenheim. 11 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Welcome to Juventus, Paulina!". Juventus. 7 May 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Junge Sportlerin hat große Ziele" [Young athlete has big goals]. Die Rheinpfalz (in German). 10 August 2018.
  7. ^ "Krumbiegel und Starke für Dallmann und Demann nachnominiert" [Krumbiegel and Starke nominated for Dallmann and Demann] (in German). German Football Association. 14 September 2020. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020.
  8. ^ "Nationalspielerin Paulina Krumbiegel wechselt von Hoffenheim zu Juventus Turin" [International player Paulina Krumbiegel moves from Hoffenheim to Juventus Turin] (in German). Südwestrundfunk. 7 May 2024.
  9. ^ "DFB-Frauen schlagen Griechenland - Bilanz bleibt perfekt" [DFB Women beat Greece - record remains perfect]. Westdeutsche Zeitung (in German). 27 November 2020. Archived from the original on 6 December 2020.
  10. ^ a b "Paulina Krumbiegel". dfb.de. 18 September 2021.
  11. ^ D'Eugenio, Roberto (7 May 2024). "Paulina Krumbiegel, chi è la giocatrice tedesca della Juve women" [Paulina Krumbiegel, who is the German player of Juve women]. DSW Sport (in Italian).