Janina Minge

Janina Madeleine Minge (born 11 June 1999) is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for SC Freiburg and the Germany national team.

Youth
Minge started playing football in 2002 as a three-year-old at TSG Lindau Zech. After seven years she moved to VfB Friedrichshafen. After another four years, she moved to FC Wangen 05, where she played in the male B youth team.

SC Freiburg
Minge joined Bundesliga team SC Freiburg for the 2015–16 season at 16 years old. On 13 September she was part of the squad for the first time. On 6 December in the 6–1 home win against Bayer Leverkusen, she debuted as a substitute for Sandra Starke. She scored her first goal on 20 November 2016 in her team's 2–1 win against FF USV Jena, making it 1-0.

In the 2021–22 season, Minge appeared for SC Freiburg a total of 22 times. She didn't miss a single minute of the 1,980 possible minutes of play.

With nine goals, she was the best German goalscorer during the winter break of the 2022–23 season and scored a remarkable goal in the 4–1 win against MSV Duisburg. This goal was voted SC Freiburg's Goal of the Year and was voted Goal of the Month for December by the Sportschau.

VfL Wolfsburg
Minge will move to VfL Wolfsburg for the 2024–25 season, where she signed a contract that runs until 2027.

International career
Minge made her debut for the U-15 national team in April 2013, in an 8–0 win over the Netherlands. She made three appearances for the under-16 national team in 2014. In 2015, she was the second youngest player in the U-17 national team squad for the European Championship in Iceland where the team reached the semi-finals but were defeated 1–0 by the Swiss selection. In May 2016, the team won the 2016 UEFA Under-17 Championship after a penalty shootout against Spain in Belarus. The four Freiburg players in the squad contributed seven of Germany's ten goals at the tournament and two of them, including Minge, successfully converted their kicks in the shootout.

Police Baden-Württemberg
Minge joined the police force of the state of Baden-Württemberg in 2019. She was accepted into the BW police's elite sports program and successfully completed her training as a police officer in September 2022. She was then transferred to a police station and is currently working on patrol duty.

Honours
Germany
 * UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship: 2016