Sydney Lohmann

Sydney Matilda Lohmann (born 19 June 2000) is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Frauen-Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Germany national team.

Club career
Sydney Lohmann grew up in Pürgen in Upper Bavaria. In her childhood she first played for SV Lengenfeld, then for VfL Kaufering, both in the district of Landsberg am Lech.

From the youth team at SC Fürstenfeldbruck, Lohmann switched to the youth department of FC Bayern Munich for the 2016–17 season. For the B youth team, she played six league games in the junior Bundesliga and scored two goals. Her debut on 17 September 2016 (1st matchday) in a 3–1 win in the home game against the B youth team of 1. FC Nürnberg was crowned with her first goal, the goal to make it 2–0 with a penalty kick in the 20th minute.

At the same time, Lohmann was already active for the second team in the 2nd Bundesliga South. For this she made her debut on 28 August 2016 (1st matchday) in a 1–0 win in the away game against 1. FC Saarbrücken. In the second leg against this team, she scored her first goal in the 88th minute in a 3–1 win at home on 19 February 2017 (12th matchday) with the goal to make it 2–1.

On 19 March 2017 (matchday 14), the attacking midfielder made her debut in the Bundesliga when FC Bayern Munich lost 2–0 in the away game against VfL Wolfsburg over 90 minutes. She scored her first Bundesliga goal on 5 November 2017 (matchday 7) in a 3–1 win in the home game against MSV Duisburg, scoring 2–1 in the 29th minute. With her penalty kick converted in the 90th minute at SGS Essen on 4 October 2020 (4th matchday), she not only scored the winning goal to make it 2–0, but also the 1000th for a Bayern team in the Bundesliga.

On 5 November 2020 Lohmann extended her contract with FC Bayern Munich through 2024.

International career
Lohmann made her debut in the national jersey of the DFB in the U15 national team on 28 October 2014, which won 13–0 in Glasgow against the host team. She scored her first two international goals two days later at the same place in an 8–0 win in the second game against the Scotland U15 national team.

She was capped seven times on the U16 national team, making her debut on 29 June 2015 in a 2–1 win over Norway in the Nordic Cup tournament in Denmark.

Her first cap for the U17 national team occurred on 19 March 2016 in a 2–0 win over Switzerland. On this team, she took part in the European Championship in Belarus from 4 to 16 May 2016. The team won the tournament, with Lohmann playing two group games on 4 and 7 May against Spain and Italy, which ended 2–2 and 0–0, respectively.

She debuted for the U19 national team on 3 April 2018 in Senec in an 8–0 victory over Slovakia in the second-round qualifier of Group 2 for the 2018 European Championship in Switzerland.

She made her debut for the senior national team on 10 November 2018 in Osnabrück in a 5–2 win in a friendly against Italy, coming on for Lina Magull in the 71st minute. She scored her first international goal on 22 September 2020 in the seventh European Championship qualifier in Group I in a 3–0 win against Montenegro, scoring the final goal in the 59th minute.

National coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg included her in the squad for the 2022 European Championship in England. The German team reached the final where they fell to the English national team, with Lohmann playing in four games.

International

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

Honours
Bayern Munich Germany U17 Germany U19 Germany
 * Bundesliga: 2020–21, 2022–23
 * DFB Cup: 2018
 * German B Junior Champion: 2017
 * U17 European Championship: 2016, 2017
 * U19 European Championship runner-up: 2018


 * UEFA Women's Championship runner-up: 2022
 * UEFA Women's Nations League third place: 2023–24