Jessica Wich

Jessica Wich (born 14 July 1990 in Kronach) is a German football striker. She currently plays for Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

Jessica Wich
Wich playing for Potsdam in 2009.
Personal information
Full name Jessica Wich
Date of birth (1990-07-14) 14 July 1990
Place of birth Kronach, Germany
Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Playing position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Number 7
Youth career
1996–2002 SV Höfles/Vogtendorf
2002–2003 TSF Theisenort
2003–2006 SV Reitsch
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2007 SC Regensburg 18 (4)
2007–2011 1.FFC Turbine Potsdam 64 (27)
2011–2012 Hamburger SV 21 (2)
2012–2014 1. FFC Frankfurt 22 (1)
2013–2014 1. FFC Frankfurt II 8 (3)
2014– Bayer Leverkusen 76 (3)
National team‡
2005 Germany U15 3 (3)
2005–2007 Germany U-17 19 (7)
2008–2009 Germany U-19 11 (3)
2009–2010 Germany U-20 9 (0)
2008–2012 Germany U-23 4 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 November 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 4 July 2012

Career

Clubs

Jessica Wich began her career at the age of 6 years at SV Höfles/Vogtendorf. She then moved to TSF Theisenort followed by SV Reitsch. In 2006 Wich moved to SC Regensburg which just won promotion for the second division. She scored four goals in her first season. Just one year later at the age of 17 she moved to Potsdam and played for one of the best female German soccer clubs 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam.[1] On the 26th of August 2007 she scored her first Bundesliga goal against SG Wattenscheid 09. In January 2008, she won her first national title with the DFB-Hallenpokal. In her first Bundesliga season, she was the most successful scorer of her team with 13 goals. A year later she won with Potsdam the DFB-Hallenpokal again and got her first German championship title. She was also part of the squad, who one the UEFA Champions League in 2010. Thoughtout her four seasons at Potsdam she scored 35 goals in 82 appearances in the Bundesliga, the Bundesliga Cup and Champions League. In June 2011 she announced her transfer to Hamburg.[2] After the season 2011/12 Wich joined the club 1. FFC Frankfurt signing a three-year contract.[3] In this period she had 22 appearances and won the DFB-Pokal. On May 20, 2014, Bayer 04 Leverkusen announced Wich's commitment to the season 2014/15. Wich played for Leverkusen for several seasons, staying after the club's relegation.[4]

International

She made her debut in the German under 15 national team on 29 August 2005 and scored three goals against Scotland. With the under 17 team, she finished third in the Nordic Cup in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, she reached the semi-finals at the European Championship in France with the under 19 national team and won the FIFA U-20 World Cup of 2010 at home in Germany.

Honours

Clubs

International

References
  1. "Jessica Wich: 16 Jahre, erste Liga" (in German). Mittelbayerische Zeitung. 21 June 2007. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  2. "Hamburger SV verpflichtet Jessica Wich". womensoccer.de. 16 June 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
  3. Wich: Vielseitige Qualitäten für den FFC, kicker.de. Abgerufen am 4. Juli 2012.
  4. ""Es war eher eine lange Leidenszeit"" (in German). Neue Presse. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
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