Lea Schüller

Lea Schüller (born 12 November 1997) is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Frauen-Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Germany national team.

Lea Schüller

Schüller with Germany in 2023
Personal information
Full name	Lea Schüller[1]
Date of birth	(1997-11-12) 12 November 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth	Tönisvorst, Germany
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Bayern Munich
Number	11
Youth career
0000–2012	Hülser SV
2012–2014	SGS Essen
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2013–2020	SGS Essen	125	(62)
2020–	Bayern Munich	107	(68)
International career‡
2013–2014	Germany U17	4	(0)
2014–2016	Germany U19	15	(6)
2013–2015	Germany U20	4	(2)
2017–	Germany	80	(54)
Medal record Olympic Games 2024 Paris Team UEFA Women's Championship 2022 England UEFA Women's Nations League 2024 France–Netherlands–Spain
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23:00, 11 May 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 18:47, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

Club career

SGS Essen

Schüller started playing football at Hülser SV before joining the youth department of SGS Essen in 2012. She made her Frauen-Bundesliga debut aged 16 on 1 December 2013, in a 2–0 home defeat against VfL Wolfsburg.^[2] She scored her first two Bundesliga goals on 26 February 2014, in a 3–1 away win against BV Cloppenburg. In July 2017, Schüller extended her contract with SGS Essen for two years until June 2020.^[3]

Bayern Munich

In July 2020, Schüller signed a three-year contract with FC Bayern Munich. She made her debut for her new team in a preseason match, scoring the first two goals for a 3–1 win against SC Freiburg on 9 August.^[4] At the next preseason friendly, against UWCL qualifiers SK Slavia Prague, Schüller contributed a goal in a 4–0 win.^[5]

Schüller also made her first ever UEFA Women's Champions League appearance in a 2–1 loss against defending champions Olympique Lyonnais on 23 August. Bayern was subsequently knocked out on a 2–2 aggregate loss, with Olympique Lyonnais moving to the semi-finals with an away-goal advantage.^[6]

FC Bayern began the 2020–21 Frauen-Bundesliga against SC Sand on 4 September, with Schüller in the starting XI and scoring her first Bundesliga goal with the team, ending with a 6–0 victory. Bayern would go on to win their third league title. Schüller scored a total of 16 goals in her first season with Bayern Munich, finishing third place behind Nicole Billa of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (23 goals) and Laura Freigang of Eintracht Frankfurt (17 goals) as top scorers of the season.^[7]

She continued her impressive displays in the 2021–22 Frauen-Bundesliga season, finishing as the league's top goalscorer with 16 goals as well as the club's top goalscorer with 21 goals in all competitions.^[8] In the 2022–23 season, Schüller scored 19 times across all competitions to help Bayern win the league title once more.

In the 2023–24 season, she scored the game winner in the 77th minute of the 2–1 away victory over Eintracht Frankfurt.^[9] Lea reached double figures for league goals yet again, scoring 11 times as Bayern retained the Frauen-Bundesliga. On 1 May 2025, Schüller scored a hat-trick to fire Bayern to a 4-2 win over Werder Bremen in the DFB-Pokal Frauen final.^[10] This secured the club's first-ever domestic double and first DFB-Pokal trophy since 2012.

International career

Schüller appeared for Germany under-17 national team at the 2014 U-17 Women's World Cup in Costa Rica, playing in all three group matches. With the under-19 team, she participated in the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Israel, again playing in all three group matches and the defeat on penalties to Sweden in the semi-finals. She was then a member of the German under-20 squad at the U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea in 2016, where they lost to France in the quarter-finals.^[11]

Schüller was first called up by coach Steffi Jones to train with the full Germany national squad in June 2017,^[12] but did not make the final squad for the 2017 UEFA Women's Championship.^[13] She made her full international debut against Iceland in a 2019 World Cup qualifying match on 20 October 2017, coming on as a late substitute and scoring the final goal in a 3–2 defeat for Germany. Later in qualifying in April 2018, Schüller scored all 4 goals against the Czech Republic in a 4–0 win.^[14]

Schüller was called up to the Germany squad for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.^[15]

On 18 June 2022, Schüller was called up to the 23-player Germany squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2022.^[16]

Schüller was called up to the Germany squad for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.^[17]

On 3 July 2024, Schüller was called up to the Germany squad for the 2024 Summer Olympics.^[18]

Personal life

Since 2019, Schüller was in a relationship with Austrian sport sailor Lara Vadlau,^[19] but broke up in 2024.^[20]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 11 May 2025^[21]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			DFB Pokal		Continental[a]		Other[b]		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
SGS Essen	2013–14	Frauen-Bundesliga	7	2	3	0	–		–		7	2
	2014–15	Frauen-Bundesliga	18	7	1	0	–		–		19	7
	2015–16	Frauen-Bundesliga	22	8	2	1	–		–		24	9
	2016–17	Frauen-Bundesliga	13	8	1	0	–		–		14	8
	2017–18	Frauen-Bundesliga	21	7	4	4	–		–		25	11
	2018–19	Frauen-Bundesliga	22	14	2	4	–		–		24	18
	2019–20	Frauen-Bundesliga	22	16	5	6	–		–		27	22
	Total		125	62	18	15	–		–		143	77
Bayern Munich	2019–20	Frauen-Bundesliga	–		–		1	0	–		1	0
	2020–21	Frauen-Bundesliga	20	16	4	7	7	3	–		31	26
	2021–22	Frauen-Bundesliga	22	16	2	1	7	4	–		31	21
	2022–23	Frauen-Bundesliga	22	14	4	1	10	4	–		36	19
	2023–24	Frauen-Bundesliga	21	11	4	0	5	3	–		30	14
	2024–25	Frauen-Bundesliga	22	11	5	5	7	0	1	0	35	16
	Total		107	68	19	14	37	14	1	0	164	96
Career total			232	130	37	29	37	14	1	0	307	173

1. Includes UEFA Women's Champions League
2. Includes DFB-Supercup

International

As of 23 July 2025^[22]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Germany	2017	3	1
	2018	8	6
	2019	8	3
	2020	4	2
	2021	11	11
	2022	10	7
	2023	10	5
	2024	15	12
	2025	11	7
Total		80	54

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

List of international goals scored by Lea Schüller^[22]

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	20 October 2017	Wiesbaden, Germany	Iceland	2–3	2–3	2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
2	7 April 2018	Zwickau, Germany	Czech Republic	1–0	4–0
3				2–0
4				3–0
5				4–0
6	4 September 2018	Tórshavn, Faroe Islands	Faroe Islands	1–0	8–0
7	6 October 2018	Essen, Germany	Austria	3–1	3–1	Friendly
8	28 February 2019	Laval, France	France	1–0	1–0
9	22 June 2019	Grenoble, France	Nigeria	3–0	3–0	2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
10	31 August 2019	Kassel, Germany	Montenegro	9–0	10–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
11	7 March 2020	Lagos, Portugal	Norway	1–0	4–0	2020 Algarve Cup
12	19 September 2020	Essen, Germany	Republic of Ireland	3–0	3–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
13	21 February 2021	Aachen, Germany	Belgium	2–0	2–0	Friendly
14	18 September 2021	Cottbus, Germany	Bulgaria	1–0	7–0	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
15				5–0
16	21 September 2021	Chemnitz, Germany	Serbia	1–1	5-1
17				2–1
18				3–1
19				4–1
20	26 November 2021	Braunschweig, Germany	Turkey	2–0	8–0
21				3–0
22				5–0
23	30 November 2021	Faro, Portugal	Portugal	1–0	3–1
24	17 February 2022	Middlesbrough, England	Spain	1–1	1–1	2022 Arnold Clark Cup
25	12 April 2022	Stara Pazova, Serbia	Serbia	1–2	2–3	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
26	8 July 2022	London, England	Denmark	2–0	4–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2022
27	3 September 2022	Bursa, Turkey	Turkey	3–0	3–0	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
28	6 September 2022	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	Bulgaria	1–0	8–0
29				3–0
30				4–0
31	7 July 2023	Fürth, Germany	Zambia	1–2	2–3	Friendly
32	24 July 2023	Melbourne, Australia	Morocco	6–0	6–0	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
33	26 September 2023	Bochum, Germany	Iceland	3–0	4–0	2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League
34	27 October 2023	Sinsheim, Germany	Wales	1–0	5–1
35				2–1
36	28 February 2024	Heerenveen, Netherlands	Netherlands	2–0	2–0
37	9 April 2024	Aachen, Germany	Iceland	1–0	3–1	UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying
38				2–1
39	31 May 2024	Rostock, Germany	Poland	2–1	4–1
40	4 June 2024	Gdynia, Poland	Poland	1–1	3–1
41				2–1
42	16 July 2024	Hanover, Germany	Austria	3–0	4–0
43	25 July 2024	Marseille, France	Australia	2–0	3–0	2024 Summer Olympics
44	31 July 2024	Saint-Étienne, France	Zambia	1–0	4–1
45				3–1
46	29 November 2024	Zurich, Switzerland	Switzerland	3–0	6–0	Friendly
47				6–0
48	21 February 2025	Breda, Netherlands	Netherlands	1–1	2–2	2025 UEFA Women's Nations League
49	4 April 2025	Dundee, Scotland	Scotland	4–0	4–0
50	30 May 2025	Bremen, Germany	Netherlands	2–0	4–0
51				4–0
52	3 June 2025	Vienna, Austria	Austria	2–0	6–0
53	4 July 2025	St. Gallen, Switzerland	Poland	2–0	2–0	UEFA Women's Euro 2025
54	8 July 2025	St. Jakob-Park, Switzerland	Denmark	2–1	2–1

Honours

Bayern Munich

• Bundesliga: 2020–21, 2022–23,^[23] 2023–24, 2024–25
• DFB-Supercup Frauen: 2024
• DFB-Pokal: 2024–25

Germany

• Summer Olympics bronze medal: 2024^[24]
• UEFA Women's Championship runner-up: 2022^[25]
• UEFA Women's Nations League third place: 2023–24^[26]

Individual

• Footballer of the Year (Germany): 2022^[27]
• Silbernes Lorbeerblatt: 2024^[28][29]
• Germany women's national Player of the Year: 2021^[30]
• Artilheira da DFB-Pokal Frauen: 2024–25