The German foootball museum (Deutsches Fußballmuseum) has announced eleven women’s football legends to be inducted to the newly-established Hall of Fame of German football. The eleven female players will join their male counterparts, the “founding eleven of the Hall of Fame” (“Gründungself der Hall of Fame”), who were announced in November 2018.

The jury of 28 renowned German football journalists had the opportunity to name their candidates for the Hall of Fame. Players who retired from professional football at least five years ago were eligible as candidates.

Founding women’s eleven of the Hall of Fame

Forwards
Heidi Mohr • Inka Grings • Birgit Prinz

Midfielders
Martina Voss-Tecklenburg • Silvia Neid • Renate Lingor • Bettina Wiegmann

Defenders
Steffi Jones • Doris Fitschen • Nia Künzer

Goalkeeper
Silke Rottenberg

Coach
Tina Theune

Hall of Fame Jury

Alexander Laux (Hamburger Abendblatt), Alfred Draxler (Bild), Anno Hecker (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Christian Hollmann (dpa), Christian Löer (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger), Dirc Seemann (Sport1), Dirk Preiß (Stuttgarter Zeitung/Stuttgarter Nachrichten), Erich Laaser (Verband Deutscher Sportjournalisten), Frederik Ahrens (Hamburger Morgenpost), Gernot Bauer (Eurosport), Gianni Costa (Rheinische Post), Jörg Jakob (kicker), Katrin Schulze (Der Tagesspiegel), Manfred Loppe (RTL), Manuel Neukirchner (Deutsches Fußballmuseum), Marco Fenske (RND), Mark Weishaupt (Saarbrücker Zeitung), Martin Volkmar (Perform Media), Peter Müller (Funke Sport), Philipp Köster (11Freunde), Pit Gottschalk (Sportjournalist), Ralph Durry (sid), Roman Steuer (Sky), Sabine Töpperwien (WDR-Hörfunk), Sascha Klaverkamp (Ruhr Nachrichten), Stefan Frommann (WELT/WELT am SONNTAG), Steffen Simon (WDR-Fernsehen), Thomas Fuhrmann (ZDF)