Sara Doorsoun-Khajeh (Persian: سارا دورسون خواجه; born 17 November 1991) is a German footballer who plays as a defender for Eintracht Frankfurt and the German national team. She previously played for Wattenscheid 09, Bad Neuenahr, Turbine Potsdam, SGS Essen, VfL Wolfsburg and Eintracht Frankfurt.[2]
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Personal information | |||||||||||||
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Full name | Sara Doorsoun-Khajeh[1] | ||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1991-11-17) 17 November 1991 (age 30) | ||||||||||||
Place of birth | Cologne, Germany | ||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||
Club information | |||||||||||||
Current team | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||||||||||||
Number | 33 | ||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||
SV Wesseling | |||||||||||||
SpVgg Köttingen | |||||||||||||
Fortuna Köln | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||
2007–2008 | Fortuna Köln | 12 | (6) | ||||||||||
2008–2010 | SG Wattenscheid 09 | 31 | (4) | ||||||||||
2010–2012 | Bad Neuenahr | 52 | (2) | ||||||||||
2012–2013 | Turbine Potsdam | 14 | (1) | ||||||||||
2013–2018 | SGS Essen | 100 | (15) | ||||||||||
2018–2022 | VfL Wolfsburg | 45 | (1) | ||||||||||
2021 | VfL Wolfsburg II | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||
2022– | Eintracht Frankfurt | 14 | (0) | ||||||||||
National team‡ | |||||||||||||
2006 | Germany U15 | 3 | (1) | ||||||||||
2006–2007 | Germany U17 | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||
2009–2010 | Germany U19 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||
2016– | Germany | 40 | (1) | ||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:03, 02 Pctober 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:54, 3 September 2022 (UTC) |
Doorsoun-Khajeh was born in the city of Cologne to an Iranian father and a Turkish mother.[3]
She has been dating German Princess Charming winner Lou Schaaf since 2021.[4]
In her debut season with VfL Wolfsburg, Doorsoun won the 2018–19 Frauen-Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal.[5] She won the Frauen-Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal again the following season with Wolfsburg.[6] Doorsoun has featured for Wolfsburg during the 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League knockout phase, including playing in the 2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final against Olympique Lyonnais.[7]
Having represented Germany from the under-15 level up, Doorsoun made her debut for the senior Germany women's national football team in 2016 during a 1–0 win over Hungary.[5] She has been called up for the 2016, 2017, and 2018 editions of the SheBelieves Cup, as well as the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 where she played in their 2–0 win over Russia and quarter-final match against Denmark.[8][9] After providing two assists during Germany's World Cup qualification campaign, she was called into their squad for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.[10][11] Doorsoun scored her first goal for the senior national team on 31 August 2019 in a UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying match against Montenegro.[12] On 18 June 2022, she was named in Germany's final UEFA Women's Euro 2022 squad.[13] Doorsoun helped Germany reach the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 Final against England with a 2–1 win over France in the semi-final on 27 July 2022.[14]
Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
SG Wattenscheid 09 | 2008–09 | 2. Frauen-Bundesliga | 22 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 25 | 2 | ||
2009–10 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 12 | 3 | ||||
Total | 31 | 4 | 6 | 1 | — | — | 37 | 5 | ||||
Bad Neuenahr | 2009–10 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 10 | 0 | ||
2010–11 | 20 | 0 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 24 | 1 | ||||
2011–12 | 22 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | 29 | 2 | |||
Total | 52 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | 63 | 3 | |||
Turbine Potsdam | 2012–13 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 14 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | 21 | 1 | |
SGS Essen | 2013–14 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 2 | — | — | 27 | 5 | |||
2014–15 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 18 | 4 | ||||
2015–16 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 2 | — | — | 24 | 5 | ||||
2016–17 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 2 | — | — | 23 | 5 | ||||
2017–18 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 21 | 2 | ||||
Total | 100 | 15 | 13 | 6 | — | — | 113 | 21 | ||||
VfL Wolfsburg | 2018–19 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | |
2019–20 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | 19 | 0 | |||
2020–21 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | 19 | 1 | |||
2021–22 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | ||||
Total | 45 | 1 | 7 | 0 | — | 20 | 0 | 72 | 1 | |||
VfL Wolfsburg II | 2021–22 | 2. Frauen-Bundesliga | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | |||||
Eintracht Frankfurt | 2021–22 | Frauen-Bundesliga | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 7 | 0 | ||
Career total | 250 | 23 | 35 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 314 | 31 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Germany | 2016 | 4 | 0 |
2017 | 7 | 0 | |
2018 | 10 | 0 | |
2019 | 12 | 1 | |
2020 | 1 | 0 | |
2021 | 1 | 0 | |
2022 | 5 | 0 | |
Total | 40 | 1 |
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 31 August 2019 | Auestadion, Kassel, Germany | ![]() | 6–0 | 10–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying |
VfL Wolfsburg[5]
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