Babett Peter

Babett Peter

Peter with VfL Wolfsburg in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth	(1988-05-12) 12 May 1988 (age 35)
Place of birth	Oschatz, East Germany
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
	FSV Oschatz
	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2004–2005	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	30	(4)
2006–2012	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	138	(17)
2012–2014	1. FFC Frankfurt	26	(1)
2014–2019	VfL Wolfsburg	95	(8)
2019–2020	CD Tacón	18	(1)
2020–2022	Real Madrid	48	(0)
International career‡
2006–2018	Germany	118	(8)
Medal record Women's football Representing   Germany FIFA Women's World Cup 2007 China Team Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Team 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team UEFA Women's Championship 2009 Finland Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 May 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 November 2018

Babett Peter ^[1] (born 12 May 1988) is a former German professional footballer and current assistant general manager for the National Women's Soccer League club Chicago Red Stars. ^[2] She played as a defender for Real Madrid CF and for the Germany women's national football team. ^[3]

Club career

Turbine Potsdam

Peter started playing football in primary school. At the age of nine, her parents took her to the local football club FSV Oschatz. She later played for 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and was called up for German national teams at the junior level. During the winter break of the 2005–06 season, she moved to 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam, winning the Bundesliga title and the German Cup in her first season. In September 2007, Peter received the Fritz Walter medal in gold as the best female junior player of the year. One month later, she scored her first Bundesliga goal for Potsdam against SG Essen-Schönebeck from the penalty spot. ^[4]

From 2009 to 2011, Peter won three consecutive Bundesliga titles with Turbine Potsdam. ^[4] In the 2009–10 season, Potsdam also claimed the inaugural UEFA Women's Champions League title, with Peter scoring during the penalty shoot-out in the final. ^[5] One year later, Potsdam again made it to the final, but lost against Olympique Lyonnais.

FFC Frankfurt, 2012 - 2014

On 29 February 2012, Peter signed a three-year contract and moved to 1. FFC Frankfurt on 1 July 2012. ^[6]

Wolfsburg, 2014 - 2019

In March 2014, Peter joined VfL Wolfsburg. ^[7] She won three Frauen-Bundesliga titles with Wolfsburg as well as the DFB-Pokal Frauen five times.

CD Tacón, 2019 - 2022

On 17 September 2019, VfL Wolfsburg agreed to mutually terminate Babett's contract so she could immediately join Spanish Primera División team CD Tacón, signing a two-year deal with the Madrid-based club. ^[8] On 2 May 2022, Peter announced she intended to retire at the conclusion of the season. ^[9]

International career

Peter made her debut in the German national team in March 2006 against Finland. She was part of Germany's winning team at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, but did not play in any game. One year later, she won the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she became a regular starter for Germany in the knockout stage of the tournament. Peter was part of Germany's team winning the country's seventh title at the 2009 European Championship. She scored her first goal for the national team at the Algarve Cup facing China in March 2010. Peter was called up for Germany's 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup squad. ^[4]

She was part of the squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics, where Germany won the gold medal. ^[10]

On 26 April 2019, she announced her retirement from the national team. ^[11]

International goals

Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first:

Peter – goals for Germany
#	Date	Location	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	1 March 2010	Faro, Portugal	China	4–0	5–0	2010 Algarve Cup
2.	19 November 2011	Wiesbaden, Germany	Kazakhstan	13–0	17–0	Euro 2013 qualifying
3.				14–0
4.				17–0
5.	6 March 2016	Nashville, United States	England	2–1	2–1	2016 SheBelieves Cup
6.	21 July 2017	Breda, Netherlands	Italy	2–1	2–1	UEFA Women's Euro 2017
7.	25 July 2017	Utrecht, Netherlands	Russia	1–0	2–0
8.	24 October 2017	Großaspach, Germany	Faroe Islands	4–0	11–0	2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying

Source: ^[4]

Executive career

Chicago Red Stars, 2022 - Present

Peters has worked for the Chicago Red Stars as an assistant general manager since 2022, although she was never formally introduced by the club. ^[2]

Personal life

Peter graduated from the Potsdam Sports Gymnasium in June 2007, receiving her Abitur diploma. In October 2007, she became a member of the sports support group of the German Armed Forces ( Bundeswehr ). Since the age of five, Peter has suffered from facial nerve paralysis. At the age of 15, she had an operation which improved her condition. ^[12]

Peter began a relationship with the American soccer player Ella Masar. ^[13] In September 2020, Masar gave birth to a baby boy. ^[14] She married Masar on 21 July 2022. ^[15]

Honours

Babett Peter (2009)

Club

Turbine Potsdam

• UEFA Women's Champions League: Winner 2009–10
• Bundesliga: Winner 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12
• DFB-Pokal: Winner 2005–06

1. FFC Frankfurt

• DFB Pokal: Winner 2013–14

VfL Wolfsburg

• Bundesliga: Winner 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19
• DFB Pokal: Winner 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19

International

• FIFA World Cup: Winner 2007 ^[16]
• UEFA European Championship: Winner 2009
• Summer Olympic Games: Bronze medal: 2008, Gold medal: 2016 ^[17]
• Algarve Cup: Winner 2006, 2012, 2014

Individual

• Silbernes Lorbeerblatt: 2007, 2016
• Fritz Walter Medal– Gold: 2007

References

1. "FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 – List of Players: Germany" (PDF). FIFA. 6 July 2015. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
2. "Chicago Red Stars' culture rebuild ahead of NWSL draft 'ongoing work in progress,' says president Leetzow". CBSSports.com. 12 January 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
3. "Real Madrid Squad | Real Madrid CF". Real Madrid C.F. - Web Oficial. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
4. "Nationalspielerin Babett Peter" (in German). DFB.de. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
5. "Turbine-Frauen gewinnen im Elfmeterschießen" (in German). Spiegel.de. 20 May 2010. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
6. "Odebrecht zum VfL – Peter zum 1. FFC" (in German). kicker.de. 29 February 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
7. "Bundesliga: Wolfsburg holt Babett Peter von Liga-Rivale Frankfurt" (in German). Focus. 10 March 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
8. "Vertrag aufgelöst". VfL Wolfsburg. 17 September 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
9. Arvind, Om (2 May 2022). "Babett Peter Announces Retirement". Managing Madrid. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
10. "Gold for Germany as Neid finishes in style". FIFA. 19 August 2016. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016.
11. "Babett Peter beendet Laufbahn im Nationalteam". dfb.de. 26 April 2019.
12. "Der leise Aufstieg von Babett Peter" (in German). UEFA.com. 2 September 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
13. "K-Word #333: Neues aus der Lesbenwelt".
14. "The harrowing and hopeful story of the footballing couple who beat the odds". theathletic.com. 26 May 2020.
15. "7.21.2022. This day will forever be ours". Twitter.com. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
16. "The quiet rise of Babett Peter". UEFA. 5 September 2009. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
17. "Babett PETER". Olympics.com. Retrieved 5 October 2021.

External links

• Official website (in German)
• Profile at DFB (in German)
• Player German domestic football stats at DFB (in German)
• Babett Peter – FIFA competition record (archived)
• Babett Peter at WorldFootball.net
• Babett Peter at Olympics.com
• Babett Peter at the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (in German)
• Babett Peter at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)