Introduction
Tabea Kemme (born 14 December 1991) is a German footballer. She currently plays for 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam. During her youth career and the first two seasons of her senior career, she played as an attacker. She switched to more defensive playing positions while playing for Germany U-20 during the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, and she now plays mostly as a defender or midfielder. Tabea Kemme combines her football career with her police studies at Brandenburg's police training college. Two of Tabea Kemme's goals for FFC Turbine Potsdam, both long-range shots, were included in the 10 best goals of the German Football Association's Women's Goal of the Season 2014-2015 shortlist.
Early career
Tabea Kemme attended the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Potsdam Sport School, which has an elite programme for girls' football. The school has very close links with the FFC Turbine Potsdam club. In 2006, Kemme started training and playing with the junior teams of FFC Turbine, progressing to the senior first team in 2008.
International career
Tabea Kemme's first involvement with the Germany women's national football team was in the squad of players selected for a 2013 UEFA Women's Championship qualifying match against Romania on 22 October 2011, but she did not play in the match. Kemme made her international debut for Germany during their 8-0 win against Croatia on 27 November 2013, a match in Germany's FIFA Women's World Cup 2015 qualification campaign. She came on as a substitute for Leonie Maier, in the 76th minute. Kemme was selected for the German squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2015 and played 6 matches in the tournament.
She was one of Germany's starting full-backs for the 2016 Summer Olympics, starting and playing every minute of all but one match. Germany would go on to win the gold medal.
International goals
Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first:
| Kemme – goals for Germany | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Date | Location | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
| 1. | 18 September 2015 | Halle, Germany |  Hungary | 3–0 | 12–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying |
| 2. | 25 October 2016 | Aalen, Germany |  Netherlands | 4–1 | 4–2 | Friendly |
Source:
Honours
Club
- 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
- UEFA Women's Champions League Winner: 2009–10, Runner-up: 2010–11
- Frauen-Bundesliga Winner: 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12
- DFB-Pokal Runners-up: 2008–09, 2010–11, 2012–13
- DFB-Hallenpokal (indoor five-a-side) Winner: 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014
- DFB Women's Under-17 Championship Winner: 2007–2008
International
- Germany
- FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Winner: 2010
- FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Third place: 2008
- UEFA Women's U-17 Championship Winner: 2008
- Algarve Cup Winner: 2014, Third place : 2015
- Summer Olympic Games: Gold medal, 2016
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- "UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship - History - 2008 - Germany first to gain glory". UEFA. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
- "Algarve Cup 2014 Final.". japan Football Association. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
- "Algarve Cup 2015, Third place match.". Federação Portuguesa de Futebol. Retrieved 2015-07-05.