Martina Voss

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexFemale
Full nameMartina•Voss (-Tecklenburg)
Used nameMartina•Voss
Born22 December 1967 in Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen (GER)
Measurements168 cm / 59 kg
AffiliationsFCR 2001 Duisburg, Duisburg (GER)
NOC Germany

Biography

Midfielder and forward Martina Voss was a member of the German female football squad that was eliminated in the group stage at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. She was a World Cup runner-up in 1995, and European Champion in 1989, 1991, 1995, and 1997. Voss won 125 international caps and scored 27 goals. She was awarded the Silver Bay Leaf, Germany’s highest sports award.

Domestically, Voss played with KBC Duisburg (1982-89), TSV Siegen (1989-94), and FCR 2001 Duisburg). In 1985 she helped KBC Duisburg win the German national title and, in 1983 and 1989, the German Cup. From 1990-92 and in 1994 she won the German national title with Siegen and the German Cup in 1993. With FCR Duisburg she won another national title in 2000, and the Cup in 1998.

In 1996 and 2000, Voss was elected Female Football Soccer Player of the Year. In 2019, she was inducted into the German Football Hall of Fame. Although she lived openly gay during her playing career, she married construction entrepreneur Hermann Tecklenburg in 2009 and took his name as her second surname. From 2007-12 Voss was chief editor of the soccer magazine FF. From 2018, she was a member of the executive board of German soccer club Fortuna Düsseldorf.

Voss-Tecklenburg turned to coaching after her active career and won the German Cup in 2009 and 2010 with FCR 2001 Duisburg, and the Women’s Champions League in 2009. She coached Duisburg from 2008-11 and FF USV Jena from 2011-12. In 2012 she became Chief National Coach of Switzerland until 2018, then she moved back to Germany to become Chief National Coach as the successor of Silvia Neid. She guided Germany to their ninth European Championships final in 2022, but suffered their first defeat when beaten by the England team 2-1 after extra time.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1996 Summer Olympics Football (Football) GER Martina Voss
Football, Women (Olympic) Germany 5