Marie-Louise Eta


Marie-Louise Eta is a German football coach and former footballer who played as a midfielder for Frauen-Bundesliga club Werder Bremen, among others.

Club career

Eta retired from playing at the end of the 2017–18 season, aged 26.

International career

As an Under-19 international she played the 2009 and 2010 U-19 European Championships.

Coach career

In 2023, after being appointed assistant coach to Marco Grote at Union Berlin, Eta became the first woman to serve in this role with a men's Bundesliga side and with a team in the men's UEFA Champions League.
In 2024 Eta became the first woman to take charge of a men’s team in a Bundesliga game, upon temporarily replacing Union Berlin’s head coach Nenad Bjelica, who was serving a three-game ban.

Personal life

She married Benjamin Eta in 2014.

Honours

Germany
1. FFC Turbine Potsdam