Sydney Lohmann


Sydney Matilda Lohmann is a German professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Women's Super League club Manchester City and the Germany national team.

Club career

Youth career & Bayern Munich II

Lohmann grew up in Pürgen in Upper Bavaria. In her childhood, she first played for SV Lengenfeld and then for VfL Kaufering, both in the district of Landsberg am Lech.
From the youth team at SC Fürstenfeldbruck, Lohmann joined Bayern Munich (women)|FC Bayern Munich]'s under-17 team ahead of the 2016–17 season. For the B youth team, she played six league games in the junior Bundesliga and scored two goals. Lohmann's debut on 17 September 2016 in a 3–1 home win against 1. FC Nürnberg's B youth team was crowned with her first goal; a 20th minute penalty to make it 2–0.
At the same time, Lohmann was already playing for Bayern II in the 2. Frauen-Bundesliga Süd. She made her debut on 28 August 2016 in a 1–0 away win against 1. [FC Saarbrücken (women)|1. FC Saarbrücken]. On 19 February 2017, Lohmann scored her first goal for Bayern II in the reverse match against Saarbrücken, putting her side 2–1 ahead in the 88th minute of an eventual 3–1 home win.

Bayern Munich

Lohmann's progression saw her begin to play for Bayern Munich's first team. She made her Frauen-Bundesliga debut on 19 March 2017 in a 2–0 loss away to VfL Wolfsburg. She scored her first Bundesliga goal on 5 November 2017 in the 29th minute of a 3–1 home victory over MSV Duisburg, putting Bayern 2–1 ahead. She made her UEFA Women's Champions League debut during the 2018-19 season.
On 4 October 2020, Lohmann's 90th minute penalty at SGS Essen to make it 2–0 saw her score the 1000th goal for a Bayern team in the Bundesliga. A month later, she extended her contract with Munich through to 2024. Sydney scored her first Champions League goal on 10 December 2020 in a 3–1 win at Ajax (women)|Ajax]. She impressively scored ten goals in 20 league matches to help Bayern win the 2020-21 Frauen-Bundesliga, the club's first title since 2015-16.
On 16 March 2024, Sydney signed a contract extension to stay at Bayern until June 2026. The attacking midfielder was part of the Bayern side which went a record-breaking 44 matches unbeaten in the Frauen-Bundesliga from December 2021 to October 2024. Along the way, Lohmann won the 2022-23 and 2023-24 league titles respectively with Die Frauen, as well as the DFB-Supercup Frauen">DFB-Supercup Frauen">DFB-Supercup Frauen.

Manchester City

On 9 July 2025, it was announced that midfielder Lohmann had signed for Manchester City joining the English Women's Super League club on a three-year deal from Bayern Munich. Upon signing she said "I've always had the thought to playing abroad at some point in my career and I just had the feeling that this year was the right time to do that."

International career

Lohmann made her debut in the national jersey of the DFB in the U15 national team on 28 October 2014, which won 13–0 in Glasgow against the host team. She scored her first two international goals two days later at the same place in an 8–0 win in the second game against the Scotland U15 national team.
She was capped seven times on the U16 national team, making her debut on 29 June 2015 in a 2–1 win over Norway in the Nordic Cup tournament in Denmark.
Her first cap for the U17 national team occurred on 19 March 2016 in a 2–0 win over Switzerland. On this team, she took part in the European Championship in Belarus from 4 to 16 May 2016. The team won the tournament, with Lohmann playing two group games on 4 and 7 May against Spain and Italy, which ended 2–2 and 0–0, respectively.
She debuted for the U19 national team on 3 April 2018 in Senec in an 8–0 victory over Slovakia in the second-round qualifier of Group 2 for the 2018 European Championship in Switzerland.
She made her debut for the senior national team on 10 November 2018 in Osnabrück in a 5–2 win in a friendly against Italy, coming on for Lina Magull in the 71st minute. She scored her first international goal on 22 September 2020 in the seventh UEFA [Women's Euro 2022 qualifying|European Championship qualifier] in Group I in a 3–0 win against Montenegro, scoring the final goal in the 59th minute.
National coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg included her in the squad for the UEFA [Women's Euro 2022|2022 European Championship] in England. The German team reached the final where they fell to the English national team, with Lohmann playing in four games.
Lohmann was called up to the Germany squad for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup and made one appearance at the tournament.
On 3 July 2024, Lohmann was called up to the Germany squad for the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|2024 Summer Olympics]. She played in five of Germany's six matches at the tournament and helped the team win a bronze medal in the Football at the 2024 [Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|Olympic women's football] event in Paris. Germany beat world champions Spain 1-0 in Lyon in the Bronze medal match.

Career statistics

International

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
122 September 2020Podgorica, Montenegro3–03–0UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
224 June 2022Erfurt, Germany7–07–0Friendly
36 September 2022Plovdiv, Bulgaria5–08–02023 [FIFA Women's World Cup qualification - UEFA Group H|2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification]
47 April 2023Sittard, Netherlands1–01–0Friendly
53 June 2025Vienna, Austria1–06–02025 [UEFA Women's Nations League A|2025 UEFA Women's Nations League]
63 June 2025Vienna, Austria5–06–02025 UEFA [Women's Nations League A|2025 UEFA Women's Nations League]

Honours

Bayern Munich
Germany U17
Germany U19
Germany
Individual