| Andrea Schaller | |
| Birth Date: | 14 September 1976 |
| Height: | 1.82 m |
| Position: | Goalkeeper |
| Nationalyears1: | 2000 |
| Nationalteam1: | Germany |
| Nationalcaps1: | 1 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Andrea Schaller (born 14 September 1976) is a German former footballer who became an academic specializing in sports medicine as a professor at the German Sport University Cologne and Bundeswehr University Munich.
Schaller played football as a goalkeeper.[1] She played 18 matches in the Frauen-Bundesliga for SC 07 Bad Neuenahr, from 1999 through 2005, and made one appearance for the Germany women's national football team in 2000.[2] She was also part of Germany's squad for the women's football tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics, but did not play in any matches.[3] Looking back on that time in a 2020 interview, she describes it as a period of failure, self-doubt, and injuries.
Following her athletic career, Schaller became an academic researcher in sports medicine.[4] As an undergraduate, she studied sports therapy at the German Sport University Cologne and epidemiology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and began working as a sports therapist.[5] She completed a Ph.D. in 2009 on the relation between sports medicine and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.[6] From 2016 to 2018 she worked for the IST-Hochschule für Management in Düsseldorf, in 2018 she became a professor at the German Sport University Cologne,[5] and in 2023 she became Professor of Health, Workplace Health Promotion and Prevention in the Department of Human Sciences at Bundeswehr University Munich.[6]