Nilla Fischer Explained

Nilla Fischer
Fullname:	Åsa Nilla Maria Fischer^[1]
Birth Date:	2 August 1984^[2]
Birth Place:	Kristianstad, Sweden^[3]
Position:	Centre back, defensive midfielder
Youthclubs1:	Verums GoIF
Years1:	1998–2000
Years2:	2000–2003
Years3:	2003–2011
Years4:	2012–2013
Years5:	2013–2019
Years6:	2019–2022
Clubs1:	Vittsjö GIK
Clubs2:	Kristianstad/Wä DFF
Clubs3:	LdB FC Malmö
Clubs4:	Linköpings FC
Clubs5:	VfL Wolfsburg
Clubs6:	Linköpings
Caps3:	136
Caps4:	33
Caps5:	125
Caps6:	49
Goals1:	0
Goals2:	0
Goals3:	24
Goals4:	2
Goals5:	11
Goals6:	2
Nationalyears1:	2000–2001
Nationalteam1:	Sweden U17
Nationalcaps1:	12^[4]
Nationalgoals1:	3
Nationalyears2:	2001–2004
Nationalteam2:	Sweden U20
Nationalcaps2:	24
Nationalgoals2:	4
Nationalyears3:	2001–2022
Nationalteam3:	Sweden
Nationalcaps3:	189
Nationalgoals3:	23
Pcupdate:	22 April 2019 (UTC)
Ntupdate:	12 April 2022 (UTC)

Åsa Nilla Maria Fischer (born 2 August 1984) is a Swedish former footballer. Her last club was Linköpings FC. She played in the Swedish national team between 2001 and 2022.^[5] She was previously the captain of FC Rosengård. On 27 December 2022, she decided to retire.

Career

Fischer won most of her caps for Sweden as a defensive midfielder after her debut versus Norway in January 2001.^[6] She was converted to a centre back by coach Pia Sundhage in 2013.^[7]

The change in position coincided with an upturn in goalscoring form for Fischer, who scored three times for hosts Sweden at UEFA Women's Euro 2013.^[8] Her performances in Sweden's run to the semi-finals prompted a contract offer from European Champions VfL Wolfsburg and Fischer agreed to move to Germany from 1 January 2014.^[9] In August 2013, the clubs reached a deal for "grateful" Fischer's immediate transfer.^[10] Fischer played the first competitive game for her new side in the Bundesliga 2013–14 season opener against Bayern Munich in front of a home crowd of 8,249 fans on 7 September 2013.

On 28 March 2022 Fischer announced through her Instagram that she wouldn’t take part in the forthcoming Team Sweden campaign in UEFA Women's Euro 2022 on grounds that she didn’t want to spend most of the summer away from her family.^[11] During the championship she appeared as a studio expert in the broadcasts from Swedish public service channel SVT.

On 27 September 2022, Nilla Fischer announced her retirement from Team Sweden.^[12] On 12 December the same year, she announced her retirement from soccer, and that she would instead educate herself to become a police officer.^[13]

Matches and goals scored at World Cup and Olympic tournaments

Nilla Fischer has represented Sweden in four World Cups (China 2007, Germany 2011, Canada 2015, France 2019) and three Olympic Games (Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016.) Her squad finished in third place in two of those World Cups (2011 and 2019), and won a silver medal in Rio.

Twice during Olympic play she scored her team's only goal of the match, securing wins against Argentina in 2008 and South Africa in 2016.

Her 35th-minute goal against the USA on the final day of group play in the 2011 World Cup would prove to be the match winner. That result put Sweden atop their group, and is the only time the Americans have suffered defeat in the group stage of a World Cup.^[14]

International goals

data-sort-type="number" style="font-size:95%;"	Goal	Date	Location	Opponent	data-sort-type="number" style="font-size:95%;"	Score	data-sort-type="number" style="font-size:95%;"	Result	Competition
1	2007-02-17	Larnaca, Cyprus				Friendly
3	2008-03-05	Lagos, Portugal				2008 Algarve Cup
4	2008-05-03	Székesfehérvár, Hungary				Euro 2009 qualifying
7	2009-03-06	Lagos, Portugal				2009 Algarve Cup
8	2009-03-09	Faro, Portugal
9	2010-03-03	Albufeira, Portugal				2010 Algarve Cup
10	2010-03-31	Broughton, Flintshire, Wales				2011 World Cup qualification
11	2011-07-06	Wolfsburg, Germany				2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
12	2012-01-17	La Manga, Spain				Friendly
13	2012-07-25	Coventry, Great Britain				Olympics 2012
19	2015-02-12	Uusimaa, Finland				Friendly
21	2016-08-03	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil				Olympics 2016
22	2017-03-08	Albufeira, Portugal				2017 Algarve Cup
23	2017-10-24	Borås, Sweden				2019 World Cup qualification

Goal	Match	Date	Location	Opponent	Lineup	Min	Score	Result	Competition
China 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup
		2007-9-14^[15]	Chengdu							Group match
		2007-9-18^[16]	Tianjin		Start					Group match
Beijing 2008 Women's Olympic Football Tournament
		2008-8-6^[17]	Tianjin							Group match
align=center	1		2008-8-9^[18]	Tianjin		Start	58	1–0			Group match
		2008-8-12^[19]	Beijing							Group match
Germany 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
		2011-6-28^[20]	Leverkusen							Group match
		2011-7-2^[21]	Augsburg							Group match
align=center	2		2011-7-6^[22]	Wolfsburg			35	2–0			Group match
		2011-7-10^[23]	Augsburg							Quarter-Final
		2011-7-16^[24]	Sinsheim							Third Place Match
London 2012 Women's Olympic Football Tournament
align=center	3		2012-7-25^[25]	Coventry			7	1-0			Group match
		2012-7-31^[26]	Newcastle							Group match
align=center	4		2012-8-3^[27]	Glasgow		Start	18	1–0			Quarter-Final
Canada 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
align=center	5		2015-6-8^[28]	Winnipeg		Start	31	2-0			Group match
		2015-6-12^[29]	Winnipeg		Start					Group match
		2015-6-16^[30]	Edmonton		Start					Group match
		2015-6-20^[31]	Ottawa		Start					Round of 16
Rio de Janeiro 2016 Women's Olympic Football Tournament
align=center	6		2016-8-3^[32]	Rio de Janeiro		Start	76	1–0			Group match
		2016-8-6^[33]	Rio de Janeiro		Start					Group match
		2016-8-9^[34]	Brasília							Group match
		2016-8-12^[35]	Brasília		Start					Quarter-Final
		2016-8-16^[36]	Rio de Janeiro		Start					Semi-Final
		2016-8-19^[37]	Rio de Janeiro		Start					Gold Medal Match
France 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
		2019-6-11^[38]	Rennes		Start					Group match
		2019-6-16^[39]	Nice		Start					Group match
		2019-6-24^[40]	Paris		Start					Round of 16
		2019-6-29^[41]	Rennes							Quarter-Final
		2019-7-3^[42]	Lyon		Start					Semi-Final
		2019-7-6^[43]	Nice		Start					3rd Place Match

Matches and goals scored at European Championship tournaments

Nilla Fischer has appeared at three European Championship tournaments: Finland 2009, Sweden 2013, and Netherlands 2017.

Goal	Match	Date	Location	Opponent	Lineup	Min	Score	Result	Competition
2009 European Championship
		2009-8-25^[44]	Turku						Group match
		2009-8-28^[45]	Turku						Group match
		2009-9-4^[46]	Helsinki						Quarter-Final
2013 European Championship
align=center	1		2013-7-10^[47]	Gothenburg			36	1–1		Group match
2	align=center rowspan=2		2013-7-13^[48]	Gothenburg		Start	15	1–0		Group match
3	36	2–0
		2013-7-16^[49]	Halmstad		Start				Group match
		2013-7-21^[50]	Halmstad		Start				Quarter-Final
		2013-7-24^[51]	Gothenburg		Start				Semi-Final
2017 European Championship
		2017-7-17^[52]	Breda		Start				Group match
		2017-7-21^[53]	Deventer		Start				Group match
		2017-7-29^[54]	Doetinchem		Start				Quarter-Final

Gender equality and LGBT rights

In regards to women's football, Fischer was described in 2017 as "one of the sport’s most important voices in support of gender equality and LGBT rights".^[55]

Personal life

In 2013, Fischer gave an interview to QX magazine in which she announced her intention to marry her partner Maria Michaela. They married in December 2013.^[56]

Honours

Club

• Damallsvenskan: Winner 2010, 2011
• Svenska Supercupen: Winner 2011

• UEFA Women's Champions League: Winner 2013–14
• Bundesliga: Winner 2013–14, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19
• DFB-Pokal: Winner 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19

Country

Sweden

• 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup

Group stage

• 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup

Third place

• 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup

Round of 16

• 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup

Third place

• 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing

Quarter-final

• 2012 Summer Olympics in London

Quarter-final

• 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio

Runner-up

• UEFA Women's Euro 2009

Quarter-final

• UEFA Women's Euro 2013

Semi-finals

• Algarve Cup (Participated from 2007 to 2015): Winner 2009

Sweden U19

• UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship: Group stage 2002, Semi-finals 2003
• Nordic Cup: Runner-up 2004 ^[57]

Sweden U17

• Nordic Cup: Winner 2000, Runner-up 2001 ^[58]

Individual

• 2013: Silver Boot UEFA Women's European Championship
• 2013: UEFA Women's European Championship All Star Team
• 2013: Best female defense in Sweden
• 2014: Best female defense in Sweden
• 2014: UEFA Best Women's Player in Europe Award Third place
• 2016: FIFPro: FIFA FIFPro World XI 2016^[59]
• IFFHS World's Woman Team of the Decade 2011–2020^[60]
• IFFHS UEFA Woman Team of the Decade 2011–2020^[61]

References

Match reports

External links

• • • • Olympic profile
• Profile at VfL Wolfsburg

Notes and References

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