Britta Carlson

Carlson was born in Kiel on 3 March 1978. During her active playing days, she played 31 international matches for the DFB women's senior national team, scoring four goals. With the DFB, she won bronze at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and the 2005 European Championships in England. At club level, Carlson played for Hamburger SV from 1998 to 2004, for Turbine Potsdam from 2004 to winter 2006/2007 and then for VfL Wolfsburg for a year and a half before joining the Wolves' coaching staff in the summer of 2008. With Potsdam, Carlson became German champion in 2006, DFB Cup winner in 2005 and 2006 and UEFA Women's Cup winner in 2005 (today's UEFA Women's Champions League).
As assistant coach at VfL between 2008 and 2018, she helped to mould a top Bundesliga team that was successful both nationally and internationally. With the Wolves, she won the UEFA Women's Champions League twice, the German championship four times and the DFB Cup five times.

Carlson was involved as an ambassador for the 2011 Women's World Cup in Germany. On her way to obtaining her women's football coaching licence, which she received in 2012, she worked from summer 2011 as an association sports teacher at the North German Football Association and as an assistant coach for the DFB's U17 juniors. She won the 2012 European Championships in Switzerland with the DFB juniors and finished fourth at the World Cup in Azerbaijan in the same year before returning to the Wolves in 2013.
In 2018, Carlson moved to the German Football Association (DFB) and became co-coach of the senior women's national team, which finished runner-up at the European Championships in 2022 and won bronze at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. From 2018 to 2021, in her additional role as coordinator of the DFB Juniors, she worked with sporting director Joti Chatzialexiou to redesign both the training programme and the composition of the coaching teams. After six years with the DFB, Carlson will take over as head coach of the FC women in the Google Pixel Women's Bundesliga from January 2025.