Ariane Hingst

Ariane Hingst

Personal information
Full name	Ariane Hingst
Date of birth	25 July 1979 (1979-07-25)
Place of birth	Berlin, Germany
Playing position	Defender, Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Newcastle Jets
Youth career
1986–1992	Hertha Zehlendorf
1992–1994	Lichterfelder FC
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1994–1997	Hertha Zehlendorf
1997–2007	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	183	(53)
2007–2008	Djurgårdens IF Dam	36	(7)
2009–2011	1. FFC Frankfurt	34	(6)
2011–	Newcastle Jets
National team‡
1996–2011	Germany	173	(10)
Honours Competitor for Germany Women's Football Bronze 2000 Sydney Team competition Bronze 2004 Athens Team competition Bronze 2008 Beijing Team Competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 00:40, 25 June 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 00:40, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Ariane Hingst (born 25 July 1979) is a German footballer. Primarily utilized as a defender or a defensive holding, midfielder Hingst announced this summer (2011) that she would be retiring from international football with the German national team. In addition it was announced by 1. FFC Frankfurt manager Siegfried Dietrich that Hingst had left the Frankfurt club.

Career

Club

Hingst had played at several local clubs at junior level. At age 15, she played for the first team of Hertha Zehlendorf in the Regionalliga, then the second-highest division in Germany. In 1996 and 1997, Hingst won the league with Zehlendorf, but they failed to win their promotion play-offs both years. At that time, Germany's head coach Tina Theune had urged her to play at Bundesliga level, if she wanted to continue her international career.

Hingst joined newly promoted Bundesliga side Turbine Potsdam for the 1997–98 season. From 2001 to 2003, Potsdam was runner-up in the Bundesliga for three years in a row. Hingst won the Bundesliga title with Potsdam in 2004 and 2006, and claimed the German Cup competition from 2004 to 2006 three consecutive times. In the 2004–05 season, Potsdam also won the UEFA Women's Cup.

In 2007, Hingst moved to the Swedish first division side Djurgårdens IF Dam, where she played for two years, finishing runner-up in the league both seasons. She returned to Germany in 2009, joining 1. FFC Frankfurt. In her third season at the club, she won the 2011 German Cup. It was announced this after a Germany's poor Women's world cup 2011 campaign, that she would leave 1. FFC Frankfurt. In OCtober 2011 she signed to Australian club Newcastle Jets.

International

Hingst made her debut for the German national team in August 1996 against the Netherlands. One year later, she won her first international title at the 1997 European Championship. The final against Italy was her only game in the starting line-up. At the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, Hingst was Germany's youngest player in the squad, yet she started in all matches and scored one goal in a group match. The team was eliminated in the quarter-finals. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, Hingst won bronze with the German team. She scored after 88 minutes in the final first round match against Sweden, which secured Germany's first place in the group.

Hingst again won the European Championship in 2001, which was played on home soil in Germany. However, she was only used sparely and did not appear in the final of the tournament. Hingst was part of Germany's winning squad at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, starting in all matches for Germany. One year later, she went on to win the bronze medal at the Summer Olympics, and in 2005, she claimed her third European Championship. Hingst was on of the team's key players at Germany’s successful title defence at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. Alongside Kerstin Stegemann, Annike Krahn and Linda Bresonik, she was part of Germany's defence which did not concede a single goal in the entire tournament.

One year later, she won her third bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics and she was part of the team to win Germany's seventh title at the European Championship. Hingst has been called-up for Germany's 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup squad. With 173 appearances, she is Germany's third most capped player.

She has announced her retirement from International football following the Women's World Cup 2011.

Honours

Club

Turbine Potsdam

• UEFA Women's Cup: Winner (1) 2004–05
• Bundesliga: Winner (2) 2003–04, 2005–06
• German Cup: Winner (3) 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06,

1. FFC Frankfurt

• German Cup: Winner (1) 2010–11

International

• FIFA World Cup: Winner (2) 2003, 2007
• UEFA European Championship: Winner (4) 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009
• Olympic bronze medal: (3) 2000, 2004, 2008

Individual

• Silbernes Lorbeerblatt: 2007

External links

• Profile at the German Football Federation (German)
• Ariane Hingst – FIFA competition record
• Profile at Weltfussball.de (German)