Next career step
DFB talent changes within the Bundesliga
08.05.2025 – 11:12 a.m.Reading time: 1 min.
For Eintracht Frankfurt, Sophie Nachtigall gave her first division debut. Now the junior international is changing the club. However, it is preserved for the Bundesliga.
A new step in her career: Sophie Nachtigall will in future be borne by the SC Freiburg jersey. The 21 -year -old midfielder changes from Eintracht Frankfurt to Bundesliga club from Breisgau. The transfer was officially confirmed by SC Freiburg. The club did not provide any information about the contractual details.
Birgit Bauer-Schick, head of women and girls’ football, said that the club has been watching Nachtigall for some time and is now looking forward to working with her “exciting development”. You win “a young, very talented midfielder who can take many positions and in particular enrich our game into the last third.”
Nachtigall herself emphasized that she chose Freiburg “because I see the best prerequisites here to take the next step in my career.” The German U23 international for Eintracht Frankfurt made her debut in the Bundesliga on December 16, 2023-of all people in the game against her future club. At that time, the Hessians defeated the sports club 4-0.
Born in Hamburg, she was trained in her hometown at HSV, but had left the club towards Frankfurt in 2022. Nachtigall was particularly used there in the second team in the 2nd Bundesliga. So far, she has been running nine times for the Bundesliga team. She was also allowed to stand on the pitch for Eintracht twice for Eintracht.