Harder and Eriksson at FC Bayern
A couple in a soccer team? “This is even less common”
Updated on 03.09.2025 – 7:12 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The women’s Bundesliga starts the new season at the weekend. Also included are Pernille Harder and Magdalena Eriksson. The two play at FC Bayern, but are not only professionally together.
Two weeks after the start of the men’s Bundesliga, the season also starts in the women’s Bundesliga. The opening game rises on Friday evening (6.30 p.m.) between Eintracht Frankfurt and SGS Essen. On Saturday evening (5:45 p.m.) there is a blast: FC Bayern receives Bayer Leverkusen.
The game takes place in the Munich Allianz Arena, more than 50,000 tickets have already been sold. The enthusiasm is great: “You can’t open one season better. I am very happy, also because our families are in the stadium,” said Bavaria’s defense chief Magdalena Eriksson in an interview with the “Sport Bild”. The newspaper has run a double interview with Eriksson and Pernille Harder. Both play at Bayern and are a couple, they have been engaged for a year.
“It is rather rare that you work with your partner and at the same time stand in public, and that a couple plays football together in a team is even less common,” says Harder, who explains how the relationship concept of the players works: “If we are in the team, we see ourselves as teammates, and at home we are a couple.”
For Eriksson, the separation between professional and private life is not difficult. “We want to behave professionally at work, then we have free time at home.” The professional behavior in the club begins in the new season on Saturday, with the difficult home game against a big backdrop against Leverkusen.
As always, the pressure at Bayern is great, Harder also knows. “The fact that we are on the spot is the outside expectation, but it is also our own.” The title defense is the clear goal of the Munich.
“We don’t have to be afraid to put it this way. It is our most important goal, even if there are several other teams for whom the title is also possible,” said Eriksson, who expects a three -way battle between Bayern, Frankfurt and VfL Wolfsburg.