Dina Orschmann will remain an important part of the professional women's team in the future: 1. FC Union Berlin and the striker have prematurely extended the existing contract.

Attacker with a Nose for Goal

Dina Orschmann joined Union’s youth squad in 2013 at the age of 15, coming through the ranks from SFC Stern 1900, and made her debut for the women's team just one year later. On 16 November 2014, at the age of 16, she took to the pitch for the first time for the club in the second division game against Holstein Kiel.

Despite her tender years, Orschmann quickly established herself as a regular starter and played a major role in the team's promotion back to the second division in the 2015/16 season, scoring 18 goals in 19 Regionalliga games. After the club was relegated again in 2017, Orschmann moved to the United States, where she played for the University of Central Florida. She returned to Germany at the beginning of 2019 and played 50 times for the Bundesliga club 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam in the following three and a half years, hitting the back of the net 13 times.

Having spent six months playing for Rangers in Scotland from the summer of 2022, where she gained her first Champions League experience, she returned to Berlin-Köpenick in January 2023. The centre forward immediately established herself as a key player again at Union and scored 38 goals in 34 Regionalliga appearances over the following year and a half. In the 2023/24 season, Orschmann was the second-highest scorer in the league with 25 goals, behind her team-mate Sarah Abu Sabbah, ultimately celebrating a cup win and her second promotion with Union.

In the current season, Orschmann has already scored seven times in the 2. Bundesliga and is currently Union’s top scorer. She also scored the only goal in the second round of the DFB Pokal, in the 1-0 win over Bundesliga side RasenBallsport Leipzig. She is not only the only player to have started all 16 competitive matches in the season so far, but also played in her 100th competitive game for Union on 3 November.

The views on the extension

‘I am very grateful to continue my journey here at Union. The club, all the Union players and the new fans offer me unique conditions here, which I want to use in the future to keep moving forwards together, shoulder to shoulder,’ said Dina Orschmann on signing her contract.

Meanwhile Union’s director of women’s professional football, Jennifer Zietz, had this to say on the new deal: “In Dina, we have been able to retain the services of an absolute leader and our current top scorer. With her ambition and absolute willpower, she leads the way and embodies the values of the club. We are very happy that Dina, a long-standing Union player, will continue to play for us and that we can count on her.”