Ann-Katrin Berger

In 2007, Berger moved up to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. A year later, Berger moved to second division side, VfL Sindelfingen. In the summer of 2011, Berger signed a three-year contract with 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam in the Frauen-Bundesliga, the top division in Germany. She made her debut for the club on 21 August 2011 and shut out Hamburger SV 4–0. She made five appearances for the club during the 2011/2012 season playing a total of 450 minutes. Potsdam finished first in the league with an 18–2–2 record. She was the starting goalkeeper in three of Potsdam's 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League matches helping the squad earn shut-outs against Þór Akureyri and Glasgow City F.C. Berger signed with Paris Saint-Germain in June 2014, playing 22 matches in all competitions during her two-year spell with the club. In June 2016, she joined Birmingham City. In November 2017, Berger was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, for which she received treatment and was able to enter remission. On 4 February 2018, she made her first appearance since being diagnosed with cancer in the Fourth Round of the 2017–18 FA Women's Cup in an away match against Reading. Birmingham won 1–0. She had a brilliant season and won the PFA Team of the Year Award. Berger continued her strong return in 2018, helping Birmingham City to a fourth-place standing after midway point of the 2018–19 FA WSL season. Having run down her contract at Birmingham City and rejected a new offer, she joined reigning champions Chelsea…

Berger received her first call-up to the Germany national team in November 2018. She made her national debut on December 1, 2020 in the Euro 2022 qualifier against the Republic of Ireland. She was named in the squad for Euro 2022, but did not play, as Germany finished as runners-up. In July 2023, she was named in the squad for the 2023 World Cup. She made no appearances and for the first time ever, Germany got knocked out after the group stage. In July 2024, she got selected for the squad for the 2024 Summer Olympics and was promoted to the new number one for this tournament. During the penalty shootouts in the quarter-finals against Canada, she saved two shots from Ashley Lawrence and Adriana Leon before scoring the decisive penalty which qualified her nation to the semi-finals. In the bronze match against Spain she deflected a penalty in the ninth minute of added time and played a big part, why Germany won the bronze medal. On 12 June 2025, Berger was called up to the Germany squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025. In the Women's Euro 2025 quarter-finals against the French national team she made several crucial saves and scored herself in the subsequent penalty-shoot-out. She was officially named "the player of the match." The Guardian called her save in the 103rd minute as "one of the all-time great European Championship saves ever," and the German media ennobeled her as the "hero of an epic evening." The subsequent semi-final against Spain was lost 0-1. The conceded goal,…

At the age of four, Berger began playing football for KSG Eislingen. As a teenager, she moved to FV Faurndau. She played as a striker, midfielder, and defender before switching to goalkeeper at the age of 16, joking she became "too lazy to run," and "has grown" again.

Since 2017, Berger has been in a relationship with fellow professional footballer Jess Carter. They announced their engagement in May 2024. Berger is a cancer survivor, and has returned to professional football twice after bouts of thyroid cancer. Berger is an ambassador and co-founder of the Judan Ali Football Academy, known as JAFA, based in London and founded in 2019.