Lena Oberdorf

SGS Essen

In November 2017, Oberdorf signed a three-year contract with Bundesliga club SGS Essen, agreeing to join in the summer of 2018. She made her SGS debut on 9 September 2018 in DfB-Pokal second round against SV Henstedt-Ulzburg, where she immediately scored two goals in a 14–0 win. Almost a week later, on 15 September 2018 (matchday 1), Oberdorf scored two more goals in a 4–0 away victory against MSV Duisburg in the Frauen-Bundesliga.

VfL Wolfsburg

Ahead of the 2020–21 season, Oberdorf moved to VfL Wolfsburg. She signed an initial three-year contract, which was extended in the summer of 2022 to 2025. Her first appearances came at the end of the COVID-delayed 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League, in which Wolfsburg lost 3–1 to Lyon in the final. Oberdorf replaced Svenja Huth as a 61st minute substitute. In Oberdorf's first full season with Wolfsburg, she won the DfB-Pokal, a trophy that Die Wölfinnen remarkably won on four consecutive occasions during her time at the club. The following year, Lena featured in 17 of Wolfsburg's 22 league matches as they won the 2021–22 Frauen-Bundesliga title. She also helped her side reach the Champions League semi-finals, where they were defeated by Barcelona. Individually, Oberdorf's top performances for both club and country saw her place fourth in the 2022 Ballon d'Or Féminin award and third in the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Player of the Year ranking. Wolfsburg finished as runners-up in the 2022–23 UEFA Women's…

Youth

Oberdorf made her national team debut on 28 October 2014 at the age of twelve. She came on for Verena Wieder in the 41st minute of the U-15 national team's 13–0 win against Scotland. Two days later, she scored her first goal in an 8–0 win over Scotland in another friendly. In July 2016, she took part in the Nordic Cup with the U-16 national team and finished second behind Norway with the team. Also in 2016, Oberdorf was the youngest player in the 21-player squad of the U17 national team for the World Cup in Jordan. She featured in two group games against Venezuela and Cameroon and against Spain in the quarter-finals, scoring against Cameroon to make it 2–0 and against Spain to make it 2–1. In 2017 she qualified with the team for the European Championship in the Czech Republic and won it after beating Spain 3–1 in the final on penalties. After the tournament, she was voted "Golden Player" by UEFA. For the U19 national team, she played six games from September 2017 to April 2018 as part of qualifying for the 2018 European Championship, but was already part of the squad in the summer of 2018 for the U20 national team and took part with this – again as the youngest German player – at the World Cup in France.

Senior

In December 2018, national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg called her up to the squad for the senior national team for the winter training camp from 14 to 21 January 2019 in Marbella. She made her debut on 6 April 2019 in Solna in a 2–1 win in a…

Lena Sophie Oberdorf was born on 19 December 2001 in Gevelsberg, Germany. Both of Oberdorf's parents were professional footballers, with her dad a professional footballer. She has an older brother, Fortuna Düsseldorf player Tim Oberdorf, and an older sister, Julia, who plays American football. Oberdorf played on, and captained, boys' football teams in her youth. Oberdorf started football at TuS Ennepetal. As a D youth, she switched to TSG Sprockhövel, where she was on boys' teams until 2018. She was the only girl in the German youth league she played in, as the captain of TSG Sprockhövel.

Oberdorf was in a relationship with Kimberly Simmler until December 2023 and had spoken about the greater acceptance of same-sex couples in women's football compared to the men's game. Oberdorf is currently in a relationship with former Bayern Munich teammate Natalia Padilla.