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{{Short description|German football player and manager (born 1964)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name            = Silvia Neid
| image           = Silvia Neid 2015 Algarve Cup (cropped).jpg
| caption         = Neid as manager of [[Germany women's national football team|Germany]] in 2015
| full_name       = Silvia Edith Maria Neid<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/women/93/77/14/ambassadors_e.pdf |title=FIFA Ambassadors for Women's Football |publisher=[[FIFA]] |page=19 |access-date=18 February 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304173254/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/women/93/77/14/ambassadors%5Fe.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2012}}</ref>
| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|1964|5|2|df=y}}
| birth_place     = [[Walldürn]], [[West Germany]]
| height          = {{height|m=1.66}}
| position        = [[Midfielder]]
| currentclub     =
| youthclubs1     = [[SC Klinge Seckach|SV Schlierstadt]]
| youthyears1     = 1975–1980
| clubs1          = [[SC Klinge Seckach|Klinge Seckach]]
| clubs2          = [[Bergisch Gladbach 09|SSG Bergisch Gladbach]]
| years1          = 1980–1983
| years2          = 1983–1985
| years3          = 1985–1996
| clubs3          = [[Sportfreunde Siegen|TSV Siegen]]
| nationalteam1   = [[Germany women's national football team|Germany]]
| nationalyears1  = 1982–1996
| nationalcaps1   = 111
| nationalgoals1  = 48
| manageryears1   = 2005–2016
| managerclubs1   = [[Germany women's national football team|Germany]]
}}
'''Silvia Edith Maria Neid''' (born 2 May 1964) is a German former professional [[Association football|football]] player and manager. She is one of the most successful players in German women's football, having won seven [[List of German women's football champions|national championships]] and six [[Frauen DFB Pokal|DFB-Pokal]] trophies. Between 2005 and 2016, Neid served as the head coach of the [[Germany women's national football team|Germany women's national team]]. She was the [[FIFA World Coach of the Year|FIFA World Women's Coach of the Year]] in 2010, 2013 and 2016.

==Playing career==
Neid's career as a player began at [[SV Schlierstadt]], later renamed to [[Klinge Seckach]]. She stayed with the club until 1983 when she signed up with [[SSG Bergisch Gladbach]], then the dominant team in German football. She won [[Double (association football)|the double]] with SSG in 1984, but moved to [[TSV Siegen]] after a title-less 1985 season. The club enjoyed its most successful years during Neid's tenure, winning six [[List of German women's football champions|championships]] and five [[Frauen DFB Pokal|cups]]. When Gerd Neuser stopped coaching Siegen in 1994, Neid requested a transfer to [[SG Praunheim]], but the club refused.<ref>{{cite web | title = Silvia Neid, die erfolgreichste deutsche Fußballerin | publisher = biografien-news.blog.de | date = 22 August 2006 | access-date = 2009-07-30 | url = http://biografien-news.blog.de/2006/08/22/silvia_neid_die_erfolgreichste_deutsche_~1059712/ | language = de | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090914101209/http://biografien-news.blog.de/2006/08/22/silvia_neid_die_erfolgreichste_deutsche_~1059712/ | archive-date = 14 September 2009 }}</ref> Neid retired after the 1996 season.

As a [[Germany women's national football team|German international]], Neid made her debut on 10 November 1982 against [[Switzerland women's national football team|Switzerland]]. She scored two goals in the match, the first of which came just one minute after she had entered the pitch.<ref name="stats">{{cite web | title = Statistics | publisher  = [[German Football Association|DFB]] | access-date = 2009-07-30 | url = https://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=500407&lang=E&action=showPlayer&liga=Frauen-Nationalmannschaft&vorname=&nachname=Neid&cHash=8d11ef9ed1}}</ref> Neid won the [[UEFA Women's Championship]] three times in succession between [[1989 European Competition for Women's Football|1989]] and [[UEFA Women's Euro 1995|1995]], and reached the final of the [[1995 FIFA Women's World Cup]]. Her last game was at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in Atlanta against [[Brazil women's national football team|Brazil]].<ref name="stats"/>

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==International goals==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! No. !! Date !! Venue !! Opponent !! Score !! Result !! Competition
|-
| 1. || rowspan=2| 10 November 1982 || rowspan=2| [[Koblenz]], [[Germany]] || rowspan=2| {{fbw|SUI}} || align=center|'''3'''–0 || rowspan=2 align=center| 5–1 || rowspan=2| [[Exhibition match|Friendly]]
|-
| 2. || align=center|'''5'''–1
|-
| 3. || 22 October 1983 || [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]] || {{fbw|BEL}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || align=center| 1–1 || [[1984 European Competition for Women's Football qualifying]]
|-
| 4. || 25 January 1984 || [[Italy]] || {{fbw|ITA}} || align=center|'''1'''–1 || align=center| 1–2 || Friendly
|-
| 5. || rowspan=2| 22 August 1984 || rowspan=2| [[Jesolo]], Italy || rowspan=2| {{fbw|ENG}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || rowspan=2 align=center| 2–0 || rowspan=2| [[Mundialito (women)|1984 Mundialito]]
|-
| 6. || align=center|'''2'''–0
|-
| 7. || rowspan=2| 30 August 1986 || rowspan=2| [[Reykjavík]], [[Iceland]] || rowspan=2| {{fbw|ISL}} || align=center|'''3'''–0 || rowspan=2 align=center| 5–0 || rowspan=8| Friendly
|-
| 8. || align=center|'''4'''–0
|-
| 9. || 19 November 1986 || [[Nordhorn]], Germany || {{fbw|NED}} || align=center|'''2'''–0 || align=center| 3–1
|-
| 10. || 1 April 1987 || [[Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler]], Germany || {{fbw|NED}} || align=center|'''2'''–0 || align=center| 3–1
|-
| 11. || 16 May 1987 || [[Dillingen (district)|Dillingen]], Germany || {{fbw|FRA}} || align=center|'''2'''–0 || align=center| 2–0
|-
| 12. || rowspan=3| 6 September 1987 || rowspan=3| [[Delmenhorst]], Germany || rowspan=3| {{fbw|ISL}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || rowspan=3 align=center| 3–2
|-
| 13. || align=center|'''2'''–0
|-
| 14. || align=center|'''3'''–0
|-
| 15. || 17 September 1988 || [[Binningen, Switzerland|Binningen]], [[Switzerland]] || {{fbw|SUI}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || align=center| 10–0 || rowspan=2| [[1989 European Competition for Women's Football qualifying]]
|-
| 16. || 17 December 1988 || [[Kaiserslautern]], Germany || {{fbw|TCH}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || align=center| 2–0
|-
| 17. || 28 June 1989 || [[Siegen]], Germany || {{fbw|ITA}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || align=center| 1–1 {{aet}} (4–3 [[penalty shoot-out|p]]) || [[1989 European Competition for Women's Football]]
|-
| 18. || 22 November 1989 || [[Marburg]], Germany || {{fbw|TCH}} || align=center|'''4'''–0 || align=center| 5–0 || [[UEFA Women's Euro 1991 qualifying]]
|-
| 19. || 7 August 1990 || rowspan=2| [[Blaine, Minnesota|Blaine]], [[United States]] || {{fbw|URS}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || align=center| 3–0 || rowspan=2| 1990 North American Cup
|-
| 20. || 9 August 1990 || {{fbw|USA}} B || align=center|'''?'''–? || align=center| 3–2
|-
| 21. || rowspan=2| 26 September 1990 || rowspan=2| [[Düsseldorf]], Germany || rowspan=2| {{fbw|BUL}} || align=center|'''2'''–0 || rowspan=2 align=center| 4–0 || rowspan=2| UEFA Women's Euro 1991 qualifying
|-
| 22. || align=center|'''3'''–0
|-
| 23. || 28 March 1991 || [[Antony, Hauts-de-Seine|Antony]], [[France]] || {{fbw|FRA}} || align=center|'''2'''–0 || align=center| 2–0 || rowspan=2| Friendly
|-
| 24. || 9 May 1991 || [[Aue, Saxony|Aue]], Germany || {{fbw|POL}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || align=center| 2–1
|-
| 25. || 14 July 1991 || [[Aalborg]], [[Denmark]] || {{fbw|NOR}} || align=center|'''3'''–1 || align=center| 3–1 {{aet}} || [[UEFA Women's Euro 1991]]
|-
| 26. || 17 November 1991 || [[Jiangmen]], [[China]] || {{fbw|NGA}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || align=center| 4–0 || [[1991 FIFA Women's World Cup]]
|-
| 27. || rowspan=3| 2 September 1992 || rowspan=3| [[Bad Kreuznach]], Germany || rowspan=3| {{fbw|FRA}} || align=center|'''4'''–0 || rowspan=3 align=center| 7–0 || rowspan=3| Friendly
|-
| 28. || align=center|'''5'''–0
|-
| 29. || align=center|'''7'''–0
|-
| 30. || 11 October 1992 || [[Moscow]], [[Russia]] || {{fbw|RUS}} || align=center|'''2'''–0 || align=center| 7–0 || [[UEFA Women's Euro 1993 qualifying]]
|-
| 31. || 7 April 1993 || [[Philadelphia]], [[United States]] || {{fbw|USA}} || align=center|'''2'''–1 || align=center| 2–1 || rowspan=4| Friendly
|-
| 32. || rowspan=3| 8 December 1993 || rowspan=3|  || rowspan=3| {{fbw|POL}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || rowspan=3 align=center| 7–0
|-
| 33. || align=center|'''3'''–0
|-
| 34. || align=center|'''7'''–0
|-
| 35. || rowspan=2| 31 March 1994 || rowspan=2| [[Bielefeld]], Germany || rowspan=2| {{fbw|WAL}} || align=center|'''5'''–0 || rowspan=2 align=center| 12–0 || rowspan=4| [[UEFA Women's Euro 1995 qualifying]]
|-
| 36. || align=center|'''9'''–0
|-
| 37. || 5 May 1994 || [[Swansea]], [[Wales]] || {{fbw|WAL}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || align=center| 12–0
|-
| 38. || 2 June 1994 || [[Zagreb]], [[Croatia]] || {{fbw|CRO}} || align=center|'''7'''–0 || align=center| 7–0
|-
| 39. || 31 July 1994 || [[Fairfax, Virginia|Fairfax]], United States || {{fbw|USA}} || align=center|'''1'''–2 || align=center| 1–2 || rowspan=2| Friendly
|-
| 40. || 7 September 1994 || Germany || {{fbw|SWE}} || align=center|'''3'''–0 || align=center| 3–1
|-
| 41. || 21 September 1994 || [[Sindelfingen]], Germany || {{fbw|CRO}} || align=center|'''3'''–0 || align=center| 8–0 || rowspan=3| UEFA Women's Euro 1995 qualifying
|-
| 42. || 25 September 1994 || [[Weingarten, Rhineland-Palatinate|Weingarten]], Germany || {{fbw|SUI}} || align=center|'''11'''–0 || align=center| 11–0
|- 
| 43. || 27 October 1994 || [[Osnabrück]], Germany || {{fbw|RUS}} || align=center|'''3'''–0 || align=center| 4–0
|-
| 44. || 13 April 1995 || [[Potsdam]], Germany || {{fbw|POL}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || align=center| 8–0 || rowspan=3| Friendly
|-
| 45. || 23 May 1995 || Switzerland || {{fbw|SUI}} || align=center|'''7'''–0 || align=center| 8–0
|-
| 46. || 25 May 1995 || Germany || {{fbw|CHN}} || align=center|'''2'''–0 || align=center| 3–1
|-
| 47. || 5 June 1995 || [[Karlstad]], [[Sweden]] || {{fbw|JPN}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || align=center| 1–0 || [[1995 FIFA Women's World Cup]]
|-
| 48. || 25 October 1996 || [[Bratislava]], [[Slovakia]] || {{fbw|SVK}} || align=center|'''3'''–0 || align=center| 3–0 || [[UEFA Women's Euro 1997 qualifying]]
|-
|}

==Managerial career==
Immediately after retiring from active football, Neid took a coaching job with the German women's national team. She managed the [[Germany women's national youth football team#Germany women's national under-19 squad|under-19 team]], which won the [[2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship|2004 World Championship]] and finished runner-up at the Women's Championship under her guidance.

Neid served as assistant manager of the senior national team under [[Tina Theune-Meyer]], before succeeding Theune-Meyer as head coach on 20 June 2005.<ref name="Germanwomenjob">{{cite news|title=Neid beerbt Theune-Meyer|url=https://www.kicker.de/neid-beerbt-theune-meyer-310429/artikel|access-date=26 March 2013|newspaper=kicker|date=4 February 2005|language=de}}</ref> She coached the team to victory at the [[2007 FIFA Women's World Cup]], defeating Brazil 2–0 in the final, and the [[Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|2016 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/womensolympic/news/y=2016/m=8/news=gold-for-germany-as-neid-finishes-in-style-2822872.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820065521/http://www.fifa.com/womensolympic/news/y=2016/m=8/news=gold-for-germany-as-neid-finishes-in-style-2822872.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 August 2016|title=Gold for Germany as Neid finishes in style|date=19 August 2016|work=fifa.com}}</ref> Neid stepped down as head coach in August 2016.<ref name="AP">{{cite web |title=Silvia Neid's last match as German's coach is for the gold |publisher=Associated Press |date=19 August 2016 |url=http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/silvia-neids-last-match-germans-coach-gold |access-date=24 August 2016 |archive-date=26 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626060132/http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/silvia-neids-last-match-germans-coach-gold |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Managerial record==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!rowspan="2"| Team
!rowspan="2"| From
!rowspan="2"| To
!colspan="8"|Record
|-
!G
!W
!D
!L
!GF
!GA
!GD
!Win %
|-
| [[Germany women's national football team|Germany]] (women)
| 20 June 2005<ref name="Germanwomenjob"/>
| 19 August 2016
{{WDL|169|125|22|22|for=526|against=107|diff=yes}}
|}

==Honours==

===Player===
;SV Bergisch Gladbach 09
*[[List of German women's football champions|Bundesliga]]: 1984
*[[DFB-Pokal (women)|DFB-Pokal]]: [[Frauen DFB Pokal 1983–84|1984]]

;TSV Siegen
*[[List of German women's football champions|Bundesliga]]: 1987, 1990, [[1990–91 Frauen-Bundesliga|1991]], [[Fußball-Bundesliga (women) 1991–92|1992]], [[Fußball-Bundesliga (women) 1993–94|1994]], [[Fußball-Bundesliga (women) 1995–96|1996]]
*[[DFB-Pokal (women)|DFB-Pokal]]: [[Frauen DFB Pokal 1985–86|1986]], [[Frauen DFB Pokal 1986–87|1987]], [[Frauen DFB Pokal 1987–88|1988]], [[Frauen DFB Pokal 1988–89|1989]], [[Frauen DFB Pokal 1992–93|1993]]

;Germany Women
*[[UEFA Women's Championship]]: [[1989 European Competition for Women's Football|1989]], [[UEFA Women's Euro 1991|1991]], [[UEFA Women's Euro 1995|1995]]

===Manager===
'''Germany Women Youth'''
*[[UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship]]: 2000, 2001, [[2002 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship|2002]]
*[[FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup]]: [[2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship|2004]]
;Germany Women
*[[FIFA Women's World Cup]]: [[2007 FIFA Women's World Cup|2007]]
*[[UEFA Women's Championship]]: [[UEFA Women's Euro 2009|2009]], [[UEFA Women's Euro 2013|2013]]
*[[Summer Olympic Games]]: Bronze medal: [[Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|2008]], Gold medal: [[Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|2016]]
*[[Algarve Cup]]: [[2006 Algarve Cup|2006]], [[2012 Algarve Cup|2012]], [[2014 Algarve Cup|2014]]

;Individual
*[[FIFA World Coach of the Year#FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women's Football|FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women's Football]]: [[2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or|2010]], [[2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or|2013]], [[The Best FIFA Football Awards 2016|2016]]<ref name="AP"/>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
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