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{{Short description|German football player, executive, and coach (born 1972)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Steffi Jones
| image = Steffi Jones.jpg
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| fullname = Stephanie Ann Jones<ref>{{Olympedia}}</ref>
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1972|12|22}}
| birth_place = [[Frankfurt]], West Germany
| height = 1.80 m
| position = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]]
| currentclub =
| youthyears1 = 1979–1986
| youthclubs1 = SV Bonames
| years1 = 1986–1991
| clubs1 = [[SG Praunheim]]
| caps1 = 
| goals1 = 
| years2 = 1991–1992
| clubs2 = [[FSV Frankfurt]]
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| goals2 = 
| years3 = 1992–1993
| clubs3 = [[SG Praunheim]]
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| years4 = 1993–1994
| clubs4 = [[TuS Niederkirchen]]
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| goals4 = 
| years5 = 1994–1997
| clubs5 = [[SG Praunheim]]
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| goals5 = 
| years6 = 1997–1998
| clubs6 = [[FSV Frankfurt]]
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| goals6 =  
| years7 = 1998–2000
| clubs7 = [[SC 07 Bad Neuenahr|SC Bad Neuenahr]]
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| years8 = 2000–2002
| clubs8 = [[1. FFC Frankfurt]]
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| goals8 = 
| years9 = 2002–2003
| clubs9 = [[Washington Freedom (soccer)|Washington Freedom]]
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| years10 = 2003–2007
| clubs10 = [[1. FFC Frankfurt]]
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| nationalyears1 = 1993–2007
| nationalteam1 = [[Germany women's national football team|Germany]]
| nationalcaps1 = 111
| nationalgoals1 = 9
| manageryears1 = 2016–2018
| managerclubs1 = [[Germany women's national football team|Germany]]
| medaltemplates = 
{{MedalCompetition|[[Football at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney]]|[[Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|Team]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]]|[[Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|Team]]}}
}}
'''Stephanie Ann Jones''' (born 22 December 1972) is a German-American [[Association football|football]] manager and former player who last managed the [[Germany women's national football team|German women's national team]]. As a [[Defender (association football)|defender]], she earned 111 caps for the national team between 1993 and 2007, helping her country win the [[2003 FIFA Women's World Cup]] and three consecutive [[UEFA Women's Championship|European Championships]]. After retiring from active football, Jones worked as a football [[Administrator (business)|administrator]], in charge of organising the [[2011 FIFA Women's World Cup]] in Germany, before becoming a manager.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/womensworldcup/germany2011/news/newsid=1079349/index.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629045205/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/womensworldcup/germany2011/news/newsid=1079349/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 June 2013 |title=Jones inducted into Hall of Freedom |publisher=FIFA.com |date=6 July 2009 |access-date=5 December 2013}}</ref>

==Playing career==
===Club===
Jones started playing football at the age of four. From 1979 to 1986, she played in mixed youth teams for [[SV Bonames]] in Frankfurt. In 1986, she joined the girls' team of [[SG Praunheim]], and moved to the club's women's team in 1988. In 1991, Jones moved to [[FSV Frankfurt]], and subsequently changed teams almost every year until she joined [[1. FFC Frankfurt]] in 2000. In 2002, she joined [[Washington Freedom (soccer)|Washington Freedom]] to play in [[Women's United Soccer Association|WUSA]] for two years before returning to Frankfurt.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jones inducted into Hall of Freedom on Sunday |url=http://www.dfb.de/news/detail/jones-inducted-into-hall-of-freedom-on-sunday-18894/?no_cache=1&cHash=16472d7e3cf2f4dcb0b310bfc974dab0 |access-date=2022-07-21 |website=DFB - Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V. |language=de}}</ref> Jones ended her career as a player on 9 December 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2007-03-26 |title=Jones ends Germany career |url=https://www.uefa.com/womensworldcup/news/01bf-0e10ab31a093-8cbc65f2139a-1000--jones-ends-germany-career/ |access-date=2022-11-11 |website=[[UEFA]] |language=en}}</ref>

===International===
Jones' first cap for the [[Germany women's national football team|German national team]] was in 1993, during the third-place match of the [[UEFA Women's Championship]] against Denmark, which Germany lost. From 1997, she won three consecutive European Championships and a bronze medal at the [[2000 Summer Olympics]]. Jones was also part of the squad that won the [[2003 FIFA Women's World Cup]]; she suffered a rupture of her [[cruciate ligament]] in the third game of the tournament and was sidelined for six months. She won Olympic bronze for the second time at the [[2004 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Steffi Jones |url=https://olympics.com/en/athletes/steffi-jones |access-date=2022-07-22 |website=olympics.com}}</ref> Jones announced the end of her international career on 26 March 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2007-03-26 |title=Jones ends Germany career |url=https://www.uefa.com/womensworldcup/news/01bf-0e10ab31a093-8cbc65f2139a-1000--jones-ends-germany-career/ |access-date=2022-07-22 |website=[[UEFA]] |language=en}}</ref> She finished her career with nine goals in 111 caps.<ref name=DFB01>{{cite web |url=https://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=500407&lang=E&action=showPlayer&liga=Frauen-Nationalmannschaft&vorname=&nachname=Jones&cHash=277822afc4 |title=official statistics at German Football Association |author=DFB |work=DFB Net |date=28 March 2007}}</ref>

==Coaching and administration==
Post-retirement, Jones served as president of the organisation committee of the [[2011 FIFA Women's World Cup]], held in Germany.<ref name=DFB02>{{cite web |url=https://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=500016&no_cache=1&tx_dfbnews_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=12703&cHash=e062ef4072 |title=official announcement at German Football Association |author=DFB |work=DFB Net |date=11 November 2007}}</ref> She subsequently obtained her coaching license at the [[German Sport University Cologne]]. After serving as assistant manager of the national team under [[Silvia Neid]], Jones assumed the position of head coach in August 2016.<ref>{{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> She was released on 13 March 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43400004|title=Steffi Jones: Germany sack women's head coach after SheBelieves Cup disappointment|date=14 March 2018|work=BBC Sport|access-date=5 June 2018|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dfb.de/news/detail/dfb-entbindet-bundestrainerin-steffi-jones-von-aufgaben-183059/|title=DFB entbindet Bundestrainerin Steffi Jones von Aufgaben|date=13 March 2018|work=dfb.de}}</ref>

==Personal life==
A dual German and American citizen, Jones is the daughter of a German mother and an African-American father. Her father was a soldier stationed in West Germany; he left the family early in her life to return to the United States. Jones was raised by her single mother in a working-class neighborhood in Frankfurt. One brother, Christian, has struggled with drug addiction; another brother, Frank, served as an American soldier in Iraq and lost both legs in an assault in 2006.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.magazine-germany.com/en/artikel-en/article/mdissue/081.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=23&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=75&cHash=9afad62989&tx_ttnews%5Bissue%5D=081 |title=OC President Steffi Jones |first=Volker |last=Stumpe |magazine=[[Deutschland (magazine)|Deutschland]] |date=28 January 2008 |access-date=25 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305182537/http://www.magazine-germany.com/en/artikel-en/article/mdissue/081.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=23&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=75&cHash=9afad62989&tx_ttnews%5Bissue%5D=081 |archive-date=5 March 2012  }}</ref>

Jones entered a [[Same-sex marriage in Germany|registered partnership]] with her girlfriend, Nicole, in June 2014. She had [[coming out|come out]] publicly as a [[lesbian]] in February 2013.<ref name=Welt>{{cite news |url=https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article113344960/Steffi-Jones-outet-sich-Ja-wir-sind-ein-Paar.html |title=Steffi Jones outet sich – "Ja, wir sind ein Paar" |language=de |work=Welt |date=3 February 2013}}</ref>

Jones' autobiography, ''Der Kick des Lebens'' (''The Kick of Life''), was released in August 2007.<ref name=Abendblatt01>{{cite web |url=http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2007/09/22/797156.html |title=Interview with Steffi Jones (in German) |author=Jens-Meyer Odewald |work=Hamburger Abendblatt |date=22 September 2007}}</ref>

In 2021, she featured in ''{{ill|Schwarze Adler|de|Schwarze Adler (2021)}}'', a documentary detailing the experiences of [[Black people|Black]] players in German professional football.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bülau |first1=Maximilian |title=Von Mbom bis Kostedde: Das sind die Protagonisten der Amazon-Dokumentation "Schwarze Adler" |url=https://www.hna.de/sport/fussball/rassismus-macht-sehr-muede-90466018.html |access-date=18 June 2021 |work=HNA |date=19 April 2021 |language=de}}</ref>

==International goals==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! No. !! Date !! Venue !! Opponent !! Score !! Result !! Competition
|-
| 1. || 11 April 1996 || [[Reykjavík]], [[Iceland]] || {{fbw|ISL}} || align=center|'''3'''–0 || align=center| 3–0 || [[UEFA Women's Euro 1997 qualifying]]
|-
| 2. || 27 June 1999 || [[Landover, Maryland|Landover]], [[United States]] || {{fbw|BRA}} || align=center|'''3'''–2 || align=center| 3–3 || [[1999 FIFA Women's World Cup]]
|-
| 3. || 17 August 2000 || [[Kópavogur]], Iceland || {{fbw|ISL}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || align=center| 6–0 || [[UEFA Women's Euro 2001 qualifying]]
|-
| 4. || 20 August 2004 || [[Patras]], [[Greece]] || {{fbw|NGA}} || align=center|'''1'''–1 || align=center| 2–1 || [[Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|2004 Summer Olympics]]
|-
| 5. || 9 June 2005 || [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]], [[England]] || {{fbw|ITA}} || align=center|'''3'''–0 || align=center| 4–0 || [[UEFA Women's Euro 2005]]
|-
| 6. || 12 November 2005 || [[Ulm]], Germany || {{fbw|SUI}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || align=center| 4–0 || [[2007 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)|2007 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification]]
|}

==Managerial record==
''As of 4 March 2018.''

{| 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 August 2016<ref>[http://datencenter.dfb.de/profil/50833?historize_title=Russland+gegen+Deutschland+-+16.09.2016+-+EM-Qualifikation%2C+2015%2F2016%2C+Gruppe+5&historize_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dfb.de%2Ffrauen-nationalmannschaft%2Fspiele-termine%2Fspiele%2F%3Fspieledb_path%3D%252Fmatches%252F2218340 Managerial statistics]</ref>
| 13 March 2018
{{WDL|21|13|4|4|for=51|against=17|diff=yes}}
|}

==Honours==
===Personal===
*11 June 2006: [[File:DE-HE Der Hessische Verdienstorden BAR.png|60px]] [[Hessian Order of Merit]] "for many years of voluntary services as patron of the Ballance 2006 – Integration und Toleranz für eine friedliche Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft project<ref>[http://www.hessen.de/irj/zentral_Internet?rid=zentral_15/zentral_Internet/nav/6ba/6ba5072f-a961-6401-e76c-d1505eb31b65,4e070a27-2fe2-cb01-c5ec-3f144e9169fc,22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222,22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222,11111111-2222-3333-4444-100000005004.htm Hessische Staatskanzlei: ''Hessischer Verdienstorden für Steffi Jones''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210093523/http://www.hessen.de/irj/zentral_Internet?rid=zentral_15%2Fzentral_Internet%2Fnav%2F6ba%2F6ba5072f-a961-6401-e76c-d1505eb31b65%2C4e070a27-2fe2-cb01-c5ec-3f144e9169fc%2C22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222%2C22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222%2C11111111-2222-3333-4444-100000005004.htm |date=10 February 2012 }}; Pressemitteilung vom 11. Juni 2006</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Steffi Jones}}
*{{Official website|url=http://www.steffi-jones.de/}} {{in lang|de}}
*{{WorldFootball.net|steffi-jones}}

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