Monika Staab

Monika Staab ( born January 9, 1959) is a German football coach and former football player.

Staab played in 1970, 11 -year-old in the absence of girls' teams in the women's team of the SG Rosenhöhe Offenbach. 1974 joined the department closed to Offenbacher Kickers on where they played until 1977 before the then strongest Hessian women's team joined NSG Colonel Schiel. With the club she was in the 1977 final of the German Cup, defeated there but just the SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach. Already in the following year she left Germany and played in sequence among others at Paris Saint -Germain in France, and Queens Park Rangers and FC Southampton in England. In 1984 she joined the SG Praunheim that led them as a team captain in 1990 for the successful qualification for the Bundesliga. In 1992 she finished her playing career and took over a year later as coach at Praunheim.

In 1999, when the members of the women's football department of SG Praunheim the first FFC Frankfurt founded, she was chairman of the new club. As a trainer, she led the first FFC Frankfurt to four league titles ( 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 ) and five Cup victories (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 ). In addition, she won with the team in 2002 the newly created UEFA Cup for women's teams.

After the Club 2004 within a few weeks lost both the DFB Cup and the UEFA Cup final and it was only enough for second place in the championship, Monika Staab resigned her position as coach of the first FFC Frankfurt. The Office of the President, she was from the end of 2006 and moved to Bahrain to train the local women's national team in football. After five months and only one game she left Bahrain and worked for FIFA as a consultant for development projects. As of February 2013, it trained the women's national team of Qatar.