Katharina Piljić

Club career

SGS Essen On 18 April 2020, Piljić was promoted to SGS Essen's first team in her second year with the club. earning the start in a 3–1 victory over SC Sand on 8 November 2020. She went on to make 13 league appearances in her first full season playing professionally. She was re-signed to a two-year contract extension ahead of the 2022–23 season, with Essen head coach Markus Högner hailing her potential to become a part of the team's backbone in the coming years. After playing out the two years of her new contract, Piljić declined an extension with Essen and departed from the club. Leverkusen had previously attempted to recruit Piljić in 2014, when she was a child, but Piljić had chosen to join SGS Essen instead. Piljić quickly became an important piece of Leverkusen's team. She played the entirety of all but one of the club's league matches over the first half of the season and led the league in successful ball wins in that period. On 7 October 2024, she scored her first goal for Leverkusen, striking from the edge of the penalty area to notch the game-winning goal against Carl Zeiss Jena. She ended her first season at Leverkusen having recorded 18 league appearances and 2 goals. Piljić's offensive production heated up in March 2026, with Piljić first scoring a half-volleyed game-winner against Carl Zeiss Jena on 22 March, before registering a goal and two assists in a 3–1 win over Hamburger SV on 30 March.

VfL Wolfsburg

One day after her standout performance for Leverkusen at HSV, Piljić was announced to be leaving the club upon the expiry of her contract in the summer to sign a two-year deal with VfL Wolfsburg. In March 2025, she scored her first youth international goal, the Germany U23's lone conversion in a 3–1 defeat to Portugal.

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