Tatjana Hänni

Tatjana Ingeborg Haenni (born December 2, 1966, in Biel, Switzerland) is a former Swiss soccer player and current official in women's soccer.

Career Haenni is one of the most influential women in Swiss soccer. From January 2019 to July 2020, she headed the women's soccer division at the Swiss Football Association (SFV). When the SFV restructured in July 2020 and created a "women's soccer" division, Tatjana Haenni became the director of the new division and headed it until 2022. This made her the highest-ranking woman in Swiss soccer and the first woman ever to serve on the SFV's executive board. Haenni has left her mark on women's soccer as an official: First at UEFA, then at FIFA and the Swiss Football Association, she contributed to the boom of the women's game.

Active soccer career internationally From 1984 to 1996 she played 23 international matches for the Swiss national team, in which she scored one goal.

Professional stations in women's soccer Haenni is a pioneer in Swiss soccer. In 1994, she also switched professionally to soccer and joined UEFA as an administrator, where she was responsible for women's competitions. She was the first UEFA employee responsible for women's soccer exclusively. After a one-year stint at Sat 1 Schweiz TV (live football broadcasting), Haenni worked at FIFA from 1999 to 2017 as manager and head of women's soccer division, where she helped develop international women's soccer in various positions for 18 years. As director of the Competitions Division, she worked hard to create a dedicated women's soccer division. She wanted structures tailored to women's soccer and its own women's soccer experts. Among other things, she was responsible for organizing the Women's World Cup finals and co-organizing the 2011 Women's World Cup in Germany and the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada. From 2017 to 2018, Tatjana Haenni took a detour to Y Sport, a sports consulting company in England, where she learned about the business side of women's soccer.

Haenni holds an MBA in sports management from the University of Bayreuth and CAS diversity and gender equality competence from the FHNW in Olten.