FC Rosengård leads the damallsvenskan with eight points down to second-placed Häcken after nine rounds.
Now they have finished with a new player who will help the team to maintain first place.
Bianca Schmidt, who most recently came from Turbine Ptsdam in the German top league, has signed a two-year contract with the club.
- I look forward to the challenges that await - to play football abroad in Sweden's most successful club.
I long to meet the team and get to know a new city and a new country.
This is the beginning of a new chapter and I hope I can contribute to the team with my experience and my qualities, she says according to Rosengård's website.
Flexible defender
Schmidt is described as a versatile player with the ability to play in all positions in the defense.
- We are so happy to have such a meritorious player as Bianca Schmidt.
She is an experienced player with experience from major championships, many years in the Bundesliga and also from games in the Champions League.
She will give weight to the team during all the important matches we will play this autumn, says the club's sports director Therese Sjögran.
The 31-year-old has made 51 international appearances for Germany and will wear number 28.