Benedikt Fernandez

Benedikt Fernandez (born 8 January 1985) is a German football goalkeeper.[1]

Benedikt Fernandez
Personal information
Date of birth (1985-01-08) 8 January 1985
Place of birth Bonn, West Germany
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
TUS Buisdorf
Tura Hennef
Renault Brühl
2000–2005 Bayer Leverkusen
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2011 Bayer Leverkusen II 51 (0)
2006–2011 Bayer Leverkusen 6 (0)
2012–2013 1. FC Saarbrücken 18 (0)
2013–2018 Sportfreunde Lotte 160 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:28, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Club career

Born in Bonn, Fernandez joined Bayer Leverkusen's youth academy in 2000 and started playing for the club's reserve team in 2005. In 2006, he signed a professional contract with the club to play understudy to Hans-Jörg Butt and René Adler. He made his Bundesliga debut on 10 February 2007 against Eintracht Frankfurt, coming on as a substitute following a red card to Hans-Jörg Butt. He made one more appearance in the Bundesliga that season before being replaced by René Adler, who went on to establish himself as the club's first-choice goalkeeper.

Following the departure of Hans-Jörg Butt in the summer of 2007, Fernandez became the second-choice goalkeeper in Leverkusen's first team, also continuing to occasionally play for the reserves. His first appearance for the first team in the 2007–08 season was his UEFA Cup debut against FC Zürich on 19 December 2007. He only made two further appearances with the first team thereafter, one in the Bundesliga and one in the UEFA Cup, deputising for the injured Adler in late February 2008.

Due to another injury to Adler, Leverkusen started their 2008–09 Bundesliga campaign with Fernandez in goal, with him subsequently making further three Bundesliga appearances before Adler returned to action in mid-September 2008. At the end of the 2010–11 season, he left Bayer Leverkusen.[2] After a year without a club, he signed for 1. FC Saarbrücken in 2012.

Personal life

Fernandez is of Spanish descent through his father.[3]

Career statistics
As of matches played on 24 April 2018.
ClubSeasonLeagueCupContinentalOther1Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Bayer Leverkusen II2005–06Regionalliga Nord90——90
2006–07180180
2007–08Oberliga Niederrhein14010150
2008–09Regionalliga West20—20
2009–10100100
2010–11150150
Totals68010—690
Bayer Leverkusen2006–07Bundesliga200000—20
2007–0810002030
2008–093000—30
Totals600020—80
Saarbrücken2012–133. Liga18000——180
Sportfreunde Lotte2013–14Regionalliga Nord360—360
2014–15290290
2015–163501020380
2016–173. Liga37040—410
2017–1822000220
Totals159050—201660
Career totals25106020202610
[4]
  • 1.^ Includes Promotion Playoff.

References
  1. "Fernandez, Benedikt" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  2. "Auch Fernandez und Bobel gehen" [Fernandez and Bobel are leaving also] (in German). RP Online. 5 May 2011. Archived from the original on 9 May 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
  3. torwart.de. "TORWART-MAGAZIN, TORWART BERICHTE, INTERVIEW, HINTERGRÜNDE: Benedikt Fernandez (Lotte)". www.torwart.de.
  4. "Benedikt Fernandez » Club matches". World Football. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
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