Tobias Sippel

Tobias Sippel (born 22 March 1988) is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga.[1]

Tobias Sippel
Sippel with Kaiserslautern in 2011
Personal information
Full name Tobias Sippel
Date of birth (1988-03-22) 22 March 1988
Place of birth Bad Dürkheim, West Germany
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Number 21
Youth career
1993–1998 SV 1911 Bad Dürkheim
1998–2005 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2011 1. FC Kaiserslautern II 18 (0)
2006–2015 1. FC Kaiserslautern 177 (0)
2015– Borussia Mönchengladbach 7 (0)
National team‡
2007 Germany U19 1 (0)
2008–2010 Germany U21 9 (0)
2010 Germany 0 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 July 2019
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 19 March 2013

Career

Early career

Born in Bad Dürkheim, Sippel began his football career playing for his hometown club SV 1911 Bad Dürkheim. He rose through the youth ranks culminating as the first goalkeeper for their 2005 entry in the Regionalliga Süd (tier four of the German football league system) at the age of 17.

Kaiserslautern

In 2006, then-Bundesliga club 1. FC Kaiserslautern signed him to his first professional contract.

Sippel spent one season playing with Kaiserslautern II in the Oberliga Südwest (then tier four of the German football league system). After one year, he joined the first team as the third keeper behind Jürgen Macho and Florian Fromlowitz. The previous season had seen Kaiserslautern relegated from the Bundesliga to the 2. Bundesliga. He ascended to the second keeper behind U-21 national keeper Fromlowitz when Macho left Kaiserslautern to play for the Greek club AEK Athens.

Ten games into the 2007–08 season, Fromlowitz was injured thrusting Sippel into the role of starting goalkeeper. He helped Kaiserslautern avoid relegation to the 3. Liga on the last day of the season with a clean sheet versus already promoted 1. FC Köln.

The 2008–09 campaign started with a bang for Sippel as Kaiserslautern shot to the top of the league table anchored by their number one goalkeeper, however nine games into the season, Sippel broke his arm on a freak play during a 2–1 win versus Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. He was placed on injured reserve until the beginning of 2009.

Borussia Mönchengladbach
Sippel with Gladbach in 2015

On 26 May 2015, Sippel joined Borussia Mönchengladbach on free transfer, signing a three-year deal.[2]

International

Sippel was called up to the senior Germany squad by Joachim Löw in the build up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[3]

Career statistics

Club
As of 1 July 2019[1]
Club Season League Cup Continental Other1 Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Kaiserslautern II 2005–06 Regionalliga Süd 50–––50
2006–07 3030
2007–08 Oberliga Südwest 9090
2010–11 Regionalliga West 1010
Totals 180–––18 0
Kaiserslautern 2007–08 2. Bundesliga 25010––260
2008–09 15000150
2009–10 33020350
2010–11 Bundesliga 25040290
2011–12 11000110
2012–13 2. Bundesliga 3402020380
2013–14 33040–370
2014–15 29010300
Totals 2050140–202210
Borussia
Mönchengladbach		 2015–16 Bundesliga 200000–20
2016–17 00100010
2017–18 5000–50
2018–19 0010–10
Totals 702000–90
Career total 230016000202480
  • 1.^ Includes Bundesliga promotion-relegation playoff.

Honours

Club

1. FC Kaiserslautern

International

Germany

  • UEFA Under-21 Championship: 2009

References
  1. "Sippel, Tobias" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
  2. "Borussia sign Tobias Sippel". Borussia Monchengladbach. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  3. "Löw announces World Cup squad". thelocal.de. 6 May 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.