Patrick Helmes

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Patrick Helmes
Personal information
Helmes with Köln in 2013.
Full name	Patrick Helmes
Date of birth	(1984-03-01) 1 March 1984
Place of birth	Cologne, West Germany
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11 ¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	1. FC Köln
Number	16
Youth career
1989–1991	TuS Alchen
1991–1992	SpVgg Bürbach
1992–1997	Sportfreunde Siegen
1997–2000	1. FC Köln
2000–2003	Sportfreunde Siegen
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
2003–2005	Sportfreunde Siegen	51	(22)
2005–2008	1. FC Köln	65	(35)
2005–2006	1. FC Köln II	7	(4)
2008–2011	Bayer Leverkusen	57	(28)
2011–2013	VfL Wolfsburg	28	(13)
2011–2013	VfL Wolfsburg II	10	(11)
2013–	1. FC Köln	13	(6)
National team^‡
2004	Germany Team 2006	1	(0)
2005–2006	Germany U21	9	(3)
2007–2010	Germany	13	(2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 December 2013. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 August 2010

Patrick Helmes (born 1 March 1984) is a German footballer who plays as a striker for 1. FC Köln in the 2. Bundesliga.

Personal life

Helmes' father is Uwe Helmes, a former professional football player who later managed Siegen, among others. As of 2008, he is working as a scout for Leverkusen.

Club career

Early career

As a youth player, Helmes was active in local clubs in Freudenberg, Westphalia and Siegen. He joined 1. FC Köln in 1997, at the age of 13. However, he was regarded as too unstable and sent away in 2000. He subsequently went back to Sportfreunde Siegen, where he had already spent some time as a youth player. In the 2004–05 season, he scored 21 goals for his team in the third division, which made him top scorer of the league, helping his team to promotion to the second division.

1. FC Köln

He then joined his old club Köln again, where he made his Bundesliga debut in 2005 and scored his first goal in his second match, against rivals Bayer Leverkusen. After his club was promoted to the second division, Helmes became one of the most important players for his side, scoring seven times in his first five games of the season and keeping Köln at the top of the table. However, he scored the last of those goals with a broken foot. The injury kept him out of the squad for the following four months, during which his team performed extremely poorly and lost all chances to return to the first division.

Helmes did not hide his intention of joining another team. Even though he confirmed that his departure to Bayer Leverkusen would follow the 2007–08 season, Köln coach Christoph Daum still named him captain of the squad in the summer of 2007. He was later replaced as captain, but nevertheless had a good second half of the season, for which kicker sportsmagazine named him best striker of Germany's second division, ahead of Oliver Neuville, Chinedu Obasi and Demba Ba.^[1]

Bayer Leverkusen

At Leverkusen, Helmes had a good start in the 2008–09 season, despite his injury in June which caused him being out of action for three weeks.^[2] Forming a duo with Stefan Kießling, he scored six goals in the first five games of the season, among them a hat-trick against Hannover 96. Only months after signing until 2012, his contract was extended and was then valid until 2013.^[3] At the end of his first season at Leverkusen, Helmes had scored 21 goals in 34 league games, and three goals in six appearances in the DFB-Pokal where his team reached the final losing to Werder Bremen. Just about two weeks after the final, a cruciate ligament in Helmes' right knee tore while Helmes was playing football with friends, and he had to be operated.^[4] On 19 December 2010, he scored the second goal of the match to achieve a full-time draw against SC Freiburg.

VfL Wolfsburg

On 31 January 2011, Helmes moved to fellow Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg, the champion of 2008–09 for a reported fee of €8 million.^[5] He only made eight appearances for the club in his first half-season, facing competition by the club's top strikers Grafite and Mario Mandžukić.

The next season started out better for Helmes, who scored twice in the first game against former team Köln. However, those were his last goals of the first half of the season in which he made his final appearance on October, 1st. Helmes even got banned from the Bundesliga squad by manager Felix Magath and had to train with the reserves. He made his comeback appearance in the Bundesliga on 25 February 2012, instantly scoring against Hoffenheim. By the end of the season, he had scored nine more times.

In August 2012, Helmes tore his cruciate ligament in a friendly against Manchester City.^[6] His first appearance in the 2012–13 Bundesliga season was on 15 February 2013, against Bayern Munich.

International career

Helmes was selected for the national team for the first time by Joachim Löw. He made his international debut for Germany in a friendly against Denmark on 28 March 2007, being substituted for Jan Schlaudraff in 80th minute. He made two more short appearances afterwards, before he was selected for the starting squad for the first time on 12 September 2007 in a friendly against Romania held at RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne, in which he was joined by fellow Cologne local hero Lukas Podolski. He was included in Löw's 26 man provisional Euro 2008 squad but was eventually left out in favour of Oliver Neuville.

After the European Championships, he had a few more appearances as a substitute. Helmes scored his first goal for the national team on 19 November 2008 in a 1–2 friendly defeat against England. He scored his second goal for Germany almost two years later in a friendly against Denmark after coming on as a substitute.

Career statistics

Club performance

As of 2 September 2013

Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
Club	League	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Germany			League		DFB-Pokal		DFB-Ligapokal		Europe		Total
Sportfreunde Siegen	Regionalliga Süd	2003–04	17	1	1	0	—		—		18	1
Sportfreunde Siegen	Regionalliga Süd	2004–05	34	21	0	0	—		—		34	21
1. FC Köln	Bundesliga	2005–06	13	4	0	0	—		—		13	4
	2. Bundesliga	2006–07	19	14	1	0	—		—		20	14
	2. Bundesliga	2007–08	33	17	1	0	—		—		34	17
Bayer Leverkusen	Bundesliga	2008–09	34	21	6	3	—		—		40	24
		2009–10	12	2	0	0			2	0	14	2
		2010–11	11	5	2	3			7	4	20	12
VfL Wolfsburg		2010–11	8	1	0	0			—		8	1
		2011–12	16	12	1	0			—		17	12
		2012–13	4	0	1	0			—		5	0
1. FC Köln	2. Bundesliga	2013–14	0	0	0	0			—		0	0
Career statistics			191	98	13	6	0	0	9	4	213	108

International performance

Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first.

**Patrick Helmes: International goals**
Goal	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	19 November 2008	Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany	England	1–1	1–2	Friendly
2.	11 August 2010	Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark	Denmark	2–0	2–2	Friendly

Honours

Club

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

DFB-Pokal Runner-up: 2008–09

References

↑ "Die Verwandlung des Patrick Helmes" (in German). kicker.de. 10 July 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
↑ "Drei Wochen Pause für Helmes" (in German). kicker.de. 25 June 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
↑ "Bayer verlängert vorzeitig mit Helmes" (in German). kicker.de. 19 September 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
↑ "Shock in Leverkusen!". bundesliga.de. 12 June 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
↑ "VfL Wolfsburg holt Nationalstürmer Patrick Helmes" (in German). vfl-wolfsburg.de. 31 January 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
↑ "Schock für Helmes: Kreuzbandriss!" (in German). kicker.de. 5 August 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2013.

External links

Patrick Helmes at fussballdaten.de (German)
Patrick Helmes at kicker.de (German)
Patrick Helmes at transfermarkt.de (German)
Patrick Helmes at worldfootball.net

v t e Regionalliga top scorers

Bayern	2012–13: Neumeyer

Nord	1994–95: Claaßen 1995–96: Cengiz 1996–97: Cengiz 1997–98: Erdmann 1998–99: Bärwolf 1999–2000: Bärwolf / Bester 2000–01: Teixeira 2001–02: Gerov / Teixeira 2002–03: Guščinas 2003–04: Feldhoff 2004–05: Kuru 2005–06: Reichenberger 2006–07: Cannizzaro / Reichenberger 2007–08: Sağlık 2008–09: Pollok 2009–10: Frahn 2010–11: Förster 2011–12: Frahn 2012–13: Krohne

Nordost	1994–95: Adler / Markov 1995–96: Irrgang 1996–97: Weißhaupt 1997–98: Wiedemann 1998–99: Wiedemann 1999–2000: Lau 2000–2012: No competition 2012–13: Frahn

Süd	1994–95: Akpoborie 1995–96: Trkulja 1996–97: Türr 1997–98: Eckstein 1998–99: Marić 1999–2000: Djappa 2000–01: Barlecaj 2001–02: Ben Neticha 2002–03: Copado 2003–04: Guerrero / Misimović 2004–05: Helmes 2005–06: Nicu / Okpala 2006–07: Jäger / Mešić 2007–08: Bauer 2008–09: Bauer 2009–10: Krasniqi / Tunjić 2010–11: Herdling 2011–12: Lappe

Südwest	2012–13: Assauer

West	2008–09: Mölders 2009–10: Aydogmus / Knappmann 2010–11: Mainka 2011–12: Knappmann 2012–13: Michel

West/Südwest	1994–95: Beyel 1995–96: Van der Ven 1996–97: Deffke / Feinbier 1997–98: Zibert 1998–99: Graf 1999–00: Ebbers

v t e 1. FC Köln – current squad

1 Horn 2 Brečko 4 Golobart 5 Maroh 6 Nascimento 7 Chihi 8 Matuschyk 9 Ujah 11 Bröker 13 Schuhen 14 Hector 15 Thiel 16 Helmes 17 Peszko 18 Kessler 19 Jajalo 20 Risse 21 Bigalke 22 Halfar 23 McKenna 25 Nagasawa 26 Finne 27 Exslager 28 Wimmer 30 Schnellhardt 31 Gerhardt 33 Lehmann Manager: Stöger

Persondata
Name	Helmes, Patrick
Alternative names
Short description	German footballer
Date of birth	1 March 1984
Place of birth	Cologne, West Germany
Date of death
Place of death

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