Tobias Sippel

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 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 1 (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 4 August 2014.
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 19 March 2013

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

Career

Early career

Sippel began his football career playing for his hometown club of SV 1911 Bad Dürkheim. While with 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, 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 Florian Fromlowitz when Jürgen 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 3rd 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

On 26 May 2015, Sippel joined Borussia Mönchengladbach on free transfer, signing 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 performance

As of 8 October 2011
Club performance League Cup Continental Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Germany League DFB-Pokal Europe Total
2007–08Kaiserslautern2. Bundesliga25010--260
2008–0915000--150
2009–1033020--350
2010–11Bundesliga25040--290
2011–120000--00
Career total 106070001130

Honours

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.
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