Marcel Schäfer
German footballer
Marcel Schäfer (born 7 June 1984 in Aschaffenburg) is a former German footballer.
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Marcel Schäfer | ||
| Date of birth | 7 June 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Aschaffenburg, West Germany | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Left wingback | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1989–1996 | SV Eintracht Straßbessenbach | ||
| 1996–2000 | Viktoria Aschaffenburg | ||
| 2000–2003 | 1860 Munich | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2003–2007 | 1860 Munich | 91 | (3) |
| 2007–2017 | VfL Wolfsburg | 256 | (13) |
| 2014 | VfL Wolfsburg II | 2 | (1) |
| 2017–2018 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 43 | (5) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2005–2008 | Germany B | 1 | (0) |
| 2008–2010 | Germany | 8 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 July 2018 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 21 September 2014 | |||
Career
Schäfer came to the youth teams of 1860 Munich when he was 16 years old. In 2003 he played his first and only Bundesliga match for Munich. After the 2003–04 Bundesliga season, 1860 Munich was relegated to the 2. Bundesliga. Schäfer played for Munich for three more years.
In 2007 he went back to the Bundesliga and came to VfL Wolfsburg. They won their first German Championship in 2009.
Schäfer plays for the German national football team since the year 2008. His first international match was against England on 19 November 2008.
Career statistics
- As of 27 February 2015
| Club performance | League | Cup | Continental | Total | Ref. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Club | League | Season | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |
| Germany | League | DFB-Pokal | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 1860 Munich | Bundesliga | 2003–04 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | [1] | |
| 2. Bundesliga | 2004–05 | 27 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 2 | [2] | |||
| 1860 Munich II | Regionalliga Süd | 2004–05 | 7 | 3 | — | 7 | 3 | [2] | |||
| 1860 Munich | 2. Bundesliga | 2005–06 | 32 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 35 | 1 | [3] | ||
| 2006–07 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 0 | [4] | ||||
| 1860 Munich totals | 91 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 3 | — | ||
| 1860 Munich II totals | 7 | 3 | — | 7 | 3 | — | |||||
| VfL Wolfsburg | Bundesliga | 2007–08 | 29 | 6 | 3 | 0 | — | 32 | 6 | [5] | |
| 2008–09 | 34 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 46 | 1 | [6] | ||
| 2009–10 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 46 | 0 | [7] | ||
| 2010–11 | 34 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | 36 | 1 | [8] | |||
| 2011–12 | 34 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 5 | [9] | ||||
| 2012–13 | 31 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 35 | 0 | [10] | ||||
| 2013–14 | 21 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 2 | [11] | ||||
| 2014–15 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | [12] | ||||
| 2015–16 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | [12] | ||||
| VfL Wolfsburg II | Regionalliga Nord | 2013–14 | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | [11] | |||
| VfL Wolfsburg totals | 223 | 12 | 21 | 3 | 25 | 0 | 268 | 15 | — | ||
| VfL Wolfsburg II totals | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — | |||||
| Career totals | 323 | 19 | 26 | 3 | 25 | 0 | 373 | 22 | — | ||
Honours
Club
- VfL Wolfsburg
- Bundesliga: 2008–09
- DFB-Pokal: 2014–15
- DFL-Supercup: 2015
Individual
- Lower Saxony Footballer of the Year: 2009[13]
- United Soccer League Best XI: 2017
References
Other websites
- Marcel Schäfer's website Archived 2009-11-21 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
- Marcel Schäfer on fussballdaten.de (in German)
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