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 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team 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 18 (0)
International career
2007 Germany U19 1 (0)
2008–2010 Germany U21 9 (0)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Germany
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Winner2009 Sweden
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 July 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19 March 2013

Tobias Sippel (born 22 March 1988) is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach.[2]

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.[3]

International

Sippel was called up to the senior Germany squad by Joachim Löw in the build up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[4]

Career statistics

Club

As of 21 April 2021.[2]
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
1. FC Kaiserslautern II 2005–06 Regionalliga Süd 5050
2006–07 3030
2007–08 Oberliga Südwest 9090
2010–11 Regionalliga West 1010
Total 18018 0
1. FC Kaiserslautern 2007–08 2. Bundesliga 25010260
2008–09 15000150
2009–10 33020350
2010–11 Bundesliga 25040290
2011–12 11000110
2012–13 2. Bundesliga 340202[lower-alpha 1]0380
2013–14 33040370
2014–15 29010300
Total 2050140202210
Borussia Mönchengladbach 2015–16 Bundesliga 20000020
2016–17 00100010
2017–18 500050
2018–19 001010
2019–20 00000000
2020–21 40400080
Total 1106000170
Career total 234020000202560
  1. Appearance(s) in Bundesliga promotion play-offs.

Honours

Club

1. FC Kaiserslautern

International

Germany

References

  1. "Tobias Sippel". Borussia Mönchengladbach. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Sippel, Tobias" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
  3. "Borussia sign Tobias Sippel". Borussia Monchengladbach. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  4. "Löw announces World Cup squad". thelocal.de. 6 May 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
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