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	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
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 Winner 2009 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.

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.

International

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

Career statistics

Club

As of 11 March 2023.

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			Cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1. FC Kaiserslautern II	2005–06	Regionalliga Süd	5	0	—		—		—		5	0
	2006–07		3	0	—		—		—		3	0
	2007–08	Oberliga Südwest	9	0	—		—		—		9	0
	2010–11	Regionalliga West	1	0	—		—		—		1	0
	Total		18	0	—		—		—		18	0
1. FC Kaiserslautern	2007–08	2. Bundesliga	25	0	1	0	—		—		26	0
	2008–09		15	0	0	0	—		—		15	0
	2009–10		33	0	2	0	—		—		35	0
	2010–11	Bundesliga	25	0	4	0	—		—		29	0
	2011–12		11	0	0	0	—		—		11	0
	2012–13	2. Bundesliga	34	0	2	0	—		2	0	38	0
	2013–14		33	0	4	0	—		—		37	0
	2014–15		29	0	1	0	—		—		30	0
	Total		205	0	14	0	—		2	0	221	0
Borussia Mönchengladbach	2015–16	Bundesliga	2	0	0	0	0	0	—		2	0
	2016–17		0	0	1	0	0	0	—		1	0
	2017–18		5	0	0	0	—		—		5	0
	2018–19		0	0	1	0	—		—		1	0
	2019–20		0	0	0	0	0	0	—		0	0
	2020–21		4	0	4	0	0	0	—		8	0
	2021–22		1	0	1	0	—		—		2	0
	2022–23		6	0	1	0	—		—		7	0
	2023–24		0	0	0	0	—		—		0	0
	Total		18	0	8	0	0	0	—		26	0
Career total			241	0	22	0	0	0	2	0	265	0

Honours

Club

1. FC Kaiserslautern

• 2. Bundesliga: 2009–10

International

Germany

• UEFA Under-21 Championship: 2009

External links

• Tobias Sippel at fussballdaten.de (in German)