Tobias Sippel

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Tobias Sippel" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Tobias Sippel

Sippel with Kaiserslautern in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Tobias Sippel
Date of birth	(1988-03-22) 22 March 1988 (age 36)
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 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.^[2]

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.

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.

On 26 May 2015, Sippel joined Borussia Mönchengladbach on free transfer, signing a three-year deal.^[3]

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

As of 11 March 2023.^[2]

1. FC Kaiserslautern

• 2. Bundesliga: 2009–10

Germany

• UEFA Under-21 Championship: 2009

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tobias Sippel.

• Tobias Sippel at fussballdaten.de (in German)