Uwe Hünemeier

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Uwe Hünemeier
Hünemeier playing for SC Paderborn in 2013
Personal information
Full name Uwe Hünemeier[1]
Date of birth (1986-01-09) 9 January 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth Gütersloh, Germany
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Youth career
1992–1997 DJK Bokel
1997–2000 FC Gütersloh
2000–2004 Borussia Dortmund
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2010 Borussia Dortmund II 130 (13)
2005–2010 Borussia Dortmund 5 (0)
2010–2013 Energie Cottbus 78 (10)
2013–2015 SC Paderborn 67 (4)
2015–2018 Brighton & Hove Albion 27 (1)
2018–2023 SC Paderborn 115 (4)
International career
2003 Germany U17 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Uwe Hünemeier (born 9 January 1986) is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre back.[2]

Club career[edit]

Born in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hünemeier began with the football team at DJK Bokel. Because of its benefits other clubs wanted to sign him and Hünemeier joined the youth of FC Gütersloh 2000. He also appeared in relation to his performance positively in appearance and in 2000, he joined the youth of Borussia Dortmund.[3] In 2004, he came to the second team of the club. A year later, he was awarded a professional contract and now belonged to the first team.

He made his debut for the senior Borussia Dortmund squad on 17 December 2005, when he started in a Bundesliga game against Bayern Munich and played the whole 90 minutes.[4]

Hünemeier signed for Brighton & Hove Albion in August 2015.[5] He scored his first goal for Brighton in a 3–1 win over Birmingham City on 4 April 2017. Brighton finished the season as runners up, and gained automatic promotion to the Premier League.[6]

With Brighton promoted to the Premier League for the 2017–18 season, Hünemeier assumed the role of back-up centre defender with Lewis Dunk and Shane Duffy forming Brighton's established centre-back partnership. He made his Premier League debut as a substitute against Everton in a 1–1 draw on 15 October 2017, coming on for the injured Duffy.[7]

In May 2018, Paderborn announced Hünemeier would return to the club for the new season, having signed a contract until summer 2020.[8]

International career[edit]

Hünemeier made three appearances for the German U17s.[9]

Career statistics[edit]

As of 28 May 2023
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] League cup[b] Other Total Ref.
League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Borussia Dortmund II 2004–05 Regionalliga Nord 11 0 11 0 [10]
2006–07 Regionalliga Nord 27 1 27 1 [11]
2007–08 Regionalliga Nord 36 3 36 3 [12]
2008–09 Regionalliga West 23 3 23 3 [11]
2009–10 3. Liga 33 6 33 6 [11]
Total 130 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 130 13
Borussia Dortmund 2005–06 Bundesliga 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 [13]
2006–07 Bundesliga 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 [11]
2008–09 Bundesliga 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 [11]
2009–10 Bundesliga 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 [11]
Total 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
Energie Cottbus 2010–11 2. Bundesliga 30 9 4 0 34 9 [14]
2011–12 2. Bundesliga 25 1 1 0 26 1 [15]
2012–13 2. Bundesliga 23 0 1 0 24 0 [16]
Total 78 10 6 0 0 0 0 0 84 10
SC Paderborn 2013–14 2. Bundesliga 33 2 2 0 35 2 [17]
2014–15 Bundesliga 32 2 1 0 33 2 [18]
2015–16 2. Bundesliga 2 0 1 0 3 0 [11]
Total 67 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 71 4
Brighton & Hove Albion 2015–16 Championship 15 0 0 0 0 0 2 [c] 0 17 0 [11]
2016–17 Championship 11 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 15 1 [11]
2017–18 Premier League 1 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 6 0 [11]
Total 27 1 5 0 4 0 2 0 38 1
SC Paderborn 2018–19 2. Bundesliga 22 1 4 3 26 4 [11]
2019–20 Bundesliga 16 1 1 1 17 2 [11]
2020–21 2. Bundesliga 26 2 2 0 28 2 [11]
2021–22 2. Bundesliga 29 0 1 0 30 0 [11]
2022–23 2. Bundesliga 22 0 3 0 25 0 [11]
2023–24 2. Bundesliga 0 0 0 0 0 0 [11]
Total 115 4 11 4 0 0 0 0 126 8
Career total 422 32 26 4 4 0 2 0 454 36
  1. ^ Appearances in German FA Cup and English FA Cup.
  2. ^ Appearances in English League Cup
  3. ^ Appearance in Championship play-offs

Honours[edit]

Borussia Dortmund ll

SC Paderborn

Brighton & Hove Albion

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Updated squads for 2017/18 Premier League confirmed". Premier League. 2 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  2. ^ Uwe Hünemeier at kicker (in German)
  3. ^ Rietberg-lebt.de (Hrsg.) (12 March 2013). "Bokels Fußball-Profi Uwe Hünemeier von Energie Cottbus will irgendwann zurück in die alte Heimat" (in German). Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  4. ^ Endres, Kai (17 December 2005). "Rekorde, Rekorde, Rekorde". fussballdaten.de (in German). Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  5. ^ "Uwe Hunemeier: Brighton & Hove Albion sign Paderborn defender". BBC. 12 August 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  6. ^ "Brighton 3–1 Birmingham". BBC. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  7. ^ "Brighton & Hove Albion 1–1 Everton". BBC Sport. 15 October 2017.
  8. ^ "England-Abenteuer beendet: Hünemeier zurück in Paderborn!". kicker Online (in German). 4 May 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  9. ^ "U 17-Junioren siegen 2:0 gegen Luxemburg".
  10. ^ "Uwe Hünemeier". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Uwe Hünemeier » Club matches". World Football. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  12. ^ "Uwe Hünemeier". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  13. ^ "Uwe Hünemeier". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  14. ^ "Uwe Hünemeier". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  15. ^ "Uwe Hünemeier". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  16. ^ "Uwe Hünemeier". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  17. ^ "Uwe Hünemeier". kicker,de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  18. ^ "Uwe Hünemeier". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 3 December 2015.

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