Holger Felix Badstuber (born 13 March 1989) is a German former professional
footballer
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who played as a
centre-back
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or
left-back
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Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...
.
Badstuber made his debut in the Bundesliga for
Bayern Munich
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in the 2009–10 season, at the age of 19. He played nearly every game that year and helped the club win the league and
cup double and reached the
UEFA Champions League
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final the same year, before eventually earning a call up to the
German national team for the
World Cup
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in 2010 and later the
Euro 2012
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. He won over 30
caps
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for Germany. Former Bayern Munich coach
Louis van Gaal
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stated in 2010 that Badstuber was the best left footed defender in Germany.
Club career
Bayern Munich
Youth career, reserve team, and first team debut
From 2002 to 2007, Badstuber progressed through the youth setup at
Bayern Munich
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. He played for Bayern's
reserve team
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before signing professional terms in July 2009. He had scored four goals in 23 appearances in the
Regionalliga Süd during the
2007–08 season and three goals in 32 appearances in the
3. Liga during the
2008–09 season.
Badstuber, along with teammate
Thomas Müller
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, having been an unused substitute in a number of first-team matches in the
2008–09 season. He made his debut in the first league game of the
2009–10 season, against
1899 Hoffenheim and has been a regular in defence. He scored his first senior goal, a powerful free kick, against
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e. V. Mönchengladbach, commonly known as Borussia Mönchengladbach (), Mönchengladbach () or Gladbach (; abbreviated as Borussia MG, BMG), is a professional Association football, football club based in ...
on 4 December 2009. A centre-back by trade, he has been playing out of position at left back. The youngster impressed in his first season, and started all league games in the 2009–10 domestic campaign.
On 4 February 2010, Bayern Munich announced that Badstuber had signed a new contract that would keep him at the club until 2014. He finished the
2009–10 season with a goal in 49 appearances.
2010–12
Throughout the
2010–11 season he made 32 appearances in all competitions for Bayern.
During the 2010–11 season, Badstuber endured a tumultuous relationship with coach
Louis van Gaal
Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal (; born 8 August 1951) is a Dutch former football player and manager. At club level, he served as manager of Ajax, Barcelona, AZ Alkmaar, Bayern Munich and Manchester United, as well as having three spel ...
, who despite stating that he has high trust in Badstuber, strongly criticized him following a number of poor performances. As a result of his poor form he found himself out of the starting eleven several times throughout the season. With the arrival of
Jupp Heynckes
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, Badstuber was reinstated at the left of central defense, where he enjoyed a fruitful relationship with fellow international
Jérôme Boateng
Jérôme Agyenim Boateng (born 3 September 1988) is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for French Ligue 1 club Lyon.
Boateng started his career at Hertha BSC where he developed from the youth ranks to the first team. Aft ...
, and helped Bayern maintain 11 clean sheets in a row. Additionally, he was integral to the Bayern Munich defensive line which lead the team to the
2012 UEFA Champions League Final
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, beating
Real Madrid
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Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
,
Napoli
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and
Manchester City
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along the way, before losing out to English side
Chelsea
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in the
final
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. He made 50 appearances across all competitions during the
2011–12 season.
2013–15
On 3 February 2013, Badstuber signed a contract extension with Bayern, keeping him at the club until 2017.
Badstuber injured his anterior
cruciate ligament
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against
Borussia Dortmund
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on 1 December 2012 and re–injured it on 19 May 2013, missing the entire
2013–14 season.
He had played in 18 matches up until the injury during the
2012–13 season.
He returned to first–team training on 5 May 2014 and played in his first match since his injury on 18 July 2014 in a friendly match against
FC Memmingen
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History
The team was formed on 30 May 1907 as the football department of the gymnastics club ''Memminger Turnvereins 1859'' and became independent in the fall of ...
, which Bayern won 3–0.
It had been 594 days
since the injury.
Badstuber began the
2014–15 season as a starting player in Bayern's first three
Bundesliga
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fixtures.
However, a thigh injury sustained against
VfB Stuttgart
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on 13 September kept him out for the rest of the year. He returned to the starting line-up for an 8–0 defeat of
Hamburger SV
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on 14 February 2015 and re-established himself as a first choice player in
Pep Guardiola
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's Bayern team. On 11 March 2015, Badstuber scored a goal in the 63rd minute in a
Champions League match against
Shakhtar Donetsk
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in a 7–0 win. This was his first goal since December 2009 and also his first start in Champions League since 20 November 2012 against
Valencia
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. It was announced on 23 April 2015 that Badstuber had ruptured his quadriceps muscle in a 6–1 Champions League quarter-final second leg win against
Porto
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and was ruled out for the rest of the season. He finished the
2014–15 season with 16 appearances.
He finished the
2015–16 season with nine appearances.
Loan to Schalke
On 10 January 2017, Badstuber joined
Schalke 04
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on loan until the end of the
2016–17 Bundesliga
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season. On the same day, it was confirmed by FC Bayern that Badstuber had signed a contract extension with the club lasting until 2018. In the first half of the
season
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, Badstuber had made only one Bundesliga appearance, one
DFB-Pokal
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appearance, and one
Champions League appearance for Bayern.
Badstuber made his debut for the ''Königsblauen'' on 4 February 2017 against his parent club, playing 59 minutes as Bayern were held to a 1–1 draw in Munich. On 1 March 2017, Badstuber was sent off for two yellow card offences on his second return to the Allianz Arena as Schalke lost 3–0 to Bayern in the quarter-final of the
DFB-Pokal
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.
VfB Stuttgart
Badstuber playing for Stuttgart in 2018
On 4 August 2017, a few weeks after being released by Bayern Munich, Badstuber announced his return to
VfB Stuttgart
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, the club for whom he played as a young teenager, on a free transfer. He finished the
2017–18 season with two goals in 28 appearances.
On 10 July 2018, Badstuber extended his contract with Stuttgart until June 2021.
FC Luzern
On 12 July 2021, Badstuber signed with Swiss club
FC Luzern
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. On 16 December 2021, Badstuber and FC Luzern came to a mutual agreement to terminate the contract.
Retirement
On 5 September 2022, Badstuber announced his retirement from football. Overall he played almost 200 matches in the first two levels of the
German league pyramid and the Swiss top-flight.
International career
2010 World Cup
He was first called up to the
senior team as part of the provisional squad for the
2010 World Cup
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. He made his debut in a warm-up match against
Hungary
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on 29 May coming on as a substitute for
Arne Friedrich
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He played 82 times for the Germany national team.
Friedrich was a very versatil ...
, and was for the first time in the starting lineup in the next game against
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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, the last friendly prior to the World Cup. Badstuber was then selected in Germany's
23-man squad for the World Cup finals in South Africa on 1 June, and being handed the squad number 14 shirt by coach
Joachim Löw
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. He started in Germany's opening group game against
Australia
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at the
Durban Stadium, playing the full 90 minutes at left-back and helping the team to a 4–0 victory, it was only his third match in the Germany jersey. Badstuber then started the next group game against
Serbia
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on 18 June 2010 in Port Elizabeth at the
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium
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. He played 77 minutes, prior to being substituted for fellow Bayern teammate
Mario Gómez
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Gómez began his professional career with ...
. He was criticised for his performance and lost his leftback position in the starting lineup to
Jérôme Boateng
Jérôme Agyenim Boateng (born 3 September 1988) is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for French Ligue 1 club Lyon.
Boateng started his career at Hertha BSC where he developed from the youth ranks to the first team. Aft ...
for the rest of the tournament, the 1–0 loss against the Serbs was – so far – the only match in which Badstuber played and Germany lost.
Euro 2012
Badstuber with Germany in 2011
After the erratic World Cup, Badstuber improved his performances with consistency and established himself as a starting lineup defender in Löw's team. He helped Germany to win all ten matches of the Mannschaft's
qualification
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campaign for
Euro 2012
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to top
group A
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by playing nine out of a possible ten matches, he was only spared in the – for qualification irrelevant – last match against
Belgium
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. During the campaign Badstuber scored his first goal, the 5–1 against
Azerbaijan
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, he headed home a corner kick by
Mesut Özil
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. In a friendly 3–3 draw on 11 November 2011 against
Ukraine
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, in the international inauguration match of the new
Kiev Olympic Stadion, Löw's experimental formation featured only three defenders, Badstuber was as named the single centre-back. This was interpreted as a signal that out of many possible candidates, Badstuber had established himself as Löw's most important player in Germany's central defense. Badstuber started the first game for Germany in UEFA Euro 2012 helping the team to a clean sheet against Portugal in which the Germans won 1–0.
Due to the fact that Badstuber was injured in December 2012 and only returned to training late during the 2013–14 season, he was not called up for the final
2014 World Cup
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squad and replaced with youngster
Shkodran Mustafi
Shkodran Mustafi (; born 17 April 1992) is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Segunda División club Levante.
Mustafi began his career in the youth ranks of Hamburger SV and English club Everton, where he made o ...
.
Euro 2016
On 19 March 2015, Badstuber was called up to the national team for a friendly match against
Australia
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and a
Euro 2016 qualifier against
Georgia
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He played against Australia on 25 March 2015.
This was his first international match since his injury.
He had last played in a 4–4 draw against
Sweden
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.
Badstuber did not fly to Georgia for the European qualifier because of a problem with the hip flexor and later was not included to
Euro 2016
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. In the end the match against the Australians became his final international match.
Career statistics
Club
International
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Honours
Bayern Munich
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Bundesliga
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:
2009–10,
2012–13
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,
2013–14,
2014–15,
2015–16
*
DFB-Pokal
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:
2009–10,
2012–13
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,
2013–14,
2015–16
*
DFL-Supercup:
2010
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2012
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2016
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UEFA Champions League
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:
2012–13
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UEFA Super Cup
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:
2013
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FIFA Club World Cup
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:
2013
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Germany
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FIFA World Cup
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third place:
2010
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1989 births
Living people
People from Memmingen
Sportspeople from Swabia (Bavaria)
Footballers from Bavaria
German footballers
Association football defenders
Germany international footballers
Germany under-21 international footballers
Germany youth international footballers
2010 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 2012 players
UEFA Champions League winning players
3. Liga players
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
Regionalliga players
Swiss Super League players
FC Bayern Munich II players
FC Bayern Munich footballers
FC Schalke 04 players
VfB Stuttgart players
VfB Stuttgart II players
FC Luzern players
German expatriate footballers
German expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland