Marcel Maltritz (born 2 October 1978) is a German retired professional

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who played as a centre-back.

Career

1. FC Magdeburg

On 2 October 1978, Maltritz was born in

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebu ...

(then

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

). He first played for ''TuS Magdeburg-Neustadt'' (until 1986) and then joined the 1. FC Magdeburg. He played for this club from 1986 until 1998. 1. FC Magdeburg played on the highest level in the GDR but after the German reunification the club finished 10th in the final season of the DDR-Oberliga and was thus only qualified for the

NOFV-Oberliga Mitte The NOFV-Oberliga Mitte was the third tier of the German football league system in the central states of former East Germany and West Berlin. The league existed from 1991 to 1994. It covered the German states of Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anha ...

on the third level of the reunified German league pyramid. When Maltritz left the club in December 1998 they played in the Regionalliga. At the end of the season 1. FC Magdeburg was relegated to the fourth level.

VfL Wolfsburg

The

VfL Wolfsburg Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg () or Wolfsburg, is a German professional sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of W ...

was newly promoted to the

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when Maltritz joined the club in the winter break 1998–99. Wolfsburg, financially supported by

Volkswagen Volkswagen (),English: , . abbreviated as VW (), is a German motor vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1937 by the German Labour Front under the Nazi Party and revived into a global brand post-W ...

, developed very well and even reached the third round of the

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in the 1999–2000 season. At the end of the 2000–01 season Maltritz left the club and went to

Hamburger SV Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (), commonly known as Hamburger SV () or Hamburg (), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its football section. Though the current HSV was founded in June 1919 from a merger of three ...

Hamburger SV

is one of the traditional major clubs in the

. In the 2002–03 season the club from the north finished fourth and qualified for the

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. On 28 July 2003, Maltritz won his first major trophy: the 2003 German League Cup. At the end of the 2003–04 season Maltritz moved to

VfL Bochum Verein für Leibesübungen Bochum 1848 Fußballgemeinschaft, commonly referred to as simply VfL Bochum (), is a German association football club based in the city of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has spent 35 seasons in the Bundeslig ...

VfL Bochum

The

had just finished its most successful season with a fifth place and qualification to the

when Maltritz joined the club. But the club was eliminated in the first round of the

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and even relegated to the

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at the end of the season. Maltritz stayed loyal to his club and helped Bochum to promote directly back to the highest level. In the 2006–07 season VfL Bochum finished at the eighth place, which was the third best Bundesliga result in club history.

Career statistics

Honours

Hamburger SV *

DFL-Ligapokal The DFL-Ligapokal (, officially Premiere Ligapokal , previously DFB-Ligapokal ) or the ''German League Cup'' was a German football competition that took place before the start of the Bundesliga season, featuring the top five teams of the previous B ...

: 2003

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maltritz, Marcel 1978 births Living people German footballers 1. FC Magdeburg players VfL Wolfsburg players Hamburger SV players Hamburger SV II players VfL Bochum players VfL Bochum II players Germany under-21 international footballers Germany B international footballers Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Association football defenders Association football midfielders Sportspeople from Magdeburg