Philipp Klement (born 9 September 1992) is a German professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who plays as a

central midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for club

1. FC Kaiserslautern 1. Fußball-Club Kaiserslautern e. V., also known as 1. FCK, FCK (), FC Kaiserslautern () or colloquially Lautern (), is a German sports club based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition to football, the club also operates in sev ...

Club career

On 4 August 2014, it was announced that Klement had joined

1. FSV Mainz 05 II 1. FSV Mainz 05 II is a German association football club from the town of Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is the reserve team of 1. FSV Mainz 05. The team's greatest achievement came in 2014 when it won promotion to the 3. Liga for the first tim ...

on a one-year deal. Both sides can also extend the contract by an agreed clause. In September 2015, he was promoted to the Mainz first team and made his

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...

debut as substitute in an away versus

Schalke 04 Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Schalke 04 (), Schalke 04 (), or abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional German football and multi-sports club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine ...

. He participated in the first team's training and continued to play for the second team as well. In the summer of 2019, Klement moved to

VfB Stuttgart Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart (), is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club's football team is currently part of Germany's first division, the Bundesliga. VfB S ...

. In January 2022 he joined former club SC Paderborn on loan until the end of the 2021–22 season. On 25 August 2022, Klement returned to

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* * * 1992 births Living people German footballers Association football midfielders Germany youth international footballers Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Regionalliga players 1. FC Kaiserslautern II players 1. FC Nürnberg II players 1. FC Nürnberg players FC Hansa Rostock players 1. FSV Mainz 05 II players 1. FSV Mainz 05 players SC Paderborn 07 players VfB Stuttgart players VfB Stuttgart II players 1. FC Kaiserslautern players Sportspeople from Ludwigshafen Footballers from Rhineland-Palatinate {{Germany-footy-midfielder-stub