Marcel Bär (born 8 June 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 lea ...

who plays as a winger for club

Erzgebirge Aue Fußball Club Erzgebirge Aue e.V., commonly known as simply FC Erzgebirge Aue or Erzgebirge Aue (), is a German football club based in Aue-Bad Schlema, Saxony. The former East German side was a founding member of the 3. Liga in 2008–09, ...

Career

Early career

Born in

Gifhorn Gifhorn () is a town and capital of the district of Gifhorn (district), Gifhorn in the east of Lower Saxony, Germany. It has a population of about 42,000 and is mainly influenced by the small distance to the more industrial and commercially import ...

, Bär began his career in the youth teams of local sides SV Gifhorn and MTV Gifhorn, being promoted to the first team by the latter in 2010.

Eintracht Braunschweig II

Bär played for Eintracht Braunschweig II during the 2013–14 and 2014–15

Regionalliga Nord The Regionalliga Nord () is the fourth tier of the German football league system in the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg. It is one of five leagues at this level, together with the Regionalliga Bayern, Regionalliga N ...

seasons where he scored nine goals in 62 appearances.

Carl Zeiss Jena and FSV Zwickau

He then played for

Regionalliga Nordost The Regionalliga Nordost is the fourth tier of German football league system, German football in the states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia. These comprise the states of former East Germany ...

club Carl Zeiss Jena the following season where he scored six goals in 33 appearances. He played for

FSV Zwickau FSV Zwickau is a Football in Germany, German association football club located in Zwickau, Saxony. Today's club claims as part of its complex heritage sides that were East Germany's first champions: 1948 Ostzone winners SG Planitz and 1950 DDR-Ob ...

in the 2016–17 3. Liga season where he scored five goals in 31 appearances.

VfR Aalen

He played for

VfR Aalen Verein für Rasenspiele 1921 Aalen e.V., known simply as VfR Aalen, is a Football in Germany, German football club based in Aalen, Baden-Württemberg. The football team is part of a larger sports club which also offers its members gymnastics, tab ...

the following two seasons where he scored 13 goals in 52 appearances.

Return to Eintracht Braunschweig

He returned to

Eintracht Braunschweig Braunschweiger Turn- und Sportverein Eintracht von 1895 e.V., commonly known as Eintracht Braunschweig () or BTSV (), is a German football and sports club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. They compete in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier o ...

to play for the first team where he scored 14 goals in 84 appearances in the 2018–19, 2019–20, and

2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...

seasons.

Erzgebirge Aue

He signed a contract with

on 23 June 2023.

Career statistics

References

Living people 1992 births People from Gifhorn German men's footballers Footballers from Lower Saxony Men's association football midfielders 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Regionalliga players Eintracht Braunschweig II players FC Carl Zeiss Jena players FSV Zwickau players VfR Aalen players Eintracht Braunschweig players TSV 1860 Munich players FC Erzgebirge Aue players 21st-century German sportsmen {{Germany-footy-midfielder-1990s-stub