Mathias Müller (born 3 April 1992) is a German

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

player who plays as a defender for

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side

Hamburger Polo Club The Hamburger Polo Club is a sports club in Hamburg, Germany, founded in 1898. The club participates in polo, field hockey, and tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opp ...

and the Germany national team.

Club career

Müller started playing hockey at the age of four at UHC Hamburg. He made his debut for the senior team when he was 18 years old. He then played for

Rot-Weiss Köln Kölner Tennis- und Hockey-Club Stadion Rot-Weiss e.V., also known as KTHC Stadion Rot-Weiss or simply Rot-Weiss Köln, is a German professional field hockey and tennis club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. The home ground is the Kölner S ...

from 2013 until 2018. In 2018 he returned to Hamburg to play for Hamburger Polo Club.

International career

Müller made his debut for the German national team in 2014. He represented his country at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

, where he won the bronze medal. On 6 December he was named in the squad for the

2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup The 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup was the 15th edition of the Men's FIH Hockey World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national field hockey teams organized by the International Hockey Federation. It was held at the Kalinga Hoc ...

. He played in all seven matches as Germany won the tournament.

Honours

Club

;UHC Hamburg *

Euro Hockey League The Euro Hockey League is an annual field hockey cup competition organized by the EHF for the very top field hockey clubs in Europe. The competition was launched at the start of the 2007-08 field hockey season when it merged and replaced the men ...

: 2009–10, 2011–12 ;Rot-Weiss Köln *

: 2014–15, 2015–16 * Euro Hockey League: 2016–17 * EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup:

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National team

;Germany U21 * Junior World Cup:

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;Germany *

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silver medal:

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* Summer Olympics bronze medal:

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Muller, Mathias 1992 births Living people Field hockey players from Hamburg German male field hockey players Male field hockey defenders Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2024 Summer Olympics 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players Olympic field hockey players for Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Rot-Weiss Köln players Uhlenhorster HC players 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players Men's Feldhockey Bundesliga players Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Germany Hamburger Polo Club players 21st-century German sportsmen Men's Euro Hockey League–winning players