player · data as of 2026-08-25 04:17 UTC
Matthias Ginter
Be the first in the standsDefenderage 326' 3"
Germanycurrently SC Freiburg
Germanycurrently SC FreiburgCareer goals
39
all competitions, from the season archive · club 35 · country 4 — season by season in The Record below
Career appearances
584
all competitions, from the season archive — the same total The Record shows
World Cup 2026
no goals yet
goals and assists land here the moment they happen
Team trophies
5
team silverware — the cabinet below
Career totals from the ESPN season archive — all competitions, the same numbers The Record below shows (Wikidata's senior spells fill in when the archive is thin — never the youth years, which stay listed on their own below); live World Cup stats from our own match timelines. Individual awards are counted separately from team trophies, so the headline count can't inflate.
Matthias Lukas Ginter is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club SC Freiburg. — Wikipedia's own summary; its figures are theirs
Honours
5 team trophies · Wikipedia + Wikidata, community-updatedMarquee honours
FIFA World Cup
2014
| Team honours5 | ||||
| FIFA World Cup | ×1 | 2014 | Germany | |
| DFB-Pokal | ×1 | 2016–17 | Borussia Dortmund | |
| DFL-Supercup | ×1 | 2014 | Borussia Dortmund | |
| FIFA Confederations Cup | ×1 | 2017 | Germany | |
| Olympic Silver Medal | ×1 | 2016 | Germany U23 | |
| Individual honours9 | ||||
| Player of the year · 1 | ||||
| Germany national team Player of the Year | 2019 | |||
| Teams of the season · 5 | ||||
| kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season | ×4 | 2019–20, 2020–21, 2022–23, 2024–25 | ||
| UEFA Europa League Team of the Season | 2025–26 | |||
| More honours · 3 | ||||
| Fritz Walter Medal U18 Gold | 2012 | |||
| Fritz Walter Medal U19 Gold | 2013 | |||
| Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards – Favorite Football Player (Germany, Austria, & Switzerland) nominee | 2020 | |||
| Orders & distinctions1 | ||||
| Silbernes Lorbeerblatt | 2014 | |||
The Record
season by season · 63 competition-seasons · ESPN archive| Season | Competition | Team | Apps | Goals | Assists | Shots | YC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | all competitions | all teams | 584 | 39 | 29 | 385 | 47 |
| 2026 | DFB-Pokal | SC Freiburg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026 | UEFA Europa Conf Qual | SC Freiburg | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025 | Bundesliga | SC Freiburg | 32 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 3 |
| 2025 | DFB-Pokal | SC Freiburg | 5 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 2025 | Europa League | SC Freiburg | 15 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 1 |
| 2024 | Bundesliga | SC Freiburg | 32 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 5 |
| 2024 | DFB-Pokal | SC Freiburg | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | Bundesliga | SC Freiburg | 23 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 3 |
| 2023 | DFB-Pokal | SC Freiburg | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Europa League | SC Freiburg | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Career
league apps & goals · Wikidata, community-updated (national-team rows can lag a match or two)| Years | Team | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012–2014 | SC Freiburg | 70 | 2 |
| 2014–2017 | Borussia Dortmund | 67 | 3 |
| 2014–now | Germany | 51 | 2 |
| 2015–2015 | Borussia Dortmund II | 2 | 0 |
| 2017–2022 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 154 | 11 |
| 2022–now | SC Freiburg | 114 | 8 |
Youth & development spells — 3 more
| 2011–2012 | Germany U18 | 6 | 0 |
| 2012–2013 | Germany U19 | 5 | 1 |
| 2013–2015 | Germany U21 | 14 | 1 |
The Stands
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