Uwe Hünemeier

Uwe Hünemeier (born 9 January 1986) is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre back.[2]

Uwe Hünemeier
Hünemeier playing for SC Paderborn in 2013
Personal information
Full name Uwe Hünemeier[1]
Date of birth (1986-01-09) 9 January 1986
Place of birth Gütersloh, Germany
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Youth career
1992–1997 DJK Bokel
1997–2000 FC Gütersloh
2000–2004 Borussia Dortmund
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2010 Borussia Dortmund II 130 (13)
2005–2010 Borussia Dortmund 5 (0)
2010–2013 Energie Cottbus 78 (10)
2013–2015 SC Paderborn 67 (4)
2015–2018 Brighton & Hove Albion 27 (1)
2018–2023 SC Paderborn 115 (4)
International career
2003 Germany U17 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Born in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hünemeier began with the football team at DJK Bokel. Because of its benefits other clubs wanted to sign him and Hünemeier joined the youth of FC Gütersloh 2000. He also appeared in relation to his performance positively in appearance and in 2000, he joined the youth of Borussia Dortmund.[3] In 2004, he came to the second team of the club. A year later, he was awarded a professional contract and now belonged to the first team.

He made his debut for the senior Borussia Dortmund squad on 17 December 2005, when he started in a Bundesliga game against Bayern Munich and played the whole 90 minutes.[4]

Hünemeier signed for Brighton & Hove Albion in August 2015.[5] He scored his first goal for Brighton in a 3–1 win over Birmingham City on 4 April 2017. Brighton finished the season as runners up, and gained automatic promotion to the Premier League.[6]

With Brighton promoted to the Premier League for the 2017–18 season, Hünemeier assumed the role of back-up centre defender with Lewis Dunk and Shane Duffy forming Brighton's established centre-back partnership. He made his Premier League debut as a substitute against Everton in a 1–1 draw on 15 October 2017, coming on for the injured Duffy.[7]

In May 2018, Paderborn announced Hünemeier would return to the club for the new season, having signed a contract until summer 2020.[8]

International career

Hünemeier made three appearances for the German U17s.[9]

Career statistics

As of 28 May 2023
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[lower-alpha 1] League cup[lower-alpha 2] Other Total Ref.
LeagueAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Borussia Dortmund II 2004–05 Regionalliga Nord 110110 [10]
2006–07 Regionalliga Nord 271271 [11]
2007–08 Regionalliga Nord 363363 [12]
2008–09 Regionalliga West 233233 [11]
2009–10 3. Liga 336336 [11]
Total 1301300000013013
Borussia Dortmund 2005–06 Bundesliga 20000020 [13]
2006–07 Bundesliga 10000010 [11]
2008–09 Bundesliga 10000010 [11]
2009–10 Bundesliga 10000010 [11]
Total 5000000050
Energie Cottbus 2010–11 2. Bundesliga 30940349 [14]
2011–12 2. Bundesliga 25110261 [15]
2012–13 2. Bundesliga 23010240 [16]
Total 78106000008410
SC Paderborn 2013–14 2. Bundesliga 33220352 [17]
2014–15 Bundesliga 32210332 [18]
2015–16 2. Bundesliga 201030 [11]
Total 674400000714
Brighton & Hove Albion 2015–16 Championship 15000002 [lower-alpha 3]0170 [11]
2016–17 Championship 111202000151 [11]
2017–18 Premier League 1030200060 [11]
Total 271504020381
SC Paderborn 2018–19 2. Bundesliga 22143264 [11]
2019–20 Bundesliga 16111172 [11]
2020–21 2. Bundesliga 26220282 [11]
2021–22 2. Bundesliga 29010300 [11]
2022–23 2. Bundesliga 22030250 [11]
2023–24 2. Bundesliga 000000 [11]
Total 115411400001268
Career total 42232264402045436
  1. Appearances in German FA Cup and English FA Cup.
  2. Appearances in English League Cup
  3. Appearance in Championship play-offs

Honours

Borussia Dortmund ll

SC Paderborn

Brighton & Hove Albion

References

  1. "Updated squads for 2017/18 Premier League confirmed". Premier League. 2 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  2. Uwe Hünemeier at kicker (in German)
  3. Rietberg-lebt.de (Hrsg.) (12 March 2013). "Bokels Fußball-Profi Uwe Hünemeier von Energie Cottbus will irgendwann zurück in die alte Heimat" (in German). Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  4. Endres, Kai (17 December 2005). "Rekorde, Rekorde, Rekorde". fussballdaten.de (in German). Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  5. "Uwe Hunemeier: Brighton & Hove Albion sign Paderborn defender". BBC. 12 August 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  6. "Brighton 3–1 Birmingham". BBC. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  7. "Brighton & Hove Albion 1–1 Everton". BBC Sport. 15 October 2017.
  8. "England-Abenteuer beendet: Hünemeier zurück in Paderborn!". kicker Online (in German). 4 May 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  9. "U 17-Junioren siegen 2:0 gegen Luxemburg".
  10. "Uwe Hünemeier". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  11. "Uwe Hünemeier » Club matches". World Football. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
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