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Markus Steinhöfer

Markus Steinhöfer
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Markus Steinhöfer (2011)
Personal information
Date of birth (1986-03-07) 7 March 1986 (age 30)
Place of birth Weißenburg in Bayern, West Germany
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Right back / Midfielder
Club information
Current team
SV Darmstadt 98
Number 13
Youth career
1989–1998 DSC Weißenburg
1998–1999 TSV Roth
1999–2002 1. FC Nürnberg
2002–2004 Bayern Munich
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2008 Bayern Munich II 57 (2)
2006–2008 Red Bull Salzburg (loan) 48 (2)
2008–2010 Eintracht Frankfurt 41 (3)
2010 1. FC Kaiserslautern (loan) 15 (2)
2011–2013 Basel 76 (1)
2013–2014 Real Betis 3 (0)
2014–2015 1860 Munich 18 (0)
2014 1860 Munich II 4 (1)
2015 VfR Aalen 9 (3)
2015–2016 Sparta Prague 7 (0)
2017– SV Darmstadt 98 0 (0)
National team
Germany U16 9 (1)
2004 Germany U18 2 (0)
2003–2005 Germany U19 9 (2)
2007 Germany U21 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:41, 20 January 2017 (UTC).
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2 November 2010

Markus Steinhöfer (born 7 March 1986 in Weißenburg in Bayern) is a German footballer, who plays mainly as a right defender. He is currently signed to SV Darmstadt 98.

In July 2008, he moved to Eintracht Frankfurt for a fee of €900,000. In his second season, he struggled to find a regular spot and announced that it was his intention to transfer. On 29 December 2009, Eintracht Frankfurt loaned him to 1. FC Kaiserslautern until the end of the season. At the end of the season, he returned to Frankfurt but was unable to make an impact.

In January 2011 Markus Steinhöfer left the Frankfurt to join FC Basel. He played his first game for his new team on 6 February 2011 in the 3–2 away win against FC Thun. He played all 18 Swiss Super League games and at the end of the 2010–11 season Steinhöfer won the Championship with Basel.

On 7 December 2011, during the Champions League group C match at home to Manchester United, trying to make a clearance, Steinhöfer volleyed the ball against his own crossbar. Basel won the match 2–1, sending United out of the Champions league. Steinhöfer's fans created a song to celebrate this feat.

Steinhöfer scored his first Super League goal in the 3–0 away win against Sion on 22 April 2012. At the end of the 2011–12 season he won the Double, the League Championship title and the Swiss Cup with the club.

At the end of the Swiss Super League season 2012–13 he won the Championship title and was Swiss Cup runner up with Basel. In the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League Basel advanced as far as the semi-finals, there being matched against the reigning UEFA Champions League holders Chelsea, but they were knocked out, losing both home and away ties, beaten 2-5 on aggregate. In a long season with a total of 76 games (62 in League, Cup, European Champions League, Europa League and 14 test matches) he had a total of 63 appearances. After two and a half years in Basel his contract was not extended.


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