Torsten Ziegner
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 9 November 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Neuhaus am Rennweg, Germany | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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FSV Zwickau (Manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1988–1991 | BSG Mikroelektronik Neuhaus | ||
| 1991–1995 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995–1998 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 21 | (0) |
| 1998–2000 | FSV Zwickau | 48 | (4) |
| 2000–2001 | Stuttgarter Kickers | 37 | (0) |
| 2001–2003 | Rot-Weiß Erfurt | 69 | (9) |
| 2003–2004 | FSV Mainz 05 II | 30 | (3) |
| 2004–2011 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 161 | (24) |
| 2011–2012 | FSV Zwickau | 24 | (5) |
| Total | 390 | (45) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2012– | FSV Zwickau | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Torsten Ziegner (born 9 November 1977 in Neuhaus am Rennweg) is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder. He is now manager of FSV Zwickau.
Ziegner began his career with Carl Zeiss Jena, joining the club from amateur club BSG Mikroelektronik Neuhaus at aged 13. He was part of a successful Jena youth team alongside Robert Enke and Mario Kanopa and was capped by the Germany youth team. He made his first-team debut in September 1995 in a 2. Bundesliga match, and made a further twenty appearances over the following three seasons, leaving the club in 1998 after they'd been relegated to the Regionalliga Nordost.
Ziegner, along with Jena team-mates Heiko Cramer and Frank Nierlich, joined FSV Zwickau, who had been relegated to the same level. Zwickau finished in fourth place in Ziegner's first season, but started the following season badly: the Regionalliga was being restructured, and only the top seven teams would avoid relegation. Zwickau's poor start to the season made this almost impossible, and so there was a mass exodus of players during the season - Ziegner was one of the players to leave, returning to the 2. Bundesliga to sign for Stuttgarter Kickers. Zwickau finished the season bottom of the table.
Ziegner spent eighteen months at Kickers, the highlight being a DFB-Pokal tie in which they took Bundesliga side Werder Bremen to extra time, before losing 2–1. The following season ended in relegation, though, so in July 2001 Ziegner returned to his native Thuringia, signing for Rot-Weiß Erfurt of the Regionalliga Süd. After two successful seasons with Erfurt, he signed for second division side FSV Mainz 05, but didn't make a first-team appearance in his year with the club, mainly playing for the reserve team. At the end of the 2003–04 season, he left Mainz to return to Carl Zeiss Jena, who were by now in the fourth-tier NOFV-Oberliga Süd.
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