Gonzalo Castro

**Gonzalo Castro Randón** (born 11 June 1987) is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for  club Arminia Bielefeld. He is a previous Germany international.

## Career statistics

|Club|Season|League|Cup|Continental|Other|Total|||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Bayer Leverkusen|2004–05|Bundesliga|13|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|14|0|||
|2005–06|Bundesliga|21|0|2|0|2|0|1|0|26|0||||
|2006–07|Bundesliga|26|3|1|0|11|0|1|0|39|3||||
|2007–08|Bundesliga|33|1|1|0|11|0|—|45|1|||||
|2008–09|Bundesliga|27|2|6|0|—|colspan="2"|—|33|2|||||
|2009–10|Bundesliga|29|1|1|0|colspan="2"|—|colspan="2"|—|30|1||||
|2010–11|Bundesliga|23|3|1|0|8|3|colspan="2"|—|32|6||||
|2011–12|Bundesliga|31|2|1|0|8|0|colspan="2"|—|40|2||||
|2012–13|Bundesliga|31|6|3|0|6|2|colspan="2"|—|40|8||||
|2013–14|Bundesliga|30|5|3|0|6|0|colspan="2"|—|39|5||||
|2014–15|Bundesliga|22|2|3|0|7|0|colspan="2"|—|32|2||||
|Bayer Leverkusen II|2005–06|Regionalliga Nord|10|3|—|colspan="2"|—|colspan="2"|—|10|3||||
|Borussia Dortmund|2015–16|Bundesliga|25|3|5|3|11|1|colspan="2"|—|41|7|||
|2016–17|Bundesliga|28|3|6|0|7|1|1|0|42|4||||
|2017–18|Bundesliga|19|0|2|1|6|0|1|0|28|1||||
|VfB Stuttgart|2018–19|Bundesliga|25|2|1|0|—|2|0|28|2||||
|2019–20|2. Bundesliga|28|3|3|0|colspan="2"|—|—|31|3|||||
|2020–21|Bundesliga|26|4|2|0|—|0|0|28|4|||||
|Arminia Bielefeld|2021–22|Bundesliga|0|0|0|0|colspan="2"|—|colspan="2"|—|0|0|||

- 1.Includes DFB-Ligapokal, DFL-Supercup and Bundesliga relegation play-offs.

## Honours

- Bayer Leverkusen
- DFB-Pokal runner-up: 2008–09
- Bundesliga runner-up: 2010–11

- Borussia Dortmund
- DFB-Pokal: 2016–17
- Germany U21
- UEFA European Under-21 Championship: 2009
**Individual**
- UEFA Europa League Squad of the Season: 2015–16

## Other websites

- Gonzalo Castro at kicker.de
- Leverkusen who's who

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Gonzalo Castro
- **fullname**: Gonzalo Castro Randón
- **image**: Gonzalo castro.jpg
- **caption**: Castro with VfB Stuttgart in 2018
- **birth place**: Wuppertal, West Germany
- **position**: Midfielder
- **currentclub**: Arminia Bielefeld
- **clubnumber**: 7
- **youthclubs1**: Post SV Wuppertal
- **youthclubs2**: Viktoria Rott
- **youthyears3**: –1999
- **youthclubs3**: Bayer Wuppertal
- **youthyears4**: 1999–2005
- **youthclubs4**: Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayer Leverkusen
- **years1**: 2005–2006
- **clubs1**: Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayer Leverkusen II
- **caps1**: 10
- **goals1**: 3
- **clubs2**: Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayer Leverkusen
- **years2**: 2004–2015
- **caps2**: 370
- **goals2**: 30
- **years3**: 2015–2018
- **clubs3**: Borussia Dortmund
- **caps3**: 111
- **goals3**: 12
- **years4**: 2018–2021
- **clubs4**: VfB Stuttgart
- **caps4**: 79
- **goals4**: 9
- **years5**: 2021–
- **clubs5**: Arminia Bielefeld
- **caps5**: 6
- **goals5**: 1
- **nationalyears1**: 2005
- **nationalteam1**: Spain national under-19 football team, Spain U19
- **nationalcaps1**: 1
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 2006–2009
- **nationalteam2**: Germany national under-21 football team, Germany U21
- **nationalcaps2**: 21
- **nationalgoals2**: 3
- **nationalyears3**: 2007
- **nationalteam3**: Germany national football team, Germany
- **nationalcaps3**: 5
- **nationalgoals3**: 0
- **pcupdate**: 19 February 2022
- **ntupdate**: 24 January 2017