Matthias Ginter

**Matthias Lukas Ginter** (born 19 January 1994) is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club SC Freiburg and the Germany national team.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|DFB-Pokal|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="4"|SC Freiburg|2011–12|rowspan="3"|Bundesliga|13|1|0|0|—|—|13|1|||
|2012–13|23|1|3|0|—|—|26|1|||||||
|2013–14|34|0|3|2|5|1|—|42|3||||||
|rowspan="4"|Borussia Dortmund|2014–15|rowspan="3"|Bundesliga|14|0|0|0|5|0|1|0|20|0|
|2015–16|24|3|5|0|11|1|—|40|4||||||
|2016–17|29|0|5|0|8|0|0|0|42|0|||||
|rowspan="6"|Borussia Mönchengladbach|2017–18|rowspan="5"|Bundesliga|34|5|3|0|—|—|37|5|||
|2018–19|27|2|2|0|—|—|29|2|||||||
|2019–20|31|1|1|0|4|0|—|36|1||||||
|2020–21|34|2|4|0|8|0|—|46|2||||||
|2021–22|28|1|3|0|—|—|31|1|||||||
|rowspan="3"|SC Freiburg|2022–23|rowspan="2"|Bundesliga|34|4|5|1|8|0|—|47|5||
|2023–24|23|0|2|0|9|0|—|34|0||||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="11"|Germany|||
|2014|5|0||
|2015|3|0||
|2016|1|0||
|2017|8|0||
|2018|6|0||
|2019|6|1||
|2020|6|1||
|2021|11|0||
|2022|2|0||
|2023|3|0||

- _As of match played 25 March 2023. Germany score listed first, score column indicates score after each Ginter goal._

|No.|Date|Venue|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|16 November 2019|Borussia-Park, Mönchengladbach, Germany||1–0|4–0|UEFA Euro 2020 qualification|
|2|10 October 2020|NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine||1–0|2–1|2020–21 UEFA Nations League A|

## Honours

**Borussia Dortmund**
- DFB-Pokal: 2016–17
- DFL-Supercup: 2014

**Germany**
- FIFA World Cup: 2014
- FIFA Confederations Cup: 2017

**Germany Olympic**
- Summer Olympic Games silver medal: 2016

**Individual**
- Fritz Walter Medal U18 Gold: 2012
- Fritz Walter Medal U19 Gold: 2013
- Germany national team Player of the Year: 2019
- _kicker_ Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2019–20, 2022–23
- Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards – Favorite Football Player (Germany, Austria, & Switzerland) nominee: 2020

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Matthias Ginter
- **image**: Matthias Ginter 2019.jpg
- **caption**: Ginter with Germany national football team, Germany in 2019
- **full name**: Matthias Lukas Ginter
- **birth place**: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
- **height**: 1.91 m
- **position**: Centre-back
- **currentclub**: SC Freiburg
- **clubnumber**: 28
- **youthyears1**: 1998–2005
- **youthclubs1**: SC March
- **youthyears2**: 2005–2012
- **youthclubs2**: SC Freiburg
- **years1**: 2012–2014
- **clubs1**: SC Freiburg
- **caps1**: 70
- **goals1**: 2
- **years2**: 2014–2017
- **clubs2**: Borussia Dortmund
- **caps2**: 67
- **goals2**: 3
- **years3**: 2017–2022
- **clubs3**: Borussia Mönchengladbach
- **caps3**: 154
- **goals3**: 11
- **years4**: 2022–
- **clubs4**: SC Freiburg
- **caps4**: 57
- **goals4**: 4
- **nationalyears1**: 2011–2012
- **nationalteam1**: Germany national youth football team, Germany U18
- **nationalcaps1**: 6
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 2012–2013
- **nationalteam2**: Germany national youth football team, Germany U19
- **nationalcaps2**: 5
- **nationalgoals2**: 1
- **nationalyears3**: 2013–2017
- **nationalteam3**: Germany national under-21 football team, Germany U21
- **nationalcaps3**: 18
- **nationalgoals3**: 1
- **nationalyears4**: 2016
- **nationalteam4**: Germany Olympic football team, Germany U23
- **nationalcaps4**: 5
- **nationalgoals4**: 2
- **nationalyears5**: 2014–
- **nationalteam5**: Germany national football team, Germany
- **nationalcaps5**: 51
- **nationalgoals5**: 2
- **club-update**: 17:30, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
- **nationalteam-update**: 19:42, 12 June 2023 (UTC)