Torsten Frings

**Torsten Frings** (born 22 November 1976 in Würselen, Germany) is a former German football player and current manager. He plays for the Canadian soccer club Toronto FC. Before, he played for the German club Werder Bremen, Bayern Munich (2004 until 2005), Borussia Dortmund (2002 until 2004) and Werder Bremen (1997 until 2002).

He has played for the Germany national team since 2001.

### Club

|Club|Season|League|Cup|Continental|Other|Total||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Alemannia Aachen|1994–95|Regionalliga West|6|0|0|0|—|—|6|0||||
|1995–96|32|12|—|—|—|32|12|||||||
|1996–97|19|1|—|—|—|19|1|||||||
|Werder Bremen II|1996–97|Regionalliga Nord|1|1|—|—|—|1|1|||||
|Werder Bremen|1996–97|Bundesliga|15|0|0|0|—|—|15|0||||
|1997–98|28|2|2|0|3|0|—|33|2|||||
|1998–99|23|3|4|3|12|3|—|39|9|||||
|1999–2000|33|3|4|0|9|0|2|0|48|3||||
|2000–01|30|1|2|0|5|0|—|37|1|||||
|2001–02|33|6|1|0|2|0|—|36|6|||||
|Borussia Dortmund|2002–03|Bundesliga|31|6|2|0|12|2|1|0|46|8||
|2003–04|16|4|0|0|0|0|1|0|17|4||||
|Bayern Munich|2004–05|Bundesliga|29|3|6|0|8|1|2|1|45|5||
|Werder Bremen|2005–06|28|3|4|1|10|1|2|0|44|5|||
|2006–07|33|1|0|0|6|1|2|1|41|3||||
|2007–08|11|1|0|0|2|0|1|0|14|1||||
|2008–09|30|4|5|0|13|0|—|48|4|||||
|2009–10|30|6|6|0|9|4|—|45|10|||||
|2010–11|32|6|1|0|6|1|—|39|7|||||
|Toronto FC|2011|MLS|13|0|0|0|6|0|—|19|0|||
|2012|20|2|3|0|2|0|—|25|2|||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="9"|Germany|2001|2|0|
|2002|17|2|||
|2003|4|0|||
|2004|12|2|||
|2005|13|2|||
|2006|16|2|||
|2007|6|2|||
|2008|8|0|||
|2009|1|0|||

- _Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Frings goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|27 March 2002|Ostseestadion, Rostock, Germany||4–1|4–2|Friendly||||||||
|2|9 May 2002|Schwarzwald-Stadion, Freiburg, Germany||1–0|7–0|Friendly||||||||
|3|27 May 2004|Schwarzwald-Stadion, Freiburg, Germany||4–0|7–0|Friendly||||||||
|4|15 June 2004|Estádio do Dragão, Porto, Portugal||1–0|1–1|UEFA Euro 2004||||||||
|5|9 February 2005|Merkur Spielarena, Düsseldorf, Germany||1–0|2–2|Friendly||||||||
|6|12 October 2005|Volksparkstadion, Hamburg, Germany||1–0|1–0|Friendly||||||||
|7|27 May 2006|Schwarzwald-Stadion, Freiburg, Germany||2–0|7–0|Friendly||||||||
|8|9 June 2006|Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany||4–2|4–2|2006 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|9|7 February 2007|Merkur Spielarena, Düsseldorf, Germany||3–0|3–1|Friendly||||||||
|10|2 June 2007|Max-Morlock-Stadion, Nuremberg, Germany||3–0|6–0|UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying||||||||

### Managerial statistics

|rowspan="2"|Team!|rowspan="2"|From!|rowspan="2"|To!|colspan="9"|Record|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Darmstadt 98|27 December 2016|9 December 2017||||||
|SV Meppen|14 July 2020|14 April 2021||||||

## Honours

**Werder Bremen**
- DFB-Pokal: 1998–99, 2008–09
- DFB-Ligapokal: 2006
- UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1998

**Bayern Munich**
- Bundesliga: 2004–05
- DFB-Pokal: 2004–05
- DFB-Ligapokal: 2004

**Toronto FC**
- Canadian Championship: 2012

**Germany**
- FIFA World Cup runner-up: 2002; third place: 2006
- FIFA Confederations Cup third place: 2005
- UEFA European Championship runner-up: 2008

**Individual**
- _kicker_ Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2001–02, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Torsten Frings
- **image**: Torsten frings tdf.jpg
- **image size**: 200px
- **caption**: Frings during his time as SV Werder Bremen, Werder Bremen assistant manager
- **fullname**: Torsten Klaus Frings
- **birth place**: Würselen, West Germany
- **height**: 1.82 m
- **position**: Central midfielder
- **youthyears1**: 1982–1988
- **youthclubs1**: Rot-Weiß Alsdorf
- **youthyears2**: 1988–1990
- **youthclubs2**: Rhenania Alsdorf
- **youthyears3**: 1990–1994
- **youthclubs3**: Alemannia Aachen#Alemannia Aachen II squad, Alemannia Aachen II
- **years1**: 1994–1997
- **clubs1**: Alemannia Aachen
- **caps1**: 57
- **goals1**: 13
- **years2**: 1997
- **clubs2**: SV Werder Bremen II, Werder Bremen (A)
- **caps2**: 1
- **goals2**: 1
- **years3**: 1997–2002
- **clubs3**: SV Werder Bremen, Werder Bremen
- **caps3**: 162
- **goals3**: 15
- **years4**: 2002–2004
- **clubs4**: Borussia Dortmund
- **caps4**: 47
- **goals4**: 10
- **years5**: 2004–2005
- **clubs5**: FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich
- **caps5**: 29
- **goals5**: 3
- **years6**: 2005–2011
- **clubs6**: SV Werder Bremen, Werder Bremen
- **caps6**: 164
- **goals6**: 21
- **years7**: 2011–2012
- **clubs7**: Toronto FC
- **caps7**: 33
- **goals7**: 2
- **totalcaps**: 493
- **totalgoals**: 65
- **nationalyears1**: 1997–1998
- **nationalteam1**: Germany national under-21 football team, Germany U21
- **nationalcaps1**: 6
- **nationalgoals1**: 1
- **nationalyears2**: 1999–2000
- **nationalteam2**: Germany national football B team, Germany B
- **nationalcaps2**: 5
- **nationalgoals2**: 0
- **nationalyears3**: 2001–2009
- **nationalteam3**: Germany national football team, Germany
- **nationalcaps3**: 79
- **nationalgoals3**: 10
- **manageryears1**: 2016–2017
- **managerclubs1**: SV Darmstadt 98, Darmstadt 98
- **manageryears2**: 2020–2021
- **managerclubs2**: SV Meppen