Marcel Schäfer

**Marcel Schäfer** (born 7 June 1984 in Aschaffenburg) is a former German footballer.

## Career

Schäfer came to the youth teams of 1860 Munich when he was 16 years old. In 2003 he played his first and only Bundesliga match for Munich. After the 2003–04 Bundesliga season, 1860 Munich was relegated to the 2. Bundesliga. Schäfer played for Munich for three more years.

In 2007 he went back to the Bundesliga and came to VfL Wolfsburg. They won their first German Championship in 2009.

Schäfer plays for the German national football team since the year 2008. His first international match was against England on 19 November 2008.

## Career statistics

|colspan="3"|Club performance|colspan="2"|League|colspan="2"|Cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Total|rowspan="3"||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|1860 Munich|Bundesliga|2003–04|1|0|0|0|rowspan="5" colspan="2"|—|**1**|**0**|||
|2. Bundesliga|2004–05|27|2|1|0|**28**|**2**|||||||
|1860 Munich II|Regionalliga Süd|2004–05|7|3|colspan="2"|—|**7**|**3**||||||
|rowspan="2"|1860 Munich|rowspan="2"|2. Bundesliga|2005–06|32|1|3|0|**35**|**1**||||
|2006–07|31|0|1|0|**32**|**0**||||||||
|rowspan="9"|VfL Wolfsburg|rowspan="9"|Bundesliga|2007–08|29|6|3|0|colspan="2"|—|**32**|**6**||
|2008–09|34|0|4|1|8|0|**46**|**1**||||||
|2009–10|32|0|2|0|12|0|**46**|**0**||||||
|2010–11|34|0|2|1|rowspan="7" colspan="2"|—|**36**|**1**||||||
|2011–12|34|5|1|0|**35**|**5**||||||||
|2012–13|31|0|4|0|**35**|**0**||||||||
|2013–14|21|1|4|1|**25**|**2**||||||||
|2014–15|16|2|2|0|**15**|**0**||||||||
|2015–16|21|1|2|0|**15**|**0**||||||||
|VfL Wolfsburg II|Regionalliga Nord|2013–14|2|1|colspan="2"|—|**2**|**1**||||||

### Club

- VfL Wolfsburg
- Bundesliga: 2008–09
- DFB-Pokal: 2014–15
- DFL-Supercup: 2015

### Individual

- Lower Saxony Footballer of the Year: 2009
- United Soccer League Best XI: 2017

## Other websites

- Marcel Schäfer's website  (in German)
- Marcel Schäfer on fussballdaten.de (in German)

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Marcel Schäfer
- **image**: Marcel Schäfer.jpg
- **image size**: 200
- **full name**: Marcel Schäfer
- **birth place**: Aschaffenburg, West Germany
- **height**: 1.84 m
- **position**: Defender (association football)#Wing-back, Left wingback
- **youthyears1**: 1989–1996
- **youthclubs1**: SV Eintracht Straßbessenbach
- **youthyears2**: 1996–2000
- **youthclubs2**: Viktoria Aschaffenburg
- **youthyears3**: 2000–2003
- **youthclubs3**: TSV 1860 Munich, 1860 Munich
- **years1**: 2003–2007
- **clubs1**: TSV 1860 Munich, 1860 Munich
- **caps1**: 91
- **goals1**: 3
- **years2**: 2007–2017
- **clubs2**: VfL Wolfsburg
- **caps2**: 256
- **goals2**: 13
- **years3**: 2014
- **clubs3**: VfL Wolfsburg II
- **caps3**: 2
- **goals3**: 1
- **years4**: 2017–2018
- **clubs4**: Tampa Bay Rowdies
- **caps4**: 43
- **goals4**: 5
- **nationalyears1**: 2005–2008
- **nationalteam1**: Germany national football B team, Germany B
- **nationalcaps1**: 1
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 2008–2010
- **nationalteam2**: Germany national football team, Germany
- **nationalcaps2**: 8
- **nationalgoals2**: 0
- **club-update**: 13 July 2018
- **ntupdate**: 21 September 2014