Simon Rolfes

**Simon Rolfes** (born 21 January 1982) is a German professional football official and a former player who played as a defensive midfielder. He is the managing director of sport for Bayer Leverkusen.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|DFB-Pokal|colspan="2"|DFB-Ligapokal|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Total|rowspan="2"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="5"|Werder Bremen II|2000–01|rowspan="4"|Regionalliga Nord|26|5|1|0|—|—|27|5||||
|2001–02|31|7|2|1|—|—|33|8||||||||
|2002–03|17|2|1|0|—|—|18|2||||||||
|2003–04|26|4|—|—|—|26|4|||||||||
|Werder Bremen|2002–03|Bundesliga|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|1|0||||
|SSV Reutlingen|2002–03|2. Bundesliga|13|0|0|0|—|—|13|0||||||
|Alemannia Aachen|2004–05|2. Bundesliga|28|3|2|0|—|7|0|37|3|||||
|rowspan="11"|Bayer Leverkusen|2005–06|rowspan="10"|Bundesliga|32|7|2|0|1|0|2|0|37|7||
|2006–07|34|3|2|1|1|0|12|0|49|4||||||
|2007–08|34|8|1|0|—|12|1|47|8|||||||
|2008–09|33|3|6|1|—|—|39|4||||||||
|2009–10|11|4|2|0|—|—|13|4||||||||
|2010–11|28|5|1|0|—|7|0|36|1|||||||
|2011–12|31|3|1|0|—|8|0|40|3|||||||
|2012–13|30|3|3|1|—|7|0|40|4|||||||
|2013–14|31|4|4|0|—|8|3|43|7|||||||
|2014–15|24|1|3|0|—|6|0|33|1|||||||
|Bayer Leverkusen II|2010–11|Regionalliga West|1|0|—|—|—|1|0|||||||
- 1.Includes UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup/Europa League.

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="4"|Germany|2007|7|0|
|2008|10|1|||
|2009|4|0|||
|2011|5|1|||

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

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|6 September 2008|Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz, Liechtenstein||3–0|6–0|2010 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|2|11 November 2011|Olimpiyskyi National Sports Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine||2–3|3–3|Friendly||||||||

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Simon Rolfes
- **image**: Simon Rolfes 2019.jpg
- **caption**: Rolfes in 2019
- **birth place**: Ibbenbüren, West Germany
- **height**: 1.91 m
- **position**: Defensive midfielder
- **currentclub**: Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayer Leverkusen (managing director of sport)
- **youthyears1**: 1986–1999
- **youthclubs1**: TuS Recke
- **youthyears2**: 1999–2000
- **youthclubs2**: SV Werder Bremen, Werder Bremen
- **years1**: 2000–2004
- **clubs1**: SV Werder Bremen II, Werder Bremen II
- **caps1**: 100
- **goals1**: 18
- **years2**: 2002–2004
- **clubs2**: SV Werder Bremen, Werder Bremen
- **caps2**: 0
- **goals2**: 0
- **years3**: 2003
- **clubs3**: → SSV Reutlingen (loan)
- **caps3**: 13
- **goals3**: 0
- **years4**: 2004–2005
- **clubs4**: Alemannia Aachen
- **caps4**: 28
- **goals4**: 3
- **years5**: 2005–2015
- **clubs5**: Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayer Leverkusen
- **caps5**: 288
- **goals5**: 41
- **years6**: 2010
- **clubs6**: → Bayer 04 Leverkusen II, Bayer Leverkusen II
- **caps6**: 1
- **goals6**: 0
- **totalcaps**: 430
- **totalgoals**: 62
- **nationalyears1**: 2002
- **nationalteam1**: Germany national under-21 football team, Germany U21
- **nationalcaps1**: 1
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 2004–2005
- **nationalteam2**: Germany national football B team, Germany B
- **nationalcaps2**: 3
- **nationalgoals2**: 0
- **nationalyears3**: 2007–2011
- **nationalteam3**: Germany national football team, Germany
- **nationalcaps3**: 26
- **nationalgoals3**: 2
- **manageryears1**: 2018
- **managerclubs1**: Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayer Leverkusen (academy manager)
- **manageryears2**: 2018–2022
- **managerclubs2**: Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayer Leverkusen (sporting director)
- **manageryears3**: 2022–
- **managerclubs3**: Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayer Leverkusen (managing director of sport)