Benjamin Girth

Benjamin Girth
Personnel
birthday	January 31, 1992
place of birth	Magdeburg ,  Germany
size	181 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
1997-2003	Magdeburg SV Börde
2003-2010	1. FC Magdeburg
2010-2011	RB Leipzig
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2011–2012	RB Leipzig II	7 0(1)
2012-2013	1. FC Magdeburg II	10 0(5)
2013-2014	VFC Plauen	25 (15)
2014-2016	KSV Hessen Kassel	58 (15)
2016-2018	SV Meppen	64 (39)
2018–	Holstein Kiel	7 0(2)
2018	Holstein Kiel II	1 0(0)
2019-2020	→  VfL Osnabrück  (loan)	34 0(11)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20

Benjamin Girth (born January 31, 1992 in Magdeburg ) is a German football player . The striker is under contract with Holstein Kiel .

Career

Girth played in the youth field for Magdeburg SV Börde , 1. FC Magdeburg and RB Leipzig . After his youth he moved to the second team in Leipzig, where he made his first appearances in adult football. In July 2016 he moved to SV Meppen with whom he rose to the third division at the end of the 2016/17 season . There he not only had his first appearance in professional football in the game against the Würzburger Kickers on July 22nd , but he also scored his first goal in the third division. In July 2018 he joined second division promoted Holstein Kiel .

For the second half of the 2018/19 season he was loaned to third division club VfL Osnabrück . After Girth was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga with VfL , his loan contract was extended until the end of the 2019/20 second division season . In both leagues, the Magdeburger was unable to establish himself as a regular, was often substituted and mainly served as a backup for the regular attackers Marc Heider and Marcos Álvarez . In two years Girth made 35 competitive games for VfL (11 goals, two assists) and returned to Kiel in summer 2020.

successes

• Top scorer Regionalliga Nord 2016/17 with 20 goals
• Promotion to the 3rd division in 2017
• Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2019

Web links

• Benjamin Girth in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Benjamin Girth in the FuPa.net database
• Benjamin Girth in the database of the German Football Association
• Benjamin Girth in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Girth comes on loan , vfl.de, January 3, 2018.
2. ^ After promotion: contracts of Alvarez and Girth extended , vfl.de, accessed on April 25, 2019