Lukas Rupp

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Lukas Rupp (disambiguation) .

Lukas Rupp
Rupp in Stuttgart (2015)
Personnel
birthday	January 8, 1991
place of birth	Heidelberg ,  Germany
size	179 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
0000–2005	TSG Weinheim
2005-2009	Karlsruher SC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2009-2011	Karlsruher SC II	24 (7)
2010-2011	Karlsruher SC	26 (3)
2011-2014	Borussia M'gladbach	34 (0)
2011-2014	Borussia M'gladbach II	14 (3)
2012	→  SC Paderborn 07  (loan)	15 (2)
2014-2015	SC Paderborn 07	31 (4)
2015-2016	VfB Stuttgart	29 (5)
2016-2019	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	43 (5)
2017-2019	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II	4 (1)
2020–	Norwich City	0 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2010-2011	Germany U20	7 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of January 14, 2020

Lukas Rupp (born January 8, 1991 in Heidelberg ) is a German soccer player . The midfielder is under contract with Norwich City in England and has played seven times for the German U20 national team .

Career

The son of handball player Franz Rupp, a former Bundesliga player of SG Leutershausen , graduated from the Dietrich Bonhoeffer School in Weinheim and played for various youth teams at TSG Weinheim and Karlsruher SC . At KSC he made his first appearances for the second team in the Regionalliga Süd in 2009 . In his third game, the midfielder scored his first goal. In the 2009/10 season Rupp was regularly used for KSC II and was therefore recommended for the extended squad of the first team. He made his professional debut on March 21, 2010 in a second division game at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen . In the preliminary round of the 2010/11 season , Rupp developed into a fixture in midfield, was in the starting line-up in 14 of a total of 24 appearances and scored three goals.

For the 2011/12 season he moved with defender Matthias Zimmermann to Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach . During the winter break, Rupp was loaned to the second division club SC Paderborn 07 until the end of the season and returned to the 2012/13 season. Rupp decided not to extend the contract that expired at the end of the 2013/14 season . At the beginning of the 2014/15 season , he moved to the newly promoted Bundesliga SC Paderborn 07 for two years. On November 22, 2014 (12th matchday), he succeeded in a 2-2 draw in the home game against Borussia Dortmund with the goal to make it 1-2 in the meantime his first Bundesliga goal in the 60th minute.

For the 2015/16 season , Rupp moved to VfB Stuttgart on a free transfer , where he scored five goals and six assists in 29 games.

After VfB Stuttgart's relegation, he moved to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim for the 2016/17 season . Rupp played 51 competitive games for the first team in the Bundesliga as well as in the DFB and European Cup, but was never able to earn a regular place.

In January 2020, the midfielder signed a contract with the English first division club Norwich City , which will run until 2022 , where he will meet six compatriots and German head coach Daniel Farke .

Web links

Commons : Lukas Rupp  - Collection of Images

• Lukas Rupp in the database of weltfussball.de
• Lukas Rupp in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Putzing: Rupp wants to further establish himself at KSC and in the league ; Interview with Lukas Rupp on ka-news.de, October 13, 2010.
2. ↑ Rupp's next career step, morgenweb.de, accessed on February 18, 2019.
3. ↑ Lukas Rupp at Radio 90.1 , borussia.de, accessed on February 18, 2019.
4. ↑ Borussia brings Zimmermann and Rupp , kicker online from June 17, 2011, accessed on June 17, 2011.
5. ↑ Rupp and Anderson come back , borussia.de from June 2, 2012, accessed on June 2, 2012.
6. ↑ Lukas Rupp back to SC Paderborn , sportal.de from May 16, 2014, accessed on May 16, 2014.
7. ↑ Lukas Rupp changes to VfB ( memento from June 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), vfb.de from June 24, 2015.
8. ↑ Lukas Rupp 2015/16 , inside11.de, accessed on April 28, 2019.
9. ↑ TSG signs Lukas Rupp , achtzehn99.de of June 29, 2016.
10. ↑ Lukas Rupp moves to the island , achtzehn99.de, accessed on January 14, 2020.