Markus Karl

Markus Karl
Markus Karl (2015)
Personnel
birthday	February 14, 1986
place of birth	Vilsbiburg ,  Germany
size	187 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1991-2003	TSV Vilsbiburg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2003-2005	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	1 (0)
2005-2007	Hamburger SV	5 (0)
2005-2007	Hamburger SV II	32 (1)
2007	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	5 (0)
2007	SpVgg Greuther Fürth II	19 (4)
2008-2011	FC Ingolstadt 04	96 (8)
2011-2013	1. FC Union Berlin	51 (4)
2013-2016	1. FC Kaiserslautern	98 (7)
2016–	SV Sandhausen	38 (3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2004	Germany U-18	2 (1)
2004	Germany U-19	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of December 19, 2017

Markus Karl (born February 14, 1986 in Vilsbiburg ) is a German football player .

Career

Karl started playing football in the youth team of TSV Vilsbiburg at the age of five and moved to SpVgg Greuther Fürth in 2003 , where he played a short stint in the 2nd Bundesliga in 2004/05. In the summer of 2005 he moved on to Hamburger SV , where he signed a contract that ran until 2008. For the Hanseatic League he played four times in the UI Cup and in the regional league team. In the Bundesliga he played 13 minutes in three games in the 2005/06 season and nine minutes in two games in the first half of the 2006/07 season.

Karl went back to SpVgg Greuther Fürth during the winter break in 2006/07. During the winter break of the 2007/08 season he was loaned to the regional division FC Ingolstadt for six months . There he played the entire second half of the season and was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga. He was taken over by FC Ingolstadt and completed a total of 15 regional league, 27 third division and 54 second division games there by 2011.

From the 2011/12 season, Karl played for 1. FC Union Berlin . There he received a contract that ran until 2013. In his debut season for Berlin, he played 33 of the possible 34 season games.

At the end of January 2013, Karl moved to league competitor 1. FC Kaiserslautern , with whom he signed a contract that ran until the end of June 2016. He made his debut on the 20th matchday in a 1-0 away win against TSV 1860 Munich in the starting line-up. He scored his first goal for Lautrer on February 8, 2013 in a 3-0 home win against Dynamo Dresden , it was the goal to make it 1-0.

At the end of the 2015/16 season, his contract with 1. FC Kaiserslautern was not extended. Karl then signed a two-year contract with SV Sandhausen , which was optionally extended to 2019.

For DFB selections he was used twice in the U-18 and once in the U-19 .

Web links

• Markus Karl in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Markus Karl in the database of weltfussball.de
• Markus Karl on www.kleeblatt-chronik.de
• Markus Karl on the website of 1. FC Kaiserslautern

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1. FC Union Berlin signs Markus Karl. fc-union-berlin.de, May 12, 2011, accessed on May 13, 2011 . 
2. ↑ fck.de: Markus Karl changes to Betzenberg ( Memento from May 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), January 24, 2013, accessed on January 24, 2013
3. ^ Riedel: Winning goal with the first ball contact
4. ↑ Vain sunshine in the Palatinate - thanks to Karl & Co
5. ↑ Second division Sandhausen signed Markus Karl. Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 22, 2016, accessed on August 7, 2020 .