Benedikt Fernandez

Benedikt Fernandez

Personal information
Date of birth	(1985-01-08) 8 January 1985 (age 39)
Place of birth	Bonn, West Germany
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
	TUS Buisdorf
	Tura Hennef
	Renault Brühl
2000–2005	Bayer Leverkusen
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2005–2011	Bayer Leverkusen II	51	(0)
2006–2011	Bayer Leverkusen	6	(0)
2012–2013	1. FC Saarbrücken	18	(0)
2013–2018	Sportfreunde Lotte	160	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:28, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Benedikt Fernandez (born 8 January 1985) is a German football goalkeeper.^[1]

Club career

Born in Bonn, Fernandez joined Bayer Leverkusen's youth academy in 2000 and started playing for the club's reserve team in 2005. In 2006, he signed a professional contract with the club to play understudy to Hans-Jörg Butt and René Adler. He made his Bundesliga debut on 10 February 2007 against Eintracht Frankfurt, coming on as a substitute following a red card to Hans-Jörg Butt. He made one more appearance in the Bundesliga that season before being replaced by René Adler, who went on to establish himself as the club's first-choice goalkeeper.

Following the departure of Hans-Jörg Butt in the summer of 2007, Fernandez became the second-choice goalkeeper in Leverkusen's first team, also continuing to occasionally play for the reserves. His first appearance for the first team in the 2007–08 season was his UEFA Cup debut against FC Zürich on 19 December 2007. He only made two further appearances with the first team thereafter, one in the Bundesliga and one in the UEFA Cup, deputising for the injured Adler in late February 2008.

Due to another injury to Adler, Leverkusen started their 2008–09 Bundesliga campaign with Fernandez in goal, with him subsequently making further three Bundesliga appearances before Adler returned to action in mid-September 2008. At the end of the 2010–11 season, he left Bayer Leverkusen.^[2] After a year without a club, he signed for 1. FC Saarbrücken in 2012.

Personal life

Fernandez is of Spanish descent through his father.^[3]

Career statistics

As of matches played on 24 April 2018.

Club	Season	League			Cup		Continental		Other^1		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Bayer Leverkusen II	2005–06	Regionalliga Nord	9	0	—		—				9	0
	2006–07		18	0							18	0
	2007–08	Oberliga Niederrhein	14	0	1	0					15	0
	2008–09	Regionalliga West	2	0	—						2	0
	2009–10		10	0							10	0
	2010–11		15	0							15	0
	Totals		68	0	1	0	—				69	0
Bayer Leverkusen	2006–07	Bundesliga	2	0	0	0	0	0	—		2	0
	2007–08		1	0	0	0	2	0			3	0
	2008–09		3	0	0	0	—				3	0
	Totals		6	0	0	0	2	0	—		8	0
Saarbrücken	2012–13	3. Liga	18	0	0	0	—		—		18	0
Sportfreunde Lotte	2013–14	Regionalliga Nord	36	0	—						36	0
	2014–15		29	0							29	0
	2015–16		35	0	1	0			2	0	38	0
	2016–17	3. Liga	37	0	4	0			—		41	0
	2017–18		22	0	0	0					22	0
	Totals		159	0	5	0	—		2	0	166	0
Career totals			251	0	6	0	2	0	2	0	261	0
[4]

• 1.^ Includes Promotion Playoff.

References

1. "Fernandez, Benedikt" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
2. "Auch Fernandez und Bobel gehen" [Fernandez and Bobel are leaving also] (in German). RP Online. 5 May 2011. Archived from the original on 9 May 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
3. torwart.de. "TORWART-MAGAZIN, TORWART BERICHTE, INTERVIEW, HINTERGRÜNDE: Benedikt Fernandez (Lotte)". www.torwart.de.
4. "Benedikt Fernandez » Club matches". World Football. Retrieved 3 June 2017.

External links

• Benedikt Fernandez at WorldFootball.net
• Benedikt Fernandez at fussballdaten.de (in German)