Sebastian Deisler

Club

International

Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Deisler goal.

Deisler played for the Germany national team between 2000 and 2006, winning 36 international caps and scoring three goals. He made his debut for the team in a friendly match against the Netherlands on 23 February 2000 and was also part of the German squad at the Euro 2000 finals four months later, appearing in all three group matches before the Germans disappointingly exited the competition in the first round. On 2 September 2000, he scored his first goal for Germany as he opened their 2–0 win over Greece in the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying. Due to injuries, he missed both the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups, the latter being held in Germany, as well as UEFA Euro 2004. In 2005, he appeared in all of the German team's five matches at the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup in Germany. His last match for the Germany national team was a friendly against Italy on 1 March 2006.

Borussia Mönchengladbach

Deisler joined his first club, FV Turmringen, when he was six. At age 15, he was scouted and signed by the Bundesliga outfit Borussia Mönchengladbach and played for the club at junior level from 1995 to 1998. He started his professional career at the club in 1998, making his Bundesliga debut against Eintracht Frankfurt on 8 September. During the 1998–99 season he made 17 Bundesliga appearances and scoring one goal, in a 2–0 win over 1860 Munich. However the Foals finished in last place and were relegated to the second division.

Hertha BSC

As Borussia Mönchengladbach were relegated at the end of the season, Deisler moved on to Hertha BSC for 4.5 million DM. The Berlin club offered a participation in the 1999–2000 Champions League. Although only 19 at his arrival and handicapped by a cruciate ligament rupture in 1999, Deisler established himself in the Hertha BSC midfield and was about to become Dariusz Wosz's replacement as the central figure in Hertha's offence when he tore a synovial membrane in his right knee in October 2001 and missed the rest of the season. Almost simultaneously, German tabloid Bild made known that an agreement had been reached between the player and FC Bayern Munich. Deisler was to join Bayern at the beginning of the 2002–03 season and had received a sum of DEM 20 million from the club. Deisler faced immense critique from the fans and the media for not having announced the agreement earlier as well as accepting…

Following his retirement in January 2007, Deisler withdrew almost entirely from public life, returning to the southwest of Germany and settling in the Freiburg area, near his hometown of Lörrach. He avoided contact with both the football industry and the media, including former close associates such as Uli Hoeneß and Ottmar Hitzfeld, and continued to receive treatment for his depression for a number of years after his retirement. He has maintained occasional contact with childhood friends, sometimes playing recreational football with them. In 2009, he published Zurück ins Leben (Back to Life), co-written with journalist Michael Rosentritt, in which he chronicled his playing career and his experiences with depression—one of the few public acts he undertook following his withdrawal from football. In 2018, a photograph emerged on social media showing Deisler at an amateur football tournament, marking a rare public appearance after years out of sight. In November 2019, Hoeneß spoke publicly about Deisler for the first time in years at a panel discussion hosted by Teresa Enke, widow of goalkeeper Robert Enke, recounting details of Deisler's final training camp and his decision to retire.