Stephan Ambrosius

Hamburger SV

Youth

Ambrosius started playing football at the age of 5 at local club Einichkeit Wilhelmsburg, before moving to SV Wilhelmsburg and finally FC St. Pauli. In 2012, at the age of 13, Pauli moved to the Hamburger SV youth academy. At HSV, he progressed through all the youth teams until 2017 and played, among other things, in the Under 17 and Under 19 Bundesliga. For the 2017–18 season, Ambrosius was promoted to the second team, Hamburger SV II, and competed in the fourth-tier Regionalliga.

2017–19

In early February 2018, Ambrosius was promoted to the professional squad by head coach Bernd Hollerbach. On 10 February 2018, he was called up for the first team squad for his first Bundesliga game, but did not make an appearance in the 0–2 defeat away at Borussia Dortmund. He made his Bundesliga debut on 31 March 2018 in a 1–1 away draw against VfB Stuttgart under new head coach Christian Titz, who had taken over the reigns in early March. Ambrosius debuted in the starting lineup and was substituted at half-time for Rick van Drongelen. This proved to be his only appearance during the season, which saw HSV suffer relegation to the 2. Bundesliga for the first time in club history. For the second team, Ambrosius made 20 appearances and scored one goal. Ahead of the 2018–19 season, Ambrosius signed his first professional contract running until 30 June 2021. In the first half of the new season, he was behind Rick van Drongelen, David Bates and…

Born in Hamburg, Ambrosius was also eligible to play for Ghana due to his parents being from the country. Due to numerous cancellations in his playing position by Nico Schlotterbeck and Maxim Leitsch, Ambrosius was called-up by Germany under-21 coach Stefan Kuntz in early October 2020. However, as Ambrosius tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, he was unable to participate in the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches against Moldova and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ambrosius finally made his debut for the under-21 side in November 2020. In July 2022, the president of the Ghana FA, Kurt Okraku, announced that Ambrosius was one of the few players that had officially switched allegiances to represent the Ghanaian senior national team internationally.

As of match played 25 April 2021