Sepp

van den Berg

Sepp van den Berg history

Sepp van den Berg was born on 20 December 2001 in Zwolle and plays for 1. FSV Mainz 05. He played for CSV '28 from 2008-2012, for PEC Zwolle from 2012-2019, for Liverpool FC from 2019-2021, for Preston North End from 2021-2022, for Liverpool FC from 2022-2022, for FC Schalke 04 from 2022-2023 and has played for 1. FSV Mainz 05 since 2023.

Current season 2023/24

In the current season, Sepp van den Berg has scored two goals and takes fourth place within his squad. He shares this rank with Leandro Barreiro, Anthony Caci and Ludovic Ajorque. In 27 of the previous 29 games of the season, the 1.92m-tall defender was in the starting line-up. Of these 29 games, he won 5 with his club. Additionally, he was substituted in for two games.

His pass success rate is 87.56 per cent, which yields Sepp van den Berg the leading position in the team-internal statistics for this category. His tackle success rate amounts to 66.54 per cent. In the league ranking for this category, he is second-best with this result. He is credited as being especially assertive on the pitch. Hence, Sepp van den Berg has already won 340 tackling duels and in doing so has fought his way to the fifth rank in the league. He has scored one own goal. Together with Nico Schlotterbeck (Borussia Dortmund), Ramy Bensebaini (Borussia Dortmund), Robin Knoche (1. FC Union Berlin), Christoph Zimmermann (SV Darmstadt 98), Thomas Isherwood (SV Darmstadt 98), Moritz Jenz (VfL Wolfsburg), Benedikt Gimber (1. FC Heidenheim 1846), Jonas Föhrenbach (1. FC Heidenheim 1846), Lennard Maloney (1. FC Heidenheim 1846), Matthias Ginter (Sport-Club Freiburg), Attila Szalai (TSG Hoffenheim), Felix Uduokhai (FC Augsburg), Finn Dahmen (FC Augsburg), Alexander Nübel (VfB Stuttgart), Waldemar Anton (VfB Stuttgart), Dan-Axel Zagadou (VfB Stuttgart), Ivan Ordets (VfL Bochum 1848), Erhan Mašović (VfL Bochum 1848) and Olivier Deman (SV Werder Bremen), he shares third place in the league statistics for this category.

Last game

The 22-year-old played his last game on the 30th matchday of the 2023/24 season (21 April 2024). Playing for 1. FSV Mainz 05, he played against SC Freiburg and tied with 1-1. He played as a defender throughout this entire game. In terms of total touches, the player with the shirt number 3 had 85 individual ball possessions, which is the highest amount of any player in the game. Furthermore, he had 21 tackle challenges in the last match. Of these, he was able to win 17 – no other player in his club was as successful. He was additionally able to make 57 successful passes. Sepp van den Berg covered a distance of 9.9 km during his total playing time in this game. In doing so, he had a total of 12 sprints.

Bundesliga career and records

Sepp van den Berg has played 38 matches in the course of his career in the Bundesliga. Of these, he has won eight. He has netted three goals throughout his appointments in the Bundesliga. Thus far, Sepp van den Berg has completed 29 matches with his current squad. Here, he has scored a total of two goals.