Nico

Schlotterbeck

Nico Schlotterbeck history

Nico Schlotterbeck was born on 1 December 1999 in Waiblingen and plays for Borussia Dortmund. He played for SG Weinstadt from 2006-2007, for SV Stuttgarter Kickers from 2007-2014, for VfR Aalen from 2014-2015, for Karlsruher SC from 2015-2017, for SC Freiburg from 2017-2020, for 1. FC Union Berlin from 2020-2021, for SC Freiburg from 2021-2022, for Borussia Dortmund since 2022 and has played for Borussia Dortmund II since 2022.

Current season 2023/24

In the current season, Nico Schlotterbeck has scored two goals and takes 10th place within his squad. He shares this rank with Emre Can and Jadon Sancho. With one assist, the 1.91m-tall defender currently has the ninth-most in his team along with Marius Wolf, Sébastien Haller, Julian Ryerson, Donyell Malen, Karim Adeyemi and Jadon Sancho. Nico Schlotterbeck was in the starting line-up in all previous 30 games of the season. Of these, he won 15 games with his club.

His pass success rate is 89.68 per cent, which yields the 24-year-old the leading position in the team-internal statistics for this category. His tackle success rate amounts to 65.57 per cent. In the league ranking for this category, he is third-best with this result. He has had 2,842 individual ball possessions this season. With this, the player with the shirt number 4 occupies second place in the Bundesliga statistics for this category. He has scored one own goal. Together with Ramy Bensebaini, Sepp van den Berg (1. FSV Mainz 05), 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

Nico Schlotterbeck played his last game on the 31st matchday of the 2023/24 season (27 April 2024). Playing for Borussia Dortmund, he lost to RB Leipzig 1-4. He played as a defender throughout this entire game. In terms of total touches, he had 113 individual ball possessions, which is the highest amount of any player in the game. Furthermore, he had 22 tackle challenges in the last match. Of these, he was able to win 14 – no other player in his club was as successful. He was additionally able to make 84 successful passes – the best performance in the game. Nico Schlotterbeck covered a distance of 9.4 km during his total playing time in this game. In doing so, he had a total of 18 sprints.

Bundesliga career and records

Nico Schlotterbeck has played 123 matches throughout the course of his career in the Bundesliga. Of these, he has won 63. He has netted 11 goals during his appointments in the Bundesliga. So far, he has completed 58 matches with his present squad. Here, he has scored a total of six goals.

International appointments

Up to now, Nico Schlotterbeck has played 11 international matches for Germany.