Patrick

Mainka

Patrick Mainka history

Patrick Mainka was born on 6 November 1994 in Gütersloh and plays for the 1. FC Heidenheim 1846. He played for TSV Victoria Clarholz from 1999-2008, for FSC Rheda from 2008-2009, for DSC Arminia Bielefeld from 2009-2014, for SV Werder Bremen from 2014-2016, for Werder Bremen II from 2014-2016, for Borussia Dortmund from 2016-2018 and has played for 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 since 2018.

Current season 2024/25

In the ongoing season, the player with the shirt number 6 has scored one goal and takes 10th place within his squad. He shares this rank with Frans Krätzig, Sirlord Conteh and Luca Kerber. The 30-year-old was in the starting line-up in all previous 33 games of the season. Of these, he won eight games with his club.

His pass success rate is 88.41 per cent, which yields the 1.94m-tall defender the leading position in the team-internal statistics for this category. His tackle success rate amounts to 60.33 per cent. In the league ranking for this category, he is ninth-best with this result. He is credited as being especially assertive on the pitch. Hence, he has already won 333 tackling duels and in doing so has fought his way to the eighth rank in the league. Few players have covered a greater distance in this season than him. He is currently the ninth-best runner with 355 km run on the pitch.

Last game

Patrick Mainka played his last game on the 33rd matchday of the 2024/25 season (10 May 2025). Playing for 1. FC Heidenheim 1846, he won against 1. FC Union Berlin 3-0. He played as a defender throughout this entire game. In terms of total touches, he had 68 individual ball possessions, which is the highest amount of any player in his club. Furthermore, he had 21 tackle challenges in the last match. Of these, he was able to win 17 – and therefore was more successful than any other player in this game. He was additionally able to make 49 successful passes – the best performance within his club for this game. He covered a distance of 11 km during his total playing time in this game. In doing so, he had a total of 11 sprints.

Bundesliga career and records

Patrick Mainka has played 67 matches throughout the course of his career in the Bundesliga. Of these, he has won 18. He has played all the matches of his career in the Bundesliga as a member of the 1. FC Heidenheim 1846. Here, Patrick Mainka has put a total of three balls in the net.