Benjamin Auer

Benjamin Auer

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Personal information
Full name	Benjamin Auer
Date of birth	(1981-01-11) 11 January 1981
Place of birth	Landau, West Germany
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	FK Pirmasens
Youth career
0000–1988	HSV Landau
1988–1995	FSV Offenbach
1995–1999	1. FC Kaiserslautern
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1999–2000	Karlsruher SC	14	(1)
2000–2002	Borussia Mönchengladbach	25	(3)
2002–2006	1. FSV Mainz 05	116	(30)
2006–2008	VfL Bochum	19	(5)
2007	→ 1. FC Kaiserslautern (loan)	7	(0)
2008–2012	Alemannia Aachen	125	(56)
2015	FK Pirmasens	13	(4)
International career
2002–2004	Germany U21	23	(15)
2004–2005	Germany B	3	(4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 June 2015

Benjamin Auer (born 11 January 1981 in Landau) is a retired German footballer who is a centre-forward.

Career

As a child he played for the HSV Landau, before moving to his first major youth team, FSV Offenbach. At the age of 15 he moved to Kaiserslautern, for whom he played until 1999. He moved to Karlsruher SC where he played for a year, before going to Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Auer played 23 times for the German under-21 team, scoring 15 goals, and played around 60 times in his youth between the ages of 16 and 20. He helped bring Mainz up to the Bundesliga in 2004.

He joined 2. Bundesliga side Alemannia Aachen on 1 July 2008 and stayed there until Aachen's relegation to the 3. Liga in summer 2012.

After a career break from 2012 to January 2015, Auer signed for Regionalliga Südwest-side FK Pirmasens on 29 December 2014 and retired in 2015.

External links

• Benjamin Auer profile at Fussballdaten
• Benjamin Auer at weltfussball.de (German)