Steffen Baumgart

Steffen Baumgart

Personal information
Date of birth	(1972-01-05) 5 January 1972
Place of birth	Rostock, East Germany
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
1980-1988	Dynamo Rostock-Mitte
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1988–1991	PSV Schwerin	58	(19)
1991–1994	SpVg Aurich	92	(51)
1994–1998	Hansa Rostock	118	(26)
1998–1999	VfL Wolfsburg	32	(5)
1999–2002	Hansa Rostock	67	(6)
2002–2004	1. FC Union Berlin	64	(22)
2004–2008	FC Energie Cottbus	76	(6)
2008	1. FC Magdeburg	13	(3)
2008–2009	Germania Schöneiche	15	(3)
Total		535	(141)
Managerial career
2009–2010	1. FC Magdeburg
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Steffen Baumgart (born 5 January 1972, in Rostock is a former German football player turned manager who last worked for Regionalliga Nord side 1. FC Magdeburg.

Career

The striker began his professional career at FC Hansa Rostock in 1995. With a two-year interruption he spent six years with FC Hansa, scoring 32 goals in 185 appearances. In 2002 he moved to 1. FC Union Berlin, spending 2 years at Stadion An der Alten Försterei where he became a crowd favourite. In 2004, the club was relegated from 2. Bundesliga, finishing only 17th.

However, Baumgart stayed in the league, moving to FC Energie Cottbus on a free transfer. There he helped secure the 2. Bundesliga in his first season and won promotion to Bundesliga in 2006. Cottbus managed to not be relegated in their first season in the top flight in Germany, but the next season saw Baumgart hardly playing for the first team, and on 3 January 2008 club and player agreed to a mutual termination of the contract. On 22 January, Regionalliga Nord side 1. FC Magdeburg announced Baumgart had signed a contract until June 2008 with an option for another season. After the club missed out on qualifying to the new 3. Liga, Baumgart's contract was not extended and he left the club for Germania Schöneiche, a club near Berlin. On 31 March 2009, he returned to 1. FC Magdeburg as a manager and signed a contract running until the end of the season. His contract was extended at the end of the season, despite a mediocre record in the league. Baumgart had won the FSA-Pokal in 2009, but he was unable to improve upon the results of his predecessor. On the contrary, Magdeburg were ten points behind a promotion spot by the end of December. Following a string of bad results when league play resumed in 2010, Baumgart was let go at the end of March.

Baumgart scored 29 goals in 225 Bundesliga matches and 36 goals in 142 matches in the 2. Bundesliga.

External links

• Steffen Baumgart profile at Fussballdaten