Uwe Hünemeier

Uwe Hünemeier (born 9 January 1986) is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre back.

Club career Born in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hünemeier began with the football team at DJK Bokel. Because of its benefits other clubs wanted to sign him and Hünemeier joined the youth of FC Gütersloh 2000. He also appeared in relation to his performance positively in appearance and in 2000, he joined the youth of Borussia Dortmund. In 2004, he came to the second team of the club. A year later, he was awarded a professional contract and now belonged to the first team.

He made his debut for the senior Borussia Dortmund squad on 17 December 2005, when he started in a Bundesliga game against Bayern Munich and played the whole 90 minutes.

Hünemeier signed for Brighton & Hove Albion in August 2015. He scored his first goal for Brighton in a 3–1 win over Birmingham City on 4 April 2017. Brighton finished the season as runners up, and gained automatic promotion to the Premier League.

With Brighton promoted to the Premier League for the 2017–18 season, Hünemeier assumed the role of back-up centre defender with Lewis Dunk and Shane Duffy forming Brighton's established centre-back partnership. He made his Premier League debut as a substitute against Everton in a 1–1 draw on 15 October 2017, coming on for the injured Duffy.

In May 2018, Paderborn announced Hünemeier would return to the club for the new season, having signed a contract until summer 2020.

International career Hünemeier made three appearances for the German U17s.

Career statistics

Honours Borussia Dortmund ll Regionalliga West: 2008–09 Regionalliga

SC Paderborn 2.Bundesliga runner-up: 2013–14

Brighton & Hove Albion EFL Championship runner-up: 2016–17