Dennis Seimen
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.jpg) Seimen training with Stuttgart in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1 December 2005 | ||
| Place of birth | Heilbronn, Germany[1] | ||
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)[2] | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team |
SC Paderborn (on loan from VfB Stuttgart) | ||
| Number | 41 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2009–2013 | FC Heilbronn | ||
| 2013–2015 | Karlsruher SC | ||
| 2015–2023 | VfB Stuttgart | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2023–2025 | VfB Stuttgart II | 57 | (0) |
| 2023– | VfB Stuttgart | 0 | (0) |
| 2025– | → SC Paderborn (loan) | 22 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2020 | Germany U16 | 1 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | Germany U17 | 8 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | Germany U18 | 3 | (0) |
| 2023–2024 | Germany U19 | 3 | (0) |
| 2024–2025 | Germany U20 | 2 | (0) |
| 2025– | Germany U21 | 4 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 15 February 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 18:49, 19 November 2025 (UTC) | |||
Dennis Seimen (German pronunciation: [ˈdɛnɪs ˈzaɪ̯mən]; born 1 December 2005) is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for 2. Bundesliga club SC Paderborn, on loan from Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart and the Germany under-21 team.
Seimen was a youth product of FC Heilbronn and Karlsruher SC, before moving to VfB Stuttgart's academy in 2015.[3] Captaining their U17s, he signed his first professional contract with Stuttgart at the age of 15 on 13 October 2021.[4] He was promoted to VfB Stuttgart II in the Regionalliga in April 2023.[1] He was called up to Stuttgart's senior team for the first time as the backup goalkeeper in a Bundesliga tie with Bayer Leverkusen on 14 May 2023.[5] Seimen was named as the second keeper for the Stuttgart team in advance of the 2023–24 Bundesliga season.[6]
On 13 September 2024, Seimen extended his contract with VfB Stuttgart until June 2029.[7]
On 30 May 2025, Seimen moved on loan to SC Paderborn in 2. Bundesliga.[8] He broke SC Paderborn's record for most clean-sheets in a season, and even kept clean-sheets in all of his first four games.[9]
International career
While being eligible to also play for Romania,[10] he is a youth international for Germany. He was named captain of the Germany U17s in 2022,[11] and was part of the squad at the 2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship.[12] For the U21s, he made his debut in 2025 as first choice goalkeeper.[13]
Personal life
Born in Heilbronn, Germany, he is the son of Reinhold Seimen and Ana Nita. His father is Transylvanian Saxon, an ethnic German diasporic minority living in Romania, of whom most are Spätaussiedler by now. A football coach, his father was born in Zendersch, a village in Bladenmarkt, Transylvania (Siebenbürgen). His mother is Romanian and used to play football too.[14][15]