Lennart Thy
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.JPG) Thy playing for FC St. Pauli in 2013 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 25 February 1992 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Frechen, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Lion City Sailors | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | Viktoria Frechen | ||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2003 | FC Norden | ||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2005 | PSV Norden | ||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | JFV Norden | ||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2011 | Werder Bremen | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2012 | Werder Bremen II | 70 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Werder Bremen | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2016 | FC St. Pauli | 107 | (18) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | → FC St. Pauli II | 5 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2018 | Werder Bremen | 6 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | → FC St. Pauli (loan) | 15 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | → VVV (loan) | 32 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Erzurumspor | 12 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | PEC Zwolle | 41 | (15) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Sparta Rotterdam | 69 | (19) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2024 | PEC Zwolle | 68 | (36) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Lion City Sailors | 28 | (29) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Germany U16 | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Germany U17 | 26 | (15) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Germany U18 | 4 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Germany U19 | 8 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Germany U20 | 6 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 14 September 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
Lennart Thy (born 25 February 1992) is a German professional footballer who plays as a striker for Singapore Premier League club Lion City Sailors.
VVV-Venlo (loan)
On 18 January 2016, Werder Bremen announced Thy would return to the club for the 2016–17 season. He signed a three-year contract.[1] On 24 September 2016, he scored his first goal for the club since his return after coming on as a substitute in a 2–1 win over VfL Wolfsburg.[2]
In July 2017, Werder Bremen confirmed that Thy would be loaned to Eredivisie side VVV-Venlo for the 2017–18 season.[3][4]
BB Erzurumspor
In July 2018, Thy left Werder Bremen permanently to join BB Erzurumspor, a newly promoted club that gained promotion to the Turkish 2018–19 Süper Lig.[5]
In September 2018, Thy won the FIFA Fair Play Award during the 2018 The Best FIFA Football Awards. He had missed an Eredivisie match for VVV-Venlo against PSV Eindhoven to save the life of a leukemia patient in urgent need of matching stem cells for treatment by donating blood.[6] Widespread coverage of this action was followed by an increase in cell donations in the Netherlands.[7]
PEC Zwolle
On 5 January 2019, Thy returned to the Eredivisie signing with PEC Zwolle on a one-and-a-half-year contract.[8]
Sparta Rotterdam
In May 2020, Thy agreed to join Sparta Rotterdam, also of the Eredivisie.[9]
Return to PEC Zwolle
In June 2022, Thy returned to former club PEC Zwolle, newly relegated to the Eerste Divisie. He signed a three-year contract.[10] On 3 March 2023, in a league match against Den Bosch, Thy came on as a substitute at half-time for Younes Taha and scored a hat-trick in a record-tying 13–0 league victory.[11][12] Thy claimed the top goalscorer's award in the Eerste Divisie for the 2022–23 Eerste Divisie season, having scored 23 goals in 36 appearances.[13] His remarkable contributions played a significant role in PEC's successful promotion back to the 2023–24 Eredivisie.[14]
Lion City Sailors
On 31 May 2024, Singaporean club Lion City Sailors announced the signing of Thy on a two-year contract from PEC Zwolle.[15] The transfer fee was undisclosed and reported as less than €600,000 by Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times.[15] On 18 June, Thy made his debut in a 2–0 win over DPMM. Despite Maxime Lestienne's equaliser in the 91st minute of the 2025 AFC Champions League Two final against Sharjah, the Sailors finished as a runner-up after conceding in the 97th minute to finish the game in a 2–1 defeat.[16]
International career
Thy was joint topscorer in the tournament alongside Luc Castaignos as Germany won the 2009 UEFA European Under-17 Championship.[17] Thy scored the equaliser to Castaignos' opener in the final as Germany beat the Netherlands 2–1 after-extra-time.[18]
