Borut Semler

Borut Semler
Personal information
Full name Borut Semler
Date of birth (1985-02-25) 25 February 1985 (age 39)
Place of birth Murska Sobota, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Youth career
1995–1999 Mura
1999–2001 Varteks
2001–2004 Bayern Munich
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2007 Bayern Munich II 48 (10)
2007–2008 Varteks 25 (5)
2008 Domžale 12 (0)
2008–2009 Drava Ptuj 47 (9)
2010–2011 Mordovia Saransk 32 (1)
2011–2012 Kaisar 27 (2)
2012 Akzhayik 17 (3)
2013 Shakhter Karagandy 3 (0)
2013 → Kaisar (loan) 22 (10)
2014–2015 Akzhayik 16 (9)
2015 Spartak Semey 3 (1)
2015–2016 Dob 11 (3)
2016 SC Weiz 12 (0)
2016–2018 FC Bad Radkersburg 17 (3)
2018 SV Feldbach 13 (3)
2019 SV Kaindorf/Sulm 12 (6)
2019–2021 USV Hengsberg 21 (3)
International career
2001 Slovenia U15 3 (0)
2000–2001 Slovenia U16 10 (5)
2004 Slovenia U19 1 (0)
2004–2006 Slovenia U21 6 (3)
2004–2007 Slovenia 7 (0)
Managerial career
2016–2017 FC Bad Radkersburg (youth coach)
2018 SV Feldbach (player-assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Borut Semler (born 25 February 1985) is a Slovenian footballer.

Career

He started his career playing in youth systems of Slovenian side NK Mura and Croatian side NK Varteks before moving to Bayern Munich's youth system in the summer of 2001. He started to play for Bayern Munich's reserve squad in the Regionalliga Süd, the third tier of German football in May 2004 and made his debut for the team in their second-last match of the 2003–04 season, a 3–0 away victory against the reserve squad of 1. FSV Mainz 05. It took him only two minutes to score his first goal for the team as he increased their lead on 2–0 after coming off the bench as a substitute for Erdal Kilicaslan for the final 15 minutes of the match. He played regularly for the team in the following season and scored nine goals in 27 matches. In the 2005–06 season, however, he only made 13 appearances for the team without scoring any goals. In the following season he had seven appearances, but again didn't manage to get on the score sheet. He returned to his youth club Varteks on 18 January 2007. He scored two goals for the club in the Croatian First League in thirteen games. In January 2008 he went back to Slovenia and first signed for NK Domžale, before he was transferred to NK Drava Ptuj in August that year.

International career

Semler has played for Slovenian under-21 team and the senior national team. He made his debut for the Slovenian senior team on 18 August 2004 in a 1–1 draw against Serbia and Montenegro, coming off the bench as a late substitute.[1] He has been capped seven times for the national team between 2004 and 2007.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Borut Semler, international football player". EU-football. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Borut Semler – Nogometna zveza Slovenije". nzs.si (in Slovenian). Football Association of Slovenia. Retrieved 11 January 2020.