Sepp

van den Berg

Sepp van den Berg history

Sepp van den Berg was born on 20 December 2001 in Zwolle and plays for 1. FSV Mainz 05. He played for CSV '28 from 2008-2012, for PEC Zwolle from 2012-2019, for Liverpool FC from 2019-2021, for Preston North End from 2021-2022, for Liverpool FC from 2022-2022, for FC Schalke 04 from 2022-2023 and has played for 1. FSV Mainz 05 since 2023.

Current season 2023/24

In the current season, the 1.92m-tall defender has scored two goals and takes fifth place within his squad. He shares this rank with Anthony Caci and Ludovic Ajorque. In 30 of the previous 32 games of the season, Sepp van den Berg was in the starting line-up. Of these 32 games, he won 6 with his club. Additionally, he was substituted in for two games.

His pass success rate is 87.55 per cent, which yields the 22-year-old the leading position in the team-internal statistics for this category. His tackle success rate amounts to 66.03 per cent. In the league ranking for this category, he is second-best with this result. He is credited as being especially assertive on the pitch. Hence, he has already won 348 tackling duels and in doing so has fought his way to the fifth rank in the league. The player with the shirt number 3 has scored one own goal. Together with Nico Schlotterbeck (Borussia Dortmund), Ramy Bensebaini (Borussia Dortmund), Robin Knoche (1. FC Union Berlin), Christoph Zimmermann (SV Darmstadt 98), Thomas Isherwood (SV Darmstadt 98), Moritz Jenz (VfL Wolfsburg), Benedikt Gimber (1. FC Heidenheim 1846), Jonas Föhrenbach (1. FC Heidenheim 1846), Lennard Maloney (1. FC Heidenheim 1846), Matthias Ginter (Sport-Club Freiburg), Attila Szalai (TSG Hoffenheim), Felix Uduokhai (FC Augsburg), Finn Dahmen (FC Augsburg), Alexander Nübel (VfB Stuttgart), Waldemar Anton (VfB Stuttgart), Dan-Axel Zagadou (VfB Stuttgart), Ivan Ordets (VfL Bochum 1848), Erhan Mašović (VfL Bochum 1848) and Olivier Deman (SV Werder Bremen), he shares third place in the league statistics for this category.

Last game

Sepp van den Berg played his last game on the 33rd matchday of the 2023/24 season (11 May 2024). He was victorious over Borussia Dortmund while playing for 1. FSV Mainz 05 with a score of 3-0. He played as a defender throughout this entire game. In terms of total touches, he had 24 individual ball possessions. Furthermore, he had 13 tackle challenges in the last match. Of these, he was able to win 11. He was additionally able to make seven successful passes. He covered a distance of 9.5 km during his total playing time in this game. In doing so, he had a total of 15 sprints.

Bundesliga career and records

Sepp van den Berg has played 41 matches in the course of his career in the Bundesliga. Of these, he has won nine. He has netted three goals during his appointments in the Bundesliga. So far, he has completed 32 matches with his present squad. Here, he has scored a total of two goals.