Thorsten Wittek (born 31 December 1976) is a German former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

Career

He made his debut on the professional league level in the

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for

Bayer 04 Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen, officially known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH () and commonly known as Bayer Leverkusen or simply Leverkusen, is a German professional association football, football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. ...

on 20 October 2001 when he came on as a substitute in the 87th minute in a game against

VfB Stuttgart Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V. (), commonly known as VfB Stuttgart (), is a German professional sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club's Association football, football team is currently part of Germany's f ...

Honours

Bayer Leverkusen *

UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) that is contested by List of top-division football clubs in UEFA countries, top-divisio ...

finalist: 2001–02 *

runner-up: 2001–02 *

DFB-Pokal The DFB-Pokal (), also known as the German Cup in English language, English, is a German knockout Association football, football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competiti ...

finalist: 2001–02

References

1976 births Footballers from Berlin Living people Men's association football midfielders German men's footballers Bayer 04 Leverkusen players Bayer 04 Leverkusen II players SV Elversberg players SV Eintracht Trier 05 players CS Grevenmacher players FC Victoria Rosport players Bundesliga players Regionalliga players Oberliga (football) players Luxembourg National Division players Luxembourg Division of Honour players German expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Luxembourg German expatriate sportspeople in Luxembourg {{germany-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub