Tobias Steffen (born 3 June 1992) is a German

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who plays as an

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for

Kickers Emden BSV Kickers Emden is a Football in Germany, German association football club, located in Emden, Lower Saxony. History The club first began playing in 1928 as a section of the gymnastics club Emder Turnverein, which was founded in 1861. An inde ...

Career

Steffen joined

Bayer 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 football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It competes in the B ...

from

VfL Osnabrück VfL Osnabrück is a German multi-sport club in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. It currently fields teams in basketball, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, and tennis but is by far best known for its Association football, football section. The footba ...

in 2009, and was promoted to the

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during the 2010–11 season. He made an immediate impact, scoring eight goals in fifteen games, and went on loan to

Energie Cottbus FC Energie Cottbus (Lower Sorbian: ''Energija Chóśebuz'') is a Football in Germany, German football club based in Cottbus, Brandenburg. It was founded in 1963 as SC Cottbus in what was East Germany. After the German reunification, reunificatio ...

of the 2. Bundesliga in July 2011. He made his Cottbus debut as a substitute for

Dimitar Rangelov Dimitar Rangelov (Bulgarian language, Bulgarian: Димитър Рангелов; born 9 February 1983) is a Bulgarian former professional association football, footballer who played as a second striker. He made his debut for Bulgaria national ...

in a 2–0 away win over

Alemannia Aachen Aachener Turn- und Sportverein Alemannia 1900 e. V., short Alemannia Aachen (), is a German football club from the western city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia. A long-term fixture of the country's second division, Alemannia enjoyed a three- ...

in August 2008, but only made one other appearance and returned to Leverkusen half-way through the season. For the 2012–13 season he was named as an auxiliary member of the first-team squad, and was named in the starting eleven for a

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tie against Metalist Kharkiv in November 2012. Steffen left Leverkusen in July 2013, signing for

Fortuna Köln Fortuna (, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) is the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion who, largely thanks to the Late Antique author Boethius, remained popular through the Middle Ages until at least the Re ...

. He helped Fortuna win the

Regionalliga West The Regionalliga West is a German professional football division administered by the German Football Association#Western Germany, Western German Football Association based in Duisburg. It is one of the five German regional football associations. ...

title in the 2013–14 season, and promotion to the

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after a playoff victory over

Bayern Munich II FC Bayern Munich II (''FC Bayern Munich Amateure'' until 2005) are the German reserve football teams, reserve team of Football in Germany, German association football club FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich, currently playing in the Regionalliga B ...

before joining

Rot-Weiss Essen Rot-Weiss Essen is a German association football club based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club plays in the 3. Liga, at the Stadion an der Hafenstraße. The team won the DFB-Pokal in 1953, and the German championship in 1955. The latt ...

in July 2014.

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* 1992 births Living people People from Leer Men's association football midfielders German men's footballers Footballers from Lower Saxony FC Energie Cottbus players FC Energie Cottbus II players Bayer 04 Leverkusen II players Bayer 04 Leverkusen players SC Fortuna Köln players Rot-Weiss Essen players BV Cloppenburg players SV Rödinghausen players VfB Oldenburg players Atlas Delmenhorst players Kickers Emden players 2. Bundesliga players Regionalliga players 21st-century German sportsmen {{Germany-footy-forward-1990s-stub