 Helmes with1. FC Köln in 2013 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1984-03-01)1 March 1984 (age 41) | ||
| Place of birth | Cologne, West Germany | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1989–1991 | TuS Alchen | ||
| 1991–1992 | SpVgg Bürbach | ||
| 1992–1997 | Sportfreunde Siegen | ||
| 1997–2000 | 1. FC Köln | ||
| 2000–2003 | Sportfreunde Siegen | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2003–2005 | Sportfreunde Siegen | 51 | (22) |
| 2005–2008 | 1. FC Köln | 65 | (35) |
| 2005–2006 | 1. FC Köln II | 7 | (4) |
| 2008–2011 | Bayer Leverkusen | 57 | (28) |
| 2011–2013 | VfL Wolfsburg | 28 | (13) |
| 2011–2013 | VfL Wolfsburg II | 10 | (11) |
| 2013–2015 | 1. FC Köln | 27 | (12) |
| Total | 245 | (125) | |
| International career | |||
| 2004 | Germany Team 2006 | 1 | (0) |
| 2005–2006 | Germany U21 | 9 | (3) |
| 2007–2010 | Germany | 13 | (2) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2015–2016 | 1. FC Köln II (assistant) | ||
| 2016–2017 | 1. FC Köln II | ||
| 2017–2018 | Rot-Weiß Erfurt (assistant) | ||
| 2020 | Admira Wacker Mödling (assistant) | ||
| 2020–2021 | Admira Wacker Mödling II | ||
| 2020 | Admira Wacker Mödling (caretaker) | ||
| 2021 | Alemannia Aachen | ||
| 2023 | Sportfreunde Siegen | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Patrick Helmes (born 1 March 1984) is a German professionalfootball manager and formerplayer who most recently managedOberliga Westfalen clubSportfreunde Siegen.
As a youth player, Helmes was active in local clubs inFreudenberg, Westphalia andSiegen. He joined 1. FC Köln in 1997, at the age of 13. However, he was regarded as too unstable and sent away in 2000. He subsequently went back toSportfreunde Siegen, where he had already spent some time as a youth player. In the 2004–05 season, he scored 21 goals for his team in thethird division,[1] which made him top scorer of the league, helping his team to promotion to the second division.
He then joined his old club Köln again, where he made hisBundesliga debut in 2005 and scored his first goal in his second match, against rivalsBayer Leverkusen. After his club was relegated to the second division, Helmes became one of the most important players for his side, scoring seven times in his first five games of the season and keeping Köln at the top of the table. However, he scored the last of those goals with a broken foot. The injury kept him out of the squad for the following four months, during which his team performed extremely poorly and lost all chances to return to the first division.
Helmes did not hide his intention of joining another team. Even though he confirmed that his departure to Bayer Leverkusen would follow the 2007–08 season, Köln coachChristoph Daum still named him captain of the squad in the summer of 2007. He was later replaced as captain, but nevertheless had a good second half of the season, for whichkicker sportsmagazine named him best striker of Germany's second division, ahead ofOliver Neuville,Chinedu Obasi andDemba Ba.[2]
At Leverkusen, Helmes had a good start in the 2008–09 season, despite his injury in June which caused him being out of action for three weeks.[3] Forming a duo withStefan Kießling, he scored six goals in the first five games of the season, among them a hat-trick againstHannover 96. Only months after signing until 2012, his contract was extended and was then valid until 2013.[4] At the end of his first season at Leverkusen, Helmes had scored 21 goals in 34 league games, and three goals in six appearances in theDFB-Pokal where his team reached the final losing toWerder Bremen. Just about two weeks after the final, acruciate ligament in Helmes' right knee tore while Helmes was playing football with friends, and he had to be operated.[5] On 19 December 2010, he scored the second goal of the match to achieve a full-time draw against SC Freiburg.
On 31 January 2011, Helmes moved to fellowBundesliga sideVfL Wolfsburg, the champion of2008–09 for a reported fee of €8 million.[6] He only made eight appearances for the club in his first half-season, facing competition by the club's top strikersGrafite andMario Mandžukić.
The next season started out better for Helmes, who scored twice in the first game against former team Köln. However, those were his last goals of the first half of the season in which he made his final appearance on 1 October. Helmes even got banned from the Bundesliga squad by managerFelix Magath and had to train with the reserves. He made his comeback appearance in the Bundesliga on 25 February 2012, instantly scoring against Hoffenheim. By the end of the season, he had scored nine more times.
In August 2012, Helmes tore his cruciate ligament in a friendly againstManchester City.[7] His first appearance in the 2012–13 Bundesliga season was on 15 February 2013, againstBayern Munich.
Helmes was selected for the national team for the first time byJoachim Löw. He made his international debut forGermany in a friendly againstDenmark on 28 March 2007, being substituted forJan Schlaudraff in 80th minute. He made two more short appearances afterwards, before he was selected for the starting squad for the first time on 12 September 2007 in a friendly againstRomania held atRheinEnergieStadion in Cologne, in which he was joined by fellow Cologne local heroLukas Podolski. He was included in Löw's 26-man provisionalEuro 2008 squad but was eventually left out in favour ofOliver Neuville.
After the European Championships, he had a few more appearances as a substitute. Helmes scored his first goal for the national team on 19 November 2008 in a 2–1 friendly defeat againstEngland.[8] He scored his second goal for Germany almost two years later in a friendly againstDenmark after coming on as a substitute.
After retiring in the summer 2015, Helmes became the new assistant manager of1. FC Köln II.[9] He became the interim head coach on 6 December 2016[10] and became the permanent head coach on 22 December 2016.[11] His first match was 2–1 loss toBorussia Mönchengladbach II on 10 December 2016.[12] 1. FC Köln took the interim tag off and was manager of 1. FC Köln II until 25 September 2017.[13] His final match was a 6–0 loss toSV Rödinghausen.[14] He then became assistant manager forRot-Weiß Erfurt.[15] On 13 July 2020, Helmes was hired for a dual role of assistant manager forAdmira Wacker Mödling and manager of the reserve team.[16] He was also the interim manager of Admira Wacker's first team between 14 September 2020 and 21 September 2020.[13] He lost his only match as interim manager 5–0 toSKN St. Pölten.[17]
In April 2021 it was announced that he would become the new manager ofAlemannia Aachen on 1 July 2021.[18] He was sacked on 26 October 2021 following a poor start to the season.[19]
In January 2023, he returned to management when he signed a contract to become manager ofSportfreunde Siegen.[20] He was dismissed in September 2023 after a series of disappointing results left Siegen in the bottom half of the league table, with only four points from seven games.[21]
Helmes' father is Uwe Helmes, a former professional football player who later managed Siegen, among others. As of 2008, he works as a scout for Leverkusen.
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Sportfreunde Siegen | 2003–04 | Regionalliga Süd | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 18 | 1 | |
| 2004–05 | Regionalliga Süd | 34 | 21 | — | — | 34 | 21 | |||
| Total | 51 | 22 | 1 | 0 | — | 52 | 22 | |||
| 1. FC Köln | 2005–06 | Bundesliga | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | — | 13 | 4 | |
| 2006–07 | 2. Bundesliga | 19 | 14 | 1 | 0 | — | 20 | 14 | ||
| 2007–08 | 2. Bundesliga | 33 | 17 | 1 | 0 | — | 34 | 17 | ||
| Total | 65 | 35 | 2 | 0 | — | 67 | 35 | |||
| 1. FC Köln II | 2005–06 | Regionalliga Nord | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | — | 8 | 4 | |
| Bayer Leverkusen | 2008–09 | Bundesliga | 34 | 21 | 6 | 3 | — | 40 | 24 | |
| 2009–10 | Bundesliga | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 12 | 2 | ||
| 2010–11 | Bundesliga | 11 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6[a] | 4 | 19 | 12 | |
| Total | 57 | 28 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 71 | 38 | ||
| VfL Wolfsburg | 2010–11 | Bundesliga | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 8 | 1 | |
| 2011–12 | Bundesliga | 16 | 12 | 1 | 0 | — | 17 | 12 | ||
| 2012–13 | Bundesliga | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | ||
| Total | 28 | 13 | 2 | 0 | — | 30 | 13 | |||
| VfL Wolfsburg II | 2011–12 | Regionalliga Nord | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2012–13 | Regionalliga Nord | 4 | 7 | — | — | 4 | 7 | |||
| 2013–14 | Regionalliga Nord | 4 | 3 | — | — | 4 | 3 | |||
| Total | 9 | 11 | — | — | 9 | 11 | ||||
| 1. FC Köln | 2013–14 | 2. Bundesliga | 27 | 12 | 1 | 0 | — | 28 | 12 | |
| Career total | 244 | 125 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 265 | 135 | ||
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 November 2008 | Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany |  England | 1–1 | 1–2 | Friendly |
| 2 | 11 August 2010 | Parken Stadium,Copenhagen, Denmark |  Denmark | 2–0 | 2–2 | Friendly |
| Team | From | To | Record | Ref. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
| 1. FC Köln II | 6 December 2016 | 25 September 2017 | 25 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 38 | 46 | −8 | 040.00 | [10][12][13][14] |
| Admira Wacker Mödling II | 13 July 2020 | 11 March 2021 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 042.86 | [16] |
| Admira Wacker Mödling | 14 September 2020 | 21 September 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 000.00 | [13][17] |
| Alemannia Aachen | 1 July 2021 | 26 October 2021 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 20 | −8 | 015.38 | |
| Sportfreunde Siegen | 4 January 2023 | 25 September 2023 | 24 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 39 | 43 | −4 | 020.83 | |
| Total | 70 | 20 | 18 | 32 | 99 | 123 | −24 | 028.57 | — | ||
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