| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Derry Lionel Scherhant | ||
| Date of birth | 10 November 2002 | ||
| Place of birth | Berlin, Germany [1] | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | SC Freiburg | ||
| Number | 7 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2017–2019 | Viktoria Berlin | ||
| 2019–2020 | Tennis Borussia Berlin | ||
| 2020 | Berliner SC | ||
| 2020–2021 | Hertha BSC | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2021–2024 | Hertha BSC II | 55 | (30) |
| 2022–2025 | Hertha BSC | 72 | (10) |
| 2025– | SC Freiburg | 7 | (2) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2023 | Germany U20 | 2 | (0) |
| 2025– | Germany U21 | 2 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 26 October 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 10:23, 26 March 2025 (UTC) | |||
Derry Lionel Scherhant (born 10 November 2002) is a German professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club SC Freiburg.
Scherhant is a youth product of Viktoria Berlin, Tennis Borussia Berlin, and Berliner SC, before moving to the youth academy of Hertha BSC in 2020. [2] In the summer of 2021, he was promoted to their B-team in the Regionalliga where he scored 16 goals in 34 appearances in his first season. He signed a professional contract with the senior Hertha BSC squad on 17 June 2022 until 2025. [3] He made his professional debut with Hertha BSC as a late substitute in a 1–1 Bundesliga tie with Eintracht Frankfurt on 13 August 2022. On 12 February 2023, he scored his first professional goal in the Bundesliga in the 91st minute with 4-1 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach. [4] On 24 July 2023, he signed a professional contract with Hertha BSC until 2027. [5]
He made use of his release clause to move to SC Freiburg for 2 million euros in 2025 which was officially announced on 21 May 2025. [6]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Hertha BSC II | 2021–22 | Regionalliga Nordost | 34 | 16 | — | — | — | 34 | 16 | |||
| 2022–23 | Regionalliga Nordost | 12 | 8 | — | — | — | 12 | 8 | ||||
| 2023–24 | Regionalliga Nordost | 9 | 6 | — | — | — | 9 | 6 | ||||
| Total | 55 | 30 | — | — | — | 55 | 30 | |||||
| Hertha BSC | 2022–23 | Bundesliga | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 10 | 1 | ||
| 2023–24 | 2. Bundesliga | 28 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 31 | 2 | |||
| 2024–25 | 2. Bundesliga | 34 | 7 | 3 | 2 | — | — | 37 | 9 | |||
| Total | 72 | 10 | 6 | 2 | — | — | 78 | 12 | ||||
| SC Freiburg | 2025–26 | Bundesliga | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 [a] | 0 | — | 11 | 2 | |
| Career total | 134 | 42 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144 | 44 | ||