Robin Zentner

Robin Zentner

Zentner playing for Mainz 05 in 2020
Personal information
Full name	Robin Zentner
Date of birth	(1994-10-28) 28 October 1994 (age 30) [1]
Place of birth	Rüdesheim am Rhein, Germany
Height	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) [1]
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Mainz 05
Number	27
Youth career
2006–2012	Mainz 05
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2012–2015	Mainz 05 II	36	(0)
2014–	Mainz 05	187	(0)
2015–2017	→ Holstein Kiel (loan)	26	(0)
International career
2010	Germany U-17	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 February 2025

Robin Zentner (born 28 October 1994) is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Mainz 05. ^[2]

Career

Zentner played for SpVgg Eltville until 2006, when he joined the youth team at 1. FSV Mainz 05. There, from 2012 until 2015, he was active in the Mainz team. Beginning in the 2014/15 season, he moved up to the senior squad as their third goalkeeper. In August 2015, he was loaned to then third-division Holstein Kiel, a loan deal which was extended for the subsequent 2016/17 season. He played 26 times across two seasons in Northern Germany before returning to Mainz in 2017/18.

He returned to Mainz 05 for the 2017/18 season and played his first competitive game for the first team in October 2017. In one of his appearances, on November 4, 2017, against Borussia Mönchengladbach, he went viral for an "air kick" after mistaking the penalty spot for the ball following a back-pass, which nearly resulted in a goal. ^[3] For each of his first two seasons back from loan, he alternated with Florian Müller as the starting goalkeeper of the until he earned the starting job towards the beginning of the first half of the 2019/20 season. He suffered a torn cruciate ligament on March 8, 2020, in a Bundesliga match and missed the remainder of the season. He was named the undisputed starting goalkeeper at Mainz beginning in the 2020/21 season with Müller moving on to SC Freiburg. His contract with Mainz runs until the end of the 2024/25 season. ^[4]

Career statistics

As of match played 16 February 2025 ^[5]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			Cup		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Mainz 05 II	2012–13	Regionalliga Südwest	2	0	—		—		0	0
	2013–14		15	0	—		—		0	0
	2013–14	3. Liga	21	0	—		—		0	0
	Total		38	0	—		—		38	0
Mainz 05	2014–15	Bundesliga	0	0	0	0	—		0	0
	2015–16		0	0	0	0	—		0	0
	2017–18		15	0	2	0	—		17	0
	2018–19		10	0	1	0	—		11	0
	2019–20		22	0	0	0	—		22	0
	2020–21		31	0	2	0	—		33	0
	2021–22		32	0	3	0	—		35	0
	2022–23		26	0	1	0	—		27	0
	2023–24		30	0	2	0	—		32	0
	2024–25		21	0	2	0	—		23	0
	Total		187	0	13	0	—		200	0
Holstein Kiel (loan)	2015–16	3. Liga	25	0	0	0	0	0	25	0
	2016–17		1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
	Total		26	0	0	0	1	0	27	0
Career total			251	0	13	0	1	0	265	0

References

1. "Robin Zentner | 1. FSV Mainz 05 | Player Profile | Bundesliga". bundesliga.com. DFL . Retrieved 10 July 2022.
2. "Robin Zentner". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
3. "Air-kick goalie mistook penalty spot for ball". ESPN.com. 5 November 2017.
4. "Zentner verlängert frühzeitig". mainz05.de (in German).
5. "Robin Zentner". Soccerway. Retrieved 29 May 2024.

External links

• Profile at the 1. FSV Mainz 05 website (in German)
• Robin Zentner at WorldFootball.net