Borussia Mönchengladbach’s sporting director Roland Virkus describes him as “a corset of our team”, “foal” coach Daniel Farke raves about central defender Tony Jantschke as an “extraordinary character” who has “internalized the diamond”: The 32-year-old is in common with Bayern Munich’s Thomas Müller is the most loyal player in the Bundesliga (at a glance) and has been with the Lower Rhine team for 13 years and almost four months. He didn’t always help his team on the pitch, Jantschke has been the field player with the most Bundesliga games on the bench since last weekend.
Outfield player with the most Bundesliga games on the bench
Marvin Plattenhardt – 256 Bundesliga games + 79 times on the bench
There, the native of Saxony took a seat for the 122nd time in the game against Eintracht Frankfurt without subsequently being used. A record value that the defender recorded in addition to his 237 games in which he played on the pitch for Borussia in the upper house. In this statistic, Jantschke “ousted” Christoph Janker from the top, who had been on the bench for the full distance in a total of 121 Bundesliga games between 2007 and 2018 in the employ of TSG Hoffenheim and TSV 1860 Munich.
With Peter Pekarik and Marvin Plattenhardt, Jantschke and two other current professionals from the Oberhaus (both Hertha BSC) are in the top 15 in this ranking (see gallery above). The statistics do not include the goalkeepers, nine of whom have cracked the 200 mark in “bench appearances” in Bundesliga history to date: Christofer Heimeroth (297), Mathias Schober (271), André Lenz (270) , Alexander Bade (262), Marc Ziegler (260), Tobias Sippel (259), Christian Fiedler (218), Tom Starke (204) and Roman Weidenfeller (201).
The most loyal players in the Bundesliga
10 Jonas Hector | 1. FC Cologne | 10 years, 3 months
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