Lars Ricken

Lars Ricken

Ricken in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Lars Ricken
Date of birth	(1976-07-10) 10 July 1976 (age 48)
Place of birth	Dortmund, West Germany
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Borussia Dortmund (CEO for Sport)
Youth career
1982–1986	TuS Eving-Lindenhorst
1986–1990	Eintracht Dortmund
1990–1993	Borussia Dortmund
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1993–2007	Borussia Dortmund	301	(49)
2003–2009	Borussia Dortmund II	39	(8)
Total		340	(57)
International career
1995–1998	Germany U21	17	(8)
1997–2002	Germany	16	(1)
Medal record Representing  Germany Men's football FIFA World Cup Runner-up 2002 Korea/Japan
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lars Ricken (born 10 July 1976) is a German retired footballer and current managing director of Borussia Dortmund.^[1] From 2008 to 2024, he was the youth coordinator at Dortmund.

Ricken represented Borussia Dortmund during his entire professional career, which spanned 15 years. He was the youngest player to ever appear for the club in an official match, a record later broken by Nuri Şahin. An attacking midfielder, he won three Bundesliga titles (1994–95, 1995–96, 2001–02) and scored in the 1996–97 Champions League final which Dortmund won.

A German international for five years, Ricken represented the country at the 2002 World Cup and the 1999 Confederations Cup.