Axel Bellinghausen

{{short description|German footballer and manager}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Axel Bellinghausen

| image = Axel-Bellinghausen.jpg

| caption = Bellinghausen with Fortuna Düsseldorf in 2014

| height = {{height|m=1.82|precision=0}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|5|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = Siegburg, West Germany

| currentclub = Fortuna Düsseldorf (assistant manager)

| clubnumber =

| position = Left midfielder

| youthyears1 = 1988–1993 | youthclubs1 = TuS 05 Oberpleis

| youthyears2 = 1993–1998 | youthclubs2 = Bayer 04 Leverkusen

| youthyears3 = 1998–2001 | youthclubs3 = Fortuna Düsseldorf

| years1 = 2001–2005 | clubs1 = Fortuna Düsseldorf | caps1 = 88 | goals1 = 8

| years2 = 2005–2009 | clubs2 = 1. FC Kaiserslautern | caps2 = 96 | goals2 = 7

| years3 = 2009 | clubs3 = 1. FC Kaiserslautern II | caps3 = 1 | goals3 = 0

| years4 = 2009–2012 | clubs4 = FC Augsburg | caps4 = 74 | goals4 = 4

| years5 = 2012–2018 | clubs5 = Fortuna Düsseldorf | caps5 = 124 | goals5 = 8

| years6 = 2017–2018 | clubs6 = Fortuna Düsseldorf II | caps6 = 3 | goals6 = 0

}}

Axel Bellinghausen (born 17 May 1983) is a retired German footballer and current assistant manager of Fortuna Düsseldorf.

Career

Born in Siegburg, North Rhine-Westphalia{{cite web | url = http://www.worldfootball.net/spieler_profil/axel-bellinghausen/ | title = Axel Bellinghausen | publisher = worldfootball.net | accessdate = 3 January 2013}} he started at the age of five playing football at TuS 05 Oberpleis. In 1993, when he was ten years old, he went to Bayer 04 Leverkusen. He left Bayer 04 Leverkusen five years later to play for Fortuna Düsseldorf where he became a professional football player in 2001.

Honours

Augsburg

References

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