Career
He started playing football at the age of seven, with BSG Lokomotive Naunhof and joined the youth ranks of 1. Football Club Lokomotive Leipzig in 1976. After making his debut in May 1983 in the Oberliga he spent another eight seasons with the first team, making 156 league appearances and stayed with the club after they were renamed to VfB Leipzig.
In 1997/98 he spent a season with Football Club Carl Zeiss Jena, before retiring in 2000 with Football Club Sachsen Leipzig.