Career
Early career
Kimmich played youth football for VfB Stuttgart before joining RB Leipzig in July 2013. VfB Stuttgart secured an option to rebuy. He made his 3. Liga debut for the club on 28 September of that year, as a substitute for Thiago Rockenbach in a 2–2 draw with SpVgg Unterhaching.
Football Club Saarbrücken on 30 November 2013.
Bayern Munich
On 2 January 2015, Kimmich agreed to join Bayern Munich in the summer of 2015 on a five-year contract, for a reported fee of €7 million. Horst Hrubesch has praised Kimmich for his versatility.
"Joshua has enormous quality and is versatile in both attacking and defensive roles", Hrubesch said, when talking about Kimmich. Amin Younes complimented Kimmich"s defensive awareness as well in an interview, after the U21 EURO group stage.
"Winning the ball back superbly.
He does that really well", Younes told to the media. During the U21 competition, Philip Röber of Union of European Football Associations.com, described Kimmich"s playing style on the website and compared him to İlkay Gündoğan. At Leipzig, he was part of an extremely attack-minded team in which his ball-winning qualities in front of a high back four shone through.
In the Germany U21 side, he has a deeper role, but he has also caught the eye as a tidy defensive midfielder.
Kimmich has great timing in his tackles, can dribble and does not mind putting in the legwork. Kimmich himself has cited Bastian Schweinsteiger as his inspiration.