From his youth club BFC Dynamo Rayk Schroeder joined the 1995-1996 season for the first Football Club Union Berlin for which he was active a year in the Regionalliga Nord, and following the 1996-1997 season for the Bundesliga club Turn- und Sportverein 1860 Munich, for in his first season completed seven appearances.
He spent 4 seasons in the Bundesliga with Turn- und Sportverein 1860 München, F.C. Hansa Rostock and Football Club Energie Cottbus. In the following season, 1997/98 Schröder was no further use for Munich in the Bundesliga, and he for 1998/99 for second division club Energie Cottbus changed. In Cottbus Schröder became a performer, completed in two seasons inserts 60, in which he scored three goals, and rose in the 1999/2000 season with the Lusatians on to the Bundesliga.
The following season 2000/2001 graduated Schröder then but at Hansa Rostock, where in 49 appearances he by three goals during his two seasons in Rostock for season 2002/03 returned to Energie Cottbus, for which he and another time in the Bundesliga after descending Cottbus" five more times during the 2003-2004 season second division was used.
Then Schröder was used only in the second team Cottbus", whereupon he for season 2005/06 a contract with the Regional-promoted Football Club Carl Zeiss Jena signed, which was still dissolved again in pre-season with a knee injury, after Schröder ended his active career.
