Data correct as of 10 June 2026
Age: 16 (Born 27 July 2009)
Club: Bayer Leverkusen
Position: Defensive midfielder
Country: Germany (Four U17 caps, two goals)
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Hertha’s goalless draw with Karlsruhe on 10 August 2025 was not a game that will live long in the memory – unless perhaps you are Kennet Eichhorn.
Midway through the second half of the Matchday 2 encounter, and with nearly 60,000 spectators watching on at Berlin’s Olympiastadion, the teenager replaced Leon Jensen to become Bundesliga 2’s youngest-ever debutant – aged just 16 years and 14 days.
Former Borussia Dortmund prodigy Youssoufa Moukoko, who was handed his Bundesliga bow a day after his 16th birthday, is the only player in the history of Germany’s top two divisions to make his debut at a younger age.
