{"id":103529,"date":"2025-09-24T18:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/?p=103529"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:09:25","slug":"augsburg-confirm-loss-of-captain-jeffrey-gouweleeuw-for-several-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/augsburg-confirm-loss-of-captain-jeffrey-gouweleeuw-for-several-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg confirm loss of captain Jeffrey Gouweleeuw for several weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The shaky situation at FC Augsburg<\/a> has just gotten shakier following some unfortunate injury news released by the Bundesliga outfit on Wednesday. Squad captain Jeffrey Gouweleeuw is set to miss several weeks with a torn medial ligament in his left knee. The nature of the injury will keep the 34-year-old sidelined until at least mid October. The loss will certainly hurt the Fuggerst\u00e4dter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Gouweleeuw saw his captaincy (once forfeited to current VfB Stuttgart striker Ermedin Demirovic) restored to him ahead of last season. The Dutchman became a mainstay in Jess Thorup’s squad over the course of the 2024\/25 campaign, featuring in 33 of Augsburg’s 34 league fixtures and three of the team’s four Pokal matches. Gouweleeuw went the full 90 minutes on all but one occasion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like the Mainz counterpart who ultimately undid his team in the Bundesliga last weekend<\/a>, Gouweleeuw counts as an absolute “iron man<\/em>” amongst his peers. The veteran’s importance to the team was underscored by a lucrative contract extension signed this past February.<\/a> Prior to last Saturday’s 67th-minute subbing off, Gouweleeuw had once again logged maximum minutes through four competitive fixtures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The news need not be devastating as FCA head coach Sandro Wagner does have plenty of quality central defenders available to serve in his back-three.<\/a> Assuming both Keven Schlotterbeck and Cedric Zesiger can remain fit ahead of the match, the duo can serve alongside Chrislain Matsima. Young American \u00a0international Noahkai Banks<\/a> – who has featured surprisingly little this season – may also get a shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

GGFN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Peter Weis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FC Augsburg have confirmed bad injury news affecting squad captain Jeffery Gouweleeuw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312420,"featured_media":103530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[384,11],"tags":[449,2272,1678,660,2249,1629,2273,480,1028,2189,1723],"class_list":["post-103529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fc-augsburg","category-bundesliga","tag-bundesliga","tag-cedric-zesiger","tag-chrislain-matsima","tag-fc-augsburg","tag-jeffrey-gouweleeuw","tag-jess-thorup","tag-keven-schlotterbeck","tag-mainz","tag-news","tag-noahkai-banks","tag-sandro-wagner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103535,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103529\/revisions\/103535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}