Matthias Liebers is a former German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 professional footballer.

He began his youth career with Lokomotive Leipzig

Lokomotive Leipzig

1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig is a German football club based in the city of Leipzig in Saxony and may be more familiar to many of the country's football fans as the historic side VfB Leipzig, the first national champions of Germany...

 in 1965, and was promoted to the senior squad in 1968, where he played in the DDR-Oberliga

DDR-Oberliga

The DDR-Oberliga was, prior to German reunification in 1990, the elite level of football competition in the DDR , being roughly equivalent to the Oberliga or Bundesliga in West Germany.-Overview:Following World...

 at the top level of the East German football league. He played 321 games for the club, scoring 37 goals.

After the German reunification

German reunification

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 1. FC Lokomotive was renamed to VfB Leipzig. The midfielder

Midfielder

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 played 25 Bundesliga

Fußball-Bundesliga

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 games with VfB in 1993–94, and 74 2nd Bundesliga

2. Fußball-Bundesliga

- Changes in division set-up :* Number of clubs: currently 18. From 1974 to 1981 there were two conferences, each of 20 teams. In 1981–91 it had 20...

 games between 1991 and 1996.

Between 1980 and 1988 he played 59 times for East Germany

East Germany national football team

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, making him the 12th most-capped player. He competed for East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics

1980 Summer Olympics

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.

He spent the final years of his career with FC Grün-Weiß Wolfen

FC Grün-Weiß Wolfen

FC Grün-Weiß Wolfen is a German association football club from the industrial city of Bitterfeld-Wolfen in southern Saxony-Anhalt. They currently compete in the tier V NOFV-Oberliga Süd.-History:...

(1996–97), FV Zeulenroda (1997–98) and finally with SV Blau-Weiß 90 Neustadt

In the 2004–05 season, he played two games for the reformed Lokomotive Leipzig in the 3rd District League, scoring one goal.