Pascal Reinhardt is a former German footballer who played as a striker. He currently serves as an assistant coach for VfL Nagold, where he ended his playing career.
Career
Reinhardt played as a youth for SSV Reutlingen and Stuttgarter Kickers, before joining Bayern Munich II in 2011. He made his debut for the team on the opening day of the 2011–12 season, as a substitute for Max Dombrowka in a 2–2 draw with 1. FC Nürnberg II, and would make a further nine appearances during the season as Bayern II finished in a disappointing 14th place in the Regionalliga Bayern. Having been out of the Bayern II team coached by Mehmet Scholl during the first half of the 2012–13 season, Reinhardt decided to join FC 08 Homburg of the Regionalliga Südwest in January 2013, where he scored his first senior goal on his debut, scoring the third in a 3–0 win over SC Idar-Oberstein, just a minute after coming on as a substitute for Dennis Gerlinger. This proved to be his only goal of the season, but the following year was a successful one for him - he finished as Homburg's top scorer with 11 goals, as they finished in 11th place. They won the 2014 Saarland Cup. In July 2014, Reinhardt signed for FSV Mainz 05 II, who had just been promoted to the 3. Liga. He made his debut for the club on the opening day of the 2014–15 season, as a substitute for Marc Wachs in a 2–1 defeat at home to Arminia Bielefeld. In 2015, he joined SSV Ulm 1846, where he played for two seasons. In his first season, they won the fifth-tier 2015–16 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg, gaining promotion to the fourth-tier Regionalliga for the following season. In the January transfer window of 2017, Reinhardt signed for Waitakere United of the New Zealand Football Championship, the top domestic division of football in New Zealand on a four-month contract. On 8 January 2017, he made his debut appearance as a substitute against Hawke's Bay United on the same day he arrived in New Zealand from Germany and scored his first goal in a 2-1 victory over Hamilton Wanderers, on 15 January. In the semi-final match of the league playoffs, Reinhardt scored a hat-trick, as well as a penalty kick in the shootout, in a 6-6 loss to eventual champions Team Wellington. Afterwards, he returned to Germany, joining VfL Nagold in 2018, in the Verbandsliga Württemberg, the sixth-tier of the German football league system. Following the season, he had an offer to join a club in the fifth-tier Oberliga, but he chose to remain with Nagold instead. Beginning in the 2019–20 season, he became an assistant coach at VfL Nagold following a series of injuries and also serves as part of their Mentoring Program for youth.
