Matthias Lindner (born 5 October 1965 in Grimma, East Germany) is a former football defender.
He started playing football at the age of seven, with BSG Lokomotive Naunhof and joined the youth ranks of 1.
FC Lokomotive Leipzig in 1976.
After making his debut in May 1983 in the Oberliga he spent another eight seasons with the first team, making 156 league appearances and stayed with the club after they were renamed to VfB Leipzig.
In 1997/98 he spent a season with FC Carl Zeiss Jena, before retiring in 2000 with FC Sachsen Leipzig.
Lindner won 22 caps for East Germany between 1987 and 1990.