2003–04 VfL Wolfsburg season

VfL Wolfsburg started the season in brilliant fashion, taking an early Bundesliga lead, before slipping back in a nightmare run, which saw the team finish in the midfield, with a lower points haul than the previous seasons. Wolfsburg also dropped a bombshell when they signed Argentine starlet Andrés D'Alessandro of River Plate. D'Alessandro had been relatively disappointing season, but Fernando Baiano together with Diego Klimowicz made sure the attack functioned really well.

VfL Wolfsburg
2003–04 season
ManagerJürgen Röber
Bundesliga10th
DFB-PokalSecond round
Top goalscorerDiego Klimowicz (15)

Players edit

First-team squad edit

Squad at end of season[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF   ARG Pablo Quatrocchi
3 DF   CHI Waldo Ponce (on loan from Universidad de Chile)
5 DF   GER Stefan Schnoor
6 MF   GUI Pablo Thiam
7 MF   GER Patrick Weiser
9 FW   ARG Diego Klimowicz
10 MF   ARG Andrés D'Alessandro
12 GK   BIH Sead Ramović
13 DF   CRO Marino Biliškov
14 FW   BIH Marko Topić
17 FW   BRA Fernando Baiano
19 DF   DEN Thomas Rytter
20 MF   BIH Mirko Hrgović
21 MF   BUL Martin Petrov
22 FW   GER Roy Präger
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 DF   SCG Nenad Lalatović (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk)
27 MF   SVK Miroslav Karhan
29 GK   GER Simon Jentzsch
30 MF   MKD Nderim Nexhipi
31 DF   GHA Hans Sarpei
32 FW   POL Michał Janicki
33 DF   GER Maik Franz
36 FW   ARG Juan Carlos Menseguez
37 MF   GER Karsten Fischer
38 DF   GER Stefan Lorenz
39 FW   GER Christian Ritter
40 GK   GER Patrick Platins
41 MF   COD Cédric Makiadi
44 GK   GER Fabian Lucas

Left club during season edit

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   GER Claus Reitmaier (to Borussia Mönchengladbach)
4 DF   DEN Kim Madsen (to Hansa Rostock)
8 MF   ROU Dorinel Munteanu (to Steaua Bucharest)
11 FW   CRO Tomislav Marić (on loan to Borussia Mönchengladbach)
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF   GER Albert Streit (to Köln)
23 MF   GER Sven Müller (to Nürnberg)
24 MF   GHA Charles Akonnor (to SpVgg Unterhaching)

VfL Wolfsburg II edit

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
MF   GER Benjamin Siegert

Results edit

Bundesliga edit

1 VfL Wolfsburg 3–2 VfL Bochum
Thiam   9'
Klimowicz   14'
Petrov   75'
Madsen   37'
Fahrenhorst   44'
3 VfL Wolfsburg 5–1 Hamburg
Klimowicz   50, 86'
Petrov   60'
Müller   70'
D'Alessandro   75'
Barbarez   47'
8 Werder Bremen 5–3 VfL Wolfsburg
Aílton   2, 21'
Stalteri   41'
Micoud   57'
Klasnić   58'
Biliškov   40'
Streit   54'
Karhan   65'
12 Freiburg 3–2 VfL Wolfsburg
Iashvili   31, 33, 76' Topić   62'
Franz   90'
19 VfL Wolfsburg 2–4 Borussia Dortmund
Petrov   36' (pen.)
Baiano   88'
Jensen   42'
Koller   45'
Frings   54'
Ricken   78'
27 VfL Wolfsburg 1–5 VfB Stuttgart
Petrov   30' Gerber   6'
Streller   26'
Lahm   45'
Kurányi   73'
Szabics   86'
29 VfL Wolfsburg 4–0 Freiburg
Franz   10'
Baiano   20'
Sarpei   47'
Klimowicz   68'

Top Scorers edit

References edit

  1. ^ "FootballSquads - VFL Wolfsburg - 2003/04".