2016–17 SC Freiburg season
# 2016–17 SC Freiburg season

The 2016–17 SC Freiburg season is the 113th season in the football club's history and 17th overall season in the top flight of German football, the Bundesliga, having won the 2. Bundesliga in the previous season, therefore earning promotion. SC Freiburg will also participate in this season's edition of the domestic cup, the DFB-Pokal. It is the 62nd season for SC Freiburg in the Schwarzwald-Stadion, located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. It covers a period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.

## Players

### Squad

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 | Alexander Schwolow |
| 2 | DF | SRB | Aleksandar Ignjovski |
| 3 | DF | ESP | Marc Torrejón |
| 4 | DF | TUR | Çağlar Söyüncü |
| 5 | DF | GER | Manuel Gulde |
| 6 | MF | ALB | Amir Abrashi |
| 7 | FW | GER | Florian Niederlechner (on loan from Mainz 05) |
| 8 | MF | GER | Mike Frantz |
| 11 | MF | TUR | Onur Bulut |
| 14 | FW | NOR | Håvard Nielsen |
| 15 | DF | GER | Pascal Stenzel (on loan from Borussia Dortmund) |
| 17 | DF | GER | Lukas Kübler |
| 18 | FW | GER | Nils Petersen |
| 19 | MF | GER | Janik Haberer |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | DF | GER | Marc-Oliver Kempf |
| 21 | GK | GER | Patric Klandt |
| 23 | MF | GER | Julian Schuster (Captain) |
| 24 | DF | GER | Georg Niedermeier |
| 25 | DF | GER | Jonas Föhrenbach |
| 26 | MF | GER | Maximilian Philipp |
| 27 | MF | GER | Nicolas Höfler |
| 30 | DF | GER | Christian Günter |
| 31 | MF | SVK | Karim Guédé |
| 32 | MF | ITA | Vincenzo Grifo |
| 34 | FW | PLE | Amir Falahen |
| 44 | GK | POL | Rafał Gikiewicz |
| -- | MF | SUI | Vincent Sierro |

### Transfers

**In**

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| - | - | - | - |
| — | MF | FRA | Charles-Elie Laprévotte (loan return from Preußen Münster) |
| — | MF | TUR | Onur Bulut (from VfL Bochum) |
| — | DF | GER | Manuel Gulde (from Karlsruher SC) |
| — | DF | TUR | Çağlar Söyüncü (from Altınordu) |
| — | MF | GER | Jonas Meffert (from Bayer Leverkusen) |
| — | FW | AUT | Philipp Zulechner (loan return from Young Boys) |
| — | MF | GER | Sebastian Kerk (loan return from 1. FC Nürnberg) |
| — | MF | SRB | Aleksandar Ignjovski (from Eintracht Frankfurt) |
| — | FW | GER | Janik Haberer (from 1899 Hoffenheim, previously on loan at VfL Bochum) |

**Out**

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2 | DF | NOR | Vegar Eggen Hedenstad (to FC St. Pauli) |
| 4 | DF | GER | Immanuel Höhn (to Darmstadt 98) |
| 9 | FW | GER | Tim Kleindienst (on loan to 1. FC Heidenheim) |
| 11 | FW | GER | Joshua Mees (loan return to 1899 Hoffenheim) |
| 19 | MF | GER | Florian Kath (to 1. FC Magdeburg) |
| 28 | MF | GER | Marco Hingerl (to Bayern Munich II) |
| 29 | GK | GER | Konstantin Fuhry (to SV Elversberg) |
| 44 | MF | GER | Fabian Schleusener (on loan to FSV Frankfurt) |
| — | DF | SRB | Stefan Mitrović (to Gent, previously on loan) |
| — | DF | FRA | Christopher Jullien (to Toulouse, previously on loan at Dijon) |

## Friendly matches

Win  Draw  Loss

### Kaiserstuhl-Cup

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final result |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | SC Freiburg | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 6 | 2016 Kaiserstuhl-Cup Champions |
| 2 | SV Endingen | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 3 | |
| 3 | Bahlinger SC (H) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 3 | |
| 4 | Darmstadt 98 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 0 | |
| 5 | Offenburger FV | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 0 | |

## Competitions

Win  Draw  Loss

### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Bundesliga | 28 August 2016 | 20 May 2017 | Matchday 1 | 7th | 34 | 14 | 6 | 14 | 42 | 60 | −18 | 041.18 |
| DFB-Pokal | 20 August 2016 | 25 October 2016 | First round | Second round | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 36 | 15 | 7 | 14 | 49 | 63 | −14 | 041.67 |

Last updated: 27 May 2017 Source: Competitions

### Bundesliga

**League table**

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 | 1. FC Köln | 34 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 51 | 42 | +9 | 49 | Qualification to Europa League group stage |
| 6 | Hertha BSC | 34 | 15 | 4 | 15 | 43 | 47 | −4 | 49 | Qualification to Europa League group stage |
| 7 | SC Freiburg | 34 | 14 | 6 | 14 | 42 | 60 | −18 | 48 | Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round |
| 8 | Werder Bremen | 34 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 61 | 64 | −3 | 45 | |
| 9 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 45 | 49 | −4 | 45 | |

* 1 2 Since the winners of the 2016–17 DFB-Pokal, Borussia Dortmund, qualified for the Champions League based on league position, the Europa League group stage spot was passed to the sixth-placed team, Hertha BSC; and the Europa League third qualifying round spot was passed to the seventh-placed team, SC Freiburg.

**Results summary**

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |

Last updated: 27 May 2017. Source: Bundesliga

**Results by round**

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A |
| Result | L | W | L | W | L | W | L | W | W | L | L | L | D | W | D | W | L | W | L | W | D | L | W | D | D | L | W | W | L | W | L | W | D | L |
| Position | 12 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 7 |

## Statistics

### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Bundesliga | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||
| 1 | GK | GER | Alexander Schwolow | 35 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | GK | GER | Patric Klandt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 44 | GK | POL | Rafal Gikiewicz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 2 | DF | SRB | Aleksandar Ignjovski | 21 | 0 | 12+7 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ESP | Marc Torrejón | 13 | 0 | 10+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | TUR | Çağlar Söyüncü | 25 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | GER | Manuel Gulde | 21 | 0 | 19+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | GER | Pascal Stenzel | 19 | 1 | 14+5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | GER | Lukas Kübler | 16 | 0 | 14+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | GER | Marc-Oliver Kempf | 13 | 0 | 12+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | GER | Georg Niedermeier | 7 | 0 | 0+6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | GER | Jonas Föhrenbach | 3 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | DF | GER | Christian Günter | 33 | 0 | 30+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 6 | MF | ALB | Amir Abrashi | 21 | 1 | 16+4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | GER | Mike Frantz | 30 | 0 | 29+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | TUR | Onur Bulut | 23 | 0 | 12+9 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | GER | Janik Haberer | 34 | 4 | 22+10 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 22 | MF | SUI | Vincent Sierro | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | GER | Julian Schuster | 14 | 0 | 9+4 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | GER | Maximilian Philipp | 27 | 9 | 23+2 | 9 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | GER | Nicolas Höfler | 29 | 1 | 26+2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | SVK | Karim Guédé | 5 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | ITA | Vincenzo Grifo | 32 | 9 | 27+3 | 6 | 1+1 | 3 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 7 | FW | GER | Florian Niederlechner | 36 | 12 | 29+5 | 11 | 2 | 1 |
| 14 | FW | NOR | Håvard Nielsen | 4 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | GER | Nils Petersen | 34 | 11 | 7+26 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| 34 | FW | PLE | Amir Falahen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||
| 16 | MF | NOR | Mats Møller Dæhli | 4 | 1 | 0+2 | 0 | 1+1 | 1 |
| 22 | MF | GER | Jonas Meffert | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 29 | MF | FRA | Charles-Elie Laprévotte | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | MF | GEO | Lucas Hufnagel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

Last updated: 20 May 2017 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 7 | FW | | Florian Niederlechner | 11 | 1 | 12 |
| 2 | 18 | FW | | Nils Petersen | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 3 | 26 | MF | | Maximilian Philipp | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 3 | 32 | MF | | Vincenzo Grifo | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | 19 | MF | | Janik Haberer | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | 6 | MF | | Amir Abrashi | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 15 | DF | | Pascal Stenzel | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 16 | MF | | Mats Møller Dæhli | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | 27 | MF | | Nicolas Höfler | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 42 | 7 | 49 |

Last updated: 20 May 2017

### Clean sheets

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | GK | | Alexander Schwolow | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 6 | 1 | 7 |

Last updated: 7 May 2017

### Disciplinary record

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Bundesliga | Bundesliga | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal | Total | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | GK | | Alexander Schwolow | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | | Aleksandar Ignjovski | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | | Marc Torrejón | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | | Çağlar Söyüncü | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | | Manuel Gulde | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | | Amir Abrashi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | | Florian Niederlechner | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | | Mike Frantz | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | | Onur Bulut | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | | Pascal Stenzel | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | | Lukas Kübler | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | | Janik Haberer | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | | Marc-Oliver Kempf | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | | Julian Schuster | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | | Maximilian Philipp | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | | Nicolas Höfler | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | DF | | Christian Günter | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| 32 | MF | | Vincenzo Grifo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 55 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 0 | 1 |

Last updated: 13 May 2017

