2013–14 VfL Wolfsburg season

VfL Wolfsburg
2013–14 season
Manager	Dieter Hecking
Stadium	Volkswagen Arena
Bundesliga	5th
DFB-Pokal	Semi-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Ivica Olić (14); All: Ivica Olić (15)
	← 2012–13 2014–15 →

The 2013–14 season was the 69th season in the history of VfL Wolfsburg.

In 2013–14 the club played in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football. It was the club's 17th consecutive season in this league, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 1997.

The club also took part in the 2013–14 edition of the DFB-Pokal, where it reached the semi-finals before losing to Borussia Dortmund.

Review and events

Transfers

In

Date	Position	Player	Club	Fee
1 July 2013	DM	Kevin de Bruyne	Chelsea	€20,000,000
	DM	Luiz Gustavo	Bayern Munich	€16,000,000
	DF	Timm Klose	FC Basel	€6,000,000
	MF	Daniel Caligiuri	SC Freiburg	€4,000,000
28 July 2013	MF	Junior Malanda	Zulte Waregem	€1,500,000
31 August 2013	DF	Stefan Kutschke	RB Leipzig	Free

Out

Date	Position	Name	Club	Fee
1 July 2013	ST	Giovanni Sio	FC Basel	€2,400,000
	GK	Marwin Hitz	FC Augsburg	€1,000,000
	DF	Simon Kjær	Lille OSC	€4,000,000
	MF	Yohandry Orozco	Deportivo Táchira	Free
25 July 2013	ST	Patrick Helmes	1. FC Köln	Free
28 July 2013	ST	Rasmus Jönsson	AaB Fodbold	Loan
28 July 2013	DF	Fagner	Vasco da Gama	Loan
13 August 2013	MF	Tolga Ciğerci	Hertha BSC	Free
1 September 2013	MF	Makoto Hasebe	1. FC Nürnberg	€2,000,000
2 September 2013	FW	Ferhan Hasani	Dynamo Dresden	Free
13 January 2014	DF	Diego	Atlético Madrid	€5,000,000
18 January 2014	MF	Koo Ja-cheol	Mainz 05	Loan

Matches

Legend

Win Draw Loss Postponed

Friendly matches

Bundesliga

League fixtures and results

MD	Date – KO	Venue	Opponent	Res. F–A	Att.	Goalscorers and disciplined players		Table		Ref.
MD	Date – KO	Venue	Opponent	Res. F–A	Att.	VfL Wolfsburg	Opponent	Pos.	Pts.	Ref.
1	10 August – 15:30	A	Hannover 96	0-2	44,800	Klose 13' 52' Arnold 32'	Andreasen 17' Bittencourt 34' Huszti 37', 84' Prib 45' Sané 54'	16	0	^[1]
2	17 August – 15:30	H	Schalke 04	4–0	28,405	Knoche 55' Vieirinha 61' Naldo 67' Kutschke 90+1'	Huntelaar 37' Jones 49'	8	3	^[2]
3	24 August – 15:30	A	Mainz 05	0–2	27,103	Luiz Gustavo 29' 64' Diego 72'	Müller 47', 78' Geis 51' Choupo-Moting 61' Moritz 84'	9	3	^[3]
4	31 August – 15:30	H	Hertha BSC	2–0	28,625	Naldo 23' Olić 42' Diego 45+2' (pen.)	Langkamp 59' Wagner 64'	8	6	^[4]
5	14 September – 15:30	A	Bayer Leverkusen	1–3	27,149	Olić 39' Naldo 61' Luiz Gustavo 80' 85' Vieirinha 87'	Sam 24', 84' Wollscheid 58' Kießling 65', 90+2'	12	6	^[5]
6	21 September – 15:30	H	1899 Hoffenheim	2–1	29,837	Olić 44', 48' Polák 77'	Rudy 8' Modeste 15' Roberto Firmino 61' Vestergaard 85' Herdling 87'	6	9	^[6]
7	28 September – 15:30	A	Bayern Munich	0–1	71,000	Diego 27'	Schweinsteiger 26' Müller 63' Mandžukić 72'	11	9	^[7]
8	5 October – 15:30	H	Eintracht Braunschweig	0–2	30,000	Olić 60' Diego 75'	Bellarabi 31' Ademi 54' Theuerkauf 71' Boland 84' Kumbela 86'	14	9	^[8]
9	20 October – 17:30	A	FC Augsburg	2–1	27,554	Arnold 35', 52' Diego 40' Luiz Gustavo 42'	Werner 10' Ostrzolek 41' Verhaegh 57'	9	12	^[9]
10	26 October – 18:30	H	Werder Bremen	3–0	29,488	Arnold 7' Luiz Gustavo 19' Olić 72' Perišić 89'	Kroos 38' Ignjovski 90'	6	15	^[10]
11	2 November – 18:30	A	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–1	44,300	Anderson 2' (o.g.) Luiz Gustavo 34' Arnold 82' Schäfer 90'	Meier 35' Oczipka 37' Celozzi 87' Zambrano 90'	5	18	^[11]
12	9 November – 15:30	H	Borussia Dortmund	2-1	30,000	Caligiuri 9' Ochs 45' Rodríguez 56' Olić 69'	Bender 12' Hummels 24' Reus 45+2', 84' Mkhitaryan 81'	5	21	^[12]
13	23 November – 15:30	A	1. FC Nürnberg	1–1	35,678	Diego 31' Arnold 39'	Frantz 29' Ginczek 72'	5	22	^[13]
14	29 November – 20:30	H	Hamburger SV	1–1	28,648	Rodríguez 31' (pen.) Ochs 36' Arnold 38' Naldo 58' Knoche 74'	Çalhanoğlu 19' Arslan 53'	6	23	^[14]
15	8 December – 15:30	A	SC Freiburg	3–0	22,800	Arnold 8' Olić 11' Ochs 35' Schäfer 90+1'	—	5	26	^[15]
16	14 December – 18:30	H	VfB Stuttgart	3–1	25,501	Medojević 31' Rodríguez 38' Diego 53', 55' Perišić 78'	Rausch 20' Harnik 53' Werner 57'	5	29	^[16]
17	22 December – 15:30	A	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–2	53,301	Ochs 49' Diego 53', 56' Caligiuri 78' Dost 85'	Raffael 59' Arango 64' Wendt 72'	5	30	^[17]
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League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
3	Schalke 04	34	19	7	8	63	43	+20	64	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
4	Bayer Leverkusen	34	19	4	11	60	41	+19	61	Qualification for the Champions League play-off round
5	VfL Wolfsburg	34	18	6	10	63	50	+13	60	Qualification for the Europa League group stage^[a]
6	Borussia Mönchengladbach	34	16	7	11	59	43	+16	55	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round^[a]
7	Mainz 05	34	16	5	13	52	54	−2	53	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round^[a]

Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

DFB-Pokal

MD	Date – KO	Venue	Opponent	Result²	Attendance	Goalscorers and carded players		Ref.
MD	Date – KO	Venue	Opponent	Result²	Attendance	VfL Wolfsburg	Opponent	Ref.
R1	3 August – 20:30	A	Karlsruher SC	3-1	15,710	Perišić 4', 15' Klose 13' Diego 69' Schäfer 90+2'	Peitz 49' Alibaz 53', 90'	^[18]
R2	24 September – 19:00	H	VfR Aalen	2–0	6,718	Diego 45+2' Koo 72' Klose 83'	Junglas 86'	^[19]
Round of 16	3 December - 19:00	H	FC Ingolstadt	2–1	7,846	Naldo 66' Olić 89'	Caiuby 17'
Quarter-finals	12 February - 19:00	A	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	3–2	13,840	Rodríguez 26' (pen.), 54' (pen.) Dost 64'	Firmino 39', 64'
Semi-finals	12 April - 19:00	A	Borussia Dortmund	0–2	80,400	Gustavo 7'	Mkhitaryan 13' Lewandowski 43' Kehl 76' Aubameyang 90+6'

Squad

Squad, appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	SUI	Diego Benaglio	33	0	29	0	4	0
2	DF	GER	Patrick Ochs	19	0	17	0	2	0
4	DF	GER	Marcel Schäfer	25	0	21	0	4	0
5	DF	SUI	Timm Klose	12	1	10	0	2	1
6	MF	SRB	Slobodan Medojević	22	0	20	0	2	0
7	MF	GER	Daniel Caligiuri	27	1	24	0	3	1
8	FW	POR	Vieirinha	14	1	11	1	3	0
9	FW	CRO	Ivan Perišić	38	11	33	10	5	1
11	FW	CRO	Ivica Olić	39	15	34	14	5	1
12	FW	NED	Bas Dost	15	5	13	4	2	1
14	MF	BEL	Kevin De Bruyne	18	3	16	3	2	0
15	DF	GER	Christian Träsch	26	0	22	0	4	0
19	MF	BEL	Junior Malanda	8	2	7	2	1	0
20	GK	GER	Max Grün	7	0	6	0	1	0
21	GK	GER	Patrick Drewes	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	MF	BRA	Luiz Gustavo	33	4	29	4	4	0
25	DF	BRA	Naldo	38	4	33	3	5	1
26	DF	BRA	Felipe Lopes	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	MF	GER	Maximilian Arnold	30	7	27	7	3	0
29	MF	CZE	Jan Polák	21	0	18	0	3	0
30	MF	GER	Stefan Kutschke	9	0	8	0	1	0
31	DF	GER	Robin Knoche	35	3	32	3	3	0
32	MF	GER	Willi Evseev	4	0	3	0	1	0
34	DF	SUI	Ricardo Rodríguez	38	7	34	5	4	2
39	DF	GER	Paul Seguin	0	0	0	0	0	0
Players who left during the season
13	MF	JPN	Makoto Hasebe	1	0	1	0	0	0
18	MF	KOR	Koo Ja-cheol	12	0	10	0	2	0
28	MF	BRA	Diego	16	4	13	2	3	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Notes

1.^ Kickoff time in Central European Time/Central European Summer Time.

Sources

External links

2013–14 VfL Wolfsburg season at Weltfussball.de (in German)
2013–14 VfL Wolfsburg season at kicker.de (in German)
2013–14 VfL Wolfsburg season at Fussballdaten.de (in German)

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