SC Paderborn 07

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Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V., commonly known as simply SC Paderborn 07 (pronounced [ʔɛs t͡seː paːdɐˈbɔʁn nʊl ziːbm̩]) or SC Paderborn, is a German association football club based in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has enjoyed[tone] its greatest success[tone] since the turn of the millennium,[clarification needed] becoming a fixture[vague] in the 2. Bundesliga before securing promotion to the Bundesliga in the 2013–14 season. They suffered a hasty fall from grace,[tone] however, being relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after only a season in the top division, and then again to the 3. Liga the season after. This relegation streak almost continued as low as the Regionalliga West, but were saved in the 2016-17 season because 1860 Munich were refused a license. The club returned to 2. Bundesliga, reaching 2nd place in the 2018–19 season and was promoted to the Bundesliga. The club finished 18th in the 2019–20 season and returned to the 2. Bundesliga.

SC Paderborn
Full nameSport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V.
Founded1907; 117 years ago (1907)[contradictory]
GroundBenteler-Arena
Capacity15,000[citation needed]
PresidentElmar Volkmann[citation needed]
Head coachLukas Kwasniok
League2. Bundesliga
2022–232. Bundesliga, 6th of 18
WebsiteClub website
Current season

History edit

Fusion into SC Paderborn edit

For most of the twentieth century, Paderborn had two football clubs: TuS Schloss Neuhaus and FC Paderborn, who remained rivals until the 1980s. After Neuhaus had been promoted to the 2. Bundesliga and finished last in 1983, this set-up had reached its athletic and financial ceiling.[jargon] Thus, in 1985, the two clubs merged into TuS Paderborn/Neuhaus. In 1997, the club adopted its current identity by assuming the name SC Paderborn 07, named after TuS Neuhaus's founding date 1907.[vague][contradictory][1]

Beginnings in amateur football (1985–2005) edit

During most of the 1980s, the recently merged club competed in the third-tier Oberliga Westfalen, where they counted among the leading teams[according to whom?] but never achieved promotion. In 1994, Paderborn won the league and thereby qualified for the promotion playoffs. The team lost to Eintracht Braunschweig and Fortuna Düsseldorf, but secured a place in the newly formed third-tier of the German football pyramid, the Regionalliga West/Südwest. Except for a brief stint in the fourth tier, Paderborn enjoyed[tone] moderate success with regular trips to the DFB Pokal.[vague][2]

During one of these, in 2004/5, the club reached the round of 16, beating MSV Duisburg and Bundesliga side Hamburger SV on the way. It later emerged that latter match had been affected by match fixing; referee Robert Hoyzer had received a bribe to let Paderborn win the game.[vague] The incident remains the most significant betting scandal in the history of German football.[3]

 
Coach André Breitenreiter in the 2013–14 promotion season

Consolidation in the 2. Bundesliga (2005–15) edit

Paderborn returned to the 2. Bundesliga for the first time in nearly thirty years at the end of the same season. The team's advance into professional football brought with it a professionalisation of its structures, and, in 2005, construction began on a new 15,000-seat stadium, which replaced the dated Hermann-Löns-Stadion. All of this helped to establish the club as a regular component of Germany's professional football landscape.[vague][4] This process culminated in the club's first promotion to the Bundesliga after the 2013/14 season under coach André Breitenreiter, who had only joined the club from TSV Havelse at the start of the season.[5]

Bundesliga and years of turbulence (2015–present) edit

Having never been in the Bundesliga before, Paderborn were described[by whom?][clarification needed] as "the biggest outsider in Bundesliga history" going into the season. The team started well; in the fourth game of the campaign against Hannover 96, midfielder Moritz Stoppelkamp scored a volley from 83 metres out,[clarification needed] headline a Bundesliga record for the furthest ever goal. This goal also put the team top of the Bundesliga table at the time.[6]

Paderborn were 10th in the table at the halfway point, but suffered a number of heavy losses in the second half of the season. On the second last matchday of the season, they dropped to last place, and were relegated on the final day.[7] Upon relegation, a number of key players such as Alban Meha, Mario Vrančić, Lukas Rupp, Marvin Ducksch and captain Uwe Hünemeier left the club, while coach Breitenreiter joined Schalke.

Starting the 2015–16 season with Markus Gellhaus in charge, Paderborn surprisingly[according to whom?] gave former Germany international Stefan Effenberg his first coaching job in October 2015.[vague] In March, Effenberg was sacked, with the team bottom of the table and heading for a second consecutive relegation, which was later confirmed.[8] Competing in the 3. Liga for the first time since 2009, Paderborn again found themselves[tone] at the bottom of the table. After Steffen Baumgart took over as coach in April, the team picked up 11 points from his five games in charge, but could not escape the relegation zone, finishing in 18th position. That should have been a third relegation in a row, this time to the non-professional Regionalliga West, but Paderborn were unexpectedly saved by 1860 Munich not receiving a license to play in the 3. Liga. 1860 Munich were forced[by whom?] to move to the Regionalliga Bayern, which allowed Paderborn to stay in the third tier.[9]

Having been saved narrowly, Baumgart's team surprisingly[according to whom?] finished second in the 2017–18 season and returned to the 2. Bundesliga. In 2019, a remarkable turn of events,[according to whom?] the newly promoted side[vague] completed another top-two finish, which returned Paderborn to the Bundesliga after years of turbulence.[tone][10] The 2019–20 season, however, ended in the same way their first Bundesliga campaign did, as Paderborn finished last, meaning relegation back to the second tier in June 2020.[11] The following season, Paderborn finished 9th in the 2. Bundesliga, the first time since 2012–13 that the club finished outside the promotion or relegation places.

 
Historical chart of Paderborn league performance

Recent seasons edit

Year Division Tier Position
1985–86 Oberliga Westfalen III 2nd
1986–87 Oberliga Westfalen 6th
1987–88 Oberliga Westfalen 8th
1988–89 Oberliga Westfalen 9th
1989–90 Oberliga Westfalen 2nd
1990–91 Oberliga Westfalen 8th
1991–92 Oberliga Westfalen 5th
1992–93 Oberliga Westfalen 5th
1993–94 Oberliga Westfalen 1st
1994–95 Regionalliga West/Südwest 9th
1995–96 Regionalliga West/Südwest 5th
1996–97 Regionalliga West/Südwest 10th
1997–98 Regionalliga West/Südwest 9th
1998–99 Regionalliga West/Südwest 7th
1999–00 Regionalliga West/Südwest 13th ↓
2000–01 Oberliga Westfalen IV 1st ↑
2001–02 Regionalliga Nord III 14th
2002–03 Regionalliga Nord 8th
2003–04 Regionalliga Nord 3rd
2004–05 Regionalliga Nord 2nd ↑
2005–06 2. Bundesliga II 9th
2006–07 2. Bundesliga 11th
2007–08 2. Bundesliga 17th ↓
2008–09 3. Liga III 3rd ↑
2009–10 2. Bundesliga II 5th
2010–11 2. Bundesliga 12th
2011–12 2. Bundesliga 5th
2012–13 2. Bundesliga 12th
2013–14 2. Bundesliga 2nd ↑
2014–15 Bundesliga I 18th ↓
2015–16 2. Bundesliga II 18th ↓
2016–17 3. Liga III 18th
2017–18 3. Liga 2nd ↑
2018–19 2. Bundesliga II 2nd ↑
2019–20 Bundesliga I 18th ↓
2020–21 2. Bundesliga II 9th
2021–22 2. Bundesliga 7th
2022–23 2. Bundesliga 6th
2023–24 2. Bundesliga

Players edit

Current squad edit

As of 24 January 2024[12]

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   NED Pelle Boevink
4 DF   GER Calvin Brackelmann
6 MF   GER Marco Schuster
7 FW   GER Filip Bilbija
8 MF   GER David Kinsombi
10 FW   NED Koen Kostons
11 FW   GER Sirlord Conteh
12 GK   GER Florian Pruhs
13 MF   GER Robert Leipertz
16 DF   MKD Visar Musliu
17 DF   GER Laurin Curda
19 MF   GER Kimberly Ezekwem (on loan from SC Freiburg)
20 DF   GER Justus Henke
21 GK   GER Jannik Huth (captain)
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 MF   GER Mattes Hansen
23 DF   GER Raphael Obermair
24 DF   GER Jannis Heuer
25 DF   GER Jesse Tugbenyo
26 MF   GER Sebastian Klaas
27 MF   GER Kai Klefisch
29 FW   GER Ilyas Ansah
31 DF   GER Maximilian Rohr
32 DF   GER Aaron Zehnter
33 DF   GER Marcel Hoffmeier
34 DF   GER Dawyn-Paul Donner
35 GK   GER Arne Schulz
36 FW   GER Felix Platte
39 FW   GER Adriano Grimaldi

Out on loan 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
DF   SUI Jasper van der Werff (at Hansa Rostock until 30 June 2024)
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF   GER Niclas Nadj (at SC Verl until 30 June 2024)

SC Paderborn II edit

As of 22 August 2023[13]

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 Jovan Jovic
2 DF   GER Christian Stabenau
3 DF   GER Vincent Gembalies
4 DF   GER Kevin Krumme
5 DF   GER Dawyn-Paul Donner
6 DF   GER Luca Kiefer
7 MF   GER Florian Wendt
8 MF   GER Adrian Bravo Sanchez
9 FW   GER Marlon Lakämper
11 FW   GER Ilyas Ansah
12 GK   GER Arne Schulz
13 FW   GER Rafael Camprobin
14 FW   GER Joel Vega Zambrano
15 MF   GER Martin Ens
No. Pos. Nation Player
16 DF   GER Johannes Dörfler
17 DF   GER Jason Tomety-Hemazro
18 FW   GER Ken Robin Czok
19 FW   FRA Presley Pululu
20 MF   CRO Dominik Bilogrević
22 DF   GER David Stamm
23 DF   GER Tristan Zobel
24 MF   GER Jascha Brandt
25 DF   POL Noah Mrosek
26 MF   GER Felix Mensing
27 MF   GER Medin Kojic
30 GK   GER Nico Willeke
31 MF   GER Ben Klefisch
33 FW   GER Moritz Flotho

Coaching & medical staff edit

Position Name
Manager   Lukas Kwasniok
Assistant coaches   Kacper Szczepanek
  Kazimierz Polański
Goalkeeping coach   Andrzej Andrzejczyk
Athletic coach   Piotr Kowałski
  Krzysztof Jarzyński
Match analyst   Mateusz Bielik
  Maciej Pawłowicz
  Krystian Szczepiński
Doctor   Dr. Tymoteusz Kamiński
  Dr. Janusz Oczipka
Physiotherapist   Sebastian Wawrinka
Medical director physiotherapy   Tomasz Szymański
Lead Academy Physiotherapist   Patryk Białek
Kit Manager   Tadeusz Stepiński
Academy manager   Kamil Lewandowski
  Jarosław Pawłowicz

Coaches edit

References edit

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