2003–04 SV Werder Bremen season

SV Werder Bremen won its first ever German double, clinching both Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal. Following a club record-breaking league season, Werder won the title six points clear of Bayern Munich, with Aílton hitting 28 goals, the most ever from a Werder Bremen player. The cup victory was clinched following a 3–2 win against Alemannia Aachen, with defensive midfielder Tim Borowski the unexpected hero, hitting Alemannia with a brace. The title successes were Thomas Schaaf's first in his managerial career. Werder, however, lost both Aílton and defensive senior talisman Mladen Krstajić to FC Schalke 04, since both refused to sign new contracts with the club.

Werder Bremen

2003–04 season
Manager	Thomas Schaaf
Bundesliga	1st
Intertoto Cup	Semi-final
DFB-Pokal	Winners
Top goalscorer	Aílton (28)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Players

First-team squad

Squad at end of season[1]

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Andreas Reinke 4 DF  GER Fabian Ernst 5 DF  TUR Ümit Davala[notes 1] (on loan from Inter Milan) 6 MF  GER Frank Baumann 7 DF  CAN Paul Stalteri 8 MF  HUN Krisztián Lisztes 9 FW  GRE Angelos Charisteas 10 MF  FRA Johan Micoud 11 MF  CRO Ivica Banović 15 MF  FIN Pekka Lagerblom 16 GK  GER Pascal Borel

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 FW  CRO Ivan Klasnić[notes 2] 18 FW  GER Markus Daun 19 DF  UKR Viktor Skrypnyk 20 DF  SCG Mladen Krstajić[notes 3] 21 MF  GER Holger Wehlage 23 DF   SUI Ludovic Magnin 24 MF  GER Tim Borowski 25 DF  FRA Valérien Ismaël 27 DF  GER Christian Schulz 32 FW  BRA Ailton 38 FW  PAR Nelson Valdez

Left club during season

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 MF  GER Marco Reich (to Derby County) 34 DF  GER Manuel Friedrich (to Mainz 05)

No. Pos. Nation Player 37 MF  GER Christian Lenze (to VfL Osnabrück)

Werder Bremen II

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 26 MF  GER Simon Rolfes 31 GK  GER Alexander Walke 35 MF  GER Marco Stier 36 MF  GER Stefan Beckert — DF  GER Danny Fütterer

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  BIH Damir Memišević — DF  GER Björn Schierenbeck — MF  GER Aaron Hunt — MF  CAN Maycoll Cañizalez[notes 4] — FW  GER Ahmet Kuru

Youth team

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  GER Jérome Polenz — MF  GER Kevin Schindler

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  GER Norman Theuerkauf — MF  BRA Thiago Rockenbach

Results

Bundesliga

• Hertha Berlin-Werder Bremen 0–3
• 0–1 Aílton  18'
• 0–2 Johan Micoud  21'
• 0–3 Aílton  65'
• Werder Bremen-Mönchengladbach 1–1
• 1–0 Aílton  64'
• 1–1 Joris Van Hout  81'
• Kaiserslautern-Werder Bremen 0–1
• 0–1 Johan Micoud  66'
• Werder Bremen-Schalke 04 4–1
• 1–0 Angelos Charisteas  12'
• 2–0 Tim Borowski  27'
• 3–0 Aílton  35'
• 4–0 Nelson Valdez  81'
• 4–1 Victor Agali  82'
• Borussia Dortmund-Werder Bremen 2–1
• 1–0 Ewerthon  17'
• 1–1 Krisztián Lisztes  41'
• 2–1 Valérien Ismaël  70' (o.g.)
• Werder Bremen-1860 Munich 2–1
• 1–0 Aílton  48'
• 1–1 Markus Schroth  57'
• 2–1 Johan Micoud  66'
• Köln-Werder Bremen 1–4
• 0–1 Johan Micoud  10'
• 0–2 Ivan Klasnić  40'
• 0–3 Paul Stalteri  70'
• 1–3 Matthias Scherz  79'
• 1–4 Angelos Charisteas  90'
• Werder Bremen-Wolfsburg 5–3
• 1–0 Aílton  2'
• 2–0 Aílton  21'
• 2–1 Marino Biliškov  37'
• 3–1 Paul Stalteri  38'
• 3–2 Albert Streit  54'
• 3–3 Miroslav Karhan  55'
• 4–3 Johan Micoud  57'
• 5–3 Ivan Klasnić  58'
• Werder Bremen-Stuttgart 1–3
• 0–1 Imre Szabics  31'
• 0–2 Kevin Kurányi  34'
• 1–2 Angelos Charisteas  59'
• 1–3 Christian Tiffert  90'
• Freiburg-Werder Bremen 2–4
• 0–1 Aílton  14'
• 0–2 Aílton  28'
• 0–3 Johan Micoud  37'
• 1–3 Alexander Iashvili  60'
• 1–4 Ivan Klasnić  65'
• 2–4 Alexander Iashvili  90'
• Werder Bremen-Eintracht Frankfurt 3–1
• 1–0 Aílton  18'
• 2–0 Frank Baumann  25'
• 2–1 Andreas Reinke  66' (o.g.)
• 3–1 Ivan Klasnić  70'
• Hannover-Werder Bremen 1–5
• 0–1 Nelson Valdez  8'
• 0–2 Nelson Valdez  37'
• 0–3 Ivan Klasnić  41'
• 1–3 Mohamadou Idrissou  56'
• 1–4 Ivan Klasnić  79'
• 1–5 Fabian Ernst  88'
• Werder Bremen-Bochum 3–1
• 1–0 Aílton  6'
• 2–0 Aílton  14'
• 3–0 Aílton  50' (pen.)
• 3–1 Frank Fahrenhorst  75'
• Hamburg-Werder Bremen 1–1
• 0–1 Fabian Ernst  27'
• 1–1 Christian Rahn  50'
• Werder Bremen-Bayern Munich 1–1
• 1–0 Aílton  57'
• 1–1 Claudio Pizarro  79'
• Bayer Leverkusen-Werder Bremen 1–3
• 0–1 Aílton  42'
• 0–2 Mladen Krstajić  44'
• 1–2 Jens Nowotny  72'
• 1–3 Krisztián Lisztes  90'
• Werder Bremen-Hansa Rostock 3–0
• 1–0 Aílton  3'
• 2–0 Valérien Ismaël  78'
• 3–0 Krisztián Lisztes  89'
• Werder Bremen-Hertha Berlin 4–0
• 1–0 Aílton  18'
• 2–0 Aílton  30'
• 3–0 Johan Micoud  35'
• 4–0 Nelson Valdez  90'
• Mönchengladbach-Werder Bremen 1–2
• 1–0 Václav Svěrkoš  51'
• 1–1 Ivan Klasnić  54'
• 1–2 Frank Baumann  90'
• Werder Bremen-Kaiserslautern 1–0
• 1–0 Aílton  90' (pen.)
• Schalke 04-Werder Bremen 0–0
• Werder Bremen-Borussia Dortmund 2–0
• 1–0 Valérien Ismaël  56'
• 2–0 Aílton  85'
• 1860 Munich-Werder Bremen 0–2
• 0–1 Ivan Klasnić  37'
• 0–2 Angelos Charisteas  79'
• Werder Bremen-Köln 3–2
• 1–0 Johan Micoud  16'
• 2–0 Aílton  37'
• 3–0 Aílton  43'
• 3–1 Oliver Schröder  59'
• 3–2 Dirk Lottner  71'
• Wolfsburg-Werder Bremen 0–2
• 0–1 Ivan Klasnić  75'
• 0–2 Johan Micoud  86'
• Stuttgart-Werder Bremen 4–4
• 1–0 Marcelo Bordon  3'
• 1–1 Ivan Klasnić  14'
• 2–1 Marcelo Bordon  25'
• 2–2 Ivan Klasnić  35'
• 2–3 Aílton  43'
• 3–3 Marcelo Bordon  50'
• 4–3 Marco Streller  69'
• 4–4 Aílton  70'
• Werder Bremen-Freiburg 1–1
• 0–1 Dennis Kruppke  1'
• 1–1 Aílton  19'
• Eintracht Frankfurt-Werder Bremen 0–1
• 0–1 Valérien Ismaël  80'
• Werder Bremen-Hannover 0–0
• Bochum-Werder Bremen 0–0
• Werder Bremen-Hamburg 6–0
• 1–0 Sergej Barbarez  17' (o.g.)
• 2–0 Valérien Ismaël  23'
• 3–0 Ivan Klasnić  39'
• 4–0 Aílton  48'
• 5–0 Nelson Valdez  80'
• 6–0 Viktor Skrypnyk  84' (pen.)
• Bayern Munich-Werder Bremen 1–3
• 0–1 Ivan Klasnić  19'
• 0–2 Johan Micoud  26'
• 0–3 Aílton  35'
• 1–3 Roy Makaay  56'
• Werder Bremen-Bayer Leverkusen 2–6
• 0–1 França  6'
• 0–2 Daniel Bierofka  12'
• 0–3 França  21'
• 1–3 Mladen Krstajić  50'
• 2–3 Aílton  55'
• 2–4 França  61'
• 2–5 Dimitar Berbatov  65'
• 2–6 Oliver Neuville  81'
• Hansa Rostock-Werder Bremen 3–1
• 1–0 Rade Priča  29'
• 1–1 Mladen Krstajić  37'
• 2–1 Mladen Krstajić  47' (o.g.)
• 3–1 Marcus Lantz  74' (pen.)

Statistics

Topscorers

• Aílton 28
• Ivan Klasnić 13
• Johan Micoud 10
• Nelson Valdez 5

Sources

Results & Fixtures for W Bremen – soccerbase.com

References

1. "FootballSquads - Werder Bremen - 2003/04". www.footballsquads.co.uk.

Notes

1. Davala was born in Mannheim, West Germany (now Germany), but also qualified to represent Turkey internationally and made his international debut for Turkey in 1996.
2. Klasnić was born in Hamburg, West Germany (now Germany), but also qualified to represent Croatia internationally and represented Croatia at U-19 and U-21 level before making his international debut for Croatia in February 2004.
3. Krstajić was born in Zenica, SFR Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina), but was raised in Serbia and Montenegro (now Serbia) and made his international debut for Serbia and Montenegro in 1999.
4. Cañizalez was born in Quezaltepeque, El Salvador, but was raised in Canada and represented Canada at U-17, U-20, and U-23 level before making his international debut for Canada in January 2003.