2020–21 SC Freiburg season

The 2020–21 season is the 122nd season in the existence of SC Freiburg and the club's 40th consecutive season in the top flight of German football. In addition to the domestic league, SC Freiburg participated in this season's edition of the DFB-Pokal. The season covers the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.

SC Freiburg

2020–21 season
President	Fritz Keller
Manager	Christian Streich
Stadium	Schwarzwald-Stadion
Bundesliga	9th
DFB-Pokal	Second round
Top goalscorer	League: Vincenzo Grifo (7) All: Vincenzo Grifo (7)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
All statistics correct as of 17 January 2021.

Players

Current squad

As of 11 January 2021[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 1 GK  GER Benjamin Uphoff 3 DF  AUT Philipp Lienhart 5 DF  GER Manuel Gulde 7 MF  FRA Jonathan Schmid 9 FW  GER Lucas Höler 8 MF  FRA Baptiste Santamaria 11 FW  BIH Ermedin Demirović 14 MF  NED Guus Til (on loan from Spartak Moscow) 17 DF  GER Lukas Kübler 18 FW  GER Nils Petersen 19 MF  GER Janik Haberer 21 GK  GER Florian Müller (on loan from Mainz 05)

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 MF  HUN Roland Sallai 23 DF  GER Dominique Heintz 26 GK  NED Mark Flekken 27 MF  GER Nicolas Höfler 28 MF  KOR Kwon Chang-hoon 29 MF  KOR Jeong Woo-yeong 30 DF  GER Christian Günter 31 DF  GER Keven Schlotterbeck 32 MF  ITA Vincenzo Grifo 34 MF  GER Lino Tempelmann 36 MF  GER Yannik Keitel 40 GK  GER Niclas Thiede

Players out on loan

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 Nico Schlotterbeck (at Union Berlin until 30 June 2021) — DF  ENG Chima Okoroji (at SC Paderborn 07 until 30 June 2021) — MF  GER Patrick Kammerbauer (at Eintracht Braunschweig until 30 June 2021) — MF  AUS Brandon Borrello (at Fortuna Düsseldorf until 30 June 2021) — MF  GER Florian Kath (at 1. FC Magdeburg until 30 June 2021) — DF  GER Gian-Luca Itter (at Greuther Fürth until 30 June 2021) — MF  ALB Amir Abrashi (at FC Basel until 30 June 2021)

Transfers

In

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
11	FW	Ermedin Demirović	Alavés	€3,700,000	5 August 2020	[2]
1	GK	Benjamin Uphoff	Karlsruher SC	Free		[3]
14	MF	Guus Til	Spartak Moscow	Loan	3 September 2020	[4]
21	GK	Florian Müller	Mainz 05	Loan	15 September 2020	[5]
8	MF	Baptiste Santamaria	Angers	€10,000,000	17 September 2020	[6]

Out

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
15	DF	Pascal Stenzel	VfB Stuttgart	€1,300,000	1 July 2020	[7]
16	MF	Yoric Ravet	Grenoble	Undisclosed		[8]
20	MF	Jérôme Gondorf	Karlsruher SC	Undisclosed
8	MF	Mike Frantz	Hannover 96	Undisclosed	22 July 2020	[9]
36	DF	Chima Okoroji	SC Paderborn	Loan	28 July 2020
4	DF	Nico Schlotterbeck	Union Berlin	Loan	31 July 2020	[10]
1	GK	Alexander Schwolow	Hertha BSC	€8,000,000	4 August 2020	[11]
39	FW	Christoph Daferner	Dynamo Dresden	Undisclosed	7 August 2020	[12]
11	FW	Luca Waldschmidt	Benfica	€15,000,000	14 August 2020	[13]
25	DF	Robin Koch	Leeds United	€13,000,000	29 August 2020	[14]
21	FW	Brandon Borrello	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Loan	1 September 2020	[15]
20	DF	Mohamed Dräger	Olympiacos	€1,000,000	27 September 2020	[16]
13	FW	Marco Terrazzino		Contract termination	5 October 2020	[17]
38	MF	Florian Kath	1. FC Magdeburg	Loan		[18]
46	GK	Constantin Frommann		Contract termination	6 October 2020	[19]
24	DF	Gian-Luca Itter	Greuther Fürth	Loan	11 January 2021	[20]
6	MF	Amir Abrashi	FC Basel	Loan	27 January 2021	[21]

Pre-season and friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

15 August 2020 Friendly	SC Freiburg	1–1	Karlsruher SC	Freiburg, Germany
16:30 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion

22 August 2020 Friendly	Dornbirn	1–8	SC Freiburg	Tschagguns, Austria
14:30 CEST (UTC+2)	5'		Grifo  31', 60' (pen.) Demirović  76', 107' Keitel  97' Lienhart  105' Weißhaupt  118' Petersen  120'	Stadium: Aktivpark Montafon
Note: Match was played in two 60-minute halves.

29 August 2020 Friendly	St. Gallen	3–1	SC Freiburg	St. Gallen, Switzerland
14:30 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Kybunpark

6 September 2020 Friendly	SC Freiburg	4–1	Górnik Zabrze	Freiburg, Germany
16:30 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion

6 September 2020 Friendly	SC Freiburg	1–1	SV Sandhausen	Freiburg, Germany
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion

8 October 2020 Friendly	SC Freiburg	0–3	VfB Stuttgart	Freiburg, Germany
14:00 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Castro  6' (pen.) Coulibaly  62', 83'	Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Bundesliga	19 September 2020	22 May 2021	Matchday 1		20	8	6	6	35	33	+2	040.00
DFB-Pokal	13 September 2020	23 December 2020	First round	Second round	2	1	0	1	2	2	+0	050.00
Total					22	9	6	7	37	35	+2	040.91

Last updated: 6 February 2021

Source: Soccerway

Bundesliga

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
6	Borussia Dortmund	20	10	2	8	39	29	+10	32	Qualification to Europa Conference League play-off round
7	Borussia Mönchengladbach	20	8	8	4	37	31	+6	32
8	SC Freiburg	20	8	6	6	35	33	+2	30
9	Union Berlin	20	7	8	5	34	25	+9	29
10	VfB Stuttgart	20	6	7	7	37	34	+3	25

Updated to match(es) played on 7 February 2021. Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Away goals scored; 8) Play-off.[22]

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
20	8	6	6	35	33	+2	30	5	4	2	24	16	+8	3	2	4	11	17	−6

Last updated: 6 February 2021.
Source: DFB

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
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A
Result	W	D	L	D	D	L	L	L	D	D	W	W	W	W	W	L	D	W	L	W
Position	6	5	12	12	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	11	10	9	8	9	9	9	9	8

Updated to match(es) played on 6 February 2021. Source: DFB
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 7 August 2020.[23]

19 September 2020 1	VfB Stuttgart	2–3	SC Freiburg	Stuttgart
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Didavi  25' Wamangituka  44',  81' Kalajdžić  71'	Report	Petersen  8' Sallai  26' Höler  35' Grifo  48' Kübler  90+6'	Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 7,123 Referee: Benjamin Cortus

27 September 2020 2	SC Freiburg	1–1	VfL Wolfsburg	Freiburg
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Petersen  11'	Report	Paulo Otávio  32' Arnold  34' Brooks  34' Brekalo  42'	Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 3,200 Referee: Sören Storks

3 October 2020 3	Borussia Dortmund	4–0	SC Freiburg	Dortmund
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Haaland  31', 66' Can  47' Hummels  55' Passlack  90+2'	Report	Kwon  57'	Stadium: Signal Iduna Park Attendance: 11,500 Referee: Guido Winkmann

17 October 2020 4	SC Freiburg	1–1	Werder Bremen	Freiburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Lienhart  16' Höfler  27' Santamaria  89' Schmid  90+2'	Report	Füllkrug  25' (pen.) Augustinsson  44' Mbom  51' Sargent  83'	Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Christian Dingert

24 October 2020 5	Union Berlin	1–1	SC Freiburg	Berlin
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Andrich  36' Ingvartsen  39'	Report	Grifo  34' Tempelmann  69' Sallai  77' Lienhart  80' Höfler  88'	Stadium: Stadion An der Alten Försterei Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Robert Schröder

1 November 2020 6	SC Freiburg	2–4	Bayer Leverkusen	Freiburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Höler  3' Kübler  45+1' Heintz  50' Petersen  72'	Report	S. Bender  24' Alario  29', 42' Diaby  60' Amiri  64' Tah  76'	Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Benjamin Cortus

7 November 2020 7	RB Leipzig	3–0	SC Freiburg	Leipzig
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Konaté  26' Orbán  28' Henrichs  62' Sabitzer  70' (pen.) Angeliño  89'	Report	Lienhart  25' Gulde  44' Tempelmann  90+1'	Stadium: Red Bull Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Felix Zwayer

22 November 2020 8	SC Freiburg	1–3	Mainz 05	Freiburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Petersen  63'	Report	Mateta  2', 34', 40' Niakhaté  67'	Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Martin Petersen

28 November 2020 9	FC Augsburg	1–1	SC Freiburg	Augsburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Caligiuri  20' Gumny  24' Uduokhai  67' Vargas  80'	Report	Demirović  7' Grifo  64'	Stadium: WWK Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Robert Schröder

5 December 2020 10	SC Freiburg	2–2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Freiburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Schlotterbeck  25' Lienhart  32' Grifo  49' (pen.)	Report	Embolo  23' Neuhaus  45+1' Pléa  50',  76'	Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Tobias Stieler

12 December 2020 11	SC Freiburg	2–0	Arminia Bielefeld	Freiburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Höler  26' Höfler  66' Grifo  79' (pen.),  80' Jeong  90+2'	Report		Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Harm Osmers

16 December 2020 12	Schalke 04	0–2	SC Freiburg	Gelsenkirchen
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Raman  19' Serdar  83'	Report	Santamaria  36' Sallai  50', 68'	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Sven Jablonski

20 December 2020 13	SC Freiburg	4–1	Hertha BSC	Freiburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Grifo  7' Demirović  59' Gulde  67' Petersen  90+4' (pen.)	Report	Lukebakio  52'	Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Tobias Reichel

2 January 2021 14	1899 Hoffenheim	1–3	SC Freiburg	Sinsheim
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Akpoguma  16' Bebou  58' Vogt  82'	Report	Santamaria  7' Kwon  24' Grifo  34' (pen.) Höfler  36' Kasim  42' (o.g.)	Stadium: Rhein-Neckar-Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Robert Hartmann

9 January 2021 15	SC Freiburg	5–0	1. FC Köln	Freiburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Demirović  18' Höfler  39' Sallai  59' Lienhart  69' Höler  79'	Report		Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Robert Schröder

17 January 2021 16	Bayern Munich	2–1	SC Freiburg	Munich
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Lewandowski  7' Müller  75' Choupo-Moting  90'	Report	Höfler  9' Sallai  46' Petersen  62'	Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Christian Dingert

20 January 2021 17	SC Freiburg	2–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Freiburg
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Sallai  32' Höler  53' Petersen  63' Demirović  65' Gulde  90+1'	Report	Younes  6' Barkok  40' Tuta  65' Schlotterbeck  75' (o.g.) Jović  90+1'	Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Guido Winkmann

23 January 2021 18	SC Freiburg	2–1	VfB Stuttgart	Freiburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Demirović  14' Jeong  37' Keitel  66' Schmid  74'	Report	Wamangituka  7' González 45'	Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Tobias Stieler

31 January 2021 19	VfL Wolfsburg	3–0	SC Freiburg	Wolfsburg
18:00 CET (UTC+1)	Brooks  21' Weghorst  39' Gerhardt  86'	Report		Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Tobias Reichel

6 February 2021 20	SC Freiburg	2–1	Borussia Dortmund	Freiburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Jeong  49' Schmid  52' Haberer  90+4'	Report	Moukoko  76' Bellingham  78' Akanji  90+2'	Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Felix Brych

13 February 2021 21	Werder Bremen	v	SC Freiburg	Bremen
15:30 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Weser-Stadion

DFB-Pokal

13 September 2020 First round	Waldhof Mannheim	1–2	SC Freiburg	Mannheim
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Martinović  56' Ferati  90+4'	Report	Kwon  19' Schmid  79' Günter  90+1'	Stadium: Carl-Benz-Stadion Attendance: 460 Referee: Markus Schmidt

23 December 2020 Second round	VfB Stuttgart	1–0	SC Freiburg	Stuttgart
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Kalajdžić  15' Stenzel  44' Klimowicz  55'	Report	Grifo  44'	Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Felix Brych

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK		Benjamin Uphoff	2	0	0	0	2	0
21	GK		Florian Müller	20	0	20	0	0	0
26	GK		Mark Flekken	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	GK		Niclas Thiede	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
3	DF		Philipp Lienhart	22	3	20	3	2	0
5	DF		Manuel Gulde	16	1	13+3	1	0	0
17	DF		Lukas Kübler	12	0	5+6	0	0+1	0
23	DF		Dominique Heintz	13	0	8+3	0	2	0
30	DF		Christian Günter	22	0	20	0	2	0
31	DF		Keven Schlotterbeck	14	0	12+1	0	1	0
Midfielders
7	MF		Jonathan Schmid	19	2	16+1	1	2	1
8	MF		Baptiste Santamaria	18	1	17	1	1	0
14	MF		Guus Til	3	0	0+3	0	0	0
19	MF		Janik Haberer	5	0	2+3	0	0	0
22	MF		Roland Sallai	17	5	13+3	5	0+1	0
27	MF		Nicolas Höfler	21	1	18+1	1	2	0
28	MF		Kwon Chang-hoon	10	1	1+7	0	1+1	1
29	MF		Jeong Woo-yeong	17	3	4+11	3	2	0
32	MF		Vincenzo Grifo	22	7	18+2	7	2	0
34	MF		Lino Tempelmann	9	0	2+6	0	0+1	0
36	MF		Yannik Keitel	5	0	0+4	0	1	0
39	MF		Carlo Boukhalfa	1	0	0	0	0+1	0
Forwards
9	FW		Lucas Höler	22	2	13+7	2	1+1	0
11	FW		Ermedin Demirović	19	3	10+7	3	0+2	0
18	FW		Nils Petersen	22	7	8+12	7	1+1	0
Players transferred out during the season
6	MF		Amir Abrashi	5	0	0+5	0	0	0
13	FW		Marco Terrazzino	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	DF		Mohamed Dräger	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	DF		Gian-Luca Itter	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	MF		Florian Kath	0	0	0	0	0	0
46	GK		Constantin Frommann	0	0	0	0	0	0

Last updated: 6 February 2021
Source: Competitions

Goalscorers

Rank	Pos	No.	Nat	Name	Bundesliga	DFB-Pokal	Total
1	FW	18		Nils Petersen	7	0	7
	MF	32		Vincenzo Grifo	7	0	7
3	MF	22		Roland Sallai	5	0	5
4	DF	3		Philipp Lienhart	3	0	3
	FW	11		Ermedin Demirović	3	0	3
	MF	29		Jeong Woo-yeong	3	0	3
7	MF	7		Jonathan Schmid	1	1	2
	FW	9		Lucas Höler	2	0	2
9	DF	5		Manuel Gulde	1	0	1
	MF	8		Baptiste Santamaria	1	0	1
	MF	27		Nicolas Höfler	1	0	1
	MF	28		Kwon Chang-hoon	0	1	1
Own goals					1	0	1
Totals					35	2	37

Last updated: 6 February 2021

Notes

References

1. "Kader Profis 2016/17" [Professional squad 2016–17]. scfreiburg.com (in German). Sport-Club Freiburg e.V. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
2. Kleinmann, Patrick (28 July 2020). "Für 3,7 Millionen Euro: Freiburg angelt sich Demirovic". kicker (in German). Retrieved 28 July 2020.
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8. "Yoric Ravet verlässt den SC zum Saisonende" [Yoric Ravet leaves SC at the end of the season]. scfreiburg.com (in German). SC Freiburg. 12 June 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
9. "Frantz will etwas Neues – und wechselt nach Hannover". kicker.de (in German). kicker. 22 July 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
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13. "Jan Vertonghen joins Benfica on three-year deal after leaving Tottenham". BBC Sport. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
14. "Robin Koch joins Premier League side Leeds United". scfreiburg.com. SC Freiburg. 29 August 2020.
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18. "Best of luck in Magdeburg, Katho!". 5 October 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
19. >"SC Freiburg terminate Frommann's contract". 6 October 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
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21. "Amir Abrashi joins FC Basel on loan". SC Freiburg. 27 January 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
22. "Spielordnung (SpOL)" [Match rules] (PDF). DFL.de (in German). Deutsche Fußball Liga. 16 May 2020. p. 3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 June 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
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External links

• Official website