2011–12 SC Freiburg season

SC Freiburg

2011–12 season
Chairman	Fritz Keller
Manager	Marcus Sorg
Stadium	Badenova-Stadion Freiburg, Germany
Bundesliga	12th
DFB-Pokal	First round
Top goalscorer	League: Papiss Cissé (9) All: Papiss Cissé (9)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

The 2011–12 season of SC Freiburg is the club's 14th season in the Bundesliga, the highest division in German football, and the third consecutive season since promotion in 2009. It is the club's first season with Marcus Sorg as manager. The season began on 20 June with their first training session.

Off-season

Beg Ferati from Basel became the first official signing of Freiburg's 2011–12 season upon confirmation on 7 March 2011. Further signings were 1. FC Nürnberg goalkeeper Daniel Batz and forward Garra Dembélé from Levski Sofia. Also Ivica Banović returned from his loan spell at MSV Duisburg, whilst Christian Bickel and Simon Brandstetter joined from the club's own reserve squad.^[1]
Furthermore, Freiburg began the season with a new manager, Marcus Sorg, after the previous manager Robin Dutt moved to Bayer Leverkusen. Sorg had been in charge of the club's reserves team.^[2]

Summer transfers

In: No. Pos. Nation Player 4 DF  SUI Beg Ferati (from Basel) 11 FW  MLI Garra Dembélé (from Levski Sofia) 19 GK  GER Daniel Batz (from 1. FC Nürnberg) 20 DF  GER Andreas Hinkel (from Free Agent) 29 MF  GER Christian Bickel (from Reserves) 33 FW  GER Simon Brandstetter (from Reserves)

Out: No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  FRA Simon Pouplin (to Free agent) 11 FW  FRA Jonathan Jäger (to Free agent) 13 FW  DEN Tommy Bechmann (to SønderjyskE) 14 MF  CRO Zvonko Pamić (to MSV Duisburg) 20 MF  CRO Ivica Banović (to Energie Cottbus) 28 DF  USA Danny Williams (to 1899 Hoffenheim) 31 MF  GER Nicolas Höfler (to Erzgebirge Aue) 58 DF  GER Ömer Toprak (to Bayer Leverkusen)

Mid-season transfers

In: No. Pos. Nation Player 9 FW  CRO Ivan Santini (from Zadar) 13 DF  SEN Diagné Fallou (from Metz) 16 DF  DEN Michael Lumb (from Zenit (on loan)) 25 DF  GER Oliver Sorg (from Reserves) 28 MF  GER Matthias Ginter (from Reserves) 31 MF  SVK Karim Guédé (from Slovan Bratislava) 35 FW  GER Sebastian Freis (from 1.FC Köln) 36 GK  GER Alexander Schwolow (from Reserves) 41 DF  GER Immanuel Höhn (from Reserves)

Out: No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  GER Felix Bastians (to Hertha BSC) 5 DF  GER Heiko Butscher (to Eintracht Frankfurt) 6 MF  MAR Yacine Abdessadki (to Free agent) 9 FW  SEN Papiss Cissé (to Newcastle United) 10 MF  ROU Maximilian Nicu (to 1860 Munich) 21 GK  GER Manuel Salz (to Reserves) 22 FW  JPN Kisho Yano (to Albirex Niigata) 29 MF  GER Christian Bickel (to Jahn Regensburg)

Competitions

Bundesliga

Main article: 2011–12 Bundesliga

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
10	1. FC Nürnberg	34	12	6	16	38	49	−11	42
11	1899 Hoffenheim	34	10	11	13	41	47	−6	41
12	SC Freiburg	34	10	10	14	45	61	−16	40
13	FSV Mainz 05	34	9	12	13	47	51	−4	39
14	FC Augsburg	34	8	14	12	36	49	−13	38

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

Matches

FC Augsburg v SC Freiburg

6 August 2011 1	FC Augsburg	2–2	SC Freiburg	Augsburg
15:30	De Jong  5' Werner  10' Mölders 53' Mölders 81'	Report	Barth  29' Cissé 48' Makiadi 55' Caligiuri  61' Mujdža  85' Flum  90'	Stadium: SGL arena Attendance: 30,403 Referee: Dr. Jochen Drees

SC Freiburg v Mainz 05

13 August 2011 2	SC Freiburg	1–2	Mainz 05	Freiburg
15:30	Cissé 91'	Report	Choupo-Moting  5', 79' Risse 64',  90+3'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 20,600 Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer

Werder Bremen v SC Freiburg

20 August 2011 3	Werder Bremen	5–3	SC Freiburg	Bremen
15:30	Fritz 30' Pizarro 34' Arnautović 65' Schmitz  71' Hunt 87' (pen.) Wesley 90+3'	Summary	Cissé 7', 48' Schuster  60' Flum  64' Reisinger  75', 84' Krmaš  86'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 39,201 Referee: Peter Sippel

SC Freiburg v VfL Wolfsburg

27 August 2011 4	SC Freiburg	3–0	VfL Wolfsburg	Freiburg
15:30	Barth 30' Jendrišek 40' Makiadi 59'	Summary	Russ  58' Cale  88'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Christian Dingert

Bayern Munich v SC Freiburg

10 September 2011 5	Bayern Munich	7–0	SC Freiburg	Munich
15:30	Gómez 8', 52', 55', 72' (pen.) Ribéry 26', 41' Petersen 90'	Summary		Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 69,000 Referee: Tobias Welz

SC Freiburg v VfB Stuttgart

16 September 2011 6	SC Freiburg	1–2	VfB Stuttgart	Freiburg
20:45	Makiadi  12' Barth  30' Jendrišek  77' Cissé 84'	Summary	Kvist  14' Harnik 33', 73' Okazaki  58' Molinaro  68' Cacau  85'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Guido Winkmann

Schalke 04 v SC Freiburg

24 September 2011 7	Schalke 04	4–2	SC Freiburg	Gelsenkirchen
15:30	Farfán 33' Papadopoulos  45' Huntelaar 62' Holtby 67' Raúl 75'	Summary	Cissé 3' Schuster  31' Jendrišek 83'	Stadium: Arena AufSchalke Attendance: 60,545 Referee: Markus Wingenbach

SC Freiburg v Borussia Mönchengladbach

1 October 2011 8	SC Freiburg	1–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Freiburg
15:30	Flum 19',  33' Krmaš  21'	[3]	Marx  66' Bobadilla  89'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Markus Schmidt

SC Freiburg v Hamburger SV

16 October 2011 9	SC Freiburg	1–2	Hamburger SV	Freiburg
15:30	Schuster  24' Cissé 47'	Summary	Son 12' Kačar  21' Petrić  45' Iličević 73' Drobný  90+3'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

1. FC Kaiserslautern v SC Freiburg

22 October 2011 10	1. FC Kaiserslautern	1–0	SC Freiburg	Kaiserslautern
15:30	Shechter 75'	Summary	Krmaš  20' Baumann  77' Hinkel  81' Barth  83'	Stadium: Fritz Walter Stadion Attendance: 40,748 Referee: Robert Hartmann

SC Freiburg v Bayer Leverkusen

28 October 2011 11	SC Freiburg	0–1	Bayer Leverkusen	Freiburg
20:30	Cissé  79'	[4]	Ballack 2'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 22,300 Referee: Marco Fritz

1. FC Nürnberg v SC Freiburg

5 November 2011 12	1. FC Nürnberg	1–2	SC Freiburg	Nuremberg
15:30	Pinola  13' Frantz 32' Wollscheid  54' Esswein  64' Stephan  90+2'	[5]	Rosenthal 34' Hinkel  60' Cissé 90+3' (pen.)	Stadium: Frankenstadion Attendance: 38,026 Referee: Christian Dingert

SC Freiburg v Hertha BSC

19 November 2011 13	SC Freiburg	2–2	Hertha BSC	Freiburg
15:30	Reisinger 61', 90+5' Makiadi  76' Cissé  80'	[6]	Ramos 20' Niemeyer 45+1' Raffael  69' Ottl  80' Ebert  81' Kobiashvili  89' Kraft  90+3'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 21,500 Referee: Markus Wingenbach

1899 Hoffenheim v SC Freiburg

26 November 2011 14	1899 Hoffenheim	1–1	SC Freiburg	Sinsheim
15:30	Firmino 24' Compper  53' Williams  85'	[7]	Putsila  34' Makiadi  70' Schuster  86' Dembélé 90'	Stadium: Rhein-Neckar-Arena Attendance: 28,250 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

SC Freiburg v Hannover 96

3 December 2011 15	SC Freiburg	1–1	Hannover 96	Freiburg
15:30	Cissé 67' Flum  90+3'	[8]	Bastians 44' (o.g.) Rausch  60' Pinto  82'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Dr. Jochen Drees

1. FC Köln v SC Freiburg

10 December 2011 16	1. FC Köln	4–0	SC Freiburg	Cologne
15:30	Clemens 19', 65' Sereno  39' Podolski 61', 73'	[9]	Bastians  37' Schuster  54'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 44,500 Referee: Marco Fritz

SC Freiburg v Borussia Dortmund

17 December 2011 17	SC Freiburg	1–4	Borussia Dortmund	Freiburg
15:30	Rosenthal 34',  40'	[10]	Lewandowski 7', 71',  78' Gündoğan 44' Großkreutz 59'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Günter Perl

SC Freiburg v FC Augsburg

21 January 2012 18	SC Freiburg	1–0	FC Augsburg	Freiburg
15:30	Flum  87' Ginter 88'	[11]	Werner  49' De Jong  67' Verhaegh  90+1'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 19,600 Referee: Florian Meyer

Mainz 05 v SC Freiburg

29 January 2012 19	Mainz 05	3–1	SC Freiburg	Mainz
15:30	Choupo-Moting 3', 17' Polanski 6' Noveski  59' Bungert  69'	[12]	Diagne  4' Ginter  51' Krmaš 68' Schmid  78'	Stadium: Coface Arena Attendance: 30,938 Referee: Markus Schmidt

SC Freiburg v Werder Bremen

5 February 2012 20	SC Freiburg	2–2	Werder Bremen	Freiburg
15:30	Makiadi 32' Schmid 70' Jendrišek  75' Caligiuri  79'	[13]	Pizarro  28', 29' Pizarro 47' Ekici  53'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Dr. Felix Brych

VfL Wolfsburg v SC Freiburg

10 February 2012 21	VfL Wolfsburg	3–2	SC Freiburg	Wolfsburg
20:30	Jiráček 5', 61' Schäfer 14' Dejagah  69' Rodríguez  71'	[14]	Flum 11' Caligiuri 38' Freis  79'	Stadium: Volkswagen-Arena Attendance: 23,057 Referee: Christian Dingert

SC Freiburg v Bayern Munich

18 February 2012 22	SC Freiburg	0–0	Bayern Munich	Freiburg
18:30	Diagne  8' Rosenthal  70'	[15]	Ribéry  51'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Peter Gagelmann

VfB Stuttgart v SC Freiburg

25 February 2012 23	VfB Stuttgart	4–1	SC Freiburg	Stuttgart
15:30	Harnik 12', 82' Okazaki 21' Boulahrouz 62'	[16]	Diagne 27'	Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 46,000 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

SC Freiburg v Schalke 04

3 March 2012 24	SC Freiburg	2–1	Schalke 04	Freiburg
15:30	Freis 18' Caligiuri  63', 66' (pen.) Höhn  86'	[17]	Papadopoulos  34'  87' Jones  60' Pukki 72'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Marco Fritz

Borussia Mönchengladbach v SC Freiburg

10 March 2012 25	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–0	SC Freiburg	Mönchengladbach
15:30	Stranzl  61' Jantschke  90+1'	[18]	Caligiuri  46'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 52,207 Referee: Peter Sippel

Hamburger SV v SC Freiburg

17 March 2012 26	Hamburger SV	1–3	SC Freiburg	Hamburg
15:30	Iličević 75'	[19]	Flum 20' Caligiuri 43' Sorg  49' Makiadi  70' 72' Mujdža  82'	Stadium: Imtech Arena Attendance: 52,414 Referee: Tobias Stieler

SC Freiburg v 1. FC Kaiserslautern

24 March 2012 27	SC Freiburg	2–0	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Freiburg
15:30	Guédé 8' Makiadi 14' Diagne  37' Freis  89'	[20]	Borysiuk  85'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Florian Meyer

Bayer Leverkusen v SC Freiburg

31 March 2012 28	Bayer Leverkusen	0–2	SC Freiburg	Leverkusen
15:30	Kadlec  64'	[21]	Schuster 8' Guédé  28' Caligiuri 60' Freis  77' Reisinger  86'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 28,342 Referee: Robert Hartmann

SC Freiburg v 1. FC Nürnberg

7 April 2012 29	SC Freiburg	2–2	1. FC Nürnberg	Freiburg
15:30	Makiadi  21', 79' Flum  31' Caligiuri 53' Sorg  73'	[22]	Didavi 8' Feulner  13' Pekhart 45+2' Nilsson  52' Maroh  66' Balitsch  79'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer

Hertha BSC v SC Freiburg

10 April 2012 30	Hertha BSC	1–2	SC Freiburg	Berlin
20:00	Lell  72' Hubnik 81' Torun  82' Ebert  89' Kraft  90+2'	[23]	Hubnik 7' (o.g.) Freis 67' Dembélé  80'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 45,778 Referee: Peter Gagelmann

SC Freiburg v 1899 Hoffenheim

15 April 2012 31	SC Freiburg	0–0	1899 Hoffenheim	Freiburg
17:30	Dembélé  10'	[24]	Rudy  56'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 23,500 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

Hannover 96 v SC Freiburg

22 April 2012 32	Hannover 96	0–0	SC Freiburg	Hanover
17:30	Rausch  86'	[25]	Freis  68'	Stadium: AWD-Arena Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Guido Winkmann

SC Freiburg v 1. FC Köln

28 April 2012 33	SC Freiburg	4–1	1. FC Köln	Freiburg
15:30	Mujdža 36' Guédé 54' Caligiuri 84' Freis 90+1'	[26]	Podolski 47' McKenna  76'	Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

Borussia Dortmund v SC Freiburg

5 May 2012 34	Borussia Dortmund	4–0	SC Freiburg	Dortmund
15:30	Błaszczykowski 4', 39' Lewandowski 20', 27'	[27]	Makiadi  32'	Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 80,720 Referee: Peter Sippel

DFB-Pokal

Main article: 2011–12 DFB-Pokal

Freiburg's DFB-Pokal campaign ended up as a disappointment after being eliminated in the first round by third division side Unterhaching.

SpVgg Unterhaching v SC Freiburg

Sun 31 July 2011	SpVgg Unterhaching	3–2	SC Freiburg	Unterhaching
14:30	Sternisko 17' Tunjić 47' (pen.), 87' (pen.)		Makiadi 9' Reisinger 74'	Stadium: Generali Sportpark Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Guido Winkmann

Players

Squad Season 2011–12
No.	Player	Nat.	Birthdate	at SCF since	previous club	BL matches	BL goals	Cup matches	Cup goals
Goalkeepers
1	Oliver Baumann		2 Jun 1990	2000	FC Bad Krozingen	33	0	1	0
19	Daniel Batz		12 Jan 1991	2011	1. FC Nürnberg	1	0	0	0
36	Alexander Schwolow		2 Jun 1992	2008	Wehen Wiesbaden	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	Pavel Krmaš		3 Mar 1980	2007	Teplice	19	1	0	0
4	Beg Ferati		10 Nov 1986	2011	Basel	6	0	1	0
13	Fallou Diagne		14 Aug 1989	2012	Metz	15	1	0	0
15	Oliver Barth		6 Oct 1979	2007	Fortuna Düsseldorf	12	1	1	0
16	Michael Lumb		9 Jan 1988	2012	Zenit	5	0	0	0
20	Andreas Hinkel		26 Mar 1982	2011	Celtic	7	0	0	0
24	Mensur Mujdža		28 Mar 1984	2009	NK Zagreb	14	1	1	0
25	Oliver Sorg		29 May 1990	2006	Singen 04	17	0	0	0
41	Immanuel Höhn		23 Dec 1991	2008	FK Pirmasens	8	0	0	0
Midfielders
7	Cédric Makiadi		23 Feb 1984	2009	MSV Duisburg	33	6	1	1
8	Jan Rosenthal		7 Apr 1986	2010	Hannover 96	18	2	0	0
14	Anton Putsila		19 Jun 1987	2010	Dinamo Minsk	19	0	0	0
17	Jonathan Schmid		26 Jun 1990	2008	Offenburger FV	22	1	0	0
18	Johannes Flum		14 Dec 1987	2008	SC Pfullendorf	30	3	0	0
23	Julian Schuster (captain)		15 Apr 1985	2008	VfB Stuttgart	21	1	1	0
28	Matthias Ginter		19 Jan 1994	2008	SV March	13	1	0	0
31	Karim Guédé		7 Jan 1985	2012	Slovan Bratislava	10	2	0	0
40	Daniel Caligiuri		15 Jan 1988	2005	SV Zimmern	25	6	1	0
Strikers
9	Ivan Santini		21 May 1989	2012	Zadar	10	0	0	0
11	Garra Dembélé		21 Feb 1986	2011	Levski Sofia	16	1	1	0
26	Erik Jendrišek		26 Oct 1986	2011	Schalke 04	19	2	1	0
27	Stefan Reisinger		14 Sep 1981	2009	Greuther Fürth	25	3	1	1
33	Simon Brandstetter		2 May 1990	2009	Stuttgarter Kickers	0	0	0	0
35	Sebastian Freis		23 Apr 1985	2012	1. FC Köln	15	3	0	0
Outgoing Players
21	Manuel Salz		6 Aug 1985	2009	Stuttgarter Kickers	0	0	0	0
3	Felix Bastians		9 May 1988	2009	Young Boys	16	0	1	0
5	Heiko Butscher		28 Jul 1980	2007	Bochum	8	0	1	0
28	Danny Williams		8 Mar 1989	2004	Karlsruher SC	1	0	0	0
6	Yacine Abdessadki		1 Jan 1981	2008	Strasbourg	11	0	0	0
10	Maximilian Nicu		25 Nov 1982	2010	Hertha BSC	4	0	1	0
29	Christian Bickel		27 Jan 1991	2009	Rot-Weiß Erfurt	0	0	1	0
9	Papiss Cissé		3 Jun 1985	2010	Metz	17	9	0	0
22	Kisho Yano		5 Apr 1984	2010	Albirex Niigata	0	0	0	0
Last updated: 6 August 2011

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References

1. "1. Bundesliga: Wechselb rse - alle Transfers der 1. Bundesliga - kicker online". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-07-14.
2. "SC Freiburg | Trainer".
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External links

• SC Freiburg's Official Site (German)