2012–13 SV Werder Bremen season

Werder Bremen
2012–13 season
Manager	Thomas Schaaf
Stadium	Weserstadion,; Bremen, Bremen
Bundesliga	14th
DFB-Pokal	Round 1
Top goalscorer	League: ; Nils Petersen (11); Aaron Hunt (11); All: ; Nils Petersen (11); Aaron Hunt (11)
	← 2011–12 2013–14 →

The 2012–13 Werder Bremen season was the club's 103rd season in its history. In 2012–13, the club participated in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football; it is the club's 32nd consecutive season in this league, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 1981.

The club also took part in the 2012–13 edition of the DFB-Pokal, where it was knocked out by 3. Liga side Preußen Münster in the first round.^[1]

Review and events

Werder Bremen presented Wiesenhof as its new shirt sponsor on 13 August 2012.^[2] Supporters of the club were outraged over Wiesenhof's sponsorship of the club that several supporters have cancelled their membership in the club.^[2] The conduct of Wiesenhof was reported in a documentary in Germany in 2011 where they have been "accused of treating the poultry in its care cruelly and keeping them in inhumane conditions".^[2]

The club opened its Bundesliga campaign against Borussia Dortmund, the defending champions.^[2] The final score was 2–1 in favour of Borussia Dortmund.^[3]

Matches

Legend

Win Draw Loss Postponed

Friendly matches

Pre-season

Friendlies

11 July 2012 (2012-07-11)	Ostfriesenauswahl	1 – 13	Werder Bremen	Norderney
19:00			Füllkrug Avdić Petersen Hunt Arnautović Junuzović Trinks

	Auswahl Loga/Leer	0 – 11	Werder Bremen
			Petersen Hunt Füllkrug Elia Naldo Arnautović Ekici

17 July 2012 (2012-07-17)	Tirol-Auswahl	–	Werder Bremen	Zell am Ziller
18:00

	Werder Bremen	1 – 1	Energie Cottbus
	Elia		Adlung

25 July 2012 Friendly	Werder Bremen	1 – 0	Aberdeen	Bremen
18:00	Elia 24'	Report		Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 8,500

	SC Paderborn	2 – 1	Werder Bremen
	Yılmaz 35' Bertels 74'		Junuzović 58'

8 August 2012	Winterthur	–	Werder Bremen
19:00

14 August 2012	OB	1 – 2	Werder Bremen	Faaborg
18:00	N'Koum 84'		Bargfrede 29' Trinks 52'	Stadium: Horne Idrætscenter

Liga-total-Cup

4 August 2012 1st Round	Werder Bremen	2–2 (4–2 p)	Bayern Munich	Hamburg
18:35 CEST	Petersen 12' Füllkrug 43'	Report (in German)	Shaqiri 27' Kroos 60'	Stadium: Imtech Arena Attendance: 42,217 Referee: Grudzinski
	Penalties
	Ekici Fritz Schmitz De Bruyne		Mandžukić Kroos Ribéry Schweinsteiger

5 August 2012 (2012-08-05) Final	Borussia Dortmund	3–3 (4–5 p)	Werder Bremen	Hamburg
20:35	Reus 22' Lewandowski 24', 25'		Füllkrug 3' Ekici 5' Hunt 49' (pen.)	Stadium: Imtech Arena Attendance: 39,175 Referee: Felix Zwayer
	Penalties
	Subotić Halstenberg Kehl Owomoyela Perišić Großkreutz		Hunt Fritz Wurtz Junuzović Füllkrug Prödl

Bundesliga

24 August 2012 (2012-08-24) 1	Borussia Dortmund	2–1	Werder Bremen	Dortmund
20:30	Reus 11' Gündoğan 21' Kehl 62' Götze 81'	Report (in German)	Ignjovski 29' Junuzović 59' Gebre Selassie 75'	Stadium: Signal Iduna Park Attendance: 80,645 Referee: Felix Zwayer

1 September 2012 (2012-09-01) 2	Werder Bremen	2–0	Hamburger SV	Bremen
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Hunt 52' (pen.) Petersen 67'	Report (in German)	Tesche 80'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 42,100 Referee: Knut Kircher

15 September 2012 (2012-09-15) 3	Hannover 96	3–2	Werder Bremen	Hannover
15:30	Haggui 3' Huszti 6', 90+2' 90+4' 90+4' Andreasen 10' Schlaudraff 31' Pinto 88'	Report (in German)	Hunt 26' (pen.) Bergfrede 30' Papastathopoulos 55' De Bruyne 74' Junuzović 75'	Stadium: AWD-Arena Attendance: 49,000 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

22 September 2012 (2012-09-22) 4	Werder Bremen	2–2	VfB Stuttgart	Bremen
15:30	de Bruyne 23' Junuzović 34', 40' Bardfrede 84' Sokratis 86' Lukimya-Mulongoti 90+1'	Report (in German)	Harnik 24' 88', 50' Hunt 31' Cacau 81'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 40,172 Referee: Guido Winkmann

26 September 2012 (2012-09-26) 5	SC Freiburg	1–2	Werder Bremen	Freiburg
20:00	Diagne 11' Schmid 36' Caligiuri 67'	Report (in German)	Akpala 48', 64' Junuzović 55' Hunt 59' Arnautović 90+3' Mielitz 90+4'	Stadium: Mage Solar Stadion Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Thomas Kinhöfer

29 September 2012 (2012-09-29) 6	Werder Bremen	0–2	Bayern Munich	Bremen
15:30	Papastathopoulos 14' Arnautović 80'	Report (in German)	Schweinsteiger 38' Luiz Gustavo 40', 81' Mandžukić 83'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 42,100 Referee: Michael Weiner

6 October 2012 (2012-10-06) 7	FC Augsburg	3–1	Werder Bremen	Augsburg
15:30	Werner 2' Hain 32' Bancé 58' Baier 72' Musano 78'	Report (in German)	De Bruyne 19' Schmidtz 34'	Stadium: SGL arena Attendance: 28,133 Referee: Knut Kirchner

20 October 2012 (2012-10-20) 8	Werder Bremen	4–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bremen
18:30	Petersen 37' Arnautović 45' De Bruyne 54' Füllkrug 76' Junuzović 86'	Report (in German)	Nordtveit 59' Jantschke 60'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 42,100 Referee: Günther Perl

27 October 2012 (2012-10-27) 9	Greuther Fürth	1–1	Werder Bremen	Fürth
15:30 CEST	Edu 8' Fürstner 17' Prib 53' Azemi 89'	Report (in German)	Petersen 44' Gebre Selassie 72'	Stadium: Trolli Arena Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Tobias Stieler

4 November 2012 (2012-11-04) 10	Werder Bremen	2–1	Mainz 05	Bremen
17:30	Hunt 10', 85' De Bruyne 68'	Report (in German)	Kirchhoff 21' Zabavník 55' Szalai 64', 74'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 39,114 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

10 November 2012 (2012-11-10) 11	Schalke 04	2–1	Werder Bremen	Gelsenkirchen
15:30	Neustädter 59', 75' Draxler 69'	Report (in German)	Hunt 16', 83'	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 61,673 Referee: Florian Meyer

18 November 2012 (2012-11-18) 12	Werder Bremen	2–1	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Bremen
15:30	Lukimya-Mulongoti 36' 77' Petersen 51' Hunt 78' De Bruyne 82'	Report (in German)	Langeneke 19' (pen.) Ilsø 37' Giefer 74' Lambertz 75'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 42,100 Referee: Peter Sippel

24 November 2012 (2012-11-24) 13	VfL Wolfsburg	1–1	Werder Bremen	Wolfsburg
15:30	Olić 26' Dost 64' Josué 88'	Report (in German)	Arnautović 35', 82' Schmitz 40' 62' De Bruyne 87'	Stadium: Volkswagen-Arena Attendance: 29,723 Referee: Markus Schmidt

28 November 2012 (2012-11-28) 14	Werder Bremen	1–4	Bayer Leverkusen	Bremen
20:00	Ignjovski 48' Petersen 54' Junuzović 64' Fritz 82'	Report (in German)	Castro 31', 52' Carvajal 41' Rolfes 74' Hegeler 79'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 37,231 Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer

2 December 2012 (2012-12-02) 15	1899 Hoffenheim	1–4	Werder Bremen	Sinsheim
15:30	Schipplock 10' Schröck 21' Salihović 43', 50'	Report (in German)	Prödl 9', 21' Arnautović 29', 73', 79'	Stadium: Rhein-Neckar-Arena Attendance: 23,500 Referee: Knut Kircher

8 December 2012 (2012-12-08) 16	Eintracht Frankfurt	4–1	Werder Bremen	Frankfurt
18:30	Aigner 10', 63' Zambrano 20' Inui 40', 90' Rode 41' Meier 47' Schwegler 62'	Report	Prödl 42' Petersen 54' Schmitz 74'	Stadium: Commerzbank-Arena Attendance: 51,500 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

16 December 2012 (2012-12-16) 17	Werder Bremen	1–1	1. FC Nürnberg	Nuremberg
17:30	Arnautović 45' Petersen 88'	Report	Gebhart 50', 82' Chandler 84' Pinola 89' Klose 90'	Stadium: Frankenstadion Attendance: 38,553

19 January 2013 (2013-01-19) 18	Werder Bremen	0–5	Borussia Dortmund	Bremen
		Report	Reus 19' Götze 19' Santana 48' Lewandowski 81' Błaszczykowski 85'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 42,100

27 January 2013 19	Hamburger SV	3–2	Werder Bremen	Hamburg
	Son 23' Aogo 46' Rudņevs 52'	Report	Lukimya-Mulongoti 9' Papastathopoulos 54'	Stadium: Imtech Arena Attendance: 54,758

1 February 2013 20	Werder Bremen	2–0	Hannover 96	Bremen
	Petersen 85', 88'	Report		Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 41,600

9 February 2013 21	VfB Stuttgart	1–4	Werder Bremen	Stuttgart
	Traoré 50'	Report	Ekici 34', 74' Hunt 61' De Bruyne 90+2'	Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 41,200

16 February 2013 22	Werder Bremen	2–3	SC Freiburg	Bremen
	Petersen 39', 64'	Report	Kruse 36' Caligiuri 54' Ginter 71'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 38,498

23 February 2013 23	FC Bayern Munich	6–1	Werder Bremen	Munich
	Robben 25' Martínez 29' Gebre Selassie 49' (o.g.) Gómez 51', 89' Ribéry 86'	Report	De Bruyne 58'	Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 71,000

2 March 2013 24	Werder Bremen	0–1	FC Augsburg	Bremen
		Report	Werner 29'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 39,211

9 March 2013 25	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–1	Werder Bremen	Mönchengladbach
	Mlapa 72'	Report	Ignjovski 77'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 54,010

16 March 2013 26	Werder Bremen	2–2	Greuther Fürth	Bremen
	Hunt 47', 70'	Report	Fürstner 55' Petsos 62'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 39,789

30 March 2013 27	Mainz 05	1–1	Werder Bremen	Mainz
	Szalai 1'	Report	Hunt 69'	Stadium: Coface Arena Attendance: 33,374

6 April 2013 28	Werder Bremen	0–2	Schalke 04	Bremen
		Report	Draxler 51' Marica 69'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 42,100

13 April 2013 29	Fortuna Düsseldorf	2–2	Werder Bremen	Düsseldorf
	Reisinger 7', 48'	Report	Junuzović 16' Latka 70' (o.g.)	Stadium: Esprit Arena Attendance: 54,000

20 April 2013 30	Werder Bremen	0–3	VfL Wolfsburg	Bremen
		Report	Arnold 13' Olić 27' Diego 66'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 41,000

27 April 2013 31	Bayer Leverkusen	1–0	Werder Bremen	Leverkusen
	Kießling 35'	Report		Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 30,210

4 May 2013 32	Werder Bremen	2–2	1899 Hoffenheim	Bremen
	Hunt 2' De Bruyne 24'	Report	Schipplock 85', 90'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 41,000

11 May 2013 33	Werder Bremen	1–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bremen
	De Bruyne 22'	Report	Lakić 51'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 42,100

18 May 2013 34	1. FC Nürnberg	3–2	Werder Bremen	Nuremberg
	Nilsson 61' Polter 81' Pekhart 88'	Report	De Bruyne 37', 89'	Stadium: Stadion Nürnberg Attendance: 46,157

DFB-Pokal

19 August 2012 (2012-08-19) 1st Round	Preußen Münster	4–2 (a.e.t.)	Werder Bremen	Münster
16:00	Taylor 54', 81', 118' Nazarov 96'	Report	Elia 45' Füllkrug 67'	Stadium: Preußenstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Peter Sippel

Squad

Squad and statistics

Sources:^[4] As of 31 June 2013^[update]

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	GER	Sebastian Mielitz	35	0	34	0	1	0
20	GK	GER	Raphael Wolf	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	GK	AUT	Richard Strebinger	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	GK	GER	Christian Vander	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	DF	SUI	François Affolter	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	DF	COD	Assani Lukimya-Mulongoti	22	1	17+5	1	0	0
13	DF	GER	Lukas Schmitz	23	0	20+3	0	0	0
15	DF	AUT	Sebastian Prödl	29	1	23+5	1	1	0
22	DF	GRE	Sokratis Papastathopoulos	30	1	29	1	1	0
23	DF	CZE	Theodor Gebre Selassie	28	1	24+3	1	1	0
26	DF	GER	Florian Hartherz	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	DF	GER	Cimo Röcker	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	MF	BEL	Kevin De Bruyne	34	10	33	10	1	0
8	MF	GER	Clemens Fritz	23	0	18+4	0	1	0
10	MF	TUR	Mehmet Ekici	9	2	6+3	2	0	0
14	MF	GER	Aaron Hunt	29	11	26+2	11	1	0
16	MF	AUT	Zlatko Junuzović	30	3	28+2	3	0	0
17	MF	SRB	Aleksandar Ignjovski	21	1	17+3	1	1	0
18	MF	GER	Felix Kroos	5	0	5	0	0	0
25	MF	GER	Tom Trybull	4	0	4	0	0	0
28	MF	GER	Levent Ayçiçek	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	MF	SRB	Predrag Stevanović	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	MF	GER	Özkan Yıldırım	8	0	3+5	0	0	0
34	MF	GER	Aleksandar Stevanović	2	0	0+2	0	0	0
44	MF	GER	Philipp Bargfrede	14	0	7+6	0	0+1	0
7	FW	AUT	Marko Arnautović	27	5	21+5	5	0+1	0
11	FW	NED	Eljero Elia	25	1	22+2	0	1	1
19	FW	NGA	Joseph Akpala	21	1	3+18	1	0	0
24	FW	GER	Nils Petersen	35	11	30+4	11	1	0
27	FW	GER	Johannes Wurtz	2	0	0+2	0	0	0
41	FW	GER	Niclas Füllkrug	13	1	1+11	1	0+1	0