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)
	← 2010–11 2012–13 →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

External links

SC Freiburg's Official Site (German)

[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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