SC Paderborn 07

SC Paderborn

Full name	Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V.
Founded	1907 (1907)
Ground	Benteler-Arena
Capacity	15,000
Chairman	Elmar Volkmann
Manager	Steffen Baumgart
League	2. Bundesliga
2017–18	2nd, promoted to 2. Bundesliga
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V., commonly known as simply SC Paderborn 07 (pronounced [ʔɛs t͡seː paːdɐˈbɔʁn nʊl ziːbm̩]) or SC Paderborn, is a German association football club based in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has enjoyed its greatest successes since the turn of the millennium, becoming a fixture in the 2. Bundesliga before finally earning promotion to the Bundesliga in the 2013–14 season. They however suffered a hasty fall from grace, being relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after only a season in the top division, and then again to the 3. Liga the season after.

History

The club was formed out of the 1985 merger of FC Paderborn and TuS Schloß Neuhaus as TuS Paderborn-Neuhaus and took on its current, shorter name in 1997. The Neuhaus club was founded in 1907 as SV 07 Neuhaus which was joined by the local side TuS 1910 Sennelager to become TuS Schloß Neuhaus in 1973. The Paderborn club was founded in 1908 as FC Preußen Paderborn which became VfJ 08 Paderborn in 1920 and was merged with another local side SV 13 Paderborn to become FC Paderborn in 1968. The Neuhaus and Paderborn teams played as tier III sides for most of their histories, as has the unified club. Today Paderborn plays its home matches at the Benteler-Arena.

Historical chart of Paderborn league performance

The club is known for its involvement in a notorious DFB-Pokal contest played against Bundesliga side Hamburger SV on 21 August 2004. Paderborn upset HSV 4–2 and it was revealed in January 2005 that the match referee, Robert Hoyzer, had taken money from Croatian gambling syndicates to fix the match using two wrongly awarded penalties and a questionable red card. It soon developed that the game was only one of a number in which game officials, coaches, and players accepted payment to influence the outcome. The resulting scandal was to become the biggest in German football in more than thirty years, and was a major embarrassment to the country during its preparations to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

A series of steadily improving finishes in the Regionalliga Nord (III) led to Paderborn advancing to second-tier play in 2005. They spent most of the following decade as a lower table side in the 2. Bundesliga before breaking through in their 2013–14 campaign. A 2–1 victory at home over Aalen on 11 May 2014 secured a second-place finish and promotion to the 1. Bundesliga for the first time in the club's history. However the celebration was short-lived as they were immediately relegated from the 2014–15 Bundesliga. Then, after only six wins and 28 points in the 2015–16 season, SC Paderborn were relegated to the 3. Liga, finishing 18th. The club came in on the 18th place for a third season in a row (in three different leagues) when the 2016–17 ended but avoided another drop down in the German football league system because of the relegation from TSV 1860 München from the 2. Bundesliga to the Regionalliga.

The 2017–18 season was successful for the club ending with the promotion to the 2. Bundesliga and 2nd in the league table. Forward Sven Michel scored 19 goals in the entire season as the club's top goalscorer. The stadium had 157,176 spectators in the 19 home games of the season. In the 2017–18 DFB-Pokal, SC Paderborn reached the quarterfinals, losing to champion Bayern Munich.

After Wilfried Finke announced his resignation as chairman, Elmar Volkmann was assigned new chairman in June 2018.^[1]

Recent seasons

Players

Current squad

As of 31 August 2018^[2]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Michael Ratajczak 2 DF Uwe Hünemeier 3 DF Sascha Heil 4 MF Massih Wassey 5 DF Christian Strohdiek 7 FW Marlon Ritter 8 MF Klaus Gjasula 9 FW Julius Düker 11 FW Sven Michel 12 DF Felix Herzenbruch 13 DF Sebastian Schonlau 14 MF Thomas Bertels 16 FW Philippos Selkos 17 GK Leopold Zingerle 18 FW Sergio Gucciardo 19 DF Tobias Schwede

No. Position Player 21 MF Philipp Klement 22 MF Christopher Antwi-Adjei 24 MF Olivér Schindler 25 MF Mohamed Dräger (on loan from SC Freiburg) 27 DF Matthias Stingl 28 GK Till Brinkmann 29 DF Jamilu Collins 30 DF Leon Fesser 31 MF Ben Zolinski 33 DF Lukas Boeder 34 GK Leon Brüggemeier 37 FW Bernard Tekpetey 39 MF Sebastian Vasiliadis FW Tim Mannek

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. Position Player FW Luca Pfeiffer (at VfL Osnabrück until 30 June 2019) MF Ron Schallenberg (at SC Verl until 30 June 2019) FW Phillip Tietz (at Carl Zeiss Jena until 30 June 2019)

Managers

• Günther Rybarczyk (1993–2001)
• Uwe Erkenbrecher (2001–2003)
• Pavel Dochev (2003–2005)
• Jos Luhukay (2005–2006)
• Holger Fach (2007–2008)
• Pavel Dochev (2008–2009)
• André Schubert (2009–2011)
• Roger Schmidt (2011–2012)
• Stephan Schmidt (2012–2013)
• André Breitenreiter (2013–2015)
• Stefan Effenberg (2015–2016)
• René Müller (2016)
• Florian Fulland (2016) (interim)
• Stefan Emmerling (2016–2017)
• Steffen Baumgart (2017–)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to SC Paderborn 07.

• Official website (in German)