# 2023–24 FC Augsburg season

The 2023–24 season was FC Augsburg's 117th season in existence and 13th consecutive season in the Bundesliga. They also competed in the DFB-Pokal.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 1 February 2024
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 | Finn Dahmen |
| 2 | DF | POL | Robert Gumny |
| 3 | DF | DEN | Mads Valentin |
| 4 | MF | ENG | Reece Oxford |
| 5 | DF | GHA | Patric Pfeiffer |
| 6 | DF | NED | Jeffrey Gouweleeuw (captain) |
| 7 | FW | CRO | Dion Drena Beljo |
| 8 | MF | KOS | Elvis Rexhbeçaj |
| 9 | FW | BIH | Ermedin Demirović |
| 10 | MF | GER | Arne Maier |
| 11 | MF | ESP | Pep Biel (on loan from Olympiacos) |
| 16 | MF | SUI | Ruben Vargas |
| 17 | MF | CRO | Kristijan Jakić (on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt) |
| 18 | MF | GER | Tim Breithaupt |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | DF | GER | Felix Uduokhai |
| 20 | FW | GER | Sven Michel |
| 21 | FW | GER | Phillip Tietz |
| 22 | DF | BRA | Iago |
| 23 | DF | GER | Maximilian Bauer |
| 24 | MF | FIN | Fredrik Jensen |
| 27 | MF | BEL | Arne Engels |
| 30 | MF | GER | Niklas Dorsch |
| 32 | DF | GER | Raphael Framberger |
| 33 | GK | POL | Marcel Łubik |
| 36 | MF | GER | Mert Kömür |
| 40 | GK | CZE | Tomáš Koubek |
| 43 | DF | SUI | Kevin Mbabu (on loan from Fulham) |

### 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 |
| — | FW | FRA | Irvin Cardona (at AS Saint-Étienne until 30 June 2024) |
| — | DF | CRO | David Čolina (at Vejle BK until 30 June 2024) |
| — | GK | GER | Daniel Klein (at SV Sandhausen until 30 June 2024) |
| — | MF | GER | Henri Koudossou (at ADO Den Haag until 30 June 2024) |
| — | FW | GER | Lasse Günther (at SV Wehen Wiesbaden until 30 June 2024) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | FW | FRA | Nathanaël Mbuku (at AS Saint-Étienne until 30 June 2024) |
| — | MF | JPN | Masaya Okugawa (at Hamburger SV until 30 June 2024) |
| — | FW | GER | Lukas Petkov (at Greuther Fürth until 30 June 2024) |
| — | DF | DEN | Frederik Winther (at Estoril until 30 June 2024) |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| MF | Tim Breithaupt | Karlsruher SC | €2,500,000 | 1 July 2023 |
| GK | Finn Dahmen | Mainz 05 | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| FW | Sven Michel | Union Berlin | €950,000 | 1 July 2023 |
| DF | Patric Pfeiffer | Darmstadt 98 | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| FW | Mërgim Berisha | Fenerbahçe | €4,000,000 | 2 July 2023 |
| MF | Masaya Okugawa | Arminia Bielefeld | Free | 5 July 2023 |
| FW | Phillip Tietz | Darmstadt 98 | €2,200,000 | 12 July 2023 |
| DF | Kevin Mbabu | Fulham | Loan | 1 September 2023 |
| DF | Japhet Tanganga | Tottenham Hotspur | Loan | 1 September 2023 |
| MF | Kristijan Jakić | Eintracht Frankfurt | Loan | 19 January 2024 |
| MF | Pep Biel | Olympiacos | Loan | 1 February 2024 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| MF | Daniel Caligiuri | | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| GK | Rafał Gikiewicz | Ankaragücü | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| MF | Felix Götze | Rot-Weiss Essen | €100,000 | 1 July 2023 |
| FW | André Hahn | | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| GK | Daniel Klein | SV Sandhausen | Loan | 1 July 2023 |
| GK | Benjamin Leneis | FSV Zwickau | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| DF | Tobias Strobl | Retired | Retired | 1 July 2023 |
| MF | Tim Civeja | 1. FC Saarbrücken | Undisclosed | 4 July 2023 |
| FW | Ricardo Pepi | PSV | €11,000,000 | 7 July 2023 |
| MF | Henri Koudossou | ADO Den Haag | Loan | 18 July 2023 |
| MF | Julian Baumgartlinger | Retired | Retired | 24 July 2023 |
| FW | Lasse Günther | Wehen Wiesbaden | Loan | 25 July 2023 |
| FW | Maurice Malone | Basel | €2,000,000 | 11 August 2023 |
| FW | Mërgim Berisha | 1899 Hoffenheim | €14,000,000 | 30 August 2023 |
| FW | Noah Sarenren Bazee | Arminia Bielefeld | Undisclosed | 31 August 2023 |
| DF | Jozo Stanić | St. Gallen | Undisclosed | 2 September 2023 |
| FW | Irvin Cardona | AS Saint-Étienne | Loan | 3 January 2024 |
| DF | Aaron Zehnter | SC Paderborn | Undisclosed | 5 January 2024 |
| MF | Masaya Okugawa | Hamburger SV | Loan | 14 January 2024 |
| FW | Nathanaël Mbuku | AS Saint-Étienne | Loan | 21 January 2024 |
| DF | David Čolina | Vejle BK | Loan | 24 January 2024 |
| DF | Frederik Winther | Estoril | Loan | 29 January 2024 |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Bundesliga | 19 August 2023 | 18 May 2024 | Matchday 1 | 11th | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 50 | 60 | −10 | 029.41 |
| DFB-Pokal | 13 August 2023 | 13 August 2023 | First round | First round | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 35 | 10 | 9 | 16 | 50 | 62 | −12 | 028.57 |
Source: Soccerway

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 9 | Werder Bremen | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 48 | 54 | −6 | 42 |
| 10 | SC Freiburg | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 45 | 58 | −13 | 42 |
| 11 | FC Augsburg | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 50 | 60 | −10 | 39 |
| 12 | VfL Wolfsburg | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 41 | 56 | −15 | 37 |
| 13 | Mainz 05 | 34 | 7 | 14 | 13 | 39 | 51 | −12 | 35 |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
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 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | D | L | D | L | W | L | L | W | W | D | D | D | W | L | D | L | L | W | L | D | D | L | W | W | W | W | D | L | W | L | L | L | L | L |
| Position | 9 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were unveiled on 30 June 2023.

### DFB-Pokal
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Bundesliga | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||
| 1 | GK | GER | Finn Dahmen | 25 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 33 | GK | POL | Marcel Łubik | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | GK | CZE | Tomáš Koubek | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 2 | DF | POL | Robert Gumny | 13 | 0 | 6+7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | DEN | Mads Valentin | 20 | 1 | 13+6 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | GHA | Patric Pfeiffer | 7 | 0 | 4+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | NED | Jeffrey Gouweleeuw | 20 | 0 | 19+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | GER | Felix Uduokhai | 23 | 2 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | BRA | Iago | 18 | 1 | 13+5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | GER | Maximilian Bauer | 10 | 1 | 6+4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | DF | GER | Raphael Framberger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | DF | SUI | Kevin Mbabu | 18 | 0 | 15+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 4 | MF | ENG | Reece Oxford | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | KOS | Elvis Rexhbeçaj | 24 | 2 | 23 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | GER | Arne Maier | 13 | 0 | 1+11 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | ESP | Pep Biel | 4 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | SUI | Ruben Vargas | 22 | 2 | 15+6 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | CRO | Kristijan Jakić | 7 | 0 | 6+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | GER | Tim Breithaupt | 11 | 0 | 2+8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | FIN | Fredrik Jensen | 19 | 2 | 15+4 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | BEL | Arne Engels | 23 | 3 | 9+13 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | GER | Niklas Dorsch | 18 | 0 | 14+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 36 | MF | GER | Mert Kömür | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 7 | FW | CRO | Dion Beljo | 19 | 2 | 3+15 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | BIH | Ermedin Demirović | 25 | 14 | 24 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | GER | Sven Michel | 16 | 1 | 5+10 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | FW | GER | Phillip Tietz | 25 | 7 | 21+3 | 7 | 0+1 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||
| 11 | FW | GER | Mërgim Berisha | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | JPN | Masaya Okugawa | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | CRO | Jozo Stanić | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | GER | Noah Sarenren Bazee | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | DEN | Frederik Winther | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 34 | FW | FRA | Nathanaël Mbuku | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | DF | CRO | David Čolina | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 39 | DF | ENG | Japhet Tanganga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 42 | DF | GER | Aaron Zehnter | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 48 | FW | FRA | Irvin Cardona | 3 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 2 March 2024 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

    As of 2 March 2024
| Rank | Pos. | No. | Nat. | Player | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | Total |
| 1 | FW | 9 | | Ermedin Demirović | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| 2 | FW | 21 | | Phillip Tietz | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 3 | MF | 27 | | Arne Engels | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | FW | 7 | | Dion Drena Beljo | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | MF | 8 | | Elvis Rexhbeçaj | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | DF | 19 | | Felix Uduokhai | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | MF | 16 | | Ruben Vargas | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | MF | 24 | | Fredrik Jensen | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | DF | 3 | | Mads Valentin | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | 20 | | Sven Michel | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | DF | 23 | | Maximilian Bauer | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | DF | 22 | | Iago | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 39 | 0 | 39 |