# 2023–24 VfL Bochum season

The 2023–24 season was VfL Bochum's 86th season in existence and third consecutive season in the Bundesliga. They also competed in the DFB-Pokal.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 31 January 2024
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | GER | Manuel Riemann |
| 2 | DF | CRC | Cristian Gamboa |
| 3 | DF | BRA | Danilo Soares |
| 4 | DF | SRB | Erhan Mašović |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Bernardo |
| 6 | MF | GER | Patrick Osterhage |
| 7 | MF | AUT | Kevin Stöger |
| 8 | MF | FRA | Anthony Losilla (captain) |
| 9 | FW | POR | Gonçalo Paciência (on loan from Celta Vigo) |
| 10 | MF | GER | Philipp Förster |
| 11 | FW | JPN | Takuma Asano |
| 13 | MF | GER | Lukas Daschner |
| 14 | DF | GER | Tim Oermann |
| 15 | DF | GER | Felix Passlack |
| 16 | GK | GER | Andreas Luthe |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | MF | MKD | Agon Elezi |
| 19 | MF | SVK | Matúš Bero |
| 20 | DF | UKR | Ivan Ordets (on loan from Dynamo Moscow) |
| 21 | GK | GER | Michael Esser |
| 22 | FW | GHA | Christopher Antwi-Adjei |
| 23 | GK | GER | Niclas Thiede |
| 25 | DF | EGY | Mohammed Tolba |
| 27 | MF | GER | Moritz Kwarteng |
| 29 | FW | GER | Moritz Broschinski |
| 30 | DF | GER | Moritz Römling |
| 31 | DF | GER | Keven Schlotterbeck (on loan from SC Freiburg) |
| 32 | DF | GER | Maximilian Wittek |
| 33 | FW | GER | Philipp Hofmann |
| 41 | DF | SUI | Noah Loosli |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | GER | Paul Grave (at Wuppertaler SV until 30 June 2024) |
| — | FW | PHI | Gerrit Holtmann (at Darmstadt 98 until 30 June 2024) |
| — | DF | GHA | Jordi Osei-Tutu (at PAS Giannina until 30 June 2024) |
| — | MF | GER | Mats Pannewig (at SC Wiedenbrück until 30 June 2024) |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| MF | Matúš Bero | Vitesse | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| MF | Lukas Daschner | FC St. Pauli | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| MF | Moritz Kwarteng | 1. FC Magdeburg | €1,100,000 | 1 July 2023 |
| DF | Noah Loosli | Grasshoppers | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| MF | Felix Passlack | Borussia Dortmund | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| GK | Niclas Thiede | SC Verl | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| DF | Bernardo | RB Salzburg | €400,000 | 2 August 2023 |
| DF | Maximilian Wittek | Vitesse | Undisclosed | 14 August 2023 |
| DF | Keven Schlotterbeck | SC Freiburg | Loan | 22 August 2023 |
| FW | Gonçalo Paciência | Celta Vigo | Loan | 1 September 2023 |
| GK | Andreas Luthe | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | Undisclosed | 29 January 2024 |
| MF | Agon Elezi | NK Varaždin | Undisclosed | 30 January 2024 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| FW | Silvère Ganvoula | BSC Young Boys | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| GK | Paul Grave | Wuppertaler SV | Loan | 1 July 2023 |
| DF | Jannes Horn | 1. FC Nürnberg | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| DF | Vasilios Lampropoulos | | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| DF | Kostas Stafylidis | | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| FW | Gerrit Holtmann | Antalyaspor | Loan | 5 August 2023 |
| MF | Jacek Góralski | | Free | 10 August 2023 |
| FW | Luis Hartwig | K.V. Oostende | Undisclosed | 1 September 2023 |
| FW | Simon Zoller | FC St. Pauli | Undisclosed | 1 September 2023 |
| FW | Lys Mousset | | Free | 9 January 2024 |
| FW | Gerrit Holtmann | Darmstadt 98 | Loan | 21 January 2024 |
| DF | Jordi Osei-Tutu | PAS Giannina | Loan | 22 January 2024 |
| MF | Mats Pannewig | SC Wiedenbrück | Loan | 31 January 2024 |

### New contracts

| Position | Player | Until | Ref. |
| GK | Paul Grave | June 2025 | |

## 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 | 16th | 34 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 42 | 74 | −32 | 020.59 |
| Bundesliga relegation play-offs | 23 May 2024 | 27 May 2024 | First leg | Winners | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | +0 | 050.00 |
| DFB-Pokal | 12 August 2023 | 12 August 2023 | First round | First round | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | +0 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 37 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 47 | 79 | −32 | 021.62 |
Source: Soccerway

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 14 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 34 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 56 | 67 | −11 | 34 | |
| 15 | Union Berlin | 34 | 9 | 6 | 19 | 33 | 58 | −25 | 33 | |
| 16 | VfL Bochum (O) | 34 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 42 | 74 | −32 | 33 | Qualification for the relegation play-offs |
| 17 | 1. FC Köln (R) | 34 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 28 | 60 | −32 | 27 | Relegation to 2. Bundesliga |
| 18 | Darmstadt 98 (R) | 34 | 3 | 8 | 23 | 30 | 86 | −56 | 17 | Relegation to 2. Bundesliga |

#### 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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | D | D | D | L | L | D | L | D | W | D | D | W | L | W | L | D | W | L | D | D | W | L | L | L | L | D | L | D | L | W | W | L | L |
| Position | 18 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 16 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were unveiled on 30 June 2023.

#### Relegation play-offs
### 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 | Manuel Riemann | 24 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | GK | GER | Andreas Luthe | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | GK | GER | Michael Esser | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | GK | GER | Niclas Thiede | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 2 | DF | CRC | Cristian Gamboa | 18 | 0 | 12+5 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | BRA | Danilo Soares | 5 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | SRB | Erhan Mašović | 21 | 0 | 18+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Bernardo | 24 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | GER | Tim Oermann | 11 | 0 | 6+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | GER | Felix Passlack | 8 | 0 | 6+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | UKR | Ivan Ordets | 17 | 0 | 15+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | EGY | Mohammed Tolba | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | GER | Keven Schlotterbeck | 17 | 3 | 14+3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | DF | GER | Maximilian Wittek | 13 | 1 | 9+4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | DF | SUI | Noah Loosli | 10 | 0 | 2+8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 6 | MF | GER | Patrick Osterhage | 17 | 2 | 13+3 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | AUT | Kevin Stöger | 23 | 5 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | FRA | Anthony Losilla | 23 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | GER | Philipp Förster | 11 | 0 | 2+9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | JPN | Takuma Asano | 21 | 7 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | MF | GER | Lukas Daschner | 13 | 1 | 2+10 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | SVK | Matúš Bero | 17 | 1 | 15+1 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | GER | Moritz Kwarteng | 11 | 0 | 2+9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | MF | MKD | Agon Elezi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 9 | FW | POR | Gonçalo Paciência | 16 | 3 | 7+9 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | FW | GHA | Christopher Antwi-Adjei | 21 | 1 | 10+10 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | FW | GER | Moritz Broschinski | 18 | 2 | 8+9 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 33 | FW | GER | Philipp Hofmann | 20 | 1 | 10+9 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||
| 9 | FW | GER | Simon Zoller | 2 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 1 |
| 18 | DF | GHA | Jordi Osei-Tutu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | GER | Mats Pannewig | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 2 March 2024 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

    As of 3 March 2024
| Rank | No. | Pos. | Nat. | Player | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | Total |
| 1 | 11 | MF | | Takuma Asano | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | 7 | MF | | Kevin Stöger | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | 9 | FW | | Gonçalo Paciência | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | 31 | DF | | Keven Schlotterbeck | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | 6 | MF | | Patrick Osterhage | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 29 | FW | | Moritz Broschinski | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | 8 | MF | | Anthony Losilla | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 9 | FW | | Simon Zoller | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | 8 | MF | | Lukas Daschner | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 5 | DF | | Bernardo | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 22 | FW | | Christopher Antwi-Adjei | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 19 | MF | | Matúš Bero | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 33 | FW | | Philipp Hofmann | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 32 | DF | | Maximilian Wittek | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 29 | 2 | 31 |