# 2021–22 SC Freiburg season

The 2021–22 season was the 123rd season in the existence of SC Freiburg and the club's sixth consecutive season in the top flight of German football. In addition to the domestic league, SC Freiburg participated in this season's edition of the DFB-Pokal.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 1 January 2022.
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 | Benjamin Uphoff |
| 2 | DF | BEL | Hugo Siquet |
| 3 | DF | AUT | Philipp Lienhart |
| 4 | DF | GER | Nico Schlotterbeck |
| 5 | DF | GER | Manuel Gulde |
| 7 | DF | FRA | Jonathan Schmid |
| 8 | MF | GER | Maximilian Eggestein |
| 9 | FW | GER | Lucas Höler |
| 11 | FW | BIH | Ermedin Demirović |
| 14 | MF | GER | Yannik Keitel |
| 17 | DF | GER | Lukas Kübler |
| 18 | FW | GER | Nils Petersen (vice-captain) |
| 19 | MF | GER | Janik Haberer |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | FW | GER | Kevin Schade |
| 21 | GK | GER | Noah Atubolu |
| 22 | MF | HUN | Roland Sallai |
| 24 | DF | GER | Kimberly Ezekwem |
| 25 | DF | FRA | Kiliann Sildillia |
| 26 | GK | NED | Mark Flekken |
| 27 | MF | GER | Nicolas Höfler |
| 29 | FW | KOR | Jeong Woo-yeong |
| 30 | DF | GER | Christian Günter (captain) |
| 31 | DF | GER | Keven Schlotterbeck |
| 32 | MF | ITA | Vincenzo Grifo (3rd captain) |
| 33 | MF | GER | Noah Weißhaupt |
| 45 | FW | SUI | Nishan Burkart |

### 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 |
| — | GK | GER | Niclas Thiede (at SC Verl until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | GER | Luca Itter (at Greuther Fürth until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | GER | Lino Tempelmann (at 1. FC Nürnberg until 30 June 2022) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | GER | Carlo Boukhalfa (at Jahn Regensburg until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | GER | Marvin Pieringer (at Schalke 04 until 30 June 2022) |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date | Source |
| MF | Maximilian Eggestein | Werder Bremen | €5,000,000 | 18 August 2021 | |
| DF | Hugo Siquet | Standard Liège | €4,500,000 | 1 January 2022 | |

### Out

| Pos | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| FW | Kwon Chang-hoon | Suwon Samsung Bluewings | Free | 22 May 2021 |
| GK | Florian Muller | Mainz 05 | Loan Return | 22 May 2021 |
| MF | Guus Til | Spartak Moscow | Loan Return | 22 May 2021 |
| MF | Lino Tempelmann | 1. FC Nürnberg | Loan | 1 June 2021 |
| GK | Niclas Thiede | SC Verl | Loan | 1 June 2021 |
| MF | Amir Abrashi | Grasshopper | Free | 23 June 2021 |
| MF | Florian Kath | 1. FC Magdeburg | Free | 24 June 2021 |
| MF | Brandon Borrello | Dynamo Dresden | Undisclosed | 3 July 2021 |
| MF | Baptiste Santamaria | Rennes | €14,000,000 | 17 August 2021 |
| DF | Dominique Heintz | Union Berlin | Undisclosed | 1 January 2022 |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## 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 | 14 August 2021 | 14 May 2022 | Matchday 1 | 6th | 34 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 58 | 46 | +12 | 044.12 |
| DFB-Pokal | 8 August 2021 | 21 May 2022 | First round | Runners-up | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | +7 | 066.67 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 40 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 71 | 52 | +19 | 047.50 |
Source: Soccerway

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 4 | RB Leipzig | 34 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 72 | 37 | +35 | 58 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 5 | Union Berlin | 34 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 50 | 44 | +6 | 57 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 6 | SC Freiburg | 34 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 58 | 46 | +12 | 55 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 7 | 1. FC Köln | 34 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 52 | 49 | +3 | 52 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League play-off round |
| 8 | Mainz 05 | 34 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 50 | 45 | +5 | 46 | |
* 1 2 Since the 2021–22 DFB-Pokal winners, RB Leipzig, qualified for the Champions League based on league position, the Europa League group stage spot was passed to the sixth-placed team, and the Europa Conference League play-off round spot was passed to the seventh-placed team.

#### 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A |
| Result | D | W | W | D | D | W | W | D | W | W | L | L | L | W | L | D | W | D | L | W | L | D | W | W | D | W | D | L | W | W | D | W | L | L |
| Position | 11 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 25 June 2021.

### 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 | Benjamin Uphoff | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | GK | GER | Noah Atubolu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | GK | NED | Mark Flekken | 37 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 2 | DF | BEL | Hugo Siquet | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | AUT | Philipp Lienhart | 38 | 5 | 32 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | GER | Nico Schlotterbeck | 38 | 4 | 32 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | GER | Manuel Gulde | 25 | 0 | 14+6 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 |
| 7 | DF | FRA | Jonathan Schmid | 16 | 1 | 6+7 | 0 | 2+1 | 1 |
| 17 | DF | GER | Lukas Kübler | 33 | 2 | 27+2 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | GER | Kimberly Ezekwem | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | FRA | Kiliann Sildillia | 9 | 0 | 1+6 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 30 | DF | GER | Christian Günter | 40 | 2 | 34 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | GER | Keven Schlotterbeck | 14 | 1 | 3+9 | 0 | 1+1 | 1 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 8 | MF | GER | Maximilian Eggestein | 36 | 2 | 26+5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 14 | MF | GER | Yannik Keitel | 14 | 0 | 5+7 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | GER | Janik Haberer | 30 | 3 | 7+19 | 3 | 1+3 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | HUN | Roland Sallai | 36 | 5 | 18+13 | 4 | 2+3 | 1 |
| 27 | MF | GER | Nicolas Höfler | 35 | 3 | 30 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 32 | MF | ITA | Vincenzo Grifo | 40 | 13 | 33+1 | 9 | 6 | 4 |
| 33 | MF | GER | Noah Weisshaupt | 13 | 0 | 0+10 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 9 | FW | GER | Lucas Höler | 40 | 7 | 30+4 | 7 | 4+2 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | BIH | Ermedin Demirović | 37 | 3 | 9+22 | 2 | 2+4 | 1 |
| 18 | FW | GER | Nils Petersen | 26 | 7 | 3+19 | 5 | 2+2 | 2 |
| 20 | FW | GER | Kevin Schade | 24 | 5 | 7+14 | 4 | 2+1 | 1 |
| 29 | FW | KOR | Jeong Woo-yeong | 37 | 5 | 23+9 | 5 | 3+2 | 0 |
| 45 | FW | SUI | Nishan Burkart | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 48 | FW | NED | Vincent Vermeij | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||
| 8 | MF | FRA | Baptiste Santamaria | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | GER | Dominique Heintz | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 21 May 2022 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

| Rank | Pos | No. | Nat | Name | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | Total |
| 1 | MF | 32 | | Vincenzo Grifo | 9 | 4 | 13 |
| 2 | FW | 9 | | Lucas Höler | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2 | FW | 18 | | Nils Petersen | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | DF | 3 | | Philipp Lienhart | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | FW | 20 | | Kevin Schade | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | MF | 22 | | Roland Sallai | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | FW | 29 | | Jeong Woo-yeong | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 8 | DF | 4 | | Nico Schlotterbeck | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | FW | 11 | | Ermedin Demirović | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | MF | 19 | | Janik Haberer | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | MF | 27 | | Nicolas Höfler | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | MF | 8 | | Maximilian Eggestein | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | DF | 17 | | Lukas Kübler | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | DF | 30 | | Christian Günter | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | DF | 7 | | Jonathan Schmid | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | DF | 34 | | Keven Schlotterbeck | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 58 | 13 | 71 |
Last updated: 21 May 2022