# 2014–15 MSV Duisburg season

The 2014–15 MSV Duisburg season was the 115th season in the club's football history. In 2014–15 the club played in the 3. Liga, the third tier of German football.
Duisburg was secured promotion to the 2. Bundesliga on 16 May 2015.

## Players
### Team

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 | Michael Ratajczak |
| 2 | DF | GER | Matthias Kühne |
| 3 | DF | GER | Enis Hajri |
| 4 | DF | GER | Christopher Schorch |
| 5 | DF | BIH | Branimir Bajić |
| 6 | MF | GER | Martin Dausch |
| 7 | DF | GER | Sascha Dum |
| 8 | MF | GER | Deniz Aycicek |
| 9 | MF | GER | Pierre de Wit |
| 10 | FW | NGA | Kingsley Onuegbu (Vice captain) |
| 11 | MF | GER | Michael Gardawski |
| 13 | FW | GER | Zlatko Janjić |
| 14 | MF | GER | Tim Albutat (Loaned from SC Freiburg) |
| 15 | DF | GER | Erik Wille |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | FW | GER | Gökhan Lekesiz |
| 17 | MF | GER | Kevin Wolze |
| 18 | DF | GER | Barkin Cömert |
| 19 | MF | GER | Nico Klotz |
| 20 | MF | GER | Dennis Grote |
| 21 | MF | VEN | Rolf Feltscher |
| 22 | GK | GER | Maurice Schumacher |
| 23 | MF | GER | Fabian Schnellhardt |
| 25 | DF | GER | Thomas Meißner |
| 27 | DF | GER | Babacar M'Bengue |
| 28 | MF | GER | Steffen Bohl (captain) |
| 30 | GK | GER | Marcel Lenz |
| 33 | FW | GER | Kevin Scheidhauer |

### Transfers
#### In

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | EU | Moving from | Type | Transfer window | Ends | Transfer fee |
| 3 | DF | Enis Hajri | 31 | EU | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | Signing | Summer | 2015 | Free |
| 4 | DF | Christopher Schorch | 25 | EU | VfL Bochum | Signing | Summer | 2016 | Free |
| 13 | MF | Zlatko Janjić | 28 | EU | Erzgebirge Aue | Signing | Summer | 2017 | Free |
| 14 | MF | Tim Albutat | 21 | EU | SC Freiburg | Loan | Summer | 2016 | Free |
| 15 | MF | Erik Wille | 21 | EU | Eintracht Frankfurt | Signing | Summer | 2016 | Free |
| 16 | FW | Gökhan Lekesiz | 23 | EU | Youth system | Promoted | Summer | 2015 | Free |
| 18 | DF | Barkin Cömert | 20 | EU | Youth system | Promoted | Summer | 2016 | Free |
| 19 | MF | Nico Klotz | 26 | EU | SV Sandhausen | Signing | Summer | 2016 | Free |
| 20 | MF | Dennis Grote | 27 | EU | Preußen Münster | Signing | Summer | 2016 | Free |
| 21 | MF | Rolf Feltscher | 23 | EU | Free agent | Signing | Summer | 2015 | Free |
| 23 | MF | Fabian Schnellhardt | 20 | EU | 1. FC Köln | Signing | Summer | 2017 | Free |
| 25 | DF | Thomas Meißner | 21 | EU | Borussia Dortmund | Signing | Summer | 2016 | Free |
| 28 | MF | Steffen Bohl | 30 | EU | Energie Cottbus | Signing | Summer | 2016 | Free |
| 33 | FW | Kevin Scheidhauer | 22 | EU | VfL Wolfsburg | Signing | Summer | 2016 | Undisclosed |
| 6 | MF | Martin Dausch | 28 | EU | Union Berlin | Signing | Winter | 2016 | Free |

#### Out

| Pos. | Name | Age | EU | Moving to | Type | Transfer window | Transfer fee |
| DF | Markus Bollmann | 33 | EU | SC Wiedenbrück | End of contract | Summer | Free |
| DF | Phil Ofosu-Ayeh | 22 | Non-EU | VfR Aalen | End of contract | Summer | Free |
| MF | Athanasios Tsourakis | 24 | EU | Platanias | End of contract | Summer | Free |
| FW | Gerrit Wegkamp | 21 | EU | Fortuna Düsseldorf | End of loan | Summer | Free |
| MF | Tobias Feisthammel | 26 | EU | SV Elversberg | End of contract | Summer | Free |
| DF | Jens Wissing | 26 | EU | | Retired | | |
| DF | Christian Eichner | 31 | EU | | End of contract | Summer | Free |
| MF | Nikolas Ledgerwood | 29 | Non-EU | Energie Cottbus | End of contract | Summer | Free |
| FW | Patrick Zoundi | 31 | Non-EU | 1. FC Saarbrücken | End of contract | Summer | Free |
| DF | Maximilian Güll | 19 | EU | Borussia Dortmund | End of contract | Summer | Free |
| FW | Julien Rybacki | 18 | EU | Fortuna Düsseldorf | End of contract | Summer | Free |
| MF | Erdoğan Yeşilyurt | 20 | EU | Altınordu A.Ş. | Signing | Summer | Free |
| MF | Tanju Öztürk | 25 | EU | Schalke 04 II | Released | Winter | Free |

## Results
### 3. Liga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Arminia Bielefeld (C, P) | 38 | 22 | 8 | 8 | 75 | 41 | +34 | 74 | Promotion to 2. Bundesliga and qualification for DFB-Pokal |
| 2 | MSV Duisburg (P) | 38 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 63 | 40 | +23 | 71 | Promotion to 2. Bundesliga and qualification for DFB-Pokal |
| 3 | Holstein Kiel | 38 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 53 | 30 | +23 | 67 | Qualification for promotion play-offs and DFB-Pokal |
| 4 | Stuttgarter Kickers | 38 | 18 | 11 | 9 | 61 | 47 | +14 | 65 | Qualification for DFB-Pokal |
| 5 | Chemnitzer FC | 38 | 17 | 8 | 13 | 44 | 36 | +8 | 59 | |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 23 May 2015. Source: kicker.de

#### Result round 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 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | D | W | D | D | D | W | W | W | D | W | W | D | L | D | L | W | L | W | W | D | D | W | W | L | W | D | L | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | W | W | L |
| Position | 18 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |

#### Matches
### Friendlies
## Squad statistics
### Statistics

Updated as of 23 May 2015.
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | 3. Liga | 3. Liga | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal | Niederrheinpokal | Niederrheinpokal |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | GER | Michael Ratajczak | 40 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | GER | Matthias Kühne | 18 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | GER | Enis Hajri | 30 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | GER | Christopher Schorch | 26 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | BIH | Branimir Bajić | 25 | 2 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 6 | MF | GER | Martin Dausch | 16 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | GER | Sascha Dum | 21 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 8 | MF | GER | Deniz Aycicek | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 9 | MF | GER | Pierre de Wit | 14 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | NGA | Kingsley Onuegbu | 40 | 17 | 34 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 11 | MF | GER | Michael Gardawski | 31 | 7 | 26 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| 13 | MF | GER | Zlatko Janjić | 42 | 19 | 37 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 14 | MF | GER | Tim Albutat | 37 | 2 | 33 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 15 | MF | GER | Erik Wille | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | GER | Gökhan Lekesiz | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 17 | MF | GER | Kevin Wolze | 32 | 2 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | GER | Barkin Cömert | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | GER | Nico Klotz | 38 | 5 | 31 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | GER | Dennis Grote | 39 | 7 | 35 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 21 | MF | VEN | Rolf Feltscher | 28 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | GER | Fabian Schnellhardt | 20 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
| 25 | DF | GER | Thomas Meißner | 37 | 1 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 27 | DF | GER | Babacar M'Bengue | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 28 | DF | GER | Steffen Bohl | 34 | 1 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | GER | Marcel Lenz | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | GER | Marcel Stenzel | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | FW | GER | Kevin Scheidhauer | 28 | 5 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| | DF | GER | Burak Akarca | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | DF | GER | Steffen Böhm | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | DF | GER | Niklas Heidemann | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | FW | GER | Georg Michajlov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | FW | TUR | Ismail Öztürk | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |

### Discipline

| N | Pos. | Name | | | |
| 3 | DF | Enis Hajri | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | Kevin Wolze | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | Branimir Bajić | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | Tim Albutat | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | Thomas Meißner | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | Christopher Schorch | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| 33 | FW | Kevin Scheidhauer | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | Sascha Dum | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | Dennis Grote | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | Matthias Kühne | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | Michael Gardawski | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | Rolf Feltscher | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | Martin Dausch | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | Zlatko Janjić | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | GK | Michael Ratajczak | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | MF | Pierre de Wit | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | Kingsley Onuegbu | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | Nico Klotz | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | Fabian Schnellhardt | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | Babacar M'Bengue | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | Steffen Bohl | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 23 May 2015 Source: kicker.de Only competitive matches = Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.