# 2016–17 FC St. Pauli season

The 2016–17 FC St. Pauli season is the club's 106th season of existence, and their sixth consecutive season in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of German football.

## Background

After narrowingly missing out on promotion during the 2015–16 season, FC. St Pauli started to strengthen the squad in the summer to mount another push for promotion.

## Transfers
### In

| Position | Name | From | Fee |
| GK | Jay Lee | Seattle Sounders FC 2 | free |
| FW | Waldemar Sobota | Club Brugge | € 300K |
| FW | Marvin Ducksch | Borussia Dortmund II | € 250K |
| DF | Vegar Eggen Hedenstad | SC Freiburg | free |
| MF | Christopher Avevor | Hannover 96 | free |
| DF | Jacob Rasmussen | FC Schalke 04 | free |
| MF | Richard Neudecker | TSV 1860 München | free |
| FW | Aziz Bouhaddouz | SV Sandhausen | free |
| MF | Cenk Sahin | İstanbul Başakşehir F.K. | loan |

### Out

| Position | Name | From | Fee |
| MF | Marc Rzatkowski | Red Bull Salzburg | € 2 mln |
| FW | Ante Budimir | F.C. Crotone | € 1 mln |
| FW | John Verhoek | 1. FC Heidenheim | free |
| MF | Sebastian Maier | Hannover 96 | free |
| FW | Lennart Thy | Werder Bremen | free |
| MF | Enis Alushi | 1.FC Nürnberg | free |
| DF | Andrej Startsev | TSV Havelse | free |
| MF | Okan Adil Kurt | Fortuna Sittard | free |
| DF | Davidson Eden | Hobro IK | free |

## Competitions
### 2. Bundesliga
#### Table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 5 | Dynamo Dresden | 34 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 53 | 46 | +7 | 50 |
| 6 | 1. FC Heidenheim | 34 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 43 | 39 | +4 | 46 |
| 7 | FC St. Pauli | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 39 | 35 | +4 | 45 |
| 8 | SpVgg Greuther Fürth | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 33 | 40 | −7 | 45 |
| 9 | VfL Bochum | 34 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 42 | 47 | −5 | 44 |

#### Match results
### DFB-Pokal
## Statistics
### Squad and statistics

As of 21 May 2017
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | 2. Bundesliga | 2. Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | GER | Philipp Heerwagen | 21 | 0 | 19+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | GER | Robin Himmelmann | 16 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 33 | GK | GER | Svend Brodersen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | NOR | Vegar Eggen Hedenstad | 16 | 1 | 14+1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | DF | GER | Lasse Sobiech | 29 | 4 | 28+1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | GER | Philipp Ziereis | 16 | 1 | 12+3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | SUI | Joël Keller | 5 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | GER | Daniel Buballa | 31 | 0 | 24+6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | GER | Marc Hornschuh | 23 | 0 | 21+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | DEN | Jacob Rasmussen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | GER | Sören Gonther | 23 | 1 | 17+5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | DF | GER | Jan-Philipp Kalla | 13 | 0 | 6+7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | DF | GER | Brian Koglin | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | GER | Christopher Avevor | 9 | 0 | 5+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | GER | Bernd Nehrig | 31 | 1 | 29+1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | GER | Jeremy Dudziak | 21 | 0 | 17+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | GER | Christopher Buchtmann | 32 | 6 | 27+3 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | JPN | Ryo Miyaichi | 19 | 0 | 8+9 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | NOR | Mats Møller Dæhli | 13 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | GER | Richard Neudecker | 8 | 0 | 3+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | TUR | Cenk Şahin | 29 | 4 | 19+8 | 4 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | GER | Johannes Flum | 11 | 0 | 6+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | GER | Dennis Rosin | 3 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | POL | Waldemar Sobota | 33 | 1 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 29 | MF | GER | Jan-Marc Schneider | 3 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | GER | Maurice Litka | 7 | 0 | 2+4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 37 | MF | KOR | Choi Kyoung-rok | 18 | 1 | 12+4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 39 | MF | KOR | Park Yi-young | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | HAI | Fafà Picault | 8 | 0 | 3+3 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | GER | Aziz Bouhaddouz | 29 | 15 | 26+2 | 15 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | GER | Lennart Thy | 15 | 2 | 4+11 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | FW | GER | Nico Empen | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | FW | GER | Marvin Ducksch | 12 | 2 | 4+6 | 1 | 0+2 | 1 |