# 2022–23 MSV Duisburg season

The 2022–23 MSV Duisburg season was the 123rd season in the club's football history. In 2022–23 the club played in the 3. Liga, the third tier of German football alongside the Lower Rhine Cup.

## Team

    As of 2 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 | Maximilian Braune |
| 2 | DF | GER | Moritz Montag |
| 5 | DF | GER | Tobias Fleckstein |
| 6 | DF | GER | Franko Uzelac |
| 7 | MF | GER | Jakob Bookjans |
| 8 | MF | GER | Jonas Michelbrink |
| 9 | FW | LBN | Malek Fakhro |
| 11 | FW | GER | Jihad Boutakhrit |
| 13 | FW | GER | Gerrit Wegkamp |
| 14 | FW | GER | Luis Hartwig |
| 17 | DF | GER | Mert Göckan |
| 18 | FW | GER | Steffen Meuer |
| 19 | MF | GER | Leon Müller |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | FW | SUI | Kilian Pagliuca |
| 21 | FW | GER | Jannik Zahmel |
| 23 | MF | GER | Jan-Simon Symalla |
| 24 | GK | GER | Julius Paris |
| 27 | DF | GER | Can Coşkun |
| 28 | MF | GER | Florian Egerer |
| 29 | DF | GER | Joshua Bitter |
| 30 | FW | GER | Dustin Willms |
| 32 | DF | GER | Batuhan Yavuz |
| 33 | MF | GER | Jesse Tugbenyo |
| 37 | MF | GER | Patrick Sussek |
| 42 | DF | GER | Alexander Hahn (captain) |

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Pos. | Name | From | Type |
| 1 July 2022 | GK | Vincent Müller | PSV | Free transfer |
| 1 July 2022 | DF | Joshua Bitter | Energie Cottbus | Free transfer |
| 1 July 2022 | DF | Niklas Kölle | 1899 Hoffenheim II | Free transfer |
| 1 July 2022 | DF | Sebastian Mai | Dynamo Dresden | Free transfer |
| 1 July 2022 | DF | Marvin Senger | FC St. Pauli | Free transfer |
| 1 July 2022 | FW | Phillip König | Holstein Kiel II | Free transfer |
| 19 July 2022 | GK | Lukas Raeder | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | Free transfer |
| 21 July 2022 | FW | Gordon Wild | Free agent | Free transfer |
| 24 August 2022 | FW | Benjamin Girth | Eintracht Braunschweig | Free transfer |
| 26 August 2022 | MF | Jonas Michelbrink | Hertha BSC | Free transfer |

### Out

| Date | Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| 1 July 2022 | GK | Jo Coppens | Sint-Truidense | End of contract |
| 1 July 2022 | GK | Roman Schabbing | Preußen Münster | End of contract |
| 1 July 2022 | GK | Leo Weinkauf | Hannover 96 | End of loan |
| 1 July 2022 | DF | Niko Bretschneider | FK Auda | End of contract |
| 1 July 2022 | DF | Oliver Steurer | VfB Oldenburg | End of contract |
| 1 July 2022 | DF | Stefan Velkov | Vejle Boldklub | End of contract |
| 1 July 2022 | DF | Dominic Volkmer | | End of contract |
| 1 July 2022 | FW | Orhan Ademi | UTA Arad | End of contract |
| 1 July 2022 | FW | John Yeboah | Śląsk Wrocław | End of loan |
| 19 August 2022 | MF | Rudolf Ndualu | SV Babelsberg | Free transfer |
| 29 January 2023 | FW | Gordon Wild | 1. FC Bocholt | Mutual consent |

### New contracts

| Date | Pos. | Name | Contract length | Contract end | Ref. |
| 16 May 2022 | DF | Tobias Fleckstein | 3-year | 2025 | |
| 22 May 2022 | MF | Moritz Stoppelkamp | 1-year | 2023 | |

## Competitions

Times from 1 July to 29 October 2022 and from 26 March to 30 June 2023 are UTC+2, from 30 October 2022 to 25 March 2023 UTC+1.

### Overview

| 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 % |
| 3. Liga | 22 July 2022 | 27 May 2023 | Matchday 1 | 12th place | 38 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 54 | 58 | −4 | 028.95 |
| Lower Rhine Cup | 25 August 2022 | 23 September 2022 | Round 1 | Round 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2 | +7 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 40 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 63 | 60 | +3 | 030.00 |
Last updated: 27 May 2023 Source: Soccerway

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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 10 | SC Verl | 38 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 60 | 58 | +2 | 49 |
| 11 | FC Ingolstadt | 38 | 14 | 5 | 19 | 54 | 56 | −2 | 47 |
| 12 | MSV Duisburg | 38 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 54 | 58 | −4 | 46 |
| 13 | Borussia Dortmund II | 38 | 13 | 6 | 19 | 47 | 49 | −2 | 45 |
| 14 | Erzgebirge Aue | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 49 | 62 | −13 | 45 |
* ↑ Reserve teams are ineligible for promotion or DFB-Pokal qualification.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 27 May 2023. 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 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | D | W | W | W | D | L | L | L | W | L | L | D | W | D | W | L | W | L | L | D | W | L | D | W | D | L | D | D | L | D | D | D | W | W | L | D | L |
| Position | 16 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 |

#### Matches
### Lower Rhine Cup
## Statistics
### Squad statistics

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | 3. Liga | 3. Liga | Lower Rhine Cup | Lower Rhine Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | GER | Vincent Müller | 33 | 1 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | GER | Baran Mogultay | 28 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | GER | Marvin Senger | 29 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | GER | Leroy Kwadwo | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | GER | Marvin Bakalorz | 31 | 2 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | GER | Kolja Pusch | 34 | 7 | 32 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | MF | MAR | Hamza Anhari | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | MF | GER | Alaa Bakir | 15 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | GER | Moritz Stoppelkamp | 28 | 7 | 28 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | MAR | Aziz Bouhaddouz | 29 | 5 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | FW | GER | Julian Hettwer | 27 | 5 | 25 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | GER | Tobias Fleckstein | 22 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | GER | Jonas Michelbrink | 14 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | GER | Marvin Knoll | 9 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | GER | Caspar Jander | 30 | 1 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | GER | Chinedu Ekene | 25 | 3 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 20 | MF | GER | Marvin Ajani | 37 | 1 | 35 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | VEN | Rolf Feltscher | 17 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | GER | Niclas Stierlin | 30 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 24 | GK | GER | Maximilian Braune | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | GER | Vincent Gembalies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | FW | GER | Phillip König | 20 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | GER | Sebastian Mai | 26 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | GER | Joshua Bitter | 31 | 2 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | FW | GER | Benjamin Girth | 20 | 7 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| 32 | DF | GER | Niklas Kölle | 31 | 5 | 29 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 33 | GK | GER | Lukas Raeder | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | MF | GER | Marlon Frey | 35 | 3 | 33 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| | MF | GER | Rudolf Ndualu † | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | GER | Gordon Wild † | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Last updated: 27 May 2023 Source: Soccerway
$^†$ Player left during the season.

### Goals

    As of 27 May 2023
| Rank | Player | 3. Liga | LR Cup | Total |
| 1 | Benjamin Girth | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 1 | Kolja Pusch | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| 1 | Moritz Stoppelkamp | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 4 | Aziz Bouhaddouz | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | Julian Hettwer | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | Niklas Kölle | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 7 | Marvin Bakalorz | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Chinedu Ekene | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | Alaa Bakir | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Joshua Bitter | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Rolf Feltscher | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Marvin Ajani | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Tobias Fleckstein | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Marlon Frey | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Benjamin Girth | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Caspar Jander | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Marvin Knoll | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Sebastian Mai | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Jonas Michelbrink | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Vincent Müller | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Niclas Stierlin | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Gordon Wild | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Total | Total | 54 | 9 | 63 |

### Clean sheets

    As of 27 May 2023
| Rank | Player | 3. Liga | LR Cup | Total |
| 1 | Vincent Müller | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| 2 | Maximilian Braune | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Lukas Raeder | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 8 | 1 | 9 |

### Disciplinary record

| N | P | Name | 3. Liga | 3. Liga | 3. Liga | LR Cup | LR Cup | Total | Total | Total |
| 37 | MF | Marlon Frey | 3 | | 1 | | | 3 | | 1 |
| 4 | DF | Marvin Senger | 6 | 1 | | | | 6 | 1 | |
| 18 | MF | Caspar Jander | 6 | 1 | | | | 6 | 1 | |
| 20 | MF | Marvin Ajani | 5 | | | | 1 | 5 | 1 | |
| 15 | DF | Tobias Fleckstein | 4 | 1 | | | | 4 | 1 | |
| 29 | DF | Joshua Bitter | 4 | 1 | | | | 4 | 1 | |
| 11 | FW | Aziz Bouhaddouz | 2 | 1 | | | | 2 | 1 | |
| 28 | DF | Sebastian Mai | 12 | | | | | 12 | | |
| 23 | MF | Niclas Stierlin | 7 | | | | | 7 | | |
| 6 | MF | Marvin Bakalorz | 5 | | | 1 | | 6 | | |
| 5 | DF | Leroy Kwadwo | 5 | | | | | 5 | | |
| 2 | DF | Baran Mogultay | 4 | | | | | 4 | | |
| 7 | MF | Kolja Pusch | 4 | | | | | 4 | | |
| 10 | MF | Moritz Stoppelkamp | 4 | | | | | 4 | | |
| 32 | DF | Niklas Kölle | 3 | | | | | 3 | | |
| 13 | FW | Julian Hettwer | 2 | | | | | 2 | | |
| 27 | FW | Phillip König | 2 | | | | | 2 | | |
| 1 | GK | Vincent Müller | 1 | | | | | 1 | | |
| 8 | MF | Hamza Anhari | 1 | | | | | 1 | | |
| 19 | FW | Chinedu Ekene | 1 | | | | | 1 | | |
| 21 | DF | Rolf Feltscher | 1 | | | | | 1 | | |
| 24 | GK | Maximilian Braune | 1 | | | | | 1 | | |
| 31 | FW | Benjamin Girth | 1 | | | | | 1 | | |
Last updated: 27 May 2023 Source: Soccerway Only competitive matches = Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.