# 2021–22 SV Werder Bremen season

The 2021–22 season was the 123rd season in the existence of SV Werder Bremen and the club's first season in the second division of German football since 1980–81. In addition to the domestic league, Werder Bremen participated in this season's edition of the DFB-Pokal.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 16 October 2021
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 | CZE | Jiří Pavlenka |
| 3 | DF | GER | Anthony Jung |
| 7 | FW | GER | Marvin Ducksch |
| 8 | DF | GER | Mitchell Weiser (on loan from Bayer Leverkusen) |
| 10 | MF | GER | Leonardo Bittencourt |
| 11 | FW | GER | Niclas Füllkrug |
| 13 | DF | SRB | Miloš Veljković |
| 15 | FW | CIV | Roger Assalé (on loan from Dijon) |
| 16 | MF | GER | Oscar Schönfelder |
| 17 | FW | GER | Abdenego Nankishi |
| 20 | MF | AUT | Romano Schmid |
| 21 | DF | TUR | Ömer Toprak (captain) |
| 22 | MF | GER | Niklas Schmidt |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 23 | MF | GER | Nicolai Rapp |
| 25 | DF | KOR | Kyu-hyun Park |
| 26 | DF | GER | Lars Lukas Mai (on loan from Bayern Munich) |
| 27 | DF | GER | Felix Agu |
| 28 | MF | BUL | Ilia Gruev |
| 29 | FW | GER | Nick Woltemade |
| 30 | GK | GER | Michael Zetterer |
| 32 | DF | AUT | Marco Friedl |
| 34 | MF | GER | Jean-Manuel Mbom |
| 36 | DF | GER | Christian Groß |
| 39 | DF | ITA | Fabio Chiarodia |
| 40 | GK | GER | Luca Plogmann |
| 43 | FW | GER | Eren Dinkçi |

### Players 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 | Eduardo Dos Santos Haesler (to FC Nordsjaelland until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | GER | Dominik Becker (to 1. FC Saarbrücken until 30 June 2023) |
| — | DF | GER | Jan-Niklas Beste (to Jahn Regensburg until 30 June 2022) |
| — | MF | GER | Yannik Engelhardt (to SC Freiburg II until 30 June 2022) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | GER | Benjamin Goller (to Karlsruher SC until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | GAM | Kebba Badjie (to Hallescher FC until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | GER | Luc Ihorst (to Eintracht Braunschweig until 30 June 2022) |
| — | FW | GER | Justin Njinmah (to Borussia Dortmund II until 30 June 2023) |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| 3 | DF | Anthony Jung | Brøndby IF | Free | 1 July 2021 |
| 26 | DF | Lars Lukas Mai | Bayern Munich | Loan | 1 July 2021 |
| 23 | MF | Nicolai Rapp | Union Berlin | €250,000 | 1 July 2021 |
| 7 | FW | Marvin Ducksch | Hannover 96 | | 25 August 2021 |
| 15 | FW | Roger Assalé | Dijon | Loan | 27 August 2021 |
| 8 | DF | Mitchell Weiser | Bayer Leverkusen | Loan | 31 August 2021 |

### Out

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| 18 | DF | Niklas Moisander | Malmö FF | Free | 1 July 2021 |
| 7 | FW | Milot Rashica | Norwich City | €11 million | 1 July 2021 |
| 23 | DF | Theodor Gebre Selassie | Slovan Liberec | Free | 1 July 2021 |
| 9 | FW | Davie Selke | Hertha BSC | Loan return | 1 July 2021 |
| 29 | MF | Patrick Erras | Holstein Kiel | | 2 July 2021 |
| 24 | FW | Johannes Eggestein | Antwerp | | 5 August 2021 |
| 8 | FW | Yuya Osako | Vissel Kobe | | 8 August 2021 |
| 19 | FW | Josh Sargent | Norwich City | €9.5 million | 9 August 2021 |
| 18 | GK | Stefanos Kapino | Arminia Bielefeld | | 12 August 2021 |
| 5 | DF | Ludwig Augustinsson | Sevilla | | 15 August 2021 |
| 35 | MF | Maximilian Eggestein | SC Freiburg | | 18 August 2021 |
| 6 | MF | Kevin Möhwald | Union Berlin | | 30 August 2021 |

## 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 % |
| 2. Bundesliga | 24 July 2021 | 15 May 2022 | Matchday 1 | 2nd | 34 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 65 | 43 | +22 | 052.94 |
| DFB-Pokal | 7 August 2021 | 7 August 2021 | First round | First round | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 35 | 18 | 9 | 8 | 65 | 45 | +20 | 051.43 |
Source: Soccerway

### 2. Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Schalke 04 (C, P) | 34 | 20 | 5 | 9 | 72 | 44 | +28 | 65 | Promotion to Bundesliga |
| 2 | Werder Bremen (P) | 34 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 65 | 43 | +22 | 63 | Promotion to Bundesliga |
| 3 | Hamburger SV | 34 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 67 | 35 | +32 | 60 | Qualification for promotion play-offs |
| 4 | Darmstadt 98 | 34 | 18 | 6 | 10 | 71 | 46 | +25 | 60 | |
| 5 | FC St. Pauli | 34 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 61 | 46 | +15 | 57 | |

#### 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | W | L | D | W | W | L | L | W | L | D | D | W | D | L | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | L | W | D | D | D | W | L | W | W |
| Position | 7 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 25 June 2021.

### DFB-Pokal
## Statistics
### Goalscorers

    As of 15 May 2022
| Rank | Pos. | No. | Player | 2. Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | Total |
| 1 | FW | 7 | Marvin Ducksch | 20 | 0 | 20 |
| 2 | FW | 11 | Niclas Füllkrug | 19 | 0 | 19 |
| 3 | DF | 32 | Marco Friedl | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | DF | 3 | Anthony Jung | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 65 | 0 | 65 |