# 2018–19 VfL Wolfsburg season

The 2018–19 VfL Wolfsburg season was the 74th season in the football club's history and 22nd consecutive and overall season in the top flight of German football, the Bundesliga, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 1997. In addition to the domestic league, VfL Wolfsburg also participated in the season's edition of the domestic cup, the DFB-Pokal. This was the 17th season for Wolfsburg in the Volkswagen Arena, located in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. The season covers a period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.

## Players
### Squad information

    As of 10 January 2025
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 | POL | Kamil Grabara |
| 2 | DF | GER | Kilian Fischer |
| 3 | DF | BEL | Sebastiaan Bornauw |
| 4 | DF | GRE | Konstantinos Koulierakis |
| 5 | DF | SUI | Cédric Zesiger |
| 6 | MF | BEL | Aster Vranckx |
| 8 | MF | TUR | Salih Özcan (on loan from Borussia Dortmund) |
| 9 | FW | ALG | Mohamed Amoura (on loan from Union SG) |
| 10 | FW | GER | Lukas Nmecha |
| 11 | FW | POR | Tiago Tomás |
| 12 | GK | AUT | Pavao Pervan |
| 13 | DF | BRA | Rogério |
| 14 | FW | POL | Bartosz Białek |
| 16 | FW | POL | Jakub Kamiński |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | FW | GER | Kevin Behrens |
| 18 | DF | SVK | Denis Vavro (on loan from København) |
| 19 | MF | CRO | Lovro Majer |
| 21 | DF | DEN | Joakim Mæhle |
| 22 | DF | FRA | Mathys Angely |
| 23 | FW | DEN | Jonas Wind |
| 24 | MF | GER | Bence Dárdai |
| 27 | MF | GER | Maximilian Arnold (captain) |
| 29 | GK | GER | Marius Müller |
| 30 | GK | GER | Niklas Klinger |
| 31 | MF | GER | Yannick Gerhardt |
| 32 | MF | SWE | Mattias Svanberg |
| 39 | FW | AUT | Patrick Wimmer |
| 40 | MF | USA | Kevin Paredes |

## Transfers
### Transfers in

| # | Position | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| 9 | FW | Wout Weghorst | AZ | €10,500,000 | 26 June 2018 |
| 33 | FW | Daniel Ginczek | VfB Stuttgart | €14,000,000 | 1 July 2018 |
| 11 | MF | Felix Klaus | Hannover 96 | €3,000,000 | 1 July 2018 |
| 12 | GK | Pavao Pervan | LASK Linz | €500,000 | 1 July 2018 |
| 32 | DF | Marcel Tisserand | FC Ingolstadt | €7,000,000 | 1 July 2018 |
| 15 | DF | Jérôme Roussillon | Montpellier | €5,000,000 | 6 August 2018 |

#### Loans in

| # | Position | Player | Loaned from | Date | Loan expires | Source |

### Transfers out

| # | Position | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| 11 | MF | Daniel Didavi | VfB Stuttgart | €4,000,000 | 29 June 2018 |
| 20 | GK | Max Grün | SV Darmstadt 98 | Free | 1 July 2018 |
| 39 | DF | Paul Jaeckel | Greuther Fürth | €200,000 | 30 August 2018 |
| 32 | FW | Kaylen Hinds | Free Agent | Free | 6 September 2018 |
| 16 | MF | Jakub Błaszczykowski | Wisła Kraków | Free | 7 February 2019 |

#### Loans out

| # | Position | Player | Loaned to | Date | Loan expires |
| 9 | FW | Landry Dimata | Anderlecht | 2 July 2018 | 30 June 2019 |
| 18 | FW | Victor Osimhen | Charleroi | 22 August 2018 | 30 June 2019 |
| 6 | MF | Riechedly Bazoer | FC Porto | 31 August 2018 | 6 January 2019 |
| 6 | MF | Riechedly Bazoer | FC Utrecht | 7 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |
| 30 | MF | Paul Seguin | Greuther Fürth | 17 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |
| 5 | DF | Jeffrey Bruma | Schalke 04 | 31 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |

## Friendly matches

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions

Win  Draw  Loss

### 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 % |
| Bundesliga | 25 August 2018 | 18 May 2019 | Matchday 1 | 6th | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 62 | 50 | +12 | 047.06 |
| DFB-Pokal | 18 August 2018 | 6 February 2019 | First round | Round of 16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 066.67 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 37 | 18 | 7 | 12 | 65 | 51 | +14 | 048.65 |
Last updated: 25 May 2019 Source: Competitions

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 4 | Bayer Leverkusen | 34 | 18 | 4 | 12 | 69 | 52 | +17 | 58 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 5 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 55 | 42 | +13 | 55 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 6 | VfL Wolfsburg | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 62 | 50 | +12 | 55 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 7 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 34 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 60 | 48 | +12 | 54 | Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round |
| 8 | Werder Bremen | 34 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 58 | 49 | +9 | 53 | |
* 1 2 Since the winners of the 2018–19 DFB-Pokal, Bayern Munich, 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 League second qualifying 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 |
Last updated: 25 May 2019. Source: Bundesliga

#### 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | W | W | D | L | D | D | L | L | W | L | L | W | W | D | W | W | W | L | L | W | D | W | W | D | L | W | L | W | L | D | W | W | L | W |
| Position | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 |

#### Matches
### 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 | BEL | Koen Casteels | 29 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | GK | AUT | Pavao Pervan | 9 | 0 | 8+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | GK | GER | Phillip Menzel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 2 | DF | BRA | William | 33 | 2 | 30+1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | NED | Paul Verhaegh | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | GER | Yannick Gerhardt | 33 | 2 | 28+2 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | FRA | Jérôme Roussillon | 31 | 3 | 28 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | GER | Ohis Felix Uduokhai | 12 | 0 | 2+9 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | GER | Sebastian Jung | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | USA | John Brooks | 32 | 3 | 29 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | GER | Robin Knoche | 33 | 3 | 30 | 3 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 32 | DF | COD | Marcel Tisserand | 12 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 35 | DF | GER | Gian-Luca Itter | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 4 | MF | ESP | Ignacio Camacho | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | SUI | Renato Steffen | 33 | 5 | 18+13 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | TUR | Yunus Mallı | 23 | 1 | 5+16 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | GER | Felix Klaus | 16 | 1 | 5+10 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | SUI | Admir Mehmedi | 28 | 7 | 20+6 | 6 | 1+1 | 1 |
| 21 | MF | CMR | Paul-Georges Ntep | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | FRA | Josuha Guilavogui | 20 | 2 | 18+1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | GER | Maximilian Arnold | 35 | 2 | 32 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 29 | MF | GER | John Yeboah | 3 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 34 | MF | GER | Marvin Stefaniak | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | MF | GER | Elvis Rexhbeçaj | 27 | 2 | 14+11 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 38 | MF | BEL | Ismail Azzaoui | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 7 | FW | CRO | Josip Brekalo | 27 | 3 | 15+10 | 3 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | NED | Wout Weghorst | 36 | 18 | 33+1 | 17 | 2 | 1 |
| 33 | FW | GER | Daniel Ginczek | 26 | 7 | 12+12 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||
| 5 | DF | NED | Jeffrey Bruma | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | POL | Jakub Błaszczykowski | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | GER | Paul Seguin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 18 May 2019 Source: Competitions