# 2022–23 RB Leipzig season

The 2022–23 season was the 14th season in the history of RB Leipzig and their seventh consecutive season in the top flight. The club participated in the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, DFL-Supercup and UEFA Champions League.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 4 January 2023
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 | HUN | Péter Gulácsi (captain) |
| 2 | DF | FRA | Mohamed Simakan |
| 4 | DF | HUN | Willi Orbán (vice-captain) |
| 7 | MF | ESP | Dani Olmo |
| 8 | MF | MLI | Amadou Haidara |
| 9 | FW | DEN | Yussuf Poulsen (3rd captain) |
| 10 | MF | SWE | Emil Forsberg |
| 11 | FW | GER | Timo Werner |
| 13 | GK | NOR | Ørjan Nyland |
| 16 | DF | GER | Lukas Klostermann |
| 17 | MF | HUN | Dominik Szoboszlai |
| 18 | FW | FRA | Christopher Nkunku |
| 19 | FW | POR | André Silva |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | GK | GER | Janis Blaswich |
| 22 | DF | GER | David Raum |
| 23 | DF | GER | Marcel Halstenberg |
| 24 | MF | AUT | Xaver Schlager |
| 25 | DF | GER | Sanoussy Ba |
| 27 | MF | AUT | Konrad Laimer |
| 28 | DF | USA | Caden Clark |
| 32 | DF | CRO | Joško Gvardiol |
| 34 | GK | GER | Jonas Nickisch |
| 36 | GK | GER | Timo Schlieck |
| 37 | DF | SEN | Abdou Diallo (on loan from Paris Saint-Germain) |
| 39 | DF | GER | Benjamin Henrichs |
| 44 | MF | SVN | Kevin Kampl (4th captain) |

### 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 |
| — | DF | ESP | Angeliño (at 1899 Hoffenheim until 30 June 2023) |
| — | FW | GER | Dennis Borkowski (at Dynamo Dresden until 30 June 2023) |
| — | FW | GER | Fabrice Hartmann (at Sligo Rovers until 30 June 2023) |
| — | FW | GER | Mehmet Ibrahimi (at Eintracht Braunschweig until 30 June 2023) |
| — | DF | GER | Frederik Jäkel (at Arminia Bielefeld until 30 June 2023) |
| — | MF | GER | Tom Krauß (at Schalke 04 until 30 June 2023) |
| — | GK | ESP | Josep Martínez (at Genoa until 30 June 2023) |
| — | MF | GUI | Ilaix Moriba (at Valencia until 30 June 2023) |
| – | FW | ESP | Hugo Novoa (at FC Basel until 30 June 2024) |
| — | GK | GER | Tim Schreiber (at Holstein Kiel until 30 June 2024) |
| — | FW | NOR | Alexander Sørloth (at Real Sociedad until 30 June 2023) |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| 21 | GK | Janis Blaswich | Heracles Almelo | Free transfer | 1 July 2022 |
| 24 | MF | Xaver Schlager | VfL Wolfsburg | €12,000,000 | 1 July 2022 |
| 22 | DF | David Raum | 1899 Hoffenheim | €26,000,000 | 31 July 2022 |
| 11 | FW | Timo Werner | Chelsea | €20,000,000 | 9 August 2022 |
| 37 | DF | Abdou Diallo | Paris Saint-Germain | Loan | 1 September 2022 |
| 13 | GK | Ørjan Nyland | Reading | Free transfer | 9 October 2022 |

### Out

| No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| 11 | FW | Hwang Hee-chan | Wolverhampton Wanderers | €16,700,000 | 1 July 2022 |
| 13 | GK | Philipp Tschauner | Retired | End of contract | 1 July 2022 |
| 32 | GK | Tim Schreiber | Holstein Kiel | Loan | 1 July 2022 |
| 33 | GK | Josep Martínez | Genoa | Loan | 1 July 2022 |
| 37 | DF | Frederik Jäkel | Arminia Bielefeld | Loan | 1 July 2022 |
| 37 | MF | Sidney Raebiger | Greuther Fürth | Undisclosed | 1 July 2022 |
| 41 | FW | Dennis Borkowski | Dynamo Dresden | Loan | 1 July 2022 |
| 45 | MF | Mehmet Ibrahimi | Eintracht Braunschweig | Loan | 1 July 2022 |
| 45 | DF | Eric Martel | 1. FC Köln | €1,200,000 | 1 July 2022 |
| 53 | MF | Tom Krauß | Schalke 04 | Loan | 1 July 2022 |
| 14 | MF | Tyler Adams | Leeds United | €17,000,000 | 6 July 2022 |
| 46 | MF | Ben Klefisch | Viktoria Köln | Loan | 8 July 2022 |
| 28 | GK | Yvon Mvogo | Lorient | Undisclosed | 13 July 2022 |
| | FW | Noah Ohio | Standard Liège | Undisclosed | 14 July 2022 |
| | FW | Brian Brobbey | Ajax | €16,350,000 | 22 July 2022 |
| 22 | DF | Nordi Mukiele | Paris Saint-Germain | €12,000,000 | 26 July 2022 |
| 35 | FW | Fabrice Hartmann | Sligo Rovers | Loan | 27 July 2022 |
| 37 | FW | Ademola Lookman | Atalanta | €9,000,000 | 4 August 2022 |
| 3 | DF | Angeliño | 1899 Hoffenheim | Loan | 8 August 2022 |
| 35 | FW | Alexander Sørloth | Real Sociedad | Loan | 29 August 2022 |
| 47 | MF | Joscha Wosz | SC Verl | Free | 29 August 2022 |
| | DF | Solomon Bonnah | Austria Klagenfurt | Undisclosed | 31 August 2022 |
| 26 | MF | Ilaix Moriba | Valencia | Loan | 1 September 2022 |
| 38 | FW | Hugo Novoa | Basel | Loan | 4 January 2023 |
| 46 | MF | Ben Klefisch | SC Paderborn II | Free | 1 February 2023 |

## 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 % |
| Bundesliga | 7 August 2022 | 27 May 2023 | Matchday 1 | 3rd | 34 | 20 | 6 | 8 | 64 | 41 | +23 | 058.82 |
| DFB-Pokal | 30 August 2022 | 3 June 2023 | First round | Winners | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 2 | +22 | 100.00 |
| DFL-Supercup | 30 July 2022 | 30 July 2022 | Final | Runners-up | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 000.00 |
| UEFA Champions League | 6 September 2022 | 14 March 2023 | Group stage | Round of 16 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 17 | −3 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 49 | 30 | 7 | 12 | 105 | 65 | +40 | 061.22 |
Source: Soccerway

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Bayern Munich (C) | 34 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 92 | 38 | +54 | 71 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Borussia Dortmund | 34 | 22 | 5 | 7 | 83 | 44 | +39 | 71 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 3 | RB Leipzig | 34 | 20 | 6 | 8 | 64 | 41 | +23 | 66 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 4 | Union Berlin | 34 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 51 | 38 | +13 | 62 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 5 | SC Freiburg | 34 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 51 | 44 | +7 | 59 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
* ↑ Since the 2022–23 DFB-Pokal winners, RB Leipzig, 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 Conference League play-off 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 |
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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | D | L | W | L | W | L | W | D | W | D | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | D | L | W | W | L | W | L | L | W | W | L | W | W | W | W | W |
| Position | 10 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 17 June 2022.

### UEFA Champions League
#### Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 25 August 2022.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | RMA | RBL | SHK | CEL |
| 1 | Real Madrid | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | +9 | 13 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 2–0 | 2–1 | 5–1 |
| 2 | RB Leipzig | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 9 | +4 | 12 | Advance to knockout phase | 3–2 | — | 1–4 | 3–1 |
| 3 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 6 | Transfer to Europa League | 1–1 | 0–4 | — | 1–1 |
| 4 | Celtic | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 15 | −11 | 2 | | 0–3 | 0–2 | 1–1 | — |

#### Knockout phase
##### Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 7 November 2022.

## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Bundesliga | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal | DFL-Supercup | DFL-Supercup | Champions League | Champions League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | HUN | Péter Gulácsi | 10 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | GK | NOR | Ørjan Nyland | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | GK | GER | Janis Blaswich | 33 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 |
| 34 | GK | GER | Jonas Nickisch | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | GK | GER | Timo Schlieck | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||||
| 2 | DF | FRA | Mohamed Simakan | 33 | 3 | 14+6 | 1 | 4+1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6+1 | 1 |
| 4 | DF | HUN | Willi Orbán | 43 | 4 | 29 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | GER | Lukas Klostermann | 16 | 0 | 7+4 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | GER | David Raum | 39 | 0 | 19+8 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6+2 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | GER | Marcel Halstenberg | 35 | 2 | 15+12 | 1 | 2+1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2+2 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | GER | Sanoussy Ba | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | DF | CRO | Joško Gvardiol | 39 | 3 | 23+5 | 1 | 4+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| 37 | DF | SEN | Abdou Diallo | 14 | 1 | 5+2 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 |
| 39 | DF | GER | Benjamin Henrichs | 40 | 4 | 21+6 | 2 | 3+2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1+6 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||||
| 7 | MF | ESP | Dani Olmo | 27 | 5 | 12+8 | 2 | 2+1 | 2 | 0+1 | 1 | 0+3 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | MLI | Amadou Haidara | 39 | 2 | 11+16 | 2 | 3+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 4+3 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | SWE | Emil Forsberg | 39 | 9 | 14+12 | 6 | 3+1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4+4 | 1 |
| 17 | MF | HUN | Dominik Szoboszlai | 41 | 7 | 25+2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 24 | MF | AUT | Xaver Schlager | 29 | 1 | 16+3 | 1 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | AUT | Konrad Laimer | 24 | 2 | 13+4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 44 | MF | SVN | Kevin Kampl | 35 | 1 | 16+10 | 1 | 1+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||||
| 9 | FW | DEN | Yussuf Poulsen | 24 | 3 | 3+13 | 1 | 1+2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0+5 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | GER | Timo Werner | 36 | 16 | 20+4 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7+1 | 2 |
| 18 | FW | FRA | Christopher Nkunku | 31 | 19 | 16+5 | 13 | 1+1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6+1 | 3 |
| 19 | FW | POR | André Silva | 43 | 9 | 19+11 | 4 | 3+1 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 | 6+2 | 3 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||||
| 3 | DF | ESP | Angeliño | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | GUI | Ilaix Moriba | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | FW | NOR | Alexander Sørloth | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | FW | NGA | Ademola Lookman | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | FW | ESP | Hugo Novoa | 11 | 1 | 2+5 | 1 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos. | Nat. | Player | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | DFL-Supercup | Champions League | Total |
| 1 | 18 | FW | | Christopher Nkunku | 16 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 23 |
| 2 | 11 | FW | | Timo Werner | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 16 |
| 3 | 10 | MF | | Emil Forsberg | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| 3 | 19 | FW | | André Silva | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| 6 | 17 | DF | | Dominik Szoboszlai | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| 6 | 7 | MF | | Dani Olmo | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 7 | 2 | DF | | Mohamed Simakan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | 4 | DF | | Willi Orban | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | 9 | FW | | Yussuf Poulsen | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | 32 | DF | | Joško Gvardiol | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | 39 | DF | | Benjamin Henrichs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 12 | 23 | DF | | Marcel Halstenberg | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | 27 | MF | | Konrad Laimer | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 14 | 8 | MF | | Amadou Haidara | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | 22 | DF | | David Raum | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | 24 | MF | | Xaver Schlager | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | 38 | FW | | Hugo Novoa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | 37 | FW | | Abdou Diallo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 50 | 17 | 3 | 14 | 84 |