# 2019–20 1. FC Heidenheim season

The 2019–20 1. FC Heidenheim season was the 6th consecutive season in the 2. Bundesliga, the second division of German football, played by 1. FC Heidenheim, a football club based in Heidenheim an der Brenz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In addition to the 2. Bundesliga, Heidenheim also participated in the DFB-Pokal. The club played their home matches at the Voith-Arena.

## Players

    As of end of season

### First-team squad

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 | Kevin Müller |
| 2 | DF | GER | Marnon Busch |
| 5 | DF | GER | Oliver Hüsing |
| 6 | DF | GER | Patrick Mainka |
| 7 | MF | GER | Marc Schnatterer |
| 9 | FW | GER | Stefan Schimmer |
| 10 | FW | GER | Tim Kleindienst |
| 11 | FW | GER | Denis Thomalla |
| 13 | FW | GER | Robert Leipertz |
| 16 | MF | GER | Kevin Sessa |
| 17 | MF | GER | Maurice Multhaup |
| 18 | MF | GER | Sebastian Griesbeck |
| 19 | DF | GER | Jonas Föhrenbach |
| 21 | MF | GER | Maximilian Thiel |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 22 | GK | GER | Vitus Eicher |
| 24 | MF | GER | Tobias Mohr |
| 26 | FW | GER | David Otto (on loan from TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) |
| 27 | MF | AUT | Konstantin Kerschbaumer |
| 28 | DF | GER | Arne Feick |
| 29 | DF | GER | Robert Strauß |
| 30 | MF | GER | Norman Theuerkauf |
| 31 | MF | GER | Jonas Brändle |
| 33 | DF | GER | Timo Beermann |
| 35 | MF | GER | Andrew Owusu |
| 36 | MF | GER | Niklas Dorsch |
| 39 | GK | GER | Kevin Ibrahim |
| 40 | GK | GER | Diant Ramaj |

### Left club during season

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 |
| 4 | DF | GER | Oliver Steurer (on loan at SC Preußen Münster) |
| 9 | FW | GER | Robert Glatzel (signed for Cardiff City in January 2020) |
| 23 | MF | GER | Merveille Biankadi (on loan at Eintracht Braunschweig) |
| 27 | MF | GER | Kolja Pusch (left club in September 2019) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 32 | FW | GER | Patrick Schmidt (on loan at Dynamo Dresden) |
| 34 | DF | GER | Tobias Reithmeir (left club in September 2019) |
| 37 | MF | GER | Gökalp Kılıç (on loan at SSV Ulm 1846) |

## Transfers
### Transfers in

| Date | Position | Name | From | Fee |
| 1 July 2019 | DF | Jonas Föhrenbach | SC Freiburg | Undisclosed |
| 1 July 2019 | DF | Oliver Hüsing | Hansa Rostock | Free |
| 17 July 2019 | MF | Merveille Biankadi | Hansa Rostock | Undisclosed |
| 6 August 2019 | FW | Stefan Schimmer | Unterhaching | Undisclosed |
| 2 September 2019 | FW | Tim Kleindienst | SC Freiburg | Undisclosed |
| 2 September 2019 | MF | Konstantin Kerschbaumer | FC Ingolstadt 04 | Undisclosed |
| 10 January 2020 | MF | Tobias Mohr | Greuther Fürth | Undisclosed |

### Loans in

| Date | Position | Name | From | Date until | Ref. |
| 1 July 2019 | FW | David Otto | 1899 Hoffenheim | 7 July 2020 | |

### Transfers out

| Date | Position | Name | To | Fee |
| 1 July 2019 | MF | Nikola Dovedan | 1. FC Nürnberg | Undisclosed |
| 1 July 2019 | MF | Robert Andrich | 1. FC Union Berlin | Undisclosed |
| 1 July 2019 | MF | Tim Skarke | SV Darmstadt 98 | Undisclosed |
| 1 July 2019 | GK | Matthias Köbbing | FC Homburg | Free |
| 31 July 2019 | FW | Robert Glatzel | Cardiff City | €6,000,000 |
| 2 September 2019 | MF | Kolja Pusch | Admira Wacker | Free |
| 2 September 2019 | DF | Tobias Reithmeir | Austria Lustenau | Free |

### Loans out

| Date | Position | Name | To | Date until |
| 2 September 2019 | MF | Gökalp Kılıç | SSV Ulm | 30 June 2020 |
| 12 August 2019 | DF | Oliver Steurer | KFC Uerdingen | 19 January 2020 |
| 3 January 2020 | FW | Patrick Schmidt | 1. FC Heidenheim | 30 June 2020 |
| 19 January 2020 | DF | Oliver Steurer | Preußen Münster | 5 July 2020 |
| 23 January 2020 | MF | Merveille Biankadi | Eintracht Braunschweig | 5 July 2020 |

## Friendly matches

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions
### 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 % |
| 2. Bundesliga | 27 July 2019 | 28 June 2020 | Matchday 1 | 3rd | 34 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 45 | 36 | +9 | 044.12 |
| Bundesliga relegation play-offs | 2 July 2020 | 6 July 2020 | First leg | Runners-up | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | +0 | 000.00 |
| DFB-Pokal | 10 August 2019 | 30 October 2019 | First round | Second round | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 38 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 50 | 42 | +8 | 042.11 |
Last updated: 6 July 2020 Source: Soccerway

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Arminia Bielefeld (C, P) | 34 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 65 | 30 | +35 | 68 | Promotion to Bundesliga |
| 2 | VfB Stuttgart (P) | 34 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 62 | 41 | +21 | 58 | Promotion to Bundesliga |
| 3 | 1. FC Heidenheim | 34 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 45 | 36 | +9 | 55 | Qualification to promotion play-offs |
| 4 | Hamburger SV | 34 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 62 | 46 | +16 | 54 | |
| 5 | Darmstadt 98 | 34 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 48 | 43 | +5 | 52 | |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 28 June 2020. Source:

#### Results by round

| Matchday | 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | D | L | L | D | W | W | D | L | D | W | D | W | L | W | W | D | W | L | D | W | D | W | L | W | L | W | D | W | L | W | D | W | L |
| Position | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |

#### Relegation play-offs

As a result of their third place finish in the regular season, the club qualified for the play-off match with the 16th-place team in the 2019–20 Bundesliga to determine whether the club would be promoted to the 2020–21 Bundesliga.

### DFB-Pokal
## Player statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | 2. Bundesliga | 2. Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal | Play-offs | Play-offs |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | GER | Kevin Müller | 36 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | GER | Marnon Busch | 37 | 0 | 32+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | GER | Oliver Hüsing | 20 | 0 | 17+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | GER | Patrick Mainka | 36 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | GER | Marc Schnatterer | 35 | 4 | 26+5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | GER | Stefan Schimmer | 25 | 6 | 1+21 | 6 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | GER | Tim Kleindienst | 29 | 16 | 27 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | FW | GER | Denis Thomalla | 16 | 1 | 6+8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | FW | GER | Robert Leipertz | 35 | 8 | 22+10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | GER | Kevin Sessa | 5 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | GER | Maurice Multhaup | 23 | 1 | 5+15 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | GER | Sebastian Griesbeck | 33 | 2 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | GER | Jonas Föhrenbach | 29 | 1 | 14+11 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 22 | GK | GER | Vitus Eicher | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | COD | Merveille Biankadi | 8 | 0 | 1+5 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | GER | Tobias Mohr | 17 | 1 | 10+6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 26 | FW | GER | David Otto | 29 | 1 | 11+14 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | GER | Kolja Pusch | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | AUT | Konstantin Kerschbaumer | 25 | 3 | 21+2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | GER | Arne Feick | 5 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | GER | Robert Strauß | 4 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | GER | Norman Theuerkauf | 34 | 2 | 28+4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 32 | FW | GER | Patrick Schmidt | 4 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | GER | Timo Beermann | 23 | 0 | 19+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 36 | MF | GER | Niklas Dorsch | 36 | 1 | 32 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
* Last updated: 6 July 2020
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