# 2019–20 FC Erzgebirge Aue season

The 2019–20 FC Erzgebirge Aue season was the 74th season in the football club's history. They competed in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of German football, in which they finished 7th, and the DFB-Pokal, where they were eliminated in the second round. They played their home matches at the Erzgebirgsstadion, located in Aue, Saxony, Germany.

## Season summary

Erzgebirge Aue finished 14th in the 2. Bundesliga during the 2018–19 season. On 26 August 2019, Dirk Schuster was appointed as the new head coach of Erzgebirge Aue. The club finished 7th on 47 points.

## Players

    As of emd of season

### First-team squad

| No. | Name | Position | Place of birth | Date of birth | Signed from |
| Goalkeepers |||||||
| 1 | Martin Männel | GK | Hennigsdorf | 16 March 1988 | FC Energie Cottbus |
| 34 | Daniel Haas | GK | Erlenbach am Main | 1 August 1983 | Union Berlin |
| 40 | Robert Jendrusch | GK | Bad Schlema | 28 May 1996 | — |
| Defenders |||||||
| 3 | Marko Mihojević | DF | Trebinje | 21 April 1996 | on loan from PAOK |
| 4 | Fabian Kalig | DF | Wiesbaden | 28 March 1993 | 1. FSV Mainz 05 II |
| 12 | Steve Breitkreuz | CB | Berlin | 18 January 1992 | Eintracht Braunschweig |
| 15 | Dennis Kempe | CB | Wesel | 24 June 1986 | Karlsruher SC |
| 20 | Calogero Rizzuto | DF | Saarbrücken | 5 January 1992 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern II |
| 21 | Malcolm Cacutalua | DF | Troisdorf | 15 November 1994 | Arminia Bielefeld |
| 26 | Sören Gonther | CB | Schrecksbach | 15 December 1986 | Dynamo Dresden |
| 36 | Filip Kusić | DF | Munich | 3 June 1996 | 1. FC Köln |
| Midfielders |||||||
| 5 | Clemens Fandrich | MF | Cottbus | 10 January 1991 | FC Luzern |
| 7 | Jan Hochscheidt | MF | Trier | 4 October 1987 | Eintracht Braunschweig |
| 8 | Tom Baumgart | MF | Freiberg | 12 November 1997 | Chemnitzer FC |
| 13 | Louis Samson | MF | Berlin | 3 July 1995 | Eintracht Braunschweig |
| 16 | Erik Majetschak | MF | Bad Lausick | 1 March 2000 | RB Leipzig |
| 17 | Philipp Riese | MF | Meuselwitz | 12 November 1989 | 1. FC Heidenheim |
| 23 | Nicolás Sessa | MF | Stuttgart | 23 March 1996 | VfR Aalen |
| 24 | John-Patrick Strauß | MF | Wetzlar | 28 January 1996 | RB Leipzig II |
| 25 | Dominik Wydra | MF | Vienna | 21 March 1994 | VfL Bochum |
| Forwards |||||||
| 10 | Dimitrij Nazarov | FW | Taiynsha | 4 April 1990 | Karlsruher SC |
| 11 | Florian Krüger | CF | Staßfurt | 13 February 1999 | — |
| 14 | Philipp Zulechner | FW | Vienna | 12 April 1990 | SK Sturm Graz |
| 27 | Njegoš Kupusović | WF | Serbia | 22 February 2001 | on loan from Red Star Belgrade |
| 33 | Christoph Daferner | FW | Pöttmes | 12 January 1998 | on loan from SC Freiburg |
| 37 | Pascal Testroet | FW | Bocholt | 26 September 1990 | Dynamo Dresden |

### Left club during season

| No. | Name | Position | Place of birth | Date of birth | Joined |
| Defenders |||||||
| 22 | Niklas Jeck | DF | Stollberg | 18 September 2001 | VfB Auerbach (loan) |
| 39 | Paul Horschig | DF | Görlitz | 1 March 2000 | VfB Auerbach (loan) |
| — | Sascha Härtel | DF | Bad Schlema | 9 March 1999 | FSV Zwickau (loan) |
| Midfielders |||||||
| 6 | Hikmet Çiftçi | MF | Neuss | 10 March 1998 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern |
| 38 | Robert Herrmann | MF | Strausberg | 10 August 1993 | Würzburger Kickers (loan) |

## Transfers
### Transfers in

| Date | Position | Name | From | Fee |
| 12 June 2019 | MF | Hikmet Çiftçi | 1. FC Köln II | Free |
| 14 June 2019 | MF | Nicolás Sessa | VfR Aalen | Free |
| 20 June 2019 | MF | Erik Majetschak | RB Leipzig | Free |
| 29 June 2019 | DF | Sören Gonther | Dynamo Dresden | Undisclosed |

### Loans in

| Date from | Position | Name | From | Date until |
| 17 June 2019 | FW | Christoph Daferner | SC Freiburg | 30 June 2020 |
| 20 June 2019 | FW | Njegoš Kupusović | Red Star Belgrade | 30 June 2020 |
| 4 July 2019 | DF | Marko Mihojević | PAOK | 30 June 2020 |
| 12 January 2020 | DF | Jacob Rasmussen | ACF Fiorentina | 30 June 2020 |

### Transfers out

| Date | Position | Name | To | Fee |
| 6 June 2019 | DF | Luke Hemmerich | Würzburger Kickers | Free |
| 27 June 2019 | MF | Mario Kvesić | 1. FC Magdeburg | Free |
| 5 July 2019 | MF | Elias Löder | Germania Halberstadt | Free |
| 2 August 2019 | GK | Maximilian Schlosser | VfB Auerbach | Free |
| 8 January 2020 | MF | Hikmet Çiftçi | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | Free |

### Loans out

| Date from | Position | Name | To | Date until |
| 19 June 2019 | MF | Sascha Härtel | FSV Zwickau | 30 June 2020 |
| 16 August 2019 | DF | Robert Herrmann | Würzburger Kickers | 30 June 2020 |
| 30 August 2019 | DF | Niklas Jeck | VfB Auerbach | 30 June 2020 |
| 31 August 2019 | MF | Paul Horschig | VfB Auerbach | 30 June 2020 |

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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 5 | Darmstadt 98 | 34 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 48 | 43 | +5 | 52 |
| 6 | Hannover 96 | 34 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 54 | 49 | +5 | 48 |
| 7 | Erzgebirge Aue | 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 46 | 48 | −2 | 47 |
| 8 | VfL Bochum | 34 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 53 | 51 | +2 | 46 |
| 9 | Greuther Fürth | 34 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 46 | 45 | +1 | 44 |