# 2012–13 VfL Wolfsburg season

The 2012–13 VfL Wolfsburg season was the 68th season in the club's football history. In 2012–13 the club played in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football. It was the club's 16th consecutive season in this league, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 1997.
The club also took part in the 2012–13 edition of the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, where it reached the semi-finals before losing to eventual champion Bayern Munich.

## Matches
### Legend

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### DFB-Pokal
## Squad
### Squad, appearances and goals

As of 27 November 2012
Source:
| 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 | SUI | Diego Benaglio | 23 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | GK | GER | Patrick Drewes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | GK | SUI | Marwin Hitz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 5 | DF | AUT | Emanuel Pogatetz | 9 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | GRE | Sotirios Kyrgiakos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | GER | Alexander Madlung | 9 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | BRA | Naldo | 23 | 3 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | CRO | Hrvoje Čale | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | GER | Robin Knoche | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 34 | DF | SUI | Ricardo Rodríguez | 14 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 39 | DF | GER | Michael Schulze | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | DF | DEN | Simon Kjær | 15 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 4 | MF | GER | Marcel Schäfer | 23 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | SRB | Slobodan Medojević | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | BRA | Josué | 13 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | POR | Vieirinha | 19 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 13 | MF | JPN | Makoto Hasebe | 14 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | CZE | Václav Pilař | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | GER | Christian Träsch | 11 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | GER | Kevin Pannewitz | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | POL | Mateusz Klich | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | GER | Maximilian Arnold | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | MF | CZE | Jan Polák | 16 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | VEN | Yohandry Orozco | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | MF | MKD | Ferhan Hasani | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | MF | DEN | Thomas Kahlenberg | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Strikers ||||||||||
| 11 | FW | CRO | Ivica Olić | 22 | 5 | 20 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | FW | NED | Bas Dost | 23 | 10 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 2 |
| No longer at club ||||||||||
| 3 | DF | BRA | Felipe Lopes | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | SWE | Rasmus Jönsson | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | GER | Marco Russ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | IRN | Ashkan Dejagah | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | FW | CRO | Srđan Lakić | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |

## Sources

* ↑ "VfL Wolfsburg" (in German). Fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
* ↑ "1. Bundesliga - VfL Wolfsburg" (in German). Retrieved 27 November 2012.
* ↑ "Die Neuen stechen - Olic sogar dreimal!". kicker (in German). 18 August 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
* ↑ "Diego bringt seine "Wölfe" auf Kurs". kicker (in German). 31 October 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.