# 2012–13 SV Werder Bremen season

The 2012–13 Werder Bremen season was the club's 103rd season in its history. In 2012–13, the club participated in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football; it is the club's 32nd consecutive season in this league, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 1981.
The club also took part in the 2012–13 edition of the DFB-Pokal, where it was knocked out by 3. Liga side Preußen Münster in the first round.

## Review and events

Werder Bremen presented Wiesenhof as its new shirt sponsor on 13 August 2012. Supporters of the club were outraged over Wiesenhof's sponsorship of the club that several supporters have cancelled their membership in the club. The conduct of Wiesenhof was reported in a documentary in Germany in 2011 where they have been "accused of treating the poultry in its care cruelly and keeping them in inhumane conditions".
The club opened its Bundesliga campaign against Borussia Dortmund, the defending champions. The final score was 2–1 in favour of Borussia Dortmund.

## Matches
### Legend

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### DFB-Pokal
## Squad
### Squad and statistics

Sources: As of 31 June 2013
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Bundesliga | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | GER | Sebastian Mielitz | 35 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | GK | GER | Raphael Wolf | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | AUT | Richard Strebinger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | GK | GER | Christian Vander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | SUI | François Affolter | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | COD | Assani Lukimya-Mulongoti | 22 | 1 | 17+5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | GER | Lukas Schmitz | 23 | 0 | 20+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | AUT | Sebastian Prödl | 29 | 1 | 23+5 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | GRE | Sokratis Papastathopoulos | 30 | 1 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | CZE | Theodor Gebre Selassie | 28 | 1 | 24+3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | GER | Florian Hartherz | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | GER | Cimo Röcker | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | BEL | Kevin De Bruyne | 34 | 10 | 33 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | GER | Clemens Fritz | 23 | 0 | 18+4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | TUR | Mehmet Ekici | 9 | 2 | 6+3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | GER | Aaron Hunt | 29 | 11 | 26+2 | 11 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | AUT | Zlatko Junuzović | 30 | 3 | 28+2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | SRB | Aleksandar Ignjovski | 21 | 1 | 17+3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | GER | Felix Kroos | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | GER | Tom Trybull | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | GER | Levent Ayçiçek | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | SRB | Predrag Stevanović | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | GER | Özkan Yıldırım | 8 | 0 | 3+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | MF | GER | Aleksandar Stevanović | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 44 | MF | GER | Philipp Bargfrede | 14 | 0 | 7+6 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | AUT | Marko Arnautović | 27 | 5 | 21+5 | 5 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | NED | Eljero Elia | 25 | 1 | 22+2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | FW | NGA | Joseph Akpala | 21 | 1 | 3+18 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | FW | GER | Nils Petersen | 35 | 11 | 30+4 | 11 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | FW | GER | Johannes Wurtz | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | FW | GER | Niclas Füllkrug | 13 | 1 | 1+11 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |

## Kits

| Home | Home Alternate | Away | Third |

## Sources

* ↑ DFB-Pokal 2012/2013 .:. Spielplan (in German) DFB-Pokal 2012–13, accessed: 13 September 2012
* 1 2 3 4 "Outrage over Werder Bremen shirt sponsor". Deutsche Welle. 13 August 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
* ↑ "Götze nutzt wie Reus gleich seine erste Chance". kicker (in German). 24 August 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
* ↑ "1. Bundesliga - Werder Bremen" (in German). kicker. Retrieved 24 August 2012.