# 2016–17 FSV Zwickau season

The 2016–17 FSV Zwickau season was their first season in the 3. Liga, the third tier of German football.

## Events

FSV Zwickau won promotion after beating SV Elversberg in the 2015–16 Regionalliga promotion play-offs.

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Name | Age | From | Type | Transfer Window | Contract ends | Transfer fee |
| GK | Maximilian Rosenkranz | 19 | FSV Zwickau U19 | Transfer | Summer | 2018 | Free |
| DF | Lukas Wilton | 21 | Hannover 96 II | Transfer | Summer | 2018 | |
| DF | Marcel Gebers | 30 | Kickers Offenbach | Transfer | Summer | 2018 | |
| MF | Felix Geisler | 19 | FC Energie Cottbus | Transfer | Summer | 2017 | |
| DF | Alexander Sorge | 23 | RB Leipzig II | Transfer | Summer | 2017 | |
| MF | Marcel Bär | 24 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | Transfer | Summer | 2017 | |
| GK | Johannes Brinkies | 23 | F.C. Hansa Rostock | Transfer | Summer | 2018 | |

### Out

| Pos. | Name | Age | To | Type | Transfer Window | Transfer fee | Ref. |
| DF | Sebastian Mai | 22 | SC Preußen Münster | Transfer | Summer | | |
| MF | Patrick Grandner | 28 | VFC Plauen | Transfer | Summer | | |

## Friendly matches

| Win | Draw | Loss |
| Date | Time | Opponent | Venue | Result | Scorers | Attendance | Ref. |

## Competitions
### 3. Liga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 3 | Jahn Regensburg (O, P) | 38 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 62 | 50 | +12 | 63 | Qualification for promotion play-offs and DFB-Pokal |
| 4 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 38 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 53 | 36 | +17 | 61 | Qualification for DFB-Pokal |
| 5 | FSV Zwickau | 38 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 47 | 54 | −7 | 56 | |
| 6 | VfL Osnabrück | 38 | 15 | 9 | 14 | 46 | 43 | +3 | 54 | |
| 7 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 38 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 45 | 42 | +3 | 53 | |

#### Matches

| Win | Draw | Loss |
| Date | Time | Opponent | Venue | Result | Scorers | Attendance | Referee | Ref. |
| 30 July 2016 | 20:00 | Mainz 05 II | Away | 2–2 | Frick 28', König 61' | 1,798 | Heft | |

### DFB-Pokal

| Win | Draw | Loss |
| Round | Date | Time | Opponent | Venue | Result | Scorers | Attendance | Referee | Ref. |
| First round | 22 August 2016 | 18:30 | Hamburger SV | Home | 0–1 | — | 10,134 | Kempter | |

### Saxony Cup

| Win | Draw | Loss |
| Round | Date | Time | Opponent | Venue | Result |
| Last 16 | 8 October 2016 | 14:30 | FC Grimma | Away | 2–0 |
| Quarter-final | 12 November 2016 | 13:00 | VfB Auerbach | Away | 2–1 (a.e.t.) |
| Semi-final | 19 April 2017 | 19:30 | Chemnitzer FC | Away | 1–2 (a.e.t.) |

## Player information

As of 11 June 2016.
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | 3. Liga | 3. Liga | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal | Saxony Cup | Saxony Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | GER | Tom Neukam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | GER | Patrick Wolf | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | GER | Robert Paul | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | MF | GER | Aykut Öztürk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | GER | Christoph Göbel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | GER | Oliver Genausch | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | FW | GER | Jonas Nietfeld | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | GER | Michael Schlicht | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | GER | Marc-Philipp Zimmermann | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | GER | Toni Wachsmuth | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | GER | Benjamin Keller | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | GER | Morris Schröter | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | GER | Davy Frick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | GER | René Lange | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | GK | GER | Marian Unger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | KAZ | Robert Berger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | GER | Alexander Morosow | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | FW | GER | Kevin Bönisch | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | GER | Patrick Göbel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | GK | GER | Maximilian Rosenkranz | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | DF | GER | Lukas Wilton | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | DF | GER | Marcel Gebers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | MF | GER | Felix Geisler | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | DF | GER | Alexander Sorge | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | MF | GER | Marcel Bär | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | GK | GER | Johannes Brinkies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |