# 2009–10 SV Werder Bremen season

During the 2009–10 German football season, SV Werder Bremen competed in the Bundesliga.

## Season summary

After last season's poor league form, 2009–10 saw a return to business for Bremen as they finished third, qualifying for the Champions League qualifying rounds. Bremen also reached the DFB-Pokal final for the second season running, but lost to Bayern Munich.

## Players
### First-team squad

    Squad at end of 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 |
| 1 | GK | GER | Tim Wiese |
| 2 | DF | GER | Sebastian Boenisch |
| 3 | DF | FIN | Petri Pasanen |
| 4 | DF | BRA | Naldo |
| 6 | MF | GER | Tim Borowski |
| 8 | DF | GER | Clemens Fritz |
| 9 | FW | SWE | Markus Rosenberg |
| 10 | MF | GER | Marko Marin |
| 11 | MF | GER | Mesut Özil |
| 14 | MF | GER | Aaron Hunt |
| 15 | DF | AUT | Sebastian Prödl |
| 16 | DF | TUN | Aymen Abdennour (on loan from Étoile du Sahel) |
| 17 | MF | BIH | Said Husejinović |
| 19 | FW | GER | Sandro Wagner |
| 20 | MF | DEN | Daniel Jensen |
| 21 | GK | GER | Sebastian Mielitz |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 22 | MF | GER | Torsten Frings (captain) |
| 23 | FW | POR | Hugo Almeida |
| 24 | FW | PER | Claudio Pizarro |
| 25 | MF | GER | Peter Niemeyer |
| 27 | DF | GER | Niklas Andersen |
| 29 | DF | GER | Per Mertesacker |
| 30 | FW | HUN | Márkó Futács |
| 31 | MF | GER | Kevin Artmann |
| 32 | MF | GER | José-Alex Ikeng |
| 33 | GK | GER | Christian Vander |
| 41 | DF | GER | Dominik Schmidt |
| 42 | GK | GER | Felix Wiedwald |
| 43 | FW | GER | Pascal Testroet |
| 44 | MF | GER | Philipp Bargfrede |
| 45 | DF | GER | Timo Perthel |
| 46 | MF | TUR | Onur Ayık |

### 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 |
| 5 | DF | SRB | Duško Tošić (released) |
| 7 | MF | CRO | Jurica Vranješ (on loan to Gençlerbirliği) |
| 18 | FW | CIV | Boubacar Sanogo (to Saint-Étienne) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 34 | FW | AUT | Martin Harnik (on loan to Fortuna Düsseldorf) |
| 39 | FW | BOL | Marcelo Moreno (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk) |
| 47 | FW | GER | Torsten Oehrl (on loan to Fortuna Düsseldorf) |

## Results
### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Bayern Munich (C) | 34 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 72 | 31 | +41 | 70 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Schalke 04 | 34 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 53 | 31 | +22 | 65 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Werder Bremen | 34 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 71 | 40 | +31 | 61 | Qualification to Champions League play-off round |
| 4 | Bayer Leverkusen | 34 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 65 | 38 | +27 | 59 | Qualification to Europa League play-off round |
| 5 | Borussia Dortmund | 34 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 54 | 42 | +12 | 57 | Qualification to Europa League play-off round |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Soccerway

#### Matches
### UEFA Europa League
#### Play-off round

Werder Bremen won 8–3 on aggregate.

#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | BRM | ATH | NCL | AUS |
| 1 | Werder Bremen | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 6 | +11 | 16 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 3–1 | 4–1 | 2–0 |
| 2 | Athletic Bilbao | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 10 | Advance to knockout phase | 0–3 | — | 2–1 | 3–0 |
| 3 | Nacional | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 12 | −1 | 5 | | 2–3 | 1–1 | — | 5–1 |
| 4 | Austria Wien | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 16 | −12 | 2 | | 2–2 | 0–3 | 1–1 | — |

#### Knockout phase
##### Round of 32

Werder Bremen won 4–2 on aggregate.

##### Round of 16

Valencia 5–5 Werder Bremen on aggregate. Valencia won on away goals.