# 2024–25 VfL Wolfsburg season

The 2024–25 season is the 80th season in the history of VfL Wolfsburg, and the club's 28th consecutive season in the Bundesliga. In addition to the domestic league, the club is participating in the DFB-Pokal.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 17 January 2025
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 | POL | Kamil Grabara |
| 2 | DF | GER | Kilian Fischer |
| 3 | DF | BEL | Sebastiaan Bornauw |
| 4 | DF | GRE | Konstantinos Koulierakis |
| 6 | MF | BEL | Aster Vranckx |
| 7 | FW | DEN | Andreas Skov Olsen |
| 8 | MF | TUR | Salih Özcan (on loan from Borussia Dortmund) |
| 9 | FW | ALG | Mohamed Amoura (on loan from Union Saint-Gilloise) |
| 10 | FW | GER | Lukas Nmecha |
| 11 | FW | POR | Tiago Tomás |
| 12 | GK | AUT | Pavao Pervan |
| 13 | DF | BRA | Rogério |
| 14 | FW | POL | Bartosz Białek |
| 16 | FW | POL | Jakub Kamiński |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | FW | GER | Kevin Behrens |
| 18 | DF | SVK | Denis Vavro (on loan from Copenhagen) |
| 19 | MF | CRO | Lovro Majer |
| 21 | DF | DEN | Joakim Mæhle |
| 22 | DF | FRA | Mathys Angely |
| 23 | FW | DEN | Jonas Wind |
| 24 | MF | GER | Bence Dárdai |
| 27 | MF | GER | Maximilian Arnold (captain) |
| 29 | GK | GER | Marius Müller |
| 30 | GK | GER | Niklas Klinger |
| 31 | MF | GER | Yannick Gerhardt |
| 32 | MF | SWE | Mattias Svanberg |
| 39 | FW | AUT | Patrick Wimmer |
| 40 | MF | USA | Kevin Paredes |

### Players out on loan

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 |
| — | GK | GER | Philipp Schulze (at SC Verl until 30 June 2025) |
| — | DF | GER | Manuel Braun (at Waldhof Mannheim until 30 June 2025) |
| — | DF | FRA | Nicolas Cozza (at Nantes until 30 June 2025) |
| — | DF | GER | Moritz Jenz (at Mainz 05 until 30 June 2025) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | GER | Kofi Amoako (at VfL Osnabrück until 30 June 2025) |
| — | MF | CRO | Bartol Franjić (at Shakhtar Donetsk until 30 June 2025) |
| — | FW | CZE | Václav Černý (at Rangers until 30 June 2025) |
| — | FW | GER | Dženan Pejčinović (at Fortuna Düsseldorf until 30 June 2025) |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| MF | Bence Dárdai | Hertha BSC | Free | 1 July 2024 |
| GK | Kamil Grabara | Copenhagen | €13,500,000 | 1 July 2024 |
| GK | Marius Müller | Schalke 04 | €1,500,000 | 1 July 2024 |
| FW | Mohamed Amoura | Union Saint-Gilloise | Loan | 8 July 2024 |
| DF | Mathys Angely | Bordeaux | Free | 13 August 2024 |
| MF | Salih Özcan | Borussia Dortmund | Loan | 28 August 2024 |
| DF | Konstantinos Koulierakis | PAOK | €11,750,000 | 29 August 2024 |
| DF | Denis Vavro | Copenhagen | Loan | 30 August 2024 |
| MF | Bartol Franjić | Shakhtar Donetsk | Loan return | 3 January 2025 |
| FW | Andreas Skov Olsen | Club Brugge | €14,000,000 | 17 January 2025 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| MF | Lukáš Ambros | Górnik Zabrze | Free | 1 July 2024 |
| MF | Ulysses Llanez | Free agent | End of contract | 1 July 2024 |
| FW | Maximilian Philipp | SC Freiburg | €1,000,000 | 1 July 2024 |
| GK | Koen Casteels | Al Qadsiah | Free | 1 July 2024 |
| FW | Luca Waldschmidt | 1. FC Köln | Free | 1 July 2024 |
| DF | Felix Lange | SV Meppen | Free | 1 July 2024 |
| GK | Philipp Schulze | SC Verl | Loan | 1 July 2024 |
| MF | Bartol Franjić | Shakhtar Donetsk | Loan | 9 July 2024 |
| FW | Dženan Pejčinović | Fortuna Düsseldorf | Loan | 19 July 2024 |
| MF | Václav Černý | Rangers | Loan | 26 July 2024 |
| MF | Kofi Amoako | VfL Osnabrück | Loan | 12 August 2024 |
| DF | Nicolas Cozza | Nantes | Loan | 28 August 2024 |
| DF | Moritz Jenz | Mainz 05 | Loan | 28 August 2024 |
| DF | Maxence Lacroix | Crystal Palace | €18,000,000 | 30 August 2024 |
| DF | Manuel Braun | Waldhof Mannheim | Loan | 2 September 2024 |
| MF | Bartol Franjić | Dinamo Zagreb | Loan | 10 January 2025 |
| MF | Ridle Baku | RB Leipzig | €4,500,000 | 10 January 2025 |
| DF | Cedric Zesiger | FC Augsburg | Loan | 14 January 2025 |

## Pre-season and friendlies

The official commencement of training was on 11 July. Between the dates of 1 and 9 August, the VfL Wolfsburg team participated in a training camp located in Schladming, Austria.

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Bundesliga | 25 August 2024 | 17 May 2025 | Matchday 1 | 26 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 49 | 40 | +9 | 038.46 |
| DFB-Pokal | 19 August 2024 | | First round | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | +5 | 100.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 29 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 54 | 40 | +14 | 044.83 |
Last updated: 15 March 2025 Source: Soccerway

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 6 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 26 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 43 | 40 | +3 | 40 | Qualification for the Conference League play-off round |
| 7 | RB Leipzig | 25 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 39 | 33 | +6 | 39 | |
| 8 | VfL Wolfsburg | 26 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 49 | 40 | +9 | 38 | |
| 9 | FC Augsburg | 26 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 29 | 35 | −6 | 38 | |
| 10 | VfB Stuttgart | 25 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 44 | 39 | +5 | 37 | |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 15 March 2025. Source: DFB

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | W | L | L | D | W | L | D | D | W | W | W | W | L | L | W | W | L | D | D | D | W | D | W | D | L |
| Position | 14 | 6 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 9 | | | 7 | | |

#### Matches

The league schedule was released on 4 July 2024.