# 2018–19 Borussia Mönchengladbach season

The 2018–19 Borussia Mönchengladbach season was the 119th season in the football club's history and 11th consecutive and 51st overall season in the top flight of German football, the Bundesliga, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 2008. In addition to the domestic league, Borussia Mönchengladbach also participated in this season's edition of the domestic cup, the DFB-Pokal. This was the 15th season for Mönchengladbach in the Borussia-Park, located in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The season covered a period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.

## Players
### Squad information

    As of 29 January 2019
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | SUI | Yann Sommer (vice-captain) |
| 2 | DF | ENG | Mandela Egbo |
| 3 | DF | SUI | Michael Lang |
| 5 | MF | GER | Tobias Strobl |
| 6 | MF | GER | Christoph Kramer |
| 7 | MF | GER | Patrick Herrmann |
| 8 | MF | SUI | Denis Zakaria |
| 10 | FW | BEL | Thorgan Hazard |
| 11 | FW | BRA | Raffael |
| 13 | FW | GER | Lars Stindl (captain) |
| 14 | FW | FRA | Alassane Pléa |
| 15 | DF | GER | Jordan Beyer |
| 16 | MF | GUI | Ibrahima Traoré |
| 17 | DF | SWE | Oscar Wendt (3rd captain) |
| 18 | FW | SUI | Josip Drmić |
| 19 | MF | USA | Fabian Johnson |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | FW | PAR | Julio Villalba |
| 21 | GK | GER | Tobias Sippel |
| 23 | MF | GER | Jonas Hofmann |
| 24 | DF | GER | Tony Jantschke |
| 26 | FW | GER | Torben Müsel |
| 27 | MF | FRA | Mickaël Cuisance |
| 28 | DF | GER | Matthias Ginter |
| 29 | DF | FRA | Mamadou Doucouré |
| 30 | DF | SUI | Nico Elvedi |
| 32 | MF | GER | Florian Neuhaus |
| 35 | GK | GER | Moritz Nicolas |
| 37 | MF | ENG | Keanan Bennetts |
| 38 | DF | GER | Marcel Benger |
| 40 | DF | DEN | Andreas Poulsen |
| 42 | DF | GER | Florian Mayer |

### Loans

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | SVK | László Bénes (on loan to Holstein Kiel until 30 June 2019) |

### Transfers
#### In

| No. | Pos | Player | From | Type | Window | Ends | Fee |
| 3 | DF | Michael Lang | FC Basel | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | €2,800,000 |
| 14 | FW | Alassane Pléa | Nice | Transfer | Summer | 2023 | €23,000,000 |
| 32 | MF | Florian Neuhaus | Fortuna Düsseldorf | Loan return | Summer | 2022 | Free |
| 37 | MF | Keanan Bennetts | Tottenham Hotspur U23 | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | €2,250,000 |
| 40 | MF | Andreas Poulsen | FC Midtjylland | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | €4,500,000 |
| 42 | DF | Florian Mayer | Borussia Mönchengladbach II | Promoted | Summer | 2019 | Free |
| – | DF | Jordan Beyer | Borussia Mönchengladbach U19 | Promoted | Summer | | Free |
| – | GK | Janis Blaswich | Hansa Rostock | Loan return | Summer | 2019 | Free |
| – | MF | Tsiy William Ndenge | Roda JC | Loan return | Summer | 2019 | Free |
| – | FW | Kwame Yeboah | SC Paderborn | Loan return | Summer | 2019 | Free |

#### Out

| No. | Pos | Player | To | Type | Window | Fee |
| 3 | DF | Reece Oxford | West Ham | Loan return | Summer | Free |
| 4 | DF | Jannik Vestergaard | Southampton | Transfer | Summer | €25,000,000 |
| 26 | FW | Raúl Bobadilla | Argentinos Juniors | Transfer | Summer | €1,800,000 |
| 32 | FW | Vincenzo Grifo | 1899 Hoffenheim | Transfer | Summer | €5,500,000 |
| 33 | GK | Christofer Heimeroth | | Retired | Summer | |
| 44 | FW | Ba-Muaka Simakala | Borussia Mönchengladbach II | Transfer | Summer | Free |
| – | GK | Janis Blaswich | Heracles Almelo | Transfer | Summer | Undisclosed |
| — | MF | Tsiy William Ndenge | Borussia Mönchengladbach II | Transfer | Summer | Free |
| — | FW | Kwame Yeboah | SC Fortuna Köln | Transfer | Summer | Undisclosed |

## Friendly matches

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions

Win  Draw  Loss

### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Bundesliga | 25 August 2018 | 18 May 2019 | Matchday 1 | 5th | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 55 | 42 | +13 | 047.06 |
| DFB-Pokal | 19 August 2018 | 31 October 2018 | First round | Second round | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 36 | 17 | 7 | 12 | 66 | 48 | +18 | 047.22 |
Last updated: 25 May 2019 Source: Competitions

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 3 | RB Leipzig | 34 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 63 | 29 | +34 | 66 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 4 | Bayer Leverkusen | 34 | 18 | 4 | 12 | 69 | 52 | +17 | 58 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 5 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 55 | 42 | +13 | 55 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 6 | VfL Wolfsburg | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 62 | 50 | +12 | 55 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 7 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 34 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 60 | 48 | +12 | 54 | Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round |
* 1 2 Since the winners of the 2018–19 DFB-Pokal, Bayern Munich, qualified for the Champions League based on league position, the Europa League group stage spot was passed to the sixth-placed team, and the Europa League second qualifying round spot was passed to the seventh-placed team.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 25 May 2019. Source: Bundesliga

#### 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 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | W | D | W | L | W | D | W | W | L | W | W | W | L | W | D | W | L | W | W | W | L | D | L | L | W | D | L | D | W | L | L | D | W | L |
| Position | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 |

#### Matches
### DFB-Pokal
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| 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 | Yann Sommer | 35 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | GK | GER | Tobias Sippel | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 35 | GK | GER | Moritz Nicolas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 2 | DF | ENG | Mandela Egbo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | SUI | Michael Lang | 18 | 1 | 15+2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | GER | Jordan Beyer | 10 | 0 | 8+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | SWE | Oscar Wendt | 34 | 1 | 30+2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | GER | Tony Jantschke | 15 | 0 | 10+4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | GER | Matthias Ginter | 29 | 2 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | FRA | Mamadou Doucouré | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | DF | SUI | Nico Elvedi | 31 | 2 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 38 | DF | GER | Marcel Benger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | DF | DEN | Andreas Poulsen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 42 | DF | GER | Florian Mayer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 5 | MF | GER | Tobias Strobl | 30 | 0 | 26+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | GER | Christoph Kramer | 19 | 2 | 13+5 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | GER | Patrick Herrmann | 25 | 3 | 10+14 | 3 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | SUI | Denis Zakaria | 32 | 4 | 21+10 | 4 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | GUI | Ibrahima Traoré | 17 | 0 | 5+11 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | USA | Fabian Johnson | 18 | 1 | 11+7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | GER | Jonas Hofmann | 29 | 6 | 21+6 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| 27 | MF | FRA | Michaël Cuisance | 13 | 0 | 1+10 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | GER | Florian Neuhaus | 34 | 4 | 25+7 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 37 | MF | ENG | Keanan Bennetts | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 10 | FW | BEL | Thorgan Hazard | 35 | 13 | 33 | 10 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | FW | BRA | Raffael | 14 | 5 | 5+8 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 13 | FW | GER | Lars Stindl | 22 | 3 | 19+2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | FRA | Alassane Pléa | 35 | 15 | 28+6 | 12 | 1 | 3 |
| 18 | FW | SUI | Josip Drmić | 5 | 2 | 2+3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | PAR | Julio Villalba | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | FW | GER | Torben Müsel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||
| 22 | MF | SVK | László Bénes | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 18 May 2019 Source: Competitions