Werder Bremen

Werder Bremen
Full name	Sport-Verein Werder von 1899 e. V. Bremen
Founded	4 February 1899
Ground	Weserstadion, Bremen; (capacity: 42,354)
Chairman	Klaus-Dieter Fischer
Manager	Viktor Skripnik
League	Bundesliga
2010/11	Bundesliga, 13th

The Sport-Verein Werder von 1899 e. V. Bremen is a German football club playing in the city of Bremen. The club was founded in 1899 as FV Werder by a group of sixteen high school students. The students had won a football as prize in a tug of war competition. In 1920 the name was changed from FV to SV werder Bremen. In this year chess, baseball, cricket and track and field athletics became part of the club. But football was and still is the most important part of the club.^[1]

The name "Werder" is a not very common regional word which means "River peninsula". The first play ground of Werder Bremen was beside the Weser river. Today they play in the Weserstadion.

The club's first team plays in the German Bundesliga. The second team of Werder Bremen is playing in Germanys 4th league. The women team is playing in the Second Bundesliga. Their colors are green and white (Grün und Weiß).

Current squad

As of 16 October 2021

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Jiří Pavlenka
3	DF	Anthony Jung
7	FW	Marvin Ducksch
8	DF	Mitchell Weiser (on loan from Bayer Leverkusen)
10	MF	Leonardo Bittencourt
11	FW	Niclas Füllkrug
13	DF	Miloš Veljković
15	FW	Roger Assalé (on loan from Dijon)
16	MF	Oscar Schönfelder
17	FW	Abdenego Nankishi
20	MF	Romano Schmid
21	DF	Ömer Toprak (captain)
22	MF	Niklas Schmidt

No.	Position	Player
23	MF	Nicolai Rapp
25	DF	Kyu-hyun Park
26	DF	Lars Lukas Mai (on loan from Bayern Munich)
27	DF	Felix Agu
28	MF	Ilia Gruev
29	FW	Nick Woltemade
30	GK	Michael Zetterer
32	DF	Marco Friedl
34	MF	Jean-Manuel Mbom
36	DF	Christian Groß
39	DF	Fabio Chiarodia
40	GK	Luca Plogmann
43	FW	Eren Dinkçi

Coaching staff

Manager Thomas Schaaf, who has been managing Werder Bremen from 1999 to 2013.

Position	Staff
First Team Coach (interim)	Wolfgang Rolff
Assistant First Team Coach	Matthias Hönerbach
Goalkeeper Trainer	Michael Kraft
Club Doctor	Dr. Götz Dimanski
Physio	Holger Berger
Assistant Physio	Florian Lauerer
Reserve Team Manager	Thomas Wolter^[2]
Youth Team Manager	Uwe Harttgen

League position

Season	League	Position
2002/03	Bundesliga	6th
2003/04	Bundesliga	Champions
2004/05	Bundesliga	3rd
2005/06	Bundesliga	2nd
2006/07	Bundesliga	3rd
2007/08	Bundesliga	2nd
2008/09	Bundesliga	10th
2009/10	Bundesliga	3rd
2010/11	Bundesliga	13th
2011/12	Bundesliga	9th
2012/13	Bundesliga	14th
2013/14	Bundesliga	12th
2014/15	Bundesliga	10th
2015/16	Bundesliga	13th
2016/17	Bundesliga	8th
2017/18	Bundesliga	11th
2018/19	Bundesliga	8th
2019/20	Bundesliga	16th
2020/21	Bundesliga	17th (relegated)
2021/22	2. Bundesliga	2nd (promoted)

Former position

1963/64 : Bundesliga - 11th
1964/65 : Bundesliga - Champions
1965/66 : Bundesliga - 4th
1966/67 : Bundesliga - 16th
1967/68 : Bundesliga - 2nd
1968/69 : Bundesliga - 10th
1969/70 : Bundesliga - 11th
1970/71 : Bundesliga - 10th
1971/72 : Bundesliga - 12th
1972/73 : Bundesliga - 11th
1973/74 : Bundesliga - 11th
1974/75 : Bundesliga - 15th
1975/76 : Bundesliga - 13th
1976/77 : Bundesliga - 11th
1977/78 : Bundesliga - 15th
1978/79 : Bundesliga - 11th
1979/80 : Bundesliga - 17th
1981/82 : Bundesliga - 5th
1982/83 : Bundesliga - 2nd
1983/84 : Bundesliga - 5th
1984/85 : Bundesliga - 2nd
1985/86 : Bundesliga - 2nd
1986/87 : Bundesliga - 4th
1987/88 : Bundesliga - Champions
1988/89 : Bundesliga - 3rd
1989/90 : Bundesliga - 7th
1990/91 : Bundesliga - 3rd
1991/92 : Bundesliga - 9th
1992/93 : Bundesliga - Champions
1993/94 : Bundesliga - 9th
1994/95 : Bundesliga - 2nd
1995/96 : Bundesliga - 9th
1996/97 : Bundesliga - 8th
1997/98 : Bundesliga - 7th
1998/99 : Bundesliga - 14th
1999/00 : Bundesliga - 9th
2000/01 : Bundesliga - 7th
2001/02 : Bundesliga - 6th

Honours

Germany

German Bundesliga (4): 1965, 1988, 1993, 2004
German Cup (6): 1961, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009

International

Cup winner-Cup : 1992
UEFA-Cup-final: 2009

Manager history

Willi Multhaup 1963-1965
Günter Brocker 1965-04.09.1967
Fritz Langner 09.09.1967-1969
Fritz Rebell 1969-16.03.1970
Hans Tilkowski 17.03.1970-1970
Robert Gebhardt 1970-26.09.1971
Willi Multhaup 27.09.1971-24.10.1971
Josef Piontek 25.10.1971-07.05.1972
Fritz Langner 08.05.1972-1972
Josef Piontek 1972/1975
Herbert Burdenski 1975-28.02.1976
Otto Rehhagel 29.02.1976-1976
Hans Tilkowski 1976-22.12.1977
Fred Schulz 02.01.1978-1978
Wolfgang Weber 1978-29.01.1980
Fritz Langner 20.02.1980-1980
Kuno Klötzer 1980-1981
Otto Rehhagel 01.04.1981-1995
Aad de Mos 1995-09.01.96
Hans-Jürgen Dörner 14.01.96 - 20.08.97
Wolfgang Sidka 01.09.1997 - 22.10.1998
Felix Magath 22.10.1998 - 09.05.1999
Thomas Schaaf 10.05.1999 - 15.05.2013
Wolfgang Rolff 15.05.2013 -

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Notable players

Frank Baumann ( 1999-2009)
Arnold Schütz (1955-1972)
Dieter Burdenski (1972-1988, goalkeeper coach 1997-2005)
Horst-Dieter Höttges (1964-1978)
Marco Bode (1988-2002)
Andreas Herzog (1992-1995)

Team records

Marco Bode 101 goals
Dieter Burdenski 444 matches in the German Bundesliga
Horst-Dieter Höttges 66 matches for the German football national team
Werder Bremen - DSC Arminia Bielefeld 8:1 (2007) Werder Bremen - Offenbacher Kickers 8:1 (1983) highest victory
Eintracht Frankfurt - Werder Bremen 9:2 (1981) highest score in lost match

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Werder Bremen Media

Historical chart of Werder's league performance
Werder fans celebrating the team's 2008–09 DFB-Pokal triumph at the Bremen City Hall
Otto Rehhagel (2009 photograph) is the club's longest serving manager
The Weserstadion photographed in 2006
Werder fans at a home match in 2006
Original logo of German football club Werder Bremen from 1899.
Logo Werder Bremem
Logo Werder Bremem
Logo Werder Bremem
Logo Werder Bremem