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| Full name | Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V. | |||
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| Founded | 1907; 118 years ago (1907) | |||
| Ground | Benteler-Arena | |||
| Capacity | 15,000 | |||
| President | Elmar Volkmann | |||
| Head coach | Lukas Kwasniok | |||
| League | 2. Bundesliga | |||
| 2023–24 | 2. Bundesliga, 7th of 18 | |||
| Website | scp07.de | |||
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Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V., commonly known as simplySC Paderborn 07 (pronounced[ʔɛst͡seːpaːdɐˈbɔʁnnʊlziːbm̩]) orSC Paderborn, is aGerman association football club based inPaderborn,North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has enjoyed its greatest success since the turn of the millennium, becoming a mainstay in the2. Bundesliga before securing promotion to the Bundesliga in the 2013–14 season. However, they got relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after only a season in the top division, and then again to the3. Liga the season after. This relegation streak almost continued as low as theRegionalliga West, but were saved in the2016-17 season because1860 Munich were refused a license. The club returned to 2. Bundesliga, reaching 2nd place in the2018–19 season and was promoted to theBundesliga. The club finished 18th in the2019–20 season and returned to the 2. Bundesliga.
For most of the twentieth century, Paderborn had two football clubs: TuS Schloss Neuhaus and FC Paderborn, who remained rivals until the 1980s. After Neuhaus had been promoted to the2. Bundesliga and finished last in 1983, this set-up had reached its athletic and financial ceiling. Thus, in 1985, the two clubs merged intoTuS Paderborn/Neuhaus. In 1997, the club adopted its current identity by assuming the nameSC Paderborn 07, named after TuS Neuhaus's founding date 1907.[1]
During most of the 1980s, the recently merged club competed in the third-tierOberliga Westfalen, where they counted among the leading teams but never achieved promotion. In 1994, Paderborn won the league and thereby qualified for the promotion playoffs. The team lost toEintracht Braunschweig andFortuna Düsseldorf, but secured a place in the newly formed third-tier of theGerman football pyramid, theRegionalliga West/Südwest. Except for a brief stint in the fourth tier, Paderborn enjoyed moderate success with regular trips to theDFB Pokal.[2]
During one of these, in2004/5, the club reached the round of 16, beatingMSV Duisburg and Bundesliga sideHamburger SV on the way. It later emerged that latter match had been affected bymatch fixing; referee Robert Hoyzer had received a bribe to let Paderborn win the game. The incident remains the most significant betting scandal in the history of German football.[3]
Paderborn returned to the2. Bundesliga for the first time in nearly thirty years at the end of the same season. The team's advance into professional football brought with it a professionalisation of its structures, and, in 2005, construction began on a new15,000-seat stadium, which replaced the datedHermann-Löns-Stadion. All of this helped to establish the club as a regular component of Germany's professional football landscape.[4] This process culminated in the club's first promotion to theBundesliga after the2013/14 season under coachAndré Breitenreiter, who had only joined the club fromTSV Havelse at the start of the season.[5]
Having never been in the Bundesliga before, Paderborn were described as "the biggest outsider in Bundesliga history" going into the season. The team started well; in the fourth game of the campaign againstHannover 96, midfielderMoritz Stoppelkamp scored a volley from 83 metres out, headline a Bundesliga record for the furthest ever goal. This goal also put the team top of the Bundesliga table at the time.[6]
Paderborn were 10th in the table at the halfway point, but suffered a number of heavy losses in the second half of the season. On the second last matchday of the season, they dropped to last place, and were relegated on the final day.[7] Upon relegation, a number of key players such asAlban Meha,Mario Vrančić,Lukas Rupp,Marvin Ducksch and captainUwe Hünemeier left the club, while coach Breitenreiter joinedSchalke.
Starting the2015–16 season withMarkus Gellhaus in charge, Paderborn surprisingly gave former Germany internationalStefan Effenberg his first coaching job in October 2015. In March, Effenberg was sacked, with the team bottom of the table and heading for a second consecutive relegation, which was later confirmed.[8] Competing in the3. Liga for the first time since 2009, Paderborn again found themselves at the bottom of the table. AfterSteffen Baumgart took over as coach in April, the team picked up 11 points from his five games in charge, but could not escape the relegation zone, finishing in 18th position. That should have been a third relegation in a row, this time to the non-professionalRegionalliga West, but Paderborn were unexpectedly saved by1860 Munich not receiving a license to play in the 3. Liga.1860 Munich were forced to move to theRegionalliga Bayern, which allowed Paderborn to stay in the third tier.[9]
Having been saved narrowly, Baumgart's team surprisingly finished second in the2017–18 season and returned to the 2. Bundesliga. In 2019, a remarkable turn of events, the newly promoted side completed another top-two finish, which returned Paderborn to the Bundesliga after years of turbulence.[10] The2019–20 season, however, ended in the same way their first Bundesliga campaign did, as Paderborn finished last, meaning relegation back to the second tier in June 2020.[11] The following season, Paderborn finished 9th in the 2. Bundesliga, the first time since 2012–13 that the club finished outside the promotion or relegation places.
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| Year | Division | Tier | Position |
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| 1985–86 | Oberliga Westfalen | III | 2nd |
| 1986–87 | Oberliga Westfalen | 6th | |
| 1987–88 | Oberliga Westfalen | 8th | |
| 1988–89 | Oberliga Westfalen | 9th | |
| 1989–90 | Oberliga Westfalen | 2nd | |
| 1990–91 | Oberliga Westfalen | 8th | |
| 1991–92 | Oberliga Westfalen | 5th | |
| 1992–93 | Oberliga Westfalen | 5th | |
| 1993–94 | Oberliga Westfalen | 1st | |
| 1994–95 | Regionalliga West/Südwest | 9th | |
| 1995–96 | Regionalliga West/Südwest | 5th | |
| 1996–97 | Regionalliga West/Südwest | 10th | |
| 1997–98 | Regionalliga West/Südwest | 9th | |
| 1998–99 | Regionalliga West/Südwest | 7th | |
| 1999–00 | Regionalliga West/Südwest | 13th ↓ | |
| 2000–01 | Oberliga Westfalen | IV | 1st ↑ |
| 2001–02 | Regionalliga Nord | III | 14th |
| 2002–03 | Regionalliga Nord | 8th | |
| 2003–04 | Regionalliga Nord | 3rd | |
| 2004–05 | Regionalliga Nord | 2nd ↑ | |
| 2005–06 | 2. Bundesliga | II | 9th |
| 2006–07 | 2. Bundesliga | 11th | |
| 2007–08 | 2. Bundesliga | 17th ↓ | |
| 2008–09 | 3. Liga | III | 3rd ↑ |
| 2009–10 | 2. Bundesliga | II | 5th |
| 2010–11 | 2. Bundesliga | 12th | |
| 2011–12 | 2. Bundesliga | 5th | |
| 2012–13 | 2. Bundesliga | 12th | |
| 2013–14 | 2. Bundesliga | 2nd ↑ | |
| 2014–15 | Bundesliga | I | 18th ↓ |
| 2015–16 | 2. Bundesliga | II | 18th ↓ |
| 2016–17 | 3. Liga | III | 18th |
| 2017–18 | 3. Liga | 2nd ↑ | |
| 2018–19 | 2. Bundesliga | II | 2nd ↑ |
| 2019–20 | Bundesliga | I | 18th ↓ |
| 2020–21 | 2. Bundesliga | II | 9th |
| 2021–22 | 2. Bundesliga | 7th | |
| 2022–23 | 2. Bundesliga | 6th | |
| 2023–24 | 2. Bundesliga | 7th | |
| 2024–25 | 2. Bundesliga |
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Günther Rybarczyk (1993–2001)Uwe Erkenbrecher (2001–2003)
Pavel Dochev (2003–2005)
Jos Luhukay (2005–2006)Holger Fach (2007–2008)Pavel Dochev (2008–2009)André Schubert (2009–2011)Roger Schmidt (2011–2012)Stephan Schmidt (2012–2013)André Breitenreiter (2013–2015)Stefan Effenberg (2015–2016)René Müller (2016)Florian Fulland (2016) (interim)Stefan Emmerling (2016–2017)Steffen Baumgart (2017–2021)
Lukas Kwasniok (2021–)
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