| 2020–21 season | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| President | Fritz Keller | |||
| Manager | Christian Streich | |||
| Stadium | Schwarzwald-Stadion | |||
| Bundesliga | 10th | |||
| DFB-Pokal | Second round | |||
| Top goalscorer | League: Vincenzo Grifo (9) All: Vincenzo Grifo (9) | |||
The2020–21 season was the 122nd season in the existence ofSC Freiburg and the club's fifth consecutive season in the top flight ofGerman football. In addition to thedomestic league, SC Freiburg participated in this season's edition of theDFB-Pokal. The season covered the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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| Pos | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FW |  Ermedin Demirović |  Alavés | €3,700,000 | 5 August 2020 | [2] |
| GK |  Benjamin Uphoff | Karlsruher SC | Free | [3] | |
| MF |  Guus Til |  Spartak Moscow | Loan | 3 September 2020 | [4] |
| GK | Florian Müller | Mainz 05 | Loan | 15 September 2020 | [5] |
| MF |  Baptiste Santamaria | Angers | €10,000,000 | 17 September 2020 | [6] |
| Pos | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DF | Pascal Stenzel | VfB Stuttgart | €1,300,000 | 1 July 2020 | [7] |
| MF | Yoric Ravet | Grenoble | Undisclosed | [8] | |
| MF | Jérôme Gondorf | Karlsruher SC | Undisclosed | ||
| MF | Mike Frantz | Hannover 96 | Undisclosed | 22 July 2020 | [9] |
| DF |  Chima Okoroji | SC Paderborn | Loan | 28 July 2020 | |
| DF | Nico Schlotterbeck | Union Berlin | Loan | 31 July 2020 | [10] |
| GK | Alexander Schwolow | Hertha BSC | €8,000,000 | 4 August 2020 | [11] |
| FW | Christoph Daferner | Dynamo Dresden | Undisclosed | 7 August 2020 | [12] |
| FW | Luca Waldschmidt |  Benfica | €15,000,000 | 14 August 2020 | [13] |
| DF | Robin Koch | Leeds United | €13,000,000 | 29 August 2020 | [14] |
| FW |  Brandon Borrello | Fortuna Düsseldorf | Loan | 1 September 2020 | [15] |
| DF |  Mohamed Dräger |  Olympiacos | €1,000,000 | 27 September 2020 | [16] |
| FW | Marco Terrazzino | Contract termination | 5 October 2020 | [17] | |
| MF | Florian Kath | 1. FC Magdeburg | Loan | [18] | |
| GK | Constantin Frommann | Contract termination | 6 October 2020 | [19] | |
| DF | Gian-Luca Itter | Greuther Fürth | Loan | 11 January 2021 | [20] |
| MF |  Amir Abrashi |  FC Basel | Loan | 27 January 2021 | [21] |
Win Draw Loss
vKarlsruher SC| 15 August 2020Friendly | SC Freiburg | 1–1 | Karlsruher SC | Freiburg, Germany |
| 16:30CEST (UTC+2) | Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion |
v SC Freiburg| 22 August 2020Friendly | Dornbirn | 1–8 | SC Freiburg | Tschagguns, Austria |
| 14:30CEST (UTC+2) |
| Stadium:Aktivpark Montafon | ||
| Note: Match was played in two 60-minute halves. | ||||
v SC Freiburg| 29 August 2020Friendly | St. Gallen | 3–1 | SC Freiburg | St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| 14:30CEST (UTC+2) | Stadium:Kybunpark |
v
Górnik Zabrze| 6 September 2020Friendly | SC Freiburg | 4–1 | Górnik Zabrze | Freiburg, Germany |
| 16:30CEST (UTC+2) | Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion |
vSV Sandhausen| 6 September 2020Friendly | SC Freiburg | 1–1 | SV Sandhausen | Freiburg, Germany |
| 18:30CEST (UTC+2) | Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion |
vVfB Stuttgart| 8 October 2020Friendly | SC Freiburg | 0–3 | VfB Stuttgart | Freiburg, Germany |
| 14:00CEST (UTC+2) | Report | Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion |
vBasel| 25 March 2021Friendly | SC Freiburg | 2–0 | Basel | Freiburg, Germany |
| 14:00CET (UTC+1) | Report | Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Referee: Matthias Jöllenbeck |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | |||||
| Bundesliga | 19 September 2020 | 22 May 2021 | Matchday 1 | 10th | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 52 | 52 | +0 | 035.29 |
| DFB-Pokal | 13 September 2020 | 23 December 2020 | First round | Second round | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | +0 | 050.00 |
| Total | 36 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 54 | 54 | +0 | 036.11 | ||||
Last updated: 22 May 2021
Source:Soccerway
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 34 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 64 | 56 | +8 | 49 |
| 9 | VfB Stuttgart | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 56 | 55 | +1 | 45 |
| 10 | SC Freiburg | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 52 | 52 | 0 | 45 |
| 11 | 1899 Hoffenheim | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 52 | 54 | −2 | 43 |
| 12 | Mainz 05 | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 39 | 56 | −17 | 39 |
| Overall | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
| 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 52 | 52 | 0 | 45 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 33 | 23 | +10 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 29 | −10 |
Last updated: 22 May 2021.
Source:DFB
| 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 |
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| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | D | L | D | D | L | L | L | D | D | W | W | W | W | W | L | D | W | L | W | D | L | W | L | L | W | L | L | W | L | D | W | D | L |
| Position | 6 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 |
The league fixtures were announced on 7 August 2020.[23]
| 19 September 20201 | VfB Stuttgart | 2–3 | SC Freiburg | Stuttgart |
| 15:30CEST (UTC+2) | Report | Stadium:Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 7,123 Referee:Benjamin Cortus |
| 27 September 20202 | SC Freiburg | 1–1 | VfL Wolfsburg | Freiburg |
| 18:00CEST (UTC+2) |
| Report |
| Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 3,200 Referee:Sören Storks |
| 3 October 20203 | Borussia Dortmund | 4–0 | SC Freiburg | Dortmund |
| 15:30CEST (UTC+2) | Report |
| Stadium:Signal Iduna Park Attendance: 11,500 Referee:Guido Winkmann |
| 17 October 20204 | SC Freiburg | 1–1 | Werder Bremen | Freiburg |
| 15:30CEST (UTC+2) |
| Report |
| Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee:Christian Dingert |
| 24 October 20205 | Union Berlin | 1–1 | SC Freiburg | Berlin |
| 15:30CEST (UTC+2) |
| Report |
| Stadium:Stadion An der Alten Försterei Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Robert Schröder |
| 1 November 20206 | SC Freiburg | 2–4 | Bayer Leverkusen | Freiburg |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) | Report | Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee:Benjamin Cortus |
| 7 November 20207 | RB Leipzig | 3–0 | SC Freiburg | Leipzig |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) | Report |
| Stadium:Red Bull Arena Attendance: 0 Referee:Felix Zwayer |
| 22 November 20208 | SC Freiburg | 1–3 | Mainz 05 | Freiburg |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) |
| Report | Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee:Martin Petersen |
| 28 November 20209 | FC Augsburg | 1–1 | SC Freiburg | Augsburg |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) | Report | Stadium:WWK Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Robert Schröder |
| 5 December 202010 | SC Freiburg | 2–2 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | Freiburg |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) |
| Report | Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee:Tobias Stieler |
| 12 December 202011 | SC Freiburg | 2–0 | Arminia Bielefeld | Freiburg |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) | Report | Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee:Harm Osmers |
| 16 December 202012 | Schalke 04 | 0–2 | SC Freiburg | Gelsenkirchen |
| 18:30CET (UTC+1) | Report |
| Stadium:Veltins-Arena Attendance: 0 Referee:Sven Jablonski |
| 20 December 202013 | SC Freiburg | 4–1 | Hertha BSC | Freiburg |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) | Report |
| Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Tobias Reichel |
| 2 January 202114 | 1899 Hoffenheim | 1–3 | SC Freiburg | Sinsheim |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) | Report | Stadium:Rhein-Neckar-Arena Attendance: 0 Referee:Robert Hartmann |
| 9 January 202115 | SC Freiburg | 5–0 | 1. FC Köln | Freiburg |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) | Report | Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Robert Schröder |
| 17 January 202116 | Bayern Munich | 2–1 | SC Freiburg | Munich |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) |
| Report | Stadium:Allianz Arena Attendance: 0 Referee:Christian Dingert |
| 20 January 202117 | SC Freiburg | 2–2 | Eintracht Frankfurt | Freiburg |
| 20:30CET (UTC+1) | Report | Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee:Guido Winkmann |
| 23 January 202118 | SC Freiburg | 2–1 | VfB Stuttgart | Freiburg |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) | Report | Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee:Tobias Stieler |
| 31 January 202119 | VfL Wolfsburg | 3–0 | SC Freiburg | Wolfsburg |
| 18:00CET (UTC+1) | Report | Stadium:Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Tobias Reichel |
| 6 February 202120 | SC Freiburg | 2–1 | Borussia Dortmund | Freiburg |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) | Report |
| Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee:Felix Brych |
| 13 February 202121 | Werder Bremen | 0–0 | SC Freiburg | Bremen |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) | Report | Stadium:Weser-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee:Manuel Gräfe |
| 20 February 202122 | SC Freiburg | 0–1 | Union Berlin | Freiburg |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) | Report |
| Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee:Sören Storks |
| 28 February 202123 | Bayer Leverkusen | 1–2 | SC Freiburg | Leverkusen |
| 18:00CET (UTC+1) | Report | Stadium:BayArena Attendance: 0 Referee:Felix Zwayer |
| 6 March 202124 | SC Freiburg | 0–3 | RB Leipzig | Freiburg |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) |
| Report | Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee:Guido Winkmann |
| 13 March 202125 | Mainz 05 | 1–0 | SC Freiburg | Mainz |
| 15:30CET (UTC+1) | Report |
| Stadium:Opel Arena Attendance: 0 Referee:Benjamin Cortus |
| 21 March 202126 | SC Freiburg | 2–0 | FC Augsburg | Freiburg |
| 18:00CET (UTC+1) | Report |
| Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee:Bastian Dankert |
| 3 April 202127 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 2–1 | SC Freiburg | Mönchengladbach |
| 20:30CEST (UTC+2) | Report | Stadium:Borussia-Park Attendance: 0 Referee:Christian Dingert |
| 9 April 202128 | Arminia Bielefeld | 1–0 | SC Freiburg | Bielefeld |
| 20:30CEST (UTC+2) |
| Report |
| Stadium:Bielefelder Alm Attendance: 0 Referee:Martin Petersen |
| 17 April 202129 | SC Freiburg | 4–0 | Schalke 04 | Freiburg |
| 15:30CEST (UTC+2) | Report |
| Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Tobias Reichel |
| 24 April 202131 | SC Freiburg | 1–1 | 1899 Hoffenheim | Freiburg |
| 15:30CEST (UTC+2) |
| Report |
| Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee:Manuel Gräfe |
| 6 May 202130 | Hertha BSC | 3–0 | SC Freiburg | Berlin |
| 18:30CEST (UTC+2) | Report | Stadium:Olympiastadion Attendance: 0 Referee:Benjamin Cortus | ||
| Note: The match was originally scheduled for 21 April 2021, but was postponed after more than ten Hertha players and staff tested positive forCOVID-19.[24] | ||||
| 9 May 202132 | 1. FC Köln | 1–4 | SC Freiburg | Cologne |
| 13:30CEST (UTC+2) | Report | Stadium:RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 0 Referee:Marco Fritz |
| 15 May 202133 | SC Freiburg | 2–2 | Bayern Munich | Freiburg |
| 15:30CEST (UTC+2) | Report |
| Stadium:Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Florian Badstübner |
| 22 May 202134 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 3–1 | SC Freiburg | Frankfurt |
| 15:30CEST (UTC+2) | Report |
| Stadium:Deutsche Bank Park Attendance: 0 Referee:Christian Dingert |
| 13 September 2020First round | Waldhof Mannheim | 1–2 | SC Freiburg | Mannheim |
| 18:30CEST (UTC+2) |
| Report | Stadium:Carl-Benz-Stadion Attendance: 460 Referee:Markus Schmidt |
| 23 December 2020Second round | VfB Stuttgart | 1–0 | SC Freiburg | Stuttgart |
| 18:30CET (UTC+1) | Report |
| Stadium:Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 0 Referee:Felix Brych |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||||||
| Goalkeepers | |||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | GER | Benjamin Uphoff | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 21 | GK | GER | Florian Müller | 31 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 26 | GK | NED | Mark Flekken | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 40 | GK | GER | Niclas Thiede | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Defenders | |||||||||||||
| 3 | DF | AUT | Philipp Lienhart | 36 | 4 | 34 | 4 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 5 | DF | GER | Manuel Gulde | 27 | 2 | 22+5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 17 | DF | GER | Lukas Kübler | 20 | 0 | 11+8 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | ||||
| 23 | DF | GER | Dominique Heintz | 23 | 0 | 14+7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 30 | DF | GER | Christian Günter | 36 | 3 | 34 | 3 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 31 | DF | GER | Keven Schlotterbeck | 25 | 0 | 18+6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Midfielders | |||||||||||||
| 7 | MF | FRA | Jonathan Schmid | 33 | 3 | 27+4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| 8 | MF | FRA | Baptiste Santamaria | 31 | 1 | 28+2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 14 | MF | NED | Guus Til | 7 | 0 | 1+6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 19 | MF | GER | Janik Haberer | 14 | 0 | 5+9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 22 | MF |  HUN | Roland Sallai | 29 | 8 | 22+6 | 8 | 0+1 | 0 | ||||
| 27 | MF | GER | Nicolas Höfler | 33 | 1 | 30+1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 28 | MF |  KOR | Kwon Chang-hoon | 14 | 1 | 1+11 | 0 | 1+1 | 1 | ||||
| 29 | MF | KOR | Jeong Woo-yeong | 28 | 4 | 7+19 | 4 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 32 | MF |  ITA | Vincenzo Grifo | 33 | 9 | 27+4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 34 | MF | GER | Lino Tempelmann | 11 | 0 | 2+8 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | ||||
| 36 | MF | GER | Yannik Keitel | 13 | 0 | 4+8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 39 | MF | GER | Carlo Boukhalfa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | ||||
| Forwards | |||||||||||||
| 9 | FW | GER | Lucas Höler | 35 | 4 | 22+11 | 4 | 1+1 | 0 | ||||
| 11 | FW | BIH | Ermedin Demirović | 32 | 5 | 19+11 | 5 | 0+2 | 0 | ||||
| 18 | FW | GER | Nils Petersen | 34 | 8 | 12+20 | 8 | 1+1 | 0 | ||||
| 45 | FW | SUI | Nishan Burkart | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Players transferred out during the season | |||||||||||||
| 6 | MF | ALB | Amir Abrashi | 5 | 0 | 0+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 13 | FW | GER | Marco Terrazzino | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 20 | DF | TUN | Mohamed Dräger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 24 | DF | GER | Gian-Luca Itter | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 38 | MF | GER | Florian Kath | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 46 | GK | GER | Constantin Frommann | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Last updated: 22 May 2021
Source:Competitions
| Rank | Pos | No. | Nat | Name | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MF | 32 | | Vincenzo Grifo | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2 | FW | 18 | | Nils Petersen | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| MF | 22 | | Roland Sallai | 8 | 0 | 8 | |
| 4 | FW | 11 | | Ermedin Demirović | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 | DF | 3 | | Philipp Lienhart | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| FW | 9 | | Lucas Höler | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| MF | 29 | | Jeong Woo-yeong | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| 8 | MF | 7 | | Jonathan Schmid | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| DF | 30 | | Christian Günter | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| 10 | DF | 5 | | Manuel Gulde | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | MF | 8 | | Baptiste Santamaria | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MF | 27 | | Nicolas Höfler | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| MF | 28 | | Kwon Chang-hoon | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Own goals | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Totals | 52 | 2 | 54 | ||||
Last updated: 22 May 2021
