2003–04 VfL Wolfsburg season

VfL Wolfsburg started the season in brilliant fashion, taking an early Bundesliga lead, before slipping back in a nightmare run, which saw the team finish in the midfield, with a lower points haul than the previous seasons. Wolfsburg also dropped a bombshell when they signed Argentine starlet Andrés D'Alessandro of River Plate. D'Alessandro had been relatively disappointing season, but Fernando Baiano together with Diego Klimowicz made sure the attack functioned really well.

VfL Wolfsburg
2003–04 season
ManagerJürgen Röber
Bundesliga10th
DFB-PokalSecond round
Top goalscorerDiego Klimowicz (15)

Players

First-team squad
Squad at end of season[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF  ARG Pablo Quatrocchi
3 DF  CHI Waldo Ponce (on loan from Universidad de Chile)
5 DF  GER Stefan Schnoor
6 MF  GUI Pablo Thiam
7 MF  GER Patrick Weiser
9 FW  ARG Diego Klimowicz
10 MF  ARG Andrés D'Alessandro
12 GK  BIH Sead Ramović
13 DF  CRO Marino Biliškov
14 FW  BIH Marko Topić
17 FW  BRA Fernando Baiano
19 DF  DEN Thomas Rytter
20 MF  BIH Mirko Hrgović
21 MF  BUL Martin Petrov
22 FW  GER Roy Präger
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 DF  SCG Nenad Lalatović (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk)
27 MF  SVK Miroslav Karhan
29 GK  GER Simon Jentzsch
30 MF  MKD Nderim Nexhipi
31 DF  GHA Hans Sarpei
32 FW  POL Michał Janicki
33 DF  GER Maik Franz
36 FW  ARG Juan Carlos Menseguez
37 MF  GER Karsten Fischer
38 DF  GER Stefan Lorenz
39 FW  GER Christian Ritter
40 GK  GER Patrick Platins
41 MF  COD Cédric Makiadi
44 GK  GER Fabian Lucas

Left club during season

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  GER Claus Reitmaier (to Borussia Mönchengladbach)
4 DF  DEN Kim Madsen (to Hansa Rostock)
8 MF  ROU Dorinel Munteanu (to Steaua Bucharest)
11 FW  CRO Tomislav Marić (on loan to Borussia Mönchengladbach)
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF  GER Albert Streit (to Köln)
23 MF  GER Sven Müller (to Nürnberg)
24 MF  GHA Charles Akonnor (to SpVgg Unterhaching)

VfL Wolfsburg II

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  GER Benjamin Siegert

Results

Bundesliga
1 VfL Wolfsburg 3–2 VfL Bochum
Thiam  9'
Klimowicz  14'
Petrov  75'		 Madsen  37'
Fahrenhorst  44'
2 Borussia Dortmund 4–0 VfL Wolfsburg
Rosický  25, 51'
M. Amoroso  74'
Koller  87'
3 VfL Wolfsburg 5–1 Hamburg
Klimowicz  50, 86'
Petrov  60'
Müller  70'
D'Alessandro  75'		 Barbarez  47'
4 1860 München 1–0 VfL Wolfsburg
Schwarz  59'
5 VfL Wolfsburg 3–2 Bayern Munich
Baiano  11, 83'
Klimowicz  89'		 Schweinsteiger  49'
Makaay  59'
6 1. FC Köln 2–3 VfL Wolfsburg
Scherz  35'
Voronin  60'		 Biliškov  3'
Petrov  26'
Klimowicz  72'
7 VfL Wolfsburg 0–1 Bayer Leverkusen
Schneider  57'
8 Werder Bremen 5–3 VfL Wolfsburg
Aílton  2, 21'
Stalteri  41'
Micoud  57'
Klasnić  58'		 Biliškov  40'
Streit  54'
Karhan  65'
9 VfL Wolfsburg 3–1 Hansa Rostock
Klimowicz  31'
Baiano  39, 67'		 Rydlewicz  41'
10 VfB Stuttgart 1–0 VfL Wolfsburg
Amanatidis  41'
11 VfL Wolfsburg 3–0 Hertha Berlin
D'Alessandro  24'
Klimowicz  47, 71'
12 Freiburg 3–2 VfL Wolfsburg
Iashvili  31, 33, 76' Topić  62'
Franz  90'
13 VfL Wolfsburg 1–3 Mönchengladbach
Schnoor  33' Van Hout  13'
van Lent  68'
Kolkka  77'
14 Eintracht Frankfurt 3–2 VfL Wolfsburg
Preuß  32'
Skela  56' (pen.)
Beierle  73'		 Karhan  13'
Klimowicz  25'
15 VfL Wolfsburg 4–1 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Baiano  23, 53, 55'
Schnoor  90' (pen.)		 Knavs  13'
16 VfL Wolfsburg 2–1 Hannover 96
Baiano  29'
Petrov  68'		 Stendel  14'
17 Schalke 04 1–1 VfL Wolfsburg
Hamit Altıntop  26' Petrov  40'
18 VfL Bochum 1–0 VfL Wolfsburg
Fahrenhorst  35'
19 VfL Wolfsburg 2–4 Borussia Dortmund
Petrov  36' (pen.)
Baiano  88'		 Jensen  42'
Koller  45'
Frings  54'
Ricken  78'
20 Hamburg 2–0 VfL Wolfsburg
Barbarez  18'
Rahn  88'
21 VfL Wolfsburg 3–1 1860 München
Biliškov  9'
D'Alessandro  19'
Klimowicz  62'		 Weissenberger  21'
22 Bayern Munich 2–0 VfL Wolfsburg
Makaay  11'
Schweinsteiger  76'
23 VfL Wolfsburg 2–0 1. FC Köln
Klimowicz  30'
Topić  84'
24 Bayer Leverkusen 4–2 VfL Wolfsburg
Berbatov  1'
Babić  13'
Schneider  32'
França  63'		 Topić  21'
Klimowicz  82'
25 VfL Wolfsburg 0–2 Werder Bremen
Klasnić  75'
Micoud  85'
26 Hansa Rostock 3–1 VfL Wolfsburg
Arvidsson  9'
Max  33'
Möhrle  37'		 Quatrocchi  26'
27 VfL Wolfsburg 1–5 VfB Stuttgart
Petrov  30' Gerber  6'
Streller  26'
Lahm  45'
Kurányi  73'
Szabics  86'
28 Hertha Berlin 1–0 VfL Wolfsburg
Rafael  22'
29 VfL Wolfsburg 4–0 Freiburg
Franz  10'
Baiano  20'
Sarpei  47'
Klimowicz  68'
30 Mönchengladbach 0–2 VfL Wolfsburg
Baiano  44'
Karhan  65'
31 VfL Wolfsburg 1–0 Eintracht Frankfurt
Klimowicz  10'
32 1. FC Kaiserslautern 3–2 VfL Wolfsburg
Lokvenc  57, 72'
Bjelica  75'		 Klimowicz  65'
Petrov  66'
33 Hannover 96 0–0 VfL Wolfsburg
34 VfL Wolfsburg 1–1 Schalke 04
Karhan  2' Franz  20' (o.g.)

Top Scorers

References
  1. http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/ger/2003-2004/bundes/wolfsburg.htm
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