2003–04 VfL Wolfsburg season

VfL Wolfsburg

2003–04 season
Manager	Jürgen Röber
Bundesliga	10th
DFB-Pokal	Second round
Top goalscorer	Diego Klimowicz (15)
Home colours Away colours
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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.

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

Top Scorers

• Diego Klimowicz 15
• Fernando Baiano 12
• Martin Petrov 8 (1)
• Miroslav Karhan 5
• Marino Biliškov 3
• Andrés D'Alessandro 3
• Marko Topić 3

References