VfL Wolfsburg in European football

VfL Wolfsburg is a German association football club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club was founded in 1945, as VSK Wolfsburg, growing out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of Wolfsburg. Men's professional football is run by the spin-off organization VfL Wolfsburg-Fußball GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group. VfL Wolfsburg plays its home matches at the Volkswagen Arena.

History

Having finished as sixth place in 1999 in the German top flight, Wolfsburg gained entry to continental football for the first time, specifically the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup, where they fell in the third round against Atlético Madrid. They also qualified for the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005, enjoying their best run in 2003 after reaching the final in which they lost to Italian side Perugia.^[1]

In the 2008–09 season, Wolfsburg won their maiden Bundesliga title, thus qualifying for the UEFA Champions League for the first time in their history. They came third in their group, behind Manchester United and CSKA Moscow, losing the chance for a place in the competition's successive round. As a result, they qualified for the Round of 32 phase of the UEFA Europa League. They defeated Spanish side Villarreal 6–3 on aggregate and Russian champions Rubin Kazan 3–2. In the quarter-finals, however, they were beaten 3–1 by eventual finalists Fulham.^[2]

Their best performance in Europe was during the 2015–16 season, when they reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League after passing through a group with Manchester United, CSKA Moscow and PSV Eindhoven, and beating Gent in the round of 32. They faced Spanish giants Real Madrid, winning the first leg on Volkswagen Arena 2–0, only to lose the return leg in Santiago Bernabéu 0–3.^[3]

Matches

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1999–2000	UEFA Cup	First round	Debrecen	2–0	1–2	3–2
		Second round	Roda	1–0	0–0	1–0
		Third round	Atlético Madrid	2–3	1–2	3–5
2000	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Third round	Sedan	2–1	0–0	2–1
		Semi-finals	Auxerre	1–2 (a.e.t.)	1–1	2–3
2001	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Third round	Dinamo Minsk	4–3	0–0	4–3
		Semi-finals	Troyes	2–2	0–1	2–3
2003	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Second round	Marek Dupnitsa	2–0	1–1	3–1
		Third round	Slovácko	2–0	1–0	3–0
		Semi-finals	Cibalia	4–0	4–1	8–1
		Finals	Perugia	0–2	0–1	0–3
2004	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Second round	Thun	2–3	1–4	3–7
2005	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Second round	Graz	2–2	3–1	5–3
		Third round	Göteborg	2–0	2–0	4–0
		Semi-finals	Lens	0–0	0–4	0–4
2008–09	UEFA Cup	First round	Rapid București	1–0	1–1	2-1
		Group E	Milan	—	2–2	1st
			Braga	—	3-2
			Portsmouth	3–2	—
			Heerenveen	5–1	—
		Round of 32	Paris Saint-Germain	1–3	0–2	1–5
2009–10	UEFA Champions League	Group B	Manchester United	1–3	1–2	3rd
			CSKA Moscow	3–1	1–2
			Beşiktaş	0–0	3–0
	UEFA Europa League	Round of 32	Villarreal	4–1	2–2	6–3
		Round of 16	Rubin Kazan	2–1 (a.e.t.)	1–1	3–2
		Quarter-finals	Fulham	0–1	1–2	1–3
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	Group H	Everton	0–2	1–4	2nd
			Lille	1–1	3–0
			Krasnodar	5–1	4–2
		Round of 32	Sporting CP	2–0	0–0	2–0
		Round of 16	Inter Milan	3–1	2–1	5–2
		Quarter-finals	Napoli	1–4	2–2	3–5
2015–16	UEFA Champions League	Group B	Manchester United	3–2	1–2	1st
			PSV Eindhoven	2–0	0–2
			CSKA Moscow	1–0	2–0
		Round of 16	Gent	1–0	3–2	4–2
		Quarter-finals	Real Madrid	2–0	0–3	2–3
2019–20	UEFA Europa League	Group I	Gent	1–3	2–2	2nd
			Saint-Étienne	1–0	1–1
			Oleksandriya	3–1	1–0
		Round of 32	Malmö FF	2–1	3–0	5–1
		Round of 16	Shakhtar Donetsk	1–2	0–3	1–5
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	Second qualifying round	Kukësi	—	4–0	—
		Third qualifying round	Desna Chernihiv	2–0	—	—
		Play-off round	AEK Athens	—	1–2	—
2021–22	UEFA Champions League	Group G	Lille	1–3	0–0	4th
			Sevilla	1–1	0–2
			Red Bull Salzburg	2–1	1–3

Overall record

By competition

By club

By country

As of 1 October 2020

Opponent	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
Albania	1	1	0	0	4	0	+4
Austria	2	1	1	0	5	3	+2
Belarus	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1
Belgium	4	2	1	1	7	7	0
Greece	1	0	0	1	1	2	–2
Bulgaria	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2
Croatia	2	2	0	0	8	1	+7
Czech Republic	2	2	0	0	3	0	+3
England	9	2	0	7	11	20	−9
France	14	3	6	5	13	18	−5
Hungary	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1
Italy	7	2	2	3	10	13	-3
Netherlands	5	3	1	1	8	3	+5
Portugal	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3
Romania	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1
Russia	8	6	1	1	19	8	+11
Spain	6	2	1	3	11	11	0
Switzerland	2	0	0	2	3	7	-4
Sweden	4	4	0	0	9	1	+8
Turkey	2	1	1	0	3	0	+3
Ukraine	5	3	0	2	7	6	+1

References

External links

• UEFA Profile - Wolfsburg