2009–10 Eintracht Frankfurt season

The 2009–10 season was Eintracht Frankfurt's 110th season and their fifth consecutive season in the Bundesliga.

Eintracht Frankfurt

2009–10 season
Chairman	Heribert Bruchhagen
Manager	Michael Skibbe
Bundesliga	10th
DFB-Pokal	Third round
Top goalscorer	League: Alexander Meier (10) All: Alexander Meier (12)
Highest home attendance	51,500 (vs Hamburger SV (league), 20 September 2009)
Lowest home attendance	25,450 (vs Alemannia Aachen (cup), 23 September 2009)
Average home league attendance	47,206 (league)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

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 1 GK  MKD Oka Nikolov[notes 1] 2 DF  GER Patrick Ochs 3 DF  SRB Nikola Petković 4 DF  GER Maik Franz 5 DF  MKD Aleksandar Vasoski 6 MF  GER Selim Teber 7 MF  GER Benjamin Köhler 8 MF  BIH Zlatan Bajramović[notes 2] 10 FW  GRE Nikos Liberopoulos 11 MF  AUT Ümit Korkmaz 13 MF  USA Ricardo Clark 14 MF  GER Alexander Meier 16 DF   SUI Christoph Spycher 17 FW  CZE Martin Fenin 18 FW  GRE Ioannis Amanatidis 19 MF  TUR Halil Altıntop[notes 3] 21 GK  GER Markus Pröll 22 GK  GER Ralf Fährmann

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 DF  GER Marco Russ 24 DF  GER Sebastian Jung 25 MF  GER Marcel Heller 26 FW  GER Juvhel Tsoumou[notes 4] 27 MF   SUI Pirmin Schwegler 28 GK  GER Jan Zimmermann 29 DF  BRA Chris 30 MF  BRA Caio 31 DF  GER Stefano Cincotta[notes 5] 32 MF  GER Faton Toski[notes 6] 33 DF  GER Jürgen Mössmer 34 FW  GER Cenk Tosun[notes 7] 35 FW  GER Marcos Álvarez 36 MF  GER Marcel Titsch-Rivero 37 DF  GER Timothy Chandler[notes 8] 38 GK  GER Andreas Rössl 40 DF  GER Stefan Haben 41 GK  GER Erman Muratagic

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 13 DF  GER Markus Steinhöfer 15 DF  IRN Mehdi Mahdavikia

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF  ALG Habib Bellaïd[notes 9] 20 DF  GER Christoph Preuß

Transfers

Summer transfers in Marcos Álvarez from the Eintracht Frankfurt Academy Ralf Fährmann from Schalke 04 Maik Franz from Karlsruher SC Marcel Heller was loaned to MSV Duisburg Sebastian Jung from the Eintracht Frankfurt Academy Pirmin Schwegler from Bayer Leverkusen Selim Teber from 1899 Hoffenheim Marcel Titsch-Rivero from Eintracht Frankfurt U23 (reserves) Cenk Tosun from the Eintracht Frankfurt academy

Summer transfers out Habib Bellaïd to Strasbourg (on loan until January 2010) Michael Fink to Beşiktaş Junichi Inamoto to Rennes Alexander Krük on loan at VfL Osnabrück Léonard Kweuke to Energie Cottbus, was loaned from Dunajská Streda Krešo Ljubičić to Hajduk Split

Winter transfers in Halil Altıntop from Schalke 04 Ricardo Clark from Houston Dynamo

Winter transfers out Habib Bellaïd to Boulogne (on loan until June 2010) Mehdi Mahdavikia to Steel Azin Christoph Preuß retired due to injury reasons Markus Steinhöfer to 1. FC Kaiserslautern (on loan until June 2010)

Results

Friendlies

4 July 2009 Friendly	WSG Wattens	2–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Parkstadion, Zell am Ziller
17:00 CET	Hobel  46', 75'	Report	Teber  40'	Attendance: 900

7 July 2009 Friendly	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–2	Dynamo Kyiv	?, Jenbach
16:00 CET	Chris  90' (pen.)	Report	Guilherme  28', 35'	Attendance: 750

10 July 2009 Friendly	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–0	Teplice	Stadion auf dem Stephanshügel, Limburg
18:00 CET	Klein  39' (og) Rosa 90' (o.g.)	Report		Attendance: 1,950

12 July 2009 Friendly	TSV Eintracht Stadtallendorf	2–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Herrenwaldstadion, Stadtallendorf
17:00 CET	Eidelwein  53' Atas  68' Yildiran  85'	Report	Jung  6' Steinhöfer  35' Tosun  90'	Attendance: 5,000

15 July 2009 Friendly	Osijek	3–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Drei-Lärchen-Stadion, Bad Bleiberg
15:00 CET	Nikšić  10', 55' Barišić  81'	Report		Attendance: 300

18 July 2009 Friendly	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–3	Politehnica Timișoara	TBA, Feffernitz
18:30 CET		Report	Luchin  33' Parks  68' Magera  85'	Attendance: 500

20 July 2009 Friendly	Austria Kärnten	0–5	Eintracht Frankfurt	Sportplatz Hermagor, Hermagor
18:30 CET		Report	Meier  12', 27', 42' Teber  16' Amanatidis  68'	Attendance: 1,000

25 July 2009 Friendly	1. FC Kaiserslautern	0–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Fritz Walter Stadion, Kaiserslautern
17:00 CET		Report	Ochs  39' Meier  67'	Attendance: 5,448

28 July 2009 Friendly	1. FC 09 Oberstedten	0–19	Eintracht Frankfurt	Sportanlage Tannenwald, Oberstedten
18:30 CET		Report	Köhler  3', 43', 45' Caio  8', 35', 37' Meier  20' Amanatidis  25' Ochs  45' Fenin  53' Korkmaz  55', 63' Liberopoulos  62', 67', 69', 82', 89' Jung  77' Steinhöfer  87'	Attendance: 3,400

5 August 2009 Friendly	Burghaun XI	0–13	Eintracht Frankfurt	Sportfeld Haunetal, Burghaun
18:30 CET		Report	Fenin  6', 15', 45' Korkmaz  11' Toski  13' Liberopoulos  24', 25', 56', 60', 61' Korkmaz  40' Heller  54' Alvarez  90'	Attendance: 3,300

11 August 2009 Friendly	Kickers-Viktoria Mühlheim	0–10	Eintracht Frankfurt	Stadion an der Anton-Dey-Straße, Mühlheim
18:00 CET		Report	Heller  19' Jung  23' Steinhöfer  35' Korkmaz  37' Köhler  42' Tosun  74' Tsoumou  76', 88' Álvarez  83' Bellaïd  85'	Attendance: 1,800

18 August 2009 Friendly	Melsunger FV	0–7	Eintracht Frankfurt	Freundschaftsinsel, Melsungen
18:30 CET		Report	Fenin  12', 31', 67' Toski  24' Steinhöfer  70' Fachat  88' Tsoumou  88'	Attendance: 2,200

25 August 2009 Friendly	Gießen XI	1–13	Eintracht Frankfurt	Waldstadion, Gießen
18:30 CET	Frenz  70'	Report	Heller  14', 16', 18', 43', 51' Korkmaz  30', 56' Priebe  43' (og) Lauber  58' (og) Alvarez  64', 68', 87' Steinhöfer  87'	Attendance: 3,500

1 September 2009 Friendly	SV 09 Hofheim	0–20	Eintracht Frankfurt	Sportpark Heide, Hofheim
18:30 CET		Report	Köhler  6', 38' Steinhöfer  15', 25', 76' (77) Korkmaz  18', 48', 66' Meier  21', 30', 36' Caio  26' Heller  50', 53', 64' Tsoumou  55' Ochs  68' Titsch-Rivero  71', 81'	Attendance: 1,500

4 September 2009 Friendly	SKV Mörfelden	2–10	Eintracht Frankfurt	Waldstadion an der Rüsselsheimer Straße , Mörfelden-Walldorf
18:30 CET	Jantz  53' Varela  60'	Report	Teber  20', 31' Ochs  30' Meier  42', 61' Caio  50' Franz  77' Tsoumou  81', 88' Titsch-Rivero  89'	Attendance: 1,800

8 September 2009 Friendly	SG Bruchköbel	2–11	Eintracht Frankfurt	Sportplatz am Wald, Bruchköbel
18:30 CET	Müller  37' Rozic  72'	Report	Russ  20', 69' Teber  27' Caio  31', 85' Korkmaz  40', 79' Heller  48' Tsoumou  82', 84' Toski  90'	Attendance: 2,000

6 October 2009 Friendly	Eintracht Wetzlar	1–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Stadion Wetzlar, Wetzlar
17:00 CET	Schäfer  68'	Report	Teber  44' Liberopoulos  84', 89'	Attendance: 2,000

8 October 2009 Friendly	Xanthi	2–4	Eintracht Frankfurt	Skoda Xanthi Arena, Xanthi
18:00 CET	Fabianesi  46' (pen.) Perreira  50'	Report	Meier  64' Liberopoulos  68' Fenin  74' Köhler  80'	Attendance: 3,500

14 October 2009 Friendly	FV Eschersheim	0–15	Eintracht Frankfurt	Sportplatz Eschersheim, Frankfurt
14:30 CET	Waske  42'	Report	Korkmaz  8', 9', 76' Steinhöfer  12', 43', 81' Titsch-Rivero  24', 51' Liberopoulos  27', 38' Caio  40', 69' Köhler  61' Heller  86' Franz  89'	Attendance: 1,300

8 January 2010 Friendly	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	1–5	Eintracht Frankfurt	Training pitch Hotel Selin, Side-Colakli, Turkey
14:00 CET	Terranova  38'	Report	Liberopoulos  14', 21' Tsoumou  38' Meier  71' Primorac (trialist)  85'	Attendance: 100

9 January 2010 Friendly	Karlsruher SC	3–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Training pitch Hotel Sueno, Belek, Turkey
14:00 CET	Akın  70' Cuntz  84' Chrisantus  86'	Report		Attendance: 250

27 April 2010 Friendly	1. FC Haßfurt	0–6	Eintracht Frankfurt	Beständig-Stadion, Haßfurt
18:30 CET		Report	Amanatidis  30' Clark  35' Stark  40' Tosun  47' Alvarez  55' Hess  88'	Attendance: 1,400

4 May 2010 Friendly	Viktoria Sindlingen	1–7	Eintracht Frankfurt	Sportplatz am Kreisel, Frankfurt, Sindlingen
18:30 CET	Gulzar  44'	Report	Fenin  2', 12' Heller  14' Altıntop  30' Tsoumou  65' Franz  73' (pen.) Boller  74'	Attendance: 1,800

12 May 2010 Friendly	Vietnam	0–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	My Dinh National Stadium, Hanoi, Vietnam
19:00 ICT 13:00 CET		Report	Meier  71' Altıntop  72'	Attendance: 10,000

14 May 2010 Friendly	Đồng Tâm Long An	1–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Thong Nhat Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
18:30 ICT 12:30 CET	Lam Wa  30'	Report	Altıntop  66' Köhler  69' Tsoumou  84'	Attendance: 10,000

Indoor tournaments

2 January 2010 Indoor soccer (Harder 13 Cup)	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–3	MSV Duisburg	SAP Arena, Mannheim
17:45 CET	Heller  3' Caio  9' (pen.) Köhler  19'	Report	Ben-Hatira  5', 14' Sahan  17'	Attendance: 11,497

2 January 2010 Indoor soccer (Harder 13 Cup)	Karlsruher SC	6–5	Eintracht Frankfurt	SAP Arena, Mannheim
19:33 CET	Staffeldt x3 Konrad Akın Zimmermann	Report	Caio x2 Alvarez Köhler Toski	Attendance: 11,497

3 January 2010 Indoor soccer (Hessen Cup)	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–4	Kickers Offenbach	Ballsporthalle, Frankfurt
16:39 CET	Titsch-Rivero  18'	Report	Mešić  13' Baier  15' Ulm  18' Mešić  20'	Attendance: 5,000

3 January 2010 Indoor soccer (Hessen Cup)	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–2	Arminia Bielefeld	Ballsporthalle, Frankfurt
17:30 CET	Rüter  12' (o.g.)	Report	Rodenberg  4' Feick  7'	Attendance: 5,000

Bundesliga

8 August 2009 1	Werder Bremen	2–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Weserstadion, Bremen
15:30 CET	Özil  13' (pen.) Sanogo  44' Prödl  90'	Report	Amanatidis  6', 42' Fenin  71'	Attendance: 33,000

15 August 2009 2	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–1	1. FC Nürnberg	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
15:30 CET	Caio  17'	Report	Bunjaku  64'	Attendance: 49,000

22 August 2009 3	1. FC Köln	0–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne
15:30 CET		Report	Ochs  54'	Attendance: 49,200

29 August 2009 4	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–1	Borussia Dortmund	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
15:30 CET	Amanatidis  68'	Report	Zidan  62'	Attendance: 51,050

12 September 2009 5	SC Freiburg	0–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Dreisamstadion, Freiburg
15:30 CET		Report	Franz  67' Meier  90'	Attendance: 23,600

20 September 2009 6	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–1	Hamburger SV	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
15:30 CET	Russ  32'	Report	Zé Roberto  7'	Attendance: 51,500

26 September 2009 7	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–3	VfB Stuttgart	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
15:30 CET	Russ  33'	Report	Schieber  17', 31' Hitzlsperger  54'	Attendance: 49,750

2 October 2009 8	Schalke 04	2–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen
20:30 CET	Asamoah  66' Farfán  90+2' (pen.)	Report	Schwegler  18'  86'	Attendance: 61,673

17 October 2009 9	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–1	Hannover 96	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
15:30 CET	Liberopoulos  24' Meier  74'	Report	Štajner  68'	Attendance: 40,700

24 October 2009 10	Bayern Munich	2–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Allianz Arena, Munich
15:30 CET	Robben  69' Van Buyten  88'	Report	Meier  60'	Attendance: 69,000

1 November 2009 11	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–1	VfL Bochum	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
17:30 CET	Caio  14' Franz  53'	Report	Franz  25' (o.g.) Ono  79'  80'	Attendance: 37,500

6 November 2009 12	Bayer Leverkusen	4–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	BayArena, Leverkusen
20:30 CET	Kießling  2' Reinartz  6' Kroos  11' Bender  86'	Report		Attendance: 30,210

21 November 2009 13	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
15:30 CET	Schwegler  86' (pen.)	Report	Nikolov  55' (o.g.) Brouwers  66'	Attendance: 50,000

28 November 2009 14	Hertha BSC	1–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Olympic Stadium, Berlin
15:30 CET	Ramos  81'	Report	Ochs  11' Franz  70' Meier  75'	Attendance: 48,253

5 December 2009 15	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–0	Mainz 05	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
18:30 CET	Franz  29' Meier  90+1'	Report	Amri  13'  86'	Attendance: 51,500

12 December 2009 16	1899 Hoffenheim	1–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Rhein-Neckar-Arena, Sinsheim
15:30 CET	Salihović  9' (pen.)	Report	Schwegler  61'	Attendance: 30,150

19 December 2009 17	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–2	VfL Wolfsburg	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
15:30 CET	Franz  26' Meier  79'	Report	Džeko  37' Josué  69'	Attendance: 41,700

16 January 2010 18	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	Werder Bremen	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
15:30 CET	Russ  57'	Report		Attendance: 45,600

23 January 2010 19	1. FC Nürnberg	1–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Frankenstadion, Nuremberg
15:30 CET	Eigler  28'	Report	Köhler  40'	Attendance: 37,464

30 January 2010 20	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–2	1. FC Köln	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
15:30 CET	Chris  76'	Report	Maniche  59' Russ  84' (o.g.)	Attendance: 45,100

7 February 2010 21	Borussia Dortmund	2–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund
17:30 CET	Hummels  17' Barrios  57'	Report	Köhler  8' Jung  65' Meier  74'	Attendance: 70,400

14 February 2010 22	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–1	SC Freiburg	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
17:30 CET	Köhler  40' Altıntop 90'	Report	Cissé  25'	Attendance: 34,900

20 February 2010 23	Hamburger SV	0–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg
15:30 CET		Report		Attendance: 56,196

27 February 2010 24	VfB Stuttgart	2–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Mercedes-Benz Arena, Stuttgart
15:30 CET	Cacau  41', 45'	Report	Köhler  39'	Attendance: 41,000

6 March 2010 25	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–4	Schalke 04	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
15:30 CET	Meier  52'	Report	Matip  12' Höwedes  15' Rakitić  80' Kurányi  89'	Attendance: 51,500

13 March 2010 26	Hannover 96	2–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	AWD-Arena, Hanover
15:30 CET	Andreasen  14' Pinto  57'	Report	Altıntop  45' Teber  54'  Franz  90'	Attendance: 38,000

20 March 2010 27	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–1	Bayern Munich	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
15:30 CET	Tsoumou  87' Fenin  89'	Report	Altıntop  6'	Attendance: 51,500

26 March 2010 28	VfL Bochum	1–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Ruhrstadion, Bochum
20:30 CET	Holtby  10'	Report	Russ  29' Caio  64'	Attendance: 24,221

3 April 2010 29	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–2	Bayer Leverkusen	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
15:30 CET	Teber  28' (pen.) Caio  62' Franz  89'	Report	Kießling  33', 46' Schwaab 49'	Attendance: 50,900

9 April 2010 30	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Borussia-Park, Mönchengladbach
20:30 CET	Reus  6' Dante  10'	Report		Attendance: 48,553

18 April 2010 31	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–2	Hertha BSC	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
17:30 CET	Korkmaz  37' Russ  63'	Report	Kačar  17' Raffael  42'	Attendance: 49,800

24 April 2010 32	Mainz 05	3–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Stadion am Bruchweg, Mainz
15:30 CET	Bancé  45', 86' Šimák  56'	Report	Meier  13', 20' Korkmaz  62'	Attendance: 20,300

1 May 2010 33	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–2	1899 Hoffenheim	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
15:30 CET	Schwegler  20'	Report	Tagoe  80', 88'	Attendance: 50,500

8 May 2010 34	VfL Wolfsburg	3–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Volkswagen Arena, Wolfsburg
15:30 CET	Misimović  21' Riether  31' Džeko  34'	Report	Altıntop  86'	Attendance: 30,000

DFB-Pokal

2 August 2009 1	Kickers Offenbach	0–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bieberer Berg, Offenbach
17:30 CET		Report	Schwegler  71' Caio  75' Meier  86'	Attendance: 24,000

23 September 2009 2	Eintracht Frankfurt	6–4	Alemannia Aachen	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
19:00 CET	Caio  1' Liberopoulos  5', 50' Szukała  39' (og) Meier  53' Teber  89' (pen.)	Report	Gueye  23', 87' Auer  65', 72'	Attendance: 25,450

28 October 2009 3	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–4	Bayern Munich	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
20:30 CET		Report	Klose  14', 19' Müller  29' Toni  52'	Attendance: 51,500

Source:

References

1. http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/ger/2009-2010/bundes/einfrank.htm

Notes

1. Nikolov was born in Erbach im Odenwald, West Germany (now Germany), but also qualified to represent Macedonia (now North Macedonia) internationally and made his international debut for Macedonia in September 1998.
2. Bajramović was born in Hamburg, West Germany (now Germany), but also qualified to represent Bosnia and Herzegovina internationally through his parents and made his international debut for Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2002.
3. Altıntop was born in Gelsenkirchen, West Germany (now Germany), but also qualified to represent Turkey internationally and represented Turkey at U-18, U-20, U-21 and B level before making his international debut for Turkey in 2005.
4. Tsoumou was born in Brazzaville, the Congo, but was raised in Germany from the age of 10 and represented Germany at U-18 and U-19 level before making his international debut for the Congo in September 2017.
5. Cincotta was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, but was raised in Germany and also qualified to represent Italy internationally through his father, and represented Germany at U-17, U-19 and U-20 level before making his international debut for Guatemala in 2015.
6. Toski was born in Gjilan, SFR Yugoslavia (now Kosovo), but was raised in Germany and represented Germany at U-19 level before making his international debut for Kosovo in March 2014.
7. Tosun was born in Wetzlar, Germany, and represented Germany at U-16, U-18, U-19 and U-21 level, but also qualified to represent Turkey internationally and represented Turkey at U-21 and B level before making his international debut for Turkey in October 2013.
8. Chandler was born in Frankfurt, West Germany (now Germany), but also qualified to represent the United States internationally through his father and made his international debut for the United States in March 2011.
9. Bellaïd was born in Bobigny, France, and represented France at U-16, U-17, U-18, U-19 and U-21 level, but also qualified to represent Algeria and Tunisia internationally through his mother and father respectively and made his international debut for Algeria in May 2010.

Sources

• Matheja, Ulrich (2011). Unsere Eintracht - Eintracht Frankfurt - Die Chronik. Die Werkstatt. ISBN 978-3-89533-750-5.

• Official English Eintracht website
• Eintracht-Archiv.de
• 2009–10 Eintracht Frankfurt season at Fussballdaten.de (in German)