2019–20 VfL Wolfsburg season

The 2019–20 season was VfL Wolfsburg's 75th season in existence and the club's 23rd consecutive season in the top flight of German football. In addition to the domestic league, VfL Wolfsburg participated in this season's edition of the DFB-Pokal, and also participated in the UEFA Europa League. The season was slated to cover a period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020. It was extended extraordinarily beyond 30 June due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.

VfL Wolfsburg

2019–20 season
Executive Director	Frank Witter
Head coach	Oliver Glasner
Stadium	Volkswagen Arena
Bundesliga	7th
DFB-Pokal	Second round
UEFA Europa League	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: Wout Weghorst (16) All: Wout Weghorst (20)
Highest home attendance	27,195 (vs RB Leipzig, 7 March 2020)
Lowest home attendance	21,058 (vs Mainz 05, 23 February 2020)
Biggest win	VfL Wolfsburg 4–0 Mainz 05
Biggest defeat	VfL Wolfsburg 1–6 RB Leipzig
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Players

Current squad

As of 11 February 2020[1][2]

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  BEL Koen Casteels (vice-captain) 2 DF  BRA William 4 MF  ESP Ignacio Camacho 6 DF  BRA Paulo Otávio 7 MF  CRO Josip Brekalo 8 MF   SUI Renato Steffen 9 FW  NED Wout Weghorst 11 MF  GER Felix Klaus 12 GK  AUT Pavao Pervan 13 MF  GER Yannick Gerhardt 14 FW   SUI Admir Mehmedi 15 DF  FRA Jérôme Roussillon 19 DF   SUI Kevin Mbabu

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF  CRO Marin Pongračić 23 MF  FRA Josuha Guilavogui (captain) 24 MF  AUT Xaver Schlager 25 DF  USA John Brooks 27 MF  GER Maximilian Arnold (3rd captain) 30 GK  GER Niklas Klinger 31 DF  GER Robin Knoche 32 DF  COD Marcel Tisserand 33 FW  GER Daniel Ginczek 36 GK  GER Phillip Menzel 38 MF  BEL Ismail Azzaoui 40 FW  BRA João Victor

Players out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 5 DF  NED Jeffrey Bruma (at Mainz 05 until 30 June 2020) 10 MF  TUR Yunus Mallı (at Union Berlin until 30 June 2020) 17 DF  GER Felix Uduokhai (at FC Augsburg until 30 June 2020)

No. Pos. Nation Player 29 MF  GER John Yeboah (at VVV-Venlo until 30 June 2020) 34 MF  GER Marvin Stefaniak (at Greuther Fürth until 30 June 2021) 37 MF  GER Elvis Rexhbeçaj (at FC Köln until 30 June 2021)

Transfers

Transfers in

#	Position	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
19	DF	Kevin Mbabu	Young Boys	€9,200,000	25 April 2019	[3]
40	FW	João Victor	LASK Linz	€3,500,000	10 May 2019	[4]
6	DF	Paulo Otávio	FC Ingolstadt	€1,100,000	11 June 2019	[5]
24	MF	Xaver Schlager	Red Bull Salzburg	€15,000,000	26 June 2019	[6]
22	DF	Marin Pongračić	Red Bull Salzburg	€10,000,000	15 January 2020	[7]

Loans in

#	Position	Player	Loaned from	Date	Loan expires	Source
22	FW	Lukas Nmecha	Manchester City	3 August 2019	2 January 2020	[8]

Transfers out

#	Position	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
30	MF	Paul Seguin	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	€300,000	7 May 2019	[9]
35	DF	Gian-Luca Itter	SC Freiburg	€2,500,000	27 May 2019	[10]
3	DF	Paul Verhaegh	FC Twente	Free	5 June 2019	[11]
24	DF	Sebastian Jung	Hannover 96	Free	23 June 2019	[12]
9	FW	Landry Dimata	Anderlecht	€5,000,000	1 July 2019	[13]
18	FW	Victor Osimhen	Charleroi	€3,500,000		[14]
6	MF	Riechedly Bazoer	Vitesse	Undisclosed	12 July 2019	[15]
21	MF	Paul-Georges Ntep	Free agent	Free	11 February 2020	[16]

Loans out

#	Position	Player	Loaned to	Date	Loan expires	Source
34	MF	Marvin Stefaniak	Greuther Fürth	1 July 2019	30 June 2021	[17]
21	FW	Paul-Georges Ntep	Kayserispor	25 August 2019	30 June 2020
17	DF	Felix Uduokhai	FC Augsburg	28 August 2019	30 June 2020	[18]
29	MF	John Yeboah	VVV-Venlo	2 September 2019	30 June 2020	[19]
37	MF	Elvis Rexhbeçaj	1. FC Köln	6 January 2020	30 June 2021	[20]
10	MF	Yunus Mallı	Union Berlin	17 January 2020	30 June 2020	[21]
5	DF	Jeffrey Bruma	Mainz 05	29 January 2020	30 June 2020	[22]

Pre-season and friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss

6 July 2019 Friendly	VfL Wolfsburg	2–1	Hansa Rostock	Wolfsburg, Germany
16:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: AOK Stadion

9 July 2019 Friendly	VfL Wolfsburg	2–1	Caen	Wolfsburg, Germany
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: AOK Stadion

13 July 2019 Friendly	VfL Wolfsburg	2–2	VVV-Venlo	Gifhorn, Germany
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: GWG-Stadion A-Platz

17 July 2019 Friendly	PSV	0–2	VfL Wolfsburg	Eindhoven, Netherlands
19:05 CEST (UTC+2)			Arnold  5' William  40' Guilavogui  42' Edwards  64'  90' Schlager  82'	Stadium: Philips Stadion

22 July 2019 Friendly	Fenerbahçe	1–1	VfL Wolfsburg	Kapfenberg, Austria
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Muriqi  25' Aziz  35' Kadıoğlu  87'	Report	Mbabu  35' Bruma  57' Weghorst  63'	Stadium: Franz Fekete Stadium Attendance: 1,450

27 July 2019 Friendly	VfL Wolfsburg	1–1	Union Berlin	Anif, Austria
15:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Victor  78'	Report	Andersson  2'	Stadium: Maximarkt Sportpark Attendance: 300 Referee: Andreas Winkler

3 August 2019 Friendly	VfL Wolfsburg	8–1	Nice	Wolfsburg, Germany
15:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Klaus  7' Weghorst  30' Gerhardt  75', 85' Brekalo  78' Uduokhai  97' Steffen  107' (pen.) Bruma  117'	Report	Dante  14'	Stadium: AOK Stadion Attendance: 3,508 Referee: Johan Pfeifer

5 September 2019 Friendly	VfL Wolfsburg	1–1	Hamburger SV	Wolfsburg, Germany
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Tisserand  60'	Report	Harnik  88'	Stadium: AOK Stadion Attendance: 2,189 Referee: Robert Schröder

10 January 2020 Friendly	VfL Wolfsburg	1–1	FC Seoul	Albufeira, Portugal
13:00 WET (UTC±0)	Mallı  14'	Report	Kim Min-soo  61'	Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Albufeira

10 January 2020 Friendly	Servette	2–1	VfL Wolfsburg	Albufeira, Portugal
16:00 WET (UTC±0)	Kyei  50' (pen.), 90'	Report	Ginczek  64'	Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Albufeira

30 July 2020 Friendly	RB Leipzig	1–1	VfL Wolfsburg	Leipzig, Germany
16:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Schick  73' (pen.)	Report	Steffen  71' (pen.)	Stadium: Trainingszentrum RB Leipzig Platz 3 Attendance: 0 Referee: Felix Zwayer

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Bundesliga	17 August 2019	27 June 2020	Matchday 1	7th	34	13	10	11	48	46	+2	038.24
DFB-Pokal	12 August 2019	30 October 2019	First round	Second round	2	1	0	1	6	9	−3	050.00
Europa League	19 September 2019	5 August 2020	Group stage	Round of 16	10	5	2	3	15	13	+2	050.00
Total					46	19	12	15	69	68	+1	041.30

Last updated: 5 August 2020

Source: Soccerway

Bundesliga

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
5	Bayer Leverkusen	34	19	6	9	61	44	+17	63	Qualification for the Europa League group stage[lower-alpha 1]
6	1899 Hoffenheim	34	15	7	12	53	53	0	52
7	VfL Wolfsburg	34	13	10	11	48	46	+2	49	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
8	SC Freiburg	34	13	9	12	48	47	+1	48
9	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	13	6	15	59	60	−1	45

Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Away goals scored; 8) Play-off.[23]
Notes:

1. Since the winners of the 2019–20 DFB-Pokal, Bayern Munich, qualified for the Champions League based on league position, the Europa League group stage spot was passed to the sixth-placed team, and the Europa League second qualifying round spot was passed to the seventh-placed team.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	13	10	11	48	46	+2	49	4	7	6	19	23	−4	9	3	5	29	23	+6

Last updated: 27 June 2020.
Source: Bundesliga

Results by round

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
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H
Result	W	W	D	D	D	W	W	D	D	L	L	W	L	L	W	D	L	L	L	W	D	W	W	D	D	W	L	W	L	W	D	L	W	L
Position	6	4	3	5	8	7	2	2	4	8	10	7	9	9	8	8	9	9	10	9	10	9	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7

Updated to match(es) played on 27 June 2020. Source: Bundesliga
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

The Bundesliga schedule was announced on 28 June 2019.[24]

17 August 2019 1	VfL Wolfsburg	2–1	1. FC Köln	Wolfsburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Arnold  16' Weghorst  60' Steffen  75'	Report	Terodde  90+1' Meré  90+2'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 25,099 Referee: Sven Jablonski

25 August 2019 2	Hertha BSC	0–3	VfL Wolfsburg	Berlin
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Duda  36'	Report	Weghorst  9' (pen.) Brekalo  82' Roussillon  90+1'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 42,738 Referee: Guido Winkmann

31 August 2019 3	VfL Wolfsburg	1–1	SC Paderborn	Wolfsburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Brekalo  56'	Report	Cauly  12' Hünemeier  63' Holtmann  88' Ggasula  90+6'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 23,750 Referee: Daniel Schlager

13 September 2019 4	Fortuna Düsseldorf	1–1	VfL Wolfsburg	Düsseldorf
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Gießelmann  16'	Report	Weghorst  29',  33' Knoche  40'	Stadium: Merkur Spiel-Arena Attendance: 36,758 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

23 September 2019 5	VfL Wolfsburg	1–1	1899 Hoffenheim	Wolfsburg
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Mehmedi  36' Gerhardt  64' Arnold  76'	Report	Rudy  6' Posch  14' Geiger  62' Akpoguma  90' Adamyan  90+1'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 21,120 Referee: Benjamin Cortus

28 September 2019 6	Mainz 05	0–1	VfL Wolfsburg	Mainz
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Niakhaté  39' Maxim  86'	Report	Tisserand  9',  37' Knoche  61' Weghorst  65'	Stadium: Opel Arena Attendance: 24,303 Referee: Felix Brych

6 October 2019 7	VfL Wolfsburg	1–0	Union Berlin	Wolfsburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Guilavogui  32' Bruma  37' Weghorst  69'	Report	Andrich  26' Friedrich  65'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 27,012 Referee: Bastian Dankert

19 October 2019 8	RB Leipzig	1–1	VfL Wolfsburg	Leipzig
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Werner  54' Saracchi  69'	Report	Guilavogui  7' Mbabu  12' Tisserand  45' Weghorst  82'	Stadium: Red Bull Arena Attendance: 39,182 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

27 October 2019 9	VfL Wolfsburg	0–0	FC Augsburg	Wolfsburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)		Report		Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 22,630 Referee: Tobias Stieler

2 November 2019 10	Borussia Dortmund	3–0	VfL Wolfsburg	Dortmund
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Weigl  44' Hazard  52' Guerreiro  58' Götze  88' (pen.)	Report	Nmecha  40' Brooks  45+2' Tisserand  69'	Stadium: Signal Iduna Park Attendance: 80,200 Referee: Tobias Welz

10 November 2019 11	VfL Wolfsburg	0–2	Bayer Leverkusen	Wolfsburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	João Victor  45+1' Tisserand  83'	Report	Bellarabi  25' Volland  27' Hrádecký  90+2' Paulinho  90+6'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 24,112 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

23 November 2019 12	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–2	VfL Wolfsburg	Frankfurt
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Sow  40' Hinteregger  70' Kostić  86'	Report	Arnold  14' Weghorst  19' Tisserand  39'  45+1' João Victor  65' Guilavogui  67' Steffen  89'	Stadium: Commerzbank-Arena Attendance: 50,700 Referee: Daniel Siebert

1 December 2019 13	VfL Wolfsburg	2–3	Werder Bremen	Wolfsburg
18:00 CET (UTC+1)	Weghorst  36' William  73' Arnold  90+2'	Report	Rashica  13' (pen.), 83',  81' Bittencourt  39' Groß  61' Osako  68' Veljković  90+5'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 26,012 Referee: Robert Kampka

7 December 2019 14	SC Freiburg	1–0	VfL Wolfsburg	Freiburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Schmid  85'	Report	João Victor  21' Tisserand  88'	Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 23,800 Referee: Bastian Dankert

15 December 2019 15	VfL Wolfsburg	2–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Wolfsburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Schlager  13',  71' Brooks  20' Roussillon  45+1' Arnold  90+1'	Report	Embolo  15',  34' Strobl  51' Beyer  72'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 25,580 Referee: Felix Brych

18 December 2019 16	VfL Wolfsburg	1–1	Schalke 04	Wolfsburg
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Tisserand  60' Mbabu  82'	Report	Kabak  51' Burgstaller  90+3'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 24,651 Referee: Martin Petersen

21 December 2019 17	Bayern Munich	2–0	VfL Wolfsburg	Munich
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Kimmich  47' Müller  76' Zirkzee  86' Gnabry  89'	Report	Otávio  67' Arnold  71'	Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Christian Dingert

18 January 2020 18	1. FC Köln	3–1	VfL Wolfsburg	Cologne
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Córdoba  22', 45+2' Hector  62',  81' Thielmann  66' Jakobs  86'	Report	Brooks  19' Guilavogui  25' Steffen  66' Weghorst  89'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 49,100 Referee: Marco Fritz

25 January 2020 19	VfL Wolfsburg	1–2	Hertha BSC	Wolfsburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Mehmedi  68'	Report	Torunarigha  37',  74' Lukebakio  90'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 24,894 Referee: Markus Schmidt

2 February 2020 20	SC Paderborn	2–4	VfL Wolfsburg	Paderborn
18:00 CET (UTC+1)	Zolinski  22' Holtmann  33' Strohdiek  64' Vasiliadis  72',  80' Hünemeier  75'	Report	Guilavogui  10' Knoche  26' Steffen  33' Ginczek  40', 60' Pongračić  57' Arnold  76'	Stadium: Benteler-Arena Attendance: 13,926 Referee: Patrick Ittrich

8 February 2020 21	VfL Wolfsburg	1–1	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Wolfsburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Pongračić  48' Steffen  50'	Report	Zimmermann  13' Hoffmann  79'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 23,445 Referee: Tobias Stieler

15 February 2020 22	1899 Hoffenheim	2–3	VfL Wolfsburg	Sinsheim
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Rudy  17' Baumgartner  45' Hübner  51' Kramarić  60' (pen.)	Report	Arnold  7' Weghorst  18' (pen.), 52' (pen.), 71',  59'	Stadium: PreZero Arena Attendance: 22,506 Referee: Sören Storks

23 February 2020 23	VfL Wolfsburg	4–0	Mainz 05	Wolfsburg
18:00 CET (UTC+1)	Brekalo  21' Steffen  45', 68' Gerhardt  49'	Report	Barreiro  31' Pierre-Gabriel  65'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 21,058 Referee: Benjamin Cortus

1 March 2020 24	Union Berlin	2–2	VfL Wolfsburg	Berlin
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Andersson  41' Andrich  53' Friedrich  56'	Report	Arnold  40' Gerhardt  60' Steffen  61' Weghorst  81'	Stadium: Stadion An der Alten Försterei Attendance: 22,012 Referee: Bastian Dankert

7 March 2020 25	VfL Wolfsburg	0–0	RB Leipzig	Wolfsburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Otávio  64' Weghorst  78'	Report	Laimer  41' Upamecano  57' Olmo  90'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 27,195 Referee: Daniel Schlager

16 May 2020 26	FC Augsburg	1–2	VfL Wolfsburg	Augsburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Suchý  39' Jedvaj  54'	Report	Steffen  43' Otávio  53' Arnold  73' Ginczek  90+1' Roussillon  90+3'	Stadium: WWK Arena Attendance: 0[25] Referee: Felix Brych
Note: The match was postponed on 13 March due to the pandemic of COVID-19 in Germany,[26] and rescheduled to 16 May.[27]

23 May 2020 27	VfL Wolfsburg	0–2	Borussia Dortmund	Wolfsburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Ginczek  61' Brooks  66' Klaus  82' Arnold  86' Schlager  90+2'	Report	Guerreiro  32' Delaney  55' Hazard  74' Hakimi  78'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 0[25] Referee: Daniel Siebert
Note: The match was postponed on 13 March due to the pandemic of COVID-19 in Germany,[26] and rescheduled to 23 May.[27]

26 May 2020 28	Bayer Leverkusen	1–4	VfL Wolfsburg	Leverkusen
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Demirbay  29' Baumgartlinger  63',  86' Diaby  67'	Report	João Victor  32' Pongračić  43', 75' Arnold  64' Ginczek  67' Steffen  68' Casteels  71'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 0[25] Referee: Daniel Schlager
Note: The match was postponed on 24 March due to the pandemic of COVID-19 in Germany,[28] and rescheduled to 26 May.[27]

30 May 2020 29	VfL Wolfsburg	1–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Wolfsburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	João Victor  8' Pongračić  26' Mbabu  58' Steffen  90+2' Roussillon  90+5'	Report	Silva  27' (pen.) Kamada  35',  85' Gaćinović  67' Rode  69' Torró  90+1'  90+5' De Guzmán  90+5'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 0[25] Referee: Guido Winkmann
Note: The match was postponed on 24 March due to the pandemic of COVID-19 in Germany,[28] and rescheduled to 30 May.[27]

7 June 2020 30	Werder Bremen	0–1	VfL Wolfsburg	Bremen
13:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Klaassen  45' Sargent  49' Bittencourt  80'	Report	Schlager  54' Pongračić  58' Mbabu  67' Weghorst  82'	Stadium: Weser-Stadion Attendance: 0[25] Referee: Bibiana Steinhaus
Note: The match was postponed on 24 March due to the pandemic of COVID-19 in Germany,[28] and rescheduled to 7 June.[27]

13 June 2020 31	VfL Wolfsburg	2–2	SC Freiburg	Wolfsburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Weghorst  14', 27' (pen.)	Report	Höfler  23' Höler  43' Sallai  46'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 0[25] Referee: Bastian Dankert
Note: The match was postponed on 24 March due to the pandemic of COVID-19 in Germany,[28] and rescheduled to 13 June.[27]

16 June 2020 32	Borussia Mönchengladbach	3–0	VfL Wolfsburg	Mönchengladbach
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Hofmann  11', 30' Stindl  65' Elvedi  73'	Report	Pongračić  29' Weghorst  63' Mbabu  82' Guilavogui  85'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 0[25] Referee: Robert Schröder
Note: The match was postponed on 24 March due to the pandemic of COVID-19 in Germany,[28] and rescheduled to 16 June.[27]

20 June 2020 33	Schalke 04	1–4	VfL Wolfsburg	Gelsenkirchen
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Oczipka  30' Gregoritsch  35' Kenny  38' McKennie  58' Matondo  70'	Report	Steffen  11' Weghorst  16', 56' Mbabu  59',  81' João Victor  69' Roussillon  87'	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 0[25] Referee: Sascha Stegemann
Note: The match was postponed on 24 March due to the pandemic of COVID-19 in Germany,[28] and rescheduled to 20 June.[27]

27 June 2020 34	VfL Wolfsburg	0–4	Bayern Munich	Wolfsburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Weghorst  15' Guilavogui  66'  71'	Report	Coman  4' Cuisance  37' Lewandowski  72' (pen.) Müller  79'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 0[25] Referee: Patrick Ittrich
Note: The match was postponed on 7 May due to the pandemic of COVID-19 in Germany,[28] and rescheduled to 27 June.[27]

DFB-Pokal

12 August 2019 First round	Hallescher FC	3–5 (a.e.t.)	VfL Wolfsburg	Halle
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Kastenhofer  21' Drinkuth  43' Mai  57',  118' Fetsch  90+2' Landgraf  108'	Report	Weghorst  44' Brooks  45' Gerhardt  49' Guilavogui  64'  89' William  70' William  90' Knoche  92' Brekalo  94'	Stadium: Erdgas Sportpark Attendance: 13,500 Referee: Markus Schmidt

30 October 2019 Second round	VfL Wolfsburg	1–6	RB Leipzig	Wolfsburg
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Mbabu  7' Arnold  42' Weghorst  59',  89'	Report	Pervan  13' (o.g.) Mukiele  35' Sabitzer  55' Forsberg  58' Laimer  61' Werner  68', 88' Ampadu  84'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 17,705 Referee: Felix Zwayer

UEFA Europa League

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GNT	WLF	STE	OLE
1	Gent	6	3	3	0	11	7	+4	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–2	3–2	2–1
2	VfL Wolfsburg	6	3	2	1	9	7	+2	11			1–3	—	1–0	3–1
3	Saint-Étienne	6	0	4	2	6	8	−2	4			0–0	1–1	—	1–1
4	Oleksandriya	6	0	3	3	6	10	−4	3			1–1	0–1	2–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

19 September 2019 1	VfL Wolfsburg	3–1	Oleksandriya	Wolfsburg, Germany
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Arnold  20' Mehmedi  24' Brekalo  67'	Report	Banada  66',  81' Dubra  89'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 10,112 Referee: Halis Özkahya (Turkey)

3 October 2019 2	Saint-Étienne	1–1	VfL Wolfsburg	Saint-Étienne, France
18:55 CEST (UTC+2)	Kolodziejczak  13' Berić  40'	Report	William  15' Arnold  50' Bruma  84'	Stadium: Stade Geoffroy-Guichard Attendance: 24,815 Referee: Craig Pawson (England)

24 October 2019 3	Gent	2–2	VfL Wolfsburg	Ghent, Belgium
18:55 CEST (UTC+2)	Owusu  17' Odjidja-Ofoe  28' Asare  37' Yaremchuk  41', 90+4' Ngadeu-Ngadjui  54'	Report	Weghorst  3',  19' João Victor  24' William  33' Mbabu  57'	Stadium: Ghelamco Arena Attendance: 15,437 Referee: Sergey Ivanov (Russia)

7 November 2019 4	VfL Wolfsburg	1–3	Gent	Wolfsburg, Germany
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	João Victor  20' Arnold  45' Knoche  75' Steffen  85'	Report	Asare  45+2' Plastun  46' Yaremchuk  50' Depoitre  65' Ngadeu-Ngadjui  76'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)

28 November 2019 5	Oleksandriya	0–1	VfL Wolfsburg	Lviv, Ukraine
19:55 EET (UTC+2)	Pashayev  45' Bezborodko  71'	Report	Bruma  19' Weghorst  45+1' (pen.) Roussillon  69' William  88'	Stadium: Arena Lviv Attendance: 7,118 Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber (Austria)

12 December 2019 6	VfL Wolfsburg	1–0	Saint-Étienne	Wolfsburg, Germany
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Mbabu  24' Otávio  52' Steffen  90+4'	Report	Berić  21' Kolodziejczak  78'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 10,802 Referee: Paul Tierney (England)

Knockout phase

Round of 32

20 February 2020 First leg	VfL Wolfsburg	2–1	Malmö FF	Wolfsburg, Germany
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Gerhardt  43' Mbabu  46' Brekalo  49' Thelin  62' (o.g.)	Report	Safari  41' Thelin  47' (pen.) Nalić  70'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 13,801 Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania)

27 February 2020 Second leg	Malmö FF	0–3 (1–5 agg.)	VfL Wolfsburg	Malmö, Sweden
18:55 CET (UTC+1)	Rieks  5'	Report	Brekalo  42' Gerhardt  65' João Victor  69' Brooks  84'	Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 20,500 Referee: Willie Collum (Scotland)

Round of 16

12 March 2020 First leg	VfL Wolfsburg	1–2	Shakhtar Donetsk	Wolfsburg, Germany
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Weghorst  18' Brooks  48',  71' Steffen  56'	Report	Moraes  17' Marcos Antônio  73'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 0[30] Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

5 August 2020 Second leg	Shakhtar Donetsk	3–0 (5–1 agg.)	VfL Wolfsburg	Kiev, Ukraine
18:55 CEST (UTC+2)	Kryvtsov  59' Khocholava  68' Moraes  89', 90+3' Solomon  90+1'	Report	Brooks  57'  70' Schlager  71' Arnold  87'	Stadium: NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium[31] Attendance: 0[32] Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)
Note: The match originally scheduled to be played on 19 March, was indefinitely postponed due to a pandemic of COVID-19 in Europe.[33] The match was rescheduled on 17 June to 5 August.[34]

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal		Europa League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK		Koen Casteels	32	0	26	0	1	0	5	0
12	GK		Pavao Pervan	14	0	8	0	1	0	5	0
30	GK		Niklas Klinger	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	GK		Phillip Menzel	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF		William	22	3	16	1	2	1	4	1
6	DF		Paulo Otávio	9	1	4+1	0	0	0	3+1	1
15	DF		Jérôme Roussillon	37	1	27+2	1	1	0	5+2	0
19	DF		Kevin Mbabu	27	3	18+2	3	1+1	0	3+2	0
22	DF		Marin Pongračić	12	2	11	2	0	0	1	0
25	DF		John Brooks	31	1	25	0	1	0	5	1
31	DF		Robin Knoche	31	2	17+4	1	1+1	1	8	0
32	DF		Marcel Tisserand	23	1	14+1	1	1	0	7	0
Midfielders
4	MF		Ignacio Camacho	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	MF		Renato Steffen	38	6	19+8	6	1+1	0	5+4	0
11	MF		Felix Klaus	29	0	6+17	0	1	0	1+4	0
13	DF		Yannick Gerhardt	25	4	7+11	2	2	1	5	1
20	MF		Luca Horn	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
23	MF		Josuha Guilavogui	31	0	23+2	0	1	0	4+1	0
24	MF		Xaver Schlager	28	1	21+2	1	0	0	5	0
27	MF		Maximilian Arnold	44	5	32+1	4	2	0	9	1
38	MF		Ismail Azzaoui	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
7	FW		Josip Brekalo	41	8	19+11	4	1+1	1	9	3
9	FW		Wout Weghorst	43	20	30+2	16	2	2	9	2
14	FW		Admir Mehmedi	26	3	14+7	2	0	0	5	1
29	FW		Omar Marmoush	6	0	0+5	0	0	0	0+1	0
33	FW		Daniel Ginczek	23	3	9+9	3	0	0	2+3	0
37	FW		Mamoudou Karamoko	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
40	FW		João Victor	41	5	18+14	2	2	0	4+3	3
Players transferred out during the season
3	DF		Jeffrey Bruma	15	0	9	0	1	0	4+1	0
10	MF		Yunus Mallı	2	0	0	0	0	0	0+2	0
17	DF		Ohis Felix Uduokhai	1	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0
21	MF		Paul-Georges Ntep	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	FW		Lukas Nmecha	12	0	1+5	0	0+1	0	0+5	0
29	MF		John Yeboah	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	MF		Elvis Rexhbeçaj	2	0	0	0	0+1	0	1	0

Last updated: 5 August 2020
Source: Competitions

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