SC Paderborn 07

SC Paderborn

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Full name	Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V.
Founded	1985 (1985)
Ground	Benteler Arena
Ground Capacity	15,300
Chairman	Wilfried Finke
Manager	Stefan Effenberg
League	2.Bundesliga
2014–15	18th (relegated)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V., commonly known as simply SC Paderborn 07 (pronounced [ʔɛs t͡seː paːdɐˈbɔʁn nʊl ziːbm̩]) or SC Paderborn, is a German association football club based in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has enjoyed its greatest successes since the turn of the millennium, becoming a fixture in the 2. Bundesliga before finally earning promotion to the top-flight Bundesliga in 2014.

History

The club was formed out of the 1985 merger of FC Paderborn and TuS Schloß Neuhaus as TuS Paderborn-Neuhaus and took on its current, shorter name in 1997. The Neuhaus club was founded in 1907 as SV 07 Neuhaus which was joined by the local side TuS 1910 Sennelager to become TuS Schloß Neuhaus in 1973. The Paderborn club was founded in 1908 as FC Preußen Paderborn which became VfJ 08 Paderborn in 1920 and was merged with another local side SV 13 Paderborn to become FC Paderborn in 1968. The Neuhaus and Paderborn teams played as tier III sides for most of their histories, as has the unified club. Today Paderborn plays its home matches at the Benteler Arena.

The club is known for its involvement in a notorious DFB-Pokal contest played against Bundesliga side Hamburger SV on 21 August 2004. Paderborn upset HSV 4–2 and it was revealed in January 2005 that the match referee, Robert Hoyzer, had taken money from Croatian gambling syndicates to fix the match using two wrongly awarded penalties and a questionable red card. It soon developed that the game was only one of a number in which game officials, coaches, and players accepted payment to influence the outcome. The resulting scandal was to become the biggest in German football in over thirty years, and was a major embarrassment to the country during its preparations to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

A series of steadily improved finishes in the Regionalliga Nord (III) led to Paderborn advancing to second tier play in 2005. They spent most of the following decade as a lower table side in the 2. Bundesliga before breaking through in their 2013–14 campaign. A 2–1 victory at home over Aalen on 11 May 2014 secured a second-place finish and promotion to the 1. Bundesliga for the first time in the club's history. However the celebration was short-lived as they were immediately relegated in the next season.

Recent seasons

Year	Tier	Division	Position	Comment
1999–00	III	Regionalliga West/Südwest	13th	relegated
2000–01	IV	Oberliga Westfalen	1st	promoted
2001–02	III	Regionalliga Nord	14th
2002–03	III	Regionalliga Nord	8th
2003–04	III	Regionalliga Nord	3rd
2004–05	III	Regionalliga Nord	2nd	promoted
2005–06	II	2. Bundesliga	9th
2006–07	II	2. Bundesliga	11th
2007–08	II	2. Bundesliga	17th	relegated
2008–09	III	3. Liga	3rd	promoted via play-offs
2009–10	II	2. Bundesliga	5th
2010–11	II	2. Bundesliga	12th
2011–12	II	2. Bundesliga	5th
2012–13	II	2. Bundesliga	12th
2013–14	II	2. Bundesliga	2nd	promoted
2014–15	I	Bundesliga	18th	relegated
2015–16	II	2. Bundesliga	N/A

Current squad

As of 13 January, 2016

For recent transfers, see List of German football transfers winter 2014–15.

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Lukas Kruse 3 DF Rafa 5 MF Dominik Wydra 6 MF Marvin Bakalorz 7 MF Marcel Ndjeng 8 FW Nick Proschwitz 9 FW Srđan Lakić 10 FW Mahir Sağlık 11 MF Moritz Stoppelkamp 12 MF Oliver Kirch 13 MF Sebastian Schonlau 14 DF Thomas Bertels 15 DF Florian Ruck 16 MF Christian Bickel 17 DF Niklas Hoheneder

No. Position Player 18 MF Kevin Stöger 19 FW Marc Brašnić (on loan from Bayer Leverkusen) 20 MF Marc Vucinovic 21 DF Daniel Brückner 22 DF Michael Heinloth 23 MF Mirnes Pepić 24 GK Daniel Heuer Fernandes 25 DF Khaled Narey (on loan from Borussia Dortmund) 26 DF Florian Hartherz 27 MF Idir Ouali 29 DF Hauke Wahl 30 MF Süleyman Koç 35 GK Jonas Brammen FW Jakub Sylvestr (on loan from 1. FC Nürnberg)

External links

• Official website (German)
• The Abseits Guide to German Soccer