VfL Wolfsburg

2004–05 season
Manager	Eric Gerets
Bundesliga	9th
DFB-Pokal	First round
Top goalscorer	Thomas Brdarić (12)
Home colours Away colours

VfL Wolfsburg dropped off the pace for the second season running. A successful start to the season saw Wolfsburg running first in the league, looking like strong contenders, but as the season processed, the form dropped, and at the end of the season the team had lost one more match than they had won, surprisingly dropping off the top half of the table. Manager Eric Gerets left after one season in charge, and was replaced by former Borussia Mönchengladbach manager Holger Fach.

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  GER Simon Jentzsch 2 DF  DEN Thomas Rytter 3 DF  CRO Marino Biliškov 5 DF  GER Stefan Schnoor 6 MF  GUI Pablo Thiam 7 MF  GER Patrick Weiser 8 MF  BUL Marian Hristov 9 FW  ARG Diego Klimowicz 10 MF  ARG Andrés D'Alessandro 11 FW  CRO Tomislav Marić 13 FW  GER Thomas Brdarić 14 FW  BIH Marko Topić 18 DF  ARG Facundo Quiroga 20 MF  BIH Mirko Hrgović

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 MF  BUL Martin Petrov 26 MF  GER Karsten Fischer 27 MF  SVK Miroslav Karhan 29 DF  NED Kevin Hofland 30 GK  GER André Lenz 31 DF  GHA Hans Sarpei 33 DF  GER Maik Franz 34 FW  GER Roy Präger 36 FW  ARG Juan Carlos Menseguez 38 DF  GER Stefan Lorenz 39 FW  GER Christian Ritter 40 GK  GER Patrick Platins 41 MF  COD Cédric Makiadi

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 16 MF  ARG Oscar Ahumada (on loan from River Plate)

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 — DF  POL Bartosz Romańczuk

Results

Bundesliga

Borussia Dortmund v VfL Wolfsburg

1	Borussia Dortmund	1–2	VfL Wolfsburg
	Ewerthon 32'		Brdarić 43, 64'

VfL Wolfsburg v SC Freiburg

2	VfL Wolfsburg	0–1	SC Freiburg
			Dorn 85'

Werder Bremen v VfL Wolfsburg

3	Werder Bremen	1–2	VfL Wolfsburg
	Klose 70'		Brdarić 46' Thiam 53'

VfL Wolfsburg v Schalke 04

4	VfL Wolfsburg	3–0	Schalke 04
	Hristov 30', 40' Klimowicz 90'

Hansa Rostock v VfL Wolfsburg

5	Hansa Rostock	1–2	VfL Wolfsburg
	Madsen 33'		Klimowicz 17' Thiam 78'

VfL Wolfsburg v 1. FC Kaiserslautern

6	VfL Wolfsburg	2–1	1. FC Kaiserslautern
	Petrov 13' Klimowicz 90'		Jancker 82'

VfL Wolfsburg v Borussia Mönchengladbach

7	VfL Wolfsburg	2–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach
	D'Alessandro 13' Schnoor 42'		Neuville 16'

Hannover 96 v VfL Wolfsburg

8	Hannover 96	3–0	VfL Wolfsburg
	Schroter 7', 64' Stendel 90'

VfL Wolfsburg v VfL Bochum

9	VfL Wolfsburg	3–0	VfL Bochum
	Thiam 27' Klimowicz 40' D'Alessandro 42'

Bayern Munich v VfL Wolfsburg

10	Bayern Munich	2–0	VfL Wolfsburg
	Pizarro 24', 45'

VfL Wolfsburg v Mainz 05

11	VfL Wolfsburg	4–3	Mainz 05
	Petrov 45', 45+', 57' (pen.), 75'		Abel 15' Casey 17' Babatz 75'

1. FC Nürnberg v VfL Wolfsburg

12	1. FC Nürnberg	4–0	VfL Wolfsburg
	Mintál 2', 28', 49' Schroth 45'

VfL Wolfsburg v VfB Stuttgart

13	VfL Wolfsburg	3–0	VfB Stuttgart
	Brdarić 42' Petrov 69', 76'

Hamburger SV v VfL Wolfsburg

14	Hamburger SV	3–1	VfL Wolfsburg
	Van Buyten 40' Barbarez 45' Romeo 90'		Brdarić 1'

VfL Wolfsburg v Hertha BSC

15	VfL Wolfsburg	2–3	Hertha BSC
	Thiam 50' Brdarić 68'		Marcelinho 16', 47', 74'

Bayer Leverkusen v VfL Wolfsburg

16	Bayer Leverkusen	2–1	VfL Wolfsburg
	Voronin 46' França 89'		Klimowicz 4'

VfL Wolfsburg v Arminia Bielefeld

17	VfL Wolfsburg	5–0	Arminia Bielefeld
	Rytter 14' Klimowicz 26' Brdarić 37', 40' Petrov 67' (pen.)

VfL Wolfsburg v Borussia Dortmund

18	VfL Wolfsburg	1–2	Borussia Dortmund
	Quiroga 82'		Smolarek 56' Koller 60'

SC Freiburg v VfL Wolfsburg

19	SC Freiburg	1–0	VfL Wolfsburg
	Bajramović 57'

VfL Wolfsburg v Werder Bremen

20	VfL Wolfsburg	2–3	Werder Bremen
	Brdarić 26' Thiam 50'		Klose 51' Magnin 59' Valdez 87'

Schalke 04 v VfL Wolfsburg

21	Schalke 04	3–0	VfL Wolfsburg
	Asamoah 13' Sand 35' Hanke 85'

VfL Wolfsburg v Hansa Rostock

22	VfL Wolfsburg	4–0	Hansa Rostock
	D'Alessandro 4' Klimowicz 7' Thiam 63' Marić 83'

1. FC Kaiserslautern v VfL Wolfsburg

23

1. FC Kaiserslautern

0–0

VfL Wolfsburg

Borussia Mönchengladbach v VfL Wolfsburg

24	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–0	VfL Wolfsburg
	Svěrkoš 87'

VfL Wolfsburg v Hannover 96

25	VfL Wolfsburg	1–0	Hannover 96
	Menseguez 6'

VfL Bochum v VfL Wolfsburg

26	VfL Bochum	5–1	VfL Wolfsburg
	Edu 15', 38' Wosz 24' Lokvenc 40' Madsen 57'		Petrov 73'

VfL Wolfsburg v Bayern Munich

27	VfL Wolfsburg	0–3	Bayern Munich
			Schweinsteiger 29' Hofland 42' (o.g.) Frings 55'

Mainz 05 v VfL Wolfsburg

28	Mainz 05	0–2	VfL Wolfsburg
			Brdarić 64' Schnoor 78'

VfL Wolfsburg v 1. FC Nürnberg

29	VfL Wolfsburg	0–1	1. FC Nürnberg
			Kießling 63'

VfB Stuttgart v VfL Wolfsburg

30

VfB Stuttgart

0–0

VfL Wolfsburg

VfL Wolfsburg v Hamburger SV

31	VfL Wolfsburg	1–0	Hamburger SV
	Petrov 41'

Hertha BSC v VfL Wolfsburg

32	Hertha BSC	3–1	VfL Wolfsburg
	Friedrich 63' Marcelinho 81' Madlung 88'		Petrov 17'

VfL Wolfsburg v Bayer Leverkusen

33	VfL Wolfsburg	2–2	Bayer Leverkusen
	Karhan 24' Brdarić 30'		França 61' Bierofka 86'

Arminia Bielefeld v VfL Wolfsburg

34	Arminia Bielefeld	1–2	VfL Wolfsburg
	Vata 35'		Petrov 41' (pen.) Brdarić 56'

References