VfL Wolfsburg

2003–04 season
Manager	Jürgen Röber
Bundesliga	10th
DFB-Pokal	Second round
Top goalscorer	Diego Klimowicz (15)
Home colours Away colours
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VfL Wolfsburg started the season in brilliant fashion, taking an early Bundesliga lead, before slipping back in a nightmare run, which saw the team finish in the midfield, with a lower points haul than the previous seasons. Wolfsburg also dropped a bombshell when they signed Argentine starlet Andrés D'Alessandro of River Plate. D'Alessandro had been relatively disappointing season, but Fernando Baiano together with Diego Klimowicz made sure the attack functioned really well.

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 2 DF   ARG Pablo Quatrocchi 3 DF   CHI Waldo Ponce (on loan from Universidad de Chile) 5 DF   GER Stefan Schnoor 6 MF   GUI Pablo Thiam 7 MF   GER Patrick Weiser 9 FW   ARG Diego Klimowicz 10 MF   ARG Andrés D'Alessandro 12 GK   BIH Sead Ramović 13 DF   CRO Marino Biliškov 14 FW   BIH Marko Topić 17 FW   BRA Fernando Baiano 19 DF   DEN Thomas Rytter 20 MF   BIH Mirko Hrgović 21 MF   BUL Martin Petrov 22 FW   GER Roy Präger

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 DF   SCG Nenad Lalatović (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk) 27 MF   SVK Miroslav Karhan 29 GK   GER Simon Jentzsch 30 MF   MKD Nderim Nexhipi 31 DF   GHA Hans Sarpei 32 FW   POL Michał Janicki 33 DF   GER Maik Franz 36 FW   ARG Juan Carlos Menseguez 37 MF   GER Karsten Fischer 38 DF   GER Stefan Lorenz 39 FW   GER Christian Ritter 40 GK   GER Patrick Platins 41 MF   COD Cédric Makiadi 44 GK   GER Fabian Lucas

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 1 GK   GER Claus Reitmaier (to Borussia Mönchengladbach) 4 DF   DEN Kim Madsen (to Hansa Rostock) 8 MF   ROU Dorinel Munteanu (to Steaua Bucharest) 11 FW   CRO Tomislav Marić (on loan to Borussia Mönchengladbach)

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF   GER Albert Streit (to Köln) 23 MF   GER Sven Müller (to Nürnberg) 24 MF   GHA Charles Akonnor (to SpVgg Unterhaching)

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 — MF   GER Benjamin Siegert

Results

Bundesliga

VfL Wolfsburg v VfL Bochum

1	VfL Wolfsburg	3–2	VfL Bochum
	Thiam 9' Klimowicz 14' Petrov 75'		Madsen 37' Fahrenhorst 44'

Borussia Dortmund v VfL Wolfsburg

2	Borussia Dortmund	4–0	VfL Wolfsburg
	Rosický 25, 51' M. Amoroso 74' Koller 87'

VfL Wolfsburg v Hamburg

3	VfL Wolfsburg	5–1	Hamburg
	Klimowicz 50, 86' Petrov 60' Müller 70' D'Alessandro 75'		Barbarez 47'

1860 München v VfL Wolfsburg

4	1860 München	1–0	VfL Wolfsburg
	Schwarz 59'

VfL Wolfsburg v Bayern Munich

5	VfL Wolfsburg	3–2	Bayern Munich
	Baiano 11, 83' Klimowicz 89'		Schweinsteiger 49' Makaay 59'

1. FC Köln v VfL Wolfsburg

6	1. FC Köln	2–3	VfL Wolfsburg
	Scherz 35' Voronin 60'		Biliškov 3' Petrov 26' Klimowicz 72'

VfL Wolfsburg v Bayer Leverkusen

7	VfL Wolfsburg	0–1	Bayer Leverkusen
			Schneider 57'

Werder Bremen v VfL Wolfsburg

8	Werder Bremen	5–3	VfL Wolfsburg
	Aílton 2, 21' Stalteri 41' Micoud 57' Klasnić 58'		Biliškov 40' Streit 54' Karhan 65'

VfL Wolfsburg v Hansa Rostock

9	VfL Wolfsburg	3–1	Hansa Rostock
	Klimowicz 31' Baiano 39, 67'		Rydlewicz 41'

VfB Stuttgart v VfL Wolfsburg

10	VfB Stuttgart	1–0	VfL Wolfsburg
	Amanatidis 41'

VfL Wolfsburg v Hertha Berlin

11	VfL Wolfsburg	3–0	Hertha Berlin
	D'Alessandro 24' Klimowicz 47, 71'

Freiburg v VfL Wolfsburg

12	Freiburg	3–2	VfL Wolfsburg
	Iashvili 31, 33, 76'		Topić 62' Franz 90'

VfL Wolfsburg v Mönchengladbach

13	VfL Wolfsburg	1–3	Mönchengladbach
	Schnoor 33'		Van Hout 13' van Lent 68' Kolkka 77'

Eintracht Frankfurt v VfL Wolfsburg

14	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–2	VfL Wolfsburg
	Preuß 32' Skela 56' ( pen.) Beierle 73'		Karhan 13' Klimowicz 25'

VfL Wolfsburg v 1. FC Kaiserslautern

15	VfL Wolfsburg	4–1	1. FC Kaiserslautern
	Baiano 23, 53, 55' Schnoor 90' ( pen.)		Knavs 13'

VfL Wolfsburg v Hannover 96

16	VfL Wolfsburg	2–1	Hannover 96
	Baiano 29' Petrov 68'		Stendel 14'

Schalke 04 v VfL Wolfsburg

17	Schalke 04	1–1	VfL Wolfsburg
	Hamit Altıntop 26'		Petrov 40'

VfL Bochum v VfL Wolfsburg

18	VfL Bochum	1–0	VfL Wolfsburg
	Fahrenhorst 35'

VfL Wolfsburg v Borussia Dortmund

19	VfL Wolfsburg	2–4	Borussia Dortmund
	Petrov 36' ( pen.) Baiano 88'		Jensen 42' Koller 45' Frings 54' Ricken 78'

Hamburg v VfL Wolfsburg

20	Hamburg	2–0	VfL Wolfsburg
	Barbarez 18' Rahn 88'

VfL Wolfsburg v 1860 München

21	VfL Wolfsburg	3–1	1860 München
	Biliškov 9' D'Alessandro 19' Klimowicz 62'		Weissenberger 21'

Bayern Munich v VfL Wolfsburg

22	Bayern Munich	2–0	VfL Wolfsburg
	Makaay 11' Schweinsteiger 76'

VfL Wolfsburg v 1. FC Köln

23	VfL Wolfsburg	2–0	1. FC Köln
	Klimowicz 30' Topić 84'

Bayer Leverkusen v VfL Wolfsburg

24	Bayer Leverkusen	4–2	VfL Wolfsburg
	Berbatov 1' Babić 13' Schneider 32' França 63'		Topić 21' Klimowicz 82'

VfL Wolfsburg v Werder Bremen

25	VfL Wolfsburg	0–2	Werder Bremen
			Klasnić 75' Micoud 85'

Hansa Rostock v VfL Wolfsburg

26	Hansa Rostock	3–1	VfL Wolfsburg
	Arvidsson 9' Max 33' Möhrle 37'		Quatrocchi 26'

VfL Wolfsburg v VfB Stuttgart

27	VfL Wolfsburg	1–5	VfB Stuttgart
	Petrov 30'		Gerber 6' Streller 26' Lahm 45' Kurányi 73' Szabics 86'

Hertha Berlin v VfL Wolfsburg

28	Hertha Berlin	1–0	VfL Wolfsburg
	Rafael 22'

VfL Wolfsburg v Freiburg

29	VfL Wolfsburg	4–0	Freiburg
	Franz 10' Baiano 20' Sarpei 47' Klimowicz 68'

Mönchengladbach v VfL Wolfsburg

30	Mönchengladbach	0–2	VfL Wolfsburg
			Baiano 44' Karhan 65'

VfL Wolfsburg v Eintracht Frankfurt

31	VfL Wolfsburg	1–0	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Klimowicz 10'

1. FC Kaiserslautern v VfL Wolfsburg

32	1. FC Kaiserslautern	3–2	VfL Wolfsburg
	Lokvenc 57, 72' Bjelica 75'		Klimowicz 65' Petrov 66'

VfL Wolfsburg v Schalke 04

34	VfL Wolfsburg	1–1	Schalke 04
	Karhan 2'		Franz 20' ( o.g.)

Top Scorers

• Diego Klimowicz 15
• Fernando Baiano 12
• Martin Petrov 8 (1)
• Miroslav Karhan 5
• Marino Biliškov 3
• Andrés D'Alessandro 3
• Marko Topić 3

References