2022–23_VfL_Bochum_season

VfL Bochum
2022–23 season
Chairman	Hans-Peter Villis
Head coach	Thomas Reis; (until 12 September); Heiko Butscher; (caretaker, 12–22 September); Thomas Letsch; (from 22 September)
Stadium	Vonovia-Ruhrstadion
Bundesliga	14th
DFB-Pokal	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: ; Philipp Hofmann (8); All: ; Philipp Hofmann (9)
Biggest win	Viktoria Berlin 0–3 VfL Bochum; VfL Bochum 3–0 Eintracht Frankfurt; VfL Bochum 5–2 1899 Hoffenheim; VfL Bochum 3–0 Bayer Leverkusen
Biggest defeat	VfL Bochum 0–7 Bayern Munich
	← 2021–22 2023–24 →

2022–23 VfL Bochum season

VfL Bochum 2022–23 football season

The 2022–23 season was the 85th season in the history of VfL Bochum and their second consecutive season in the top flight. The club participated in the Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal.

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No.	Pos.	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
5	MF	Jacek Góralski	Kairat	Free	1 July 2022	^[2]
7	MF	Kevin Stöger	Mainz 05	Free		^[3]
10	MF	Philipp Förster	VfB Stuttgart	€500,000		^[4]
18	DF	Jordi Osei-Tutu	Arsenal	Free		^[5]
23	DF	Saidy Janko	Real Valladolid	Loan		^[6]
33	FW	Philipp Hofmann	Karlsruher SC	Free		^[7]
16	DF	Kostas Stafylidis	1899 Hoffenheim	€250,000	6 July 2022	^[8]
20	DF	Ivan Ordets	Dynamo Moscow	Loan	10 July 2022	^[9]
38	DF	Jannes Horn	1. FC Köln	Free	25 July 2022	^[10]
30	DF	Dominique Heintz	Union Berlin	Loan	11 August 2022	^[11]
39	FW	Lys Mousset	Sheffield United	Free	15 August 2022	^[12]
26	GK	Marko Johansson	Hamburger SV	Loan	1 September 2022	^[13]
31	DF	Keven Schlotterbeck	SC Freiburg	Loan	2 January 2023	^[14]
28	MF	Pierre Kunde	Olympiacos	Loan	6 January 2023	^[15]
29	FW	Moritz Broschinski	Borussia Dortmund II	Undisclosed	22 January 2023	^[16]

No.	Pos.	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
5	DF	Saulo Decarli	Eintracht Braunschweig	Free	1 July 2022	^[17]
7	FW	Danny Blum		Free
11	DF	Herbert Bockhorn		Free
14	MF	Tom Weilandt	Greifswalder FC	Free
19	FW	Jürgen Locadia	Persepolis	Free
23	MF	Robert Tesche	VfL Osnabrück	Free
27	FW	Miloš Pantović	Union Berlin	Free		^[18]
29	DF	Maxim Leitsch	Mainz 05	€3,500,000
37	DF	Armel Bella-Kotchap	Southampton	€10,000,000		^[19]
40	FW	Sebastian Polter	Schalke 04	€1,500,000		^[20]
28	FW	Luis Hartwig	St. Pölten	Loan	14 July 2022	^[21]
30	DF	Moritz Römling	RW Essen	Loan	15 July 2022	^[22]
38	DF	Jannes Horn	1. FC Nürnberg	Loan	7 January 2023	^[23]
14	DF	Tim Oermann	Wolfsberger AC	Loan	24 January 2023	^[24]
32	FW	Tarsis Bonga	Eintracht Braunschweig	Undisclosed	24 January 2023	^[25]
39	FW	Lys Mousset	Nîmes Olympique	Loan	31 January 2023	^[26]

25 June 2022 Friendly	Wuppertaler SV	0–2	VfL Bochum	Wuppertal, Germany
13:00 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Hofmann 4' Ganvoula 88'	Stadium: Stadion am Zoo

29 June 2022 Friendly	1. FC Monheim	1–1	VfL Bochum	Monheim, Germany
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Kussunga 13'	Report	Ganvoula 25'	Stadium: Rheinstadion

2 July 2022 Friendly	FC Bocholt	1–3	VfL Bochum	Bocholt, Germany
14:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Fakhro 43'	Report	Osei-Tutu 57' Ganvoula 73', 75'	Stadium: Gigaset Arena

2022–23_VfL_Bochum_season

2022–23 VfL Bochum season

Players

First-team squad

Out on loan

Transfers

In

Out

Pre-season and friendlies

Competitions

Overall record

Bundesliga

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

DFB-Pokal

Statistics

Appearances and goals

Goalscorers

References

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6 July 2022 Friendly	Fortuna Sittard	1–1	VfL Bochum	Nederweert-Eind, Netherlands
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Noslin 23'	Report	Stöger 77'	Stadium: Sportpark Op de Hooven

8 July 2022 Friendly	SC Paderborn	2–0	VfL Bochum	Paderborn, Germany
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Muslija 40' (pen.) Heuer 58'	Report		Stadium: Home Deluxe Arena

13 July 2022 Friendly	VfL Bochum	3–2	Lecce	Brixen, Italy
17:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Stöger 33' Holtmann 42' Ganvoula 64'	Report	Colombo 14', 17'	Stadium: Sportplatz Klaus Seebacher

16 July 2022 Friendly	Spezia	1–2	VfL Bochum	Brixen, Italy
16:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Agudelo 84'	Report	Asano 63' Losilla 66'	Stadium: Sportplatz Klaus Seebacher

21 July 2022 Friendly	VfL Bochum	1–4	Athletic Bilbao	Gütersloh, Germany
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Zoller 58'	Report	Vesga 38' R. García 65' Villalibre 82', 88' I. Williams 84'	Stadium: Heidewaldstadion Referee: Florian Exner (Germany)

23 July 2022 Friendly	VfL Bochum	6–2	Antalyaspor	Bochum, Germany
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Ordets 41' Zoller 45' Asano 56', 58' Osei-Tutu 75' Holtmann 77'		Ghacha 16' Wright 68'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 6,472 Referee: Arne Aarnink (Germany)

22 September 2022 Friendly	VfL Bochum	Cancelled	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Bochum, Germany
14:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Note: The game was cancelled due to a shortage of players at Fortuna Düsseldorf.^[27]

7 December 2022 Friendly	VfL Bochum	1–3	PEC Zwolle	Bochum, Germany
14:00 CET (UTC+1)	Holtmann 8'	Report	van Polen 21' (pen.) Lagsir 37' Thy 69'

10 December 2022 Friendly	VfL Bochum	1–2	Karlsruher SC	Bochum, Germany
13:15 CET (UTC+1)	Hofmann 82'	Report	O'Shaughnessy 23' Cueto 71'	Stadium: Nebenplatz Ruhrstadion

16 December 2022 Friendly	SC Paderborn	1–1	VfL Bochum	Paderborn, Germany
13:00 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Trainings- und Nachwuchsleistungszentrum Platz 1

10 January 2023 Friendly	Grasshoppers	1–1	VfL Bochum	Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
15:00 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Campo Hotel Barceló Montecastillo

13 January 2023 Friendly	VfL Bochum	0–3	Diósgyőr	La Línea de la Concepción, Spain
11:15 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Estadio Municipal de La Línea de la Concepción

13 January 2023 Friendly	VfL Bochum	1–1	Luzern	La Línea de la Concepción, Spain
15:15 CET (UTC+1)				Stadium: Estadio Municipal de La Línea de la Concepción

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Bundesliga	6 August 2022	27 May 2023	Matchday 1	14th	34	10	5	19	40	72	−32	029.41
DFB-Pokal	30 July 2022	8 February 2023	First round	Round of 16	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3	066.67
Total					37	12	5	20	45	74	−29	032.43

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
12	1899 Hoffenheim	34	10	6	18	48	57	−9	36
13	Werder Bremen	34	10	6	18	51	64	−13	36
14	VfL Bochum	34	10	5	19	40	72	−32	35
15	FC Augsburg	34	9	7	18	42	63	−21	34
16	VfB Stuttgart (O)	34	7	12	15	45	57	−12	33	Qualification for the relegation play-offs

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	10	5	19	40	72	−32	35	8	2	7	28	32	−4	2	3	12	12	40	−28

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	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H
Result	L	L	L	L	L	L	D	L	W	L	W	L	L	W	W	W	L	L	W	L	L	L	L	W	W	D	L	D	L	D	L	W	D	W
Position	12	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	17	14	16	16	15	15	16	17	18	14	14	14	15	15	15	16	17	15	16	14

6 August 2022 1	VfL Bochum	1–2	Mainz 05	Bochum
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Stafylidis 13' Stöger 39' Ganvoula 90+3'	Report	Onisiwo 26', 77' Stach 33' Bell 64' Burgzorg 84'	Stadium: Vonovia Ruhrstadion Attendance: 24,110 Referee: Felix Zwayer

13 August 2022 2	1899 Hoffenheim	3–2	VfL Bochum	Sinsheim
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Baumgartner 14' Kabak 23' Kramarić 59' Akpoguma 67' Dabbur 88'	Report	Zoller 10', 13' Losilla 58'	Stadium: Rhein-Neckar-Arena Attendance: 17,005 Referee: Patrick Ittrich

21 August 2022 3	VfL Bochum	0–7	Bayern Munich	Bochum
17:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Janko 46'	Report	Sané 4' de Ligt 25' Coman 33' Mané 42', 60' (pen.) Gamboa 69' (o.g.) Gnabry 76'	Stadium: Vonovia Ruhrstadion Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Daniel Siebert

26 August 2022 4	SC Freiburg	1–0	VfL Bochum	Freiburg
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Grifo 48', 48' Sallai 77' Höfler 83'	Report	Stafylidis 42' Riemann 48'	Stadium: Europa-Park Stadion Attendance: 32,800 Referee: Marco Fritz

3 September 2022 5	VfL Bochum	0–2	Werder Bremen	Bochum
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Weiser 33' Pieper 69'	Report	Zoller 39' Füllkrug 86', 90+2' (pen.) Lampropoulos 90'	Stadium: Vonovia Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,800 Referee: Robert Schröder

10 September 2022 6	Schalke 04	3–1	VfL Bochum	Gelsenkirchen
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Drexler 38' Mašović 73' (o.g.) Schwolow 85' Flick 86' Polter 90+6'	Report	Zoller 9' Losilla 29' Hofmann 51' Soares 82'	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 62,041 Referee: Felix Zwayer

18 September 2022 7	VfL Bochum	1–1	1. FC Köln	Bochum
17:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Schmitz 9' (o.g.)	Report	Hübers 68' Maina 88'	Stadium: Vonovia Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,800 Referee: Bastian Dankert

1 October 2022 8	RB Leipzig	4–0	VfL Bochum	Leipzig
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Werner 15', 53' Nkunku 23' (pen.), 85', 64'	Report	Soares 23' Horn 22'	Stadium: Red Bull Arena Attendance: 44,403 Referee: Florian Badstübner

8 October 2022 9	VfL Bochum	3–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bochum
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Zoller 40' Ordets 54' Hofmann 71' Ndicka 87' (o.g.) Förster 90+1'	Report	Dina Ebimbe 57'	Stadium: Vonovia Ruhrstadion Attendance: 24,850 Referee: Martin Petersen

15 October 2022 10	VfB Stuttgart	4–1	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Silas 3' (pen.), 64' Ahamada 22' Endo 71'	Report	Förster 16' Zoller 29' Gamboa 71' Stöger 72'	Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 45,400 Referee: Christian Dingert

23 October 2022 11	VfL Bochum	2–1	Union Berlin	Bochum
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Ordets 17' Hofmann 43' Holtmann 71'	Report	Jaeckel 35' Ryerson 70' Pantović 78', 90+3' Skarke 78'	Stadium: Vonovia Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,460 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

29 October 2022 12	VfL Wolfsburg	4–0	VfL Bochum	Wolfsburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Bornauw 24' F. Nmecha 27', 58' Baku 35' Wind 80'	Report	Heintz 57'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 24,037 Referee: Robert Hartmann

5 November 2022 13	Borussia Dortmund	3–0	VfL Bochum	Dortmund
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Moukoko 8', 45+2' Reyna 12' (pen.) Özcan 79'	Report	Gamboa 54'	Stadium: Signal Iduna Park Attendance: 81,365 Referee: Tobias Stieler

8 November 2022 14	VfL Bochum	2–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Hofmann 7' Antwi-Adjei 12' Losilla 78'	Report	Friedrich 2' Pléa 44' 62' Kramer 55'	Stadium: Vonovia Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,900 Referee: Daniel Schlager

12 November 2022 15	FC Augsburg	0–1	VfL Bochum	Augsburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Berisha 61', 90+1'	Report	Antwi-Adjei 58' Osei-Tutu 90+1'	Stadium: WWK Arena Attendance: 28,011 Referee: Felix Brych

21 January 2023 16	VfL Bochum	3–1	Hertha BSC	Bochum
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Hofmann 22', 56' Soares 41' Schlotterbeck 44'	Report	Kempf 39' Serdar 87'	Stadium: Vonovia Ruhrstadion Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Martin Petersen

25 January 2023 17	Bayer Leverkusen	2–0	VfL Bochum	Leverkusen
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Tapsoba 8' (pen.) Diaby 39' Andrich 45' Hložek 53'	Report	Soares 51' Mašović 61' Osei-Tutu 71' Lampropoulos 81'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 25,820 Referee: Timo Gerach