SC Paderborn

Full name	Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V.
Founded	1907; 117 years ago (1907)[contradictory]
Ground	Benteler-Arena
Capacity	15,000[citation needed]
President	Elmar Volkmann[citation needed]
Head coach	Lukas Kwasniok
League	2. Bundesliga
2023–24	2. Bundesliga, 7th of 18
Website	scp07.de
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

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^[tone] its greatest success^[tone] since the turn of the millennium,^{[clarification needed]} becoming a fixture^[vague] in the 2. Bundesliga before securing promotion to the Bundesliga in the 2013–14 season. However, they got relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after only a season in the top division, and then again to the 3. Liga the season after. This relegation streak almost continued as low as the Regionalliga West, but were saved in the 2016-17 season because 1860 Munich were refused a license. The club returned to 2. Bundesliga, reaching 2nd place in the 2018–19 season and was promoted to the Bundesliga. The club finished 18th in the 2019–20 season and returned to the 2. Bundesliga.

For most of the twentieth century, Paderborn had two football clubs: TuS Schloss Neuhaus and FC Paderborn, who remained rivals until the 1980s. After Neuhaus had been promoted to the 2. Bundesliga and finished last in 1983, this set-up had reached its athletic and financial ceiling.^[jargon] Thus, in 1985, the two clubs merged into TuS Paderborn/Neuhaus. In 1997, the club adopted its current identity by assuming the name SC Paderborn 07, named after TuS Neuhaus's founding date 1907.^{[vague][contradictory][1]}

During most of the 1980s, the recently merged club competed in the third-tier Oberliga Westfalen, where they counted among the leading teams^{[according to whom?]} but never achieved promotion. In 1994, Paderborn won the league and thereby qualified for the promotion playoffs. The team lost to Eintracht Braunschweig and Fortuna Düsseldorf, but secured a place in the newly formed third-tier of the German football pyramid, the Regionalliga West/Südwest. Except for a brief stint in the fourth tier, Paderborn enjoyed^[tone] moderate success with regular trips to the DFB Pokal.^[vague][2]

During one of these, in 2004/5, the club reached the round of 16, beating MSV Duisburg and Bundesliga side Hamburger SV on the way. It later emerged that latter match had been affected by match fixing; referee Robert Hoyzer had received a bribe to let Paderborn win the game.^[vague] The incident remains the most significant betting scandal in the history of German football.^[3]

Paderborn returned to the 2. Bundesliga for the first time in nearly thirty years at the end of the same season. The team's advance into professional football brought with it a professionalisation of its structures, and, in 2005, construction began on a new 15,000-seat stadium, which replaced the dated Hermann-Löns-Stadion. All of this helped to establish the club as a regular component of Germany's professional football landscape.^[vague][4] This process culminated in the club's first promotion to the Bundesliga after the 2013/14 season under coach André Breitenreiter, who had only joined the club from TSV Havelse at the start of the season.^[5]

Having never been in the Bundesliga before, Paderborn were described^{[by whom?][clarification needed]} as "the biggest outsider in Bundesliga history" going into the season. The team started well; in the fourth game of the campaign against Hannover 96, midfielder Moritz Stoppelkamp scored a volley from 83 metres out,^{[clarification needed]} headline a Bundesliga record for the furthest ever goal. This goal also put the team top of the Bundesliga table at the time.^[6]

Paderborn were 10th in the table at the halfway point, but suffered a number of heavy losses in the second half of the season. On the second last matchday of the season, they dropped to last place, and were relegated on the final day.^[7] Upon relegation, a number of key players such as Alban Meha, Mario Vrančić, Lukas Rupp, Marvin Ducksch and captain Uwe Hünemeier left the club, while coach Breitenreiter joined Schalke.

Starting the 2015–16 season with Markus Gellhaus in charge, Paderborn surprisingly^{[according to whom?]} gave former Germany international Stefan Effenberg his first coaching job in October 2015.^[vague] In March, Effenberg was sacked, with the team bottom of the table and heading for a second consecutive relegation, which was later confirmed.^[8] Competing in the 3. Liga for the first time since 2009, Paderborn again found themselves^[tone] at the bottom of the table. After Steffen Baumgart took over as coach in April, the team picked up 11 points from his five games in charge, but could not escape the relegation zone, finishing in 18th position. That should have been a third relegation in a row, this time to the non-professional Regionalliga West, but Paderborn were unexpectedly saved by 1860 Munich not receiving a license to play in the 3. Liga. 1860 Munich were forced^{[by whom?]} to move to the Regionalliga Bayern, which allowed Paderborn to stay in the third tier.^[9]

Having been saved narrowly, Baumgart's team surprisingly^{[according to whom?]} finished second in the 2017–18 season and returned to the 2. Bundesliga. In 2019, a remarkable turn of events,^{[according to whom?]} the newly promoted side^[vague] completed another top-two finish, which returned Paderborn to the Bundesliga after years of turbulence.^[tone][10] The 2019–20 season, however, ended in the same way their first Bundesliga campaign did, as Paderborn finished last, meaning relegation back to the second tier in June 2020.^[11] The following season, Paderborn finished 9th in the 2. Bundesliga, the first time since 2012–13 that the club finished outside the promotion or relegation places.

As of 6 August 2024^[12]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  NED Pelle Boevink 4 DF  GER Calvin Brackelmann 5 MF  USA Santiago Castañeda 7 FW  GER Filip Bilbija 8 MF  GER David Kinsombi (captain) 9 FW  GER Mika Baur 10 FW  NED Koen Kostons 11 FW  GER Sven Michel 12 GK  GER Florian Pruhs 16 DF  MKD Visar Musliu (3rd captain) 17 DF  GER Laurin Curda 19 MF  GER Luca Herrmann 20 MF  GER Felix Götze 21 MF  GER Anton Bäuerle

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 MF  GER Mattes Hansen 23 DF  GER Raphael Obermair (vice-captain) 25 DF  GER Tjark Scheller 26 MF  GER Sebastian Klaas 29 FW  GER Ilyas Ansah 30 GK  GER Markus Schubert 32 DF  GER Aaron Zehnter 33 DF  GER Marcel Hoffmeier 35 GK  GER Arne Schulz 36 FW  GER Felix Platte 39 FW  GER Adriano Grimaldi 40 MF  GER Niclas Nadj 44 MF  GER Medin Kojic

As of 15 September 2024^[13]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Florian Pruhs 2 DF  GER Julius Bugenhagen 3 DF  GER Tom Wulf 4 DF  GER Kevin Krumme 5 DF  GER Tim Böhmer 6 DF  GER Maik Ameidck 7 FW  GER Joel Vega Zambrano 8 MF  GER Adrian Bravo Sanchez 9 FW  GER Marlon Lakämper 10 MF  GER Celal Aydogan 11 FW  GER Georg Ermolaev 12 GK  GER Jens Balzukat 13 DF  GER David Stamm 14 MF  GER Anton Bäuerle 15 DF  GER Martin Ens

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 MF  GER Luis Engelns 17 DF  GER Dominique Domröse 18 FW  GER Julius Langfeld 19 FW  GER Kevin Gleissner 20 FW  NED Travis de Jong 21 MF  GER Milan Hoffmeister 22 DF  GER Luis Flörke 23 DF  GER Tristan Zobel 24 MF  GER Jascha Brandt 25 MF  GER Marco Pledl 27 MF  GER Medin Kojic 29 FW  GER Henrik Koch 30 GK  GER Nico Willeke 40 MF  GER Max Ritter

Position	Name
Manager	Lukas Kwasniok
Assistant managers	Kacper Szczepanek Kazimierz Polański
Goalkeeping coach	Andrzej Andrzejczyk
Athletic coach	Piotr Kowałski Krzysztof Jarzyński
Match analyst	Mateusz Bielik Maciej Pawłowicz Krystian Szczepiński
Doctor	Dr. Tymoteusz Kamiński Dr. Janusz Oczipka
Physiotherapist	Sebastian Wawrinka
Medical director physiotherapy	Tomasz Szymański
Lead Academy Physiotherapist	Patryk Białek
Kit Manager	Tadeusz Stepiński
Academy manager	Kamil Lewandowski Jarosław Pawłowicz

• Günther Rybarczyk (1993–2001)
• Uwe Erkenbrecher (2001–2003)
• Pavel Dochev (2003–2005)
• Jos Luhukay (2005–2006)
• Holger Fach (2007–2008)
• Pavel Dochev (2008–2009)
• André Schubert (2009–2011)
• Roger Schmidt (2011–2012)
• Stephan Schmidt (2012–2013)
• André Breitenreiter (2013–2015)
• Stefan Effenberg (2015–2016)
• René Müller (2016)
• Florian Fulland (2016) (interim)
• Stefan Emmerling (2016–2017)
• Steffen Baumgart (2017–2021)
• Lukas Kwasniok (2021–)

• Official website (in German)