2012–13 Eintracht Braunschweig season

The 2012–13 Eintracht Braunschweig season is the 118th season in the club's football history. In 2012–13 the club plays in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of German football. It is the club's second consecutive season in this league, having played at this level since 2011–12, after it was promoted from the 3. Liga in 2011.

Eintracht Braunschweig
2012–13 season
ChairmanSebastian Ebel
ManagerTorsten Lieberknecht
StadiumEintracht-Stadion
2. Bundesliga2nd (promoted)
DFB-PokalSecond round
Top goalscorerDominick Kumbela (19)
Highest home attendance21,820 (vs. Köln)
Lowest home attendance18,900 (vs. Sandhausen)
Average home league attendance20,454

The club also took part in the 2012–13 edition of the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, where it reached the second round and subsequently lost to Bundesliga side SC Freiburg.[1]

Review and events

Due to the ongoing rebuilding of the Eintracht-Stadion, the stadium's capacity is reduced during the season.[2]

Eintracht Braunschweig started the season by winning five games in a row and taking over first place in the league on the second matchday. The club never left the direct promotion spots for the rest of the season. After having spent the last two decades mostly between the second and third division of German football, Eintracht's resurgence became noted by the German media.[3][4][5][6][7][8] On the 31st matchday, the club secured its return to the Bundesliga after a 28-year absence with a 1–0 away win over FC Ingolstadt.[9] Damir Vrančić scored the decisive goal from a free-kick in injury time.

With 19 goals, Dominick Kumbela also finished as the top-scorer of the 2. Bundesliga.[10]

Matches and results

Legend

  Win   Tie   Loss

Friendly matches

23 June 2012 MTV Vater Jahn Peine 0–15 Eintracht Braunschweig Peine
16:00 Report Merkel 3', 17'
Kessel 5', 24'
Kruppke 19'
Doğan 30' (pen.)
Erwig-Drüppel 50'
53' (o.g.)
Ademi 55', 61', 64', 82'
R. Korte 58'
Boland 81', 89'
Stadium: Vater-Jahn-Platz
Attendance: 1,300
24 June 2012 Germania Wolfenbüttel 0–14 Eintracht Braunschweig Wolfenbüttel
15:00 Report Bičakčić 7'
Reichel 11'
Boland 28', 37'
R. Korte 37'
Ademi 43'
Kruppke 50', 76', 83'
Merkel 57', 66'
68' (o.g.)
G. Korte 73'
Erwig-Drüppel 81'
Stadium: MKN-Sport-Park
Attendance: 2,000
11 July 2012 Eintracht Braunschweig 1–1 Panathinaikos Wörgl, Austria
18:00 G. Korte 67' Report Petropoulos 75' Stadium: Sportpark Wörgl
Attendance: 300
27 July 2012 Eintracht Braunschweig 3–0 Carl Zeiss Jena Salzgitter
19:45 Edwini-Bonsu 28'
Kumbela 51'
Erwig-Drüppel 68'
Report Stadium: Stadion am Salzgittersee
Attendance: 800
28 July 2012 Eintracht Braunschweig 5–1 FSV Zwickau Braunschweig
15:30 Ademi 31', 38', 61'
R. Korte 58'
Kessel 90'
Report Trehkopf 69' Stadium: Konrad-Koch-Stadion
Attendance: 1,100
28 August 2012 Wacker Braunschweig 0–11 Eintracht Braunschweig Braunschweig
18:30 Report Zhang 9'
Kumbela 19'
Own goal 20' (o.g.)
Pfitzner 49'
Turan 52'
Boland 57'
R. Korte 64', 66'
Edwini-Bonsu 67'
Kratz 68'
Merkel 73'
Stadium: Jahnplatz
Attendance: 700
4 September 2012 Ehra-Lessien XI 1–10 Eintracht Braunschweig Ehra-Lessien
18:30 Ivan 23' Report Ademi 18', 38', 41'
Edwini-Bonsu 30'
Kumbela 43'
Bohl 57'
G. Korte 67', 89'
Zhang 80', 87'
Stadium: Sportplatz Ehra-Lessien
Attendance: 925
8 September 2012 Eintracht Braunschweig 0–1 Darmstadt 98 Salzgitter
14:00 Report Karli 63' Stadium: Stadion am Salzgittersee
Attendance: 500
9 October 2012 FSV Adenbüttel Rethen 0–23 Eintracht Braunschweig Vordorf-Rethen
18:30 Report Kumbela 4', 18', 36'
Erwig-Drüppel 9'
Pfitzner 12'
Zhang 14', 22'
Boland 20'
Own goal 30' (o.g.)
Vrančić 33', 38'
Own goal 51' (o.g.)
G. Korte 52', 54', 66'
R. Korte 53', 64', 78'
J. Kierdorf 69'
Kessel 74'
Edwini-Bonsu 79', 86'
L. Kierdorf 83'
Stadium: Sportplatz Rethen
Attendance: 800
12 October 2012 SV Gifhorn 0–14 Eintracht Braunschweig Gifhorn
16:30 Report R. Korte 17'
Kruppke 19', 45'
Correia 28', 32'
Edwini-Bonsu 29'
Kratz 31'
Doğan 42'
Pfitzner 51'
Turan 59'
Merkel 60', 87'
Boland 77', 81' (pen.)
Stadium: Sportplatz Eyßelheide
Attendance: 300
11 January 2013 Eintracht Braunschweig 1–0 Kickers Offenbach Braunschweig
13:00 Theuerkauf 32' Report Stadium: Konrad-Koch-Stadion
Attendance: 567
21 January 2013 Eintracht Braunschweig 2–0 Thun Belek, Turkey
15:00 Kumbela 49'
Vrančić 89' (pen.)
[www.eintracht.com/profis/neues/loewen-mit-20-erfolg-im-test-gegen-den-fc-thun/ Report] Stadium: Calista Football Center
23 May 2013 Göttingen XI 0–2 Eintracht Braunschweig Göttingen
18:30 Report
Report
Vrančić 36'
Boland 55'
Stadium: Stadion am Rehbach
Attendance: 550
24 May 2013 Viktoria Königslutter 0–15 Eintracht Braunschweig Königslutter
18:30 Report Kessel 5'
Bär 9', 15', 24'
Boland 16', 33', 41'
Kluft 20', 63'
R. Korte 43'
Albrecht 53', 55'
Bohl 70', 86'
Turan 75'
Stadium: Stadion am Lutterspring
Attendance: 1,500

2. Bundesliga

5 August 2012 (2012-08-05) 1 Eintracht Braunschweig 1–0 1. FC Köln Braunschweig
15:30 Kruppke  61'
Ademi 68'
Summary Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 21,820
Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)
12 August 2012 (2012-08-12) 2 Union Berlin 0–1 Eintracht Braunschweig Berlin
13:30 Pfertzel  38' Summary Pfitzner  33', 40' (pen.)
Kumbela  81'
Stadium: Stadion An der Alten Försterei
Attendance: 16,750
Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer (Herne)
24 August 2012 (2012-08-24) 3 Eintracht Braunschweig 2–1 SC Paderborn Braunschweig
18:00 Kumbela  47'
Doğan 62'
Kruppke  66' 67'
Bičakčić  90'
Summary Yılmaz 34'
Strohdiek  55'
Meha  58'
Krösche  90'
Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 19,500
Referee: Robert Hartmann (Krugzell)
1 September 2012 (2012-09-01) 4 VfR Aalen 0–3 Eintracht Braunschweig Aalen
13:00 Lechleiter  60'
Traut  68'
Summary Boland 27', 56',  52'
Theuerkauf 50'
Stadium: Scholz-Arena
Attendance: 6,604
Referee: Florian Steuer (Menden)
15 September 2012 (2012-09-15) 5 Eintracht Braunschweig 1–0 Jahn Regensburg Braunschweig
13:00 Kruppke 67' Summary Kotzke  30'
Sembolo  33'
Kamavuaka  86'
Erfen  88'
Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 19,670
Referee: Christian Fischer (Hemer)
23 September 2012 (2012-09-23) 6 1860 Munich 1–1 Eintracht Braunschweig Munich
13:30 Tomasov  29'
Volz  36'
Vallori  48'
Wojtkowiak  56'
Aygün 59'
Lauth  71'
Summary Kumbela 19'
Kratz  81'
Stadium: Allianz Arena
Attendance: 31,600
Referee: Tobias Christ (Münchweiler an der Rodalb)
26 September 2012 (2012-09-26) 7 Eintracht Braunschweig 3–0 MSV Duisburg Braunschweig
17:30 Reichel  57'
Pfitzner 80'
Merkel 83'
Kruppke 87'
Summary Šukalo  26' Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 19,115
Referee: Benjamin Cortus (Röthenbach an der Pegnitz)
30 September 2012 (2012-09-30) 8 1. FC Kaiserslautern 1–1 Eintracht Braunschweig Kaiserslautern
13:30 Dick 25'
Borysiuk  72'
Heintz  77'
Riedel  90'
Summary Doğan  66'
Ademi 75'
Stadium: Fritz-Walter-Stadion
Attendance: 33,025
Referee: Daniel Siebert (Berlin)
6 October 2012 (2012-10-06) 9 Eintracht Braunschweig 3–0 VfL Bochum Braunschweig
13:00 Bičakčić 21'
Theuerkauf  48'
Ademi 63'
Kruppke 85'
Summary Luthe  22'
Iashvili  25'
Freier  38'
Delura  66'
Sinkiewicz  83'
Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 19,875
Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Landshut)
20 October 2012 (2012-10-20) 10 Dynamo Dresden 0–2 Eintracht Braunschweig Dresden
13:00 Brégerie  48'  51'
Koch  53'
Summary Pfitzner  33'
Kruppke 37'
Boland  76'
Kumbela 79'
Stadium: Glücksgas Stadium
Attendance: 27,513
Referee: Guido Winkmann (Kerken)
27 October 2012 (2012-10-27) 11 Eintracht Braunschweig 1–1 Hertha BSC Braunschweig
13:00 Pfitzner  89'
Kruppke 25'
Summary Niemeyer  13'
Ronny  30'
Ramos 78'
Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 21,645
Referee: Jochen Drees (Münster-Sarmsheim)
2 November 2012 (2012-11-02) 12 Eintracht Braunschweig 2–1 SV Sandhausen Braunschweig
18:00 Kumbela 45', 50' Summary Ischdonat  33'
Löning 62'
Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 18,900
Referee: Bastian Dankert (Rostock)
9 November 2012 (2012-11-09) 13 Erzgebirge Aue 1–1 Eintracht Braunschweig Aue
18:00 Savran  4'
König  24'
Schröder 69'
Summary Boland  32'
Kruppke 40'
Stadium: Sparkassen-Erzgebirgsstadion
Attendance: 7,600
Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Oberasbach)
17 November 2012 (2012-11-17) 14 Eintracht Braunschweig 3–0 FC Ingolstadt Braunschweig
13:00 Kumbela 38', 75'
Erwig-Drüppel  68'
G. Korte 81'
Summary Groß  57'
Schäfer  78'
Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 19,430
Referee: Tobias Stieler (Obertshausen)
24 November 2012 (2012-11-24) 15 Energie Cottbus 3–1 Eintracht Braunschweig Cottbus
13:00 Sanogo 5',  79'
Rippert  38'
Börner 44'
Bittroff  72'
Brinkmann 81'
Kruska  90'
Summary Kumbela 13',  25'
Kruppke  80'
Reichel  82'
Theuerkauf  63'  82'
Doğan  85'
Stadium: Stadion der Freundschaft
Attendance: 11,740
Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)
28 November 2012 (2012-11-28) 16 Eintracht Braunschweig 1–0 FC St. Pauli Braunschweig
17:30 Kumbela 17'
Kessel  80'  81'
Summary Bartels  22'
Schachten  54'
Avevor  65'
Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 21,400
Referee: Felix Zwayer (Berlin)
2 December 2012 (2012-12-02) 17 FSV Frankfurt 1–2 Eintracht Braunschweig Frankfurt
13:30 Konrad  68', 87' Summary Kruppke 12'
Theuerkauf  26'
Ademi 33'
Bičakčić  37'
Pfitzner  89'
Stadium: Frankfurter Volksbank Stadion
Attendance: 4,748
Referee: Robert Hartmann (Krugzell)
10 December 2012 (2012-12-10) 18 1. FC Köln 2–2 Eintracht Braunschweig Cologne
20:15 Jajalo  19'
Clemens 47'
Ujah 88',  89'
Summary Doğan  2'
Kumbela 23',  54'
Bičakčić 90'
Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion
Attendance: 38,000
Referee: Felix Brych (Munich)
17 December 2012 (2012-12-17) 19 Eintracht Braunschweig 4–3 Union Berlin Braunschweig
20:15 Kumbela 10', 43' (pen.), 57'
Boland 75'
Summary Nemec 4', 32'
Pfertzel  54'
Terodde  65'
Parensen  75'
Quiring 90'
Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 21,200
Referee: Peter Sippel (Munich)
2 February 2013 (2013-02-02) 20 SC Paderborn 1–2 Eintracht Braunschweig Paderborn
13:00 Sağlık  25'
Naki  62'
Bertels 90'
Kachunga  90'
Summary Petersch 9'
Kumbela  26'
Theuerkauf  70'
Doğan 74'
Davari  90'
Stadium: Benteler Arena
Attendance: 10,709
Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)
8 February 2013 (2013-02-08) 21 Eintracht Braunschweig 1–1 VfR Aalen Braunschweig
18:00 Doğan  37'
Boland  66'
Merkel 86'
Summary Valentini 45' (pen.),  75'
Barth  61'
Leandro  82'
Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 19,850
Referee: Florian Steuer (Menden)
15 February 2013 (2013-02-15) 22 Jahn Regensburg 0–1 Eintracht Braunschweig Regensburg
18:00 Nachreiner  20' Summary Kumbela 15'
Reichel  33'
Ademi  50'
Bohl  54'
Theuerkauf  80'
Stadium: Jahnstadion
Attendance: 6,289
Referee: Robert Kampka (Mainz)
24 February 2013 (2013-02-24) 23 Eintracht Braunschweig 1–2 1860 Munich Braunschweig
13:30 Kratz  19'
Kumbela 56'
Summary Friend 77'
Lauth  39', 85'
Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 20,455
Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer (Herne)
4 March 2013 (2013-03-04) 24 MSV Duisburg 1–0 Eintracht Braunschweig Duisburg
20:15 Bajić  21'
Koch  37'
Šukalo  42'
Exslager 62'
Jovanović  64'
Wolze  66'
Wiedwald  86'
Summary
Report
Elabdellaoui  50' Stadium: Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena
Attendance: 11,770
Referee: Robert Hartmann (Krugzell)
11 March 2013 (2013-03-11) 25 Eintracht Braunschweig 1–1 1. FC Kaiserslautern Braunschweig
20:15 Pfitzner  21'
Kumbela 78'
Summary
Report
Šimůnek  13'
Weiser 44'
Hoffer  88'
Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 20,630
Referee: Marco Fritz (Korb)
16 March 2013 (2013-03-16) 26 VfL Bochum 0–1 Eintracht Braunschweig Bochum
13:00 Scheidhauer  67'
Tasaka  79'
Rzatkowski  90'
Summary Bičakčić  49'
Kumbela 85'
Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION
Attendance: 12,371
Referee: Sascha Stegemann (Niederkassel)
28 March 2013 (2013-03-28) 27 Eintracht Braunschweig 2–1 Dynamo Dresden Braunschweig
20:30 Bičakčić  22', 31'
Vrančić  39'
Kumbela 53'
Summary Ouali 8'
Streker  22'
Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 21,175
Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg am Neckar)
8 April 2013 (2013-04-08) 28 Hertha BSC 3–0 Eintracht Braunschweig Berlin
20:15 Ronny 34', 76'
Ramos 55'
Summary Doğan  7'
Pfitzner  15'
Elabdellaoui  33'
Stadium: Olympic Stadium
Attendance: 51,029
Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)
12 April 2013 (2013-04-12) 29 SV Sandhausen 1–3 Eintracht Braunschweig Sandhausen
18:00 Mäkelä 51'
Pischorn  73'
Beichler  82'
Falkenberg  84'
Summary Kumbela 4', 39'
Kruppke 86'
Stadium: Hardtwaldstadion
Attendance: 6,300
Referee: Christian Bandurski (Oberhausen)
21 April 2013 (2013-04-21) 30 Eintracht Braunschweig 1–1 Erzgebirge Aue Braunschweig
13:30 Boland 39',  63'
Theuerkauf  90'
Summary Schröder  76', 80'
Koçer  82'
Nickenig  84'
Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 20,500
Referee: Christian Dingert (Thallichtenberg)
26 April 2013 (2013-04-26) 31 FC Ingolstadt 0–1 Eintracht Braunschweig Ingolstadt
18:00 Caiuby  73'
Mijatović  76'
Leitl  85'
Summary Kratz  78'
Vrančić 90'
Stadium: Audi Sportpark
Attendance: 9,471
Referee: Martin Petersen (Stuttgart)
6 May 2013 (2013-05-06) 32 Eintracht Braunschweig 0–0 Energie Cottbus Braunschweig
20:15 Summary Schulze  72' Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 20,445
Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)
12 May 2013 (2013-05-12) 33 FC St. Pauli 5–1 Eintracht Braunschweig Hamburg
13:30 Ginczek 7', 11'
Thorandt  52'
Bartels 68'
Kringe  69'
Bruns  40', 70'
Ebbers 87'
Summary G. Korte 89' Stadium: Millerntor-Stadion
Attendance: 29,063
Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)
19 May 2013 (2013-05-19) 34 Eintracht Braunschweig 2–2 FSV Frankfurt Braunschweig
13:30 Kruppke 2', 73' Summary Görlitz 11',  45'
Konrad  38'
Kapllani 50'
Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 21,000
Referee: Christian Dietz (Kronach)

DFB-Pokal

17 August 2012 1st round VfB Lübeck 0–3 Eintracht Braunschweig Lübeck
19:00 Samide  25'
Steinwarth  29'
Theißen  53'
Schulz  58'
Marheineke  70'
Summary Kratz 13', 69'
Boland 67'
Stadium: PokerStars.de – Stadion an der Lohmühle
Attendance: 6,411
Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Oberasbach)
30 October 2012 2nd round Eintracht Braunschweig 0–2 SC Freiburg Braunschweig
19:00 Theuerkauf  32'
Kruppke  45'
Reichel  61'
Summary Caligiuri 1'
Freis  31'
Flum 84'
Guédé  88'
Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 20,167
Referee: Felix Brych (Munich)

Players

Current squad

As of 11 March 2013

Squad Season 2012–13
No.PlayerNat.Birthdayat BTSV sinceprevious clubLeague matchesLeague goalsCup matchesCup goals
Goalkeepers
1Marjan Petković22 May 19792009FSV Frankfurt4020
26Daniel Davari6 Jan 19882009Mainz 05 II30000
Defenders
3Ermin Bičakčić24 Jan 199001/12VfB Stuttgart33320
4Matthias Henn28 Apr 198520071. FC Kaiserslautern3000
5Benjamin Kessel1 Oct 19872010Mainz 05 II15000
8Deniz Doğan20 Oct 19792007VfB Lübeck29220
15Norman Theuerkauf24 Jan 19872009Eintracht Frankfurt II31120
16Emre Turan16 Nov 199001/11Ankaraspor1000
19Ken Reichel19 Dec 19862007Hamburger SV II25020
25Marcel Correia16 May 198920111. FC Kaiserslautern II17020
Midfielders
6Damir Vrančić4 Oct 19852009Borussia Dortmund II24110
7Björn Kluft11 Jan 19902012Preußen Münster1000
10Mirko Boland23 Apr 198701/09MSV Duisburg II30421
11Steffen Bohl28 Dec 198301/11Wehen Wiesbaden21010
13Raffael Korte29 Aug 19902011TuS Mechtersheim10010
14Omar Elabdellaoui5 Dec 199101/13Manchester City14000
17Kevin Kratz21 Jan 19872012Alemannia Aachen18012
18Oliver Petersch26 Apr 19892011Rot-Weiß Oberhausen11100
31Marc Pfitzner28 Aug 19842007Youth system20210
Strikers
9Orhan Ademi28 Oct 19912012Rheindorf Altach30420
12Dominick Kumbela20 Apr 198401/10Rot Weiss Ahlen301920
20Zhang Chengdong9 February 19892012Mafra12000
21Pierre Merkel25 May 19892011Idar-Oberstein16200
22Randy Edwini-Bonsu20 Apr 199001/12Oulu8010
23Jonas Erwig-Drüppel20 Jul 19912012Schalke 04 II6000
27Gianluca Korte29 Aug 19902011TuS Mechtersheim11220
32Dennis Kruppke (captain)1 Apr 198001/08SC Freiburg231120
No longer at the club
14Jan Washausen2 Oct 19882007Youth system0000
Last updated: 19 May 2013

Summer transfers

Winter transfers

Management and coaching staff

Since 12 May 2008 Torsten Lieberknecht is the manager of Eintracht Braunschweig.

Position Staff
ManagerTorsten Lieberknecht
Assistant managerDarius Scholtysik
Assistant manager/athletic trainerJürgen Rische
Goalkeeping coachAlexander Kunze
Sporting directorMarc Arnold
Club doctorDr. Frank Maier
PhysiotherapistCaroline Schweibs
PhysiotherapistGoce Janevski
PhysiotherapistThorsten Taenzer
Team managerHolm Stelzer
Kit and equipment manager/Bus driverChristian Skolik

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