2010–11 VfL Wolfsburg season

VfL Wolfsburg

2010–11 season
Manager	Steve McClaren Pierre Littbarski Felix Magath
Bundesliga	15th
DFB-Pokal	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: Edin Džeko (10) All: Edin Džeko (11)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

VfL Wolfsburg suffered a nightmare season, only just staying up in Bundesliga, in spite of signing internationally attractive players Diego and Simon Kjær. Being threatened at the bottom of the table, especially after selling key striker Edin Džeko to Manchester City. The replacements were not up to scratch, which saw manager Steve McClaren sacked. Following a short stint with Pierre Littbarski in charge, the club's 2009 championship-winning manager Felix Magath, who just had been sacked from Schalke 04, in spite of having taken them to the quarter finals of the Champions League. Magath dropped Diego, which saw the Brazilian to go berserk, refusing to sit on the bench. In spite of all turmoil, a crucial away win at Werder Bremen helped Wolfsburg to get a margin, which they used, only just, to stay two points above Borussia Mönchengladbach in the relegation-playoff zone.

Squad

Goalkeepers

• Diego Benaglio
• André Lenz
• Marwin Hitz

Defenders

• Andrea Barzagli
• Michael Schulze
• Robin Knoche
• Marcel Schäfer
• Arne Friedrich
• Peter Pekarík
• Alexander Madlung
• Fabian Johnson
• Simon Kjær

Midfielders

• Sascha Riether
• Christian Gentner
• Akaki Gogia
• Thomas Kahlenberg
• Makoto Hasebe
• Josué
• Ashkan Dejagah
• Karim Ziani
• Diego
• Jan Polák
• Yohandry Orozco

Attackers

• Grafite
• Edin Džeko
• Caiuby
• Tuncay Şanlı
• Patrick Helmes
• Mario Mandžukić
• Dieumerci Mbokani

Bundesliga

Matches

1	Bayern Munich	2–1	Wolfsburg
	Müller  9' Schweinsteiger  90'		Džeko  55'

2	Wolfsburg	3–4	Mainz
	Džeko  23', 27' Diego  30'		Rasmussen  39' Soto  48' Schürrle  58' Szalai  86'

3	Borussia Dortmund	2–0	Wolfsburg
	Şahin  50' Kagawa  67'

4	Wolfsburg	2–0	Hannover
	Diego  55' Džeko  67'

5	Hamburg	1–3	Wolfsburg
	Choupo-Moting  27'		Džeko  15' Grafite  71', 78'

6	Wolfsburg	2–1	Freiburg
	Grafite  25', 64'		Cissé  36'

7	Mönchengladbach	1–1	Wolfsburg
	Marx  65'		Kahlenberg  27'

8	Wolfsburg	2–3	Bayer Leverkusen
	Diego  9' Grafite  68'		Rolfes  72', 82' Vidal  75' (pen.)

9	Nuremberg	2–1	Wolfsburg
	Gündoğan  11' Frantz  63'		Grafite  28'

10	Wolfsburg	2–0	Stuttgart
	Džeko  6', 76'

11	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–1	Wolfsburg
	Gekas  26', 55' (pen.) Schwegler  38'		Dejagah  66'

12	Wolfsburg	2–2	Schalke 04
	Grafite  11' Džeko  33'		Edu  39' Huntelaar  75'

13	St. Pauli	1–1	Wolfsburg
	Thorandt  28'		Džeko  54'

14	Köln	1–1	Wolfsburg
	Novakovič  51'		Cícero  81'

15	Wolfsburg	0–0	Werder Bremen

16	Kaiserslautern	0–0	Wolfsburg

17	Wolfsburg	2–2	Hoffenheim
	Diego  75' Džeko  90'		Luiz Gustavo  34' Sigurðsson  40'

18	Wolfsburg	1–1	Bayern Munich
	Riether  86'		Müller  7'

19	Mainz	0–1	Wolfsburg
			Kjær  82'

20	Wolfsburg	0–3	Borussia Dortmund
			Barrios  2' Şahin  40' Hummels  71'

21	Hannover	1–0	Wolfsburg
	Sérgio Pinto  4'

22	Wolfsburg	0–1	Hamburg
			Petrić  33' (pen.)

23	Freiburg	2–1	Wolfsburg
	Reisinger  43' Cissé  70'		Helmes  28'

24	Wolfsburg	2–1	Mönchengladbach
	Diego  36', 45'		Daems  74' (pen.)

25	Bayer Leverkusen	3–0	Wolfsburg
	L. Bender  21' Renato Augusto  29' Kießling  46'

26	Wolfsburg	1–2	Nuremberg
	Mandžukić  23'		Wollscheid  45' Nilsson  90'

27	Stuttgart	1–1	Wolfsburg
	Niedermeier  90'		Grafite  40'

28	Wolfsburg	1–1	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Mandžukić  85'		Meier  56'

29	Schalke 04	1–0	Wolfsburg
	Jurado  76'

30	Wolfsburg	2–2	St. Pauli
	Mandžukić  39' Polák  89'		Naki  61' Lehmann  77'

31	Wolfsburg	4–1	Köln
	Mandžukić  14', 39' Dejagah  58', 88'		Freis  41'

32	Werder Bremen	0–1	Wolfsburg
			Riether  22'

33	Wolfsburg	1–2	Kaiserslautern
	Mandžukić  7'		Lakić  26' Amedick  45'

34	Hoffenheim	1–3	Wolfsburg
	Firmino  49'		Mandžukić  60', 73' Grafite  78'

Top Scorers

• Edin Džeko (10)
• Mario Mandžukić (8)
• Grafite (9)
• Diego (6)

Sources

Soccerway - Germany - VfL Wolfsburg

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