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SC Paderborn

Full name	Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V.
Founded	1907; 118 years ago (1907)
Ground	Benteler-Arena
Ground Capacity	15,000
President	Elmar Volkmann
Head coach	Lukas Kwasniok
League	2. Bundesliga
2020–21	2. Bundesliga, 9th of 18
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V., usually called SC Paderborn 07 or just SC Paderborn, is a German football team. It is based in Paderborn, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The club has seen its biggest successes since the year 2000. It became a regular team in the 2. Bundesliga (Germany's second-highest league). In the 2013–14 season, they even made it to the Bundesliga, which is the top league!

However, they were relegated back to the 2. Bundesliga after just one season. The next season, they dropped even further to the 3. Liga (third league). This drop almost continued to the Regionalliga West (fourth league). But in the 2016-17 season, they were saved because another team, 1860 Munich, was not allowed to play in the 3. Liga. SC Paderborn then made an amazing comeback. They returned to the 2. Bundesliga and finished 2nd in the 2018–19 season. This meant they were promoted to the Bundesliga again! Sadly, they finished 18th in the 2019–20 season and went back to the 2. Bundesliga.

Club History

How SC Paderborn Started

For most of the 1900s, Paderborn had two main football clubs: TuS Schloss Neuhaus and FC Paderborn. These two teams were rivals until the 1980s. In 1983, Neuhaus was promoted to the 2. Bundesliga but finished last. This showed that the clubs needed to make a change.

So, in 1985, the two clubs decided to join together. They formed a new club called TuS Paderborn/Neuhaus. Then, in 1997, the club changed its name again to SC Paderborn 07. The "07" comes from 1907, which was the year TuS Neuhaus was founded.

Early Years in Amateur Football (1985–2005)

In the 1980s, the newly merged club played in the third-tier league called Oberliga Westfalen. They were one of the top teams there but never managed to get promoted. In 1994, Paderborn won their league. This allowed them to try for promotion to a new third-tier league, the Regionalliga West/Südwest. They didn't win the playoffs, but they still got a spot in the new league.

Paderborn had some good moments, including playing in the DFB Pokal, which is a big German cup competition. In the 2004-05 season, they reached the round of 16. They even beat a top-league team, Hamburger SV. However, it was later found out that the game against Hamburger SV was unfair. The referee, Robert Hoyzer, had cheated to help Paderborn win. This was a very serious event in German football history.

Coach André Breitenreiter during the 2013–14 season when the team was promoted.

Becoming a Professional Team (2005–2015)

After almost 30 years, Paderborn returned to the 2. Bundesliga at the end of the 2004-05 season. Playing in a professional league meant the club also became more professional. In 2005, they started building a new stadium, the Benteler-Arena, which can hold 15,000 fans. This new stadium replaced their old one. All these changes helped the club become a regular part of professional football in Germany.

This period was very successful for the club. It led to their first-ever promotion to the Bundesliga after the 2013-14 season. This happened under coach André Breitenreiter, who had only just joined the club that season.

Bundesliga and Rollercoaster Years (2015–Present)

When Paderborn entered the Bundesliga for the first time, many people called them "the biggest outsider." They started the season well. In their fourth game against Hannover 96, their player Moritz Stoppelkamp scored an amazing goal from 83 meters away! This was a record for the furthest goal ever scored in the Bundesliga. This goal even put the team at the top of the Bundesliga table for a short time.

At the halfway point of the season, Paderborn was in 10th place. But in the second half, they lost many games by big scores. On the second-to-last game day, they dropped to last place. They were relegated on the very last day of the season. After being relegated, many important players left the club. Coach Breitenreiter also left to join Schalke.

The 2015-16 season started with Markus Gellhaus as coach. But in October 2015, former Germany international player Stefan Effenberg took over as coach for the first time. By March, Effenberg was fired because the team was at the bottom of the table. They were relegated for a second time in a row.

In the 3. Liga, Paderborn again found themselves at the bottom. Steffen Baumgart became the new coach in April. His team earned 11 points in his first five games, but it wasn't enough to escape the relegation zone. They finished 18th. This should have meant a third relegation in a row, to the non-professional Regionalliga West. But Paderborn was saved! 1860 Munich did not get a license to play in the 3. Liga. This meant 1860 Munich had to move to a lower league, and Paderborn was allowed to stay in the third tier.

After being saved, Coach Baumgart's team did surprisingly well. They finished second in the 2017-18 season and returned to the 2. Bundesliga. In 2019, the team, which had just been promoted, finished in the top two again! This amazing comeback brought Paderborn back to the Bundesliga after several difficult years. However, the 2019-20 season ended like their first Bundesliga season. Paderborn finished last and was relegated back to the second tier in June 2020. The next season, Paderborn finished 9th in the 2. Bundesliga. This was the first time since 2012–13 that the club finished in a middle position, not fighting for promotion or relegation.

This chart shows how SC Paderborn has performed in different leagues over the years.

Recent Seasons

Here you can see how SC Paderborn has performed in recent football seasons.

Players

Current Squad

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

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

SC Paderborn II

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

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

Coaching & Medical Staff

Position	Name
Manager	Lukas Kwasniok
Assistant coaches	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

Coaches

• 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–)

See also

In Spanish: SC Paderborn 07 para niños