2011–12 Eintracht Braunschweig season

Eintracht Braunschweig
2011–12 season
ChairmanSebastian Ebel
ManagerTorsten Lieberknecht
2. Bundesliga8th
DFB-PokalLost in 1st round
Top goalscorerDennis Kruppke/Dominick Kumbela (10 goals)
Highest home attendance23,510 (vs. St. Pauli)
Lowest home attendance18,000 (vs. Karlsruhe)
Average home league attendance21,278

The 2011–12 season of Eintracht Braunschweig began on 5 June with a first training session. It is the club's first season in the 2. Bundesliga after being promoted from the 3. Liga. Eintracht started the season successfully with wins over 1860 Munich and Alemannia Aachen, leading the league on the first and second matchday. In the end the club finished the season as 8th, never being in serious danger of relegation.

2. Bundesliga

1st Half of Season Matches

  Win   Tie   Loss

17 July 2011 Eintracht Braunschweig 3–1 TSV 1860 München Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig
15:30 Petković
Bohl
Henn
Correia
Reichel
Theuerkauf
35'  87' Zimmermann
6'  80' Kruppke
Vrančić
 75' Boland
40' Kumbela

 75' Petersch
 80' Reinhardt
 87' Pfitzner
Király
Malura
Schindler
Buck  58'
Feick
Benjamin  79'
Bülow
Bierofka  64'
Halfar
Lauth
Volland 22'  64'

Stahl  64'
Aigner  64'
Schäffler  79'
Attendance: 22,167
Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg)
30 September 2011 Eintracht Braunschweig 1–1 Fortuna Düsseldorf Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig
19:15 Pfitzner 7' (pen.)
Washausen  21'
Boland  41'
Reichel  65'
Theuerkauf  90'
Summary Rösler  6'
Lambertz  13'
Dum  34'
Levels  66'
Langeneke 85' (pen.)
Attendance: 23,050
Referee: Markus Wingenbach (Diez)
14 October 2011 SC Paderborn 07 1–0 Eintracht Braunschweig Energieteam Arena, Paderborn
18:00 Strohdiek 7'
Brandy  54'
Bertels  76'
Summary Pfitzner  37' Attendance: 12,298
Referee: Thomas Metzen (Mechernich)
21 October 2011 Eintracht Braunschweig 0–2 Dynamo Dresden Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig
13:00 Pfitzner  37'
Theuerkauf  78'
Boland  87'
Summary Koch 15' (53)
Gueye  24'
Poté  35'
Attendance: 22,625
Referee: Christian Leicher (Weihmichl)
28 October 2011 SpVgg Greuther Fürth 1–3 Eintracht Braunschweig Trolli Arena, Fürth
20:15 Peković  30'
Occean 84'
Schahin  86'
Schröck  87'
Summary Kumbela 25'
Kruppke 52'
Marcel Correia  75'
Theuerkauf  82'
Vrančić 85'
Reichel  87'
Attendance: 10,240
Referee: Felix Zwayer (Berlin)
4 November 2011 Eintracht Braunschweig 1–2 1. FC Union Berlin Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig
18:15 Kruppke 50' Summary Ede 5'
Parensen  22'
Silvio  37'
Stuff  72'
Zoundi 80'
Polenz  90+1'
Attendance: 22,355
Referee: Bastian Dankert (Rostock)
18 November 2011 MSV Duisburg 3–0 Eintracht Braunschweig Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena, Duisburg
18:00 Brosinski 11' (32)
Wolze  15'
Berberović  23'
Šukalo  31'
Jula  81'
Bajić  83'
Pamić 85'
Summary Kruppke  45'
Dogan  50'
Kessel  71'
Attendance: 11,237
Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)
27 November 2011 Eintracht Braunschweig 4–0 VfL Bochum Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig
13:30 Kumbela 4'
Kruppke 18' (89)
Boland 60'
Summary Inui  73' Attendance: 20,280
Referee: Tobias Stieler (Obertshausen)
2 December 2011 FC Ingolstadt 04 0–1 Eintracht Braunschweig Audi Sportpark, Ingolstadt
18:00 Bambara  29'
Quaner  63'
Görlitz  78'
Akaïchi  83'
Summary Kumbela 44' Attendance: 4,650
Referee: Florian Steuer (Menden)

2nd Half of Season matches

9 December 2011 TSV 1860 München 3–0 Eintracht Braunschweig Allianz Arena, München
18:00 Aigner 32'
Rakić 58'
Lauth 65'
Aygün  81'
Summary Fuchs  53'
Theuerkauf  70'
Attendance: 16,400
Referee: Norbert Grudzinski (Hamburg)
18 December 2011 Eintracht Braunschweig 1–1 Alemannia Aachen Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig
13:30 Reichel  25'
Theuerkauf  55'
Kumbela 86'
Summary Sibum 26'
Auer  53'
Waterman  88'
Attendance: 19,950
Referee: Christian Leicher (Weihmichl)
11 February 2012 Eintracht Braunschweig 0–0 Karlsruher SC Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig
13:00 Washausen  24'
Petersch  87'
Summary Groß  44'
Cuntz  90'
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Florian Steuer (Menden)
20 February 2012 FC Erzgebirge Aue 1–1 Eintracht Braunschweig Sparkassen-Erzgebirgsstadion, Aue
20:15 Hochscheidt 7'
le Beau  62'
Schlitte  76'
Koçer  86'
Summary Theuerkauf 40' Attendance: 6,200
Referee: Daniel Siebert (Berlin)
26 February 2012 FC St. Pauli 0–0 Eintracht Braunschweig Millerntor-Stadion, Hamburg
13:30 Boll  77'
Schachten  88'
Summary Vrančić  38'
Petersch  65'
Attendance: 24,487
Referee: Tobias Stieler (Obertshausen)
24 March 2012 Fortuna Düsseldorf 1–1 Eintracht Braunschweig ESPRIT arena, Düsseldorf
13:00 Bröker 47'
Beister  56'
Dum  86'
Summary Pfitzner  17'
Theuerkauf  44'
Kumbela 27'  88'
Boland  65'
Kruppke  79'
Attendance: 35,427
Referee: Markus Schmidt (Stuttgart)
30 March 2012 Eintracht Braunschweig 0–0 SC Paderborn 07 Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig
18:00 Pfitzner  53'
Washausen  78'
Bičakčić  90'
Summary Bertels  36'
Wemmer  72'
Attendance: 20,350
Referee: Peter Sippel (München)
7 April 2012 Dynamo Dresden 2–2 Eintracht Braunschweig Glücksgas Stadion, Dresden
13:00 Poté 22', 74'
Trojan  35'
Gueye  37'
Savić  81'
Summary Zimmermann  20'
Vrančić 33'
Kumbela 66'
Attendance: 27,576
Referee: Tobias Christ (Münchweiler)
10 April 2012 Eintracht Braunschweig 0–0 SpVgg Greuther Fürth Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig
17:30 Summary Peković  56'
Schröck  60'
Attendance: 20,450
Referee: Daniel Siebert (Berlin)
13 April 2012 1. FC Union Berlin 1–0 Eintracht Braunschweig Stadion An der Alten Försterei, Berlin
18:00 Terodde 30'
Pfertzel  58'
Zoundi  83'
Kohlmann  88'
Madouni  89'
Summary Theuerkauf  40'
Doğan  90'
Reichel  90'
Attendance: 17,028
Referee: Patrick Ittrich (Hamburg)
20 April 2012 Eintracht Braunschweig 0–0 MSV Duisburg Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig
18:00 Pfitzner  48' Summary Gjasula  46'
Hoffmann  55'
Brosinski  76'
Pamić  79'
Attendance: 19,825
Referee: Norbert Grudzinski (Hamburg)
29 April 2012 VfL Bochum 2–0 Eintracht Braunschweig Ruhrstadion, Bochum
13:30 Freier 3'
Kramer  5'
Bönig  60'
Ginczek 90'
Summary Pfitzner  25'
Boland  55'
Attendance: 18,107
Referee: Guido Winkmann (Kerken)

DFB-Pokal

1st round

  Win   Tie   Loss

1 August 2011 Eintracht Braunschweig 0–3 FC Bayern Munich Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig
20:30 Gómez 9' (pen.)
Schweinsteiger 39' (pen.)
Müller 83'
Attendance: 23,645
Referee: Felix Zwayer (Berlin)

Friendlies

  Win   Tie   Loss

11 June 2011 TSV Bienenbüttel 1–12 Eintracht Braunschweig Ilmenaustadion, Bienenbüttel
16:00 Hillmer 32' Boland 62', 78'
Fetsch 20', 22'
Hjelm 37'
Kruppke 45' (pen.)
Kumbela 58', 75'
Merkel 49'
Washausen 43'
Zimmermann 59', 81'
Attendance: 654
12 June 2011 Arminia Vechelde 0–13 Eintracht Braunschweig Auestadion, Vechelde
15:00 Boland 34'
Fetsch 70'
Henn 77'
Kruppke 14'
Kumbela 12' (pen.) 21' 41'
Merkel 52', 66', 67', 74'
Pfitzner 53'
Reichel 58'
Attendance: 2,500
19 June 2011 TSV Hillerse 1–8 Eintracht Braunschweig MBO-Arena, Hillerse
16:00 Ganski 63' G. Korte 31', 35', 69'
Dakouri 6'
Pribyl 15' (o.g.)
Bohl 46'
R. Korte 54'
Washausen 66'
Attendance: 1,800
22 June 2011 Eintracht Braunschweig 2–0 SC Preußen Münster Stadion am Salzgittersee, Salzgitter-Lebenstedt
18:30 Bohl 17'
R. Korte 77'
Attendance: 1,600
26 June 2011 FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt 0–4 Eintracht Braunschweig Stadion der Freundschaft, Bad Langensalza
15:00 Fetsch 20', 50'
Petersch 39'
Zimmermann 86'
Attendance: 1,100
3 July 2011 Braunschweiger SC Acosta 2–6 Eintracht Braunschweig Konrad-Koch-Stadion, Braunschweig
15:00 Buhe 45'
Steinhauer 81'
R. Korte 57', 70'
Kumbela 5'
Fetsch 17'
G. Korte 21'
Merkel 66'
Attendance: 2,400
30 August 2011 FT Braunschweig 0–7 Eintracht Braunschweig Prinzenparkstadion, Braunschweig
18:15 Zimmermann 11'
Fuchs 15'
Fetsch 20', 83'
Petersch 34'
R. Korte 54'
G. Korte 75'
Attendance: 700
7 October 2011 Eintracht Braunschweig 3–2 Holstein Kiel Konrad-Koch-Stadion, Braunschweig
16:00 Kumbela 25', 72', 82' Siedschlag 40'
Heider 42'
Attendance: 400
25 October 2011 MTV Gifhorn 1–5 Eintracht Braunschweig GWG-Arena, Gifhorn
19:00 Hernier 20' Edwini-Bonsu 6', 14'
Bohl 26'
Fetsch 32'
Petersch 69'
Attendance: 400
8 May 2012 TSV Schöppenstedt 0–14 Eintracht Braunschweig A-Platz, Schöppenstedt
18:00 Reinhardt 8'
Edwini-Bonsu 12'
Vrančić 15'
Unger 32', 38'
Nika 54', 66', 78'
Kumbela 58'
R. Korte 60'
G. Korte 69', 82', 90'
Fetsch 88'
Attendance: 2,000
11 May 2012 FSV Fuhsetal 1–17 Eintracht Braunschweig A-Platz, Groß Flöthe
18:00 Ozdoev 84' Pfitzner 11'
Merkel 15'
Zimmermann 33', 65', 71', 75'
Edwini-Bonsu 34', 52', 77'
Theuerkauf 36'
Reichel 49', 81'
Bičakčić 51'
R. Korte 59', 62'
Fetsch 82'
Reinhardt 90'
Attendance: 1,350
13 May 2012 SV Meinersen-Ahnsen-Päse 0–15 Eintracht Braunschweig Pappelstadion, Meinersen
18:00 Kumbela 11'
Fuchs 18'
Zimmermann 24', 37'
Reinhardt 25'
Merkel 42'
Vrančić 53'
Edwini-Bonsu 54', 69', 72', 78'
G. Korte 75'
Pfitzner 76'
Theuerkauf 87'
R. Korte 88'
Attendance: 1,140

Players

Current squad

As of 7 May 2012

Squad Season 2011–12
No. Player Nat. Birthday at BTSV since previous club League matches League goals Cup matches Cup goals
Goalkeepers
1 Marjan Petković 22 May 1979 2009 FSV Frankfurt 5 0 1 0
26 Daniel Davari 6 Jan 1988 2009 FSV Mainz 05 II 29 0 0 0
30 Benjamin Later 30 Aug 1986 2011 Youth system 0 0 0 0
Defenders
3 Ermin Bičakčić 24 Jan 1990 01/12 VfB Stuttgart 15 1 0 0
4 Matthias Henn 28 Apr 1985 2007 1. FC Kaiserslautern 13 0 1 0
5 Benjamin Kessel 1 Oct 1987 2010 FSV Mainz 05 II 14 0 1 0
7 Benjamin Fuchs 20 Oct 1983 2007 SV Wehen Wiesbaden 12 0 0 0
8 Deniz Doğan 20 Oct 1979 2007 VfB Lübeck 23 0 0 0
15 Norman Theuerkauf 24 Jan 1987 2009 Eintracht Frankfurt II 28 2 1 0
16 Emre Turan 16 Nov 1990 01/11 Ankaraspor 1 0 0 0
19 Ken Reichel 19 Dec 1986 2007 Hamburger SV II 33 0 0 0
24 Pascal Gos 15 Aug 1991 2010 Youth system 0 0 0 0
25 Marcel Correia 16 May 1989 2011 1. FC Kaiserslautern II 19 1 1 0
Midfielders
6 Damir Vrančić 4 Oct 1985 2009 Borussia Dortmund II 30 3 0 0
10 Mirko Boland 23 Apr 1987 01/09 MSV Duisburg II 32 2 1 0
11 Steffen Bohl 28 Dec 1983 01/11 SV Wehen Wiesbaden 4 0 1 0
13 Raffael Korte 29 Aug 1990 2011 TuS Mechtersheim 11 1 0 0
14 Jan Washausen 2 Oct 1988 2007 Youth system 17 0 0 0
17 Markus Unger 18 Nov 1981 2010 Hessen Kassel 4 0 0 0
18 Oliver Petersch 26 Apr 1989 2011 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 14 0 0 0
20 Nico Zimmermann 2 Sep 1985 2011 1. FC Saarbrücken 22 2 1 0
23 Julius Reinhardt 29 Mar 1988 2010 Chemnitzer FC 17 0 0 0
31 Marc Pfitzner 28 Aug 1984 2007 Youth system 28 2 1 0
Strikers
9 Mathias Fetsch 30 Sep 1988 2010 TSV 1860 München II 15 0 1 0
12 Dominick Kumbela 20 Apr 1984 01/10 Rot Weiss Ahlen 32 10 1 0
21 Pierre Merkel 25 May 1989 2011 SC Idar-Oberstein 10 2 0 0
22 Randy Edwini-Bonsu 20 Apr 1990 01/12 AC Oulu 8 0 0 0
27 Gianluca Korte 29 Aug 1990 2011 TuS Mechtersheim 4 0 0 0
32 Dennis Kruppke (captain) 1 Apr 1980 01/08 SC Freiburg 32 10 1 0
Last updated: 7 May 2012

Transfers

Management and coaching staff

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

Position Staff [1]
Manager Torsten Lieberknecht
Assistant manager Darius Scholtysik
Assistant manager/athletic trainer Jürgen Rische
Goalkeeping coach Alexander Kunze
Sporting director Marc Arnold
Club doctor Dr. Frank Maier
Physiotherapist Sascha Weiß
Physiotherapist Caroline Schweibs
Team manager Holm Stelzer
Kit and equipment manager/Bus driver Christian Skolik

References

  1. ^ "Eintracht Braunschweig" (in German). eintracht.com. 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2011.