2008–09 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim season

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

2008–09 season
Manager	Ralf Rangnick
Stadium	Carl-Benz-Stadion (until 31 January) Rhein-Neckar-Arena (from 31 January)
Bundesliga	7th
DFB-Pokal	Second round
Top goalscorer	Vedad Ibišević (18)
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

During the 2008–09 German football season, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim competed in the Bundesliga.

Season summary

In their first ever season in the Bundesliga, Hoffenheim finished seventh.

First-team squad

Squad at end of season^[1]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Daniel Haas 2 DF Andreas Beck 3 DF Matthias Jaissle 4 DF Aytaç Sulu[notes 1] 5 DF Marvin Compper 6 DF Fabricio (on loan from Flamengo) 9 FW Demba Ba[notes 2] 10 MF Selim Teber 12 FW Wellington 14 DF Christoph Janker 17 MF Tobias Weis 18 FW Boubacar Sanogo (on loan from Werder Bremen) 19 FW Vedad Ibišević 20 FW Chinedu Obasi 21 MF Luiz Gustavo

No. Position Player 23 MF Sejad Salihović 24 DF Per Nilsson 25 DF Isaac Vorsah 26 DF Andreas Ibertsberger 27 GK Ramazan Özcan 28 GK Timo Hildebrand 29 GK Daniel Bernhardt 32 FW Kai Herdling 33 MF Carlos Eduardo 34 MF Boris Vukčević[notes 3] 36 FW Marco Terrazzino 37 MF Jonas Strifler 39 MF Pascal Groß 42 DF Kevin Conrad

Left club during season

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

No. Position Player 7 DF Dragan Paljić (to Kaiserslautern) 11 DF Jochen Seitz (to Alemannia Aachen) 13 DF Zsolt Lőw (to Mainz)

No. Position Player 18 FW Kai Hesse (to Kaiserslautern) 22 MF Francisco Copado (to SpVgg Unterhaching) 30 GK Thorsten Kirschbaum (to Vaduz)

References

1. "FootballSquads - 1899 Hoffenheim - 2008/09". footballsquads.co.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2016.

Notes

1. Sulu was born in Heidelberg, West Germany (now Germany), but also qualifies to represent Turkey internationally through his parents, only holds a Turkish passport, and has declared for Turkey internationally.
2. Ba was born in Sèvres, France, but also qualifies to represent Senegal internationally through his parents and made his international debut for Senegal in June 2007.
3. Vukčević was born in Osijek, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), but also qualifies to represent Germany internationally and has represented them at U-19, U-20 and U-21 level.