1999–2000 SV Werder Bremen season

SV Werder Bremen
1999–2000 season
ManagerThomas Schaaf
StadiumWeser-Stadion
Bundesliga9th
DFB-PokalRunners-up
UEFA CupQuarter-finals
Top goalscorerLeague: Marco Bode (13)
All: Marco Bode (18)

During the 1999–2000 season, SV Werder Bremen played in the 1. Bundesliga, the highest tier of the German football league system.

Season summary

Having barely escaped relegation last season, Bremen rose to 9th in the final table - 6 points off Champions League qualification. The club also qualified for the UEFA Cup again, giving them the chance to improve on that season's run to the quarter-finals. The team also reached the DFB-Pokal final for the second season running, but lost to Bayern Munich.

First team squad

Squad at end of season[1]
No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Germany GER Frank Rost
3 MF Switzerland SUI Raphael Wicky
4 MF Germany GER Dirk Flock
5 MF Germany GER Dieter Eilts
6 MF Germany GER Frank Baumann
7 MF Ukraine UKR Yuriy Maksymov
8 DF Germany GER Bernhard Trares
9 FW Federal Republic of Yugoslavia YUG Rade Bogdanović[notes 1]
10 FW Peru PER Claudio Pizarro
11 DF Poland POL Jacek Chańko
12 GK Germany GER Stefan Brasas
13 DF Germany GER Andree Wiedener
15 DF Germany GER Dieter Frey
16 GK Germany GER Pascal Borel
17 MF Germany GER Marco Bode
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF Austria AUT Andi Herzog
19 DF Ukraine UKR Viktor Skrypnyk
22 MF Germany GER Torsten Frings
23 MF Germany GER Christoph Dabrowski
25 MF Germany GER Sören Seidel
26 MF Germany GER Timo Schultz
27 MF Germany GER Alexander Nouri
28 MF Namibia NAM Razundara Tjikuzu
29 DF Germany GER Matthias Plump
32 FW Brazil BRA Ailton
33 DF Germany GER Mike Barten
35 DF Canada CAN Paul Stalteri
36 DF Brazil BRA Julio Cesar
38 DF Germany GER Björn Schierenbeck
39 MF Germany GER Danny Fütterer

Left club during season

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 MF Netherlands NED Lodewijk Roembiak (on loan to FC Aarau)
20 FW Germany GER Dirk Weetendorf (to Eintracht Braunschweig)
No. Pos. Nation Player
24 MF Germany GER Sven Benken (to Hansa Rostock)
30 DF Poland POL Paweł Wojtala (to Legia Warsaw)

References

  1. ^ "FootballSquads - Werder Bremen - 1999/00". www.footballsquads.co.uk.

Notes

  1. ^ Bogdanović was born in Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina), but represented Yugoslavia internationally.