2012–13 Borussia Mönchengladbach season

Borussia Mönchengladbach
2012–13 season
Manager	Lucien Favre
Bundesliga	8th
DFB-Pokal	Second round
UEFA Champions League	Play-off round
UEFA Europa League	Round of 32
Top goalscorer	League: ; Luuk de Jong; Patrick Herrmann; (6 each); All: ; Juan Arango (9)
	← 2011–12 2013–14 →

The 2012–13 Borussia Mönchengladbach season was the 113th season in the club's football history. In 2012–13 the club played in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football. It was the club's fifth consecutive season in this league, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 2008.

The club also took part in the 2012–13 edition of the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, where it reached the second round and lost to fellow Bundesliga side Fortuna Düsseldorf.^[1]

In Europe the club qualified for the 2012–13 edition of the UEFA Europa League, where it played AEL Limassol, Fenerbahçe and Marseille in Group C of the group stage.^[2] The club had qualified for the play-off round of the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League but was knocked out by Dynamo Kyiv.^[3]

Review and events

Matches

Legend

Win Draw Loss Postponed

Friendly matches

11 July 2012 (2012-07-11)	SSVg Velbert	0–6	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Velbert
18:30 CEST			Ciğerci (19) Hrgota (25) Own goal 26' Own goal 50' De Camargo 61' Herrmann 79'	Stadium: Stadion Sonnenblume Attendance: 3,517 Referee: Felix Schmitz (Xanten)

14 July 2012 (2012-07-14)	Preußen Münster	0–3	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Ahaus
16:00 CEST			De Camargo 30' (pen.) Marx 41' Hrgota 85'	Stadium: Stadion am Bahnhof, Alstätte

21 July 2012	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–2	Birmingham City	Munich
16:00 CEST	Zimmermann 75' Marx 89'		Davies 51' Asante 81'	Stadium: ESV Munich's Sports Park

25 July 2012	1860 Munich	2–4	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Rottach-Egern
18:00 CEST	Bülow 23' Blanco 49'		Younes 52' De Camargo 66', 82' Bieler 88'

28 July 2012 (2012-07-28)	VfL Bochum	1–4	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
17:30 CEST	Sinkiewicz 14'	^[4]^[5]	Arango 6', 39', 43' Mlapa 67'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 10,200 Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer (Herne)

4 August 2012	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–0	Sevilla	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CEST				Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 26.039 Referee: Christian Bandurski

Bundesliga

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
6	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	14	9	11	49	46	+3	51	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round
7	Hamburger SV	34	14	6	14	42	53	−11	48
8	Borussia Mönchengladbach	34	12	11	11	45	49	−4	47
9	Hannover 96	34	13	6	15	60	62	−2	45
10	1. FC Nürnberg	34	11	11	12	39	47	−8	44

Source: Bundesliga.de, kicker.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Matches

25 August 2012 (2012-08-25) 1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–1	1899 Hoffenheim	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CEST	Jantschke 22' Hanke 33' Arango 78' Xhaka 88'	Report	Firmino 66'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 50,100 Referee: Peter Sippel

1 September 2012 (2012-09-01) 2	Fortuna Düsseldorf	0–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Düsseldorf
18:30 CEST	Bellinghausen 26' Kruse 45' Schahin 86'	Report	Xhaka 58' Ter Stegen 86'	Stadium: Esprit Arena Attendance: 29,999 Referee: Günter Perl

15 September 2012 (2012-09-15) 3	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–3	1. FC Nürnberg	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CEST	Daems 28' De Jong 45' Xhaka 53' Arango 89'	Report	Klose 17' Simons 26' Balitsch 28' Kiyotake 55' Simons 65'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 52,195 Referee: Christian Dingert

23 September 2012 (2012-09-23) 4	Bayer Leverkusen	1–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Leverkusen
15:30 CEST	Kadlec 12'	Report	Herrmann 3' Stranzl 54' Ciğerci 56' Xhaka 62' Brouwers 69'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 27,640 Referee: Peter Gagelmann

26 September 2012 (2012-09-26) 5	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–2	Hamburger SV	Mönchengladbach
20:00 CEST	Stranzl 39', 53' Xhaka 63' Domínguez 90', 90+2'	Report	Van der Vaart 23' Arslan 35' Rudņevs 45'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 46,233 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

29 September 2012 (2012-09-29) 6	Borussia Dortmund	5–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Dortmund
18:30 CEST	Reus 35', 70' Subotić 40' Gündoğan 79' Błaszczykowski 85'	Report (in German)	Nordtveit 90'	Stadium: Signal Iduna Park Attendance: 80,645 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

7 October 2012 (2012-10-07) 7	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CEST	Arango 8' De Jong 24', 78' Domínguez 61' Marx 89' Rupp 90+1'	Report (in German)		Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 51,193 Referee: Marco Fritz

20 October 2012 (2012-10-20) 8	Werder Bremen	4–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bremen
18:30 CEST	Petersen 37' Arnautović 45' De Bruyne 54' Füllkrug 76' Junuzović 86'	Report (in German)	Nordtveit 59' Jantschke 60'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 42,100 Referee: Günther Perl

28 October 2012 (2012-10-28) 9	Hannover 96	2–3	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Hannover
17:30 CEST	Schlaudraff 48' Diouf 53' Sakai 56' Haggui 68'	Report (in German)	Stranzl 52' Domínguez 70' Brouwers 77' Arango 79'	Stadium: AWD-Arena Attendance: 49,000 Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer

3 November 2012 (2012-11-03) 10	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–1	SC Freiburg	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CET	Stranzl 9' De Camargo 49'	Report (in German)	Caligiuri 77' (pen.)	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 47,673 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

11 November 2012 (2012-11-11) 11	Greuther Fürth	2–4	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Fürth
17:30 CET	Nehrig 10' (pen.) Kleine 12' Prib 43' Peković 78' 90+1' Mavraj 81'	Report (in German)	Wendt 22' Stranzl 51' Herrmann 57' Marx 90+2' (pen.)	Stadium: Trolli Arena Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Peter Gagelmann

17 November 2012 (2012-11-17) 12	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–2	VfB Stuttgart	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CET	Stranzl 7' Marx 81' De Camargo 82' Domínguez 90+3'	Report (in German)	Harnik 8' Tasci 44' Traoré 66' Kuzmanović 67' Brouwers 72' (o.g.) Okazaki 77'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 52,150 Referee: Michael Weiner

25 November 2012 (2012-11-25) 13	FC Augsburg	1–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Augsburg
17:30 CET	Mölders 5' Koo 39'	Summary	Stranzl 51' Jantschke 74' Herrmann 85'	Stadium: SGL arena Attendance: 30,045 Referee: Tobias Stieler

28 November 2012 (2012-11-28) 14	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–0	VfL Wolfsburg	Mönchengladbach
20:30 CET	Arango 11' Jantschke 38', 44'	Summary	Polák 65' Jönsson 90+3'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 40,165 Referee: Robert Hartmann

1 December 2012 (2012-12-01) 15	Schalke 04	1–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Gelsenkirchen
15:30 CET	Draxler 35', 85'	Summary	Nordtveit 1' De Camargo 62' Herrmann 75' Domínguez 87'	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 61,673 Referee: Felix Brych

9 December 2012 (2012-12-09) 16	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–0	Mainz 05	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CET	Hanke 58' Arango 63' Herrmann 77' Domínguez 86'	Summary	Soto 45' Noveski 83'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 46,622 Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer

14 December 2012 (2012-12-14) 17	Bayern Munich	1–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Munich
20:30 CET	Dante 56' Shaqiri 59'	Report (in German)	Marx 21' Nordtveit 26' Ciğerci 70'	Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 71,000 Referee: Tobias Welz

19 January 2013 18	1899 Hoffenheim	0–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Sinsheim
15:30 CET	Vestergaard 30' Weis 52' Usami 71'	Summary	Brouwers 42' Herrmann 87'	Stadium: Rhein-Neckar Arena Attendance: 26,750 Referee: Peter Sippel

26 January 2013 19	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–1	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CET	Juanan 6' (o.g.) Herrmann 14' Marx 39'	Summary	Schahin 50' (pen.)	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 50,315 Referee: Peter Gagelmann

3 February 2013 20	1. FC Nürnberg	2–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Nuremberg
15:30 CET	Simons 4' (pen.) Pekhart 30' Pinola 80' Mak 88'	Summary	Wendt 11' Herrmann 58', 90+1' Jantschke 83'	Stadium: Frankenstadion Attendance: 37,793 Referee: Florian Meyer

9 February 2013 21	Borussia Mönchengladbach	3–3	Bayer Leverkusen	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CET	Stranzl 44' De Jong 58' Herrmann 86'	Summary	Sam 40', 52' Kießling 60' Schürrle 64'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 46,010 Referee: Knut Kircher

16 February 2013 22	Hamburger SV	1–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Hamburg
15:30 CET	Van der Vaart 24' Badelj 61'	Summary	Herrmann 74'	Stadium: Imtech Arena Attendance: 54,558 Referee: Robert Hartmann

24 February 2013 23	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–1	Borussia Dortmund	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CET	Marx 26' Ter Stegen 30' Younes 67' Jantschke 88'	Summary	Götze 31' (pen.) Santana 90'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 54,010 Referee: Günter Perl

1 March 2013 (2013-03-01) 24	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Frankfurt
20:30 CET	Zambrano 31' Anderson Bamba 52' Rode 83' Schwegler 90+1'	Report	De Jong 22', 70' Marx 82'	Stadium: Commerzbank-Arena Attendance: 51,500 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

9 March 2013 (2013-03-09) 25	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–1	Werder Bremen	Mönchengladbach
18:30 CET	Domínguez 42' Mlapa 72'	Report	Ignjovski 77'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 54,010 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

17 March 2013 (2013-03-17) 26	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–0	Hannover 96	Mönchengladbach
17:30 CET	De Jong 36' Arango 39'	Report	Abdellaoue 3' Diouf 67' Pinto 76' 85' Chahed 90+3' Pander 90+4'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 46,173 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

30 March 2013 (2013-03-30) 27	SC Freiburg	2–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Freiburg im Breisgau
15:30 CET	Caligiuri 40' Kruse 69', 90+2'	Report	Daems 27' Stranzl 42'	Stadium: Mage Solar Stadion Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Günter Perl

6 April 2013 (2013-04-06) 28	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–0	Greuther Fürth	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CEST	De Jong 74'	Report	Zimmermann 61' 66' Sobiech 78' Azemi 90+1'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 50,206 Referee: Bastian Dankert

14 April 2013 (2013-04-14) 29	VfB Stuttgart	2–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Stuttgart
15:30 CEST	Domínguez 28' (o.g.) Gentner 34'	Report		Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 53,430 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

19 April 2013 (2013-04-19) 30	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–0	FC Augsburg	Mönchengladbach
20:30 CEST	Daems 16', 28' (pen.) Herrmann 49' Marx 52' Domínguez 74'	Report	Vogt 26' Verhaegh 54'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 50,175 Referee: Jochen Drees

27 April 2013 (2013-04-27) 31	VfL Wolfsburg	3–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Wolfsburg
15:30 CEST	Arnold 34' Olić 61' Diego 75'	Report	Mlapa 52' De Jong 83'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Tobias Stieler

3 May 2013 (2013-05-03) 32	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–1	Schalke 04	Mönchengladbach
20:30 CEST	Daems 10' Domínguez 29'	Report	Jones 42' Draxler 68', 82' Huntelaar 73'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 54,010 Referee: Florian Meyer

11 May 2013 (2013-05-11) 33	Mainz 05	2–4	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Mainz
15:30 CEST	Parker 12' Svensson 39' Ivanschitz 90+1' (pen.)	Report	Hrgota 39' (pen.), 58', 80' Hanke 64'	Stadium: Coface Arena Attendance: 34,000 Referee: Felix Brych

18 May 2013 (2013-05-18) 34	Borussia Mönchengladbach	3–4	Bayern Munich	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CEST	Stranzl 4' Hanke 5' Nordtveit 10'	Report	Martínez 7' Ribéry 18', 53' Robben 59'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 54,010 Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer

DFB-Pokal

Round	Date	Time	Venue	City	Opponent	Result	Attendance	Borussia goalscorers	Source
1	18 August 2012 (2012-08-18)	15:30	New Tivoli	Aachen	Alemannia Aachen	2 – 0	31,736	Arango 70' Nordtveit 90'
2	31 October 2012 (2012-10-31)	20:30	Esprit Arena	Düsseldorf	Fortuna Düsseldorf	0 – 1	54,000

Europe

UEFA Champions League

Playoff round

21 August 2012 (2012-08-21) 1st Leg	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–3	Dynamo Kyiv	Mönchengladbach, Germany
20:45 CEST	Ring 13' Herrmann 89'	Report	Mykhalyk 28' Yarmolenko 36' De Jong 81' (o.g.) Taiwo 83'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 45,075 Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

29 August 2012 (2012-08-29) 2nd Leg	Dynamo Kyiv	1–2 (4–3 agg.)	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Kyiv, Ukraine
20:45 EEST	Vukojević 65' Ideye 88'	Report	Brouwers 69' Khacheridi 70' (o.g.) Arango 78' Nordtveit 90+3'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)

UEFA Europa League

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fenerbahçe	6	4	1	1	10	7	+3	13	Advance to knockout phase
2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	6	3	2	1	11	6	+5	11	Advance to knockout phase
3	Marseille	6	1	2	3	9	11	−2	5
4	AEL Limassol	6	1	1	4	4	10	−6	4

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Match	Date	Time	Venue	City	Opponent	Result
1	20 September 2012 (2012-09-20)	19:00	GSP Stadium	Nicosia, Cyprus	AEL Limassol	0 – 0
2	4 October 2012 (2012-10-04)	21:05	Borussia-Park	Mönchengladbach, Germany	Fenerbahçe	2 – 4
3	25 October 2012 (2012-10-25)	21:05	Borussia-Park	Mönchengladbach, Germany	Marseille	2 – 0
4	8 November 2012 (2012-11-08)	21:05	Stade Vélodrome	Marseille, France	Marseille	2 – 2
5	22 November 2012 (2012-11-22)	19:00	Borussia-Park	Mönchengladbach, Germany	AEL Limassol	2 – 0
6	6 December 2012 (2012-12-06)	19:00	Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium	Istanbul, Turkey	Fenerbahçe	3 – 0

Knockout phase

Round of 32

14 February 2013 (2013-02-14) First leg	Borussia Mönchengladbach	3–3	Lazio	Mönchengladbach, Germany
21:05 CET	Stranzl 17' (pen.) Marx 84' (pen.) Arango 88', 90+1'	Report	Dias 22' 69' González 40' Floccari 57' Kozák 64', 90+4', 83' Cana 83'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: Sergei Karasev (Russia)

21 February 2013 (2013-02-21) Second leg	Lazio	2–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Rome, Italy
19:00 CET	Candreva 10' González 33'	Report	Younes 77'	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Referee: Hüseyin Göçek (Turkey)

Squad

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals

As of 31 August 2012^[update]

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal		Champions League		Europa League
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	GER	Marc-André ter Stegen	4	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
21	GK	GER	Janis Blaswich	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	GK	GER	Christofer Heimeroth	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	GER	Matthias Zimmermann	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	DF	BEL	Filip Daems	4	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
4	DF	NED	Roel Brouwers	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	DF	ESP	Álvaro Domínguez	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
17	DF	SWE	Oscar Wendt	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
24	DF	GER	Tony Jantschke	4	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
37	DF	GER	Niklas Dams	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	DF	AUT	Martin Stranzl	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
Midfielders
5	MF	FIN	Alexander Ring	4	1	1	0	1	0	2	1	0	0
6	MF	GER	Tolga Ciğerci	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
7	MF	GER	Patrick Herrmann	4	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
8	MF	GER	Lukas Rupp	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	MF	GER	Thorben Marx	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	MF	NOR	Håvard Nordtveit	4	1	1	0	1	1	2	0	0	0
18	MF	VEN	Juan Arango	4	3	1	1	1	1	2	1	0	0
23	MF	JPN	Yuki Otsu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	MF	GER	Amin Younes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	MF	GER	Julian Korb	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	MF	GER	Alexander Bieler	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	MF	SUI	Granit Xhaka	4	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
Strikers
9	FW	NED	Luuk de Jong	4	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
10	FW	BEL	Igor de Camargo	4	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
19	FW	GER	Mike Hanke	4	1	1	1	1	0	2	0	0	0
22	FW	GER	Peniel Mlapa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	FW	SWE	Branimir Hrgota	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0

Transfers

In

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
34	MF	Granit Xhaka	19		Basel	Transfer	Summer	2017	€ 8.5M	^[6]
	FW	Peniel Mlapa	21	EU	1899 Hoffenheim	Transfer	Summer	2016	Undisclosed	^[7]
	DF	Tobias Levels	25	EU	Fortuna Düsseldorf		Summer	End of loan
	ST	Branimir Hrgota	19	EU	Jönköpings Södra IF		Summer	2017	undisclosed
9	ST	Luuk de Jong	21	EU	Twente		Summer	2017	€ 15M	^[8]

Out

N	Pos.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
11	MF	Marco Reus	23	EU	Borussia Dortmund	Transfer	Summer	€17.5M	^[9]
13	MF	Roman Neustädter	24	EU	Schalke 04	End of contract	Summer	Free	^[10]
31	DF	Dante	28		Bayern Munich	Transfer	Summer	€ 4.5M	^[11]

Kits

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Europa

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Sources

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^ Europa League 2012/2013 .:. Gruppe C (in German) UEFA Europa League 2012–13 – Group C, accessed: 13 September 2012
^ Champions League Qual. 2012/2013 .:. Spielplan (in German) UEFA Champions League 2012–13 – Qualifying, accessed: 13 September 2012
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