Buy Paderborn tickets for the 2026/27 season and you are buying into the most restless club in German football. SC Paderborn have been promoted to the Bundesliga three times and relegated from it twice, and between 2015 and 2017 they fell three divisions in three years before climbing all the way back. They return this season after beating Wolfsburg in a play-off that went to extra time.
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The ground is the Home Deluxe Arena, 15,000 places of which 8,785 are seated and 6,215 standing, every one of them under cover. That makes it the second smallest stadium in the division behind Elversberg, and it means a fixture list containing Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Schalke will be played in front of crowds those clubs would consider an away allocation.
Ralf Kettemann is the reason any of this happened. Appointed in May 2025 at 38, from Karlsruher SC's under-19 side, with no previous professional head coaching job, he took Paderborn to third place on 62 points and then through the play-off. Single-match standing places cost €16.60 and seats start at €39.70, which is the other half of why this ground fills.
Paderborn's sale sequence is conventional enough. Season card holders renew, members buy in a priority window, then general sale opens to the public. What has changed is the demand side, because promotion turns seventeen second-division fixtures into seventeen Bundesliga ones and a 15,000-capacity ground does not grow to meet it.
For the middle of the fixture list, direct purchase still works. Mid-table opponents on a Saturday afternoon reach general sale and are buyable, though they clear faster than they did last season and faster than most people expect from a promoted club. That is the useful part of the picture and it is worth acting on early rather than late.
For the top of the fixture list it does not work at all. Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke arriving at a ground this size produces demand that cannot be met from a public window, and those dates are gone before most visitors have thought about them. Resale is where the places held by season card holders who cannot attend actually surface, and for those fixtures it is the only route in.
1BoxOffice has been trading live event inventory since 2006, which puts close to two decades of completed transactions behind everything on this page. The risk in resale is almost never the price. It is whether the barcode in your inbox opens a turnstile on the day, and at a 15,000-capacity ground in East Westphalia there is no walk-up alternative if it does not.
Sellers here are verified before their stock goes live, and every confirmed order carries a guarantee that pays out at 150% if something fails. Paderborn is not a city most people pass through by accident, so a ticket that does not work costs the trip as well as the match.
Paderborn is a city of roughly 156,000 in East Westphalia, a university town with a cathedral and no other professional club within an hour. The support has followed this team through four divisions in a decade, which is a particular kind of loyalty, and promotion has brought back a large number of people who stopped attending during the second-division years.
What follows are the factors that separate the difficult fixtures from the merely tight ones, because at this capacity there is no such thing as an easy one.
The practical conclusion is that the middle of the fixture list is obtainable if you plan a few weeks ahead, and the top of it is not obtainable at all through the front door. Decide which category your date falls into before you start looking.
Paderborn price at the bottom of the Bundesliga range and have kept the structure simple through promotion. A single standing ticket costs €16.60 and a standing season card €265.60, which works out at about €15.62 a match. Seated tickets start at €39.70 and run to €53.10 for the premium categories, with a seated season card from €635.20. The gap between the least and most expensive seat is narrow by top-flight standards.
Resale ranges move with three things. Opponent matters most, because Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke price in a different bracket from a Saturday against Augsburg. Position matters second, though in a ground of this size the differences are smaller than at a 60,000-capacity bowl. Timing works against the buyer, because a small ground with a renewed season card base does not release stock late.
The table gives typical resale ranges in pounds for 2026/27. Treat them as planning figures rather than quotations, and expect the three largest visits to sit above the top of these bands.
| Type of Ticket | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| Bundesliga standing | £25 – £85 |
| Bundesliga seated (standard fixtures) | £40 – £120 |
| Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke | £95 – £260+ |
| DFB-Pokal | £25 – £90 |
| Hospitality / VIP | £200 – £500+ |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift.
Yes, and more easily than at most clubs in this division. Paderborn have a membership measured in thousands rather than the tens or hundreds of thousands that Schalke, Stuttgart and Bremen carry, which means the priority window ahead of general sale is genuinely short. For a large part of the fixture list, open sale means open sale.
That is the significant difference between this club and the other newly promoted side. Elversberg have restricted day tickets to members entirely. Paderborn have not, and a visitor with no connection to the club can buy directly for the middle of the calendar. It is one of the more accessible grounds in the Bundesliga on that measure.
The exceptions are the ones you would expect and they are absolute. Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke will not reach public sale in any meaningful quantity, and the standing terrace rarely does for any fixture. For those, resale is the route, and it carries no membership condition of any kind.
Season cards at Paderborn cover the seventeen home league fixtures and are priced to be bought rather than inherited. A standing card at €265.60 undercuts the equivalent single-ticket cost by a meaningful margin, and a seated card from €635.20 does the same at the other end. One change for this season moved part of the main stand's B section into price category two, which is the kind of adjustment a club makes when demand shifts rather than when it needs revenue.
For a buyer the consequence is a resale pool that is small in absolute terms because the ground is small, but proportionally healthier than at clubs with a century-old inheritance culture. Paderborn's season card base has turned over repeatedly through four divisions in ten years, which produces holders with more flexible attendance patterns than a club where cards pass between generations.
| Season Card Type | Price (2026/27) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Standing | €265.60, about £225 | Around €15.62 a match across seventeen fixtures, against €16.60 on the gate. Part of the 6,215 standing places and the first category to sell out. |
| Seated, entry level | From €635.20, about £540 | Roughly €37 a match against €39.70 on the gate. The broadest seated band by volume and the most likely to circulate on resale. |
| Seated, category 2 | Higher band | Includes part of the main stand's B section, reclassified into this category for the 2026/27 season. |
| Seated, premium | Up to €53.10 per match | The most favourably positioned seating outside the VIP areas, though the gap to the entry-level seat is narrow by Bundesliga standards. |
| VIP and business | Quoted per season | 1,209 VIP seats within the 15,000, concentrated in the main stand with catering and lounge provision. |
Season card figures are the club's published 2026/27 bands with approximate pound conversions and may change between campaigns.
The ground is a compact four-sided bowl built in the mid-2000s and opened in 2008, with a roof covering every place in it. The split between standing and seating is unusually even for a modern German stadium: 8,785 seats and 6,215 standing places, which is roughly 40 percent terracing.
| Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home terrace | Atmosphere | Lowest | 6,215 standing places behind the goal, covered like the rest of the ground, at €16.60 a match. Unreserved, so arrival time decides where you end up. |
| Main stand, central | Sightline and comfort | Highest | The halfway-line seating alongside the VIP provision, with the most even view and the newest facilities behind it. Part of the B section moved up a category this season. |
| Main stand, outer blocks | Balance of view and price | Middle | Full-length touchline positions either side of the central blocks, at a noticeably lower price and still under cover. |
| Opposite side | Value | Lower to middle | Seating across the far touchline. In a ground this size the compromise against the main stand is perspective rather than distance. |
| Corners and end seating | Availability | Lower | Seated positions at the ends and in the corners, usually the last areas with stock for busy fixtures. |
| VIP and business | Premium experience | Highest | 1,209 VIP seats concentrated in the main stand, with catering, lounge access and parking included in the packages. |
One detail matters more here than the seating chart. Every place in this ground is covered, which is not true of several larger and better-known German stadiums and which changes the calculation entirely for a Friday night in January.
Paderborn's travelling support is modest, which is the arithmetic consequence of a 15,000-capacity ground and a city of 156,000. Away allocations at the larger stadiums will not be filled, and places tend to stay available closer to matchday than they would for a club with a following that fills every quota automatically.
Geography is reasonable. Dortmund, Gladbach, Leverkusen, Köln and Schalke are all inside two hours from East Westphalia, and Bremen and Hamburg are manageable. The southern trips to Munich, Freiburg and Elversberg are the long ones.
| Away Detail | What to Expect |
|---|---|
| Typical allocation | German league rules provide visiting clubs with up to 10 percent of capacity, ranging from around 3,000 at the smaller grounds to more than 7,000 at Signal Iduna Park. Paderborn will not take the full quota at the larger stadiums. |
| Where you will be | A segregated block behind a goal or in a corner, with a standing section at grounds that retain terracing. Sightlines vary considerably from stadium to stadium. |
| Access requirements | No fan card is needed for standard Bundesliga away fixtures. A handful of clubs restrict sales for designated high-risk games to their own registered supporters, which is where resale becomes the practical route. |
| Transport | Many German match tickets include regional public transport on the day, though the scheme varies by federal state. From Paderborn the Ruhr fixtures are straightforward and the southern ones are a full day. |
| Timing on the day | Away sections open earlier and empty later than home stands, and visiting supporters can be held inside for 15 to 30 minutes after high-profile fixtures. Build that into any train booked for the same evening. |
In a covered 15,000-capacity bowl with no restricted views, the decision comes down to whether you want a terrace and how much the halfway line is worth to you. The table matches the common priorities to what the ground offers.
| Priority | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Best atmosphere | The home terrace | Six thousand standing places behind the goal at €16.60, covered and close enough to the pitch that the noise stays in the ground rather than escaping over an open roof. |
| Best view | Main stand, central blocks | Halfway line, covered and elevated enough to read the shape of both sides. The premium over the outer blocks is small in absolute terms. |
| Family-friendly | Opposite side or corner seating | Seated, covered and away from both the terrace and the away section, at the lower end of the seated range. |
| Premium experience | VIP or business seats | 1,209 VIP places in the main stand with catering and parking, making this one of the more accessible corporate offerings in the division given the size of the ground. |
| Most obtainable | End and corner seating | The blocks that hold stock longest when the terrace and the main stand have gone. In a compact ground the view from them is perfectly workable. |
The stadium opened on 16 July 2008 and was inaugurated four days later with a match against Borussia Dortmund that Paderborn lost 2-1. It replaced the Hermann-Löns-Stadion and it has carried four names in eighteen years: Paragon Arena from 2005, Energieteam Arena from June 2009, Benteler-Arena from July 2012 and Home Deluxe Arena since 2022 under a ten-year agreement with an online retailer. Seats at the Home Deluxe Arena have been sold under all four.
Capacity is 15,000, made up of 8,785 seats and 6,215 standing places, with 1,209 VIP seats among the seated total. The building measures 148 metres by 120 metres and stands 22.64 metres high, which makes it small enough to feel like one room rather than four stands. Every place is covered.
The transport provision tells you the ground was planned for a city rather than retrofitted into one. There are 1,832 car parking spaces adjacent to the stadium and a further 1,900 served by shuttle bus, alongside 2,000 bicycle spaces, ten electric vehicle charging points and six e-bike charging stations. For a 15,000-capacity ground that is generous, and it means driving is a realistic option here in a way it is not at most German stadiums.
Paderborn itself is a city of about 156,000 in East Westphalia, with a cathedral, a university and a history that runs back to Charlemagne. It is not on the way to anywhere, which is part of why the club has spent its existence being underestimated, and the compact centre is a twenty-minute walk or a short bus ride from the ground.
One naming point worth knowing before you search for anything. The ground has been the Home Deluxe Arena since 2022, but a great deal of published material, mapping and ticketing infrastructure still refers to it as the Benteler-Arena, the name it carried from 2012 to 2022. Both refer to the same building on the same site.
The most notable match ever played by this club was not in this stadium and was not entirely legitimate. In the 2004/05 DFB-Pokal, Paderborn beat Hamburger SV to reach the round of 16 in a match refereed by Robert Hoyzer, who had taken a bribe to ensure the result. The case became the most significant betting scandal in German football's history. The result stood, Paderborn advanced and the club had nothing to do with the fixing, but the fixture remains the one most people outside East Westphalia associate with the name.
Hospitality at Paderborn is proportionate to the ground and priced accordingly. There are 1,209 VIP seats within the 15,000 capacity, concentrated in the main stand, with lounge access, catering and parking built into the packages rather than sold as extras.
The case for it here is different from the case at a large club. It is not primarily about escaping the weather, because every place in this ground is covered. It is about access, since hospitality is one of the routes into the Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke fixtures that does not depend on a season card holder releasing a place.
| Package | What It Includes | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| Business seat | Padded main stand seat with lounge access before and after the match, catering and a dedicated entrance. | £200 – £340 per person |
| Business seat, top fixture | The same product for the Bayern, Dortmund or Schalke visits, where demand far exceeds what a 15,000-capacity ground can offer. | £320 – £550 per person |
| VIP place with parking | Main stand VIP seating with catering and a reserved space at the stadium, which is genuinely useful given the parking provision here. | £260 – £420 per person |
| Group hospitality | Reserved space for a party with catering arranged to requirements, limited by the size of the corporate areas. | Quoted per fixture and party size |
| Lounge package | Lounge entry with a seated ticket, buffet and bar, at a lower entry point than the full VIP tiers. | £150 – £250 per person |
Hospitality ranges reflect typical package and resale pricing and may change with fixture category and availability.
The sequence below takes a few minutes and removes most of the ways a resale purchase goes wrong. The step that matters most here is the third, because standing and seated are priced very differently and the terrace clears first.
Step1
Open the exact fixture
Use the home and away lists at the bottom of this page to reach the match you want. Each fixture has its own page with its own listings, so you are seeing supply for that date rather than for the club in general.
Step2
Set up your account first
You can create an account before or during checkout. For the three largest fixtures on this calendar, having your details already stored is the difference between securing a listing and watching it go.
Step3
Decide terrace or seat early
6,215 of the 15,000 places are standing and they cost less than half what a seat does. If you want the terrace, filter for it at the start, because it is the first area to clear for every fixture on the list.
Step4
Filter by quantity next
If you need three or four places together, set that filter before sorting by price. Sorting first and then finding the listing holds two is the commonest wasted step at any ground, and at this capacity the second chance may not come.
Step5
Read the listing notes properly
The notes state the delivery method, the expected timing, whether the ticket carries a name and which part of the ground it admits you to. Two listings at the same price can be very different afternoons.
Step6
Compare on the checkout total
The final figure includes any service and delivery charges, so judge listings on that rather than the headline. A slightly dearer listing with a faster and more certain delivery route is usually the better purchase.
Step7
Pay and confirm
Enter your payment details on the encrypted checkout page and confirm the order. An order reference and confirmation email arrive immediately, and the 150% guarantee applies from that moment rather than from delivery.
Step8
Follow it through to delivery
Use track order with your reference to see where the ticket is. German clubs commonly release digital tickets in the final week before kick-off, so a quiet stretch after purchase is routine rather than a warning sign.
After that the work is logistical, and it is easier here than at most grounds. There is parking for well over three thousand cars between the stadium and the shuttle sites, the city centre is twenty minutes on foot and every place in the ground is covered.
Paderborn tickets divide sharply between three fixtures that will never reach a meaningful public sale and fourteen that will. The table sets out which and why.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| Bayern Munich | The champions arriving at a 15,000-capacity ground. Demand will exceed the entire stadium several times over and the allocation will be exhausted within the priority window. |
| Borussia Dortmund | The largest travelling support in Germany, ninety minutes down the road, at the second smallest ground in the division. Local neutrals add to it and the away section cannot absorb the interest. |
| Schalke | Promoted alongside Paderborn with 210,000 members, and they are close enough for a day trip. The away allocation here will be among the smallest Schalke receive all season. |
| Standing places, any fixture | 6,215 terrace places at €16.60, the lowest-priced inventory in the ground and the first to clear whoever is visiting. |
| Spring relegation fixtures | A promoted club at this scale will be involved at the bottom, and the matches against the sides immediately around Paderborn will carry weight from February onwards. |
German football has moved almost entirely to digital delivery and Paderborn are no exception, though resale listings cover several formats depending on how the original ticket was issued. The listing notes tell you which applies before you commit.
Whichever applies, read the notes before you commit. They set out the method, the expected timing and any identification requirement, and they are the difference between walking straight in and standing outside.
Gates open two hours before kick-off. If you have a terrace place this is not advice but the mechanism, because standing is unreserved and the positions worth having go to whoever walks in first. In a section holding six thousand people the difference between arriving early and arriving late is real.
The approach is easier than at most grounds. There is parking for 1,832 cars beside the stadium and a further 1,900 spaces served by shuttle bus, plus 2,000 bicycle spaces, so the usual German advice about avoiding the car does not apply with the same force here. The city centre is a twenty-minute walk away.
Standard Bundesliga fixtures do not require photographic identification. Matches designated high-risk can attract additional conditions, and name-bound tickets exist for certain categories, in which case the listing will state the requirement and you should carry the document named on it.
Mobile entry is the default, though print-at-home remains common at this level. Add any digital pass to your wallet before you set off rather than at the gate, keep the phone charged and screenshot the barcode as insurance. If you are arriving as a group for the terrace, travel together rather than agreeing to meet inside.
Bags larger than A4 format are refused and the restriction is applied at the outer perimeter rather than at the turnstile. Storage at the ground is limited and the stadium sits away from the city centre, so a walk back to find somewhere to leave a rucksack is a genuine inconvenience rather than a short detour.
Prohibited items follow the standard German list: bottles, cans, flares, poles, professional camera equipment and anything usable as a projectile. Travel out with nothing bigger than a small shoulder bag and entry takes seconds.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | SC Paderborn 07 e.V. |
| Founded | 1997 in its present form, taking the 1907 date from TuS Neuhaus |
| Nickname | Die Ostwestfalen (The East Westphalians) |
| Stadium | Home Deluxe Arena, capacity 15,000 with 8,785 seats and 6,215 standing places |
| Cover | Every place in the ground is under a roof |
| Head coach | Ralf Kettemann, appointed May 2025 |
| Captain | Felix Götze |
| President | Thomas Sagel |
| League | Bundesliga, promoted through the play-off in May 2026 |
No club in German football has moved between divisions as violently as SC Paderborn. They reached the Bundesliga in 2014, were in the fourth tier by 2017, and were back in the Bundesliga by 2019. That is six division changes in five years, in both directions, and it has happened to a club that did not exist in its current form until 1997.
The institution that plays today is younger than most of its supporters. A 1985 merger created the entity, a 1994 Oberliga title took it into the third tier and a 1997 renaming produced the name. For a club with no continuous century behind it, everything that has happened since has been compressed into a very short period.
The 2004/05 cup run brought national attention for the wrong reasons. Paderborn beat Hamburger SV to reach the last sixteen in a match refereed by Robert Hoyzer, who had accepted a bribe to influence it, and the case that followed became the largest betting scandal German football has known. The club was not implicated and the result stood, but the association has never entirely gone away.
The first Bundesliga season is the one people remember. Paderborn were top of the table in September 2014, a genuinely absurd position for a club of that size, then were relegated in May with a squad that had cost almost nothing. What followed was worse: two more relegations in consecutive seasons, taking a Bundesliga club to the fourth tier within twenty-four months.
They were saved from the Regionalliga by a licensing failure elsewhere rather than by anything they did on the pitch, which is the sort of reprieve most clubs waste. Paderborn won promotion the following season instead, and then kept going.
Going from the fourth tier to the Bundesliga in two seasons is the achievement this club should be known for rather than the Hoyzer match. Promotion in 2019 was followed by another single-season stay and then by five years of second-division football in which Paderborn were usually competitive and never quite good enough.
The 2025/26 season changed that. Kettemann, 38 years old and appointed from a youth setup with no professional head coaching experience, took a side that had finished fourth to third place on 62 points and then through a play-off that went to extra time. Laurin Curda scored the goal that won it, Wolfsburg went down after 29 consecutive Bundesliga seasons and a club that had been in the Regionalliga nine years earlier was back in the top flight.
A club that has existed under its present name since 1997 has a short list of significant figures, and most of them are recent. The honest version reflects that rather than reaching back into the histories of the clubs that merged to create it.
| Figure | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ralf Kettemann | Head coach, from May 2025 | Appointed at 38 from Karlsruher SC's under-19 side with no previous professional head coaching job, then delivered promotion to the Bundesliga in his first season. A third-division player whose career was ended by injury in 2011, he was still completing his professional coaching licence when the appointment was made. | Promotion to the Bundesliga, 2026 |
| Lukas Kwasniok | Head coach, 2021 to 2025 | Four years that turned a club fresh from Bundesliga relegation into a consistent promotion contender, finishing fourth in his final season and building the squad Kettemann inherited. Left in 2025 having established a style the club has kept. | Fourth place in 2024/25, four years of stability |
| André Breitenreiter | Head coach, 2013 to 2015 | Took Paderborn into the Bundesliga for the first time in 2014 and led them to the top of the table in September of that season, which remains the most improbable position this club has occupied. Left for Schalke after relegation. | First Bundesliga promotion, top of the table in 2014 |
| Steffen Baumgart | Head coach, 2017 to 2020 | Took the club from the third tier to the Bundesliga in consecutive seasons after the collapse that had reached the Regionalliga, which is the single most remarkable stretch in the club's history. Later managed Köln, Hamburg and Union Berlin. | Two consecutive promotions, 2018 and 2019 |
| Felix Götze | Defender and captain | Captains the side into the Bundesliga, having come through Bayern Munich's academy and rebuilt a career at Augsburg and then here. Younger brother of a World Cup final goalscorer, and also a player who has made his own way in a very different part of German football. | Club captain for the 2026 promotion |
| Laurin Curda | Defender | Scored the goal in extra time of the play-off second leg against Wolfsburg that took Paderborn into the Bundesliga and sent a club with 29 consecutive top-flight seasons down. The most consequential single moment in the club's recent history. | The promotion goal, May 2026 |
| Sven Michel | Forward, two spells | Has played for this club across three divisions and two promotions, leaving for Union Berlin and returning. One of the few links between the side that fell to the fourth tier and the one that has just gone up. | Continuity through the club's most turbulent decade |
Paderborn have never won a national trophy and there is no reason to present the record as anything other than what it is. What the club has is a set of promotions, a cup run with an asterisk beside it and a demonstrated ability to recover from collapses that finish other clubs permanently.
| Competition | Titles |
|---|---|
| Bundesliga | 0 (three seasons: 2014/15, 2019/20, 2026/27) |
| DFB-Pokal | 0 (best run: round of 16, 2004/05) |
| 2. Bundesliga | 0 (promoted 2014, 2019 and 2026) |
| 3. Liga | 0 (promoted as runners-up in 2018) |
| Oberliga Westfalen | 1 (1994) |
| Westphalian Cup | Multiple regional wins across the club's history |
| European competition | 0 (never qualified) |
Three Bundesliga promotions in twelve years is the number that matters in that table. Only a handful of German clubs have managed that, and none of them did it while also falling to the fourth tier in the middle.
Paderborn's rivalries are regional and one of them is genuinely fierce. None of them is currently a Bundesliga fixture, which is a consequence of how far this club has travelled relative to its neighbours.
The East Westphalian derby and the only fixture on this list with real hostility behind it. Bielefeld sit forty kilometres west, they are the older and historically larger club with a proper Bundesliga past, and Paderborn spent decades as the smaller neighbour before overtaking them entirely in the 2010s. The relationship has been sharpened rather than settled by that reversal, and the two clubs have spent recent years in different divisions, which is exactly why supporters of both want a cup draw to produce it. When it is played, it is the loudest fixture either ground stages.
Not a rivalry, but the fixture with the most history at this stadium. Dortmund played the inaugural match at the ground in July 2008 and won 2-1, they are the nearest Bundesliga club at around ninety minutes away and a substantial part of the surrounding region supports them rather than Paderborn. That makes every meeting a question of local allegiance as much as a football match, and it makes the away section a permanent problem.
A rivalry that does not exist yet and will by May. Paderborn and Elversberg came up together, finished third and second in the same division and are the two smallest clubs in the Bundesliga by capacity. Both will spend this season fighting the same relegation battle with similar resources, which is how rivalries between clubs with no shared history actually begin.
Paderborn have played Bayern in each of their previous Bundesliga seasons and have never beaten them, which is unremarkable, but the fixture carries something specific here. In September 2014, during the club's first top-flight campaign, Paderborn sat top of the Bundesliga. It lasted a fortnight and it remains the reference point for what this club is capable of on its best day.
The fixture the club would probably rather not be known for. Paderborn beat Hamburg 4-2 in the DFB-Pokal in August 2004 in a match Robert Hoyzer had been bribed to influence, and the scandal that followed reshaped how German football polices its referees. Hamburg were relegated years later and have only recently returned, so the two clubs meeting in the Bundesliga again brings a twenty-two-year-old story back into view whether anybody wants it or not.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021/22 | A second-division campaign under Lukas Kwasniok in his first season, rebuilding after the Bundesliga relegation of 2020 and the transitional year that followed. The squad was reshaped around younger players and a pressing style that would define the next four years. |
| 2022/23 | Another season in the upper half of the 2. Bundesliga without breaking into the promotion places. Consistency at this level had become the club's baseline for the first time, which after three relegations in three years was itself the achievement. |
| 2023/24 | A third campaign under Kwasniok in the same territory, competitive without converting. The club had established itself as a second-division side that could beat anyone and could not quite finish in the top three, which is the hardest position in German football to escape. |
| 2024/25 | Fourth place, one position outside the play-off, the closest Paderborn had come since the 2019 promotion. Kwasniok left at the end of the season after four years, and the club appointed Ralf Kettemann from Karlsruher SC's under-19 setup in May. |
| 2025/26 | Third on 62 points and promotion to the Bundesliga through the play-off. Paderborn drew 0-0 at Wolfsburg in the first leg and won the return 2-1 after extra time on 26 May, Laurin Curda scoring the decisive goal, ending Wolfsburg's 29 consecutive seasons in the top flight. |
Kettemann enters the Bundesliga with the squad that won promotion, strengthened by loans rather than by spending, which is the only route available at this budget. Felix Götze captains from the back, Sven Michel and Steffen Tigges lead the line, while Nahuel Noll and Deniz Zeitler arrived on loan from Hoffenheim with Laurin Ulrich joining from VfB Stuttgart. Values below are approximate market valuations converted to pounds and shift with form, age and contract length.
| No. | Player | Position | Value (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Markus Schubert | Goalkeeper | 1.2m |
| 2 | Ruben Müller | Defender | 1.0m |
| 3 | Jonah Sticker | Defender | 1.5m |
| 4 | Nyamekye Awortwie-Grant | Defender | 1.8m |
| 5 | Santiago Castañeda | Midfielder | 2.0m |
| 6 | Tom Baack | Midfielder | 2.5m |
| 7 | Oliver Batista Meier | Midfielder | 3.0m |
| 8 | Luka Đurić | Midfielder | 2.5m |
| 9 | Nick Bätzner | Midfielder | 3.5m |
| 10 | Kennedy Okpala | Forward | 2.5m |
| 11 | Sven Michel | Forward | 1.0m |
| 15 | Nahuel Noll (on loan) | Goalkeeper | 2.0m |
| 17 | Laurin Curda | Defender | 2.0m |
| 19 | Albert Millgramm | Forward | 1.5m |
| 20 | Felix Götze (captain) | Defender | 1.2m |
| 21 | Jano ter Horst | Defender | 1.0m |
| 22 | Mattes Hansen | Midfielder | 1.5m |
| 23 | Raphael Obermair | Midfielder | 1.8m |
| 25 | Tjark Scheller | Defender | 1.0m |
| 26 | Sebastian Klaas | Midfielder | 1.5m |
| 27 | Steffen Tigges | Forward | 2.5m |
| 28 | Laurin Ulrich (on loan) | Midfielder | 3.0m |
| 33 | Marcel Hoffmeier | Defender | 2.0m |
| 40 | Gabriel Vidović | Forward | 4.0m |
| 44 | Timur Gayret | Midfielder | 1.5m |
Market values are approximate, drawn from public valuation data and rounded. They indicate squad structure rather than transfer fees paid or received.
No. It carried that name from 2012 to 2022 and has been the Home Deluxe Arena since, under a ten-year agreement. Plenty of maps, guides and ticketing systems still use the older name, and both refer to the same building.
Yes, for most of the fixture list, which makes this one of the more accessible grounds in the division. The Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke visits are the exceptions and will not reach a meaningful public sale.
6,215 of the 15,000 places are terracing, against 8,785 seats, which is roughly 40 percent standing. A single standing ticket costs €16.60 and the terrace clears first for every fixture.
Every place in the ground is under a roof, terracing included, which is not true of several much larger German stadiums and makes a considerable difference to a winter fixture in East Westphalia.
Yes, and unusually for a German stadium it is a sensible option. There are 1,832 spaces beside the stadium and a further 1,900 served by shuttle bus, plus 2,000 bicycle spaces and charging points for cars and e-bikes.
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Sources: SC Paderborn 07 official club website (scp07.de) for capacity, stand data, parking provision and arena specifications, the Deutsche Fußball Liga, Bundesliga.
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