Buy SC Freiburg tickets for the 2026/27 season and you are buying into a club that played a European final three months ago. On 20 May 2026 Freiburg walked out at the Beşiktaş Stadium in Istanbul against Aston Villa, having beaten Genk, Celta Vigo and Braga to get there. They lost 3-0. A city of 235,000 people with a 34,700-capacity ground had reached the last match of a UEFA competition.
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That run has changed the demand picture at this ground without changing the size of it. Season card renewals ran at their usual near-total rate, the south stand still holds 8,000 standing places and the club still turns away more applications each summer than it can satisfy. What is different is that a lot more people now want to be in a stadium that has never been large enough for its own support.
The competition picture needs stating plainly, because it is counterintuitive. Losing the final meant no automatic European place, and seventh in the Bundesliga on 47 points put Freiburg into the Conference League qualification play-off round rather than a league phase. European football at the Europa-Park Stadion this season is conditional on getting through that tie. If it goes wrong there are seventeen home league fixtures and the DFB-Pokal, nothing more.
Freiburg have the tightest ticket supply of any mid-sized club in the division and it is not a recent development. The Dreisamstadion held 24,000 and was full for two decades; the move to a 34,700-capacity ground in 2021 added ten thousand places and absorbed them almost immediately. Season cards renew, the renewal rate is high and what reaches general sale each summer is a fraction of the building.
That structural shortage is what the secondary market addresses here, and it applies more evenly across the fixture list than at most clubs. This is not a ground where Bayern sells out and everything else is available. Ordinary league Saturdays against mid-table opposition regularly sell out too, which means a visitor without a season card is dependent on resale for a much wider range of dates than the usual four or five.
The second use is timing and geography. Freiburg sits in the far south-west corner of Germany, closer to Basel and Strasbourg than to any other Bundesliga city, and most visitors are arranging travel rather than a bus ride. Being able to fix a specific date months ahead, with a known number of places in a known block, is worth considerably more here than the last few pounds of difference on a face value that was low to begin with.
1BoxOffice has been trading live event inventory since 2006, which puts close to two decades of completed transactions behind the listings on this page. The risk in resale is very rarely the price. It is whether the barcode in your inbox opens a turnstile on the day, and for a trip into the Breisgau that is the only question worth worrying about.
Sellers here are verified before their stock goes live, and every confirmed order carries a guarantee that pays out at 150% if something fails. That figure exists because a failed ticket does not cost you a ticket. It costs the flight into Basel, the hotel and the weekend.
Freiburg is a university city of roughly 235,000 in the south-west corner of Baden-Württemberg, hemmed in by the Black Forest on one side and the Rhine on the other. It has no industrial hinterland, no metropolitan sprawl and no second club, and it produces a support that fills a Bundesliga ground every fortnight and has done for thirty years. The catchment extends across the Breisgau, into the Kaiserstuhl and over the borders into Alsace and northern Switzerland.
Add a decade of results that no club of this size should produce and the arithmetic stops working. The demand drivers below explain which fixtures move first and why the calendar behaves differently from the pattern at comparable clubs.
The practical conclusion is that Freiburg does not split neatly into hard and easy fixtures the way most clubs do. Almost everything here is difficult, the European nights and the Bayern and Stuttgart dates are very difficult, and planning three months ahead is the single most useful thing a buyer can do.
Face value at Freiburg sits in the lower half of the Bundesliga range and the club has kept it there deliberately through a decade of improving results. Standing places on the south stand run in the low double figures in euros, seated tickets typically fall between the mid-twenties and the high fifties depending on the stand and the fixture category, and children and concessions are priced well below that. For a club that reached a European final, those are modest numbers.
Resale ranges move with three things. Competition is the largest factor, because a Conference League night against continental opposition prices differently from a Saturday against Augsburg. Position matters second, with the west stand's central blocks and the covered upper tiers carrying a premium over the corners and the ends. Timing matters third, and at this ground it works against the buyer more often than for them, because supply does not loosen close to matchday the way it does at larger clubs.
The table below gives typical resale ranges in pounds for 2026/27. Treat them as planning figures rather than quotations, because resale is a live market and the number shifts.
| Type of Ticket | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| Bundesliga (standard fixtures) | £25 – £80 |
| Bundesliga (high-demand fixtures) | £60 – £180+ |
| Conference League (if qualified) | £40 – £140+ |
| DFB-Pokal | £25 – £90 |
| Hospitality / VIP | £180 – £450+ |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift.
Yes, though this is one of the harder grounds in Germany to get into without one. Membership brings earlier access in the sale sequence rather than an exclusive right, and the club runs a straightforward priority order: season card holders first, then members, then general sale. The problem is not the sequence. It is that the allocation reaching the end of it is small.
For most Bundesliga clubs the advice at this point would be that ordinary fixtures reach open sale intact. At Freiburg that is only partly true. Mid-table opponents on a Saturday afternoon do reach general sale, and they often clear within days rather than sitting available for weeks. The south stand rarely reaches general sale at all.
That is precisely the gap the resale market fills, and it involves no membership requirement of any kind. Season card holders who cannot attend a particular fixture release their places, and those places are open to anyone. Joining is worth it if you live within reach and intend to go regularly. For a single visit it will not help you, and you do not need it.
Freiburg's season card base is the reason everything else on this page is true. Renewal rates run near the top of the division, holders keep their places automatically unless they cancel, and the waiting list for new cards has been long since well before the move to the new ground. The 2021 relocation added roughly ten thousand places to the capacity and the queue absorbed most of them inside a season.
For a buyer, the consequence is a resale pool that is thinner than the ground's size suggests. Fewer transient holders means fewer places released each week, and the standing areas in particular almost never appear. What does circulate tends to be seated places in the upper tiers and the corners, released by holders with a conflicting weekend rather than by people who bought speculatively.
| Season Card Type | Typical Price (GBP equivalent) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Standing, south stand | £140 – £200 | Seventeen home league fixtures on the terrace wall behind the goal. The lowest entry point in the ground and effectively unobtainable new. |
| Standing, north stand | £150 – £210 | The secondary home standing area in blocks N1 and N2, alongside the away sector on the same side of the ground. |
| Seated, east and north stands | £270 – £450 | The broadest seated band across the lower and upper tiers, covering most of the ordinary season card holders. |
| Seated, west stand central | £420 – £650 | Main stand positions on the halfway line with the most even sightlines and the highest pricing outside hospitality. |
| Concessions | Reduced across categories | Children, students, apprentices and holders of a severe disability pass qualify for reduced rates in most areas. |
Season card ranges are approximate conversions of the club's published bands and may change between campaigns.
The block lettering here is a small piece of club character worth knowing before you buy. The north, east and west stands use N, O and W with a tier number, so N1 is lower-tier north and N15 is upper-tier north. The south stand does not follow the pattern. Its standing blocks are lettered S, C and F, and its seated sections E and V, which spells out the club's registered name across the terrace.
| Stand / Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| South stand, standing | Atmosphere | Lowest | Eight thousand standing places on a single-tier wall behind the goal, blocks S, C and F. The loudest part of the ground and the hardest to obtain. Unreserved, so arrival time decides your position. |
| West stand, central blocks | Sightline and comfort | Highest | The main stand on the halfway line, housing the executive boxes in blocks W4, W5 and W13 to W16 alongside standard seating. The most even view in the building. |
| East stand | Balance of view and price | Middle | The opposite touchline across two tiers, with a full-length view at a noticeably lower price than the west side. The most sensible default for a first visit. |
| North stand, seated | Value | Lower to middle | Behind the opposite goal from the terrace, sharing the stand with the away sector. Angled views that work perfectly well in a compact ground with no interior roof supports. |
| North stand, standing (N1 and N2) | Terrace at a second attempt | Low | The secondary home standing area for supporters who cannot get on the south wall. Same principle, smaller crowd, better odds of availability. |
| Accessible positions | Wheelchair and sight-impaired users | Reduced | 144 wheelchair spaces with companion seating across the ground, plus positions for supporters with sight impairments and severe disabilities in block O7, close to the south-east entrance. |
One structural point improves every seat in this ground. The roof carries no interior supports, so there is not a single restricted view in the building, which is more than can be said for several larger and more famous German stadiums.
Freiburg's travelling support punches above the club's size and has grown further since the European run, but geography works against it in a way that affects nothing else in the division. Freiburg is the most isolated Bundesliga club by distance, and almost every away fixture is a long day. Hamburg is nearly 800 kilometres north. Even the nearest away trip, Stuttgart, is a two-hour drive.
The practical effect for a buyer is that ordinary away allocations do not always sell out, and places often remain available closer to matchday than at clubs with a compact travelling base. The exceptions are Stuttgart, Hoffenheim and any fixture with something at stake in the spring.
| 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. Freiburg do not always take the full quota given the distances involved. |
| 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 or membership is required 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 and network vary by federal state. Given the distances from Freiburg, check whether an overnight makes more sense than a same-day return. |
| 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. |
With no restricted views anywhere in the ground, this decision is entirely about the kind of afternoon you want. The table below matches the common priorities to the part of the stadium that actually delivers them.
| Priority | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Best atmosphere | South stand, standing | Eight thousand people on one terrace wall setting the songs for the whole ground, at the lowest prices in the building. Also the hardest ticket at this club, so plan well ahead. |
| Best view | West stand, central upper | Halfway line, elevated, covered and with a clean line to both penalty areas. The roof's lack of interior supports means nothing interrupts it. |
| Family-friendly | East stand, lower tier | Seated, calm and away from both the terrace and the away sector, with straightforward access to concourse facilities and reduced pricing for children. |
| Premium experience | Business seats or a box | Around 2,000 business places on the west side, of which 200 sit across twenty boxes. Catering, parking and a warm room, which matters for a night fixture in the Black Forest foothills. |
| Lower-priced option | North stand standing, blocks N1 and N2 | The secondary terrace at south stand prices with materially better availability, behind the opposite goal. The compromise most visiting neutrals should make. |
The Europa-Park Stadion opened on 7 October 2021 in the Brühl district by the airport, replacing the Dreisamstadion that had housed the club since 1954. It cost around €76.5 million, of which the club funded the majority through equity and loans with the city contributing €9.5 million, and it holds 34,700 with 12,400 of those places standing. That standing proportion, 36 percent, is among the highest in the Bundesliga.
What makes it genuinely unusual is the roof. More than 6,000 solar modules cover 15,000 square metres, generating 2.4 megawatts at peak and roughly 2.3 million kilowatt hours a year, which is the entire annual electricity requirement of the club. It was described on installation as the largest photovoltaic array on any stadium roof in the world. Heating comes from district supply drawn off nearby industry, and the ground was designed to run carbon-neutral.
The transport provision follows the same logic and tells you a great deal about the city. There are 3,700 bicycle parking spaces against 2,100 for cars and buses, which is close to a two-to-one ratio in favour of bikes and would be unthinkable at any other ground in the division. Freiburg is Germany's most committed cycling city and the stadium was built on that assumption rather than in spite of it. A tram extension, S-Bahn connection and bus interchange serve the site directly from the Hauptbahnhof.
Inside, it is a compact four-stand bowl with no interior roof supports and no restricted views. Seats at the Europa-Park Stadion sit close to the pitch on all four sides, and the south terrace faces the main stand across a playing surface that is nearer the crowd than the capacity would suggest. On a clear day the upper tiers give you the Black Forest along one horizon and the Kaiserstuhl along the other.
Away supporters occupy blocks N5 to N7 and N15 to N17 in the north stand, sharing that side with the home standing sections in N1 and N2. The club reduces the away allocation and converts it to home seating for lower-demand fixtures, which is a practical arrangement in a ground that is short of places. If you want to see how the sectors relate before choosing, the Europa-Park Stadion seating plan maps the four stands and the standing areas.
One naming note that catches people out. In UEFA competitions the ground is called Stadion am Wolfswinkel, because sponsor names are not permitted, so a European ticket or a travel itinerary may refer to a stadium you cannot find on a map of Freiburg. It is the same building.
The area around the ground is airport and light industry rather than a neighbourhood, so pre-match hours belong to the Altstadt. Freiburg has one of the most intact old towns in Germany, a cathedral that took three centuries to build, the Bächle water channels running through the streets and a drinking culture built on Baden wine. Eat and drink in the centre, then take the tram out. The walk is not sensible and nobody local attempts it.
Hospitality at Freiburg is modest and unpretentious, which matches everything else about the club. There are roughly 2,000 business places concentrated on the west side, of which 200 sit across twenty boxes in blocks W4, W5 and W13 to W16, and the packages are built around catering and a warm room rather than around spectacle.
The case for it is stronger here than at most grounds for one practical reason. Freiburg sits at the foot of the Black Forest and a February evening fixture is genuinely cold, with an open concourse and a queue for everything. For a Saturday afternoon in September the terrace at a fifth of the price is the better purchase and no local would tell you otherwise.
| Package | What It Includes | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| Business seat | Padded west stand seat on the halfway line, lounge access before and after the match, catering and a dedicated entrance. | £180 – £300 per person |
| Business seat with parking | The above with a reserved space at the ground, which removes the tram from the day entirely. | £220 – £350 per person |
| Box place | A seat within one of the twenty private boxes, with in-box service, catering and a viewing area over the west stand. | £300 – £500 per person |
| Full box hire | Exclusive use of a box for a group, catering arranged to the party's requirements and parking included. | Quoted per fixture and party size |
| Lounge package | Lounge entry with a seated ticket, buffet and bar, at a lower entry point than the business seat tiers. | £140 – £220 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 habit that matters is reading the listing notes in full, because that is where the delivery method, any name-binding and any collection requirement are actually set out.
Step1
Open the fixture you want
Use the home and away lists at the bottom of this page to reach the exact match. Each fixture has its own page with its own listings, so you are looking at supply for that date rather than for the club generally.
Step2
Have your account ready first
You can create an account before or during checkout. Setting it up in advance matters more at this ground than most, because good listings for Freiburg fixtures do not sit around waiting.
Step3
Decide standing or seated early
This shapes everything else. The south terrace is unreserved and unmatched for atmosphere but hard to find. The north standing blocks are the realistic alternative, and a seat in the east stand is the reliable option if you need certainty.
Step4
Filter by quantity before price
If you need three or four places together, set that filter first. Sorting by price and then finding the listing holds two is the commonest wasted step, and split places in a compact bowl can still end up on opposite sides.
Step5
Read the listing notes properly
The notes state the delivery method, the expected timing, whether the ticket carries a name and any restriction on the place. Two listings at the same price can behave completely differently on the day because of what is written there.
Step6
Judge listings on the checkout total
The final figure includes any service and delivery charges, so compare 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
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.
From there the work is logistical. Check whether your ticket covers regional transport on the day, decide how early to arrive if you have a standing place and plan the return around the possibility of a delayed exit after a big fixture.
SC Freiburg tickets are harder to obtain across the board than the club's size suggests, but some categories still clear faster than others. The table below sets out which and why.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| Conference League nights, if qualified | European football at this ground is conditional on winning a qualification play-off, which makes the dates uncertain until late August. If they happen, a support that has just watched a European final will absorb the allocation immediately. |
| Bayern Munich | The guaranteed full house, with the added local weight of the 5-1 win in 1995 that is still discussed in the city. Demand comfortably exceeds a 34,700-capacity ground. |
| VfB Stuttgart | The Baden-Württemberg derby, treated as one by both sets of supporters regardless of the 200 kilometres between the cities. The away allocation goes without effort and home demand peaks alongside it. |
| Borussia Dortmund and Schalke | Two of the largest travelling supports in Germany visiting one of the smaller grounds. Schalke's return after three seasons away adds novelty to an allocation that was never going to be sufficient. |
| South stand standing places | Eight thousand terrace places at the lowest prices in the ground, almost entirely held by season card holders. These rarely reach general sale for any fixture, which is why the north standing blocks matter. |
German clubs have moved almost entirely to digital delivery and Freiburg are no exception, but 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 explaining yourself.
Gates open two hours before kick-off for Bundesliga fixtures. If you have a standing place this is not optional advice, because both terraces are unreserved and the positions with a clear view and room to move go to whoever walks in first. The south stand fills from the front and the singing sections are established well before kick-off rather than at it.
There is a practical reason too. The tram and bus interchange serving the ground runs at capacity in the final half hour, and the queue for it after a sell-out is longer than the ride into the city. Arriving early and leaving late are both easier than the alternative.
Standard Bundesliga fixtures do not require photographic identification. European matches and any designated high-risk fixture can attract additional conditions, and name-bound tickets exist for certain categories, in which case the listing states the requirement and you should carry the document named on it.
Mobile entry is the default. Add the pass to your wallet before you leave rather than at the gate, keep the phone charged and take a screenshot as insurance. If you are arriving as a group, agree a meeting point on the concourse inside, because the approach paths from the tram stop get crowded quickly.
Bags larger than A4 format are refused and the rule is applied at the outer perimeter rather than at the turnstile, so arriving with a rucksack means walking back toward the tram stop to find somewhere to leave it. Storage at the ground is limited and the airport-side location offers no convenient alternative.
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 | Sport-Club Freiburg e.V. |
| Founded | 30 May 1904 |
| Nicknames | Breisgau-Brasilianer (The Breisgau Brazilians), SCF |
| Stadium | Europa-Park Stadion, capacity 34,700 including 12,400 standing places |
| UEFA stadium name | Stadion am Wolfswinkel |
| Head coach | Julian Schuster, appointed March 2024 |
| Captain | Christian Günter, with Vincenzo Grifo as vice-captain |
| League | Bundesliga |
Freiburg's entire modern history rests on a decision most clubs are incapable of making, which is to appoint a coach and then leave him alone. Volker Finke managed the club for sixteen years and Christian Streich for twelve and a half, and between them they cover twenty-nine of the thirty-three years from 1991 to 2024. Nothing else about this club makes sense without that fact.
For nearly nine decades Freiburg were a regional club in a university city that had other interests. The Dreisamstadion held around 24,000 at its peak and was rarely close to it, the Bundesliga began in 1963 without any suggestion that this club belonged in it and the second division was the ceiling rather than a staging post. Joachim Löw played here in the 1980s and left as the club's record scorer, which tells you both that Freiburg produced footballers and that not many of them stayed.
Finke arrived in 1991 at a second-division club with no money and stayed until 2007, which remains a record nobody in German professional football has approached. He took Freiburg up in 1993 and then, in only their second top-flight season, finished third and were still in the title conversation with two matches to play. The 5-1 defeat of Bayern Munich during that campaign is the result the city has never let go of.
What followed was the yo-yo period that defines this club's reputation as much as the good years do. Relegations in 1997, 2002 and 2005 were each answered with a second-division title and an immediate return, which is a pattern that requires either luck or a functioning institution. Freiburg had the second. The nickname Breisgau-Brasilianer dates from Finke's attacking sides of the 1990s and has outlasted the football that earned it.
Streich took over in December 2011 as an internal promotion, having coached in the club's youth system for years, and stayed twelve and a half seasons across 511 matches. He is the most quoted manager in modern German football, partly for a Baden dialect that requires subtitles in the north and mostly because he answered questions about politics, refugees and climate as readily as questions about full-backs. He cycled to home matches. He was still doing it as the longest-serving manager in the division.
The football matched the personality more often than it did not. Fifth in 2013, a second-division title in 2016 after one season down, then sixth, fifth and fifth again in the 2020s, plus the club's first cup final in 2022, lost to Leipzig on penalties in Berlin. He announced his departure in March 2024 and left at the end of that season, and the club appointed his assistant.
Following a thirteen-year manager is the hardest job in football and Schuster made it look like a formality. Fifth place and European qualification in season one, then a European run in season two that took a club from a city of 235,000 to a continental final. The pattern of continuity held: an internal appointment, a former player, a coach who had worked under his predecessor.
The run itself deserves the detail. Freiburg finished seventh in the Europa League league phase on 17 points from eight matches, which put them straight into the round of 16 without a play-off. Genk took the first leg 1-0 in Belgium before Freiburg won the return 5-1. Celta Vigo were beaten 3-0 at home and 3-1 away for a 6-1 aggregate. Braga won the semi-final first leg 2-1 in Portugal with a 92nd-minute goal, and Freiburg overturned it 3-1 at home to go through 4-3. Istanbul was a step too far, and 3-0 to Aston Villa was a fair reflection of the evening, but the four rounds before it were not.
Freiburg's list of significant figures is short on superstars and long on people who stayed. That is not an accident of a small budget but the model, and the players below between them account for a large share of the club's entire modern history.
| Legend | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volker Finke | Head coach, 1991 to 2007 | Took a second-division club with no resources into the Bundesliga in 1993 and to third place two years later, then rebuilt it twice more after relegations. His sixteen years remain the longest tenure of any coach in German professional football, and the attacking football of his 1990s sides earned the club a nickname it still carries. | Sixteen years, three promotions, third place in 1994/95 |
| Christian Streich | Head coach, 2011 to 2024 | Promoted from the youth setup with the club in relegation trouble and stayed 511 matches, longer than any other manager in the division. Delivered a second-division title, three top-six finishes and the club's first cup final, and became the most quoted figure in German football while cycling to home games. | 511 matches, German Manager of the Year 2022, DFB-Pokal final 2022 |
| Christian Günter | Left-back, from 2012 | Came through the academy, has played his entire senior career here and captained the side through the cup final, three top-five finishes and the run to Istanbul. Passed 300 appearances and holds the club record, having turned down moves in favour of staying. | Club record appearance holder, captain since 2019 |
| Vincenzo Grifo | Winger, 2015 to 2017 and from 2019 | Left for Gladbach and Hoffenheim, failed to settle at either and came back. Overtook Nils Petersen as the club's all-time leading Bundesliga scorer on 20 December 2025, converting a penalty in a 4-3 win over Wolfsburg for his 70th, then took the vice-captaincy. | Club record Bundesliga goalscorer, 70 goals and counting |
| Nils Petersen | Forward, 2015 to 2022 | The record scorer before Grifo with 69 goals, as well as the most prolific substitute in Bundesliga history, a statistic that says as much about how he was used as about how he finished. Stayed seven years at a club that could have sold him at several points. | 69 goals, Bundesliga record substitute goalscorer |
| Joachim Löw | Forward 1978 to 1980 and 1982 to 1985, head coach 1995 to 1997 | Played two spells here in the second division and left as the club's leading scorer, a record that stood for decades. Returned as head coach in the mid-1990s before a career that took him to a World Cup with Germany in 2014. | Former club record scorer, later a World Cup winning coach |
| Matthias Ginter | Defender, 2012 to 2014 and from 2022 | Came through the academy, left for Dortmund and Gladbach, won a World Cup medal in 2014 and came back a decade later. Anchored the defence through the European run and scored in the round of 16 second leg against Genk. | Two spells, World Cup winner in 2014, key figure in the 2026 run |
Freiburg have never won a major senior trophy and this page will not dress up the second-division titles as something they are not. What the club has instead is two runners-up medals in the past four years, a third-place Bundesliga finish, four promotions won as champions and a record of institutional stability that no comparable club in Germany can match.
| Competition | Titles |
|---|---|
| Bundesliga | 0 (best finish: third, 1994/95) |
| DFB-Pokal | 0 (runners-up 2021/22) |
| UEFA Europa League | 0 (runners-up 2025/26) |
| 2. Bundesliga | 4 (1992/93, 2002/03, 2008/09, 2015/16) |
| Amateurliga Südbaden | 3 (1965, 1968, 1978) |
| Regionalliga Südwest (reserves) | 1 (2020/21) |
| Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (reserves) | 2 (2008, 2017) |
The four second-division titles are worth reading properly rather than dismissing. Each one followed a relegation, and each produced an immediate return. A club that goes down and comes straight back four separate times across three decades is not lucky. It is well run.
Freiburg have the thinnest rivalry portfolio of any established Bundesliga club, and that is a genuine finding rather than a gap in the research. Geographic isolation, a support with a reputation for good behaviour and a club nobody has a historical grievance against all combine to produce a fixture list with more respect than hostility in it. The exceptions are real but few.
The Baden-Württemberg derby, and also the subject of a long-running local argument about whether 200 kilometres of motorway can produce a derby at all. Stuttgart supporters have historically been dismissive of the idea, Freiburg supporters have not, and the atmosphere at recent meetings has settled the question in favour of the smaller club. Stuttgart are the larger institution with a German championship and a far bigger ground, which gives the fixture the asymmetry that most good rivalries need. Both allocations fill and the game usually delivers.
The Baden derby proper, the one with actual history behind it. Karlsruhe sit 130 kilometres north in the same historic region, both clubs claim to represent Baden football and the meetings in the 1990s when both were in the Bundesliga were considerably more heated than anything Freiburg play now. The clubs have spent most of the past two decades in different divisions, which has preserved the rivalry in amber rather than diluting it, and a cup draw between them is the fixture Freiburg supporters most want to see.
Not a rivalry, but the fixture with the longest memory at this ground. On 8 April 1995 Freiburg beat Bayern 5-1 at the Dreisamstadion in the season they finished third, a result that a club of this size gets to enjoy roughly once a generation. It is referenced in the city constantly and it gives an otherwise routine annual visit from the champions a weight that the scoreline in most recent meetings does not justify.
The 2026 Europa League final is the largest match in the club's history and it ended 3-0. Freiburg reached Istanbul having beaten three sides across three countries and met a Villa team that was sharper on the night in every phase. There is no revisionism to apply: the better side won and won clearly. What the occasion gave this club was a first European final in 122 years of existence, played in front of a support that had travelled from a city smaller than Villa's stadium catchment.
The semi-final is the tie Freiburg supporters will describe first. Braga won the first leg 2-1 in Portugal with a goal in the 92nd minute, which turned a manageable deficit into a psychological one, and Freiburg then won the second leg 3-1 at home on 7 May to go through 4-3 on aggregate. Kübler and Manzambi scored on a night that put a Bundesliga club with no major trophy into a European final. It is the finest evening the Europa-Park Stadion has staged and it is unlikely to be beaten soon.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Sixth on 55 points in the first season at the Europa-Park Stadion, plus the club's first DFB-Pokal final. Freiburg drew 1-1 with RB Leipzig in Berlin on 21 May and lost the shoot-out, missing a first major trophy by a handful of penalties. Sixth place brought Europa League qualification and Streich was named German Manager of the Year. |
| 2022/23 | Fifth on 59 points, the club's highest points total in the Bundesliga, alongside a Europa League campaign that reached the round of 16. Juventus ended it, winning 1-0 in Turin and 2-0 in Freiburg for a 3-0 aggregate. The league form was the story: a top-five finish achieved with the smallest wage bill in the upper half of the division. |
| 2023/24 | Tenth on 42 points in Christian Streich's final season, announced in March 2024 and played out to a proper farewell. The Europa League run again reached the round of 16, where West Ham progressed despite Freiburg winning the home leg 1-0. A flat league campaign, and nobody in the city minded much given what the season represented. |
| 2024/25 | Fifth on 55 points in Julian Schuster's first season, which is not what most clubs get after replacing a thirteen-year manager with his assistant. European qualification was secured with games to spare and the squad barely changed, which was the point. Vincenzo Grifo and Christian Günter anchored a side that looked exactly like the one before it. |
| 2025/26 | Seventh on 47 points domestically and runners-up in the Europa League. Freiburg took 17 points from eight league phase matches to finish seventh and go straight to the round of 16, then eliminated Genk 5-2, Celta Vigo 6-1 and Braga 4-3 before losing the final 3-0 to Aston Villa in Istanbul on 20 May. The DFB-Pokal reached a quarter-final and Grifo broke the club's Bundesliga scoring record in December. |
Schuster begins his third season with the group that reached Istanbul largely intact, which is unusual for a club this size after a European final and says something about how Freiburg operate. Christian Günter captains from left-back into a fifteenth season, Vincenzo Grifo is vice-captain and record scorer while Matthias Ginter anchors a defence that conceded fewer than most sides above them. Values below are approximate market valuations converted to pounds and shift with form, age and contract length.
| No. | Player | Position | Value (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mio Backhaus | Goalkeeper | 6.0m |
| 3 | Philipp Lienhart | Defender | 6.0m |
| 5 | Anthony Jung | Defender | 1.2m |
| 6 | Patrick Osterhage | Midfielder | 7.0m |
| 7 | Derry Scherhant | Forward | 5.5m |
| 8 | Maximilian Eggestein | Midfielder | 7.5m |
| 9 | Lucas Höler | Forward | 2.5m |
| 14 | Yuito Suzuki | Midfielder | 8.0m |
| 16 | Yannik Engelhardt | Midfielder | 5.0m |
| 17 | Lukas Kübler | Defender | 1.0m |
| 19 | Niklas Beste | Midfielder | 4.0m |
| 20 | Rihito Yamamoto | Midfielder | 3.5m |
| 21 | Florian Müller | Goalkeeper | 2.5m |
| 22 | Cyriaque Irié | Forward | 9.0m |
| 23 | Florent Muslija | Midfielder | 4.5m |
| 27 | Berkay Yılmaz | Defender | 2.0m |
| 28 | Matthias Ginter | Defender | 3.0m |
| 29 | Philipp Treu | Defender | 4.5m |
| 30 | Christian Günter (captain) | Defender | 2.0m |
| 31 | Igor Matanović | Forward | 6.5m |
| 32 | Vincenzo Grifo (vice-captain) | Midfielder | 4.0m |
| 37 | Max Rosenfelder | Defender | 3.0m |
| 42 | Keisuke Gotō | Forward | 5.0m |
Market values are approximate, drawn from public valuation data and rounded. They indicate squad structure rather than transfer fees paid or received.
Not automatically. Losing the Europa League final brought no qualification, and seventh place on 47 points put the club into the Conference League qualification play-off round. European home fixtures depend on winning that tie, so treat those dates as conditional until it is settled.
Season card renewal rates are near the top of the division and the waiting list has been long for years, so only a small share of each 34,700-capacity fixture reaches general sale. The move to a larger ground in 2021 added ten thousand places and the queue absorbed most of them within a season.
Visiting supporters occupy blocks N5 to N7 and N15 to N17 in the north stand, across the lower and upper tiers. The club reduces that allocation and converts it to home seating for lower-demand fixtures, so the exact size varies by opponent.
Yes, it is the same building. UEFA competition rules prohibit sponsor names, so European tickets, travel documents and broadcast graphics use Stadion am Wolfswinkel instead of the commercial name. Anyone searching a map of Freiburg for it will find the ground in the Brühl district by the airport.
A tram extension, S-Bahn connection and bus interchange all serve the stadium directly from the city centre, and the site was built around public transport rather than parking. There are 3,700 bicycle spaces against 2,100 for cars and buses, which tells you how most locals arrive.
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Sources: SC Freiburg official club website (scfreiburg.com) for stadium plan, block numbering, away sector detail and ticket information, the Deutsche Fußball Liga and Bundesliga.
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