SC Freiburg
Also written as Freiburg.
The club
Sport-Club Freiburg e.V. were founded on 30 May 1904 in Freiburg im Breisgau, in Baden-Württemberg in the south-western corner of Germany. The club plays in red and white and is nicknamed the Breisgau-Brasilianer, the Breisgau Brazilians. They compete in the Bundesliga, having come up as 2. Bundesliga champions in 2016 and stayed up since.
The ground is the Europa-Park Stadion, which opened in October 2021 and holds 34,700. It replaced the Dreisamstadion, the club's home from the 1950s until 2021, which held about 24,000. The board is led by Oliver Leki, responsible for finance, organisation and marketing, and Jochen Saier as sporting chief executive.
The head coach is Julian Schuster, who took charge on 22 March 2024 and led the club to the 2026 UEFA Europa League final. Schuster's predecessor was not established from the sources read here.
Confusion warning: these are SC Freiburg, the Bundesliga club at the Europa-Park Stadion. They are not Freiburger FC, the separate and much older club from the same city. Any reference in this corpus to Freiburg means Sport-Club Freiburg.
Recent seasons
Freiburg finished sixth in the Bundesliga in 2021/22, fifth in 2022/23, tenth in 2023/24, fifth in 2024/25 and seventh in 2025/26. The seventh place in 2025/26 was the position that sent them into the 2026/27 Conference League play-off round. Points totals for those seasons were not established from the sources read here.
Honours and landmarks
Freiburg have never won the Bundesliga. They have won the 2. Bundesliga four times, in 1992/93, 2002/03, 2008/09 and 2015/16, and the Regionalliga Südwest in 2020/21. Before that came three Amateurliga Südbaden titles, in 1965, 1968 and 1978, and the South Baden Cup in 1975, 1978 and 2001.
They were DFB-Pokal runners-up in 2021/22, and runners-up in the UEFA Europa League in 2025/26. That final was the club's first appearance in a European final and the deepest run in its history.
Notable scorelines
The club's record home win is 5-0, achieved three times: against Hansa Rostock in 1999, VfL Bochum in 2000 and SV Werder Bremen in 2025. The record away win is 6-0 at Borussia Mönchengladbach on 5 December 2021. The heaviest home defeat is 0-6, suffered against Bayern Munich on 16 December 2003 and twice against Werder Bremen, and the heaviest away defeat is 0-7 at Bayern Munich on 10 September 2011.
In European competition the biggest win is 5-0, recorded in 2023 against both TSC and Olympiacos, and the biggest defeat is 0-5 against West Ham United in 2024.
European record
The club's early European appearances were not established in detail from the sources read here. What is established is the 2025/26 Europa League, which was the run of the club's life.
Freiburg finished seventh of thirty-six in the league phase with seventeen points from five wins, two draws and one defeat, scoring ten and conceding only four. That included a 2-1 home win over Basel and a 1-1 draw away to Bologna. Seventh place took them straight into the round of sixteen, where they beat Genk 5-2 on aggregate, losing the first leg 1-0 in Belgium and winning the return 5-1.
The quarter-final against Celta Vigo was won 6-1 on aggregate. Freiburg won the first leg 3-0 at the Europa-Park Stadion on 9 April 2026 through Vincenzo Grifo on ten minutes, Jordy Beste on thirty-two and Matthias Ginter on seventy-eight, in front of 32,600, with Glenn Nyberg of Sweden refereeing. They won the return 3-1 at the Balaídos in Vigo on 16 April, Igor Matanović scoring on thirty-three minutes and Yuito Suzuki twice, on thirty-nine and fifty, with Celta's consolation from Williot Swedberg in the first minute of stoppage time, attendance 21,981, refereed by Anthony Taylor of England.
The semi-final against Braga finished 4-3 to Freiburg. They lost the first leg 2-1 in Portugal on 30 April 2026 and won the second 3-1 on 7 May.
The final was played at the Beşiktaş Stadium in Istanbul on 20 May 2026 and Freiburg lost 3-0 to Aston Villa, beaten by Youri Tielemans on forty-one minutes, Emiliano Buendía in first-half stoppage time and Morgan Rogers on fifty-eight. The attendance was 37,324 and the referee was François Letexier of France. Johan Manzambi of Freiburg was named the tournament's best young player.
Quotes
No directly quoted material was confirmed from the sources read here.
Right now (2026/27)
Julian Schuster is still the head coach. Freiburg entered the 2026/27 Conference League at the play-off round, in the Main Path, as the seventh-placed Bundesliga club of the previous season.
They were drawn against Motherwell and won the first leg 3-1 at Fir Park on 20 August 2026. Regan Charles-Cook put Motherwell ahead after two minutes; Matthias Ginter equalised on twenty-eight and scored again from the penalty spot on sixty-five, and Keisuke Goto added a third in the sixth minute of stoppage time. The attendance was 8,945 and Radu Petrescu of Romania refereed.
The second leg is at the Europa-Park Stadion on 27 August 2026 and is still to be played. Freiburg lead 3-1 from the first leg. The 2026/27 Bundesliga season had not begun at the time of the second leg; the opening round was scheduled for 28 August 2026, the day after. Freiburg's summer transfer business and their squad for the tie were not established from the sources read here.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SC_Freiburg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%9326_UEFA_Europa_League https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%9326_UEFA_Europa_League_league_phase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%9326_UEFA_Europa_League_knockout_phase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_UEFA_Europa_League_final https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026%E2%80%9327_UEFA_Conference_League_qualifying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026%E2%80%9327_UEFA_Conference_League_qualifying_(third_and_play-off_round_matches) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026%E2%80%9327_Bundesliga https://www.uefa.com/uefaconferenceleague/match/2049251
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