Providing a cutting edge on debut A first competitive game for Borussia, a first brace and...

Head coach Enrico Maaßen named four new signings in the starting eleven for the first competitive game of the season, in the form of goalkeeper Finn Dahmen, Patric Pfeiffer, Tim Breithaupt and Sven Michel. Irvin Cardona was not in the squad and remained in Augsburg due to back problems.

The Bavarians are riding high after what appears to be a newfound Champagne XI pulling off a 2-0 win in the Champions League against PSG. In the league, however, Bayern’s position is far from assured. More dropped points could lead to yielding top spot in the table to Borussia Dortmund, who face hapless bottom-feeding Schalke this week.

With the Nordtribüne full of SC fans creating a great atmosphere chanting “away win”, SC got their first competitive game of the new season underway. As usual this was in the DFB-Pokal, a competition that SC have enjoyed success in in the last two seasons and which Streich described as an “excellent competition.” As expected, SC played with a high line, Matthias Ginter was the furthest player back standing on the halfway line, but Oberachern defended diligently and when they won the ball back they didn’t just play directly forward immediately, but tried to play with the ball on the ground, exactly as Streich predicted. After an error in build-up from SC, it was the fifth-division side that had the first chance, with Maximilian Eggestein just able to prevent a shot (7’). Oberachern played with a lot of courage and didn’t shy away from any challenges.

Finn, pre-season is drawing to a close, the season will finally start up again with the DFB-Pokal tie away to VfB Lübeck on Monday. Are you looking forward to the opening competitive game?

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The away contingent for the match against Feyenoord is sold out.

Anyone wanting to compete with Maximilian Arnold or Alexandra Popp will now have the chance to do so in 2023/24: the prediction game in the VfL Wolfsburg app, presented by our partner Beck’s, will be called ‘Captain’s Challenge’. This means that participating VfL fans will not only be competing against each other, but also against the captains of the Green-and-Whites’ men’s and women’s teams. Supporters predicting the men’s Bundesliga results will go up against the She-Wolves’ trio of captains, consisting of Svenja Huth, Dominique Janssen and Popp. And fans predicting women´s matches will compete against Arnold. Users need the VfL app and an online account in order to participate in the prediction game.

Manchester United, Bayern Munich and Arsenal have also been linked, plus there is some hope within the Dortmund hierarchy that the player will stay put.

Club members can purchase up to two tickets via the BVB ticket shop.