RB Leipzig’s 2023 in numbers: 50 games, 32 wins and 104 goals

2023: Check! 

Exactly 333 days have passed between our first game of 2023 against FC Bayern and our last match of the calendar year against Werder Bremen. 

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A lot has happened in that time and we’ve gathered some of the best RBL stats to look back on 2023. 

Summary – Part 1:

RB Leipzig played 50 games in four different competitions this year (Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, Champions League, Supercup). 

2023 overall:

• 50 games
• 32 wins
• 6 draws
• 12 defeats
• 104 goals scored, 60 conceded

Games by competition:

• Bundesliga: 
  35 games
   
• DFB-Pokal: 
  6 games
   
• Super Cup: 
  1 game
   
• UEFA Champions League: 
  8 games

Summary – Part 2:

RBL ran out as winners in 32 of their 50 competitive games this year. In the other 18, they drew on six occasions and lost 12 times. Winning our second-ever DFB-Pokalon 3rd June was the pick of the bunch, as we defeated Eintracht Frankfurt2-0 to go back-to-back! 

Between 29th April and 19th August, RB Leipzig were victorious for eight games on the trot – our longest winning run of the year! We had also won 13 DFB-Pokal games in a row before our run came to an end with the 1-0 defeat against VfL Wolfsburg in this year’s second round. 

Wins by competition:

• Bundesliga: 
  22wins
   
• DFB-Pokal: 
  5 wins
   
• Super Cup: 
  1 win
   
• UEFA Champions League: 
  4 wins

Summary – Part 3:

Our boys scored a total of 104 goals in 2023. Our biggest win was the 6-0 home victory over 1. FC Köln at the end of October, though we also scored six goals in our 6-1 rout of FC Schalke last season. RBL won 5-1 twice, once in August’s Bundesliga fixture against VfB Stuttgartand once in last season’s DFB-Pokal semi-final in Freiburg. 

Goals by competition:

• Bundesliga: 
  72 goals
   
• DFB-Pokal: 
  15 goals
   
• Super Cup: 
  3 goals
   
• UEFA Champions League: 
  14 goals
   

Making the Red Bull Arena a fortress:

Stadium announcer Tim Thoelke announced RBL’s starting XI 24 times at the Red Bull Arena, where we won 17 games and scored 55 goals in 2023.  

RBL’s top performers in 2023:

Most games:

• Janis Blaswich: 
  45 games
   
• Benjamin Henrichs, Emil Forsberg: 
  Both 44 games
   
• Mohamed Simakan: 
  42 games

Most goals:

• Lois Openda: 
  15 goals
   
• Timo Werner, Emil Forsberg: 
  Both 9 goals
   
• Dominik Szoboszlai: 
  8 goals

Most assists:

• Xavi: 
  9 assists
   
• Dani Olmo, Benjamin Henrichs:  
  both 8 assists
   
• David Raum: 
  7 assists

Most goal involvements:

• Lois Openda: 
  19 (15 goals, 4 assists)
   
• Xavi: 
  15 (6 goals, 9 assists)
   
• Timo Werner, Emil Forsberg:  
  Both 12(9 goals, 3 assists)

Kane, Guirassy, Haaland, Openda

• Summer signing Lois Openda is currently third in the race for the Bundesliga golden boot. Only Harry Kane (21, FC Bayern) and Serhou Guirassy (17, VfB Stuttgart) have scored more than our number 17 so far this campaign (11). 
   
• The Belgian has also found success in the Champions League. “Bouzou” has scored four goals in Europe’s premier club competition, which puts him one behind Alvaro Morata, Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid), Erling Haaland (Manchester City) and Rasmus Hojlund (Manchester United). 

Farewell to a Leipzig legend

• 19:54:52 on 19th December is a moment that will go down in Leipzig history. Emil Forsberg came off in the 63 minute of our Bundesliga match against Werder Bremen and brought his nine-year spell at RB Leipzig to a close. 

  Since 2015, Emil has played in 325 competitive games for RBL, scoring 71 goals. He has been with Leipzig from the 2. Bundesliga to the Champions League and has celebrated two DFB-Pokal titles with the club. The RBL icon will move to the USA to play for New York Red Bulls in January 2024. 

  Even though his new home is in the Big Apple, there will always be a part of him at Cottaweg. Once a Red Bull, always a Red Bull, Emil! 

Back to Back: Strong start to 2023/24 after impressive end to 22/23 

• After a strong finish to the previous season meant that RBL finished in third place in the Bundesliga and a squad overhaul in the summer, we won seven of our first nine competitive games in 2023/24. 

  Leipzig head into 2024 as the fouth-placed side in the Bundesliga, UCL contenders (we face Real Madrid in the round of 16) and on a five-game unbeaten run. 

  We kick things off again after the winter break when we welcome Eintracht Frankfurt to the Red Bull Arena on 13th January.