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FC Ingolstadt 04

Heartbreak#9220.8

Ingolstadt, Munich · Germany · Bundesliga

Power-ranking history

Hover a season for its rank and score
Rank (1 = best)1261Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.015/1616/17

What the squad was worth

Total market value of the squad, EUR millions, by month; the player count beside it is the size of the priced squad.

How this is measured

Drawn as a step, not a curve: Transfermarkt reprices every squad in December and June (marked with a small tick on the axis) and revalues continuously between, so the line only moves when a real valuation changed, never by interpolation.

A month renders no value at all once the priced squad falls below 15 players, so a thin squad is never shown as a cheap one. The series is floored at July 2012on purpose: earlier Transfermarkt totals reflect which players happened to be priced yet rather than the squad’s real worth, and are excluded rather than shown misleadingly low.

Upstream (dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets) has been paused since July 2026, so the series ends where the source ends rather than where the season does.

Player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

What the squad was worth€7m
FC Ingolstadt 04: squad value by month, 2014-01 to 2022-100224313-1414-1515-1616-1717-1818-1919-2022-23
Peak
€40m in Oct 2016 · 28 players valued
Most recent
€7m in Oct 2022 · 15 players valued

Munichon the rankings →

The money ledger

Fees paid and received each season, and what the squad was worth once the trading is netted out.

How this is measured

Spent is the fees paid for players arriving, received the fees for players leaving, both in EUR millions by the July-to-June season of the move. A move with no fee on record (a free, a loan, an undisclosed sum) is counted, never priced: the small figure beside each total is the moves with a fee, plus those without (so 4+3 is four priced arrivals and three unpriced), and a quiet window is not mistaken for a cheap one. Wages are not here: they are estimates nobody licenses, and fees are documented.

Appreciationis the season’s change in squad value with the net spend taken out: buy 100m of players and finish 100m higher is zero; finish 120m higher and the club made 20m of players better, or the market repriced them. It needs a priced squad at both ends of the season (the same 15-player floor as the value chart), so it is blank rather than guessed for a season that lacks one.

The source has been paused since 6 July 2026, so the final row holds only the opening days of its window.

Transfer fees and player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

The money ledger+€16m
Spent
€12m
12 arrivals with a fee
Received
€28m
13 departures with a fee
Net
+€16m
63 moves with no fee
Appreciation
+€3m
5 seasons with a priced squad

Grown or bought: in 2025-26, trading +€1m and appreciation . Over the last 5 seasons (2021-222025-26), trading +€5m and appreciation unpriced.

The director’s ledger: 9 arrivals graded since 2022-23, 100% EV-positive. €1m deployed for a 2.3× multiplier.

2025-26 spent €0m received €1m
in: Dennis Kaygin €0m
unpriced
2024-25 spent received
5 moves, no fee on record
unpriced
2023-24 spent received €2m
out: Tobias Bech €1m
unpriced
2022-23 spent €1m received €3m
in: Tobias Bech €1m
unpriced
2021-22 spent €0m received
in: Nikola Stevanovic €0m
unpriced
2020-21 spent received
3 moves, no fee on record
unpriced
2019-20 spent received
4 moves, no fee on record
unpriced
2018-19 spent €2m received €16m
in: Benedikt Gimber €1m
+€11m
squad gain
Show all 14 seasons
2017-18 spent €1m received €6m
in: Takahiro Sekine €1m
−€11m
squad gain
2016-17 spent €6m received €1m
in: Marcel Tisserand €4m
−€9m
squad gain
2015-16 spent €1m received
in: Ørjan Nyland €1m
+€4m
squad gain
2014-15 spent €1m received
in: Mathew Leckie €1m
+€8m
squad gain
2013-14 spent received
5 moves, no fee on record
unpriced
2012-13 spent received
3 moves, no fee on record
unpriced

Money against football

Every priced club-season in the six leagues: points against expectation across, squad value gained beyond the net spend up. This club’s seasons are joined.

Tap or drag on the plot: the nearest club-season, its points and its money.

the frontier: no other club-season beat it on both axes · this club, season by season, the largest dot the latest

Every club’s return on the transfer window →

Greatest games

FC Ingolstadt 04's top matches by the club Game Score: closeness, stakes, quality and upset over one unified rating of league and European play.All-time board.

#DateStageResultScore
12017-04-05BundesligaAW 3-2 v FC Augsburggame score 48.4
22016-12-18BundesligaAW 2-1 v Bayer Leverkusengame score 44.1
32017-04-02BundesligaHW 2-1 v Mainz 05game score 43.5
42017-04-09BundesligaHW 3-2 v SV Darmstadtgame score 43.3
52016-04-09BundesligaHW 1-0 v Borussia Mönchengladbachgame score 42.0
62016-04-30BundesligaAL 1-2 v TSG Hoffenheimgame score 40.9
72013-12-04DFB-Pokal · Third RoundAL 1-2 v VfL Wolfsburggame score 40.5
82017-03-17BundesligaAL 0-1 v Borussia Dortmundgame score 40.2
92016-10-25DFB-Pokal · Second RoundAD 0-0 v Eintracht Frankfurt(pens 4 / 1)game score 40.2
102016-03-19BundesligaAL 1-2 v Hertha BSC Berlingame score 39.1

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
2
First season
2016
Most recent season
2017

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Season-by-season

Most recent season first. Covers Bundesliga only. Rows tagged "national playoff" are pre-modern formats where the workbook records only playoff participants, not round-robin standings.

2017
Bundesliga (1) · P17
34 P · 8-8-18 · 36:57 · -21
32
pts
2016
Bundesliga (1) · P11
34 P · 10-10-14 · 33:42 · -9
40
pts