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Power-ranking history

Hover a season for its rank and score
Rank (1 = best)1561Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.094/9599/0004/0509/1014/1519/2024/25

Against expectation

Every German top-flight match this club has played in the Bundesliga, scored against the odds an Elo rating gave it before kick-off. Over 25 seasons from 1993-94 to 2024-25 it has beaten them by +7.1 match points.

SC Freiburg: surplus against expectation, 1993-94 to 2024-251993-94: −1.7 league points vs expected (28 on 29.7, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.8 match points1994-95: +12.2 league points vs expected (46 on 33.8, 2 for a win) · bar height +6.1 match points1995-96: −4.1 league points vs expected (42 on 46.1, 3 for a win) · bar height −1.6 match points1996-97: −9.9 league points vs expected (29 on 38.9, 3 for a win) · bar height −4.2 match points1998-99: −1.4 league points vs expected (39 on 40.4, 3 for a win) · bar height −0.5 match points1999-00: +0.6 league points vs expected (40 on 39.4, 3 for a win) · bar height +0.3 match points2000-01: +12.3 league points vs expected (55 on 42.6, 3 for a win) · bar height +4.2 match points2001-02: −14.7 league points vs expected (30 on 44.7, 3 for a win) · bar height −4.9 match points2003-04: −0.9 league points vs expected (38 on 38.9, 3 for a win) · bar height −0.4 match points2004-05: −15.7 league points vs expected (18 on 33.6, 3 for a win) · bar height −5.1 match points2009-10: +1.0 league points vs expected (35 on 34.0, 3 for a win) · bar height +0.3 match points2010-11: +6.7 league points vs expected (44 on 37.4, 3 for a win) · bar height +1.5 match points2011-12: +3.9 league points vs expected (40 on 36.1, 3 for a win) · bar height +1.6 match points2012-13: +8.1 league points vs expected (51 on 42.9, 3 for a win) · bar height +2.8 match points2013-14: −5.5 league points vs expected (36 on 41.5, 3 for a win) · bar height −1.7 match points2014-15: −6.5 league points vs expected (34 on 40.5, 3 for a win) · bar height −1.4 match points2016-17: +7.6 league points vs expected (48 on 40.4, 3 for a win) · bar height +2.1 match points2017-18: −3.6 league points vs expected (36 on 39.6, 3 for a win) · bar height −0.6 match points2018-19: −2.3 league points vs expected (36 on 38.3, 3 for a win) · bar height −0.1 match points2019-20: +8.1 league points vs expected (48 on 39.9, 3 for a win) · bar height +2.8 match points2020-21: +2.2 league points vs expected (45 on 42.8, 3 for a win) · bar height +0.9 match points2021-22: +8.3 league points vs expected (55 on 46.7, 3 for a win) · bar height +3.0 match points2022-23: +7.8 league points vs expected (59 on 51.2, 3 for a win) · bar height +2.5 match points2023-24: −7.3 league points vs expected (42 on 49.4, 3 for a win) · bar height −2.3 match points2024-25: +9.2 league points vs expected (55 on 45.8, 3 for a win) · bar height +2.8 match points
1993-94one bar per season · height in match points · hover for that season2024-25
Best season against expectation
2000-01 +12.3 league pts
55 points on 42.6 expected as SC Freiburg
Worst season against expectation
2004-05 15.7 league pts
18 points on 33.6 expected as SC Freiburg

Season points use that season’s own scoring, two for a win before 1995-96 and three from it; the bars use match points so the whole series is comparable.

Freiburg against expectation →How this is measured →

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€240m
SC Freiburg: squad value by month, 2012-07 to 2026-06012925912-1314-1516-1718-1920-2122-2324-25
Peak
€240m in May 2026 · 26 players valued
Most recent
€240m in Jun 2026 · 26 players valued

Freiburgon 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+€69m
Spent
€193m
48 arrivals with a fee
Received
€263m
40 departures with a fee
Net
+€69m
130 moves with no fee
Appreciation
+€267m
14 seasons with a priced squad

Grown or bought: in 2026-27, trading −€3m and appreciation . Over the last 5 seasons (2022-232026-27), trading +€23m and appreciation unpriced.

The director’s ledger: 39 arrivals graded since 2022-23, 82% EV-positive. €107m deployed for a 1.7× multiplier.

2026-27 spent €29m received €26mto 6 July 2026
in: Mio Backhaus €12m
unpriced
2025-26 spent €33m received €29m
in: Yuito Suzuki €10m
+€61m
squad gain
2024-25 spent €19m received €12m
in: Niklas Beste €8m
−€6m
squad gain
2023-24 spent €9m received €42m
in: Junior Adamu €6m
+€38m
squad gain
2022-23 spent €18m received €22m
in: Ritsu Doan €10m
+€16m
squad gain
2021-22 spent €10m received €15m
in: Maximilian Eggestein €5m
+€25m
squad gain
2020-21 spent €14m received €36m
in: Baptiste Santamaria €10m
+€28m
squad gain
2019-20 spent €11m received €5m
in: Vincenzo Grifo €7m
−€4m
squad gain
Show all 15 seasons
2018-19 spent €17m received €22m
in: Luca Waldschmidt €5m
+€22m
squad gain
2017-18 spent €10m received €27m
in: Pascal Stenzel €4m
+€36m
squad gain
2016-17 spent €15m received €4m
in: Çağlar Söyüncü €8m
+€27m
squad gain
2015-16 spent €1m received €7m
in: Vincenzo Grifo €1m
+€4m
squad gain
2014-15 spent €6m received €16m
in: Roman Bürki €2m
−€6m
squad gain
2013-14 spent €4m received
in: Vladimír Darida €4m
+€8m
squad gain
2012-13 spent €1m received
in: Vegar Hedenstad €1m
+€19m
squad gain

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

SC Freiburg'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
12023-04-04DFB-Pokal · QuarterfinalsAW 2-1 v Bayern Munichgame score 71.3
22022-05-21DFB-Pokal · FinalND 1-1 v RB Leipzig(pens 4 / 2)game score 68.7
32013-02-26DFB-Pokal · QuarterfinalsAW 3-2 v Mainz 05game score 63.2
42013-04-16DFB-Pokal · SemifinalsAL 1-2 v VfB Stuttgartgame score 61.6
52023-12-01Europa League · Group Stage · 2nd leg, agg 3-2AW 2-0 v West Ham Unitedgame score 61.0
62026-04-30Europa League · Semi Finals · 1st legAL 1-2 v Sporting Bragagame score 59.9
72000-11-29DFB-Pokal · Round of 16HW 3-2 v Bayer Leverkusengame score 59.9
82024-02-22Europa League · Knockout round play-offs · 2nd leg, agg 2-3HL 2-3 v RC Lensgame score 58.0
92026-04-16Europa League · Quarter Finals · 2nd leg, agg 4-3AL 1-3 v Celta de Vigogame score 57.7
101996-05-11BundesligaHW 2-1 v Bayer Leverkusengame score 57.7

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
26
First season
1994
Most recent season
2026
RivalriesBadener Derbyvs Karlsruher SCtwo-way

The Heartbreak Index9.8 · #184

The Tortured · Never won it, waiting since 1994

9.8
Heartbreak
#184
of 1,139 clubs
#101
in Football
9.8
agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 199411.3
Heaviest wounds

lost the national cup final, 2022 · relegated from the top flight, 2015 · lost the Europa League final, 2026 · relegated from the top flight, 2002

One formula, every club the site covers. See the whole board →

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.

2027
Bundesliga (1) · P1● live
3 P · 3-0-0 · 10:1 · +9
9
pts
2026
Bundesliga (1) · P7
34 P · 13-8-13 · 51:57 · -6
47
pts
ELEUCL
2025
Bundesliga (1) · P5
34 P · 16-7-11 · 49:53 · -4
55
pts
EL
2024
Bundesliga (1) · P10
34 P · 11-9-14 · 45:58 · -13
42
pts
EL
2023
Bundesliga (1) · P5
34 P · 17-8-9 · 51:44 · +7
59
pts
ELEL
2022
Bundesliga (1) · P6
34 P · 15-10-9 · 58:46 · +12
55
pts
PokalEL
2021
Bundesliga (1) · P10
34 P · 12-9-13 · 52:52 · 0
45
pts
2020
Bundesliga (1) · P8
34 P · 13-9-12 · 48:47 · +1
48
pts
2019
Bundesliga (1) · P13
34 P · 8-12-14 · 46:61 · -15
36
pts
2018
Bundesliga (1) · P15
34 P · 8-12-14 · 32:56 · -24
36
pts
EL
2017
Bundesliga (1) · P7
34 P · 14-6-14 · 42:60 · -18
48
pts
EL
2015
Bundesliga (1) · P17
34 P · 7-13-14 · 36:47 · -11
34
pts
Show all 27 seasons
2014
Bundesliga (1) · P14
34 P · 9-9-16 · 43:61 · -18
36
pts
EL
2013
Bundesliga (1) · P5
34 P · 14-9-11 · 45:40 · +5
51
pts
EL
2012
Bundesliga (1) · P12
34 P · 10-10-14 · 45:61 · -16
40
pts
2011
Bundesliga (1) · P9
34 P · 13-5-16 · 41:50 · -9
44
pts
2010
Bundesliga (1) · P14
34 P · 9-8-17 · 35:59 · -24
35
pts
2005
Bundesliga (1) · P18
34 P · 3-9-22 · 30:75 · -45
18
pts
2004
Bundesliga (1) · P14
34 P · 10-8-16 · 42:67 · -25
38
pts
2002
Bundesliga (1) · P16
34 P · 7-9-18 · 37:64 · -27
30
pts
UC
2001
Bundesliga (1) · P6
34 P · 15-10-9 · 54:37 · +17
55
pts
UC
2000
Bundesliga (1) · P12
34 P · 10-10-14 · 45:50 · -5
40
pts
1999
Bundesliga (1) · P11
34 P · 10-9-15 · 36:44 · -8
39
pts
1997
Bundesliga (1) · P17
34 P · 8-5-21 · 43:67 · -24
29
pts
1996
Bundesliga (1) · P11
34 P · 11-9-14 · 30:41 · -11
42
pts
UC
1995
Bundesliga (1) · P3
34 P · 20-6-8 · 66:44 · +22
46
pts
UC
1994
Bundesliga (1) · P15
34 P · 10-8-16 · 54:57 · -3
28
pts
Domestic Cup Finals

Most recent first. Every domestic cup final the club has played, including losses. Scheduled finals (date not yet passed) are flagged.

2022
DFB-Pokal
Runner-up
European competition appearances

Most recent first. One row per entry showing the deepest round reached. A Cup Winner badge marks tournaments the club won: gold for the European Cup / Champions League, silver for every other UEFA or Intercontinental trophy.

2025-26
Europa League(EL)
Final
2023-24
Europa League(EL)
Round of 16
2022-23
Europa League(EL)
Round of 16
2017-18
Europa League(EL)
Qualifying
2013-14
Europa League(EL)
Round of 32 / qualifying
2001-02
UEFA Cup(UC)
Group stage
1995-96
UEFA Cup(UC)
Round of 32 / qualifying