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Holstein Kiel
2020–21 season
President	Steffen Schneekloth
Head coach	Ole Werner
Stadium	Holstein-Stadion
2. Bundesliga	3rd
DFB-Pokal	Semi-finals
Top goalscorer	League: ; Alexander Mühling (12); All: ; Alexander Mühling (13)
Home colours	Away colours
	← 2019–20 2021–22 →

The 2020–21 Holstein Kiel season was the club's 121st season in existence and the club's fourth consecutive season in the second flight of German football. In addition to the domestic league, Holstein Kiel participated in this season's edition of the DFB-Pokal. The season covered the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.

Players

First-team squad

As of 2 February 2021^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	GRE	Ioannis Gelios
2	DF	DEN	Mikkel Kirkeskov
3	DF	GER	Marco Komenda
5	DF	GER	Stefan Thesker
6	MF	GER	Ahmet Arslan
7	MF	KOR	Lee Jae-sung
8	MF	GER	Alexander Mühling
11	FW	GER	Fabian Reese
15	DF	GER	Johannes van den Bergh
19	DF	GER	Simon Lorenz
20	DF	GER	Jannik Dehm
21	GK	GER	Thomas Dähne
22	DF	SRB	Aleksandar Ignjovski


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
23	FW	GER	Janni Serra
24	DF	GER	Hauke Wahl (captain)
25	DF	GER	Phil Neumann
26	MF	GER	Jonas Meffert
27	FW	GER	Finn Porath
28	FW	GER	Noah Awuku
29	MF	GER	Joshua Mees
31	FW	GER	Fin Bartels
32	MF	GER	Jonas Sterner
33	FW	GER	Benjamin Girth
35	GK	GER	Dominik Reimann
36	MF	GER	Niklas Hauptmann (on loan from 1. FC Köln)

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	GHA	David Atanga
—	FW	GER	Makana Baku (at Warta Poznan)
—	FW	GER	Daniel Hanslik (at 1. FC Kaiserslautern)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	GER	Lion Lauberbach
—	MF	GER	Philipp Sander (at SC Verl)
—	GK	GER	Timon Weiner (at 1. FC Magdeburg)

Transfers

In

Date	Pos	Player	From	Fee	Source
15 June 2020	MF	Ahmet Arslan	VfB Lübeck	Free	^[2]
23 June 2020	DF	Simon Lorenz	VfL Bochum	Free	^[3]
26 June 2020	DF	Marco Komenda	SV Meppen	Free	^[4]
30 June 2020	GK	Thomas Dähne	Wisła Płock	Free	^[5]

Loans in

Date from	Pos	Player	From	Date until	Source
1 July 2020	MF	Niklas Hauptmann	1. FC Köln	1 July 2021	^[6]

Out

Date	Pos	Player	To	Fee	Source
24 April 2020	DF	Dominik Schmidt		Released	^[7]
26 June 2020	DF	Seo Young-jae	Daejeon Hana Citizen	Released	^[8]^[9]
29 June 2020	FW	Salih Özcan	1. FC Köln	Loan return	^[10]
29 June 2020	FW	Emmanuel Iyoha	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Loan return	^[11]
29 June 2020	DF	Darko Todorović	Red Bull Salzburg	Loan return	^[12]
29 June 2020	FW	Salim Khelifi	FC Zürich	Loan return	^[13]

Loans out

Date from	Pos	Player	Transferred to	Date until	Source
17 July 2020	GK	Timon Weiner	1. FC Magdeburg	1 July 2022	^[14]

Pre-season and friendlies

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
2. Bundesliga	18 September 2020	23 May 2021	Matchday 1	3rd	34	18	8	8	57	35	+22	052.94
Bundesliga promotion play-offs	26 May 2021	29 May 2021	First leg	Runners-up	2	1	0	1	2	5	−3	050.00
DFB-Pokal	11 September 2020	1 May 2021	First round	Semi-finals	5	2	2	1	13	9	+4	040.00
Total					41	21	10	10	72	49	+23	051.22

Last updated: 29 May 2021
Source: Soccerway

2. Bundesliga

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	VfL Bochum (C, P)	34	21	4	9	66	39	+27	67	Promotion to Bundesliga
2	Greuther Fürth (P)	34	18	10	6	69	44	+25	64	Promotion to Bundesliga
3	Holstein Kiel	34	18	8	8	57	35	+22	62	Qualification for promotion play-offs
4	Hamburger SV	34	16	10	8	71	44	+27	58
5	Fortuna Düsseldorf	34	16	8	10	55	46	+9	56

Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Away goals scored; 8) Play-off.^[15]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	18	8	8	57	35	+22	62	11	2	4	32	19	+13	7	6	4	25	16	+9

Last updated: 23 May 2021.
Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	A	A	A	H	H	H	H	A	H
Result	W	D	W	W	L	D	D	D	W	W	W	W	W	L	D	L	W	D	W	W	W	L	W	D	L	L	W	D	W	W	W	W	L	L
Position	6	7	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3

Updated to match(es) played on 23 May 2021. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 7 August 2020.^[16]

20 September 2020 (2020-09-20) 1	Holstein Kiel	1–0	SC Paderborn	Kiel
13:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Mühling 59'	Report		Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 1,709 Referee: Bastian Dankert

26 September 2020 (2020-09-26) 2	Eintracht Braunschweig	0–0	Holstein Kiel	Braunschweig
13:00 CEST (UTC+2)		Report		Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion Attendance: 3,512 Referee: Martin Thomsen

4 October 2020 (2020-10-04) 3	Holstein Kiel	2–1	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Kiel
13:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Hartherz 16' (o.g.) Mühling 86' (pen.)	Report	Meffert 59' (o.g.)	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 1,973 Referee: Patrick Ittrich

18 October 2020 4	Würzburger Kickers	0–2	Holstein Kiel	Würzburg
13:30 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Serra 22', 75'	Stadium: flyeralarm Arena Attendance: 1,300 Referee: Matthias Jöllenbeck

24 October 2020 (2020-10-24) 5	Holstein Kiel	1–3	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Kiel
13:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Mühling 65'	Report	Seguin 7' Hrgota 28' Nielsen 58'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 2,239 Referee: Timo Gerach

31 October 2020 6	Erzgebirge Aue	1–1	Holstein Kiel	Aue
13:00 CET (UTC+1)	Krüger 2'	Report	Serra 9'	Stadium: Sparkassen-Erzgebirgsstadion Attendance: 500 Referee: Florian Badstübner

9 November 2020 7	Holstein Kiel	1–1	Hamburger SV	Kiel
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Bartels 74' Mees 90+1'	Report	Heyer 43'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Sören Storks

21 November 2020 8	Holstein Kiel	2–2	1. FC Heidenheim	Kiel
13:00 CET (UTC+1)	Wahl 8' Mühling 33' 68' (pen.) Föhrenbach 45' (o.g.) Bartels 56' van den Bergh 90+2'	Report	Kühlwetter 28' 87' (pen.) 90+4'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Arne Aarnink

29 November 2020 9	Hannover 96	0–3	Holstein Kiel	Hanover
13:30 CET (UTC+1)	Başdaş 53' Falette 71' 71'	Report	Reese 53' Mühling 56' (pen.) Kaiser 57' (o.g.) Serra 60'	Stadium: HDI-Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Markus Schmidt

4 December 2020 10	Holstein Kiel	3–1	VfL Bochum	Kiel
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Mühling 31' (pen.) Bartels 64' Lee Jae-sung 65'	Report	Zoller 32' Losilla 90+2'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Robert Schröder

12 December 2020 11	Jahn Regensburg	2–3	Holstein Kiel	Regensburg
13:00 CET (UTC+1)	Vrenezi 17' Stolze 33' Wekesser 45' Nachreiner 55' Elvedi 86' Beste 90+2'	Report	Ignjovski 1' Lee Jae-sung 32' 37' Mühling 34' Bartels 66'	Stadium: Jahnstadion Regensburg Attendance: 0 Referee: Robert Kampka

16 December 2020 12	Holstein Kiel	1–0	1. FC Nürnberg	Kiel
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Bartels 80'			Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Thorben Siewer

20 December 2020 13	SV Sandhausen	0–2	Holstein Kiel	Sandhausen
13:30 CET (UTC+1)	Behrens 49' Contento 80'	Report	Mühling 26' Dehm 70' Serra 81' (pen.)	Stadium: BWT-Stadion am Hardtwald Attendance: 0 Referee: Matthias Jöllenbeck

3 January 2021 14	Holstein Kiel	1–2	VfL Osnabrück	Kiel
13:30 CET (UTC+1)	Thesker 40' Arslan 90+2'	Report	Schmidt 27' Kerk 42'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Harm Osmers

9 January 2021 15	FC St. Pauli	1–1	Holstein Kiel	Hamburg
13:00 CET (UTC+1)	Zalazar 6' Marmoush 52' Dźwigała 67'	Report	Van den Bergh 39' Mees 62'	Stadium: Millerntor-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Frank Willenborg

17 January 2021 16	Holstein Kiel	2–3	Karlsruher SC	Kiel
13:30 CET (UTC+1)	Komenda 12' Porath 34' Serra 60', 77' van den Bergh 87' Hauptmann 89'	Report	Heise 6', 56' Lorenz 19' Thiede 45' Bormuth 85'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Lasse Koslowski

24 January 2021 17	Darmstadt 98	0–2	Holstein Kiel	Darmstadt
13:30 CET (UTC+1)	Rapp 34' Pfeiffer 49' Schnellhardt 78' Dursun 79' Kempe 84'	Report	Höhn 55' (o.g.)	Stadium: Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor Attendance: 0 Referee: Aarne Aarnink

27 January 2021 18	SC Paderborn	1–1	Holstein Kiel	Paderborn
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Führich 2'	Report	Komenda 15'	Stadium: Benteler-Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Patrick Ittrich

30 January 2021 19	Holstein Kiel	3–1	Eintracht Braunschweig	Kiel
13:00 CET (UTC+1)	Reese 4' Bartels 28' Serra 31'	Report	Ben Balla 63'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Tobias Stieler

8 February 2021 20	Fortuna Düsseldorf	0–2	Holstein Kiel	Düsseldorf
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Prib 40' Danso 45'	Report	Mühling 36' (pen.) Lee Jae-sung 47' Dehm 63'	Stadium: Merkur Spiel-Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Sören Storks

12 February 2021 21	Holstein Kiel	1–0	Würzburger Kickers	Kiel
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Mühling 60' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Thorben Siewer

22 February 2021 22	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	2–1	Holstein Kiel	Fürth
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Nielsen 27' Mühling 83' (o.g.)	Report	Mees 4'	Stadium: Sportpark Ronhof Thomas Sommer Attendance: 0 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

27 February 2021 23	Holstein Kiel	1–0	Erzgebirge Aue	Kiel
13:00 CET (UTC+1)	Mühling 81' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Martin Thomsen

8 March 2021 24	Hamburger SV	1–1	Holstein Kiel	Hamburg
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Ambrosius 18' Terodde 23' Gayamerah 25'	Report	Lee Jae-sung 8' Hauptmann 45' Lorenz 61'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Tobias Reichel

3 April 2021 27	VfL Bochum	2–1	Holstein Kiel	Bochum
13:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Zoller 5', 60'	Report	Mühling 81' (pen.)	Stadium: Vonovia-Ruhrstadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Martin Petersen

6 April 2021 25	1. FC Heidenheim	1–0	Holstein Kiel	Heidenheim
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Kleindienst 17'	Report		Stadium: Voith-Arena Attendance: 0 Referee: Michael Bacher

24 April 2021 31	VfL Osnabrück	1–3	Holstein Kiel	Osnabrück
13:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Kerk 53'	Report	Serra 7' Ajdini 23' (o.g.) Bartels 45'	Stadium: Stadion an der Bremer Brücke Attendance: 0 Referee: Benjamin Cortus

27 April 2021 29	1. FC Nürnberg	1–1	Holstein Kiel	Nuremberg
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Borkowski 31'	Report	Serra 67'	Stadium: Max-Morlock-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Sören Storks

4 May 2021 30	Holstein Kiel	2–0	SV Sandhausen	Kiel
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Bartels 22' Serra 69'	Report		Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Tobias Stieler

7 May 2021 32	Holstein Kiel	4–0	FC St. Pauli	Kiel
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Arslan 13', 22' Bartels 24', 49' Lorenz 55' Serra 67'	Report		Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Frank Willenborg

10 May 2021 26	Holstein Kiel	1–0	Hannover 96	Kiel
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Bartels 44'	Report		Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Manuel Gräfe
Note: The match was originally scheduled for 19 March 2021, but was postponed to 14 April 2021, because both teams were quarantined after players tested positive for COVID-19.^[17] It was postponed again because Holstein Kiel was quarantined again after more players tested positive for COVID-19.^[18]^[19]

13 May 2021 28	Holstein Kiel	3–2	Jahn Regensburg	Kiel
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Bartels 20' Lorenz 79' Mühling 83'	Report	Albers 16' (pen.) Vrenezi 75'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Lasse Koslowski

16 May 2021 33	Karlsruher SC	3–2	Holstein Kiel	Karlsruhe
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Batmaz 52' Hofmann 60', 76'	Report	Serra 41' Mühling 84' (pen.)	Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Robert Hartmann

23 May 2021 34	Holstein Kiel	2–3	Darmstadt 98	Kiel
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Serra 18' Bartels 87'	Report	Dursun 50', 58' Höhn 75'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Patrick Ittrich

Promotion play-offs

As a result of their third place finish in the regular season, the club qualified for the play-off match with the 16th-place team in the 2020–21 Bundesliga to determine whether the club would be promoted to the 2021–22 Bundesliga.

26 May 2021 First leg	1. FC Köln	0–1	Holstein Kiel	Cologne
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Katterbach 14' Skhiri 51' Wolf 53' Czichos 90'	Report	Bartels 41' Ignjovski 45' Van den Bergh 46' Lorenz 59'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Felix Zwayer

29 May 2021 Second leg	Holstein Kiel	1–5 (2–5 agg.)	1. FC Köln	Kiel
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Lee 4' Porath 32'	Report	Hector 3' Andersson 6', 13' Bornauw 28' Czichos 39' J. Horn 44' T. Horn 65' Skhiri 84' Thielmann 88'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 2,334 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

DFB-Pokal

13 September 2020 (2020-09-13) First round	1. FC Rielasingen-Arlen	1–7	Holstein Kiel	Kiel
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Niedermann 3'	Report	Wahl 15' Serra 19' Lee 22', 24' Bartels 29' Porath 63' Reese 86'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 500 Referee: Christof Günsch

13 January 2021 Second round	Holstein Kiel	2–2 (a.e.t.) (6–5 p)	Bayern Munich	Kiel
20:45 CET (UTC+1)	Bartels 37' Meffert 45+1' Wahl 90+5'	Report	Gnabry 14' Sané 48' Süle 61'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Robert Schröder
	Penalties
	Wahl Arslan Serra Lee Hauptmann Bartels		Lewandowski Kimmich Müller Alaba Costa Roca

2 February 2021 Round of 16	Holstein Kiel	1–1 (a.e.t.) (7–6 p)	Darmstadt 98	Kiel
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Serra 58' Mühling 71'	Report	Skarke 79' Mehlem 85' Dursun 86'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 0 Referee: Sören Storks
	Penalties
	Wahl Arslan Serra Porath Lee Bartels Hauptmann Kirkeskov Lorenz		Mehlem Dursun Holland Mai Paik Höhn Honsak Rapp Skarke

3 March 2021 Quarter-finals	Rot-Weiss Essen	0–3	Holstein Kiel	Essen
18:30 CET (UTC+1)		Report	Mühling 26' (pen.) Serra 28' Mees 90'	Stadium: Stadion Essen Attendance: 0 Referee: Markus Schmidt

1 May 2021 Semi-finals	Borussia Dortmund	5–0	Holstein Kiel	Dortmund
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Reyna 16', 23' Reus 26' Hazard 32' Bellingham 42'	Report	Hauptmann 37' Lorenz 87'	Stadium: Signal Iduna Park Attendance: 0 Referee: Christian Dingert

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		2. Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal		Promotion play-offs
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	GRE	Ioannis Gelios	29	0	24	0	3	0	2	0
21	GK	GER	Thomas Dähne	12	0	10	0	2	0	0	0
35	GK	GER	Dominik Reimann	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	DEN	Mikkel Kirkeskov	9	0	5+1	0	2	0	0+1	0
3	DF	GER	Marco Komenda	19	1	9+4	1	2+2	0	2	0
5	DF	GER	Stefan Thesker	14	0	12+1	0	1	0	0	0
15	DF	GER	Johannes van den Bergh	28	0	25	0	1+1	0	1	0
19	DF	GER	Simon Lorenz	23	2	13+4	1	4	0	1+1	1
20	DF	GER	Jannik Dehm	24	1	12+7	1	4+1	0	0	0
22	DF	SRB	Aleksandar Ignjovski	12	0	5+5	0	1	0	1	0
24	DF	GER	Hauke Wahl	41	2	34	0	5	2	2	0
25	DF	GER	Phil Neumann	21	0	9+9	0	0+1	0	2	0
Midfielders
6	MF	GER	Ahmet Arslan	18	2	2+13	2	0+3	0	0	0
7	MF	KOR	Lee Jae-sung	40	8	31+2	5	5	2	2	1
8	MF	GER	Alexander Mühling	36	13	27+4	12	4	1	1	0
26	MF	GER	Jonas Meffert	40	0	34	0	5	0	1	0
29	MF	GER	Joshua Mees	34	4	9+20	3	1+2	1	0+2	0
32	MF	GER	Jonas Sterner	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	MF	GER	Niklas Hauptmann	37	0	15+16	0	1+4	0	1	0
Forwards
11	FW	GER	Fabian Reese	39	3	26+6	2	3+2	1	1+1	0
23	FW	GER	Janni Serra	37	16	25+6	13	4+1	3	1	0
27	FW	GER	Finn Porath	40	1	5+28	0	2+3	1	2	0
28	FW	GER	Noah Awuku	1	0	0	0	0	0	0+1	0
31	FW	GER	Fin Bartels	38	13	29+2	11	5	2	2	0
33	FW	GER	Benjamin Girth	20	0	1+16	0	0+1	0	0+2	0
Players transferred out during the season
18	FW	GER	Lion Lauberbach	4	0	0+3	0	0+1	0	0	0