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Round 1

  1. In 1907 a club from the city of Freiburg became German champions. Which club was it?
  2. SC Freiburg was formed in 1912 by merging two clubs founded in 1904. One was Freiburger FV 04. What was the other one originally called?
  3. Freiburg's long-time home, the Dreisamstadion (opened in 1954), took its name from what?
  4. Which future World Cup-winning head coach had three spells at Freiburg as a player?
  5. Which coach managed Freiburg for 16 years, from 1991 to 2007?
  6. In which year were Freiburg promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time?
  7. Freiburg finished third in the 1994‑95 Bundesliga, three points behind the champions. Who won the title that season?
  8. Freiburg's attacking side of the mid-1990s earned which nickname?
  9. Who knocked Freiburg out in the first round of the 1995‑96 UEFA Cup, the club's first European campaign?
  10. Argentine playmaker Rodolfo Cardoso left Freiburg in 1995 for which Bundesliga club?
Answers — round 1
  1. Freiburger FC — Freiburger FC, a separate club from SC Freiburg, won the 1907 German championship. SC Freiburg did not exist until the 1912 merger.
  2. FC Schwalbe Freiburg — FC Schwalbe Freiburg was founded two months after FV 04 and was later renamed Union Freiburg. The two clubs merged on 3 March 1912 to form SC Freiburg.
  3. A river that flows past it — The Dreisam is the river that runs through Freiburg, alongside the old stadium.
  4. Joachim Löw — Joachim Löw scored 81 goals in 252 games across his three spells at Freiburg, then won the 2014 World Cup as Germany's coach.
  5. Volker Finke — Volker Finke took Freiburg into the Bundesliga for the first time and into Europe for the first time.
  6. 1993 — Finke's side went up in 1993 and stayed up in their first Bundesliga season only on goal difference.
  7. Borussia Dortmund — Dortmund won the 1994-95 title. Freiburg's third place earned the club its first European qualification.
  8. Breisgau-Brasilianer — Their flowing football made them the 'Breisgau Brazilians'. The other nicknames belong to Union Berlin, Schalke and Gladbach.
  9. Slavia Prague — Slavia won 2-1 in Freiburg and drew 0-0 in Prague, then went on to reach the semi-finals.
  10. Werder Bremen — Cardoso moved north in 1995 and joined Hamburger SV later.

Round 2

  1. Jörg Heinrich left Freiburg in January 1996 for which club, where he played the whole 1997 Champions League final?
  2. Georgian midfielder Levan Kobiashvili left Freiburg in 2003 to join which club?
  3. Robin Dutt, who took Freiburg back to the Bundesliga in 2009, left in 2011 to manage which club?
  4. Striker Papiss Cissé left Freiburg in January 2012 for which Premier League club?
  5. Christian Streich became Freiburg's head coach in December 2011. Whom did he replace?
  6. Freiburg reached their first ever DFB-Pokal semi-final in 2013. Which club beat them 2‑1?
  7. Freiburg went down on the final day of the 2014‑15 Bundesliga after a 2‑1 defeat away to which club?
  8. Freiburg won the 2. Bundesliga in 2015‑16. Which club was promoted directly with them as runners-up?
  9. Who succeeded Christian Streich as SC Freiburg head coach in summer 2024?
  10. SC Freiburg reached their first DFB-Pokal final in 2022 and lost it on penalties to which club?
Answers — round 2
  1. Borussia Dortmund — Heinrich played the full 90 minutes of the 3-1 win in Munich. He joined Fiorentina later.
  2. Schalke 04 — Kobiashvili spent seven years at Schalke after leaving Freiburg and moved to Hertha in 2010.
  3. Bayer Leverkusen — Dutt replaced Jupp Heynckes at Leverkusen in summer 2011.
  4. Newcastle United — Cissé joined Newcastle in January 2012 and scored 13 Premier League goals in the rest of that season.
  5. Marcus Sorg — Marcus Sorg replaced Dutt in summer 2011 and was sacked that December. Streich, his assistant and the club's long-time youth coach, took over.
  6. VfB Stuttgart — Stuttgart won 2-1 at home on 17 April 2013, with goals from Arthur Boka and Martin Harnik.
  7. Hannover 96 — A draw at Hannover would have kept Freiburg up. Hannover's win saved them and ended Freiburg's six-year Bundesliga stay.
  8. RB Leipzig — They finished second and went up for their first Bundesliga season. Nürnberg came third and lost the play-off.
  9. Julian Schuster — Julian Schuster, a former Freiburg captain, took over when Streich stepped down after more than 12 years in charge.
  10. RB Leipzig — The final in Berlin finished 1-1 after extra time, and Freiburg lost the shootout 4-2.

Round 3

  1. Which club knocked SC Freiburg out of the 2022‑23 Europa League in the round of 16?
  2. SC Freiburg won the first leg 1‑0 but lost the second leg 5‑0 away in the 2023‑24 Europa League round of 16. Who beat them?
  3. In 2017 SC Freiburg went out of Europa League qualifying against which Slovenian club?
  4. Max Kruse spent the 2012‑13 season at SC Freiburg before leaving for which club?
  5. SC Freiburg sold defender Çağlar Söyüncü to which Premier League club in 2018?
  6. Centre-back Robin Koch left SC Freiburg in 2020 to join which newly promoted Premier League club?
  7. Forward Luca Waldschmidt left SC Freiburg in 2020 for which Portuguese club?
  8. Nils Petersen joined SC Freiburg in January 2015 from which club?
  9. When Nils Petersen retired in 2023, he held the Bundesliga record for most goals scored as what?
  10. Matthias Ginter returned to SC Freiburg in 2022 on a free transfer from which club?
Answers — round 3
  1. Juventus — Freiburg won their group, then lost 1-0 in Turin and 2-0 at home to Juventus.
  2. West Ham United — West Ham turned the tie around with a 5-0 win at the London Stadium in March 2024.
  3. NK Domžale — Freiburg won the home leg 1-0 but lost 2-0 in Slovenia to NK Domžale, so they never reached the group stage.
  4. Borussia Mönchengladbach — Kruse joined Gladbach in 2013 after Freiburg finished fifth.
  5. Leicester City — Söyüncü moved to Leicester City in summer 2018 and later won the 2021 FA Cup with them.
  6. Leeds United — Koch signed for Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds United, who had just been promoted as Championship winners.
  7. Benfica — Waldschmidt joined Benfica in summer 2020, then returned to the Bundesliga with Wolfsburg a year later.
  8. Werder Bremen — Petersen stayed at Freiburg until he retired in 2023.
  9. A substitute — Petersen scored 34 Bundesliga goals off the bench, the most by any player when he retired.
  10. Borussia Mönchengladbach — Ginter left Freiburg in 2014, joined Gladbach in 2017, then came home on a free in 2022.

Round 4

  1. SC Freiburg sold defender Nico Schlotterbeck to which club in 2022?
  2. Academy goalkeeper Oliver Baumann left SC Freiburg in 2014 for which club?
  3. SC Freiburg moved into a new stadium in 2021. Which sponsor is it named after?
Answers — round 4
  1. Borussia Dortmund — He left after Freiburg finished sixth and reached the cup final.
  2. Hoffenheim — Baumann moved to Hoffenheim and became their long-serving first-choice goalkeeper. Freiburg replaced him with Roman Bürki.
  3. Europa-Park — The Europa-Park Stadion is named after the theme park in nearby Rust. badenova and Mage Solar were sponsor names for the old Dreisamstadion.

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