Hertha BSC

2013–14 season
Sporting Director	Michael Preetz
Manager	Jos Luhukay
Stadium	Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany
Bundesliga	11th
DFB-Pokal	Second round
Top goalscorer	League: Adrián Ramos (16 goals) All: Adrián Ramos (16 goals)
Highest home attendance	76,197 vs. Borussia Dortmund, 10 May 2014 76,197 vs. Bayern Munich, 25 March 2014
Lowest home attendance	37,438 vs. 1. FC Nürnberg, 2 February 2014
Average home league attendance	51,895
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2013–14 Hertha BSC season was the 121st season in club history.

Hertha won the 2012–13 2. Bundesliga,^[1] therefore securing promotion for the 2013–14 Bundesliga. The club's pre-season began on 23 June,^[2] with 500 fans showing up to the first pre-season training session.^[2]

For the season, Hertha signed Hajime Hosogai,^[3] Alexander Baumjohann,^[4] Sebastian Langkamp, and^[5] Johannes van den Bergh.^[6] Hertha also brought in on loan Per Ciljan Skjelbred and Tolga Ciğerci.^[7] Alfredo Morales,^[8] Marvin Knoll,^[9][10] Shervin Radjabali-Fardi,^[11] Daniel Beichler,^[12] Marco Djuricin,^[13] Roman Hubník^[14] all departed Hertha, while Felix Bastians was loaned out.^[15]

Pos.	Name	Age	Moving from	Type	Transfer Window	Contract ends	Transfer fee	Ref.
MF	Hajime Hosogai	27	Bayer Leverkusen	Transfer	Summer	2017	Undisclosed	[3]
MF	Alexander Baumjohann	26	1. FC Kaiserslautern	End of contract	Summer	2016	Free	[4]
MF	Per Ciljan Skjelbred	26	Hamburger SV	Loan	Summer	2014	Undisclosed	[7]
MF	Tolga Ciğerci	21	VfL Wolfsburg	Loan	Summer	2014	€300,000	[7]
DF	Sebastian Langkamp	25	FC Augsburg	Transfer	Summer	2016	Free	[5]
GK	Rune Jarstein	29	Viking	Transfer	Winter	2016	Free	[16]
DF	Johannes van den Bergh	26	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Transfer	Summer	2016	Free	[6]

Pos.	Name	Age	Moving to	Type	Transfer Window	Transfer fee	Ref.
DF	Alfredo Morales	23	FC Ingolstadt	Transfer	Summer	Free	[8]
MF	Marvin Knoll	23	SV Sandhausen	Released	Summer	Free	[9][10]
DF	Shervin Radjabali-Fardi	22	Hansa Rostock	Released	Summer	Free	[9][11]
FW	Daniel Beichler	24	Sturm Graz	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	[12]
FW	Marco Djuricin	20	Sturm Graz	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	[13]
DF	Felix Bastians	25	VfL Bochum	Loan	Summer		[15]
DF	Roman Hubník	29	Viktoria Plzeň	Transfer	Summer	Free	[14]
MF	Fanol Perdedaj	22	Energie Cottbus	Transfer	Winter	Undisclosed	[17]
FW	Pierre-Michel Lasogga	21	Hamburger SV	Loan	Winter		[18]
FW	Ben Sahar	24	Arminia Bielefeld	Loan	Winter		[19]

Hertha began their Bundesliga campaign against Eintracht Frankfurt on 10 August.^[20] Hertha BSC won 6–1.^[20] Adrián Ramos, John Brooks, Sami Allagui and Ronny scored for Hertha;^[20] Ramos and Allagui scored two goals each.^[20] Alexander Meier scored for Eintracht.^[20] Hertha finished the matchday in first place.^[21] Hertha then faced 1. FC Nürnberg on 18 August on matchday two of the Bundesliga,^[22] with the match ending in a 2–2 draw.^[22] Allagui and Ronny scored for Hertha,^[22] while Josip Drmić and Hiroshi Kiyotake scored for Nürnberg.^[22] Hertha finished the matchday in sixth place.^[23] Hertha then faced Hamburger SV on matchday three, on 24 August,^[24] where Hertha won 1–0 through a Ramos goal.^[24] Hertha finished the matchday in fifth place.^[25] Hertha finished August with matchday four on 31 August against VfL Wolfsburg,^[26] falling 2–0 through Ivica Olić and Diego goals for Wolfsburg.^[26] Hertha ended August in sixth place.^[27]

Hertha BSC faced VfB Stuttgart on matchday five on 13 September.^[28] Stuttgart won 1–0 with a goal from Christian Gentner.^[28] Hertha finished the matchday in eighth place.^[29] Hertha played SC Freiburg on matchday six on 22 September;^[30] the match ended in a 1–1 draw.^[30] Per Ciljan Skjelbred scored for Hertha while Admir Mehmedi scored for Freiburg.^[30] Hertha finished the matchday in 10th place.^[31] Hertha finished September against Mainz 05 on matchday seven on 28 September;^[32] Hertha BSC won 3–1.^[32] Sami Allagui (2) and Änis Ben-Hatira scored for Hertha,^[32] while Nicolai Müller scored for Mainz.^[32] Hertha BSC finished September in fifth place.^[33]

Hertha started October with matchday eight against Hannover 96 on 4 October.^[34] The match ended in a 1–1 draw.^[34] Ronny scored for Hertha and Christian Schulz scored for Hannover.^[34] Hertha finished the matchday in sixth place.^[35] Hertha faced Borussia Mönchengladbach on matchday nine on 19 October.^[36] Hertha won 1–0 with a goal from Adrián Ramos.^[36] Hertha finished the matchday in fourth place.^[37] Hertha finished October against Bayern Munich on matchday 10 on 26 October.^[38] Bayern won 3–2.^[38] Ramos and Änis Ben-Hatira scored for Hertha.^[38] Mario Mandžukić (2) and Mario Götze scored for Bayern.^[38] Hertha finished October in fifth place.^[39]

Hertha started November against Schalke 04 on matchday 11 on 2 November,^[40] where Schalke won 2–0 through goals from Ádám Szalai and Julian Draxler.^[40] Hertha finished the matchday in seventh place.^[41] Hertha faced 1899 Hoffenheim on matchday 12 on 9 November.^[42] Hertha won 3–2.^[42] Ben-Hatira and Ramos (2) scored for Hertha^[42] Sejad Salihović scored two goals for Hoffenheim.^[42] Hertha finished the matchday in seventh place.^[43] Hertha faced Bayer Leverkusen on matchday 13 on 23 November.^[44] Bayer Leverkusen won 1–0 with a goal from Stefan Kießling.^[44] Hertha finished the matchday in seventh place.^[45] Hertha finished November against FC Augsburg on matchday 14 on 30 November.^[46] The match ended in a 0–0 draw.^[46] Hertha finished November in seventh place.^[47]

Hertha started December against Eintracht Braunschweig on matchday 15 on 8 December.^[48] Hertha won 2–0 with goals from Adrián Ramos and Tolga Ciğerci.^[48] Hertha finished the matchday in seventh place.^[49] Hertha faced Werder Bremen on matchday 16 on 13 December.^[50] Hertha won 3–2.^[50] Ramos (2) and Ronny scored for Hertha,^[50] while Nils Petersen and Aaron Hunt scored for Bremen.^[50] Hertha finished the matchday in seventh place.^[51] Hertha finished December with matchday 17 against Borussia Dortmund on 21 December,^[52] winning 2–1.^[52] Ramos and Sami Allagui scored for Hertha.^[52] Marco Reus scored for Borussia Dortmund.^[52] Hertha finished December in sixth place.^[53] Hertha returned to competitive action with matchday 18 against Eintracht Frankfurt.^[54] Eintracht Frankfurt won 1–0 with a goal from Alexander Meier.^[54] Hertha finished the matchday in seventh place.^[55]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

MD	Date Kickoff1	Venue	Opponent	Res.2	Att.	Goalscorers and disciplined players		Ref.
						Hertha BSC	Opponent
1	10 August 15:30	H	Eintracht Frankfurt	6–1	54,476	Ramos 18', 71' Brooks 32' Allagui 58', 60' Ronny 89'	Flum  24' Zambrano  33' Meier 37'	[20]
2	18 August 15:30	A	1. FC Nürnberg	2–2	37,068	Pekarík  32' Baumjohann  53' Allagui 61' Ronny 78'	Dabanlı  8' Feulner  27' Drmić 40' Pinola  53' Stark  69' Chandler  71' Kiyotake 89'	[22]
3	24 August 18:30	H	Hamburger SV	1–0	63,574	Schulz  38' Ramos 74'	Westermann  17' Lam  28' Zoua  28' Beister  62'	[24]
4	31 August 15:30	A	VfL Wolfsburg	0–2	25,000	Langkamp  59' Wagner  64'	Naldo  23' Olić 42' Diego 45'	[26]
5	13 September 20:30	H	VfB Stuttgart	0–1	46,624	Ronny  87'	Ibišević  34' Gentner 49'	[28]
6	22 September 15:30	A	SC Freiburg	1–1	23,200	Skjelbred 38'  65' Ben-Hatira  72' Langkamp  84' Wagner  90+2'	Mehmedi 6' Kerk  9' Coquelin  89'	[30]
7	28 September 15:30	H	Mainz 05	3–1	40,969	Allagui 48', 73' Ben-Hatira 74' Pekarík  86'	Müller  1' 8' Noveski  39' Slišković  82' Zimling  84'	[32]
8	4 October 20:30	A	Hannover 96	1–1	42,000	Allagui  36' Schulz  51' Langkamp  61' Ronny 81'	Schlaudraff  6' Schulz 23' Stindl  53' Marcelo  82'	[34]
9	19 October 18:30	H	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–0	61,539	Ramos 36',  90+4' Kobiashvili  52'	Raffael  33' Stranzl  90'  90+2'	[36]
10	26 October 15:30	A	Bayern Munich	2–3	71,000	Ramos 4',  52' Hosogai  50' Ben-Hatira 58' Pekarík  65' Skjelbred  90'	Boateng  28' Mandžukić 30', 51' Schweinsteiger  35' Rafinha  50' Götze 54'	[38]
11	2 October 15:30	H	Schalke 04	0–2	69,277	Hosogai  55' Ciğerci  72' Langkamp  77'	Szalai 26' Neustäadter  43' Draxler 90+4'	[40]
12	9 October 15:30	A	1899 Hoffenheim	3–2	25,078	Ben-Hatira 13',  24' Pekarík  18' Ramos 53', 84'	Strobl  38' Salihović 70', 81' Modeste  76'	[42]
13	23 October 15:30	H	Bayer Leverkusen	0–1	47,419	Ronny  90+1'	Kießling 29' Can  35'	[44]
14	30 November 15:30	H	FC Augsburg	0–0	38,667	Ciğerci  30'	Callsen-Bracker  74'	[46]
15	8 November 17:30	A	Eintracht Braunschweig	2–0	23,100	Ramos 20' Hosogai  37' Ndjeng  43' Schulz  73' Van den Bergh  78' Ciğerci 80'	Oehrl  45+2' Perthel  60'  81' Bellarabi  83'	[48]
16	13 November 20:30	H	Werder Bremen	3–2	48,721	Ramos 17' (pen.), 26' Ronny 48' Ciğerci  66'	Petersen 15' Gebre Selassie  17' Hunt 32' García  51'	[50]
17	21 December 15:30	A	Borussia Dortmund	2–1	80,645	Ramos 23' Allagui 45' Ciğerci  50' Kobiashvili  67' Hosogai  82'	Reus 7' Sarr  45+2' Şahin  90+1'	[52]
18	25 January 18:30	A	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–1	41,600	Ramos  26' Ronny  72' Skjelbred  75'	Zambrano  21' Meier 36' Schwegler  90'	[54]
19	2 February 15:30	H	1. FC Nürnberg	1–3	37,438	Van den Bergh  2' Ramos 4' Ronny  64' Lustenberger  81'	Feulner 20' Frantz  32' Drmić 68', 90'	[56]
20	8 February 18:30	A	Hamburger SV	3–0	48,593	Allagui 15' Ramos 23', 38'	Arslan  72' Westermann  81'	[57]
21	16 February 17:30	H	VfL Wolfsburg	1–2	40,648	Skjelbred 21'	Luiz Gustavo  25' Knoche 58' Caligiuri 78' Klose  82'	[58]
22	22 February 15:30	A	VfB Stuttgart	2–1	45,700	Kobiashvili 5' Allagui  52' Wagner 87',  90'  90+1'	Boka 45'	[59]
23	28 February 20:30	H	SC Freiburg	0–0	37,920	—	—	[60]
24	9 March 17:30	A	Mainz 05	1–1	29,760	Ramos 51' Allagui  65' Wagner  90+2'	Park  44' Choupo-Moting 65' Moritz  90'	[61]
25	15 March 15:30	H	Hannover 96	0–3	46,727	Niemeyer  85'	Andreasen  10' Stindl 49' Schlaudraff 57' Hoffmann  85' Huszti 90+1'	[62]
26	22 March 18:30	A	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–3	53,030	Langkamp  30'	Kramer  12' Arango 28' Kruse 32' Raffael 40'	[63]
27	25 March 20:00	H	Bayern Munich	1–3	76,197	Ramos 66' Skjelbred  69'	Kroos 6' Götze 14' Ribéry 79'	[64]
28	28 March 20:30	A	Schalke 04	0–2	61,550	Ciğerci  33'	Obasi 16' Huntelaar 46' Neustädter  65'	[65]
29	6 April 17:30	H	1899 Hoffenheim	1–1	43,874	Allagui 11' Brooks  36'	Polanski  21', 30' Elyounoussi  24'	[66]
30	13 April 15:30	A	Bayer Leverkuusen	1–2	29,377	Ciğerci  9' Wagner 38'	Kießling 1' Brandt 24' Donati  79'	[67]
31	19 April 15:30	A	FC Augsburg	0–0	30,059	Allagui  63' Langkamp  67' Niemeyer  89'	Ostrzolek  52'	[68]
32	26 April 15:30	H	Eintracht Braunschweig	2–0	51,953	Brooks 61' Allagui 77'	—	[69]
33	3 May 15:30	A	Werder Bremen	0–2	42,100	Brooks  56'	Di Santo  4' Hunt 48', 50' García  61' Elia  67'	[70]
34	10 May 15:30	H	Borussia Dortmund	0–4	76,197	Schulz  70' Wagner  86'	Lewandowski 41', 80' Jojić 44' Mkhitaryan 82'	[71]

The draw for the first round of the DFB-Pokal occurred on 15 June.^[73] Hertha was drawn against VfR Neumünster.^[73] The match took place on 4 August and Hertha BSC won 3–2 in extra time.^[74] Änis Ben-Hatira (2) and Sami Allagui scored for Hertha.^[74] Harrer and Kramer scored for Neumünster.^[74] The draw for the second round of the DFB-Pokal occurred on 10 August.^[75] Hertha were drawn against 1. FC Kaiserslautern.^[75] The match took place on 25 September,^[76] where Kaiserslautern won 3–1, eliminating Hertha from the competition.^[76] Peter Niemeyer scored for Hertha,^[76] while Mohammadou Idrissou, Karim Matmour and Olivier Occéan scored for Kaiserslautern.^[76]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

RD	Date1	Venue	Opponent	Result2	Attendance	Goalscorers		Ref.
						Hertha BSC	Opponent
FR	4 August – 16:00	A	VfR Neumünster	3–2 (aet)	8,000	Ben-Hatira 16', 30' Allagui 120'	Harrer 5' Kramer 58'	[74]
SR	25 September – 19:00	A	1. FC Kaiserslautern	1–3	24,291	Niemeyer 25'	Idrissou 52' Matmour 63' Occéan 83'	[76]

As of 12 May 2014^[update]

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	GER	Thomas Kraft	34	0	32	0	2	0
2	DF	SVK	Peter Pekarík	31	0	31	0	0	0
3	DF	GEO	Levan Kobiashvili	15	1	15	1	0	0
5	DF	GER	Maik Franz	1	0	0	0	1	0
6	DF	GER	Christoph Janker	6	0	5	0	1	0
7	MF	JPN	Hajime Hosogai	34	0	33	0	1	0
8	MF	CMR	Marcel Ndjeng	18	0	17	0	1	0
9	MF	GER	Alexander Baumjohann	10	0	9	0	1	0
10	FW	TUN	Änis Ben-Hatira	22	5	21	3	1	2
11	FW	TUN	Sami Allagui	31	10	29	9	2	1
12	DF	BRA	Ronny	28	4	27	4	1	0
13	MF	NOR	Per Ciljan Skjelbred	28	2	28	2	0	0
15	DF	GER	Sebastian Langkamp	30	0	29	0	1	0
17	MF	GER	Tolga Ciğerci	20	1	19	1	1	0
18	MF	GER	Peter Niemeyer	21	1	20	0	1	1
20	FW	COL	Adrián Ramos	34	16	32	16	2	0
21	GK	GER	Sascha Burchert	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	GK	NOR	Rune Jarstein	1	0	1	0	0	0
23	DF	GER	Johannes van den Bergh	27	0	26	0	1	0
24	MF	GER	Peer Kluge	3	0	2	0	1	0
25	DF	USA	John Brooks	17	2	16	2	1	0
26	MF	GER	Nico Schulz	24	0	23	0	1	0
28	MF	SUI	Fabian Lustenberger	21	0	19	0	2	0
32	MF	GER	Fabian Holland	4	0	3	0	1	0
33	FW	GER	Sandro Wagner	27	2	25	2	2	0
34	MF	GER	Hany Mukhtar	11	0	10	0	1	0
35	GK	GER	Marius Gersbeck	1	0	1	0	0	0
37	GK	GER	Philip Sprint	0	0	0	0	0	0
Players who left the club during the 2013-14 season
4	DF	CZE	Roman Hubník	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	FW	ISR	Ben Sahar (on loan to Arminia Bielefeld)	1	0	0	0	1	0
19	FW	GER	Pierre-Michel Lasogga (on loan to Hamburger SV)	0	0	0	0	0	0

No.	Player	Total			Bundesliga			DFB-Pokal
33	Sandro Wagner	6	1	0	5	1	0	1	0	0
15	Sebastian Langkamp	6	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0
17	Tolga Ciğerci	6	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0
2	Peter Pekarík	4	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
7	Hajime Hosogai	4	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
12	Ronny	4	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
13	Per Ciljan Skjelbred	4	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
11	Sami Allagui	4	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
26	Nico Schulz	4	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
20	Adrián Ramos	3	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
10	Änis Ben-Hatira	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
3	Levan Kobiashvili	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
28	Fabian Lustenberger	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
23	Johannes van den Bergh	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
18	Peter Niemeyer	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
25	John Brooks	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
9	Alexander Baumjohann	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
8	Marcel Ndjeng	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Totals		57	1	0	55	1	0	2	0	0
Last updated: 12 May 2014

• 1.^ Kickoff time in Central European Time/Central European Summer Time.
• 2.^ Hertha BSC's goals first.