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FC Bayern: Change faux pas against Freiburg – it’s not the first change mistake


In the game of SC Freiburg against FC Bayern, there was a change failure of the Munich team.

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With twelve men against SC Freiburg. FC Bayern made a real faux pas in Breisgau. But it’s not the first change mistake in German football. An overview.

Munich – Twelve players of the FC Bayern* against eleven Freiburg. This absurd scene actually happened 29th matchday the Bundesliga. so threaten Bayern severe consequences *, even a rating of the game for SC Freiburg is in the room. Because the statutes of the DFB are actually clear, although opinions about what is happening in Breisgau differ. In any case, it is not the first time that a mistake has happened in German football. Similar scenes already occurred in the 1970s – an overview of the most famous substitution mistakes in German football: .

  • 1977: Legendary coach Hennes Weisweiler replaced Belgian striker Roger van Gool as the third foreign player as coach of 1. FC Köln in the 4-0 defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt. Only two such changes are allowed at the time.
  • 1992: The mistake made by Christoph Daum as coach of VfB Stuttgart was particularly expensive. In qualifying for the Champions League against Leeds United, he sent a fourth foreigner onto the pitch in Serbian Jovica Simanic – one more than allowed.
  • 1993: In Eintracht’s 5-2 win at Bayer Uerdingen, coach Horst Heese made one foreign substitution too many. At the green table, the Krefeld team is awarded a 2-0 win.
  • 1995: Bayern Munich’s 5-2 win at Eintracht Frankfurt is also a model without value. Dietmar Hamann is already the fourth contract amateur on the pitch. Coach Giovanni Trapattoni miscounted.
  • 1995: This time it caught Winfried Schäfer at Karlsruher SC. Sergey Kiryakov is the extra fourth foreigner he will field in the home game against Bayer Leverkusen.
  • 1996: As a replacement for Franz Beckenbauer, Klaus Augenthaler made four substitutions in the Bayern game against Fortuna Düsseldorf – which was not allowed at the time.
  • 1998: Otto Rehhagel finds himself in another vicissitude. He comes on in the home game of 1. FC Kaiserslautern against VfL Bochum Pascal Ojigwe. The Nigerian is the fourth non-European on the pitch.
  • 2004: Unsuspectingly, Eric Gerets nominated Marian Christow for the starting lineup in VfL Wolfsburg’s cup match against 1. FC Köln’s amateurs. But the Bulgarian is not eligible to play for 1. FC Kaiserslautern because of a red card from the season before last.
  • 2021: Coach Mark van Bommel from Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg made six instead of five substitutions in the DFB Cup game at regional league club Preußen Münster. The 3-1 victory after extra time for VfL is converted by the sports court of the German Football Association (DFB) into a 2-0 win for the people of Münster.
  • 2022: In Bayern Munich’s league game at SC Freiburg, twelve players were on the pitch for around 16 seconds with the German record champions. A rule violation. Referee Christian Dingert (Lebecksmühle) noted the incident in his game report. The DFB judiciary must now decide on the game rating if Freiburg lodges a protest.

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