| Club: | RB Leipzig |
| Season: | 2021–22 |
| Ownertitle: | Owner |
| Owner: | Red Bull GmbH |
| Chrtitle: | CEO |
| Chairman: | Oliver Mintzlaff |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Manager: | Jesse Marsch (until 5 December) Achim Beierlorzer (interim; from 5 December to 9 December) Domenico Tedesco (from 9 December) |
| Stadium: | Red Bull Arena |
| League: | Bundesliga |
| League Result: | 4th |
| Cup1: | DFB-Pokal |
| Cup1 Result: | Winners |
| Cup2: | UEFA Champions League |
| Cup2 Result: | Group stage |
| Cup3: | UEFA Europa League |
| Cup3 Result: | Semi-finals |
| League Topscorer: | Christopher Nkunku (20) |
| Season Topscorer: | Christopher Nkunku (35) |
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| Prevseason: | 2020–21 |
| Nextseason: | 2022–23 |
The 2021–22 season was the 13th season in the existence of RB Leipzig and the club's sixth consecutive season in the top flight of German football. In addition to the domestic league, RB Leipzig participated in this season's editions of the DFB-Pokal, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. This was Jesse Marsch's first season as coach, succeeding Julian Nagelsmann before being sacked mid-season.[1]
| scope=col | Player | Transferred from | scope=col; style="width: 65px;" | Fee | scope=col | Date | scope=col | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Strasbourg | €15,000,000 | [2] | |||||||
| 39 | Monaco | €15,000,000 | [3] | |||||||
| 21 | Ajax | Free | [4] | |||||||
| 32 | Dinamo Zagreb | End of loan | [5] | |||||||
| New York Red Bulls | €1,820,000 | [6] | ||||||||
| 33 | Eintracht Frankfurt | €23,000,000 | [7] | |||||||
| 26 | Barcelona | €16,000,000 | [8] |
| scope=col | Player | Transferred to | scope=col; style="width: 65px;" | Fee | scope=col | Date | scope=col | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Bayern Munich | €42,500,000 | [9] | |||||||
| 6 | Liverpool | €41,500,000 | [10] | |||||||
| 19 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | €9,500,000 | [11] | |||||||
| 35 | SC Paderborn | Loan | [12] | |||||||
| New York Red Bulls | Loan | |||||||||
| 20 | Udinese | €3,000,000 | [13] | |||||||
| 19 | Real Sociedad | Loan | [14] | |||||||
| 11 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | Loan | [15] | |||||||
| 7 | Bayern Munich | €15,000,000 | [16] | |||||||
| 41 | Leicester City | Loan | [17] | |||||||
| 21 | Ajax | Loan | [18] | |||||||
| 36 |  Red Bull Bragantino | Undisclosed | [19] | |||||||
| 43 | Released | |||||||||
| 47 | Hallescher FC | Loan | [20] | |||||||
| 26 |  Valencia | Loan | [21] | |||||||
| 35 | Eintracht Braunschweig | Loan | [22] | |||||||
 New York Red Bulls | Loan | [23] |
See main article: 2021–22 Bundesliga.
The league fixtures were announced on 25 June 2021.[24]
See main article: 2021–22 DFB-Pokal.
See main article: 2021–22 UEFA Champions League.
The draw for the group stage was held on 26 August 2021.[25]
See main article: 2021–22 UEFA Europa League.
See main article: 2021–22 UEFA Europa League knockout phase.
The draw for the knockout round play-offs was held on 13 December 2021.[26]
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 25 February 2022.[27] After being drawn against Russian side Spartak Moscow, Leipzig received a bye to the next round following Spartak's expulsion by UEFA and FIFA due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 18 March 2022.[28]
The draw for the semi-finals was held on 18 March 2022, after the quarter-final draw.
|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Goalkeepers|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Defenders |-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Midfielders |-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Forwards|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Players transferred out during the season |-
| width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=175 | Player | width=80 | Bundesliga | width=80 | DFB-Pokal | width=130 | Champions League | width=130 | Europa League | width=80 | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | MF |  | Christopher Nkunku | 20 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 35 | ||||||||||
| 2 | 33 | FW | André Silva | 11 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 17 | |||||||||||
| 3 | 10 | MF |  | Emil Forsberg | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 | ||||||||||
| 4 | 17 | MF |  | Dominik Szoboszlai | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||||
| 5 | 9 | FW | Yussuf Poulsen | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||||||||
| 6 | 4 | DF | | Willi Orbán | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 27 | MF |  | Konrad Laimer | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 8 | 8 | MF |  | Amadou Haidara | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 25 | MF | | Dani Olmo | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||||
| 10 | 3 | DF | | Angeliño | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 39 | DF | Benjamin Henrichs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 12 | 22 | DF | | Nordi Mukiele | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 32 | DF | Joško Gvardiol | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 14 | 2 | DF | | Mohamed Simakan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 23 | DF | Marcel Halstenberg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 38 | FW | | Hugo Novoa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Own goals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Totals | 72 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 111 | ||||||||||||||