| Club: | MSV Duisburg |
| Season: | 2023–24 |
| Manager: | Torsten Ziegner Engin Vural (18 September 2023 – 9 October 2023) Boris Schommers (9 October 2023 – 23 April 2024) Uwe Schubert (23 April 2024 – 30 June 2024) |
| Stadium: | MSV-Arena |
| League: | 3. Liga |
| League Result: | 18th |
| Cup2: | Lower Rhine Cup |
| Cup2 Result: | Round 2 |
| League Topscorer: | Alexander Esswein (5) |
| Season Topscorer: | Alexander Esswein (6) |
| Highest Attendance: | 25,845 (vs. Essen) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 8,189 (vs. Ingolstadt) |
| Largest Win: | 7–0 vs Vohwinkel |
| Largest Loss: | 0–3 vs Munich |
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| Prevseason: | 2022–23 |
| Nextseason: | 2024–25 |
The 2023–24 MSV Duisburg season was the 124th season in the club's football history. In 2023–24 the club played in the 3. Liga, the third tier of German football alongside the Lower Rhine Cup.[1] [2] [3]
Duisburg had a disastrous campaign, with their longest unbeaten run was only three matches and they had only one away win, against SC Verl on 10 February 2024. On 6 May 2024, following Waldhof Mannheim’s 1–1 draw against Ingolstadt, Duisburg were relegated to the Regionalliga for the first time in their history.[4]
| Date | Pos. | Name | From | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2023 | MF | Free transfer | [5] | ||
| MF | [6] | ||||
| 3 July 2023 | FW | [7] | |||
| 4 July 2023 | GK | [8] | |||
| 8 August 2023 | MF | [9] | |||
| 15 August 2023 | MF | [10] | |||
| 30 August 2023 | MF | Loan | [11] | ||
| 8 January 2024 | FW | Free transfer | [12] | ||
| MF | [13] | ||||
| 31 January 2024 | MF | [14] |
| Date | Pos. | Name | To | Type | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2023 | DF | Mutual consent | [15] | |||
| DF | End of contract | [16] | ||||
| MF | [17] | |||||
| MF | 1860 Munich | [18] | ||||
| MF | [19] | |||||
| FW | [20] | |||||
| 7 July 2023 | GK | Retired | [21] | |||
| 14 July 2023 | FW | Transfer | [22] | |||
| 25 January 2024 | FW | Mutual consent | [23] |
| Date | Pos. | Name | Contract length | Contract end | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June 2023 | MF | 1-year | 2024 | [24] | ||
| 23 June 2023 | FW | 2-year | 2025 | [25] | ||
| 5 January 2024 | DF | 2-year | 2026 | [26] | ||
| 19 January 2024 | GK | 2-year | 2026 | [27] |
Times from 1 July to 28 October 2023 and from 31 March to 30 June 2024 are UTC+2, from 29 October 2023 to 30 March 2023 UTC+1.
See main article: 2023–24 3. Liga.
| Rank | Player | 3. Liga | LR Cup | Total[28] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexander Esswein | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| 2 | Sebastian Mai | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| 3 | Ahmet Engin | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Benjamin Girth | 3 | 0 | |||
| Niklas Kölle | 3 | 0 | |||
| Robin Müller | 3 | 0 | |||
| 7 | Alaa Bakir | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Joshua Bitter | 2 | 0 | |||
| Daniel Ginczek | 2 | 0 | |||
| Marvin Knoll | 1 | 1 | |||
| Pascal Köpke | 0 | 2 | |||
| Kolja Pusch | 2 | 0 | |||
| Niclas Stierlin | 1 | 1 | |||
| 14 |  Santiago Castañeda | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Caspar Jander | 1 | 0 | |||
| Marvin Knoll | 1 | 0 | |||
| Tim Köther | 1 | 0 | |||
| Thomas Pledl | 1 | 0 | |||
| Marvin Senger | 1 | 0 | |||
| Niclas Stierlin | 1 | 0 | |||
| align=center colspan=2 | Own goals | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Total | 41 | 7 | 48 | ||
| Rank | Player | 3. Liga | LR Cup | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vincent Müller | 7 | 0 | 7 | |
| 2 | Dennis Smarsch | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 3 | Maximilian Braune | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 7 | 1 | 8 | ||