| Club: | VfL Bochum |
| Season: | 2023–24 |
| Chairman: | Hans-Peter Villis |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Manager: | Thomas Letsch (until 8 April)[1] Heiko Butscher (from 9 April) |
| Stadium: | Vonovia-Ruhrstadion |
| League: | Bundesliga |
| League Result: | 16th (play-off winners) |
| Cup1: | DFB-Pokal |
| Cup1 Result: | First round |
| League Topscorer: | Kevin Stöger (7) |
| Season Topscorer: | Kevin Stöger (8) |
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| Prevseason: | 2022–23 |
| Nextseason: | 2024–25 |
The 2023–24 season was VfL Bochum's 86th season in existence and third consecutive season in the Bundesliga. They also competed in the DFB-Pokal.
| Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vitesse | Free | [2] | ||||
| FC St. Pauli | Free | [3] | ||||
| 1. FC Magdeburg | €1,100,000 | [4] | ||||
| Grasshoppers | Free | [5] | ||||
| Borussia Dortmund | Free | [6] | ||||
| SC Verl | Free | |||||
| RB Salzburg | €400,000 | [7] | ||||
| Vitesse | Undisclosed | [8] | ||||
| SC Freiburg | Loan | [9] | ||||
| Celta Vigo | Loan | [10] | ||||
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern | Undisclosed | [11] | ||||
| NK Varaždin | Undisclosed | [12] |
| Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BSC Young Boys | Free | |||||
| Wuppertaler SV | Loan | |||||
| 1. FC Nürnberg | Free | [13] | ||||
| Free | ||||||
| Free | ||||||
| Antalyaspor | Loan | [14] | ||||
| Free | [15] | |||||
| K.V. Oostende | Undisclosed | [16] | ||||
| FC St. Pauli | Undisclosed | [17] | ||||
| Free | [18] | |||||
| Darmstadt 98 | Loan | [19] | ||||
| PAS Giannina | Loan | [20] | ||||
| SC Wiedenbrück | Loan | [21] |
See main article: 2023–24 Bundesliga.
The league fixtures were unveiled on 30 June 2023.[23]
See main article: 2023–24 DFB-Pokal.
|-! 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=145 | Player | width=130 | Bundesliga | width=130 | DFB-Pokal | width=130 | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | MF |  | Takuma Asano | 6 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||
| 2 | 7 | MF |  | Kevin Stöger | 5 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| 3 | 9 | FW | Gonçalo Paciência | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
| 31 | DF | Keven Schlotterbeck | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 5 | 6 | MF | Patrick Osterhage | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| 29 | FW | Moritz Broschinski | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 6 | 8 | MF |  | Anthony Losilla | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| 9 | FW | Simon Zoller | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 8 | MF | Lukas Daschner | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 5 | DF |  | Bernardo | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| 22 | FW | Christopher Antwi-Adjei | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 19 | MF |  | Matúš Bero | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| 33 | FW | Philipp Hofmann | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 32 | DF | Maximilian Wittek | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Own goals | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 29 | 2 | 31 | ||||||||||||