2008–09 Dynamo Dresden season


The 2008–09 season saw Dynamo Dresden return to national football, in the inaugural season of the 3. Liga. A new coach was appointed, veteran Eduard Geyer was replaced by Ruud Kaiser, a Dutchman with a good record in youth football. The squad saw many changes too, with several experienced players leaving or retiring and a number of new players brought on.
Dynamo had the honour of playing the first match in 3. Liga history – a 1–0 win over Rot-Weiss Erfurt, with debutant Halil Savran scoring the new competition's first goal. Despite this, though, it was a largely disappointing season for the club – they spent much of the season in the bottom half of the table, before relatively decent end to the season saw them finish in tenth place.
Dynamo's reserve team had a very successful season. Coached by Dynamo's former Bundesliga player Matthias Maucksch, they won the Landesliga Sachsen (and promotion to the NOFV-Oberliga Süd and the Saxony Cup, a competition which the first-team were eliminated from in the first round.

Squad

Results

3. Liga

Saxony Cup

Transfers

In

PlayerFromDate
Christopher BeckSC VerlSummer
Jens GrembowietzSchalke 04 IISummer
Benjamin GirkeDynamo Dresden IISummer
Axel KellerErzgebirge AueSummer
Benjamin KirstenSV Waldhof MannheimSummer
Philipp KötzschYouth teamSummer
Ronny KreherDynamo Dresden IISummer
Gerrit MüllerSportfreunde SiegenSummer
Markus PalionisWacker BurghausenSummer
Aleksandro PetrovicFK ZemunSummer
Timo RöttgerSC PaderbornSummer
Halil SavranTennis Borussia BerlinSummer
Tony SchmidtFV Dresden 06Summer
Pavel PerglAEK LarnacaJanuary

Out

PlayerToDate
Igor BendovskyiReleasedSummer
Pavel DavidHallescher FCSummer
Daniel ErnemannAustria LustenauSummer
Christian Hauser1. FC GeraSummer
Sebastian HelbigFSV ZwickauSummer
Oliver HerberRetiredSummer
Marek PenksaTatran PresovSummer
Christian PersonReleasedSummer
Martin StocklasaSV RiedSummer
Ronny SurmaSV Babelsberg 03Summer
Ivo UlichRetiredSummer
Tomas VotavaRetiredSummer
Patrick WürllJahn RegensburgSummer
Paul-Max WaltherDynamo Dresden IISummer
Daniel ZacherSV Babelsberg 03Summer
Sebastian PelzerRot-Weiss AhlenJanuary
Ronald WolfSC Borea DresdenJanuary