Lukas Hradecky, Aleksandar Dragovic, Julian Baumgartlinger, Tin Jedvaj and Kai Havertz were still playing international matches at the beginning of June and exactly like Paulinho, who was involved in an international tournament for Brazil in Toulon up to the middle of June, will return to full training on Monday 8 July. Jonathan Tah (U21 Euros), Charles Aránguiz (Copa America) and Leon Bailey (Gold Cup) will join their team-mates over the course of the training camp in Austria (15 to 21 July).
There have been no changes to squad numbers. The new signings will have the following numbers: Kerem Demirbay (10), Moussa Diaby (19), Daley Sinkgraven (22) and returnee Niklas Lomb the number 36 again.
The squad for the 2019/20 season (As at 1 July 2019)
1 Lukas Hradecky
3 Panagiotis Retsos
4 Jonathan Tah
5 Sven Bender
6 Aleksandar Dragovic
7 Paulinho
8 Lars Bender
9 Leon Bailey
10 Kerem Demirbay
13 Lucas Alario
15 Julian Baumgartlinger
16 Tin Jedvaj
17 Joel Pohjanpalo
18 Wendell
19 Moussa Diaby
20 Charles Aranguiz
21 Dominik Kohr
22 Daley Sinkgraven
23 Mitchell Weiser
28 Ramazan Özcan
29 Kai Havertz
31 Kevin Volland
33 Jan Boller
36 Niklas Lomb
38 Karim Bellarabi
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