In the season-99/00, Maksimov spent 29 matches in the championship and scored 3 goals, but the second half of the season he was already mostly spare player Verder. And in the German Cup, he brought the team the final for the second consecutive, scoring the victorious ball Stuttgarter Kickers, but received the second yellow in that match and did not accept participation in the final. Verder lost in the final of Bavaria. Season 00/01 has become the last Bremen in a T -shirt for Maksimov.