1979–80 VfL Bochum season

VfL Bochum 1979–80 football season

VfL Bochum

1979–80 season

President

Ottokar Wüst

Head Coach

Helmuth Johannsen

Stadium

Ruhrstadion

Bundesliga

10th

DFB-Pokal

Third Round

Top goalscorer

League: Hans-Joachim Abel (13)
All: Hans-Joachim Abel (16)

Highest home attendance

42,000 (vs Hamburger SV, 11 August 1979)

Lowest home attendance

9,000 (vs SV Werder Bremen, 31 May 1980)

Average home league attendance

21,471

Home colours

Away colours

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The 1979–80 VfL Bochum season was the 42nd season in club history.

Review and events

On 26 January 1980 21-year-old midfielder Lutz Gerresheim was involved in a car accident and fell into a coma. Gerresheim died on 10 March 1980.^[1]

Matches

Legend

Win Draw Loss

Bundesliga

VfL Bochum v Hamburger SV

11 August 1979 1	VfL Bochum	0 – 3	Hamburger SV	Bochum
15:30		^[2]	Hartwig 62' Memering 75' Magath 87'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Horst Joos (Stuttgart)

Bayer 05 Uerdingen v VfL Bochum

18 August 1979 2	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Uerdingen
15:30	Mattsson 43'	^[3]		Stadium: Grotenburg-Stadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

VfL Bochum v Borussia Mönchengladbach

28 August 1979 3	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
20:00		^[4]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Heinz Aldinger (Waiblingen)

TSV 1860 Munich v VfL Bochum

1 September 1979 4	TSV 1860 Munich	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Munich
15:30	Flohe 41' (pen.)	^[5]		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 27,000 Referee: Helmut Treib (Wadgassen)

VfL Bochum v FC Bayern Munich

8 September 1979 5	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	FC Bayern Munich	Bochum
15:30		^[6]	Rummenigge 40'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Walter Horstmann (Hildesheim)

Borussia Dortmund v VfL Bochum

15 September 1979 6	Borussia Dortmund	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Dortmund
15:30	Woelk 28' (o.g.) Burgsmüller 39'	^[7]	Knüwe 25', 81'	Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Jan Redelfs (Hannover)

VfL Bochum v Hertha BSC

22 September 1979 7	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Hertha BSC	Bochum
15:30	Oswald 10' Abel 84'	^[8]	Agerbeck 87'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Werner Ross (Ingolstadt)

Fortuna Düsseldorf v VfL Bochum

6 October 1979 8	Fortuna Düsseldorf	1 – 4	VfL Bochum	Düsseldorf
15:30	Bommer 32'	^[9]	Knüwe 18' Abel 22' Blau 84' Gerland 87'	Stadium: Rheinstadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Dieter Michel (Augsburg)

VfL Bochum v MSV Duisburg

20 October 1979 9	VfL Bochum	3 – 0	MSV Duisburg	Bochum
15:30	Eggert 25' Blau 41', 65'	^[10]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Walter Eschweiler (Euskirchen)

VfB Stuttgart v VfL Bochum

27 October 1979 10	VfB Stuttgart	1 – 3	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
15:30	Klotz 59'	^[11]	Oswald 46' Abel 63' Kaczor 72'	Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Gert Meuser (Ingelheim)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Kaiserslautern

2 November 1979 11	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Bochum
20:00		^[12]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Eberhard Schmoock (Reichenau)

Eintracht Braunschweig v VfL Bochum

10 November 1979 12	Eintracht Braunschweig	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Braunschweig
15:30	Grobe 9' Worm 83', 89'	^[13]		Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Klaus Clajus (Karlsruhe)

VfL Bochum v Eintracht Frankfurt

17 November 1979 13	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bochum
15:30	Abel 80' (pen.)	^[14]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Helmut Treib (Wadgassen)

Bayer 04 Leverkusen v VfL Bochum

23 November 1979 14	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Leverkusen
20:00	Demuth 5', 43' (pen.) Hermann 89'	^[15]	Abel 30' (pen.)	Stadium: Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Werner Burgers (Essen)

1. FC Köln v VfL Bochum

30 November 1979 15	1. FC Köln	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Cologne
20:00	Schuster 34' Littbarski 76'	^[16]	Eggeling 35'	Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Gerd Hennig (Duisburg)

VfL Bochum v FC Schalke 04

8 December 1979 16	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	FC Schalke 04	Bochum
15:30		^[17]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Fischenich)

SV Werder Bremen v VfL Bochum

14 December 1979 17	SV Werder Bremen	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Bremen
20:00	Röber 10' Reinders 62'	^[18]		Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Dieter Dreher (Darmstadt)

Hamburger SV v VfL Bochum

19 January 1980 18	Hamburger SV	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
15:30	Hrubesch 5', 55' (pen.) Milewski 76'	^[19]	Knüwe 78'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Werner Ross (Ingolstadt)

VfL Bochum v Bayer 05 Uerdingen

26 January 1980 19	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	Bochum
15:30	Eggert 79'	^[20]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Dieter Stäglich (Bonn)

Borussia Mönchengladbach v VfL Bochum

2 February 1980 20	Borussia Mönchengladbach	3 – 2	VfL Bochum	Mönchengladbach
15:30	Bast 53' (o.g.), 90' (o.g.) Nickel 78' (pen.)	^[21]	Abel 22' Tenhagen 28'	Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 8,400 Referee: Udo Horeis (Hamburg)

VfL Bochum v TSV 1860 Munich

9 February 1980 21	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	TSV 1860 Munich	Bochum
15:30	Lameck 23' Abel 75'	^[22]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Heinz Quindeau (Ludwigshafen)

FC Bayern Munich v VfL Bochum

23 February 1980 22	FC Bayern Munich	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Munich
15:30	Horsmann 7' Rummenigge 16' Aas 80'	^[23]		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Peter Gabor (West Berlin)

VfL Bochum v Borussia Dortmund

1 March 1980 23	VfL Bochum	2 – 2	Borussia Dortmund	Bochum
15:30	Abel 30', 54'	^[24]	Frank 21' Huber 90+1'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Wolf-Dieter Ahlenfelder (Oberhausen)

Hertha BSC v VfL Bochum

8 March 1980 24	Hertha BSC	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	West Berlin
15:30	Remark 87'	^[25]		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

VfL Bochum v Fortuna Düsseldorf

14 March 1980 25	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Bochum
20:00		^[26]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Dieter Dreher (Darmstadt)

MSV Duisburg v VfL Bochum

21 March 1980 26	MSV Duisburg	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Duisburg
20:00		^[27]	Kaczor 23'	Stadium: Wedaustadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Fischenich)

VfL Bochum v VfB Stuttgart

29 March 1980 27	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	VfB Stuttgart	Bochum
15:30		^[28]	Förster 20'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Udo Horeis (Hamburg)

1. FC Kaiserslautern v VfL Bochum

11 April 1980 28	1. FC Kaiserslautern	4 – 1	VfL Bochum	Kaiserslautern
20:00	Melzer 61' Groh 77' Bongartz 81' Melzer 88'	^[29]	Kaczor 55'	Stadium: Betzenbergstadion Attendance: 26,510 Referee: Jan Redelfs (Hannover)

VfL Bochum v Eintracht Braunschweig

18 April 1980 29	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Eintracht Braunschweig	Bochum
20:00	Pinkall 49' Abel 85'	^[30]	Bruns 21'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Robert Walz (Waiblingen)

Eintracht Frankfurt v VfL Bochum

26 April 1980 30	Eintracht Frankfurt	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Frankfurt am Main
15:30		^[31]	Kaczor 55'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Franz-Josef Hontheim (Trier)

VfL Bochum v Bayer 04 Leverkusen

2 May 1980 31	VfL Bochum	4 – 2	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Bochum
20:00	Woelk 15' Kaczor 28' Abel 58', 90'	^[32]	Hermann 31' Brücken 75'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Eberhard Schmoock (Reichenau)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Köln

17 May 1980 32	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	1. FC Köln	Bochum
15:30	Pinkall 82' Oswald 85'	^[33]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Jan Redelfs (Hannover)

FC Schalke 04 v VfL Bochum

24 May 1980 33	FC Schalke 04	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Gelsenkirchen
15:30	Thiele 75'	^[34]		Stadium: Parkstadion Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Horst Joos (Stuttgart)

VfL Bochum v SV Werder Bremen

31 May 1980 34	VfL Bochum	5 – 2	SV Werder Bremen	Bochum
15:30	Bast 26' Lameck 28' Eggert 51' Abel 70' (pen.) Kaczor 78'	^[35]	Dreßel 19' Steinkogler 50'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Winfried Walz (Waiblingen)

DFB-Pokal

FV Weingarten v VfL Bochum

25 August 1979 R1	FV Weingarten	2 – 7	VfL Bochum	Weingarten
	Kraut 40' Pfirrmann 81'	^[36]	Blau 38' Eggeling 44', 70', 71', 89' Kaczor 82', 86'	Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Karl Gaus (Empfingen)

VfL Bochum v SpVgg Fürth

29 September 1979 R2	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	SpVgg Fürth	Bochum
	Oswald 13' Kaczor 43'	^[37]	Bulut 55'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Jakob Wippker (Aachen)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Köln

12 January 1980 R3	VfL Bochum	3 – 3 (a.e.t.)	1. FC Köln	Bochum
	Abel 63', 78' Bast 94'	^[38]	Schuster 15' (pen.), 60' Neumann 116'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Günter Linn (Altendiez)

1. FC Köln v VfL Bochum

30 January 1980 R3 replay	1. FC Köln	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Cologne
	Müller 8' Woodcock 33'	^[39]	Abel 14'	Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Walter Horstmann (Hildesheim)

Squad

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals scored

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	FW	FRG	Hans-Joachim Abel	37	16	34	13	3	3
	DF	FRG	Dieter Bast	33	2	29	1	4	1
	DF	FRG	Ulrich Bittorf	2	0	1	0	1	0
	DF	FRG	Rolf Blau	36	4	33	3	3	1
	MF	YUG	Luka Bonačić	11	0	10	0	1	0
	FW	FRG	Heinz-Werner Eggeling (until 1 December 1979)	14	5	13	1	1	4
	MF	FRG	Michael Eggert	27	3	23	3	4	0
	DF	FRG	Klaus Franke	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF	FRG	Hermann Gerland	23	1	19	1	4	0
	MF	FRG	Lutz Gerresheim (until 10 March 1980)	7	0	5	0	2	0
	DF	FRG	Detlef Jaskowiak	1	0	0	0	1	0
	FW	FRG	Josef Kaczor	29	9	27	6	2	3
	DF	FRG	Heinz Knüwe	36	4	32	4	4	0
	MF	FRG	Hans-Jürgen Köper	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF	FRG	Michael Lameck	37	2	33	2	4	0
	GK	FRG	Reinhard Mager	38	0	34	0	4	0
	MF	FRG	Walter Oswald	30	4	27	3	3	1
	FW	FRG	Kurt Pinkall	7	2	7	2	0	0
	FW	FRG	Werner Schachten	3	0	3	0	0	0
	FW	FRG	Ottmar Scheuch	3	0	2	0	1	0
	GK	FRG	Werner Scholz	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MF	FRG	Franz-Josef Tenhagen	38	1	34	1	4	0
	DF	FRG	Lothar Woelk	37	1	34	1	3	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Transfers

Summer

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	FRG	Ulrich Bittorf (from VfL Bochum II)
—	MF	YUG	Luka Bonačić (from Grasshopper Club Zürich)
—	MF	FRG	Lutz Gerresheim (from SC Westfalia Herne)
—	DF	FRG	Heinz Knüwe (from SC Herford)
—	FW	FRG	Kurt Pinkall (from SC Viktoria Köln)
—	FW	FRG	Ottmar Scheuch (from SpVgg Au/Iller)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	FRG	Paul Holz (to Borussia Dortmund)
—	FW	FRG	Hans-Joachim Pochstein (to BV Brambauer)
—	MF	FRG	Holger Trimhold (to Eintracht Braunschweig)

Winter

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	FRG	Detlef Jaskowiak (from ?)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	FRG	Heinz-Werner Eggeling (to Eintracht Braunschweig)
—	MF	FRG	Lutz Gerresheim (died 10 March 1980)

Sources

^ Piorr, Ralf (25 January 2011). "Was für ein Fußballer..." [What a footballer...] (in German). WAZ-Mediengruppe.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 0:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "Bayer 05 Uerdingen - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Bor. Mönchengladbach 0:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "1860 München - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Bayern München 0:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Hertha BSC 2:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "Fortuna Düsseldorf - VfL Bochum 1:4" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - MSV Duisburg 3:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 1:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Kaiserslautern 0:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "Eintracht Braunschweig - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Frankfurt 1:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "Bayer 04 Leverkusen - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "1. FC Köln - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - FC Schalke 04 0:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "Werder Bremen - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Bayer 05 Uerdingen 1:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfL Bochum 3:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - 1860 München 2:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "Bayern München - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Borussia Dortmund 2:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "Hertha BSC - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Fortuna Düsseldorf 0:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "MSV Duisburg - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 0:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "1. FC Kaiserslautern - VfL Bochum 4:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Braunschweig 2:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 4:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Köln 2:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "FC Schalke 04 - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Werder Bremen 5:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "Spielstatistik FV Weingarten gegen VfL Bochum 2:7 (1:2)" [Match statistic FV Weingarten vs. VfL Bochum 2–7 (1–2)] (in German). fussballdaten.de.
^ "Spielstatistik VfL Bochum gegen SpVgg Fürth 2:1 (2:0)" [Match statistic VfL Bochum vs. SpVgg Fürth 2–1 (2–0)] (in German). fussballdaten.de.
^ "Spielstatistik VfL Bochum gegen 1. FC Köln 3:3 n.V." [Match statistic VfL Bochum vs. 1. FC Köln 3–3 aet] (in German). fussballdaten.de.
^ "Spielstatistik 1. FC Köln gegen VfL Bochum 2:1 (2:1)" [Match statistic 1. FC Köln vs. VfL Bochum 2–1 (2–1)] (in German). fussballdaten.de.