1979–80 VfL Bochum 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
← 1978–79	1980–81 →

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 an car accident and fell into a coma. Gerresheim died on 10 March 1980.^[1]

Matches

Legend

Win Draw Loss

Bundesliga

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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		Hans-Joachim Abel	37	16	34	13	3	3
	DF		Dieter Bast	33	2	29	1	4	1
	DF		Ulrich Bittorf	2	0	1	0	1	0
	DF		Rolf Blau	36	4	33	3	3	1
	MF		Luka Bonačić	11	0	10	0	1	0
	FW		Heinz-Werner Eggeling (until 1 December 1979)	14	5	13	1	1	4
	MF		Michael Eggert	27	3	23	3	4	0
	DF		Klaus Franke	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF		Hermann Gerland	23	1	19	1	4	0
	MF		Lutz Gerresheim (until 10 March 1980)	7	0	5	0	2	0
	DF		Detlef Jaskowiak	1	0	0	0	1	0
	FW		Josef Kaczor	29	9	27	6	2	3
	DF		Heinz Knüwe	36	4	32	4	4	0
	MF		Hans-Jürgen Köper	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF		Michael Lameck	37	2	33	2	4	0
	GK		Reinhard Mager	38	0	34	0	4	0
	MF		Walter Oswald	30	4	27	3	3	1
	FW		Kurt Pinkall	7	2	7	2	0	0
	FW		Werner Schachten	3	0	3	0	0	0
	FW		Ottmar Scheuch	3	0	2	0	1	0
	GK		Werner Scholz	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MF		Franz-Josef Tenhagen	38	1	34	1	4	0
	DF		Lothar Woelk	37	1	34	1	3	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Transfers

Summer

In:

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

Out:

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

Winter

In:

No.		Position	Player
		DF	Detlef Jaskowiak (from ?)

Out:

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

Sources

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External links

1979–80 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de (German)
1979–80 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de (German)
1979–80 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de (German)

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1979–80 VfL Bochum season

Contents

Review and events

Matches

Legend

Bundesliga

DFB-Pokal

Squad

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals scored

Transfers

Summer

Winter

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