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

Matches

Legend

      Win       Draw       Loss

Bundesliga

1 11 August 1979	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)

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

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

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

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

6 15 September 1979	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)

7 22 September 1979	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)

8 6 October 1979	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)

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

10 27 October 1979	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)

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

12 10 November 1979	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)

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

14 23 November 1979	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)

15 30 November 1979	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)

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

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

18 19 January 1980	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)

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

20 2 February 1980	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)

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

22 23 February 1980	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)

23 1 March 1980	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)

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

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

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

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

28 11 April 1980	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)

29 18 April 1980	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)

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

31 2 May 1980	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)

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

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

34 31 May 1980	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

R1 25 August 1979	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)

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

R3 12 January 1980	VfL Bochum	3 – 3 (aet)	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)

R3 replay 30 January 1980	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
				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

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

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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