1987–88 VfL Bochum season

VfL Bochum

1987–88 season
President	Ottokar Wüst
Head Coach	Hermann Gerland
Stadium	Ruhrstadion
Bundesliga	12th
DFB-Pokal	Runners-up
Intertoto Cup	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Leifeld (13) All: N/A
Highest home attendance	40,000 (vs FC Schalke 04, 25 August 1987)
Lowest home attendance	6,000 (vs FC 08 Homburg, 17 November 1987)
Average home league attendance	16,994
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 1986–87 1988–89 →

The 1987–88 VfL Bochum season was the 50th season in club history.

Matches

Legend

      Win       Draw       Loss

Bundesliga

1 31 July 1987	VfL Bochum	1 – 2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
20:00	Leifeld  88'	[1]	Bruns  31' Rahn  39'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)

2 7 August 1987	Eintracht Frankfurt	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Frankfurt am Main
20:00		[2]	Leifeld  54'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Anton Matheis (Rodalben)

3 15 August 1987	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	1. FC Köln	Bochum
15:30		[3]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Hans Scheuerer (Munich)

4 22 August 1987	SV Werder Bremen	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	Bremen
15:30		[4]		Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Eugen Strigel (Horb am Neckar)

5 25 August 1987	VfL Bochum	1 – 3	FC Schalke 04	Bochum
20:00	Kree  80'	[5]	Patzke  57' Thon  75' Wollitz  82'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Dieter Pauly (Rheydt)

6 1 September 1987	Hannover 96	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Hannover
20:00	Reich  39'	[6]		Stadium: Niedersachsenstadion Attendance: 14,000 Referee: Kurt Witke (Mönchzell)

7 4 September 1987	VfL Bochum	5 – 0	Karlsruher SC	Bochum
20:00	Leifeld  12', 77' Nehl  28', 62' Reekers  33'	[7]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Herbert Eli (Idar-Oberstein)

8 11 September 1987	1. FC Kaiserslautern	4 – 2	VfL Bochum	Kaiserslautern
20:00	Kohr  19' Schulz  52' Kree  60' (o.g.) Wuttke  89'	[8]	Leifeld  11' Epp  20'	Stadium: Fritz-Walter-Stadion Attendance: 15,487 Referee: Hans-Heinrich Barnick (Schenfeld)

9 19 September 1987	Hamburger SV	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
15:30	von Heesen  8' Dittmer  62'	[9]	Knäbel  24' Kree  53'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 12,500 Referee: Manfred Amerell (Munich)

10 28 September 1987	VfL Bochum	1 – 4	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	Bochum
20:00	Heinemann  87'	[10]	Kuntz  9', 84' Bommer  74' (pen.), 80'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Horst-Peter Bruch (Bischmisheim)

11 3 October 1987	VfB Stuttgart	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
15:30	Klinsmann  36' Walter  62', 77'	[11]		Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Peter Gabor (West Berlin)

12 9 October 1987	VfL Bochum	3 – 1	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Bochum
20:00	Nehl  17', 52' Leifeld  28'	[12]	Cha  55'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Rainer Boos (Kronberg)

13 17 February 1988	Borussia Dortmund	1 – 2	VfL Bochum	Dortmund
20:00	Möller  42'	[13]	Riechmann  89' Rzehaczek  90'	Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 23,709 Referee: Hans Scheuerer (Munich)

14 31 October 1987	VfL Bochum	0 – 2	FC Bayern Munich	Bochum
15:30		[14]	Flick  69' Wegmann  89'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Ralf Blattmann (Zeiningen)

15 6 November 1987	SV Waldhof Mannheim	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Ludwigshafen am Rhein
20:00	Klotz  44'	[15]	Epp  64'	Stadium: Südweststadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Wolfgang Mierswa (Hennigsen)

16 17 November 1987	VfL Bochum	4 – 4	FC 08 Homburg	Bochum
20:00	Epp  6', 61' Legat  64' Kree  67'	[16]	Westerbeek  5' Jambo  40' (pen.) Schäfer  87', 90'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Wolf-Rüdiger Umbach (Rottdorf)

17 21 November 1987	1. FC Nuremberg	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Nuremberg
15:30	Stenzel  9' Grahammer  18'	[17]	Hantzidis  85'	Stadium: Städtisches Stadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

18 28 November 1987	Borussia Mönchengladbach	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Mönchengladbach
15:30	Hochstätter  3', 32' Krauss  57'	[18]		Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 8,230 Referee: Gerd Zimmermann (Kiel)

19 5 December 1987	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bochum
15:30	Kempe  52'	[19]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Hans-Joachim Osmers (Bremen)

20 20 February 1988	1. FC Köln	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Cologne
15:30	Engels  9' Woodcock  81'	[20]	Woelk  14' Leifeld  53'	Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Manfred Amerell (Munich)

21 27 February 1988	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	SV Werder Bremen	Bochum
15:30		[21]	Ordenewitz  1'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Siegfried Brehm (Kemmern)

22 5 March 1988	FC Schalke 04	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Gelsenkirchen
15:30	Tschiskale  51' Thon  73' (pen.)	[22]	Rzehaczek  67'	Stadium: Parkstadion Attendance: 15,800 Referee: Manfred Neuner (Leimen)

23 19 April 1988	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	Hannover 96	Bochum
20:00	Leifeld  77'	[23]	Kohn  87'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Peter Gabor (West Berlin)

24 19 March 1988	Karlsruher SC	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Karlsruhe
15:30	Hermann  70'	[24]		Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 13,500 Referee: Horst-Peter Bruch (Bischmisheim)

25 22 March 1988	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Bochum
20:00	Leifeld  10'	[25]	Allievi  23'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 9,200 Referee: Eugen Strigel (Horb am Neckar)

26 26 March 1988	VfL Bochum	4 – 0	Hamburger SV	Bochum
15:30	Iwan  13' Leifeld  24', 55' Nehl  73'	[26]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 8,700 Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (Freiburg)

27 9 April 1988	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Krefeld
15:30	Fach  30' Mathy  32' Prytz  77'	[27]	Leifeld  7'	Stadium: Grotenburg-Stadion Attendance: 9,600 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)

28 16 April 1988	VfL Bochum	5 – 1	VfB Stuttgart	Bochum
15:30	Iwan  4' Kree  19' Schäfer  22' (o.g.) Leifeld  70' Nehl  73'	[28]	Buchwald  61'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Wolf-Günter Wiesel (Ottbergen)

29 23 April 1988	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	Leverkusen
15:30		[29]		Stadium: Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Manfred Neuner (Leimen)

30 30 April 1988	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Borussia Dortmund	Bochum
15:30	Kree  37' (pen.), 80'	[30]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Kurt Witke (Mönchzell)

31 3 May 1988	FC Bayern Munich	5 – 0	VfL Bochum	Munich
20:00	Hughes  51', 62', 68' Eder  61' Dorfner  83'	[31]		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 8,500 Referee: Hans-Heinrich Barnick (Schenfeld)

32 6 May 1988	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	SV Waldhof Mannheim	Bochum
20:00	Kree  27'	[32]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Heinz Werner (Auersmacher)

33 14 May 1988	FC 08 Homburg	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Homburg
15:30	Freiler  62'	[33]	Knäbel  50'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Siegfried Brehm (Kemmern)

34 21 May 1988	VfL Bochum	3 – 0	1. FC Nuremberg	Bochum
15:30	Reekers  28' Kempe  65' Zumdick  88' (pen.)	[34]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Hans-Joachim Osmers (Bremen)

DFB-Pokal

R1 28 August 1987	VfB Oldenburg	0 – 0 (aet)	VfL Bochum	Oldenburg
18:45		[35]		Stadium: Marschweg-Stadion Attendance: 8,200 Referee: Peter Mölm (Bremerhaven)

R1 replay 13 October 1987	VfL Bochum	4 – 1	VfB Oldenburg	Bochum
20:00	Woelk  27', 69' (pen.) Nehl  57' Fischer  83'	[36]	Voigt  90'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 2,568 Referee: Michael Prengel (Düsseldorf)

R2 24 October 1987	TSG Giengen	1 – 2 (aet)	VfL Bochum	Giengen an der Brenz
14:30	Gentner  84'	[37]	Fischer  33' Hantzidis  112'	Stadium: TSG-Stadion auf dem Schießberg Attendance: 3,300 Referee: Holger Dehmelt (Sasbachwalden)

R3 14 February 1988	Schwarz-Weiß Essen	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Essen
15:00		[38]	Leifeld  57'	Stadium: Uhlenkrugstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)

QF 8 March 1988	VfL Bochum	4 – 1	Fortuna Köln	Bochum
	Leifeld  70', 83' Iwan  87' Epp  88'	[39]	Pförtner  29'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Eugen Strigel (Horb am Neckar)

SF 12 April 1988	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Hamburger SV	Bochum
	Kree  27' Iwan  60'	[40]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Hans Scheuerer (Munich)

F 28 May 1988	Eintracht Frankfurt	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	West Berlin
18:00	Détári  81'	[41]		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 76,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

Intertoto Cup

GS1 27 June 1987	Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C.	2 – 2	VfL Bochum
		[42]		Attendance: 1,000

GS2 4 July 1987	Beitar Jerusalem F.C.	0 – 0	VfL Bochum
		[42]		Attendance: 400

GS3 12 July 1987	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C.
		[42]		Attendance: 1,000

GS4 18 July 1987	VfL Bochum	4 – 0	Beitar Jerusalem F.C.
		[42]		Attendance: 1,000

GS5 25 July 1987	VfL Bochum	2 – 3	Brøndby IF
		[42]		Attendance: 1,000

GS6 27 July 1987	Brøndby IF	1 – 0	VfL Bochum
		[42]		Attendance: 2,500

Squad

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals scored

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal		Intertoto Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	MF		Frank Benatelli	20	0	15	0	5	0
	MF		Dirk Bremser	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MF		Olaf Dreßel	3	0	2	0	1	0
	FW		Thomas Epp	36	5	31	4	5	1
	FW		Klaus Fischer	15	2	12	0	3	2
	FW		Minas Hantzidis (21 October 1987 until 31 December 1987)	4	2	3	1	1	1
	MF		Frank Heinemann	30	1	25	1	5	0
	MF		Michael Hubner	4	0	3	0	1	0
	MF		Andrzej Iwan	20	4	16	2	4	2
	DF		Peter Jackisch	12	0	12	0	0	0
	DF		Thomas Kempe	34	2	29	2	5	0
	MF		Peter Knäbel	24	2	20	2	4	0
	MF		Volker Knappheide	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF		Martin Kree	36	8	32	7	4	1
	MF		Michael Lameck	20	0	16	0	4	0
	MF		Thorsten Legat	20	1	17	1	3	0
	FW		Uwe Leifeld	37	16	30	13	7	3
	FW		Andreas Lübke	1	0	1	0	0	0
	MF		Detlef Mikolajczak	10	0	8	0	2	0
	FW		Josef Nehl	32	7	27	6	5	1
	DF		Walter Oswald	32	0	26	0	6	0
	DF		Rob Reekers	32	2	26	2	6	0
	MF		Dirk Riechmann (since 17 February 1988)	4	1	3	1	1	0
	MF		Michael Rzehaczek (since 4 September 1987)	18	2	15	2	3	0
	DF		Franz-Josef Tenhagen	1	0	1	0	0	0
	GK		Andreas Wessels	6	0	5	0	1	0
	DF		Lothar Woelk	40	3	33	1	7	2
	GK		Ralf Zumdick	35	1	29	1	6	0

Transfers

Summer

In: No. Position Player MF Olaf Dreßel (from VfL Bochum youth) FW Thomas Epp (from VfB Stuttgart youth) FW Minas Hantzidis (from Bayer 04 Leverkusen) MF Michael Hubner (from VfL Bochum youth) MF Andrzej Iwan (from Górnik Zabrze) DF Peter Jackisch (from VfB Remscheid) MF Michael Rzehaczek (from VfL Bochum II)

Out: No. Position Player DF Siegfried Bönighausen (retired) FW Rudolf Decker (to Rot-Weiß Oberhausen) MF Michael Kühn (to BVL Remscheid) FW Franz Schick (to TSV Ampfing) MF Frank Schulz (to Eintracht Frankfurt) MF Uwe Wegmann (to Rot-Weiß Essen) DF Jürgen Wielert (to Rot-Weiß Oberhausen) DF Ivan Žugčić (to SG Wattenscheid 09)

Winter

In: No. Position Player MF Dirk Riechmann (from VfL Bochum II)

Out: No. Position Player FW Minas Hantzidis (to Olympiacos F.C.)

Sources

External links

• 1987–88 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de (German)
• 1987–88 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de (German)
• 1987–88 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de (German)

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