1988–89 VfL Bochum season

VfL Bochum

1988–89 season
President	Ottokar Wüst
Head Coach	Franz-Josef Tenhagen
Stadium	Ruhrstadion
Bundesliga	15th
DFB-Pokal	Second Round
Top goalscorer	League: Leifeld (13) All: Leifeld (15)
Highest home attendance	41,000 (vs FC Bayern Munich, 3 December 1988)
Lowest home attendance	7,500 (vs Hannover 96, 10 June 1989)
Average home league attendance	15,529
Home colours Away colours
← 1987–88 1989–90 →

The 1988–89 VfL Bochum season was the 51st season in club history.

Matches

Legend

      Win       Draw       Loss

Bundesliga

1 23 July 1988	Stuttgarter Kickers	1 – 2	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
15:30	Grabosch  41'	[1]	Nehl  36' Bolzek  89'	Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 11,500 Referee: Wolf-Günter Wiesel (Ottbergen)

2 30 July 1988	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	FC St. Pauli	Bochum
15:30		[2]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Siegfried Brehm (Kemmern)

3 16 August 1988	1. FC Köln	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Cologne
20:00	Allofs  89' (pen.)	[3]		Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Dieter Birlenbach (Hattenheim)

4 20 August 1988	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	Bochum
15:30	Kree  73'	[4]	Kuntz  42'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

5 27 August 1988	1. FC Nuremberg	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Nuremberg
15:30	Kuhn  41' Eckstein  51' Sané  71'	[5]	Kree  88'	Stadium: Städtisches Stadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Wilfred Diekert (Hamburg)

6 3 September 1988	VfL Bochum	2 – 2	SV Waldhof Mannheim	Bochum
15:30	Leifeld  55', 73'	[6]	Freiler  25' Lux  61'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Bodo Kriegelstein (West Berlin)

7 10 September 1988	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bochum
15:30	Heinemann  32'	[7]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Manfred Harder (Lüneburg)

8 13 September 1988	Karlsruher SC	1 – 3	VfL Bochum	Karlsruhe
20:00	Süss  41'	[8]	Leifeld  34', 87' Nehl  83'	Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Eugen Strigel (Horb am Neckar)

9 1 November 1988	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	VfB Stuttgart	Bochum
20:00	Leifeld  39' (pen.)	[9]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Werner Föckler (Bad Dürkheim)

10 8 October 1988	Hamburger SV	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
15:30	Bein  25' Bierhoff  54' Spörl  84'	[10]	Kree  57'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 9,900 Referee: Hans Fux (Stutensee)

11 22 October 1988	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Bochum
15:30	Leifeld  72' Kree  89'	[11]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Kurt Witke (Mönchzell)

12 27 October 1988	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Leverkusen
20:00	Kastl  78'	[12]	Woelk  54'	Stadium: Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion Attendance: 11,500 Referee: Anton Matheis (Rodalben)

13 4 November 1988	VfL Bochum	1 – 2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
20:00	Leifeld  20' (pen.)	[13]	Criens  22' Hochstätter  49'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Rainer Boos (Kronberg)

14 12 November 1988	SV Werder Bremen	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Bremen
15:30	Ordenewitz  63', 77' (pen.)	[14]		Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 14,100 Referee: Manfred Neuner (Leimen)

15 19 November 1988	VfL Bochum	2 – 2	Borussia Dortmund	Bochum
15:30	Kree  69' Bolzek  88'	[15]	Möller  28' Rummenigge  64'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Hans Scheuerer (Munich)

16 26 November 1988	Hannover 96	3 – 2	VfL Bochum	Hannover
15:30	Kohn  23' Dammeier  57' Grillemeier  83'	[16]	Leifeld  4', 61'	Stadium: Niedersachsenstadion Attendance: 7,500 Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (Freiburg)

17 3 December 1988	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	FC Bayern Munich	Bochum
15:30		[17]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 41,000 Referee: Wolfgang Mierswa (Hennigsen)

18 21 March 1989	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Stuttgarter Kickers	Bochum
20:00	Kree  40', 71'	[18]	Hotić  90'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Wolf-Rüdiger Umbach (Rottdorf)

19 25 February 1989	FC St. Pauli	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
15:30	Zander  56'	[19]		Stadium: Wilhelm-Koch-Stadion Attendance: 17,300 Referee: Kurt Witke (Mönchzell)

20 4 March 1989	VfL Bochum	1 – 3	1. FC Köln	Bochum
15:30	Kree  29'	[20]	Kree  54' (o.g.) Allofs  62' Olsen  86'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Hans Fux (Stutensee)

21 11 March 1989	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Krefeld
15:30	W. Funkel  10' Bartram  62' Fach  64'	[21]	Leifeld  81'	Stadium: Grotenburg-Stadion Attendance: 8,700 Referee: Siegfried Brehm (Kemmern)

22 18 March 1989	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	1. FC Nuremberg	Bochum
15:30	Kree  67' (pen.)	[22]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Gerd Zimmermann (Kiel)

23 25 March 1989	SV Waldhof Mannheim	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Ludwigshafen
15:30	Dais  43' Bockenfeld  57'	[23]	Kempe  25' Reekers  27'	Stadium: Südweststadion Attendance: 8,905 Referee: Manfred Amerell (Munich)

24 31 March 1989	Eintracht Frankfurt	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Frankfurt am Main
20:00	Binz  81'	[24]	Nehl  58'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Werner Föckler (Bad Dürkheim)

25 8 April 1989	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Karlsruher SC	Bochum
15:30	Leifeld  34' (pen.), 85'	[25]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,500 Referee: Hans-Joachim Osmers (Bremen)

26 14 April 1989	VfB Stuttgart	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
20:00	Gaudino  14' Klinsmann  39', 90'	[26]	Kree  80'	Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 11,200 Referee: Kurt Röthlisberger (Suhr)

27 29 April 1989	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Hamburger SV	Bochum
15:30	Kree  34' (pen.) Leifeld  90'	[27]	Moser  12'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 14,000 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)

28 5 May 1989	1. FC Kaiserslautern	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Kaiserslautern
20:00	Kohr  27' Sommer  35' Labbadia  90'	[28]		Stadium: Fritz-Walter-Stadion Attendance: 23,324 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

29 16 May 1989	VfL Bochum	2 – 4	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Bochum
20:00	Hubner  81', 89'	[29]	Waas  19', 20' Feinbier  41' Rolff  79' (pen.)	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Rainer Boos (Kronberg)

30 20 May 1989	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Mönchengladbach
15:30	Bruns  3' Winter  32'	[30]		Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)

31 25 May 1989	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	SV Werder Bremen	Bochum
20:00		[31]	Riedle  13'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

32 3 June 1989	Borussia Dortmund	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Dortmund
15:30	Möller  4' Oswald  34' (o.g.)	[32]	Riechmann  54'	Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 25,398 Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Fischenich)

33 10 June 1989	VfL Bochum	1 – 3	Hannover 96	Bochum
15:30	Kree  89' (pen.)	[33]	Reich  23', 75' Kohn  57'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 7,500 Referee: Hans Scheuerer (Munich)

34 17 June 1989	FC Bayern Munich	5 – 0	VfL Bochum	Munich
15:30	Wohlfarth  5', 14', 69', 76' (pen.) Thon  72'	[34]		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 68,000 Referee: Manfred Neuner (Leimen)

DFB-Pokal

R1 6 August 1988	Arminia Bielefeld	0 – 0 (aet)	VfL Bochum	Bielefeld
		[35]		Stadium: Alm Attendance: 5,500 Referee: Joachim Ren (Salzgitter)

R1 replay 7 September 1988	VfL Bochum	4 – 1 (aet)	Arminia Bielefeld	Bochum
	Legat  90' (pen.) Leifeld  91' Bolzek  111' Heinemann  118'	[36]	Oswald  6' (o.g.)	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Klaus Plettenberg (Essen)

R2 29 November 1988	VfB Stuttgart	3 – 2 (aet)	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
	Schmäler  78' Allgöwer  90' Klinsmann  117'	[37]	Leifeld  7' Nehl  62'	Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 8,500 Referee: Bodo Kriegelstein (West Berlin)

Squad

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals scored

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	MF		Frank Benatelli	32	0	30	0	2	0
	FW		Thorsten Bolzek	24	3	22	2	2	1
	MF		Dirk Bremser	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF		Olaf Dreßel	2	0	1	0	1	0
	FW		Thomas Epp	14	0	13	0	1	0
	DF		Jürgen Gredig	4	0	3	0	1	0
	MF		Frank Heinemann	29	2	26	1	3	1
	MF		Michael Hubner	11	2	10	2	1	0
	MF		Andrzej Iwan	16	0	14	0	2	0
	DF		Peter Jackisch	8	0	8	0	0	0
	DF		Thomas Kempe	28	1	25	1	3	0
	DF		Martin Kree	36	12	33	12	3	0
	MF		Thorsten Legat	27	1	24	0	3	1
	FW		Uwe Leifeld	37	15	34	13	3	2
	FW		Josef Nehl	29	4	27	3	2	1
	DF		Walter Oswald	27	0	24	0	3	0
	DF		Rob Reekers	31	1	30	1	1	0
	MF		Dirk Riechmann	3	1	3	1	0	0
	MF		Michael Rzehaczek	29	0	27	0	2	0
	MF		Dirk Sadowicz (since 16 May 1989)	1	0	1	0	0	0
	MF		Martin Slawinski	0	0	0	0	0	0
	GK		Andreas Wessels	7	0	6	0	1	0
	DF		Oliver Westerbeek	16	0	15	0	1	0
	DF		Lothar Woelk	33	1	31	1	2	0
	GK		Ralf Zumdick	31	0	29	0	2	0

Transfers

Summer

In: No. Position Player FW Thorsten Bolzek (from 1. Traber FC) DF Jürgen Gredig (from Hertha Zehlendorf) MF Martin Slawinski (from Hammer SpVg) DF Oliver Westerbeek (from FC 08 Homburg)

Out: No. Position Player MF Peter Knäbel (to FC St. Pauli) MF Volker Knappheide (to Schwarz-Weiß Essen) MF Michael Lameck (to TuS Paderborn-Neuhaus) FW Andreas Lübke (to VfB Rheine) MF Detlef Mikolajczak (to DSC Wanne-Eickel)

Winter

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

Out: No. Position Player

Sources

External links

• 1988–89 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de (German)
• 1988–89 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de (German)
• 1988–89 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de (German)

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