1968–69 Bundesliga

Bundesliga
Season	1968–69
Champions	FC Bayern Munich 1st Bundesliga title 2nd German title
Relegated	1. FC Nuremberg Kickers Offenbach
European Cup	FC Bayern Munich
Cup Winners' Cup	FC Schalke 04 (losing DFB Cup finalists to Bayern)
Goals scored	873
Average goals/game	2.85
Top goalscorer	Gerd Müller (30)
Biggest home win	FC Bayern 6–0 Werder Bremen (29 March 1969)
Biggest away win	1860 Munich 0–4 M'gladbach (28 September 1968)
Highest scoring	Werder Bremen 6–5 M'gladbach (11 goals) (7 June 1969)
← 1967–68 1969–70 →

The 1968–69 Bundesliga was the sixth season of the Bundesliga, West Germany's premier football league. It began on 17 August 1968 and ended on 7 June 1969.^[1] 1. FC Nuremberg were the defending champions.

Competition modus

Every team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. If two or more teams were tied on points, places were determined by goal average. The team with the most points were crowned champions while the two teams with the least points were relegated to their respective Regionalliga divisions.

Team changes to 1967–68

Borussia Neunkirchen and Karlsruher SC were relegated to the Regionalliga after finishing in the last two places. They were replaced by Hertha BSC Berlin and Kickers Offenbach, who won their respective promotion play-off groups.

Season overview

The dominant team of the 1968–69 season was FC Bayern Munich. Bayern were in first place of the standings from the very first matchday and never looked back, continuously increasing their margin to eventually eight points, the biggest so far in league history. They were victorious in the DFB Cup as well, beating Schalke in the final by a 2–1 score. Keys to their double win were their improved defense and top scorer Gerd Müller, who scored 30 goals.

Behind Bayern, the league continued to create surprises. Alemannia Aachen ended up in second place after a campaign which featured almost every position between second and 16th. Other notable astonishments were Eintracht Braunschweig, who finished in fourth place, and 1. FC Köln, who ended their season in a dismal 13th position.

Köln even were in danger of being relegated prior to the last matchday, sitting in 15th place with 30 points at that time. They played 1. FC Nuremberg at home, who also were in relegation trouble as 16th-placed team, one point behind Köln. Another match on that day was the clash between 17th-placed Borussia Dortmund and 18th-placed Kickers Offenbach. Both teams had 28 points prior to the game. After the matches were over, both Nuremberg and Offenbach had received 3–0 defeats, resulting in the demotion of both teams.

The demotion of Nuremberg was especially tragic as they had been Bundesliga champions only 12 months ago. Nevertheless, a pre-season sell-out of their best players and continuous quarrels between coach Max Merkel and his players proved to be costly, and although Merkel was sacked in late March 1969, it was too late to reverse tides. A home draw to Dortmund on matchday 33 and the defeat against Köln one week later eventually sealed their fate.

Team overview

Location of teams in Bundesliga 1968–69

Club	Ground^[2]	Capacity^[2]
Aachen !Alemannia Aachen	Tivoli	30,000
Berlin !Hertha BSC	Olympiastadion	100,000
Braunschweig !Eintracht Braunschweig	Eintracht-Stadion	38,000
Bremen !SV Werder Bremen	Weserstadion	32,000
Dortmund !Borussia Dortmund	Stadion Rote Erde	30,000
Duisburg !MSV Duisburg	Wedaustadion	38,500
Frankfurt !Eintracht Frankfurt	Waldstadion	87,000
Hamburg !Hamburger SV	Volksparkstadion	80,000
Hannover !Hannover 96	Niedersachsenstadion	86,000
Kaiserslautern !1. FC Kaiserslautern	Stadion Betzenberg	42,000
Köln !1. FC Köln	Müngersdorfer Stadion	76,000
Mönchengladbach !Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bökelbergstadion	34,500
München 1860 !TSV 1860 München	Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße	44,300
München Bayern !FC Bayern Munich	Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße	44,300
Nuremberg !1. FC Nuremberg	Städtisches Stadion	64,238
Offenbach !Kickers Offenbach	Bieberer Berg	30,000
Schalke !FC Schalke 04	Glückauf-Kampfbahn	35,000
Stuttgart !VfB Stuttgart	Neckarstadion	53,000

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAvg	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bayern Munich (C)	34	18	10	6	61	31	1.968	46	1969–70 European Cup First round
2	Alemannia Aachen	34	16	6	12	57	51	1.118	38
3	Borussia Mönchengladbach	34	13	11	10	61	46	1.326	37
4	Eintracht Braunschweig	34	13	11	10	46	43	1.07	37
5	VfB Stuttgart	34	14	8	12	60	54	1.111	36	1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round
6	Hamburger SV	34	13	10	11	55	55	1	36	1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round
7	Schalke 04	34	14	7	13	45	40	1.125	35	1969–70 European Cup Winners' Cup First round ¹
8	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	13	8	13	46	43	1.07	34
9	Werder Bremen	34	14	6	14	59	59	1	34
10	1860 Munich	34	15	4	15	44	59	0.746	34	1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round
11	Hannover 96	34	9	14	11	47	45	1.044	32	1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round
12	MSV Duisburg	34	8	16	10	33	37	0.892	32
13	1. FC Köln	34	13	6	15	47	56	0.839	32
14	Hertha BSC	34	12	8	14	31	39	0.795	32	1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round
15	1. FC Kaiserslautern	34	12	6	16	45	47	0.957	30
16	Borussia Dortmund	34	11	8	15	49	54	0.907	30
17	1. FC Nürnberg (R)	34	9	11	14	45	55	0.818	29	Regionalliga
18	Kickers Offenbach (R)	34	10	8	16	42	59	0.712	28	Regionalliga

Source: www.dfb.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal average
¹As Bayern Munich also won the 1968–69 DFB-Pokal, runners-up Schalke 04 were given the European spot reserved for the domestic cup winners.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away	Alemannia Aachen !AAC	Hertha BSC !BSC	Eintracht Braunschweig !BRS	Werder Bremen !BRE	Borussia Dortmund !DOR	MSV Duisburg !DUI	Eintracht Frankfurt !FRA	Hamburger SV !HAM	Hannover 96 !H96	1. FC Kaiserslautern !KAI	Köln !KÖL	Borussia Mönchengladbach !MGL	1860 München !M60	Bayern Munich !FCB	1. FC Nürnberg !NUR	Kickers Offenbach !OFF	Schalke 04 !S04	Stuttgart !STU
Alemannia Aachen !Alemannia Aachen		0–0	1–4	2–1	0–1	4–0	4–2	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	4–0	2–4	4–2	1–2	4–1	1–3
Hertha BSC !Hertha BSC	0–1		0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	3–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–2	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–1
Eintracht Braunschweig !Eintracht Braunschweig	2–0	3–3		0–3	4–3	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–3	3–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–3	0–0	2–2	3–0	1–2
Werder Bremen !Werder Bremen	1–2	2–0	2–1		2–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	3–2	2–1	3–1	6–5	4–1	1–0	3–3	2–0	1–3	1–0
Borussia Dortmund !Borussia Dortmund	3–1	2–2	2–1	3–2		2–1	0–1	3–1	1–1	2–3	1–1	1–3	2–0	0–1	3–1	3–0	0–1	1–0
MSV Duisburg !MSV Duisburg	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	2–0		1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	3–4	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–0
Eintracht Frankfurt !Eintracht Frankfurt	0–1	2–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–1		2–2	0–0	2–2	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–1	3–0	3–2	1–0	3–0
Hamburger SV !Hamburger SV	3–0	0–0	0–0	5–2	2–0	1–2	1–4		1–4	3–1	3–1	2–0	2–0	2–2	4–2	3–0	1–3	2–1
Hannover 96 !Hannover 96	5–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	2–2		0–2	3–0	2–3	3–2	1–0	2–2	2–2	1–0	1–0
1. FC Kaiserslautern !1. FC Kaiserslautern	2–1	1–0	4–0	1–0	1–2	3–0	2–2	0–1	0–0		4–0	2–0	3–1	3–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–3
Köln !1. FC Köln	1–2	1–0	2–0	3–3	2–1	1–1	2–1	4–1	1–0	2–1		1–4	0–0	1–1	3–0	2–1	2–0	5–2
Borussia Mönchengladbach !Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–3	1–2	3–2	4–0	2–1		3–0	1–1	1–1	4–1	3–0	4–4
1860 München !1860 München	0–0	0–1	0–1	4–3	2–1	2–1	1–0	3–3	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–4		0–3	2–0	2–0	3–1	3–1
Bayern Munich !Bayern Munich	1–1	3–0	2–1	6–0	4–1	2–2	2–0	5–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	0–2		3–0	5–1	0–0	2–0
1. FC Nürnberg !1. FC Nürnberg	1–4	3–0	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	4–0	3–0	2–0		2–2	1–1	1–1
Kickers Offenbach !Kickers Offenbach	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–3	4–3	0–0	4–2	1–1	1–1	4–1	3–1	1–0	2–3	0–0	2–1		1–0	2–1
Schalke 04 !Schalke 04	3–1	2–0	0–2	2–1	4–1	1–0	2–0	2–3	1–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	1–2	4–1	3–0		1–1
Stuttgart !VfB Stuttgart	3–1	4–2	2–2	2–2	2–2	3–2	2–0	3–0	1–0	4–3	6–1	0–3	1–1	3–0	2–3	1–0	1–1

Source: www.dfb.de
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

30 goals

Gerd Müller (FC Bayern Munich)

23 goals

Uwe Seeler (Hamburger SV)

17 goals

Josip Skoblar (Hannover 96)

15 goals

Werner Görts (SV Werder Bremen)
Herbert Laumen (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
Hartmut Weiß (Eintracht Braunschweig)

14 goals

Carl-Heinz Rühl (1. FC Köln)

13 goals

Bernd Rupp (SV Werder Bremen)

12 goals

Lothar Emmerich (Borussia Dortmund)
Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink (1. FC Kaiserslautern)
Heinz-Gerd Klostermann (Alemannia Aachen)

Champion squad

FC Bayern Munich
Goalkeeper: Sepp Maier (34). Defenders: Werner Olk (34 / 1); Peter Pumm (34); Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck (34); Franz Beckenbauer (33 / 2); Peter Kupferschmidt (22). Midfielders: August Starek (34 / 4); Franz Roth (34 / 2); Helmut Schmidt (21 / 2). Forwards: Rainer Ohlhauser (34 / 10); Dieter Brenninger (34 / 9); Gerd Müller (30 / 30); Gustav Jung (4). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Manager: Branko Zebec . On the roster but have not played in a league game: Fritz Kosar; Benno Zellermayer; Peter Stegmann; Albrecht Wachsmann; Reinhard Lippert.

References

↑ "Archive 1968/1969 Schedule". DFB.
1 2 Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs, Band 7: Vereinslexikon (in German). Kassel: AGON Sportverlag. ISBN 3-89784-147-9.

External links

DFB Bundesliga archive 1968/1969

Bundesliga

2015–16 clubs	FC Augsburg Bayer Leverkusen Bayern Munich Borussia Dortmund Borussia Mönchengladbach Darmstadt 98 Eintracht Frankfurt Hamburger SV Hannover 96 Hertha BSC 1899 Hoffenheim FC Ingolstadt 1. FC Köln Mainz 05 Schalke 04 VfB Stuttgart Werder Bremen VfL Wolfsburg

Former clubs	1860 Munich Alemannia Aachen Arminia Bielefeld Bayer 05 Uerdingen/KFC Uerdingen 05 Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin VfL Bochum Borussia Neunkirchen Dynamo Dresden Eintracht Braunschweig Energie Cottbus Fortuna Düsseldorf Fortuna Köln SC Freiburg SpVgg Greuther Fürth Hansa Rostock FC 08 Homburg 1. FC Kaiserslautern Karlsruher SC Kickers Offenbach VfB Leipzig Meidericher SV/MSV Duisburg 1. FC Nürnberg Preußen Münster Rot-Weiss Essen Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 1. FC Saarbrücken SC Paderborn 07 FC St. Pauli Stuttgarter Kickers Tasmania Berlin Tennis Borussia Berlin SSV Ulm 1846 SpVgg Unterhaching Waldhof Mannheim Wattenscheid 09 Wuppertaler SV

History	Reichsliga Introduction in 1963 1965 scandal 1971 scandal 2005 scandal

Lists and statistics	All-time table List of clubs Records Borussia Mönchengladbach 12–0 Borussia Dortmund Foreign players Top scorers Attendance

Seasons	1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Managers Players Seasons Top scorers

1968–69 in European football (UEFA)

« 1967–68 1969–70 »

Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '68 '69 England Estonia '68 '69 Faroe Islands '68 '69 Finland '68 '69 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary '68 '69 Iceland '68 '69 Israel Italy Latvia '68 '69 Lithuania '68 '69 Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '68 '69 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '68 '69 Spain Sweden '68 '69 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia

Domestic cups	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '68 '69 Finland '68 '69 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary '68 '69 Iceland '68 '69 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '68 '69 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales Yugoslavia

League cups	England Scotland

UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup

Non-UEFA competitions	Mitropa Cup

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