1958–59 Eintracht Frankfurt season

Eintracht Frankfurt
1958–59 season
Chairman Rudolf Gramlich
Manager Paul Oßwald
Oberliga Süd 1st / Champions
DFB-Pokal / SFV-Pokal Final (SFV-Pokal)[note 1]
Top goalscorer League: Eckehard Feigenspan (21)
All: Eckehard Feigenspan (36)
Highest home attendance 50,000 during two occasions(league)
Lowest home attendance 4,000 13 December 1958 v VfR Mannheim (league)
Average home league attendance 17,333

The 1958–59 Eintracht Frankfurt season was the 59th season in the club's football history. In 1958–59 the club played in the Oberliga Süd, the top tier of German football. It was the club's 14th season in the Oberliga Süd.

The season ended up with Eintracht winning the German championship for the first time, beating their local rivals Kickers Offenbach in the final match.

Matches

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendlies

Oberliga

League fixtures and results

League table

PositionTeamPlayedGoalsPoints
1.Eintracht Frankfurt3071-2549-11
2.Kickers Offenbach3073-3147-13
3.1. FC Nürnberg3080-3843-17
4.FC Bayern Munich3079-4939-21
5.VfB Stuttgart3061-4930-30
6.TSV 1860 München3061-5730-30
7.SpVgg Fürth3047:4530:30
8.VfR Mannheim3065-7129-31
9.Karlsruher SC (C)3073-6928-32
10.1. FC Schweinfurt 053047-5925-35
11.FSV Frankfurt3049-6924-36
12.SSV Reutlingen 053044-7124-36
13.TSG Ulm 1846 (P)3039-5722-38
14.Viktoria Aschaffenburg3043-6922-38
15.BC Augsburg3053-8520-40
16.SV Waldhof (P)3043-8418-42
Participation at the 1959 German football championship round
Relegated to 1959–60 2. Oberliga Süd
(C) 1957–58 Oberliga Süd champions
(P) Promoted from 1957–58 2. Oberliga

Championship round

Group stage

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Eintracht Frankfurt 6 6 0 0 26 11 +15 12 Advance to final
2 1. FC Köln 6 2 1 3 10 14 4 5
3 FK Pirmasens 6 2 0 4 16 18 2 4
4 Werder Bremen 6 1 1 4 12 21 9 3
Source: RSSSF

Final

28 June 1959 (1959-06-28)
15:00 CET
Eintracht Frankfurt 5–3 (a.e.t.) Kickers Offenbach
Report
  • Kraus  8'
  • Preisendörfer  23'
  • Gast  110'
Olympiastadion, Berlin
Attendance: 75,000
Referee: Erich Asmussen (Flensburg)
Eintracht Frankfurt
Kickers Offenbach
GK 1 West Germany Egon Loy
RB 5 West Germany Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt
LB 4 West Germany Hermann Höfer
RH 7 West Germany Dieter Stinka
CH 3 West Germany Friedel Lutz
LH 2 West Germany Hans Weilbächer
OR 11West Germany Richard Kress
IR 6 Hungary István Sztáni
CF 9 West Germany Eckehard Feigenspan
IL 8 West Germany Dieter Lindner
OL 10West Germany Alfred Pfaff
Manager:
West Germany Paul Oßwald
GK 1 West Germany Walter Zimmermann
RB 2 West Germany Karl Waldmann
LB 3 West Germany Alfred Schultheis
RH 10West Germany Willi Keim
CH 6 West Germany Heinz Lichtl
LH 5 West Germany Ernst Wade
OR 9 West Germany Berti Kraus
IR 4 West Germany Hermann Nuber
CF 11West Germany Siegfried Gast
IL 7 West Germany Gerhard Kaufhold
OL 8 West Germany Helmut Preisendörfer
Manager:
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Bogdan Cuvaj

Match rules

  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
  • Replay if scores still level.
  • No substitutions.

DFB-Pokal / SFV-Pokal

[note 1]

Squad

Squad and statistics

No. Pos Nat Player TotalOberliga Championship round DFB-Pokal/SFV-Pokal
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
GK Germany Helmut Abraham 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
GK Germany Helmut Henig 8 0 8 0 0 0 0 0
GK Germany Egon Loy 31 0 22 0 7 0 2 0
DF Germany Adolf Bechtold 8 0 6 0 0 0 2 0
DF Germany Hermann Höfer 39 2 30 2 7 0 2 0
DF Germany Friedel Lutz 28 0 25 0 3 0 0 0
MF Germany Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt 12 0 5 0 5 0 2 0
MF Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Ivica Horvat 31 0 26 0 3 0 2 0
MF Germany Eberhard Schymik 29 2 24 1 2 1 3 0
MF Germany Dieter Stinka 17 1 10 0 6 1 1 0
MF Germany Hans Weilbächer 35 5 28 3 5 0 2 2
FW Germany Erich Bäumler 12 5 9 3 1 0 2 2
FW Germany Eckehard Feigenspan 36 36 27 21 7 12 2 3
FW Germany Richard Kress 32 12 23 6 7 5 2 1
FW Germany Dieter Lindner 25 10 22 5 3 5 0 0
FW Germany Erich Meier 15 8 13 7 2 1 0 0
FW Germany Alfred Pfaff 33 14 27 9 4 2 2 3
FW Hungary István Sztáni 27 13 25 10 2 3 0 0

Transfers

Summer

In:

No. Position Player
Germany GK Helmut Abraham (from SG Dietzenbach)
Germany GK Helmut Henig (from Eintracht Frankfurt II)
Germany MF Dieter Stinka (from 1. FC Gelnhausen)

Out:

No. Position Player
Germany FW Helmut Geiger (to FSV Frankfurt)
Hungary MF János Hanek (to Stuttgarter Kickers)
Germany DF Hermann Hesse (to VfR Groß-Gerau)
Germany GK Karlheinz Lindner (to VfB Friedberg)
Hungary FW Tibor Lőrincz (to Altona 93)
Germany FW Hermann-Josef Wehner (to Phönix Ludwigshafen)

Winter

In:

No. Position Player

Out:

No. Position Player

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 The cup competition was continued in the 1959-60 season due to the club's participation in the championship round.
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