1988–89 VfL Bochum season

VfL Bochum 1988–89 football 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

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

Review and events

Matches

Legend

Win Draw Loss

Bundesliga

Stuttgarter Kickers v VfL Bochum

23 July 1988 1	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)

VfL Bochum v FC St. Pauli

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

1. FC Köln v VfL Bochum

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

VfL Bochum v Bayer 05 Uerdingen

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

1. FC Nürnberg v VfL Bochum

27 August 1988 5	1. FC Nürnberg	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)

VfL Bochum v SV Waldhof Mannheim

3 September 1988 6	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)

VfL Bochum v Eintracht Frankfurt

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

Karlsruher SC v VfL Bochum

13 September 1988 8	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)

VfL Bochum v VfB Stuttgart

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

Hamburger SV v VfL Bochum

8 October 1988 10	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)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Kaiserslautern

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

Bayer 04 Leverkusen v VfL Bochum

27 October 1988 12	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)

VfL Bochum v Borussia Mönchengladbach

4 November 1988 13	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)

SV Werder Bremen v VfL Bochum

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

VfL Bochum v Borussia Dortmund

19 November 1988 15	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)

Hannover 96 v VfL Bochum

26 November 1988 16	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)

VfL Bochum v FC Bayern Munich

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

VfL Bochum v Stuttgarter Kickers

21 March 1989 18	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)

FC St. Pauli v VfL Bochum

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

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Köln

4 March 1989 20	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)

Bayer 05 Uerdingen v VfL Bochum

11 March 1989 21	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)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Nürnberg

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

SV Waldhof Mannheim v VfL Bochum

25 March 1989 23	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)

Eintracht Frankfurt v VfL Bochum

31 March 1989 24	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)

VfL Bochum v Karlsruher SC

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

VfB Stuttgart v VfL Bochum

14 April 1989 26	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)

VfL Bochum v Hamburger SV

29 April 1989 27	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)

1. FC Kaiserslautern v VfL Bochum

5 May 1989 28	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)

VfL Bochum v Bayer 04 Leverkusen

16 May 1989 29	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)

Borussia Mönchengladbach v VfL Bochum

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

VfL Bochum v SV Werder Bremen

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

Borussia Dortmund v VfL Bochum

3 June 1989 32	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)

VfL Bochum v Hannover 96

10 June 1989 33	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)

FC Bayern Munich v VfL Bochum

17 June 1989 34	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

Arminia Bielefeld v VfL Bochum

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

VfL Bochum v Arminia Bielefeld

7 September 1988 R1 replay	VfL Bochum	4 – 1 (a.e.t.)	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)

VfB Stuttgart v VfL Bochum

29 November 1988 R2	VfB Stuttgart	3 – 2 (a.e.t.)	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
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	MF	FRG	Frank Benatelli	32	0	30	0	2	0
	FW	FRG	Thorsten Bolzek	24	3	22	2	2	1
	MF	FRG	Dirk Bremser	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF	FRG	Olaf Dreßel	2	0	1	0	1	0
	FW	FRG	Thomas Epp	14	0	13	0	1	0
	DF	FRG	Jürgen Gredig	4	0	3	0	1	0
	MF	FRG	Frank Heinemann	29	2	26	1	3	1
	MF	FRG	Michael Hubner	11	2	10	2	1	0
	MF	POL	Andrzej Iwan	16	0	14	0	2	0
	DF	FRG	Peter Jackisch	8	0	8	0	0	0
	DF	FRG	Thomas Kempe	28	1	25	1	3	0
	DF	FRG	Martin Kree	36	12	33	12	3	0
	MF	FRG	Thorsten Legat	27	1	24	0	3	1
	FW	FRG	Uwe Leifeld	37	15	34	13	3	2
	FW	FRG	Josef Nehl	29	4	27	3	2	1
	DF	FRG	Walter Oswald	27	0	24	0	3	0
	DF	NED	Rob Reekers	31	1	30	1	1	0
	MF	FRG	Dirk Riechmann	3	1	3	1	0	0
	MF	FRG	Michael Rzehaczek	29	0	27	0	2	0
	MF	FRG	Dirk Sadowicz (since 16 May 1989)	1	0	1	0	0	0
	MF	FRG	Martin Slawinski	0	0	0	0	0	0
	GK	FRG	Andreas Wessels	7	0	6	0	1	0
	DF	FRG	Oliver Westerbeek	16	0	15	0	1	0
	DF	FRG	Lothar Woelk	33	1	31	1	2	0
	GK	FRG	Ralf Zumdick	31	0	29	0	2	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Transfers

Summer

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	FRG	Thorsten Bolzek (from 1. Traber FC)
—	DF	FRG	Jürgen Gredig (from Hertha Zehlendorf)
—	MF	FRG	Martin Slawinski (from Hammer SpVg)
—	DF	FRG	Oliver Westerbeek (from FC 08 Homburg)

Out:


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