1999–2000 VfL Bochum season

VfL Bochum 1999–2000 football season

VfL Bochum

1999–2000 season

President

Werner Altegoer

Head Coach

Ernst Middendorp
(until 24 October 1999)
Bernard Dietz, ad interim
(until 31 December 1999)
Ralf Zumdick
(since 1 January 2000)

Stadium

Ruhrstadion

2. Bundesliga

2nd (promoted)

DFB-Pokal

Quarter-finals

Top goalscorer

League: Weber (19)
All: Weber (22)

Highest home attendance

33,063 (vs Borussia Mönchengladbach, 17 April 2000)

Lowest home attendance

10,007 (vs Tennis Borussia Berlin, 24 October 1999)

Average home league attendance

16,076

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

← 1998–99

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The 1999–2000 VfL Bochum season was the 62nd season in club history.

Review and events

On 24 October 1999 head coach Ernst Middendorp was sacked. Bernard Dietz was appointed caretaker on 25 October 1999. Ralf Zumdick was appointed head coach on 1 January 2000.

Matches

Legend

Win Draw Loss

2. Bundesliga

Karlsruher SC v VfL Bochum

16 August 1999 1	Karlsruher SC	1 – 3	VfL Bochum	Karlsruhe
20:15	Krieg 90'	^[1]	Weber 10' (pen.) Lust 47' Peschel 90'	Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 15,050 Referee: Helmut Fleischer (Ulm)

VfL Bochum v Alemannia Aachen

20 August 1999 2	VfL Bochum	5 – 0	Alemannia Aachen	Bochum
19:00	Heeren 12' (o.g.) Peschel 48' Buckley 60' Bałuszyński 71' Weber 76'	^[2]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 24,063 Referee: Torsten Koop (Lüttenmark)

FC St. Pauli v VfL Bochum

29 August 1999 3	FC St. Pauli	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
15:00		^[3]		Stadium: Millerntor-Stadion Attendance: 14,863 Referee: Olaf Blumenstein (Berlin)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Köln

13 September 1999 4	VfL Bochum	2 – 3	1. FC Köln	Bochum
20:15	Weber 21' Ristau 53'	^[4]	Azizi 31' Kurth 60', 68'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,010 Referee: Michael Wendorf (Gransee)

Rot-Weiß Oberhausen v VfL Bochum

17 September 1999 5	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Oberhausen
19:00	Lipinski 13', 64' (pen.) Vier 89' (pen.)	^[5]		Stadium: Niederrheinstadion Attendance: 7,556 Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)

VfL Bochum v SpVgg Greuther Fürth

24 September 1999 6	VfL Bochum	1 – 2	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Bochum
19:00	Weber 66'	^[6]	Sbordone 12' Meichelbeck 64'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 12,724 Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)

Stuttgarter Kickers v VfL Bochum

3 October 1999 7	Stuttgarter Kickers	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
15:00		^[7]		Stadium: Gazi-Stadion auf der Waldau Attendance: 3,317 Referee: Burkard Hufgard (Mömbris)

VfL Bochum v FC Energie Cottbus

16 October 1999 8	VfL Bochum	2 – 4	FC Energie Cottbus	Bochum
15:30	Bałuszyński 66' Weber 76' (pen.)	^[8]	Latoundji 34' Heidrich 57' Wawrzyczek 61' Helbig 77'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,907 Referee: Peter Sippel (Munich)

VfL Bochum v Tennis Borussia Berlin

24 October 1999 9	VfL Bochum	2 – 6	Tennis Borussia Berlin	Bochum
15:00	Weber 29' Peschel 72'	^[9]	Rösler 1', 85', 90' Tredup 38' Kiriakov 41' Copado 57'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,007 Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)

Borussia Mönchengladbach v VfL Bochum

1 November 1999 10	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Mönchengladbach
20:15		^[10]	Baştürk 37'	Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Christian Schößling (Leipzig)

VfL Bochum v SV Waldhof Mannheim

5 November 1999 11	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	SV Waldhof Mannheim	Bochum
19:00	Peschel 26', 50'	^[11]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 11,310 Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

Kickers Offenbach v VfL Bochum

19 November 1999 12	Kickers Offenbach	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Offenbach
19:00	Bundea 52' Simon 54'	^[12]	Weber 66' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadion am Bieberer Berg Attendance: 12,500 Referee: Jürgen Kreyer (Hilden)

VfL Bochum v Fortuna Köln

27 November 1999 13	VfL Bochum	3 – 0	Fortuna Köln	Bochum
15:30	Weber 51', 73' Vardanyan 87' (o.g.)	^[13]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,199 Referee: Peter Lange (Filderstadt)

1. FSV Mainz 05 v VfL Bochum

5 December 1999 14	1. FSV Mainz 05	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Mainz
15:00		^[14]	Buckley 44'	Stadium: Bruchwegstadion Attendance: 6,135 Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg am Neckar)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Nürnberg

11 December 1999 15	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	1. FC Nürnberg	Bochum
15:30	Schindzielorz 24' Stoilov 90' (o.g.)	^[15]	Leitl 39'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 14,511 Referee: Volker Wezel (Tübingen)

Chemnitzer FC v VfL Bochum

14 December 1999 16	Chemnitzer FC	3 – 3	VfL Bochum	Chemnitz
19:00	Dittgen 58', 72' Skela 68'	^[16]	Peschel 9' Weber 41', 70'	Stadium: Stadion an der Gellertstraße Attendance: 5,960 Referee: Thomas Frank (Hannover)

VfL Bochum v Hannover 96

9 February 2000 17	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Hannover 96	Bochum
19:00	Peschel 42' Baştürk 52'	^[17]	Milovanovic 47'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 14,142 Referee: Detlef Schütz (Norken)

VfL Bochum v Karlsruher SC

14 February 2000 18	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Karlsruher SC	Bochum
20:15	Peschel 36' Dickhaut 76'	^[18]	Krieg 64'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,541 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)

Alemannia Aachen v VfL Bochum

20 February 2000 19	Alemannia Aachen	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Aachen
15:00		^[19]	Peschel 90'	Stadium: Tivoli Attendance: 19,600 Referee: Markus Schmidt (Stuttgart)

VfL Bochum v FC St. Pauli

25 February 2000 20	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	FC St. Pauli	Bochum
19:00	Peschel 76' Lust 87'	^[20]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,710 Referee: Dirk Margenberg (Wermelskirchen)

1. FC Köln v VfL Bochum

3 March 2000 21	1. FC Köln	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Cologne
19:00	Timm 36' Springer 62' Donkov 77'	^[21]		Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Jürgen Jansen (Essen)

VfL Bochum v Rot-Weiß Oberhausen

12 March 2000 22	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	Bochum
15:00	Weber 85'	^[22]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,945 Referee: Christian Schößling (Leipzig)

SpVgg Greuther Fürth v VfL Bochum

18 March 2000 23	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Fürth
15:30	Walther 26' Türr 77'	^[23]	Bemben 16' Baştürk 35'	Stadium: Playmobil-Stadion Attendance: 6,825 Referee: Matthias Anklam (Buchholz in der Nordheide)

VfL Bochum v Stuttgarter Kickers

25 March 2000 24	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Stuttgarter Kickers	Bochum
15:30	Weber 50' Marić 52'	^[24]	Kümmerle 84'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 14,155 Referee: Ralf Hilmes (Nordhorn)

FC Energie Cottbus v VfL Bochum

3 April 2000 25	FC Energie Cottbus	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Cottbus
20:15	Rath 82'	^[25]	Weber 17'	Stadium: Stadion der Freundschaft Attendance: 10,697 Referee: Bernd Hauer (Hambühren)

Tennis Borussia Berlin v VfL Bochum

10 April 2000 26	Tennis Borussia Berlin	0 – 4	VfL Bochum	Berlin
20:15		^[26]	Ristau 48' Müller 6' Peschel 64' Marić 69'	Stadium: Mommsenstadion Attendance: 3,221 Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg am Neckar)

VfL Bochum v Borussia Mönchengladbach

17 April 2000 27	VfL Bochum	2 – 2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
20:15	Weber 33' Baştürk 72'	^[27]	van Lent 45' Ketelaer 79'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 33,063 Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

SV Waldhof Mannheim v VfL Bochum

22 April 2000 28	SV Waldhof Mannheim	4 – 2	VfL Bochum	Mannheim
15:30	Vata 42', 83' Licht 55', 78'	^[28]	Baştürk 53' Marić 54'	Stadium: Carl-Benz-Stadion Attendance: 8,100 Referee: Olaf Blumenstein (Berlin)

VfL Bochum v Kickers Offenbach

28 April 2000 29	VfL Bochum	6 – 1	Kickers Offenbach	Bochum
19:00	Peschel 7', 88' Kolinger 45' (o.g.) Dickhaut 70' Buckley 72' Toplak 78'	^[29]	Dama 41' (pen.)	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,600 Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)

Fortuna Köln v VfL Bochum

6 May 2000 30	Fortuna Köln	2 – 3	VfL Bochum	Cologne
15:30	Ibrahim 70' Ćatić 85'	^[30]	Weber 34' Baştürk 53' Peschel 65'	Stadium: Südstadion Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Christian Schößling (Leipzig)

VfL Bochum v 1. FSV Mainz 05

15 May 2000 31	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	1. FSV Mainz 05	Bochum
20:15		^[31]	Demandt 37'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 14,821 Referee: Bernd Hauer (Hambühren)

1. FC Nürnberg v VfL Bochum

18 May 2000 32	1. FC Nürnberg	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Nuremberg
20:15		^[32]	Bałuszyński 83'	Stadium: Frankenstadion Attendance: 18,500 Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)

VfL Bochum v Chemnitzer FC

21 May 2000 33	VfL Bochum	5 – 1	Chemnitzer FC	Bochum
15:00	Weber 9', 25' Schindzielorz 29' Peschel 69' Baştürk 77'	^[33]	Kujat 15'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 20,577 Referee: Stephan Kammerer (Karlsruhe)

Hannover 96 v VfL Bochum

26 May 2000 34	Hannover 96	3 – 3	VfL Bochum	Hannover
19:00	Blank 29' Keita 76' Morinas 90'	^[34]	Marić 15' Ristau 58' Weber 87'	Stadium: Niedersachsenstadion Attendance: 8,449 Referee: Markus Schmidt (Stuttgart)

DFB-Pokal

SSV Reutlingen 05 v VfL Bochum

6 August 1999 R2	SSV Reutlingen 05	2 – 3	VfL Bochum	Reutlingen
18:30	Marić 11' Djappa 36'	^[35]	Baştürk 9' Buckley 20' Bałuszyński 55'	Stadium: Stadion an der Kreuzeiche Attendance: 3,610 Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)

VfL Bochum v MSV Duisburg

13 October 1999 R3	VfL Bochum	1 – 1 (a.e.t.) (6 – 5 p)	MSV Duisburg	Bochum
19:00	Baştürk 70'	^[36]	Spies 86'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 12,928 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)
	Penalties
	Reis Rietpietsch Stickroth Lust Weber Buckley Dickhaut		Hirsch Beierle M. Zeyer Voss Hajto Neun Wolters

VfL Bochum v VfL Wolfsburg

1 December 1999 R4	VfL Bochum	5 – 4	VfL Wolfsburg	Bochum
19:30	Weber 41', 43' Peschel 47' (pen.) Baştürk 58', 90'	^[37]	Feldhoff 28' Thomsen 40' Akonnor 55', 84' (pen.)	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,895 Referee: Lutz Wagner (Kriftel)

VfL Bochum v SV Werder Bremen

21 December 1999 QF	VfL Bochum	1 – 2	SV Werder Bremen	Bochum
20:30	Weber 63'	^[38]	Aílton 79', 87'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 20,063 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

Squad

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals scored

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		2. Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	NED	Rein van Duijnhoven	17	0	16	0	1	0
2	DF	CRO	Samir Toplak	16	1	15	1	1	0
3	DF	GER	Sven Boy	8	0	7	0	1	0
4	DF	GER	Axel Sundermann	29	0	25	0	4	0
5	DF	GER	Thomas Reis	22	1	18	0	4	1
6	MF	GER	Matthias Lust	22	3	19	2	3	1
7	MF	GER	Peter Peschel	37	16	34	15	3	1
8	MF	GER	Sebastian Schindzielorz	32	2	29	2	3	0
9	FW	GER	Achim Weber	35	22	31	19	4	3
10	MF	TUR	Yıldıray Baştürk	34	11	30	7	4	4
11	FW	RSA	Delron Buckley	37	5	33	3	4	2
12	DF	GER	Thomas Stickroth	34	1	31	0	3	1
13	DF	GER	Frank Fahrenhorst	4	0	4	0	0	0
14	DF	GER	Mike Rietpietsch	10	1	8	0	2	1
15	MF	GER	Olaf Schreiber	11	0	10	0	1	0
16	DF	GER	Hilko Ristau	26	3	23	3	3	0
17	FW	POL	Henryk Bałuszyński	14	4	13	3	1	1
19	FW	YUG	Zdravko Drinčić	5	0	5	0	0	0
20	FW	GER	Björn Joppe	1	0	1	0	0	0
21	GK	GER	Thomas Ernst	21	0	18	0	3	0
22	FW	GER	René Müller	12	1	9	1	3	0
23	DF	GER	Mirko Dickhaut	35	3	31	2	4	1
24	DF	GER	Michael Bemben	31	1	28	1	3	0
25	MF	GER	Jan Majewski	1	0	1	0	0	0
26	FW	POL	Jacek Ratajczak	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	MF	GER	Norbert Hofmann (until 31 October 1999)	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	FW	CRO	Marijo Marić (since 1 December 1999)	18	4	18	4	0	0
28	MF	GER	Jan Holland	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	MF	GER	Paul Freier	6	0	6	0	0	0
31	GK	GER	Stefan Wächter	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	GK	GER	Klaus Schlapka	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Transfers

Summer

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	NED	Rein van Duijnhoven (from MVV Maastricht)
3	DF	GER	Sven Boy (from Arminia Bielefeld)
6	MF	GER	Matthias Lust (from SpVgg Unterhaching)
9	FW	GER	Achim Weber (from Rot-Weiß Oberhausen)
14	DF	GER	Mike Rietpietsch (from SC Freiburg)
16	DF	GER	Hilko Ristau (from SG Wattenscheid 09)
17	FW	POL	Henryk Bałuszyński (loan return from Arminia Bielefeld)
22	FW	GER	René Müller (from SC Preußen Münster)
30	MF	GER	Paul Freier (from VfL Bochum II)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	GER	Maik Kischko (to Stuttgarter Kickers)
3	DF	GER	Torsten Kracht (to Eintracht Frankfurt)
5	DF	POL	Tomasz Wałdoch (to FC Schalke 04)
7	MF	GER	Kai Michalke (to Hertha BSC)
10	MF	GER	Maurizio Gaudino (to Antalyaspor)
11	FW	GER	Stefan Kuntz (retired)
14	MF	SVN	Emir Dzafič (to NK Samobor)
15	MF	GER	Andreas Zeyer (to SC Freiburg)
20	DF	CRO	Alen Petrović (to NK Slaven Belupo)
24	FW	TUR	Neşat Gülünoğlu (to A.S. Roma)
32	MF	ROU	Viorel Ion (to FC Oțelul Galați)
33	MF	IRN	Mehdi Mahdavikia (to Hamburger SV)

Winter

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
27	FW	CRO	Marijo Marić (from SSV Reutlingen 05)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
27	MF	GER	Norbert Hofmann (to 1. FC Saarbrücken)

VfL Bochum II

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Regionalliga West/Südwest
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	DF	GER	Daniel Antweiler	6	0	6	0
	DF	GER	Michael Bemben	7	0	7	0
	FW	MLI	Bakary Diakité	3	0	3	0
	FW	GER	Tobias Dudeck	1	0	1	0
	FW	CMR	Francis-Joseph Etouké	31	1	31	1
	DF	GER	Frank Fahrenhorst	14	0	14	0
	MF	ITA	Giovanni Federico	31	7	31	7
	MF	GER	Paul Freier	35	11	35	11
	MF	GER	Tobias Gerwing-Gerwer	1	0	1	0
	MF	POL	Arek Grad	27	3	27	3
	MF	GER	Benjamin Heydel	5	0	5	0
	DF	GER	Jan Holland	36	3	36	3
	MF	GER	Gerrit Hundshagen	31	2	31	2
	MF	GER	Björn Joppe	23	6	23	6
	MF	GER	Sascha Lindner	38	0	38	0
	FW	CMR	César M'Boma	12	1	12	1
	MF	GER	Jan Majewski	29	13	29	13
	FW	CRO	Marijo Marić (since 4 December 1999)	1	0	1	0
	DF	GER	Wojtek Meinert	6	1	6	1
	MF	GER	Nicolas Michaty	0	0	0	0
	DF	TUR	Aykan Özer	14	0	14	0
	FW	POL	Jacek Ratajczak	18	0	18	0
	MF	GER	Damian Schindzielorz	6	0	6	0
	GK	GER	Klaus Schlapka	1	0	1	0
	DF	GER	Rouven Schröder	38	0	38	0
	FW	GER	Sascha Siebert	34	12	34	12
	MF	GER	Farat Toku	5	0	5	0
	GK	GER	Stefan Wächter	37	0	37	0
	DF	TUR	Bekir Burak Yarar	29	0	29	0