1987–88 VfL Bochum season

VfL Bochum
	1987–88 season
President	Ottokar Wüst
Head Coach	Hermann Gerland
Stadium	Ruhrstadion
Bundesliga	12th
DFB-Pokal	Runners-up
Intertoto Cup	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Leifeld (13); All: N/A
Highest home attendance	40,000 (vs FC Schalke 04, 25 August 1987)
Lowest home attendance	6,000 (vs FC 08 Homburg, 17 November 1987)
Average home league attendance	16,994
← 1986–87	1988–89 →

The 1987–88 VfL Bochum season was the 50th season in club history.

Review and events

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Matches

Legend

Win Draw Loss

Bundesliga

31 July 1987 1	VfL Bochum	1 – 2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
20:00	Leifeld 88'	^[1]	Bruns 31' Rahn 39'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)

7 August 1987 2	Eintracht Frankfurt	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Frankfurt am Main
20:00		^[2]	Leifeld 54'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Anton Matheis (Rodalben)

15 August 1987 3	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	1. FC Köln	Bochum
15:30		^[3]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Hans Scheuerer (Munich)

22 August 1987 4	SV Werder Bremen	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	Bremen
15:30		^[4]		Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Eugen Strigel (Horb am Neckar)

25 August 1987 5	VfL Bochum	1 – 3	FC Schalke 04	Bochum
20:00	Kree 80'	^[5]	Patzke 57' Thon 75' Wollitz 82'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Dieter Pauly (Rheydt)

1 September 1987 6	Hannover 96	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Hannover
20:00	Reich 39'	^[6]		Stadium: Niedersachsenstadion Attendance: 14,000 Referee: Kurt Witke (Mönchzell)

4 September 1987 7	VfL Bochum	5 – 0	Karlsruher SC	Bochum
20:00	Leifeld 12', 77' Nehl 28', 62' Reekers 33'	^[7]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Herbert Eli (Idar-Oberstein)

11 September 1987 8	1. FC Kaiserslautern	4 – 2	VfL Bochum	Kaiserslautern
20:00	Kohr 19' Schulz 52' Kree 60' (o.g.) Wuttke 89'	^[8]	Leifeld 11' Epp 20'	Stadium: Fritz-Walter-Stadion Attendance: 15,487 Referee: Hans-Heinrich Barnick (Schenfeld)

19 September 1987 9	Hamburger SV	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
15:30	von Heesen 8' Dittmer 62'	^[9]	Knäbel 24' Kree 53'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 12,500 Referee: Manfred Amerell (Munich)

28 September 1987 10	VfL Bochum	1 – 4	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	Bochum
20:00	Heinemann 87'	^[10]	Kuntz 9', 84' Bommer 74' (pen.), 80'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Horst-Peter Bruch (Bischmisheim)

3 October 1987 11	VfB Stuttgart	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
15:30	Klinsmann 36' Walter 62', 77'	^[11]		Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Peter Gabor (West Berlin)

9 October 1987 12	VfL Bochum	3 – 1	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Bochum
20:00	Nehl 17', 52' Leifeld 28'	^[12]	Cha 55'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Rainer Boos (Kronberg)

17 February 1988 13	Borussia Dortmund	1 – 2	VfL Bochum	Dortmund
20:00	Möller 42'	^[13]	Riechmann 89' Rzehaczek 90'	Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 23,709 Referee: Hans Scheuerer (Munich)

31 October 1987 14	VfL Bochum	0 – 2	FC Bayern Munich	Bochum
15:30		^[14]	Flick 69' Wegmann 89'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Ralf Blattmann (Zeiningen)

6 November 1987 15	SV Waldhof Mannheim	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Ludwigshafen am Rhein
20:00	Klotz 44'	^[15]	Epp 64'	Stadium: Südweststadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Wolfgang Mierswa (Hennigsen)

17 November 1987 16	VfL Bochum	4 – 4	FC 08 Homburg	Bochum
20:00	Epp 6', 61' Legat 64' Kree 67'	^[16]	Westerbeek 5' Jambo 40' (pen.) Schäfer 87', 90'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Wolf-Rüdiger Umbach (Rottdorf)

21 November 1987 17	1. FC Nuremberg	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Nuremberg
15:30	Stenzel 9' Grahammer 18'	^[17]	Hantzidis 85'	Stadium: Städtisches Stadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

28 November 1987 18	Borussia Mönchengladbach	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Mönchengladbach
15:30	Hochstätter 3', 32' Krauss 57'	^[18]		Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 8,230 Referee: Gerd Zimmermann (Kiel)

5 December 1987 19	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bochum
15:30	Kempe 52'	^[19]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Hans-Joachim Osmers (Bremen)

20 February 1988 20	1. FC Köln	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Cologne
15:30	Engels 9' Woodcock 81'	^[20]	Woelk 14' Leifeld 53'	Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Manfred Amerell (Munich)

27 February 1988 21	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	SV Werder Bremen	Bochum
15:30		^[21]	Ordenewitz 1'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Siegfried Brehm (Kemmern)

5 March 1988 22	FC Schalke 04	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Gelsenkirchen
15:30	Tschiskale 51' Thon 73' (pen.)	^[22]	Rzehaczek 67'	Stadium: Parkstadion Attendance: 15,800 Referee: Manfred Neuner (Leimen)

19 April 1988 23	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	Hannover 96	Bochum
20:00	Leifeld 77'	^[23]	Kohn 87'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Peter Gabor (West Berlin)

19 March 1988 24	Karlsruher SC	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Karlsruhe
15:30	Hermann 70'	^[24]		Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 13,500 Referee: Horst-Peter Bruch (Bischmisheim)

22 March 1988 25	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Bochum
20:00	Leifeld 10'	^[25]	Allievi 23'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 9,200 Referee: Eugen Strigel (Horb am Neckar)

26 March 1988 26	VfL Bochum	4 – 0	Hamburger SV	Bochum
15:30	Iwan 13' Leifeld 24', 55' Nehl 73'	^[26]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 8,700 Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (Freiburg)

9 April 1988 27	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Krefeld
15:30	Fach 30' Mathy 32' Prytz 77'	^[27]	Leifeld 7'	Stadium: Grotenburg-Stadion Attendance: 9,600 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)

16 April 1988 28	VfL Bochum	5 – 1	VfB Stuttgart	Bochum
15:30	Iwan 4' Kree 19' Schäfer 22' (o.g.) Leifeld 70' Nehl 73'	^[28]	Buchwald 61'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Wolf-Günter Wiesel (Ottbergen)

23 April 1988 29	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	Leverkusen
15:30		^[29]		Stadium: Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Manfred Neuner (Leimen)

30 April 1988 30	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Borussia Dortmund	Bochum
15:30	Kree 37' (pen.), 80'	^[30]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Kurt Witke (Mönchzell)

3 May 1988 31	FC Bayern Munich	5 – 0	VfL Bochum	Munich
20:00	Hughes 51', 62', 68' Eder 61' Dorfner 83'	^[31]		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 8,500 Referee: Hans-Heinrich Barnick (Schenfeld)

6 May 1988 32	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	SV Waldhof Mannheim	Bochum
20:00	Kree 27'	^[32]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Heinz Werner (Auersmacher)

14 May 1988 33	FC 08 Homburg	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Homburg
15:30	Freiler 62'	^[33]	Knäbel 50'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Siegfried Brehm (Kemmern)

21 May 1988 34	VfL Bochum	3 – 0	1. FC Nuremberg	Bochum
15:30	Reekers 28' Kempe 65' Zumdick 88' (pen.)	^[34]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Hans-Joachim Osmers (Bremen)

DFB-Pokal

28 August 1987 R1	VfB Oldenburg	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	VfL Bochum	Oldenburg
18:45		^[35]		Stadium: Marschweg-Stadion Attendance: 8,200 Referee: Peter Mölm (Bremerhaven)

13 October 1987 R1 replay	VfL Bochum	4 – 1	VfB Oldenburg	Bochum
20:00	Woelk 27', 69' (pen.) Nehl 57' Fischer 83'	^[36]	Voigt 90'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 2,568 Referee: Michael Prengel (Düsseldorf)

24 October 1987 R2	TSG Giengen	1 – 2 (a.e.t.)	VfL Bochum	Giengen an der Brenz
14:30	Gentner 84'	^[37]	Fischer 33' Hantzidis 112'	Stadium: TSG-Stadion auf dem Schießberg Attendance: 3,300 Referee: Holger Dehmelt (Sasbachwalden)

14 February 1988 R3	Schwarz-Weiß Essen	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Essen
15:00		^[38]	Leifeld 57'	Stadium: Uhlenkrugstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)

8 March 1988 QF	VfL Bochum	4 – 1	Fortuna Köln	Bochum
	Leifeld 70', 83' Iwan 87' Epp 88'	^[39]	Pförtner 29'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Eugen Strigel (Horb am Neckar)

12 April 1988 SF	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Hamburger SV	Bochum
	Kree 27' Iwan 60'	^[40]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Hans Scheuerer (Munich)

28 May 1988 F	Eintracht Frankfurt	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	West Berlin
18:00	Détári 81'	^[41]		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 76,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

Intertoto Cup

27 June 1987 GS1	Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C.	2 – 2	VfL Bochum
		^[42]		Attendance: 1,000

4 July 1987 GS2	Beitar Jerusalem F.C.	0 – 0	VfL Bochum
		^[42]		Attendance: 400

12 July 1987 GS3	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C.
		^[42]		Attendance: 1,000

18 July 1987 GS4	VfL Bochum	4 – 0	Beitar Jerusalem F.C.
		^[42]		Attendance: 1,000

25 July 1987 GS5	VfL Bochum	2 – 3	Brøndby IF
		^[42]		Attendance: 1,000

27 July 1987 GS6	Brøndby IF	1 – 0	VfL Bochum
		^[42]		Attendance: 2,500

Squad

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals scored

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal		Intertoto Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	MF		Frank Benatelli	20	0	15	0	5	0
	MF		Dirk Bremser	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MF		Olaf Dreßel	3	0	2	0	1	0
	FW		Thomas Epp	36	5	31	4	5	1
	FW		Klaus Fischer	15	2	12	0	3	2
	FW		Minas Hantzidis (21 October 1987 until 31 December 1987)	4	2	3	1	1	1
	MF		Frank Heinemann	30	1	25	1	5	0
	MF		Michael Hubner	4	0	3	0	1	0
	MF		Andrzej Iwan	20	4	16	2	4	2
	DF		Peter Jackisch	12	0	12	0	0	0
	DF		Thomas Kempe	34	2	29	2	5	0
	MF		Peter Knäbel	24	2	20	2	4	0
	MF		Volker Knappheide	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF		Martin Kree	36	8	32	7	4	1
	MF		Michael Lameck	20	0	16	0	4	0
	MF		Thorsten Legat	20	1	17	1	3	0
	FW		Uwe Leifeld	37	16	30	13	7	3
	FW		Andreas Lübke	1	0	1	0	0	0
	MF		Detlef Mikolajczak	10	0	8	0	2	0
	FW		Josef Nehl	32	7	27	6	5	1
	DF		Walter Oswald	32	0	26	0	6	0
	DF		Rob Reekers	32	2	26	2	6	0
	MF		Dirk Riechmann (since 17 February 1988)	4	1	3	1	1	0
	MF		Michael Rzehaczek (since 4 September 1987)	18	2	15	2	3	0
	DF		Franz-Josef Tenhagen	1	0	1	0	0	0
	GK		Andreas Wessels	6	0	5	0	1	0
	DF		Lothar Woelk	40	3	33	1	7	2
	GK		Ralf Zumdick	35	1	29	1	6	0

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Transfers

Summer

In:

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Olaf Dreßel (from VfL Bochum youth)
		FW	Thomas Epp (from VfB Stuttgart youth)
		FW	Minas Hantzidis (from Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
		MF	Michael Hubner (from VfL Bochum youth)
		MF	Andrzej Iwan (from Górnik Zabrze)
		DF	Peter Jackisch (from VfB Remscheid)
		MF	Michael Rzehaczek (from VfL Bochum II)

Out:

No.		Position	Player
		DF	Siegfried Bönighausen (retired)
		FW	Rudolf Decker (to Rot-Weiß Oberhausen)
		MF	Michael Kühn (to BVL Remscheid)
		FW	Franz Schick (to TSV Ampfing)
		MF	Frank Schulz (to Eintracht Frankfurt)
		MF	Uwe Wegmann (to Rot-Weiß Essen)
		DF	Jürgen Wielert (to Rot-Weiß Oberhausen)
		DF	Ivan Žugčić (to SG Wattenscheid 09)

Winter

In:

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Dirk Riechmann (from VfL Bochum II)

Out:

No.		Position	Player
		FW	Minas Hantzidis (to Olympiacos F.C.)

Sources

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External links

1987–88 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de (German)
1987–88 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de (German)
1987–88 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de (German)

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1987–88 VfL Bochum season

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