| 1979–80 season | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| President | Ottokar Wüst | ||
| Head Coach | Helmuth Johannsen | ||
| Stadium | Ruhrstadion | ||
| Bundesliga | 10th | ||
| DFB-Pokal | Third Round | ||
| Top goalscorer | League: Hans-Joachim Abel (13) All: Hans-Joachim Abel (16) | ||
| Highest home attendance | 42,000 (vs Hamburger SV, 11 August 1979) | ||
| Lowest home attendance | 9,000 (vs SV Werder Bremen, 31 May 1980) | ||
| Average home league attendance | 21,471 | ||
The 1979–80 VfL Bochum season was the 42nd season in club history.
On 26 January 1980 21-year-old midfielder Lutz Gerresheim was involved in a car accident and fell into a coma. Gerresheim died on 10 March 1980. [1]
Win Draw Loss
| 11 August 19791 | VfL Bochum | 0 – 3 | Hamburger SV | Bochum |
| 15:30 | [2] | Hartwig Memering Magath | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Horst Joos (Stuttgart) |
| 18 August 19792 | Bayer 05 Uerdingen | 1 – 0 | VfL Bochum | Uerdingen |
| 15:30 | Mattsson | [3] | Stadium: Grotenburg-Stadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede) |
| 28 August 19793 | VfL Bochum | 0 – 0 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | Bochum |
| 20:00 | [4] | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Heinz Aldinger (Waiblingen) |
| 1 September 19794 | TSV 1860 Munich | 1 – 0 | VfL Bochum | Munich |
| 15:30 | Flohe | [5] | Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 27,000 Referee: Helmut Treib (Wadgassen) |
| 8 September 19795 | VfL Bochum | 0 – 1 | FC Bayern Munich | Bochum |
| 15:30 | [6] | Rummenigge | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Walter Horstmann (Hildesheim) |
| 15 September 19796 | Borussia Dortmund | 2 – 2 | VfL Bochum | Dortmund |
| 15:30 | Woelk Burgsmüller | [7] | Knüwe | Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Jan Redelfs (Hannover) |
| 22 September 19797 | VfL Bochum | 2 – 1 | Hertha BSC | Bochum |
| 15:30 | Oswald Abel | [8] | Agerbeck | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Werner Ross (Ingolstadt) |
| 6 October 19798 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 1 – 4 | VfL Bochum | Düsseldorf |
| 15:30 | Bommer | [9] | Knüwe Abel Blau Gerland | Stadium: Rheinstadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Dieter Michel (Augsburg) |
| 20 October 19799 | VfL Bochum | 3 – 0 | MSV Duisburg | Bochum |
| 15:30 | Eggert Blau | [10] | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Walter Eschweiler (Euskirchen) |
| 27 October 197910 | VfB Stuttgart | 1 – 3 | VfL Bochum | Stuttgart |
| 15:30 | Klotz | [11] | Oswald Abel Kaczor | Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Gert Meuser (Ingelheim) |
| 2 November 197911 | VfL Bochum | 0 – 0 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | Bochum |
| 20:00 | [12] | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Eberhard Schmoock (Reichenau) |
| 10 November 197912 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 3 – 0 | VfL Bochum | Braunschweig |
| 15:30 | Grobe Worm | [13] | Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Klaus Clajus (Karlsruhe) |
| 17 November 197913 | VfL Bochum | 1 – 0 | Eintracht Frankfurt | Bochum |
| 15:30 | Abel | [14] | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Helmut Treib (Wadgassen) |
| 23 November 197914 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen | 3 – 1 | VfL Bochum | Leverkusen |
| 20:00 | Demuth Hermann | [15] | Abel | Stadium: Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Werner Burgers (Essen) |
| 30 November 197915 | 1. FC Köln | 2 – 1 | VfL Bochum | Cologne |
| 20:00 | Schuster Littbarski | [16] | Eggeling | Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Gerd Hennig (Duisburg) |
| 8 December 197916 | VfL Bochum | 0 – 0 | FC Schalke 04 | Bochum |
| 15:30 | [17] | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Fischenich) |
| 14 December 197917 | SV Werder Bremen | 2 – 0 | VfL Bochum | Bremen |
| 20:00 | Röber Reinders | [18] | Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Dieter Dreher (Darmstadt) |
| 19 January 198018 | Hamburger SV | 3 – 1 | VfL Bochum | Hamburg |
| 15:30 | Hrubesch Milewski | [19] | Knüwe | Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Werner Ross (Ingolstadt) |
| 26 January 198019 | VfL Bochum | 1 – 0 | Bayer 05 Uerdingen | Bochum |
| 15:30 | Eggert | [20] | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Dieter Stäglich (Bonn) |
| 2 February 198020 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 3 – 2 | VfL Bochum | Mönchengladbach |
| 15:30 | Bast Nickel | [21] | Abel Tenhagen | Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 8,400 Referee: Udo Horeis (Hamburg) |
| 9 February 198021 | VfL Bochum | 2 – 0 | TSV 1860 Munich | Bochum |
| 15:30 | Lameck Abel | [22] | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Heinz Quindeau (Ludwigshafen) |
| 23 February 198022 | FC Bayern Munich | 3 – 0 | VfL Bochum | Munich |
| 15:30 | Horsmann Rummenigge Aas | [23] | Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Peter Gabor (West Berlin) |
| 1 March 198023 | VfL Bochum | 2 – 2 | Borussia Dortmund | Bochum |
| 15:30 | Abel | [24] | Frank Huber | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Wolf-Dieter Ahlenfelder (Oberhausen) |
| 8 March 198024 | Hertha BSC | 1 – 0 | VfL Bochum | West Berlin |
| 15:30 | Remark | [25] | Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede) |
| 14 March 198025 | VfL Bochum | 0 – 0 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | Bochum |
| 20:00 | [26] | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Dieter Dreher (Darmstadt) |
| 21 March 198026 | MSV Duisburg | 0 – 1 | VfL Bochum | Duisburg |
| 20:00 | [27] | Kaczor | Stadium: Wedaustadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Fischenich) |
| 29 March 198027 | VfL Bochum | 0 – 1 | VfB Stuttgart | Bochum |
| 15:30 | [28] | Förster | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Udo Horeis (Hamburg) |
| 11 April 198028 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 4 – 1 | VfL Bochum | Kaiserslautern |
| 20:00 | Melzer Groh Bongartz Melzer | [29] | Kaczor | Stadium: Betzenbergstadion Attendance: 26,510 Referee: Jan Redelfs (Hannover) |
| 18 April 198029 | VfL Bochum | 2 – 1 | Eintracht Braunschweig | Bochum |
| 20:00 | Pinkall Abel | [30] | Bruns | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Robert Walz (Waiblingen) |
| 26 April 198030 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 0 – 1 | VfL Bochum | Frankfurt am Main |
| 15:30 | [31] | Kaczor | Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Franz-Josef Hontheim (Trier) |
| 2 May 198031 | VfL Bochum | 4 – 2 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen | Bochum |
| 20:00 | Woelk Kaczor Abel | [32] | Hermann Brücken | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Eberhard Schmoock (Reichenau) |
| 17 May 198032 | VfL Bochum | 2 – 0 | 1. FC Köln | Bochum |
| 15:30 | Pinkall Oswald | [33] | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Jan Redelfs (Hannover) |
| 24 May 198033 | FC Schalke 04 | 1 – 0 | VfL Bochum | Gelsenkirchen |
| 15:30 | Thiele | [34] | Stadium: Parkstadion Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Horst Joos (Stuttgart) |
| 31 May 198034 | VfL Bochum | 5 – 2 | SV Werder Bremen | Bochum |
| 15:30 | Bast Lameck Eggert Abel Kaczor | [35] | Dreßel Steinkogler | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Winfried Walz (Waiblingen) |
| 25 August 1979R1 | FV Weingarten | 2 – 7 | VfL Bochum | Weingarten |
| Kraut Pfirrmann | [36] | Blau Eggeling Kaczor | Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Karl Gaus (Empfingen) |
| 29 September 1979R2 | VfL Bochum | 2 – 1 | SpVgg Fürth | Bochum |
| Oswald Kaczor | [37] | Bulut | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Jakob Wippker (Aachen) |
| 12 January 1980R3 | VfL Bochum | 3 – 3 (a.e.t.) | 1. FC Köln | Bochum |
| Abel Bast | [38] | Schuster Neumann | Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Günter Linn (Altendiez) |
| 30 January 1980R3 replay | 1. FC Köln | 2 – 1 | VfL Bochum | Cologne |
| Müller Woodcock | [39] | Abel | Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Walter Horstmann (Hildesheim) |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||
| FW | Hans-Joachim Abel | 37 | 16 | 34 | 13 | 3 | 3 | ||
| DF | Dieter Bast | 33 | 2 | 29 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||
| DF | Ulrich Bittorf | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| DF | Rolf Blau | 36 | 4 | 33 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||
| MF | Luka Bonačić | 11 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| FW | Heinz-Werner Eggeling (until 1 December 1979) | 14 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| MF | Michael Eggert | 27 | 3 | 23 | 3 | 4 | 0 | ||
| DF | Klaus Franke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| DF | Hermann Gerland | 23 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||
| MF | Lutz Gerresheim (until 10 March 1980) | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| DF | Detlef Jaskowiak | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| FW | Josef Kaczor | 29 | 9 | 27 | 6 | 2 | 3 | ||
| DF | Heinz Knüwe | 36 | 4 | 32 | 4 | 4 | 0 | ||
| MF | Hans-Jürgen Köper | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| DF | Michael Lameck | 37 | 2 | 33 | 2 | 4 | 0 | ||
| GK | Reinhard Mager | 38 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| MF | Walter Oswald | 30 | 4 | 27 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||
| FW | Kurt Pinkall | 7 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| FW | Werner Schachten | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| FW | Ottmar Scheuch | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| GK | Werner Scholz | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| MF | Franz-Josef Tenhagen | 38 | 1 | 34 | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||
| DF | Lothar Woelk | 37 | 1 | 34 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
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