1979–80 VfL Bochum season

VfL Bochum

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
Home colours Away colours
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The 1979–80 VfL Bochum season was the 42nd season in club history.

Review and events

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]

Matches

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

Bundesliga

VfL Bochum v Hamburger SV

11 August 1979 1	VfL Bochum	0 – 3	Hamburger SV	Bochum
15:30		[2]	Hartwig  62' Memering  75' Magath  87'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Horst Joos (Stuttgart)

Bayer 05 Uerdingen v VfL Bochum

18 August 1979 2	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Uerdingen
15:30	Mattsson  43'	[3]		Stadium: Grotenburg-Stadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

VfL Bochum v Borussia Mönchengladbach

28 August 1979 3	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
20:00		[4]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Heinz Aldinger (Waiblingen)

TSV 1860 Munich v VfL Bochum

1 September 1979 4	TSV 1860 Munich	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Munich
15:30	Flohe  41' (pen.)	[5]		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 27,000 Referee: Helmut Treib (Wadgassen)

VfL Bochum v FC Bayern Munich

8 September 1979 5	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	FC Bayern Munich	Bochum
15:30		[6]	Rummenigge  40'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Walter Horstmann (Hildesheim)

Borussia Dortmund v VfL Bochum

15 September 1979 6	Borussia Dortmund	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Dortmund
15:30	Woelk  28' (o.g.) Burgsmüller  39'	[7]	Knüwe  25', 81'	Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Jan Redelfs (Hannover)

VfL Bochum v Hertha BSC

22 September 1979 7	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Hertha BSC	Bochum
15:30	Oswald  10' Abel  84'	[8]	Agerbeck  87'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Werner Ross (Ingolstadt)

Fortuna Düsseldorf v VfL Bochum

6 October 1979 8	Fortuna Düsseldorf	1 – 4	VfL Bochum	Düsseldorf
15:30	Bommer  32'	[9]	Knüwe  18' Abel  22' Blau  84' Gerland  87'	Stadium: Rheinstadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Dieter Michel (Augsburg)

VfL Bochum v MSV Duisburg

20 October 1979 9	VfL Bochum	3 – 0	MSV Duisburg	Bochum
15:30	Eggert  25' Blau  41', 65'	[10]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Walter Eschweiler (Euskirchen)

VfB Stuttgart v VfL Bochum

27 October 1979 10	VfB Stuttgart	1 – 3	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
15:30	Klotz  59'	[11]	Oswald  46' Abel  63' Kaczor  72'	Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Gert Meuser (Ingelheim)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Kaiserslautern

2 November 1979 11	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Bochum
20:00		[12]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Eberhard Schmoock (Reichenau)

Eintracht Braunschweig v VfL Bochum

10 November 1979 12	Eintracht Braunschweig	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Braunschweig
15:30	Grobe  9' Worm  83', 89'	[13]		Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Klaus Clajus (Karlsruhe)

VfL Bochum v Eintracht Frankfurt

17 November 1979 13	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bochum
15:30	Abel  80' (pen.)	[14]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Helmut Treib (Wadgassen)

Bayer 04 Leverkusen v VfL Bochum

23 November 1979 14	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Leverkusen
20:00	Demuth  5', 43' (pen.) Hermann  89'	[15]	Abel  30' (pen.)	Stadium: Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Werner Burgers (Essen)

1. FC Köln v VfL Bochum

30 November 1979 15	1. FC Köln	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Cologne
20:00	Schuster  34' Littbarski  76'	[16]	Eggeling  35'	Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Gerd Hennig (Duisburg)

VfL Bochum v FC Schalke 04

8 December 1979 16	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	FC Schalke 04	Bochum
15:30		[17]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Fischenich)

SV Werder Bremen v VfL Bochum

14 December 1979 17	SV Werder Bremen	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Bremen
20:00	Röber  10' Reinders  62'	[18]		Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Dieter Dreher (Darmstadt)

Hamburger SV v VfL Bochum

19 January 1980 18	Hamburger SV	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
15:30	Hrubesch  5', 55' (pen.) Milewski  76'	[19]	Knüwe  78'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Werner Ross (Ingolstadt)

VfL Bochum v Bayer 05 Uerdingen

26 January 1980 19	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	Bochum
15:30	Eggert  79'	[20]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Dieter Stäglich (Bonn)

Borussia Mönchengladbach v VfL Bochum

2 February 1980 20	Borussia Mönchengladbach	3 – 2	VfL Bochum	Mönchengladbach
15:30	Bast  53' (o.g.), 90' (o.g.) Nickel  78' (pen.)	[21]	Abel  22' Tenhagen  28'	Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 8,400 Referee: Udo Horeis (Hamburg)

VfL Bochum v TSV 1860 Munich

9 February 1980 21	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	TSV 1860 Munich	Bochum
15:30	Lameck  23' Abel  75'	[22]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Heinz Quindeau (Ludwigshafen)

FC Bayern Munich v VfL Bochum

23 February 1980 22	FC Bayern Munich	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Munich
15:30	Horsmann  7' Rummenigge  16' Aas  80'	[23]		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Peter Gabor (West Berlin)

VfL Bochum v Borussia Dortmund

1 March 1980 23	VfL Bochum	2 – 2	Borussia Dortmund	Bochum
15:30	Abel  30', 54'	[24]	Frank  21' Huber  90+1'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Wolf-Dieter Ahlenfelder (Oberhausen)

Hertha BSC v VfL Bochum

8 March 1980 24	Hertha BSC	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	West Berlin
15:30	Remark  87'	[25]		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

VfL Bochum v Fortuna Düsseldorf

14 March 1980 25	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Bochum
20:00		[26]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Dieter Dreher (Darmstadt)

MSV Duisburg v VfL Bochum

21 March 1980 26	MSV Duisburg	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Duisburg
20:00		[27]	Kaczor  23'	Stadium: Wedaustadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Fischenich)

VfL Bochum v VfB Stuttgart

29 March 1980 27	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	VfB Stuttgart	Bochum
15:30		[28]	Förster  20'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Udo Horeis (Hamburg)

1. FC Kaiserslautern v VfL Bochum

11 April 1980 28	1. FC Kaiserslautern	4 – 1	VfL Bochum	Kaiserslautern
20:00	Melzer  61' Groh  77' Bongartz  81' Melzer  88'	[29]	Kaczor  55'	Stadium: Betzenbergstadion Attendance: 26,510 Referee: Jan Redelfs (Hannover)

VfL Bochum v Eintracht Braunschweig

18 April 1980 29	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Eintracht Braunschweig	Bochum
20:00	Pinkall  49' Abel  85'	[30]	Bruns  21'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Robert Walz (Waiblingen)

Eintracht Frankfurt v VfL Bochum

26 April 1980 30	Eintracht Frankfurt	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Frankfurt am Main
15:30		[31]	Kaczor  55'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Franz-Josef Hontheim (Trier)

VfL Bochum v Bayer 04 Leverkusen

2 May 1980 31	VfL Bochum	4 – 2	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Bochum
20:00	Woelk  15' Kaczor  28' Abel  58', 90'	[32]	Hermann  31' Brücken  75'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Eberhard Schmoock (Reichenau)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Köln

17 May 1980 32	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	1. FC Köln	Bochum
15:30	Pinkall  82' Oswald  85'	[33]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Jan Redelfs (Hannover)

FC Schalke 04 v VfL Bochum

24 May 1980 33	FC Schalke 04	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Gelsenkirchen
15:30	Thiele  75'	[34]		Stadium: Parkstadion Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Horst Joos (Stuttgart)

VfL Bochum v SV Werder Bremen

31 May 1980 34	VfL Bochum	5 – 2	SV Werder Bremen	Bochum
15:30	Bast  26' Lameck  28' Eggert  51' Abel  70' (pen.) Kaczor  78'	[35]	Dreßel  19' Steinkogler  50'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Winfried Walz (Waiblingen)

DFB-Pokal

FV Weingarten v VfL Bochum

25 August 1979 R1	FV Weingarten	2 – 7	VfL Bochum	Weingarten
	Kraut  40' Pfirrmann  81'	[36]	Blau  38' Eggeling  44', 70', 71', 89' Kaczor  82', 86'	Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Karl Gaus (Empfingen)

VfL Bochum v SpVgg Fürth

29 September 1979 R2	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	SpVgg Fürth	Bochum
	Oswald  13' Kaczor  43'	[37]	Bulut  55'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Jakob Wippker (Aachen)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Köln

12 January 1980 R3	VfL Bochum	3 – 3 (a.e.t.)	1. FC Köln	Bochum
	Abel  63', 78' Bast  94'	[38]	Schuster  15' (pen.), 60' Neumann  116'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Günter Linn (Altendiez)

1. FC Köln v VfL Bochum

30 January 1980 R3 replay	1. FC Köln	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Cologne
	Müller  8' Woodcock  33'	[39]	Abel  14'	Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Walter Horstmann (Hildesheim)

Squad

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals scored

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

• Source:

Transfers

Summer

In: No. Position Player DF Ulrich Bittorf (from VfL Bochum II) MF Luka Bonačić (from Grasshopper Club Zürich) MF Lutz Gerresheim (from SC Westfalia Herne) DF Heinz Knüwe (from SC Herford) FW Kurt Pinkall (from SC Viktoria Köln) FW Ottmar Scheuch (from SpVgg Au/Iller)

Out: No. Position Player MF Paul Holz (to Borussia Dortmund) FW Hans-Joachim Pochstein (to BV Brambauer) MF Holger Trimhold (to Eintracht Braunschweig)

Winter

In: No. Position Player DF Detlef Jaskowiak (from ?)

Out: No. Position Player FW Heinz-Werner Eggeling (to Eintracht Braunschweig) MF Lutz Gerresheim (died 10 March 1980)

Sources

1. Piorr, Ralf (25 January 2011). "Was für ein Fußballer..." [What a footballer...] (in German). WAZ-Mediengruppe.
2. "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 0:3" (in German). Kicker.
3. "Bayer 05 Uerdingen - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
4. "VfL Bochum - Bor. Mönchengladbach 0:0" (in German). Kicker.
5. "1860 München - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
6. "VfL Bochum - Bayern München 0:1" (in German). Kicker.
7. "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). Kicker.
8. "VfL Bochum - Hertha BSC 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
9. "Fortuna Düsseldorf - VfL Bochum 1:4" (in German). Kicker.
10. "VfL Bochum - MSV Duisburg 3:0" (in German). Kicker.
11. "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 1:3" (in German). Kicker.
12. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Kaiserslautern 0:0" (in German). Kicker.
13. "Eintracht Braunschweig - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). Kicker.
14. "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Frankfurt 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
15. "Bayer 04 Leverkusen - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). Kicker.
16. "1. FC Köln - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
17. "VfL Bochum - FC Schalke 04 0:0" (in German). Kicker.
18. "Werder Bremen - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
19. "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). Kicker.
20. "VfL Bochum - Bayer 05 Uerdingen 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
21. "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfL Bochum 3:2" (in German). Kicker.
22. "VfL Bochum - 1860 München 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
23. "Bayern München - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). Kicker.
24. "VfL Bochum - Borussia Dortmund 2:2" (in German). Kicker.
25. "Hertha BSC - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
26. "VfL Bochum - Fortuna Düsseldorf 0:0" (in German). Kicker.
27. "MSV Duisburg - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). Kicker.
28. "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 0:1" (in German). Kicker.
29. "1. FC Kaiserslautern - VfL Bochum 4:1" (in German). Kicker.
30. "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Braunschweig 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
31. "Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). Kicker.
32. "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 4:2" (in German). Kicker.
33. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Köln 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
34. "FC Schalke 04 - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
35. "VfL Bochum - Werder Bremen 5:2" (in German). Kicker.
36. "Spielstatistik FV Weingarten gegen VfL Bochum 2:7 (1:2)" [Match statistic FV Weingarten vs. VfL Bochum 2–7 (1–2)] (in German). fussballdaten.de.
37. "Spielstatistik VfL Bochum gegen SpVgg Fürth 2:1 (2:0)" [Match statistic VfL Bochum vs. SpVgg Fürth 2–1 (2–0)] (in German). fussballdaten.de.
38. "Spielstatistik VfL Bochum gegen 1. FC Köln 3:3 n.V." [Match statistic VfL Bochum vs. 1. FC Köln 3–3 aet] (in German). fussballdaten.de.
39. "Spielstatistik 1. FC Köln gegen VfL Bochum 2:1 (2:1)" [Match statistic 1. FC Köln vs. VfL Bochum 2–1 (2–1)] (in German). fussballdaten.de.

External links

• 1979–80 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de (German)
• 1979–80 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de (German)
• 1979–80 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de (German)