1988–89 VfL Bochum 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
← 1987–88 1989–90 →

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

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 Nuremberg v VfL Bochum

27 August 1988 5	1. FC Nuremberg	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 Nuremberg

18 March 1989 22	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	1. FC Nuremberg	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
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	MF		Frank Benatelli	32	0	30	0	2	0
	FW		Thorsten Bolzek	24	3	22	2	2	1
	MF		Dirk Bremser	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF		Olaf Dreßel	2	0	1	0	1	0
	FW		Thomas Epp	14	0	13	0	1	0
	DF		Jürgen Gredig	4	0	3	0	1	0
	MF		Frank Heinemann	29	2	26	1	3	1
	MF		Michael Hubner	11	2	10	2	1	0
	MF		Andrzej Iwan	16	0	14	0	2	0
	DF		Peter Jackisch	8	0	8	0	0	0
	DF		Thomas Kempe	28	1	25	1	3	0
	DF		Martin Kree	36	12	33	12	3	0
	MF		Thorsten Legat	27	1	24	0	3	1
	FW		Uwe Leifeld	37	15	34	13	3	2
	FW		Josef Nehl	29	4	27	3	2	1
	DF		Walter Oswald	27	0	24	0	3	0
	DF		Rob Reekers	31	1	30	1	1	0
	MF		Dirk Riechmann	3	1	3	1	0	0
	MF		Michael Rzehaczek	29	0	27	0	2	0
	MF		Dirk Sadowicz (since 16 May 1989)	1	0	1	0	0	0
	MF		Martin Slawinski	0	0	0	0	0	0
	GK		Andreas Wessels	7	0	6	0	1	0
	DF		Oliver Westerbeek	16	0	15	0	1	0
	DF		Lothar Woelk	33	1	31	1	2	0
	GK		Ralf Zumdick	31	0	29	0	2	0

• Source:

Transfers

Summer

In: No. Position Player FW Thorsten Bolzek (from 1. Traber FC) DF Jürgen Gredig (from Hertha Zehlendorf) MF Martin Slawinski (from Hammer SpVg) DF Oliver Westerbeek (from FC 08 Homburg)

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

Winter

In: No. Position Player MF Dirk Sadowicz (from VfL Bochum II)

Out: No. Position Player

Sources

1. "Stuttgarter Kickers - VfL Bochum 1:2" (in German). Kicker.
2. "VfL Bochum - FC St. Pauli 0:0" (in German). Kicker.
3. "1. FC Köln - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
4. "VfL Bochum - Bayer 05 Uerdingen 1:1" (in German). Kicker.
5. "1. FC Nürnberg - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). Kicker.
6. "VfL Bochum - Waldhof Mannheim 2:2" (in German). Kicker.
7. "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Frankfurt 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
8. "Karlsruher SC - VfL Bochum 1:3" (in German). Kicker.
9. "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
10. "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). Kicker.
11. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Kaiserslautern 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
12. "Bayer 04 Leverkusen - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). Kicker.
13. "VfL Bochum - Bor. Mönchengladbach 1:2" (in German). Kicker.
14. "Werder Bremen - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
15. "VfL Bochum - Borussia Dortmund 2:2" (in German). Kicker.
16. "Hannover 96 - VfL Bochum 3:2" (in German). Kicker.
17. "VfL Bochum - Bayern München 0:0" (in German). Kicker.
18. "VfL Bochum - Stuttgarter Kickers 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
19. "FC St. Pauli - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
20. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Köln 1:3" (in German). Kicker.
21. "Bayer 05 Uerdingen - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). Kicker.
22. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Nürnberg 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
23. "Waldhof Mannheim - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). Kicker.
24. "Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). Kicker.
25. "VfL Bochum - Karlsruher SC 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
26. "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). Kicker.
27. "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
28. "1. FC Kaiserslautern - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). Kicker.
29. "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2:4" (in German). Kicker.
30. "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
31. "VfL Bochum - Werder Bremen 0:1" (in German). Kicker.
32. "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
33. "VfL Bochum - Hannover 96 1:3" (in German). Kicker.
34. "Bayern München - VfL Bochum 5:0" (in German). Kicker.
35. "Arminia Bielefeld - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
36. "VfL Bochum - Arminia Bielefeld 4:1" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
37. "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 3:2" (in German). Weltfussball.de.

External links

• 1988–89 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de (German)
• 1988–89 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de (German)
• 1988–89 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de (German)