1995–96 in German football

Football in Germany

Season	1995–96
Bundesliga	Borussia Dortmund
2. Bundesliga	VfL Bochum
DFB-Pokal	1. FC Kaiserslautern
DFB-Supercup	Borussia Dortmund
← 1994–95 1996–97 →

The 1995–96 season was the 86th season of competitive football in Germany.

National teams

Germany national football team

UEFA Euro 1996 qualification

  Win   Draw   Loss

Date	Venue	Location	Opponent	Score F–A	Att.	Goalscorers and disciplined players		Ref.
						Germany	Opponent
6 September 1995	Frankenstadion	Nuremberg, Germany	Georgia	4–1	44,000	Möller  39' Ziege  57'  62' Kirsten  62' Babbel  72'	Ketsbaia  28' Shelia  57'	[1][2]
8 October 1995	Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion	Leverkusen, Germany	Moldova	6–1	18,500	Stroenco  16' (o.g.) Helmer  18' Sammer  24', 72' Möller  47', 61'	Rebeja  82' Ivanov  87'	[3][4]
11 October 1995	The Arms Park	Cardiff, Wales	Wales	2–1	27,000	Melville  75' (o.g.) Ziege  76' Klinsmann  81' Sammer  82'	Southall  3' Pembridge  23' Blake  40' Helmer  79' (o.g.)	[5][6]
15 November 1995	Olympiastadion	Berlin, Germany	Bulgaria	3–1	75,841	Klinsmann  35' 50', 76' (pen.) Häßler  56' Freund  67'	Balakov  36' Stoichov  47' Dartilov  55' Popov  75'	[7][8]

UEFA Euro 1996

  Win   Draw   Loss

Round	Date Kick–off time	Venue	Location	Opponent	Score F–A	Att.	Goalscorers and disciplined players		Ref.
							Germany	Opponent
Group C	9 June 1996 17:00 (BST)	Old Trafford	Manchester, England	Czech Republic	2–0	37,300	Ziege  26' 28' Möller  32' 58' Kuntz  52' Babbel  59' Reuter  69' Häßler  77'	Bejbl  19' Nedvěd  45' Kadlec  67' Drulák  67'	[9][10]
Group C	16 June 1996 15:00 (BST)	Old Trafford	Manchester, England	Russia	3–0	50,760	Babbel  16' Bierhoff  31' Sammer  56' Klinsmann  77', 90'	Kanchelskis  12' Onopko  30' Kovtun  70'	[11][12]
Group C	19 June 1996 19:30 (BST)	Old Trafford	Manchester, England	Italy	0–0	53,740	Strunz  59'	Casiraghi  18'	[13][14]
Quarter-finals	23 June 1996 15:00 (BST)	Old Trafford	Manchester, England	Croatia	2–1	43,412	Sammer  5' 59' Klinsmann  7' 20' (pen.)	Šuker  51' Štimac  56'	[15][16]
Semi-finals	26 June 1996 19:30 (BST)	Wembley	London, England	England	1–1 (6–5 p.)	75,862	Kuntz  16' Reuter  46' Möller  80'	Shearer  3' Gascoigne  73'	[17][18]
							Häßler Strunz Reuter Ziege Kuntz Möller	Shearer Platt Pearce Gascoigne Sheringham Southgate
Final	30 June 1996 19:00 (BST)	Wembley	London, England	Czech Republic	2–1 (aet)	73,611	Helmer  63' Sammer  69' Bierhoff  73' 95' Ziege  91'	Horňák  47' Berger  59' (pen.)	[19][20]

Friendly matches

  Win   Draw   Loss

Date	Venue	Location	Opponent	Score F–A	Att.	Goalscorers		Ref.
						Germany	Opponent
23 August 1995	King Baudouin Stadium	Brussels, Belgium	Belgium	2–1	35,000	Möller  6' Bobic  84'	Goossens  17'	[21][22]
15 December 1995	Johannesburg Stadium	Johannesburg, South Africa	South Africa	0–0	30,000	—	—	[23][24]
21 February 1996	Estádio das Antas	Porto, Portugal	Portugal	2–1	25,000	Möller  14', 65'	Folha  52'	[25][26]
27 March 1996	Olympiastadion	Munich, Germany	Denmark	2–0	26,000	Bierhoff  44', 61'	—	[27][28]
24 April 1996	De Kuip	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Netherlands	1–0	40,000	Klinsmann  19' (pen.)	—	[29][30]
29 May 1996	Windsor Park	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland	1–1	11,700	Scholl  77'	O'Boyle  76'	[31][32]
1 June 1996	Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion	Stuttgart, Germany	France	0–1	53,100	—	Blanc  6'	[33][34]
4 June 1996	Carl-Benz-Stadion	Mannheim, Germany	Liechtenstein	9–1	26,000	Möller  4', 64' Kuntz  18', 90' Bierhoff  22' Ziege  38' Sammer  48' Kohler  53' Klinsmann  85'	Pérez  69'	[35][36]

Germany women's national football team

UEFA Women's Euro 1997 qualification

  Win   Draw   Loss

Date	Location	Opponent	Score F–A	Att.	Goalscorers		Ref.
					Germany	Opponent
20 September 1995	Tampere, Finland	Finland	3–0	1,000	Wiegmann  15', 84' Mohr  66'	—	[37]
25 October 1995	Bratislava, Slovakia	Slovakia	3–0	500	Prinz  16' Mohr  54' Neid  79'	—	[38]
11 April 1996	Unterhaching, Germany	Slovakia	2–0	3,000	Wiegmann  69' Fitschen  87'	—	[39]
2 May 1996	Jena, Germany	Norway	1–3	2,500	Brocker  9'	Haugen  15', 31' Medalen  51'	[40]
5 May 1996	Gifhorn, Germany	Finland	6–0	3,500	Smisek  10' Mohr  30', 44' Wunderlich  45' Minnert  56' Austermühl  68' (pen.)	—	[41]
6 June 1996	Trondheim, Norway	Norway	0–0	2,790	—	—	[42]

Friendly matches

  Win   Draw   Loss

Date	Location	Opponent	Score F–A	Att.	Goalscorers		Ref.
					Germany	Opponent
14 March 1996	Decatur, United States	United States	0–6	4,500	—	Overbeck  20' Parlow  32' Chastain  45' Milbrett  48', 75' Hamm  57'	[43][44]
16 March 1996	Davidson, United States	United States	0–2	3,500	—	Milbrett  17' Lilly  89'	[45][46]
28 June 1996	Mannheim, Germany	Iceland	8–0	1,000	Mohr  3', 8', 84' Tschöke  18' Nardenbach  27' Voss-Tecklenburg  37' Brocker  58' Bornschein  58'	—	[47][48]
30 June 1996	Pforzheim, Germany	Iceland	3–0	900	Wiegmann  54' Mohr  60' P. Wunderlich  76'	—	[49][50]

League season

Men

Bundesliga

Bundesliga standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Borussia Dortmund (C)	34	19	11	4	76	38	+38	68	1996–97 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Bayern Munich	34	19	5	10	66	46	+20	62	1996–97 UEFA Cup First round
3	Schalke 04	34	14	14	6	45	36	+9	56
4	Borussia Mönchengladbach	34	15	8	11	52	51	+1	53
5	Hamburger SV	34	12	14	8	52	47	+5	50
6	Hansa Rostock	34	13	10	11	47	43	+4	49
7	Karlsruher SC	34	12	12	10	53	47	+6	48	1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup Group stage
8	1860 Munich	34	11	12	11	52	46	+6	45
9	Werder Bremen	34	10	14	10	39	42	−3	44
10	VfB Stuttgart	34	10	13	11	59	62	−3	43	1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup Group stage ^1
11	SC Freiburg	34	11	9	14	30	41	−11	42
12	1. FC Köln	34	9	13	12	33	35	−2	40
13	Fortuna Düsseldorf	34	8	16	10	40	47	−7	40
14	Bayer Leverkusen	34	8	14	12	37	38	−1	38
15	FC St. Pauli	34	9	11	14	43	51	−8	38
16	1. FC Kaiserslautern (R)	34	6	18	10	31	37	−6	36	Cup Winners' Cup and 2. Bundesliga^2
17	Eintracht Frankfurt (R)	34	7	11	16	43	68	−25	32	2. Fußball-Bundesliga
18	KFC Uerdingen (R)	34	5	11	18	33	56	−23	26

Source: www.dfb.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹As Hansa Rostock did not apply for the UEFA Intertoto Cup, their place was transferred to Stuttgart.
²After being demoted by league place, Kaiserslautern won the DFB-Pokal 1995–96 and thus qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

2. Bundesliga

2. Bundesliga standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	VfL Bochum (C) (P)	34	21	6	7	68	30	+38	69	Promotion to Bundesliga
2	Arminia Bielefeld (P)	34	16	9	9	55	45	+10	57
3	MSV Duisburg (P)	34	15	11	8	55	37	+18	56
4	SpVgg Unterhaching	34	14	10	10	52	38	+14	52
5	FSV Zwickau	34	15	4	15	39	48	−9	49
6	Carl Zeiss Jena	34	13	9	12	49	54	−5	48
7	Waldhof Mannheim	34	13	7	14	49	47	+2	46
8	Fortuna Köln	34	12	10	12	37	37	0	46
9	VfB Leipzig	34	13	6	15	35	49	−14	45
10	SV Meppen	34	10	14	10	45	43	+2	44
11	Mainz 05	34	12	8	14	37	41	−4	44
12	VfL Wolfsburg	34	10	14	10	41	46	−5	44
13	VfB Lübeck	34	13	5	16	40	45	−5	44
14	Hertha BSC	34	11	12	11	37	35	+2	45
15	Chemnitzer FC (R)	34	11	9	14	43	51	−8	42	Relegation to Regionalliga
16	Hannover 96 (R)	34	10	7	17	38	48	−10	37
17	1. FC Nürnberg (R)	34	9	12	13	33	40	−7	39
18	SG Wattenscheid 09 (R)	34	8	7	19	38	57	−19	31

Source: kicker
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
Hannover 96 was relegated to Regionalliga Nord. Chemnitzer FC was relegated to Regionalliga Nordost. 1. FC Nuremberg was relegated to Regionalliga Süd. SG Wattenscheid 09 was relegeated to Regionalliga Südwest.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

Women

Bundesliga

Bundesliga North standings

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Grün-Weiß Brauweiler	18	15	1	2	80	17	+63	46
2	TSV Siegen	18	14	3	1	70	10	+60	45
3	FC Rumeln-Kaldenhausen	18	12	3	3	59	23	+36	39
4	Eintracht Rheine	18	9	5	4	38	24	+14	32
5	Fortuna Sachsenroß Hannover	18	7	2	9	31	50	−19	23
6	Turbine Potsdam	18	5	6	7	29	41	−12	21
7	Tennis Borussia Berlin	18	5	4	9	24	33	−9	19
8	VfR Eintracht Wolfsburg	18	5	4	9	18	40	−22	19
9	Polizei SV Rostock (N)	18	1	3	14	18	57	−39	6
10	Rot-Weiß Hillen (N)	18	0	3	15	16	88	−72	3

	Participant of the semi-final
	Relegated to Regional-/Oberliga
(N)	Promoted from the Regionalliga last season

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Bundesliga South standings

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	FSV Frankfurt (C)	18	16	1	1	99	6	+93	49
2	SG Praunheim	18	11	6	1	31	11	+20	39
3	TuS Niederkirchen	18	11	2	5	49	26	+23	35
4	Klinge Seckach	18	10	4	4	28	17	+11	34
5	TuS Ahrbach	18	6	5	7	22	31	−9	23
6	VfL Sindelfingen	18	6	2	10	32	40	−8	20
7	VfR 09 Saarbrücken	18	4	6	8	23	41	−18	18
8	TSV Crailsheim (N)	18	2	8	8	7	27	−20	14
9	TuS Wörrstadt	18	3	2	13	17	61	−44	11
10	SC 07 Bad Neuenahr (N)	18	2	2	14	17	65	−48	8

	Participant of the semi-final
	Relegated to Regional-/Oberliga
(N)	Promoted from the Regionalliga last season
(C)	1994–95 Bundesliga champion

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

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