2006–07 VfL Bochum season

VfL Bochum

2006–07 season
Chairman	Werner Altegoer
Head Coach	Marcel Koller
Stadium	rewirpowerSTADION
Bundesliga	8th
DFB-Pokal	Third Round
Top goalscorer	League: Gekas (20) All: Gekas (22)
Highest home attendance	31,328 (vs Bayern Munich, 20 August 2006; vs Werder Bremen, 14 October 2006; vs Schalke 04, 27 April 2007; vs VfB Stuttgart, 12 May 2007)
Lowest home attendance	18,110 (vs 1. FC Nürnberg, 11 February 2007)
Average home league attendance	24,969
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

The 2006–07 VfL Bochum season was the 69th season in club history.

Matches

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

Bundesliga

Mainz 05 v VfL Bochum

12 August 2006 1	Mainz 05	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Mainz
15:30	Damm  29' Azaouagh  71' (pen.)	[1]	Zdebel  86'	Stadium: Stadion am Bruchweg Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

VfL Bochum v Bayern Munich

20 August 2006 2	VfL Bochum	1 – 2	Bayern Munich	Bochum
17:00	Fábio Júnior  52'	[2]	Makaay  42' Lahm  65'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,328 Referee: Babak Rafati (Hannover)

VfL Bochum v Energie Cottbus

26 August 2006 3	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	Energie Cottbus	Bochum
15:30		[3]	Silva  85'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 21,666 Referee: Michael Kempter (Sauldorf)

1. FC Nürnberg v VfL Bochum

16 September 2006 4	1. FC Nürnberg	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Nuremberg
15:30	Polák  30'	[4]	Gekas  10'	Stadium: easyCredit-Stadion Attendance: 40,240 Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)

VfL Bochum v Arminia Bielefeld

24 September 2006 5	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Arminia Bielefeld	Bochum
17:00	Fábio Júnior  58' Iličević  73'	[5]	Gabriel  11'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 20,318 Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)

Alemannia Aachen v VfL Bochum

30 September 2006 6	Alemannia Aachen	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Aachen
15:30	Schlaudraff  48' Rösler  49'	[6]	Misimović  36'	Stadium: Tivoli Attendance: 20,300 Referee: Lutz Wagner (Kriftel)

VfL Bochum v Werder Bremen

14 October 2006 7	VfL Bochum	0 – 6	Werder Bremen	Bochum
15:30		[7]	Hunt  7' Schulz  60' Vranješ  75' Diego  77' Fritz  88' Naldo  90'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,328 Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

Borussia Dortmund v VfL Bochum

20 October 2006 8	Borussia Dortmund	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Dortmund
20:30	Smolarek  35'	[8]	Gekas  31'	Stadium: Signal Iduna Park Attendance: 75,100 Referee: Peter Sippel (Munich)

VfL Bochum v VfL Wolfsburg

28 October 2006 9	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	VfL Wolfsburg	Bochum
15:30		[9]	Hanke  25'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 18,650 Referee: Helmut Fleischer (Ulm)

Hannover 96 v VfL Bochum

3 November 2006 10	Hannover 96	0 – 2	VfL Bochum	Hannover
20:30		[10]	Drsek  4' Gekas  76'	Stadium: AWD-Arena Attendance: 30,042 Referee: Markus Schmidt (Stuttgart)

VfL Bochum v Bayer Leverkusen

8 November 2006 11	VfL Bochum	1 – 3	Bayer Leverkusen	Bochum
20:00	Iličević  48'	[11]	Barbarez  7' Voronin  32' Barnetta  71'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 18,469 Referee: Lutz Wagner (Kriftel)

Hertha BSC v VfL Bochum

11 November 2006 12	Hertha BSC	3 – 3	VfL Bochum	Berlin
15:30	Pantelić  9' Van Burik  58' Neuendorf  80'	[12]	Gekas  39' Misimović  45+1', 47'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 29,104 Referee: Felix Brych (Munich)

VfL Bochum v Eintracht Frankfurt

17 November 2006 13	VfL Bochum	4 – 3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bochum
20:30	Misimović  29' (pen.) Maltritz  33' Butscher  36' Gekas  46'	[13]	Streit  1', 5' Amanatidis  56'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 21,260 Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)

Schalke 04 v VfL Bochum

24 November 2006 14	Schalke 04	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Gelsenkirchen
20:30	Rafinha  19' Løvenkrands  27'	[14]	Gekas  49'	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 61,482 Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)

VfL Bochum v Hamburger SV

2 December 2006 15	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Hamburger SV	Bochum
15:30	Dabrowski  5' Misimović  70'	[15]	Ljuboja  42'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 25,715 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)

VfB Stuttgart v VfL Bochum

9 December 2006 16	VfB Stuttgart	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
15:30	Streller  87'	[16]		Stadium: Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

VfL Bochum v Borussia Mönchengladbach

15 December 2006 17	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
20:30	Gekas  45+1' Kahê  85' (o.g.)	[17]		Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 30,500 Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)

VfL Bochum v Mainz 05

27 January 2007 18	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	Mainz 05	Bochum
15:30		[18]	Rose  38'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 20,487 Referee: Florian Meyer (Burgdorf)

Bayern Munich v VfL Bochum

30 January 2007 19	Bayern Munich	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	Munich
20:00		[19]		Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 64,000 Referee: Jochen Drees (Münster-Sarmsheim)

Energie Cottbus v VfL Bochum

3 February 2007 20	Energie Cottbus	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	Cottbus
15:30		[20]		Stadium: Stadion der Freundschaft Attendance: 11,650 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Nürnberg

11 February 2007 21	VfL Bochum	0 – 2	1. FC Nürnberg	Bochum
17:00		[21]	Saenko  88', 90+1'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 18,110 Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg)

Arminia Bielefeld v VfL Bochum

18 February 2007 22	Arminia Bielefeld	1 – 3	VfL Bochum	Bielefeld
17:00	Wichniarek  26'	[22]	Gekas  2', 10' Dabrowski  51'	Stadium: Schüco-Arena Attendance: 21,025 Referee: Felix Brych (Munich)

VfL Bochum v Alemannia Aachen

24 February 2007 23	VfL Bochum	2 – 2	Alemannia Aachen	Bochum
15:30	Gekas  25' Epalle  53'	[23]	Ibišević  35' Lehmann  59'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 21,350 Referee: Peter Sippel (Munich)

Werder Bremen v VfL Bochum

3 March 2007 24	Werder Bremen	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Bremen
15:30	Hunt  25', 73', 76'	[24]		Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 40,156 Referee: Lutz Wagner (Kriftel)

VfL Bochum v Borussia Dortmund

10 March 2007 25	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Borussia Dortmund	Bochum
15:30	Gekas  48', 83'	[25]		Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,278 Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)

VfL Wolfsburg v VfL Bochum

17 March 2007 26	VfL Wolfsburg	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Wolfsburg
15:30	Boakye  21' Madlung  26' Marcelinho  83'	[26]	Gekas  66'	Stadium: Volkswagen-Arena Attendance: 15,743 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

VfL Bochum v Hannover 96

1 April 2007 27	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Hannover 96	Bochum
17:00	Gekas  35' Epalle  42'	[27]		Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 24,177 Referee: Helmut Fleischer (Ulm)

Bayer Leverkusen v VfL Bochum

8 April 2007 28	Bayer Leverkusen	1 – 4	VfL Bochum	Leverkusen
17:00	Kießling  62'	[28]	Haggui  8' (o.g.) Yahia  16' Gekas  22', 90'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 22,500 Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)

VfL Bochum v Hertha BSC

14 April 2007 29	VfL Bochum	1 – 3	Hertha BSC	Bochum
15:30	Gekas  1'	[29]	Giménez  58' Gilberto  66' Ede  90'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 27,181 Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)

Eintracht Frankfurt v VfL Bochum

21 April 2007 30	Eintracht Frankfurt	0 – 3	VfL Bochum	Frankfurt am Main
15:30		[30]	Gekas  32' Epalle  58', 69'	Stadium: Commerzbank Arena Attendance: 47,962 Referee: Babak Rafati (Hannover)

VfL Bochum v Schalke 04

27 April 2007 31	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Schalke 04	Bochum
20:30	Misimović  33' Gekas  41'	[31]	Kurányi  8'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,328 Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg)

Hamburger SV v VfL Bochum

5 May 2007 32	Hamburger SV	0 – 3	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
15:30		[32]	Gekas  61' Grote  66' Misimović  80' (pen.)	Stadium: AOL Arena Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Felix Brych (Munich)

VfL Bochum v VfB Stuttgart

12 May 2007 33	VfL Bochum	2 – 3	VfB Stuttgart	Bochum
15:30	Schröder  4' Maltritz  42'	[33]	Hitzlsperger  24' Gómez  62' Cacau  73'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,328 Referee: Florian Meyer (Burgdorf)

Borussia Mönchengladbach v VfL Bochum

19 May 2007 34	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0 – 2	VfL Bochum	Mönchengladbach
15:30		[34]	Dabrowski  24' Wosz  82'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 50,001 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

DFB-Pokal

FC 08 Homburg v VfL Bochum

9 September 2006 R1	FC 08 Homburg	1 – 2	VfL Bochum	Homburg
18:30	Petri  85'	[35]	Misimović  19' (pen.) Gekas  51'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 6,375 Referee: Thomas Frank (Hannover)

VfL Bochum v Karlsruher SC

24 October 2006 R2	VfL Bochum	3 – 2	Karlsruher SC	Bochum
19:30	Gekas  26' Butscher  29', 87'	[36]	Porcello  44', 62'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 10,480 Referee: Franz-Xaver Wack (Biberbach)

VfL Bochum v VfB Stuttgart

19 December 2006 R3	VfL Bochum	1 – 4	VfB Stuttgart	Bochum
19:30	Bechmann  85'	[37]	Gómez  34' Hitzlsperger  49', 58' Cacau  90'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 18,650 Referee: Peter Sippel (Munich)

Squad

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals scored

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Peter Skov-Jensen	13	0	12	0	1	0
2	DF		Benjamin Lense	9	0	8	0	1	0
3	DF		Martin Meichelbeck	11	0	9	0	2	0
4	DF		Marcel Maltritz	34	2	31	2	3	0
5	MF		Christoph Dabrowski	34	3	31	3	3	0
6	MF		Daniel Imhof	7	0	7	0	0	0
7	MF		Tommy Bechmann	12	1	11	0	1	1
8	MF		Tomasz Zdebel	34	1	32	1	2	0
9	FW		Fábio Júnior Pereira	18	2	16	2	2	0
10	MF		Dariusz Wosz	1	1	1	1	0	0
11	MF		Joris Van Hout	15	0	14	0	1	0
13	GK		René Renno	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	MF		Ivo Iličević	20	2	19	2	1	0
15	DF		Pavel Drsek	30	1	27	1	3	0
16	MF		Zvjezdan Misimović	32	8	30	7	2	1
17	DF		Heiko Butscher	22	3	20	1	2	2
18	MF		Oliver Schröder	31	1	28	1	3	0
19	MF		Dennis Grote	17	1	16	1	1	0
20	FW		Benjamin Auer (until 31 December 2006)	3	0	2	0	1	0
20	MF		Joël Epalle (since 1 January 2007)	17	4	17	4	0	0
21	FW		Filip Trojan	29	0	26	0	3	0
22	FW		Theofanis Gekas	35	22	32	20	3	2
23	MF		Ersan Tekkan	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	DF		Philipp Bönig	33	0	30	0	3	0
25	FW		Thomas Rathgeber (until 31 December 2006)	2	0	1	0	1	0
25	DF		Antar Yahia (since 29 January 2007)	16	1	16	1	0	0
26	GK		Alexander Bade	7	0	5	0	2	0
27	DF		David Czyszczon	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	MF		Lucas Oppermann	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	MF		Sebastian Hille	1	0	1	0	0	0
31	GK		Andreas Luthe	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	MF		David Zajas	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	GK		Polat Keser (until 31 December 2006)	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	DF		David Pallas	9	0	8	0	1	0
45	GK		Jaroslav Drobný (since 22 January 2007)	17	0	17	0	0	0

• Source:

Transfers

Summer

In: No. Position Player 2 DF Benjamin Lense (from 1. FC Nürnberg) 5 MF Christoph Dabrowski (from Hannover 96) 14 MF Ivo Iličević (from Darmstadt 98) 18 MF Oliver Schröder (from Hertha BSC) 20 FW Benjamin Auer (from Mainz 05) 22 FW Theofanis Gekas (on loan from Panathinaikos) 26 GK Alexander Bade (from 1. FC Köln) 31 GK Andreas Luthe (from VfL Bochum II)

Out: No. Position Player 1 GK Rein van Duijnhoven (retired) 2 DF China (loan return to Flamengo) 5 DF Søren Colding (retired) 22 FW Edu (to Mainz 05) 26 MF Claus Costa (to Fortuna Düsseldorf) 27 FW Alexander Thamm (to Preußen Münster) 28 DF Thorsten Barg (to Karlsruher SC II) 29 FW Haluk Türkeri (to Karlsruher SC II) 31 GK Christian Vander (to Werder Bremen)

Winter

In: No. Position Player 20 MF Joël Epalle (from Iraklis) 25 DF Antar Yahia (on loan from Nice) 45 GK Jaroslav Drobný (on loan from Ipswich Town)

Out: No. Position Player 20 FW Benjamin Auer (on loan to 1. FC Kaiserslautern) 25 FW Thomas Rathgeber (to SpVgg Unterhaching) 33 GK Polat Keser (to Antalyaspor)

VfL Bochum II

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Oberliga Westfalen
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	DF		David Czyszczon	34	3	34	3
	DF		Patrick Fabian	29	0	29	0
	MF		Dennis Grote	6	0	6	0
	FW		Dilaver Güçlü	24	7	24	7
	FW		Faruk Gül	2	0	2	0
	FW		Sebastian Herrmann	1	0	1	0
	FW		Sebastian Hille	33	18	33	18
	MF		Ivo Iličević	8	5	8	5
	FW		Aurélien Joachim (until 30 January 2007)	4	0	4	0
	GK		Polat Keser (until 31 December 2006)	0	0	0	0
	MF		Dennis Kirchen	11	0	11	0
	DF		Daniel Klinger	24	1	24	1
	DF		Dennis Klöckner	15	0	15	0
	DF		Hendrik Könemann	12	1	12	1
	FW		Stefan Kratofiel	21	9	21	9
	GK		Andreas Luthe	34	0	34	0
	MF		Martin Lyttek	30	2	30	2
	DF		Marc-Andre Nimptsch	30	1	30	1
	FW		Marko Onucka	3	0	3	0
	MF		Lucas Oppermann	22	2	22	2
	MF		David Pallas	1	0	1	0
	FW		Thomas Rathgeber	8	3	8	3
	MF		Christian Schlösser	10	0	10	0
	GK		Niclas Schmidt	0	0	0	0
	MF		Ersan Tekkan	5	2	5	2
	MF		Deran Toksöz	1	0	1	0
	FW		Suri Ucar	26	5	26	5
	MF		Dennis Yilmaz	23	1	23	1
	MF		David Zajas	32	0	32	0
	FW		Patrick Ziegler	18	0	18	0

• Source:

Sources

1. "1. FSV Mainz 05 - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
2. "VfL Bochum - Bayern München 1:2" (in German). Kicker.
3. "VfL Bochum - Energie Cottbus 0:1" (in German). Kicker.
4. "1. FC Nürnberg - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). Kicker.
5. "VfL Bochum - Arminia Bielefeld 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
6. "Alemannia Aachen - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
7. "VfL Bochum - Werder Bremen 0:6" (in German). Kicker.
8. "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). Kicker.
9. "VfL Bochum - VfL Wolfsburg 0:1" (in German). Kicker.
10. "Hannover 96 - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). Kicker.
11. "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1:3" (in German). Kicker.
12. "Hertha BSC - VfL Bochum 3:3" (in German). Kicker.
13. "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Frankfurt 4:3" (in German). Kicker.
14. "FC Schalke 04 - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
15. "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
16. "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
17. "VfL Bochum - Bor. Mönchengladbach 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
18. "VfL Bochum - 1. FSV Mainz 05 0:1" (in German). Kicker.
19. "Bayern München - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). Kicker.
20. "Energie Cottbus - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). Kicker.
21. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Nürnberg 0:2" (in German). Kicker.
22. "Arminia Bielefeld - VfL Bochum 1:3" (in German). Kicker.
23. "VfL Bochum - Alemannia Aachen 2:2" (in German). Kicker.
24. "Werder Bremen - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). Kicker.
25. "VfL Bochum - Borussia Dortmund 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
26. "VfL Wolfsburg - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). Kicker.
27. "VfL Bochum - Hannover 96 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
28. "Bayer 04 Leverkusen - VfL Bochum 1:4" (in German). Kicker.
29. "VfL Bochum - Hertha BSC 1:3" (in German). Kicker.
30. "Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 0:3" (in German). Kicker.
31. "VfL Bochum - FC Schalke 04 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
32. "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 0:3" (in German). Kicker.
33. "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 2:3" (in German). Kicker.
34. "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). Kicker.
35. "FC 08 Homburg - VfL Bochum 1:2" (in German). Kicker.
36. "VfL Bochum - Karlsruher SC 3:2" (in German). Kicker.
37. "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 1:4" (in German). Kicker.

External links

• 2006–07 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de (German)
• 2006–07 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de (German)
• 2006–07 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de (German)