1996–97 VfL Bochum season

The 1996–97 VfL Bochum season was the 59th season in club history.

VfL Bochum
1996–97 season
PresidentWerner Altegoer
Head CoachKlaus Toppmöller
StadiumRuhrstadion
Bundesliga5th
DFB-PokalQuarter-finals
Top goalscorerLeague: Donkov (10)
All: Donkov (10)
Highest home attendance36,344 (vs Borussia Dortmund, 4 October 1996; vs FC Bayern Munich, 22 February 1997)
Lowest home attendance20,498 (vs Karlsruher SC, 7 September 1996)
Average home league attendance28,484

Review and events edit

Matches edit

Legend edit

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Bundesliga edit

17 August 1996 1 VfL Bochum 1 – 0 MSV Duisburg Bochum
15:30 Közle   31' [1] Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 28,142
Referee: Hermann Albrecht (Kaufbeuren)
21 August 1996 2 FC Bayern Munich 1 – 1 VfL Bochum Munich
19:30 Rizzitelli   52' [2] Peschel   73' Stadium: Olympiastadion
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Uwe Kemmling (Kleinburgwedel)
24 August 1996 3 VfL Bochum 1 – 1 Arminia Bielefeld Bochum
15:30 Jack   65' [3] Molata   58' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 24,117
Referee: Bernhard Zerr (Ottersweier)
27 August 1996 4 FC Schalke 04 1 – 1 VfL Bochum Gelsenkirchen
20:00 Thon   2' [4] Donkov   87' Stadium: Parkstadion
Attendance: 33,230
Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)
7 September 1996 5 VfL Bochum 3 – 1 Karlsruher SC Bochum
15:30 Donkov   32'
Wosz   72', 82'
[5] Häßler   70' (pen.) Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 20,498
Referee: Hartmut Strampe (Handorf)
13 September 1996 6 SV Werder Bremen 5 – 1 VfL Bochum Bremen
20:00 Bode   17'
Herzog   32'
Labbadia   38', 56', 67'
[6] Hutwelker   85' Stadium: Weserstadion
Attendance: 27,900
Referee: Franz-Xaver Wack (Biberbach)
21 September 1996 7 VfL Bochum 3 – 1 Hamburger SV Bochum
15:30 Bałuszyński   17'
Mamić   67'
Michalke   90'
[7] Breitenreiter   76' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 24,135
Referee: Georg Dardenne (Nettersheim)
27 September 1996 8 1. FC Köln 2 – 0 VfL Bochum Cologne
20:00 Vlădoiu   56'
Oliseh   76' (pen.)
[8] Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf
Attendance: 23,000
Referee: Torsten Koop (Lüttenmark)
4 October 1996 9 VfL Bochum 1 – 0 Borussia Dortmund Bochum
20:00 Wałdoch   63' [9] Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 36,344
Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Magdeburg)
13 October 1996 10 Fortuna Düsseldorf 2 – 2 VfL Bochum Düsseldorf
18:00 Seeliger   18'
Glavaš   21' (pen.)
[10] Közle   50', 75' Stadium: Rheinstadion
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)
18 October 1996 11 VfL Bochum 2 – 2 TSV 1860 Munich Bochum
20:00 Guðjónsson   61'
Reis   66'
[11] Winkler   25'
Walker   66'
Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 25,442
Referee: Hans-Peter Best (Kämpfelbach)
27 October 1996 12 SC Freiburg 0 – 1 VfL Bochum Freiburg
18:00 [12] Peschel   9' Stadium: Dreisamstadion
Attendance: 22,500
Referee: Hartmut Strampe (Handorf)
1 November 1996 13 VfL Bochum 1 – 0 FC Hansa Rostock Bochum
20:00 Peschel   58' [13] Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 27,712
Referee: Lutz Wagner (Kriftel)
16 November 1996 14 VfB Stuttgart 3 – 1 VfL Bochum Stuttgart
15:30 Élber   15'
Hagner   24'
Poschner   30'
[14] Közle   20' Stadium: Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Jürgen Aust (Cologne)
22 November 1996 15 VfL Bochum 2 – 0 Borussia Mönchengladbach Bochum
20:00 Donkov   16'
Közle   55'
[15] Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 30,271
Referee: Georg Dardenne (Nettersheim)
9 April 1997 16 FC St. Pauli 2 – 1 VfL Bochum Wilhelm-Koch-Stadion
20:00 Émerson   6'
Scharping   8'
[16] Kracht   75' Stadium: Hamburg
Attendance: 20,152
Referee: Burkard Hufgard (Mömbris)
6 December 1996 17 VfL Bochum 2 – 2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen Bochum
20:00 Stickroth   29' (pen.)
Wosz   89'
[17] Kirsten   18'
Ramelow   56'
Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 24,602
Referee: Winfried Buchhart (Schrobenhausen)
15 February 1997 18 MSV Duisburg 1 – 1 VfL Bochum Duisburg
15:30 Marin   23' (pen.) [18] Wosz   45' Stadium: Wedaustadion
Attendance: 20,200
Referee: Jürgen Aust (Cologne)
22 February 1997 19 VfL Bochum 1 – 1 FC Bayern Munich Bochum
15:30 Kracht   55' [19] Klinsmann   66' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 36,344
Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Magdeburg)
28 February 1997 20 Arminia Bielefeld 3 – 1 VfL Bochum Bielefeld
20:00 Meißner   43', 45'
Maul   71'
[20] Wosz   84' Stadium: Bielefeld
Attendance: 22,512
Referee: Hans-Jürgen Weber (Essen)
7 March 1997 21 VfL Bochum 0 – 1 FC Schalke 04 Bochum
20:00 [21] Eigenrauch   70' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 33,141
Referee: Hartmut Strampe (Handorf)
11 March 1997 22 Karlsruher SC 2 – 3 VfL Bochum Karlsruhe
19:30 Kiriakov   9'
Fink   47'
[22] Közle   2'
Stickroth   35'
Donkov   57'
Stadium: Wildparkstadion
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Winfried Buchhart (Schrobenhausen)
16 March 1997 23 VfL Bochum 3 – 2 SV Werder Bremen Bochum
18:00 Donkov   38'
Gülünoğlu   53'
Michalke   72'
[23] van Lent   75'
Herzog   85'
Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 25,392
Referee: Torsten Koop (Lüttenmark)
22 March 1997 24 Hamburger SV 2 – 2 VfL Bochum Hamburg
15:30 Salihamidžić   30'
Breitenreiter   90'
[24] Donkov   25'
Reis   75'
Stadium: Volksparkstadion
Attendance: 21,898
Referee: Bernhard Zerr (Ottersweier)
27 March 1997 25 VfL Bochum 2 – 2 1. FC Köln Bochum
20:00 Stickroth   16' (pen.)
Schreiber   76'
[25] Hauptmann   45'
Polster   51' (pen.)
Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 33,300
Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)
5 April 1997 26 Borussia Dortmund 2 – 0 VfL Bochum Dortmund
15:30 Chapuisat   34', 72' (pen.) [26] Stadium: Westfalenstadion
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Georg Dardenne (Nettersheim)
13 April 1997 27 VfL Bochum 3 – 1 Fortuna Düsseldorf Bochum
18:00 Katemann   21' (o.g.)
Michalke   24'
Donkov   45'
[27] Fach   68' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 27,070
Referee: Franz-Xaver Wack (Biberbach)
19 April 1997 28 TSV 1860 Munich 0 – 1 VfL Bochum Munich
15:30 [28] Donkov   20' Stadium: Olympiastadion
Attendance: 53,000
Referee: Uwe Kemmling (Kleinburgwedel)
26 April 1997 29 VfL Bochum 3 – 2 SC Freiburg Bochum
15:30 Wosz   6', 77'
Gülünoğlu   60'
[29] Sundermann   22'
Spies   53'
Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 23,209
Referee: Detlef Schütz (Norken)
2 May 1997 30 FC Hansa Rostock 0 – 0 VfL Bochum Rostock
19:30 [30] Stadium: Ostseestadion
Attendance: 20,700
Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)
10 May 1997 31 VfL Bochum 2 – 1 VfB Stuttgart Bochum
15:30 Michalke   69'
Peschel   79'
[31] Hagner   61' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 34,393
Referee: Michael Malbranc (Hamburg)
17 May 1997 32 Borussia Mönchengladbach 6 – 2 VfL Bochum Mönchengladbach
15:30 Schneider   60'
Neun   68'
Dahlin   71', 89'
Lupescu   73' (pen.)
Juskowiak   75'
[32] Wosz   35'
Hutwelker   83'
Stadium: Bökelbergstadion
Attendance: 30,100
Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)
24 May 1997 33 VfL Bochum 6 – 0 FC St. Pauli Bochum
15:30 Donkov   35', 68'
Peschel   72'
Gülünoğlu   73'
Wosz   78'
Pfennig   89' (o.g.)
[33] Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 30,121
Referee: Lutz Michael Fröhlich (Berlin)
31 May 1997 34 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2 – 0 VfL Bochum Leverkusen
15:30 Sérgio   9'
Ramelow   51'
[34] Stadium: Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Jürgen Jansen (Essen)

DFB-Pokal edit

10 August 1996 R1 SV Bonlanden 2 – 4 (a.e.t.) VfL Bochum Bonlanden
15:30 Schweizer   64'
Frömmel   71'
[35] Kracht   73'
Winkler   86'
Peschel   119', 120'
Stadium: Stadion an der Humboldtstraße
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Jörg Friedrichs (Ilvesheim)
1 October 1996 R2 FC Schalke 04 2 – 3 VfL Bochum Gelsenkirchen
20:00 Wilmots   35'
Held   47'
[36] Guðjónsson   1', 30'
Bałuszyński   60'
Stadium: Parkstadion
Attendance: 20,150
Referee: Michael Malbranc (Hamburg)
22 October 1996 R3 Karlsruher SC II 0 – 1 VfL Bochum Karlsruhe
19:30 [37] Közle   66' Stadium: Wildparkstadion, Platz 2
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Christian Wack (Gersheim)
13 November 1996 QF Hamburger SV 2 – 1 VfL Bochum Hamburg
19:30 Schopp   39'
Cardoso   82'
[38] Közle   63' Stadium: Volksparkstadion
Attendance: 17,240
Referee: Lutz Michael Fröhlich (Berlin)

Squad edit

Squad and statistics edit

Squad, appearances and goals scored edit

No. Pos Nat Player Total Bundesliga DFB-Pokal
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK   GER Uwe Gospodarek 37 0 33 0 4 0
2 DF   GER Thomas Stickroth 33 3 30 3 3 0
3 DF   GER Torsten Kracht 33 3 29 2 4 1
4 DF   BUL Engibar Engibarov (until 31 December 1996) 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 DF   POL Tomasz Wałdoch 33 1 29 1 4 0
6 MF   GER Peter Közle 32 8 28 6 4 2
7 MF   GER Kai Michalke 25 4 25 4 0 0
8 MF   GER Peter Peschel 25 7 22 5 3 2
9 FW   POL Henryk Bałuszyński 27 2 23 1 4 1
10 MF   GER Dariusz Wosz 36 9 32 9 4 0
11 FW   BUL Georgi Donkov 34 10 30 10 4 0
12 DF   GER Christian Herrmann 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 DF   GER Max Eberl 7 0 6 0 1 0
14 DF   GER Karsten Hutwelker 18 2 15 2 3 0
15 FW   GER Danny Winkler 7 1 6 0 1 1
16 FW   RSA Delron Buckley 3 0 2 0 1 0
17 MF   GER Olaf Schreiber 27 1 24 1 3 0
18 FW   GER Roland Wohlfarth 5 0 5 0 0 0
19 DF   GER Mathias Jack 31 1 29 1 2 0
20 MF   CRO Zoran Mamić 27 1 23 1 4 0
21 GK   GER Thomas Ernst 1 0 1 0 0 0
22 DF   GER Thomas Reis 37 2 34 2 3 0
23 MF   CRO Filip Tapalović 21 0 20 0 1 0
24 MF   ISL Þórður Guðjónsson 16 3 13 1 3 2
25 FW   TUR Neşat Gülünoğlu (since 11 March 1997) 11 3 11 3 0 0
29 DF   GER Frank Fahrenhorst (since 15 February 1997) 4 0 4 0 0 0
31 GK   GER Stefan Wächter 0 0 0 0 0 0

Transfers edit

Summer edit

Winter edit

Sources edit

  1. ^ "VfL Bochum - MSV Duisburg 1:0" (in German). kicker.
  2. ^ "Bayern München - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
  3. ^ "VfL Bochum - Arminia Bielefeld 1:1" (in German). kicker.
  4. ^ "FC Schalke 04 - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
  5. ^ "VfL Bochum - Karlsruher SC 3:1" (in German). kicker.
  6. ^ "Werder Bremen - VfL Bochum 5:1" (in German). kicker.
  7. ^ "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 3:1" (in German). kicker.
  8. ^ "1. FC Köln - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
  9. ^ "VfL Bochum - Borussia Dortmund 1:0" (in German). kicker.
  10. ^ "Fortuna Düsseldorf - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). kicker.
  11. ^ "VfL Bochum - 1860 München 2:2" (in German). kicker.
  12. ^ "SC Freiburg - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). kicker.
  13. ^ "VfL Bochum - Hansa Rostock 1:0" (in German). kicker.
  14. ^ "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). kicker.
  15. ^ "VfL Bochum - Bor. Mönchengladbach 2:0" (in German). kicker.
  16. ^ "FC St. Pauli - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.
  17. ^ "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2:2" (in German). kicker.
  18. ^ "MSV Duisburg - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
  19. ^ "VfL Bochum - Bayern München 1:1" (in German). kicker.
  20. ^ "Arminia Bielefeld - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). kicker.
  21. ^ "VfL Bochum - FC Schalke 04 0:1" (in German). kicker.
  22. ^ "Karlsruher SC - VfL Bochum 2:3" (in German). kicker.
  23. ^ "VfL Bochum - Werder Bremen 3:2" (in German). kicker.
  24. ^ "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). kicker.
  25. ^ "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Köln 2:2" (in German). kicker.
  26. ^ "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
  27. ^ "VfL Bochum - Fortuna Düsseldorf 3:1" (in German). kicker.
  28. ^ "1860 München - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). kicker.
  29. ^ "VfL Bochum - SC Freiburg 3:2" (in German). kicker.
  30. ^ "Hansa Rostock - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). kicker.
  31. ^ "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 2:1" (in German). kicker.
  32. ^ "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfL Bochum 6:2" (in German). kicker.
  33. ^ "VfL Bochum - FC St. Pauli 6:0" (in German). kicker.
  34. ^ "Bayer 04 Leverkusen - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
  35. ^ "SV Bonlanden - VfL Bochum 2:4" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
  36. ^ "FC Schalke 04 - VfL Bochum 2:3" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
  37. ^ "Karlsruher SC II - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
  38. ^ "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). Weltfussball.de.

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