1987–88 VfL Bochum season

VfL Bochum

1987–88 season
President	Ottokar Wüst
Head Coach	Hermann Gerland
Stadium	Ruhrstadion
Bundesliga	12th
DFB-Pokal	Runners-up
Intertoto Cup	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Leifeld (13) All: N/A
Highest home attendance	40,000 (vs FC Schalke 04, 25 August 1987)
Lowest home attendance	6,000 (vs FC 08 Homburg, 17 November 1987)
Average home league attendance	16,994
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 1986–87 1988–89 →

The 1987–88 VfL Bochum season was the 50th season in club history.

Matches

Legend

      Win       Draw       Loss

Bundesliga

VfL Bochum v Borussia Mönchengladbach

31 July 1987 1	VfL Bochum	1 – 2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
20:00	Leifeld  88'	[1]	Bruns  31' Rahn  39'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)

Eintracht Frankfurt v VfL Bochum

7 August 1987 2	Eintracht Frankfurt	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Frankfurt am Main
20:00		[2]	Leifeld  54'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Anton Matheis (Rodalben)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Köln

15 August 1987 3	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	1. FC Köln	Bochum
15:30		[3]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Hans Scheuerer (Munich)

SV Werder Bremen v VfL Bochum

22 August 1987 4	SV Werder Bremen	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	Bremen
15:30		[4]		Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Eugen Strigel (Horb am Neckar)

VfL Bochum v FC Schalke 04

25 August 1987 5	VfL Bochum	1 – 3	FC Schalke 04	Bochum
20:00	Kree  80'	[5]	Patzke  57' Thon  75' Wollitz  82'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Dieter Pauly (Rheydt)

Hannover 96 v VfL Bochum

1 September 1987 6	Hannover 96	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Hannover
20:00	Reich  39'	[6]		Stadium: Niedersachsenstadion Attendance: 14,000 Referee: Kurt Witke (Mönchzell)

VfL Bochum v Karlsruher SC

4 September 1987 7	VfL Bochum	5 – 0	Karlsruher SC	Bochum
20:00	Leifeld  12', 77' Nehl  28', 62' Reekers  33'	[7]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Herbert Eli (Idar-Oberstein)

1. FC Kaiserslautern v VfL Bochum

11 September 1987 8	1. FC Kaiserslautern	4 – 2	VfL Bochum	Kaiserslautern
20:00	Kohr  19' Schulz  52' Kree  60' (o.g.) Wuttke  89'	[8]	Leifeld  11' Epp  20'	Stadium: Fritz-Walter-Stadion Attendance: 15,487 Referee: Hans-Heinrich Barnick (Schenfeld)

Hamburger SV v VfL Bochum

19 September 1987 9	Hamburger SV	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
15:30	von Heesen  8' Dittmer  62'	[9]	Knäbel  24' Kree  53'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 12,500 Referee: Manfred Amerell (Munich)

VfL Bochum v Bayer 05 Uerdingen

28 September 1987 10	VfL Bochum	1 – 4	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	Bochum
20:00	Heinemann  87'	[10]	Kuntz  9', 84' Bommer  74' (pen.), 80'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Horst-Peter Bruch (Bischmisheim)

VfB Stuttgart v VfL Bochum

3 October 1987 11	VfB Stuttgart	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
15:30	Klinsmann  36' Walter  62', 77'	[11]		Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Peter Gabor (West Berlin)

VfL Bochum v Bayer 04 Leverkusen

9 October 1987 12	VfL Bochum	3 – 1	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Bochum
20:00	Nehl  17', 52' Leifeld  28'	[12]	Cha  55'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Rainer Boos (Kronberg)

Borussia Dortmund v VfL Bochum

17 February 1988 13	Borussia Dortmund	1 – 2	VfL Bochum	Dortmund
20:00	Möller  42'	[13]	Riechmann  89' Rzehaczek  90'	Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 23,709 Referee: Hans Scheuerer (Munich)

VfL Bochum v FC Bayern Munich

31 October 1987 14	VfL Bochum	0 – 2	FC Bayern Munich	Bochum
15:30		[14]	Flick  69' Wegmann  89'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Ralf Blattmann (Zeiningen)

SV Waldhof Mannheim v VfL Bochum

6 November 1987 15	SV Waldhof Mannheim	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Ludwigshafen am Rhein
20:00	Klotz  44'	[15]	Epp  64'	Stadium: Südweststadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Wolfgang Mierswa (Hennigsen)

VfL Bochum v FC 08 Homburg

17 November 1987 16	VfL Bochum	4 – 4	FC 08 Homburg	Bochum
20:00	Epp  6', 61' Legat  64' Kree  67'	[16]	Westerbeek  5' Jambo  40' (pen.) Schäfer  87', 90'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Wolf-Rüdiger Umbach (Rottdorf)

1. FC Nuremberg v VfL Bochum

21 November 1987 17	1. FC Nuremberg	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Nuremberg
15:30	Stenzel  9' Grahammer  18'	[17]	Hantzidis  85'	Stadium: Städtisches Stadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

Borussia Mönchengladbach v VfL Bochum

28 November 1987 18	Borussia Mönchengladbach	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Mönchengladbach
15:30	Hochstätter  3', 32' Krauss  57'	[18]		Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 8,230 Referee: Gerd Zimmermann (Kiel)

VfL Bochum v Eintracht Frankfurt

5 December 1987 19	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bochum
15:30	Kempe  52'	[19]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Hans-Joachim Osmers (Bremen)

1. FC Köln v VfL Bochum

20 February 1988 20	1. FC Köln	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Cologne
15:30	Engels  9' Woodcock  81'	[20]	Woelk  14' Leifeld  53'	Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Manfred Amerell (Munich)

VfL Bochum v SV Werder Bremen

27 February 1988 21	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	SV Werder Bremen	Bochum
15:30		[21]	Ordenewitz  1'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Siegfried Brehm (Kemmern)

FC Schalke 04 v VfL Bochum

5 March 1988 22	FC Schalke 04	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Gelsenkirchen
15:30	Tschiskale  51' Thon  73' (pen.)	[22]	Rzehaczek  67'	Stadium: Parkstadion Attendance: 15,800 Referee: Manfred Neuner (Leimen)

VfL Bochum v Hannover 96

19 April 1988 23	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	Hannover 96	Bochum
20:00	Leifeld  77'	[23]	Kohn  87'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Peter Gabor (West Berlin)

Karlsruher SC v VfL Bochum

19 March 1988 24	Karlsruher SC	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Karlsruhe
15:30	Hermann  70'	[24]		Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 13,500 Referee: Horst-Peter Bruch (Bischmisheim)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Kaiserslautern

22 March 1988 25	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Bochum
20:00	Leifeld  10'	[25]	Allievi  23'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 9,200 Referee: Eugen Strigel (Horb am Neckar)

VfL Bochum v Hamburger SV

26 March 1988 26	VfL Bochum	4 – 0	Hamburger SV	Bochum
15:30	Iwan  13' Leifeld  24', 55' Nehl  73'	[26]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 8,700 Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (Freiburg)

Bayer 05 Uerdingen v VfL Bochum

9 April 1988 27	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Krefeld
15:30	Fach  30' Mathy  32' Prytz  77'	[27]	Leifeld  7'	Stadium: Grotenburg-Stadion Attendance: 9,600 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)

VfL Bochum v VfB Stuttgart

16 April 1988 28	VfL Bochum	5 – 1	VfB Stuttgart	Bochum
15:30	Iwan  4' Kree  19' Schäfer  22' (o.g.) Leifeld  70' Nehl  73'	[28]	Buchwald  61'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Wolf-Günter Wiesel (Ottbergen)

Bayer 04 Leverkusen v VfL Bochum

23 April 1988 29	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	Leverkusen
15:30		[29]		Stadium: Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Manfred Neuner (Leimen)

VfL Bochum v Borussia Dortmund

30 April 1988 30	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Borussia Dortmund	Bochum
15:30	Kree  37' (pen.), 80'	[30]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Kurt Witke (Mönchzell)

FC Bayern Munich v VfL Bochum

3 May 1988 31	FC Bayern Munich	5 – 0	VfL Bochum	Munich
20:00	Hughes  51', 62', 68' Eder  61' Dorfner  83'	[31]		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 8,500 Referee: Hans-Heinrich Barnick (Schenfeld)

VfL Bochum v SV Waldhof Mannheim

6 May 1988 32	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	SV Waldhof Mannheim	Bochum
20:00	Kree  27'	[32]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Heinz Werner (Auersmacher)

FC 08 Homburg v VfL Bochum

14 May 1988 33	FC 08 Homburg	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Homburg
15:30	Freiler  62'	[33]	Knäbel  50'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Siegfried Brehm (Kemmern)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Nuremberg

21 May 1988 34	VfL Bochum	3 – 0	1. FC Nuremberg	Bochum
15:30	Reekers  28' Kempe  65' Zumdick  88' (pen.)	[34]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Hans-Joachim Osmers (Bremen)

DFB-Pokal

VfB Oldenburg v VfL Bochum

28 August 1987 R1	VfB Oldenburg	0 – 0 (aet)	VfL Bochum	Oldenburg
18:45		[35]		Stadium: Marschweg-Stadion Attendance: 8,200 Referee: Peter Mölm (Bremerhaven)

VfL Bochum v VfB Oldenburg

13 October 1987 R1 replay	VfL Bochum	4 – 1	VfB Oldenburg	Bochum
20:00	Woelk  27', 69' (pen.) Nehl  57' Fischer  83'	[36]	Voigt  90'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 2,568 Referee: Michael Prengel (Düsseldorf)

TSG Giengen v VfL Bochum

24 October 1987 R2	TSG Giengen	1 – 2 (aet)	VfL Bochum	Giengen an der Brenz
14:30	Gentner  84'	[37]	Fischer  33' Hantzidis  112'	Stadium: TSG-Stadion auf dem Schießberg Attendance: 3,300 Referee: Holger Dehmelt (Sasbachwalden)

Schwarz-Weiß Essen v VfL Bochum

14 February 1988 R3	Schwarz-Weiß Essen	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Essen
15:00		[38]	Leifeld  57'	Stadium: Uhlenkrugstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)

VfL Bochum v Fortuna Köln

8 March 1988 QF	VfL Bochum	4 – 1	Fortuna Köln	Bochum
	Leifeld  70', 83' Iwan  87' Epp  88'	[39]	Pförtner  29'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Eugen Strigel (Horb am Neckar)

VfL Bochum v Hamburger SV

12 April 1988 SF	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Hamburger SV	Bochum
	Kree  27' Iwan  60'	[40]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Hans Scheuerer (Munich)

Eintracht Frankfurt v VfL Bochum

28 May 1988 F	Eintracht Frankfurt	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	West Berlin
18:00	Détári  81'	[41]		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 76,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

Intertoto Cup

Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. v VfL Bochum

27 June 1987 GS1	Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C.	2 – 2	VfL Bochum
		[42]		Attendance: 1,000

Beitar Jerusalem F.C. v VfL Bochum

4 July 1987 GS2	Beitar Jerusalem F.C.	0 – 0	VfL Bochum
		[42]		Attendance: 400

VfL Bochum v Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C.

12 July 1987 GS3	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C.
		[42]		Attendance: 1,000

VfL Bochum v Beitar Jerusalem F.C.

18 July 1987 GS4	VfL Bochum	4 – 0	Beitar Jerusalem F.C.
		[42]		Attendance: 1,000

VfL Bochum v Brøndby IF

25 July 1987 GS5	VfL Bochum	2 – 3	Brøndby IF
		[42]		Attendance: 1,000

Brøndby IF v VfL Bochum

27 July 1987 GS6	Brøndby IF	1 – 0	VfL Bochum
		[42]		Attendance: 2,500

Squad

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals scored

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal		Intertoto Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	MF		Frank Benatelli	20	0	15	0	5	0
	MF		Dirk Bremser	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MF		Olaf Dreßel	3	0	2	0	1	0
	FW		Thomas Epp	36	5	31	4	5	1
	FW		Klaus Fischer	15	2	12	0	3	2
	FW		Minas Hantzidis (21 October 1987 until 31 December 1987)	4	2	3	1	1	1
	MF		Frank Heinemann	30	1	25	1	5	0
	MF		Michael Hubner	4	0	3	0	1	0
	MF		Andrzej Iwan	20	4	16	2	4	2
	DF		Peter Jackisch	12	0	12	0	0	0
	DF		Thomas Kempe	34	2	29	2	5	0
	MF		Peter Knäbel	24	2	20	2	4	0
	MF		Volker Knappheide	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF		Martin Kree	36	8	32	7	4	1
	MF		Michael Lameck	20	0	16	0	4	0
	MF		Thorsten Legat	20	1	17	1	3	0
	FW		Uwe Leifeld	37	16	30	13	7	3
	FW		Andreas Lübke	1	0	1	0	0	0
	MF		Detlef Mikolajczak	10	0	8	0	2	0
	FW		Josef Nehl	32	7	27	6	5	1
	DF		Walter Oswald	32	0	26	0	6	0
	DF		Rob Reekers	32	2	26	2	6	0
	MF		Dirk Riechmann (since 17 February 1988)	4	1	3	1	1	0
	MF		Michael Rzehaczek (since 4 September 1987)	18	2	15	2	3	0
	DF		Franz-Josef Tenhagen	1	0	1	0	0	0
	GK		Andreas Wessels	6	0	5	0	1	0
	DF		Lothar Woelk	40	3	33	1	7	2
	GK		Ralf Zumdick	35	1	29	1	6	0

• Source:

Transfers

Summer

In: No. Position Player MF Olaf Dreßel (from VfL Bochum youth) FW Thomas Epp (from VfB Stuttgart youth) FW Minas Hantzidis (from Bayer 04 Leverkusen) MF Michael Hubner (from VfL Bochum youth) MF Andrzej Iwan (from Górnik Zabrze) DF Peter Jackisch (from VfB Remscheid) MF Michael Rzehaczek (from VfL Bochum II)

Out: No. Position Player DF Siegfried Bönighausen (retired) FW Rudolf Decker (to Rot-Weiß Oberhausen) MF Michael Kühn (to BVL Remscheid) FW Franz Schick (to TSV Ampfing) MF Frank Schulz (to Eintracht Frankfurt) MF Uwe Wegmann (to Rot-Weiß Essen) DF Jürgen Wielert (to Rot-Weiß Oberhausen) DF Ivan Žugčić (to SG Wattenscheid 09)

Winter

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

Out: No. Position Player FW Minas Hantzidis (to Olympiacos F.C.)

Sources

1. "VfL Bochum - Bor. Mönchengladbach 1:2" (in German). Kicker.
2. "Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). Kicker.
3. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Köln 0:0" (in German). Kicker.
4. "Werder Bremen - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). Kicker.
5. "VfL Bochum - FC Schalke 04 1:3" (in German). Kicker.
6. "Hannover 96 - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
7. "VfL Bochum - Karlsruher SC 5:0" (in German). Kicker.
8. "1. FC Kaiserslautern - VfL Bochum 4:2" (in German). Kicker.
9. "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). Kicker.
10. "VfL Bochum - Bayer 05 Uerdingen 1:4" (in German). Kicker.
11. "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). Kicker.
12. "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 3:1" (in German). Kicker.
13. "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 1:2" (in German). Kicker.
14. "VfL Bochum - Bayern München 0:2" (in German). Kicker.
15. "Waldhof Mannheim - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). Kicker.
16. "VfL Bochum - FC 08 Homburg 4:4" (in German). Kicker.
17. "1. FC Nürnberg - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
18. "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). Kicker.
19. "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Frankfurt 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
20. "1. FC Köln - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). Kicker.
21. "VfL Bochum - Werder Bremen 0:1" (in German). Kicker.
22. "FC Schalke 04 - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
23. "VfL Bochum - Hannover 96 1:1" (in German). Kicker.
24. "Karlsruher SC - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
25. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Kaiserslautern 1:1" (in German). Kicker.
26. "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 4:0" (in German). Kicker.
27. "Bayer 05 Uerdingen - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). Kicker.
28. "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 5:1" (in German). Kicker.
29. "Bayer 04 Leverkusen - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). Kicker.
30. "VfL Bochum - Borussia Dortmund 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
31. "Bayern München - VfL Bochum 5:0" (in German). Kicker.
32. "VfL Bochum - Waldhof Mannheim 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
33. "FC 08 Homburg - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). Kicker.
34. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Nürnberg 3:0" (in German). Kicker.
35. "VfB Oldenburg - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
36. "VfL Bochum - VfB Oldenburg 4:1" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
37. "TSG Giengen - VfL Bochum 1:2" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
38. "Schwarz-Weiß Essen - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
39. "VfL Bochum - Fortuna Köln 4:1" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
40. "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 2:0" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
41. "Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
42. Franz, Markus (2005). Die Jungs von der Castroper Straße (in German). Die Werkstatt. pp. 353–354. ISBN 3-89533-506-1.

External links

• 1987–88 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de (German)
• 1987–88 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de (German)
• 1987–88 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de (German)