2008–09 VfL Bochum season

VfL Bochum

2008–09 season
Chairman	Werner Altegoer
Head Coach	Marcel Koller
Stadium	rewirpowerSTADION
Bundesliga	14th
DFB-Pokal	Second Round
Top goalscorer	League: Šesták (9) All: Šesták (10)
Highest home attendance	31,328 (vs Borussia Mönchengladbach, 17 October 2008; vs FC Bayern Munich, 14 March 2009; vs Borussia Dortmund, 18 April 2009)
Lowest home attendance	18,103 (vs FC Energie Cottbus, 28 February 2009)
Average home league attendance	25,515
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 VfL Bochum season was the 71st season in club history.

Matches

Legend

      Win       Draw       Loss

Bundesliga

Karlsruher SC v VfL Bochum

16 August 2008 1	Karlsruher SC	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Karlsruhe
15:30	Eichner  30'	[1]		Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 24,800 Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

VfL Bochum v VfL Wolfsburg

24 August 2008 2	VfL Bochum	2 – 2	VfL Wolfsburg	Bochum
17:00	Šesták  12' Dabrowski  50'	[2]	Costa  51' Sağlık  69'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 20,836 Referee: Michael Kempter (Sauldorf)

FC Schalke 04 v VfL Bochum

30 August 2008 3	FC Schalke 04	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Gelsenkirchen
15:30	Westermann  36'	[3]		Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 61,673 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)

VfL Bochum v Arminia Bielefeld

14 September 2008 4	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Arminia Bielefeld	Bochum
17:00	Mięciel  22' Pfertzel  26'	[4]		Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 20,739 Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)

FC Energie Cottbus v VfL Bochum

20 September 2008 5	FC Energie Cottbus	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Cottbus
15:30	Sørensen  13'	[5]	Yahia  48'	Stadium: Stadion der Freundschaft Attendance: 12,174 Referee: Florian Meyer (Burgdorf)

VfL Bochum v Bayer 04 Leverkusen

27 September 2008 6	VfL Bochum	2 – 3	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Bochum
15:30	Šesták  79' Kaloğlu  81'	[6]	Vidal  6' Augusto  21' Helmes  61'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 24,843 Referee: Jochen Drees (Münster-Sarmsheim)

FC Bayern Munich v VfL Bochum

4 October 2008 7	FC Bayern Munich	3 – 3	VfL Bochum	Munich
15:30	Van Buyten  15' Zé Roberto  45', 68'	[7]	Kaloğlu  29' Dabrowski  83' Grote  85'	Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 69,000 Referee: Babak Rafati (Hannover)

VfL Bochum v Borussia Mönchengladbach

17 October 2008 8	VfL Bochum	2 – 2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
20:30	Dabrowski  55' Kaloğlu  77'	[8]	Gohouri  30' Kleine  79'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,328 Referee: Helmut Fleischer (Ulm)

VfB Stuttgart v VfL Bochum

26 October 2008 9	VfB Stuttgart	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
17:00	Gómez  80', 83'	[9]		Stadium: Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion Attendance: 43,000 Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)

VfL Bochum v TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

29 October 2008 10	VfL Bochum	1 – 3	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Bochum
20:00	Grote  2'	[10]	Ba  64' Ibišević  70' (pen.) Eduardo  71'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 24,444 Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)

Borussia Dortmund v VfL Bochum

2 November 2008 11	Borussia Dortmund	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Dortmund
17:00	Zidan  44'	[11]	Zdebel  27'	Stadium: Signal Iduna Park Attendance: 71,600 Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg)

VfL Bochum v SV Werder Bremen

8 November 2008 12	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	SV Werder Bremen	Bochum
15:30		[12]		Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 27,237 Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Oberasbach)

Hannover 96 v VfL Bochum

14 November 2008 13	Hannover 96	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Hannover
20:30	Schlaudraff  62'	[13]	Fromlowitz  66' (o.g.)	Stadium: AWD-Arena Attendance: 30,827 Referee: Michael Kempter (Sauldorf)

VfL Bochum v Hertha BSC

22 November 2008 14	VfL Bochum	2 – 3	Hertha BSC	Bochum
15:30	Šesták  50' Mięciel  74'	[14]	Raffael  25' Kačar  33' Cícero  39'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 18,248 Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

VfL Bochum v Hamburger SV

30 November 2008 15	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	Hamburger SV	Bochum
17:00	Šesták  39'	[15]	Olić  70'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 23,157 Referee: Felix Brych (Munich)

Eintracht Frankfurt v VfL Bochum

6 December 2008 16	Eintracht Frankfurt	4 – 0	VfL Bochum	Frankfurt am Main
15:30	Liberopoulos  7' (pen.), 43' Steinhöfer  62' Russ  64'	[16]		Stadium: Commerzbank-Arena Attendance: 39,400 Referee: Markus Schmidt (Stuttgart)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Köln

13 December 2008 17	VfL Bochum	1 – 2	1. FC Köln	Bochum
15:30	Dabrowski  58'	[17]	McKenna  44' Ishiaku  87'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 30,208 Referee: Jochen Drees (Münster-Sarmsheim)

VfL Bochum v Karlsruher SC

1 February 2009 18	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Karlsruher SC	Bochum
17:00	C. Fuchs  26' Klimowicz  65'	[18]		Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 20,148 Referee: Peter Sippel (Munich)

VfL Wolfsburg v VfL Bochum

7 February 2009 19	VfL Wolfsburg	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Wolfsburg
15:30	Džeko  21', 85'	[19]		Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 26,177 Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Oberasbach)

VfL Bochum v FC Schalke 04

14 February 2009 20	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	FC Schalke 04	Bochum
15:30	Azaouagh  44' Dabrowski  57'	[20]	Kurányi  18'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 30,605 Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg)

Arminia Bielefeld v VfL Bochum

21 February 2009 21	Arminia Bielefeld	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Bielefeld
15:30	Mijatović  83'	[21]	Klimowicz  30'	Stadium: Schüco Arena Attendance: 20,200 Referee: Lutz Wagner (Kriftel)

VfL Bochum v FC Energie Cottbus

28 February 2009 22	VfL Bochum	3 – 2	FC Energie Cottbus	Bochum
15:30	Epalle  12' C. Fuchs  54' Pfertzel  79' (pen.)	[22]	Iliev  2' Jula  50'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 18,103 Referee: Markus Schmidt (Stuttgart)

Bayer 04 Leverkusen v VfL Bochum

8 March 2009 23	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Düsseldorf
17:00	Helmes  66' (pen.)	[23]	Dabrowski  32'	Stadium: LTU Arena Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)

VfL Bochum v FC Bayern Munich

14 March 2009 24	VfL Bochum	0 – 3	FC Bayern Munich	Bochum
15:30		[24]	Zé Roberto  32' Lahm  60' Demichelis  90'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,328 Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

Borussia Mönchengladbach v VfL Bochum

20 March 2009 25	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Mönchengladbach
20:30		[25]	Grote  29'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 49,282 Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)

VfL Bochum v VfB Stuttgart

4 April 2009 26	VfL Bochum	1 – 2	VfB Stuttgart	Bochum
15:30	Epalle  48'	[26]	Cacau  58' Tasci  89'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 24,718 Referee: Helmut Fleischer (Ulm)

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim v VfL Bochum

11 April 2009 27	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	0 – 3	VfL Bochum	Sinsheim
15:30		[27]	Šesták  42', 55', 69'	Stadium: Rhein-Neckar Arena Attendance: 30,150 Referee: Babak Rafati (Hannover)

VfL Bochum v Borussia Dortmund

18 April 2009 28	VfL Bochum	0 – 2	Borussia Dortmund	Bochum
15:30		[28]	Owomoyela  11' Valdez  54'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,328 Referee: Peter Sippel (Munich)

SV Werder Bremen v VfL Bochum

25 April 2009 29	SV Werder Bremen	3 – 2	VfL Bochum	Bremen
15:30	Almeida  54' Naldo  70' Diego  79'	[29]	Šesták  16', 44'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 39,303 Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)

VfL Bochum v Hannover 96

1 May 2009 30	VfL Bochum	0 – 2	Hannover 96	Bochum
20:30		[30]	Bruggink  12' Balitsch  32'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 26,072 Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg)

Hertha BSC v VfL Bochum

9 May 2009 31	Hertha BSC	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Berlin
15:30	Pantelić  39' Raffael  50'	[31]		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 71,323 Referee: Helmut Fleischer (Ulm)

Hamburger SV v VfL Bochum

13 May 2009 32	Hamburger SV	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
20:00	Guerrero  15' Olić  33', 58'	[32]	Freier  71'	Stadium: HSH Nordbank Arena Attendance: 47,942 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)

VfL Bochum v Eintracht Frankfurt

16 May 2009 33	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bochum
15:30	Hashemian  26' Klimowicz  72'	[33]		Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 30,420 Referee: Felix Brych (Munich)

1. FC Köln v VfL Bochum

23 May 2009 34	1. FC Köln	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Cologne
15:30	Yahia  24' (o.g.)	[34]	Klimowicz  18'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)

DFB-Pokal

SC Preußen Münster v VfL Bochum

8 August 2008 R1	SC Preußen Münster	0 – 0 (aet) (5 – 6 p)	VfL Bochum	Münster
20:30		[35]		Stadium: Preußenstadion Attendance: 15,050 Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)
		Penalties
	Özkara Wissing Ivičević Loose Lauretta Talarek Remmert		Maltritz Šesták Pfertzel Ono Hashemian C. Fuchs Yahia

Hamburger SV v VfL Bochum

24 September 2008 R2	Hamburger SV	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
19:00	Petrić  9', 90+2'	[36]		Stadium: HSH Nordbank Arena Attendance: 33,820 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		Daniel Márcio Fernandes	33	0	31	0	2	0
2	DF		Matias Concha	15	0	15	0	0	0
4	DF		Marcel Maltritz	30	1	28	0	2	1
5	MF		Christoph Dabrowski	32	6	31	6	1	0
6	DF		Christian Fuchs	24	3	22	2	2	1
7	MF		Paul Freier	29	1	28	1	1	0
8	MF		Tomasz Zdebel (until 31 December 2008)	14	1	12	1	2	0
9	FW		Stanislav Šesták	26	10	24	9	2	1
10	FW		Joël Epalle	22	2	22	2	0	0
11	FW		Marcin Mięciel	14	2	12	2	2	0
13	MF		Danny Fuchs (until 31 December 2008)	1	0	1	0	0	0
14	FW		Diego Klimowicz (since 4 January 2009)	11	4	11	4	0	0
15	MF		Daniel Imhof	25	0	24	0	1	0
16	FW		Vahid Hashemian	18	2	16	1	2	1
17	FW		Sinan Kaloğlu	19	3	18	3	1	0
18	MF		Oliver Schröder	13	0	13	0	0	0
19	MF		Dennis Grote	21	3	20	3	1	0
20	DF		Mërgim Mavraj	23	0	23	0	0	0
21	DF		Marc Pfertzel	29	3	27	2	2	1
22	MF		Mimoun Azaouagh	32	1	30	1	2	0
23	MF		Shinji Ono	10	0	8	0	2	0
24	DF		Philipp Bönig	19	0	18	0	1	0
25	DF		Antar Yahia	26	2	24	1	2	1
26	MF		Heinrich Schmidtgal	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	GK		Andreas Lengsfeld	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	MF		David Zajas	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	MF		Dilaver Güçlü	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	DF		Patrick Fabian	5	0	5	0	0	0
31	GK		René Renno	1	0	1	0	0	0
32	GK		Philipp Heerwagen	3	0	3	0	0	0
35	MF		İlkay Gündoğan (until 31 January 2009)	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	MF		Jürgen Duah	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	FW		Sami El-Nounou	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	FW		Roman Prokoph	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	MF		Kevin Vogt (since 1 January 2009)	1	0	1	0	0	0

• Source:

Transfers

Summer

In: No. Position Player 1 GK Daniel Márcio Fernandes (from P.A.O.K. F.C.) 6 DF Christian Fuchs (from SV Mattersburg) 7 MF Paul Freier (from Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 16 FW Vahid Hashemian (from Hannover 96) 17 FW Sinan Kaloğlu (from Bursaspor) 22 MF Mimoun Azaouagh (from FC Schalke 04, previously on loan) 27 GK Andreas Lengsfeld (from SSV Jahn Regensburg) 29 FW Dilaver Güçlü (from VfL Bochum II) 36 MF Jürgen Duah (from VfL Bochum II) 38 FW Roman Prokoph (from VfL Bochum II) 37 FW Sami El-Nounou (from VfL Bochum II)

Out: No. Position Player 3 DF Martin Meichelbeck (to SpVgg Greuther Fürth) 6 DF Pavel Drsek (to Panionios F.C.) 7 FW Tommy Bechmann (to SC Freiburg) 14 FW Benjamin Auer (to Alemannia Aachen) 16 FW Marc Sand (on loan to FK Austria Wien) 17 FW Oleksiy Byelik (loan return to FC Shakhtar Donetsk) 27 GK Jan Laštůvka (loan return to FC Shakhtar Donetsk)

Winter

In: No. Position Player 14 FW Diego Klimowicz (from Borussia Dortmund) 40 MF Kevin Vogt (from VfL Bochum U-19)

Out: No. Position Player 8 MF Tomasz Zdebel (to Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 13 MF Danny Fuchs (on loan to 1. FC Kaiserslautern) 35 MF İlkay Gündoğan (to 1. FC Nuremberg) -- FW Marc Sand (to SK Austria Kärnten, previously on loan to FK Austria Wien)

VfL Bochum II

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Regionalliga West
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	DF		Jonas Acquistapace	18	0	18	0
	MF		Mirkan Aydın	29	4	29	4
	MF		Jürgen Duah	32	1	32	1
	FW		Sami El-Nounou	26	11	26	11
	GK		Michael Esser	1	0	1	0
	DF		Patrick Fabian	17	0	17	0
	MF		Paul Freier	2	0	2	0
	MF		Danny Fuchs	3	1	3	1
	MF		Dennis Grote	4	1	4	1
	FW		Dilaver Güçlü	25	5	25	5
	MF		İlkay Gündoğan (until 31 January 2009)	2	1	2	1
	FW		Mike Hibbeln	9	0	9	0
	DF		Christian Kalina	15	0	15	0
	DF		Daniel Klinger	24	0	24	0
	FW		Mohamed Labiadh	4	0	4	0
	GK		Andreas Lengsfeld	6	0	6	0
	GK		Andreas Luthe	21	0	21	0
	DF		Marcel Maltritz	1	0	1	0
	DF		Christian Mäscher	23	0	23	0
	DF		Mërgim Mavraj	1	0	1	0
	FW		Alexander Neumann	23	5	23	5
	FW		Roman Prokoph	31	12	31	12
	GK		René Renno	6	0	6	0
	DF		Stefan Schattauer	4	0	4	0
	MF		Heinrich Schmidtgal	31	4	31	4
	DF		Lukas Schmitz	24	2	24	2
	DF		Rouven Schröder	20	0	20	0
	MF		Oliver Schröder	1	0	1	0
	MF		Kevin Vogt (since 1 January 2009)	2	0	2	0
	DF		Antar Yahia	1	0	1	0
	MF		David Zajas	21	0	21	0
	MF		Gianluca Zavarise	19	1	19	1
	MF		Oliver Zech	24	0	24	0

• Source:

Sources

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

External links

• 2008–09 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de (German)
• 2008–09 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de (German)
• 2008–09 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de (German)