1977–78 FC Bayern Munich season

The 1977–78 FC Bayern Munich season was the club's 13th season in Bundesliga.

Bayern Munich

1977–78 season
Chairman	Wilhelm Neudecker
Manager	Dettmar Cramer Gyula Lóránt
Stadium	Olympiastadion
Bundesliga	12th
DFB-Pokal	Third round
UEFA Cup	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	Gerd Müller (24)

Review and events

Bayern Munich placed 12th in the domestic competition, its worst Bundesliga result ever. In the UEFA Cup they were defeated by Eintracht Frankfurt 6–1 on aggregate in the Round of 16. To make things even worse, Bayern were knocked out by an unheralded side Homburg in the DFB-Pokal.

Match results

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

Bundesliga

6 August 1977 1	VfB Stuttgart	3–3	Bayern Munich	Stuttgart
15:30 CET	Müller  17' (pen.), 53' (pen.) Elmer  33'	Report	Janzon  36' Müller  43', 89' Oblak	Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 71,000 Referee: Dieter Dreher

13 August 1977 2	Bayern Munich	4–2	FC St. Pauli	Munich
15:30 CET	Müller  12', 32' (pen.), 37', 80' Rausch	Report	Tune-Hansen  43' Gerber  45'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 34,000 Referee: Heinz Quindeau

17 August 1978 3	Fortuna Düsseldorf	4–2	Bayern Munich	Düsseldorf
20:00 CET	K. Allofs  49', 52' Zimmermann  82' Hickersberger  86'	Report	Janzon  45' Müller  66'	Stadium: Rheinstadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Ferdinand Biwersi

27 August 1977 4	Bayern Munich	0–3	1. FC Köln	Munich
15:30 CET		Report	Schwarzenbeck  5' (o.g.) D. Müller  57' Konopka  83'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Walter Horstmann

31 August 1977 5	Werder Bremen	1–1	Bayern Munich	Bremen
15:30 CET	Röber  62'	Report	Niedermayer  68'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Rainer Waltert

3 September 1977 6	Bayern Munich	1–1	VfL Bochum	Munich
15:30 CET	Müller  61' (pen.)	Report	Tenhagen  12' Schwemmle	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 19,300 Referee: Medardus Luca

10 September 1977 7	Bayern Munich	3–2	Eintracht Braunschweig	Munich
15:30 CET	Müller  14' (73) Hoeneß  44' Oblak Rausch	Report	Hollmann  20' Breitner  72' Borg Popivoda	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Wolf-Dieter Ahlenfelder

17 September 1977 8	1. FC Saarbrücken	2–1	Bayern Munich	Saarbrücken
15:30 CET	Lorant  4' (pen.) H. Traser  85'	Report	Müller  7' Oblak Rausch Kappellmann  88'	Stadium: Ludwigsparkstadion Attendance: 34,000 Referee: Gerd Henning

24 September 1977 9	Bayern Munich	7–1	Schalke 04	Munich
15:30 CET	Schwarzenbeck  24' Weiß  28' Dürnberger  30' Hoeneß  59' Niedermayer  73' Müller  79' Rummenigge  85' Bongartz  90' (o.g.)	Report	Abramczik  36'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 70,000 Referee: Gert Meuser

4 October 1977 10	Hamburger SV	2–2	Bayern Munich	Hamburg
15:30 CET	Keller  69' Reimann  78'	Report	Dürnberger  61' Hoeneß  83'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Walter Engel

12 October 1977 11	Bayern Munich	3–0	Borussia Dortmund	Munich
22:00 CET	Augenthaler  20' Müller  35' 49' Rummenigge  75'	Report		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Walter Horstmann

22 October 1977 12	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–0	Bayern Munich	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CET	Heynckes  9', 48'	Report	Schwarzenbeck	Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 35,200 Referee: Jan Redelfs

29 October 1977 13	Bayern Munich	0–2	Hertha BSC	Munich
15:30 CET	Oblak	Report	Grau  29' Gersdorff  89'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Dr. Dieter Stäglich

5 November 1977 14	MSV Duisburg	6–3	Bayern Munich	Duisburg
15:30 CET	Dietz  20', 49', 76', 78' Worm  83' Stolzenburg  85'	Report	Künkel  24' Müller  44' (pen.), 57' Kappellmann	Stadium: Wedaustadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Volker Roth

12 November 1977 15	Bayern Munich	1–3	1860 Munich	Munich
15:30 CET	Rummenigge  31'  90' Rausch	Report	Scheller  46', 90' (pen.) Kohlhäufl  84' Glavovic	Stadium: Grünwalder Stadion Attendance: 77,573 Referee: Ferdinand Biwersi

26 November 1977 16	Eintracht Frankfurt	4–0	Bayern Munich	Frankfurt
15:30 CET	Hölzenbein  4' Wenzel  38' Kraus  56' Grabowski  75' Müller Weidle	Report	Schwarzenbeck Kappellmann	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 43,000 Referee: Rainer Waltert

3 December 1977 17	Bayern Munich	4–2	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Munich
15:30 CET	Roth  3' Müller  29' (pen.) Hoeneß  70', 89' Kappellmann	Report	Stickel  67' Wendt  80'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Werner Burgers

10 December 1977 18	Bayern Munich	2–0	VfB Stuttgart	Munich
15:30 CET	Augenthaler  77' Müller  83'	Report	Förster	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 37,000 Referee: Günter Linn

17 December 1977 19	FC St. Pauli	0–0	Bayern Munich	Hamburg
15:30 CET		Report		Stadium: Wilhelm-Koch-Stadion Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Medardus Luca

7 January 1978 20	Bayern Munich	0–0	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Munich
15:30 CET		Report	Hickersberger	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 12,986 Referee: Eckhard Jensen

14 January 1978 21	1. FC Köln	2–0	Bayern Munich	Cologne
15:30 CET	Neumann  58' van Gool  74'	Report	Oblak	Stadium: Müngersdorfer Stadion Attendance: 53,000 Referee: Volker Roth

21 January 1978 22	Bayern Munich	3–1	Werder Bremen	Munich
15:30 CET	Rausch  16' Rummenigge  29' Müller  61'	Report	Bracht  57'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Walter Eschweiler

28 January 1978 23	VfL Bochum	2–1	Bayern Munich	Bochum
15:30 CET	Bast  75', 85'	Report	Rausch  88' Horsmann	Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Walter Engel

4 February 1978 24	Eintracht Braunschweig	1–1	Bayern Munich	Braunschweig
15:30 CET	Breitner  75' Dremmler	Report	Rummenigge  51' Horsmann	Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Rainer Waltert

11 February 1978 25	Bayern Munich	7–1	1. FC Saarbrücken	Munich
15:30 CET	Müller  24', 44' Niedermayer  35', 62' Hoeneß  51' Rummenigge  63' Künkel  82'	Report	Lorant  90' (pen.)	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 10,500 Referee: Wolf-Dieter Ahlenfelder

18 February 1978 26	Schalke 04	3–2	Bayern Munich	Gelsenkirchen
15:30 CET	Fischer  5' Abramczik  42', 55' Lütkebohmert	Report	Rummenigge  51' Müller  79' (pen.) Niedermayer	Stadium: Parkstadion Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Klaus Ohmsen

25 February 1978 27	Bayern Munich	2–0	Hamburger SV	Munich
15;30 CET	Hoeneß  6' Müller  89' (pen.)	Report	Magath	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Gerd Henning

4 February 1978 28	Borussia Dortmund	1–1	Bayern Munich	Dortmund
15:30 CET	Geyer  51' Wagner a	Report	Janzon  84' Müller Augenthaler Niedermayer	Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 44,622 Referee: Medardus Luca

11 March 1978 29	Bayern Munich	1–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Munich
15:30 CET	Müller  36'	Report	Del'Haye  87'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Jan Redelfs

18 March 1978 30	Hertha BSC	3–1	Bayern Munich	Berlin
15:30 CET	Nüssing  11' Sidka  69' Brück  90' (pen.)	Report	Oblak  84' Rummenigge	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Werner Burgers

1 April 1978 31	Bayern Munich	3–2	MSV Duisburg	Munich
15:30 CET	Hoeneß  16', 22' Rummenigge  42'	Report	Worm  54' Bücker  88' Büsser	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Jörg Glasneck

8 April 1978 32	1860 Munich	1–1	Bayern Munich	Munich
15:30 CET	Vöhringer  68' Scheller	Report	Hoeneß  59' Augenthaler	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Walter Horstmann

22 April 1978 33	Bayern Munich	2–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Munich
15:30 CET	Hoeneß  11' Müller  81' (pen.)	Report	Nickel  18'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 19,700 Referee: Paul Kindervater

29 April 1978 34	1. FC Kaiserslautern	5–0	Bayern Munich	Kaiserslautern
15:30 CET	Toppmöller  20', 58' (pen.), 78' Wendt  30' Geye  74'	Report		Stadium: Betzenbergstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Günther Risse

DFB-Pokal

10 August 1977 Round 1	1. FC Saarbrücken	1–2	Bayern Munich	Saarbrücken
CET	Traser  35'	Report	Müller  71' (pen.) Künkel  88' Rausch	Stadium: Ludwigsparkstadion Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Paul Kindervater

19 August 1977 Round 2	Bayern Munich	3–1	Eintracht Trier	Munich
CET	Künkel  15' Müller  47', 87' (pen.) Horsmann	Report	Hermandung  30'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 7,216 Referee: Klaus Clajus

10 August 1977 Round 3	FC 08 Homburg	3–1	Bayern Munich	Homburg
CET	Hodel  47' Schwickert  63' Lenz  80'	Report	Müller  55' Augenthaler	Stadium: Waldstadion Homburg Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Walter Eschweiler

UEFA Cup

First round

14 September 1977 First leg	Bayern Munich	8–0	Mjøndalen IF	Munich
CET	Oblak  16' Rummenigge  36', 40', 46' Hoeneß  53' Müller  57', 73', 81'	Report		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Josef Poucek (Czech Republic)

28 September 1977 Second leg	Mjøndalen IF	0–4 (0–12 agg.)	Bayern Munich	Oslo
CET		Report	Rausch  17' Gruber  52' Künkel  62' Niedermayer  64'	Stadium: Ullevaal Stadion Attendance: 7,000 Referee: John Hunting (England)

Second round

19 October 1977 First leg	Bayern Munich	3–0	PFC Marek Dupnitsa	Munich
CET	Müller  44' Rummenigge  50', 64'	Report		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Paul Bonett (Malta)

2 November 1977 Second leg	PFC Marek Dupnitsa	2–0 (2–3 agg.)	Bayern Munich	Dupnitsa
CET	Petrov  32' Pargov  37'	Report		Stadium: Bonchuk Stadium Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Ertugrul Dilek (Turkey)

Third round

23 November 1977 First leg	Eintracht Frankfurt	4–0	Bayern Munich	Frankfurt
CET	Grabowski  23' Hölzenbein  37' Kraus  66' Skala  67'	Report		Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Rumania)

7 December 1977 Second leg	Bayern Munich	1–2 (1–6 agg.)	Eintracht Frankfurt	Munich
CET	Rummenigge  3'	Report	Wenzel  83' Hölzenbein  86'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Cesare Gussoni (Italy)

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