1978–79 VfL Bochum season

The 1978–79 VfL Bochum season was the 41st season in club history.

VfL Bochum

1978–79 season
President	Ottokar Wüst
Head Coach	Heinz Höher
Stadium	Stadion an der Castroper Straße
Bundesliga	8th
DFB-Pokal	Fourth Round
Top goalscorer	League: Hans-Joachim Abel (11) All: Hans-Joachim Abel (15)
Highest home attendance	45,000 (vs FC Schalke 04, 16 September 1978)
Lowest home attendance	7,000 (vs SV Darmstadt 98, 2 June 1979)
Average home league attendance	26,059
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Matches

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

Bundesliga

12 August 1978 1	1. FC Nürnberg	0–2	VfL Bochum	Nuremberg
15:30		[1]	Abel  32' Eggert  81'	Stadium: Städtisches Stadion Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Klaus Ohmsen (Hamburg)

19 August 1978 2	VfL Bochum	2–2	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Bochum
15:30	Oswald  24' Woelk  79'	[2]	Günther  43' Szymanek  80'	Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Rudolf Frickel (Munich)

26 August 1978 3	Hamburger SV	1–1	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
15:30	Hartwig  25'	[3]	Bast  88'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Wilfried Brückner (Darmstadt)

2 September 1978 4	VfL Bochum	4–1	Borussia Dortmund	Bochum
15:30	Abel  27' Oswald  44' Eggeling  52' Köper  89'	[4]	Theis  71'	Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: Walter Horstmann (Hildesheim) Referee: 40,000

8 September 1978 5	MSV Duisburg	1–0	VfL Bochum	Duisburg
20:00	Worm  11'	[5]		Stadium: Wedaustadion Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Franz-Josef Hontheim (Trier)

16 September 1978 6	VfL Bochum	2–2	FC Schalke 04	Bochum
15:30	Eggeling  70' Eggert  73'	[6]	Larsson  35' Abramczik  79'	Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Winfried Walz (Waiblingen)

30 September 1978 7	Eintracht Frankfurt	4–2	VfL Bochum	Frankfurt am Main
15:30	Lorant  22' (pen.), 61' (pen.) Hölzenbein  45' Grabowski  88'	[7]	Eggert  65' Eggeling  90'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Peter Gabor (West Berlin)

6 October 1978 8	VfL Bochum	1–0	Arminia Bielefeld	Bochum
20:00	Eggert  89'	[8]		Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Hans-Heinrich Barnick (Schenfeld)

14 October 1978 9	FC Bayern Munich	2–1	VfL Bochum	Munich
15:30	Dürnberger  21' Horsmann  88'	[9]	Eggert  15'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 29,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

21 October 1978 10	VfL Bochum	0–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
15:30		[10]		Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Manfred Dölfel (Fürth)

27 October 1978 11	SV Werder Bremen	3–3	VfL Bochum	Bremen
20:00	Reinders  6' Möhlmann  15' Wunder  48'	[11]	Abel  18', 77' Blau  65'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 14,000 Referee: Eberhard Schmoock (Reichenau)

3 November 1978 12	VfL Bochum	3–0	Eintracht Braunschweig	Bochum
20:00	Eggert  7' Bast  44' (pen.) Eggeling  65'	[12]		Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Jürgen Meßmer (Mannheim)

11 November 1978 13	VfL Bochum	1–2	VfB Stuttgart	Bochum
15:30	Eggert  44'	[13]	Hoeneß  4' Ohlicher  51'	Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Klaus Ohmsen (Hamburg)

18 November 1978 14	Hertha BSC	1–1	VfL Bochum	West Berlin
15:30	Tenhagen  24' (o.g.)	[14]	Lameck  75' (pen.)	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Robert Walz (Waiblingen)

24 November 1978 15	VfL Bochum	2–5	1. FC Köln	Bochum
20:00	Bast  64', 77'	[15]	Flohe  12' Okudera  25' van Gool  74' Müller  87' Zimmermann  89'	Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Gert Meuser (Ingelheim)

30 December 1978 16	SV Darmstadt 98	3–1	VfL Bochum	Darmstadt
14:00	Bechtold  40' Cestonaro  63' Hahn  87'	[16]	Bast  55'	Stadium: Stadion am Böllenfalltor Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Günter Linn (Altendiez)

15 December 1978 17	VfL Bochum	2–2	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Bochum
20:00	Tenhagen  80' Bast  90'	[17]	Wolf  63' Dobiasch  75'	Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Wilfried Brückner (Darmstadt)

20 March 1979 18	VfL Bochum	2–1	1. FC Nürnberg	Bochum
20:00	Eggeling  39' Woelk  58'	[18]	Živaljević  81'	Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Jan Redelfs (Hannover)

20 January 1979 19	Fortuna Düsseldorf	1–1	VfL Bochum	Düsseldorf
15:30	Fanz  86'	[19]	Abel  20'	Stadium: Rheinstadion Attendance: 12,600 Referee: Manfred Dölfel (Fürth)

3 March 1979 20	VfL Bochum	2–1	Hamburger SV	Bochum
15:30	Abel  60' (pen.) Holz  67'	[20]	Hrubesch  9'	Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Werner Ross (Ingolstadt)

3 February 1979 21	Borussia Dortmund	2–2	VfL Bochum	Dortmund
15:30	Votava  81' Oswald  83' (o.g.)	[21]	Abel  15' (pen.) Eggert  49'	Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 27,000 Referee: Max Klauser (Munich)

10 March 1979 22	VfL Bochum	0–0	MSV Duisburg	Bochum
15:30		[22]		Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Medardus Luca (Völklingen)

17 March 1979 23	FC Schalke 04	1–3	VfL Bochum	Gelsenkirchen
15:30	Abramczik  26'	[23]	Eggeling  13' Abel  58' Blau  64'	Stadium: Parkstadion Attendance: Jürgen Meßmer (Mannheim) Referee: 25,000

24 March 1979 24	VfL Bochum	0–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bochum
15:30		[24]		Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: Walter Niemann (Hamburg) Referee: 22,000

4 April 1979 25	Arminia Bielefeld	1–2	VfL Bochum	Bielefeld
20:00	Graul  6'	[25]	Woelk  42' Abel  89'	Stadium: Alm Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Walter Horstmann (Hildesheim)

7 April 1979 26	VfL Bochum	0–1	FC Bayern Munich	Bochum
15:30		[26]	Rummenigge  83'	Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 34,000 Referee: Helmut Treib (Wadgassen)

14 April 1979 27	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–0	VfL Bochum	Mönchengladbach
15:30	Kulik  59' Lienen  78'	[27]		Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 15,224 Referee: Eberhard Schmoock (Reichenau)

18 April 1979 28	VfL Bochum	3–0	SV Werder Bremen	Bochum
20:00	Eggeling  18' Blau  72' Abel  89'	[28]		Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Walter Engel (Reimsbach)

21 April 1979 29	Eintracht Braunschweig	1–0	VfL Bochum	Braunschweig
15:30	Popivoda  50'	[29]		Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Werner Ross (Ingolstadt)

5 May 1979 30	VfB Stuttgart	2–0	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
15:30	Kelsch  11' Müller  78'	[30]		Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 34,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

12 May 1979 31	VfL Bochum	1–0	Hertha BSC	Bochum
15:30	Oswald  14'	[31]		Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Gert Meuser (Ingelheim)

19 May 1979 32	1. FC Köln	1–1	VfL Bochum	Cologne
15:30	Littbarski  83'	[32]	Kaczor  9'	Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Gerd Hennig (Duisburg)

2 June 1979 33	VfL Bochum	1–2	SV Darmstadt 98	Bochum
15:30	Eggeling  73'	[33]	Bechtold  78' Kleppinger  88'	Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Peter Gabor (West Berlin)

9 June 1979 34	1. FC Kaiserslautern	1–1	VfL Bochum	Kaiserslautern
15:30	Schwarz  84'	[34]	Abel  62'	Stadium: Betzenbergstadion Attendance: 12,356 Referee: Walter Niemann (Hamburg)

DFB-Pokal

5 August 1978 R1	VfL Bochum	4–0	Bünder SV	Bochum
	Abel  2' Lameck  33' Woelk  52' Trimhold  54'	[35]		Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Klaus Broska (Gelsenkirchen)

22 September 1978 R2	VfL Bochum	4–2 (a.e.t.)	DSC Wanne-Eickel	Bochum
	Oswald  84' Bast  113', 114' Abel  118'	[36]	Kosien  16' Mauthe  105'	Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 12,700 Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Fischenich)

2 December 1978 R3	FC 08 Homburg	0–0 (a.e.t.)	VfL Bochum	Homburg
		[37]		Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Max Klauser (Munich)

7 January 1979 R3 replay	VfL Bochum	1–0	FC 08 Homburg	Bochum
	Abel  8'	[38]		Stadium: Stadion an der Castroper Straße Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Dieter Pauly (Rheydt)

28 April 1979 R4	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	4–2	VfL Bochum	Uerdingen
	Steffensen  15' Raschid  55' Hahn  73' Funkel  80' (pen.)	[39]	Abel  50' Lameck  68' (pen.)	Stadium: Grotenburg-Stadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Dieter Dreher (Darmstadt)

Squad

Squad, appearances and goals scored

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	FW		Hans-Joachim Abel	32	15	28	11	4	4
	MF		Dieter Bast	38	8	33	6	5	2
	MF		Rolf Blau	26	3	24	3	2	0
	FW		Heinz-Werner Eggeling	39	8	34	8	5	0
	DF		Michael Eggert	36	8	31	8	5	0
	DF		Klaus Franke	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF		Hermann Gerland	26	0	22	0	4	0
	MF		Paul Holz	24	1	20	1	4	0
	FW		Josef Kaczor	11	1	11	1	0	0
	MF		Hans-Jürgen Köper	11	1	9	1	2	0
	DF		Michael Lameck	39	3	34	1	5	2
	GK		Reinhard Mager	24	0	21	0	3	0
	MF		Walter Oswald	37	4	33	3	4	1
	FW		Hans-Joachim Pochstein	8	0	6	0	2	0
	FW		Werner Schachten	0	0	0	0	0	0
	GK		Werner Scholz	16	0	14	0	2	0
	DF		Franz-Josef Tenhagen	37	1	32	1	5	0
	MF		Holger Trimhold	32	1	27	0	5	1
	DF		Dieter Versen	11	0	11	0	0	0
	DF		Lothar Woelk	38	4	33	3	5	1

• Source:

Summer

In: No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  FRG Rolf Blau (from FC St. Pauli) — MF  FRG Walter Oswald (from FC St. Pauli)

Out: No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  FRG Wolfgang Euteneuer (to VfL Bochum II) — DF  FRG Matthias Herget (to Rot-Weiss Essen) — FW  FRG Peter Kursinski (to VfL Bochum II) — MF  FRG Ralf Schaffeld (to SG Wattenscheid 09) — FW  FRG Dieter Schwemmle (to FC Hanau 93) — DF  FRG Klaus Wischniewski (to DSC Wanne-Eickel)

Winter

In: No. Pos. Nation Player

Out: No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  FRG Dieter Versen (to San Jose Earthquakes)

Sources

1. "1. FC Nürnberg – VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). kicker.
2. "VfL Bochum – Fortuna Düsseldorf 2:2" (in German). kicker.
3. "Hamburger SV – VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
4. "VfL Bochum – Borussia Dortmund 4:1" (in German). kicker.
5. "MSV Duisburg – VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.
6. "VfL Bochum – FC Schalke 04 2:2" (in German). kicker.
7. "Eintracht Frankfurt – VfL Bochum 4:2" (in German). kicker.
8. "VfL Bochum – Arminia Bielefeld 1:0" (in German). kicker.
9. "Bayern München – VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.
10. "VfL Bochum – Bor. Mönchengladbach 0:0" (in German). kicker.
11. "Werder Bremen – VfL Bochum 3:3" (in German). kicker.
12. "VfL Bochum – Eintracht Braunschweig 3:0" (in German). kicker.
13. "VfL Bochum – VfB Stuttgart 1:2" (in German). kicker.
14. "Hertha BSC – VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
15. "VfL Bochum – 1. FC Köln 2:5" (in German). kicker.
16. "SV Darmstadt 98 – VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). kicker.
17. "VfL Bochum – 1. FC Kaiserslautern 2:2" (in German). kicker.
18. "VfL Bochum – 1. FC Nürnberg 2:1" (in German). kicker.
19. "Fortuna Düsseldorf – VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
20. "VfL Bochum – Hamburger SV 2:1" (in German). kicker.
21. "Borussia Dortmund – VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). kicker.
22. "VfL Bochum – MSV Duisburg 0:0" (in German). kicker.
23. "FC Schalke 04 – VfL Bochum 1:3" (in German). kicker.
24. "VfL Bochum – Eintracht Frankfurt 0:0" (in German). kicker.
25. "Arminia Bielefeld – VfL Bochum 1:2" (in German). kicker.
26. "VfL Bochum – Bayern München 0:1" (in German). kicker.
27. "Bor. Mönchengladbach – VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
28. "VfL Bochum – Werder Bremen 3:0" (in German). kicker.
29. "Eintracht Braunschweig – VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.
30. "VfB Stuttgart – VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
31. "VfL Bochum – Hertha BSC 1:0" (in German). kicker.
32. "1. FC Köln – VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
33. "VfL Bochum – SV Darmstadt 98 1:2" (in German). kicker.
34. "1. FC Kaiserslautern – VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
35. "Spielstatistik VfL Bochum gegen Bünder SV 4:0 (2:0)" [Match statistic VfL Bochum vs. Bünder SV 4–0 (2–0)] (in German). fussballdaten.de.
36. "Spielstatistik VfL Bochum gegen DSC Wanne-Eickel 4:2 n.V." [Match statistic VfL Bochum vs. DSC Wanne-Eickel 4–2 aet] (in German). fussballdaten.de.
37. "Spielstatistik FC 08 Homburg gegen VfL Bochum 0:0 n.V." [Match statistic FC 08 Homburg vs. VfL Bochum 0–0 aet] (in German). fussballdaten.de.
38. "Spielstatistik VfL Bochum gegen FC 08 Homburg 1:0 (1:0)" [Match statistic VfL Bochum vs. FC 08 Homburg 1–0 (1–0)] (in German). fussballdaten.de.
39. "Spielstatistik Bayer Uerdingen gegen VfL Bochum 4:2 (1:0)" [Match statistic Bayer Uerdingen vs. VfL Bochum 4–2 (1–0)] (in German). fussballdaten.de.

External links

• 1978–79 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de (in German)
• 1978–79 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de (in German)
• 1978–79 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de (in German)