1980–81 VfL Bochum season

The 1980–81 VfL Bochum season was the 43rd season in club history.

VfL Bochum

1980–81 season
President	Ottokar Wüst
Head Coach	Helmuth Johannsen
Stadium	Ruhrstadion
Bundesliga	9th
DFB-Pokal	Fourth Round
Intertoto Cup	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Pinkall (17) All: N/A
Highest home attendance	42,000 (vs FC Bayern Munich, 4 April 1981)
Lowest home attendance	8,353 (vs VfB Stuttgart, 6 June 1981)
Average home league attendance	22,050
Home colours Away colours

Matches

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

Bundesliga

16 August 1980 1	TSV 1860 Munich	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Munich
15:30	Klinkhammer  77' Raubold  82'	[1]	Pinkall  50' Oswald  85'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Volker Roth (Salzgitter)

20 August 1980 2	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	Karlsruher SC	Bochum
19:30		[2]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Peter Gabor (West Berlin)

23 August 1980 3	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	MSV Duisburg	Bochum
15:30	Abel  59'	[3]	Fruck  86'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (Freiburg)

3 September 1980 4	1. FC Nürnberg	0 – 2	VfL Bochum	Nuremberg
20:00		[4]	Pinkall  20' Bast  69'	Stadium: Städtisches Stadion Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Helmut Treib (Wadgassen)

5 September 1980 5	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Bochum
19:30		[5]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Norbert Brückner (West Berlin)

13 September 1980 6	1. FC Köln	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Cologne
15:30	Littbarski  42' Müller  59'	[6]	Blau  35' Kaczor  66'	Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Klaus Clajus (Karlsruhe)

20 September 1980 7	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bochum
15:30	Gross  50' Abel  57' (pen.)	[7]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Friedrich Retzmann (Pinneberg)

26 September 1980 8	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Mönchengladbach
20:00	Matthäus  43' Bruns  70'	[8]	Abel  52' (pen.)	Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Heinz Aldinger (Waiblingen)

15 October 1980 9	VfL Bochum	2 – 2	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	Bochum
20:00	Pinkall  4', 90'	[9]	Eggeling  17' Hahn  73'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Franz-Josef Hontheim (Trier)

18 October 1980 10	FC Bayern Munich	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Munich
15:30	Rummenigge  3', 22' Dürnberger  29'	[10]	Knüwe  84'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Werner Föckler (Weisenheim am Sand)

25 October 1980 11	VfL Bochum	0 – 2	Borussia Dortmund	Bochum
15:30		[11]	Burgsmüller  14' Abramczik  29'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Gerd Hennig (Duisburg)

29 October 1980 12	Fortuna Düsseldorf	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Düsseldorf
20:00	Weikl  8'	[12]	Abel  9'	Stadium: Rheinstadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)

11 November 1980 13	VfL Bochum	5 – 1	FC Schalke 04	Bochum
20:00	Woelk  20' Pinkall  30', 79' Bast  39', 66'	[13]	Jara  45'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

15 November 1980 14	Arminia Bielefeld	3 – 3	VfL Bochum	Bielefeld
15:30	Angele  51' Schock  71' Eilenfeldt  89'	[14]	Pinkall  41', 75' Abel  68'	Stadium: Alm Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Dieter Pauly (Rheydt)

28 November 1980 15	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Bochum
20:00	Knüwe  67'	[15]	Demuth  25'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Max Klauser (Munich)

6 December 1980 16	VfB Stuttgart	4 – 1	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
15:30	Tüfekci  15', 41', 58' Allgöwer  56'	[16]	Lameck  31'	Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 13,600 Referee: Uwe Kasperowski (West Berlin)

13 December 1980 17	VfL Bochum	0 – 3	Hamburger SV	Bochum
15:30		[17]	Hrubesch  75' Reimann  82' Hartwig  85'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Dieter Niebergall (Ramsbach)

27 January 1981 18	VfL Bochum	4 – 1	TSV 1860 Munich	Bochum
20:00	Tenhagen  60' Pinkall  77', 81' Bast  86'	[18]	Sidka  9'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 14,500 Referee: Klaus Ohmsen (Hamburg)

24 January 1981 19	Karlsruher SC	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	Karlsruhe
15:30		[19]		Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Medardus Luca (Völklingen)

7 February 1981 20	MSV Duisburg	0 – 3	VfL Bochum	Duisburg
15:30		[20]	Gross  43' Pinkall  47' Blau  89'	Stadium: Wedaustadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Peter Gabor (West Berlin)

14 February 1981 21	VfL Bochum	4 – 0	1. FC Nürnberg	Bochum
15:30	Gross  20', 74' Blau  66' Pinkall  85'	[21]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Walter Engel (Reimsbach)

24 March 1981 22	1. FC Kaiserslautern	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	Kaiserslautern
20:00		[22]		Stadium: Betzenbergstadion Attendance: 18,329 Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (Freiburg)

7 March 1981 23	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	1. FC Köln	Bochum
15:30	Blau  76'	[23]	Woodcock  53'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 20,000

14 March 1981 24	Eintracht Frankfurt	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Frankfurt am Main
15:30	Cha  5' Pezzey  34'	[24]	Pinkall  27', 46'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Walter Horstmann (Hildesheim)

21 March 1981 25	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
15:30	Blau  3'	[25]	Schäfer  80'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Werner Ross (Ingolstadt)

27 March 1981 26	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Krefeld
20:00	Eggeling  81'	[26]		Stadium: Grotenburg-Stadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Jürgen Meßmer (Mannheim)

4 April 1981 27	VfL Bochum	1 – 3	FC Bayern Munich	Bochum
15:30	Abel  4'	[27]	Breitner  11' (pen.) Horsmann  70' Rummenigge  74'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Franz-Josef Hontheim (Trier)

10 April 1981 28	Borussia Dortmund	1 – 3	VfL Bochum	Dortmund
20:00	Abramczik  80'	[28]	Pinkall  45' Abel  61' Bast  35'	Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Rainer Waltert (Paderborn)

16 April 1981 29	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Bochum
20:00	Žugčić  40' Knüwe  62'	[29]	Bommer  14'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Horst Joos (Stuttgart)

9 May 1981 30	FC Schalke 04	0 – 6	VfL Bochum	Gelsenkirchen
15:30		[30]	Blau  18' Woelk  43' Pinkall  59', 76' Abel  79', 87'	Stadium: Parkstadion Attendance: 38,000 Referee: Max Klauser (Munich)

16 May 1981 31	VfL Bochum	0 – 2	Arminia Bielefeld	Bochum
15:30		[31]	Schock  8' Geils  47'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Heinz Aldinger (Waiblingen)

29 May 1981 32	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Leverkusen
20:00	Klimke  22' Økland  69'	[32]		Stadium: Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Eberhard Schmoock (Reichenau)

6 June 1981 33	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	VfB Stuttgart	Bochum
15:30	Tüfekci  15'	[33]	Abel  75'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 8,353 Referee: Uwe Kasperowski (West Berlin)

13 June 1981 34	Hamburger SV	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
15:30	Schröder  82' Hartwig  85'	[34]	Abel  45'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Norbert Brückner (West Berlin)

DFB-Pokal

30 August 1980 R1	VfL Bochum	4 – 1	SV Wilhelmshaven	Bochum
	Gross  37' Pinkall  50', 51' Lameck  58'	[35]	Janßen  66'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Jakob Wippker (Aachen)

4 October 1980 R2	VfL Bochum	5 – 1	Rot-Weiss Essen	Bochum
	Oswald  46' Pinkall  53' Abel  55' Woelk  74' Bast  80'	[36]	Mill  67'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Dieter Stäglich (Bonn)

22 November 1980 R3	FSV Frankfurt	1 – 2	VfL Bochum	Frankfurt am Main
	Luy  9' (pen.)	[37]	Abel  35', 89' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadion am Bornheimer Hang Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Heinz Aldinger (Waiblingen)

31 January 1981 R4	Hamburger SV	4 – 1	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
	Buljan  23' Hrubesch  40', 90' Milewski  86'	[38]	Gross  79'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 9,300 Referee: Volker Roth (Salzgitter)

Intertoto Cup

26 June 1980 GS1	PFC Slavia Sofia	2 – 0	VfL Bochum
		[39]		Attendance: 3,000

5 July 1980 GS2	FK Napredak Kruševac	2 – 0	VfL Bochum
		[39]		Attendance: 5,000

12 July 1980 GS3	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	IF Elfsborg
		[39]		Attendance: 2,300

19 July 1980 GS4	VfL Bochum	4 – 1	PFC Slavia Sofia
		[39]		Attendance: 2,000

26 July 1980 GS5	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	FK Napredak Kruševac
		[39]		Attendance: 4,000

2 August 1980 GS6	IF Elfsborg	1 – 0	VfL Bochum
		[39]		Attendance: 1,000

Squad

Squad, appearances and goals scored

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal		Intertoto Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	FW		Hans-Joachim Abel	37	14	33	11	4	3
	MF		Dieter Bast	37	6	34	5	3	1
	MF		Rolf Blau	35	6	32	6	3	0
	DF		Hermann Gerland	19	0	17	0	2	0
	MF		Christian Gross	30	6	26	4	4	2
	DF		Michael Jakobs	31	0	27	0	4	0
	FW		Josef Kaczor	10	1	9	1	1	0
	MF		Heinz Knüwe	28	3	25	3	3	0
	DF		Michael Lameck	38	2	34	1	4	1
	FW		Dieter Lemke	11	0	9	0	2	0
	GK		Reinhard Mager	37	0	34	0	3	0
	MF		Walter Oswald	20	2	16	1	4	1
	FW		Kurt Pinkall	36	20	32	17	4	3
	GK		Werner Scholz	2	0	1	0	1	0
	DF		Franz-Josef Tenhagen	25	1	23	1	2	0
	DF		Lothar Woelk	36	3	32	2	4	1
	DF		Ivan Žugčić	19	1	16	1	3	0

• Source:

Summer

In: No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   SUI Christian Gross (from Neuchâtel Xamax) — DF  FRG Michael Jakobs (from SG Wattenscheid 09) — FW  FRG Dieter Lemke (from BSV Menden) — DF  YUG Ivan Žugčić (from SG Wattenscheid 09)

Out: No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  FRG Ulrich Bittorf (to SC Herford) — MF  YUG Luka Bonačić (to CD Málaga) — MF  FRG Michael Eggert (to 1. FC Nürnberg) — DF  FRG Klaus Franke (retired) — DF  FRG Detlef Jaskowiak (to 1. FC Bocholt) — MF  FRG Hans-Jürgen Köper (retired) — FW  FRG Werner Schachten (released) — FW  FRG Ottmar Scheuch (released)

Sources

1. "1860 München - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). kicker.
2. "VfL Bochum - Karlsruher SC 0:0" (in German). kicker.
3. "VfL Bochum - MSV Duisburg 1:1" (in German). kicker.
4. "1. FC Nürnberg - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). kicker.
5. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Kaiserlautern 0:0" (in German). kicker.
6. "1. FC Köln - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). kicker.
7. "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Frankfurt 2:0" (in German). kicker.
8. "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.
9. "VfL Bochum - Bayer 05 Uerdingen 2:2" (in German). kicker.
10. "Bayern München - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). kicker.
11. "VfL Bochum - Borussia Dortmund 0:2" (in German). kicker.
12. "Fortuna Düsseldorf - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
13. "VfL Bochum - FC Schalke 04 5:1" (in German). kicker.
14. "Arminia Bielefeld - VfL Bochum 3:3" (in German). kicker.
15. "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1:1" (in German). kicker.
16. "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 4:1" (in German). kicker.
17. "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 0:3" (in German). kicker.
18. "VfL Bochum - 1860 München 4:1" (in German). kicker.
19. "Karlsruher SC - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). kicker.
20. "MSV Duisburg - VfL Bochum 0:3" (in German). kicker.
21. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Nürnberg 4:0" (in German). kicker.
22. "1. FC Kaiserslautern - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). kicker.
23. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Köln 1:1" (in German). kicker.
24. "Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). kicker.
25. "VfL Bochum - Bor. Mönchengladbach 1:1" (in German). kicker.
26. "Bayer 05 Uerdingen - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.
27. "VfL Bochum - Bayern München 1:3" (in German). kicker.
28. "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 1:3" (in German). kicker.
29. "VfL Bochum - Fortuna Düsseldorf 2:1" (in German). kicker.
30. "FC Schalke 04 - VfL Bochum 0:6" (in German). kicker.
31. "VfL Bochum - Arminia Bielefeld 0:2" (in German). kicker.
32. "Bayer 04 Leverkusen - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
33. "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 1:1" (in German). kicker.
34. "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.
35. "Spielstatistik VfL Bochum gegen SV Wilhelmshaven 4:1 (0:0)" [Match statistic VfL Bochum vs. SV Wilhelmshaven 4–1 (0–0)] (in German). fussballdaten.de. Archived from the original on 2013-05-18. Retrieved 2014-12-31.
36. "Spielstatistik VfL Bochum gegen Rot-Weiss Essen 5:1 (0:0)" [Match statistic VfL Bochum vs. Rot-Weiss Essen 5–1 (0–0)] (in German). fussballdaten.de.
37. "Spielstatistik FSV Frankfurt gegen VfL Bochum 1:2 (0:1)" [Match statistic FSV Frankfurt vs. VfL Bochum 1–2 (0–1)] (in German). fussballdaten.de.
38. "Spielstatistik Hamburger SV gegen VfL Bochum 4:1 (2:0)" [Match statistic Hamburger SV vs. VfL Bochum 4–1 (2–0)] (in German). fussballdaten.de.
39. Franz, Markus (2005). Die Jungs von der Castroper Straße (in German). Die Werkstatt. p. 352. ISBN 3-89533-506-1.

External links

• 1980–81 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de (in German)
• 1980–81 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de (in German)
• 1980–81 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de (in German)