1997–98 VfL Bochum season

The 1997–98 VfL Bochum season was the 60th season in club history.

VfL Bochum

1997–98 season
President	Werner Altegoer
Head Coach	Klaus Toppmöller
Stadium	Ruhrstadion
Bundesliga	12th
DFB-Pokal	Second Round
DFB-Ligapokal	First Round
UEFA Cup	Third Round
Top goalscorer	League: Peschel (6) All: Peschel, Wosz, Yuran (all 7)
Highest home attendance	31,500 (vs FC Schalke 04, 4 April 1998)
Lowest home attendance	20,091 (vs VfL Wolfsburg, 20 September 1997)
Average home league attendance	26,698
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Matches

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

Bundesliga

2 August 1997 1	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Arminia Bielefeld	Bochum
15:30	Wosz  80'	[1]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 28,349 Referee: Bernhard Zerr (Ottersweier)

5 August 1997 2	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	3 – 2	VfL Bochum	Leverkusen
20:00	Kirsten  60' Meijer  69' Ramelow  84'	[2]	Yuran  37' Dickhaut  83'	Stadium: Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Hermann Albrecht (Kaufbeuren)

8 August 1997 3	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	MSV Duisburg	Bochum
20:00		[3]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 27,005 Referee: Lutz Michael Fröhlich (Berlin)

23 August 1997 4	Borussia Dortmund	5 – 2	VfL Bochum	Dortmund
15:30	Heinrich  7' Herrlich  25' Möller  37', 90' Chapuisat  51'	[4]	Wosz  18' Peschel  64'	Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 54,000 Referee: Georg Dardenne (Nettersheim)

29 August 1997 5	VfL Bochum	1 – 3	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Bochum
20:00	Stickroth  68' (pen.)	[5]	Kuka  19', 90' Marschall  72'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 28,600 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)

13 September 1997 6	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Mönchengladbach
15:30	Effenberg  78' Juskowiak  79'	[6]	Sundermann  15'	Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Lutz Wagner (Kriftel)

20 September 1997 7	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	VfL Wolfsburg	Bochum
15:30	Hutwelker  15', 24'	[7]	Präger  50'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 20,091 Referee: Winfried Buchhart (Schrobenhausen)

27 September 1997 8	Hamburger SV	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
15:30	Spörl  52' Zeyer  77'	[8]	Hofmann  61'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 37,824 Referee: Uwe Kemmling (Kleinburgwedel)

4 October 1997 9	VfL Bochum	2 – 3	FC Bayern Munich	Bochum
15:30	Gülünoğlu  17' Yuran  64'	[9]	Basler  24', 35' Zickler  56'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 31,222 Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)

14 October 1997 10	Hertha BSC	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Berlin
20:00	Mazingu-Dinzey  26' van Burik  63'	[10]	Karl  39' (o.g.) Wosz  53'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 36,746 Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)

17 October 1997 11	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	1. FC Köln	Bochum
20:00	Wosz  27' Wałdoch  90'	[11]	Thiam  66'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 26,675 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

24 October 1997 12	FC Schalke 04	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Gelsenkirchen
20:00	Wilmots  69' Goossens  76'	[12]		Stadium: Parkstadion Attendance: 47,640 Referee: Franz-Xaver Wack (Biberbach)

1 November 1997 13	FC Hansa Rostock	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Rostock
15:30	Barbarez  19' Mičevski  75'	[13]	Donkov  52' Peschel  59'	Stadium: Ostseestadion Attendance: 16,500 Referee: Herbert Fandel (Kyllburg)

9 November 1997 14	VfL Bochum	0 – 2	VfB Stuttgart	Bochum
18:00		[14]	Akpoborie  74' Balakov  89'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 24,039 Referee: Jörg Keßler (Höhenkirchen)

18 November 1997 15	Karlsruher SC	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Karlsruhe
19:30	Nyarko  64'	[15]	Donkov  90'	Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 21,000 Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Magdeburg)

21 November 1997 16	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	SV Werder Bremen	Bochum
20:00		[16]	Brand  66'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 22,605 Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)

29 November 1997 17	TSV 1860 Munich	0 – 2	VfL Bochum	Munich
15:30		[17]	Peschel  5' Reis  15'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 24,700 Referee: Jürgen Aust (Cologne)

6 December 1997 18	Arminia Bielefeld	0 – 2	VfL Bochum	Bielefeld
15:30		[18]	Mamić  70' Wosz  86'	Stadium: Alm Attendance: 18,441 Referee: Torsten Koop (Lüttenmark)

14 December 1997 19	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Bochum
18:00		[19]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 22,009 Referee: Bernhard Zerr (Ottersweier)

20 December 1997 20	MSV Duisburg	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Duisburg
15:30	Salou  49', 70'	[20]		Stadium: Wedaustadion Attendance: 13,327 Referee: Franz-Xaver Wack (Biberbach)

30 January 1998 21	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Borussia Dortmund	Bochum
20:00	Donkov  3' Peschel  66'	[21]	Decheiver  81'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Magdeburg)

6 February 1998 22	1. FC Kaiserslautern	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Kaiserslautern
20:00	Wagner  32' Rische  45', 82'	[22]		Stadium: Fritz-Walter-Stadion Attendance: 38,000 Referee: Uwe Kemmling (Kleinburgwedel)

14 February 1998 23	VfL Bochum	3 – 1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
15:30	Dickhaut  45' Andersson  48' (o.g.) Peschel  77'	[23]	Pettersson  27'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 30,006 Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)

28 February 1998 24	VfL Wolfsburg	0 – 2	VfL Bochum	Wolfsburg
15:30		[24]	Hofmann  16' Bałuszyński  80'	Stadium: VfL-Stadion Attendance: 16,122 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)

6 March 1998 25	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	Hamburger SV	Bochum
20:00		[25]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 26,541 Referee: Franz-Xaver Wack (Biberbach)

14 March 1998 26	FC Bayern Munich	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	Munich
15:30		[26]		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 49,000 Referee: Torsten Koop (Lüttenmark)

29 April 1998 27	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Hertha BSC	Bochum
20:00	Yuran  10', 57'	[27]	Thom  71'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Bernhard Zerr (Ottersweier)

29 March 1998 28	1. FC Köln	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Cologne
18:00	Polster  30', 49'	[28]	Dickhaut  51'	Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Winfried Buchhart (Schrobenhausen)

4 April 1998 29	VfL Bochum	3 – 0	FC Schalke 04	Bochum
15:30	Michalke  44' Baştürk  74' Mamić  87'	[29]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 31,500 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

9 April 1998 30	VfL Bochum	1 – 3	FC Hansa Rostock	Bochum
20:00	Mamić  74'	[30]	Dowe  54', 60' Pamić  90'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 24,122 Referee: Jörg Keßler (Höhenkirchen)

19 April 1998 31	VfB Stuttgart	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
18:00	Bobic  20' Balakov  90' (pen.)	[31]		Stadium: Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Hartmut Strampe (Handorf)

25 April 1998 32	VfL Bochum	3 – 3	Karlsruher SC	Bochum
15:30	Michalke  9', 58', 87'	[32]	Keller  16' Häßler  43' Gilewicz  74'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,110 Referee: Lutz Michael Fröhlich (Berlin)

2 May 1998 33	SV Werder Bremen	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Bremen
15:30	Maksymov  80'	[33]		Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 35,769 Referee: Hermann Albrecht (Kaufbeuren)

9 May 1998 34	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	TSV 1860 Munich	Bochum
15:30	Ouakili  38' (o.g.)	[34]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Torsten Koop (Lüttenmark)

DFB-Pokal

15 August 1997 R1	Hamburger SV II	2 – 3	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
19:30	Reincke  25' Poškus  72'	[35]	Kracht  19' Stickroth  51' (pen.) Wosz  74'	Stadium: Wolfgang-Meyer-Sportanlage Attendance: 1,225 Referee: Carsten Kadach (Suderburg)

23 September 1997 R2	MSV Duisburg	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Duisburg
19:30	Hirsch  31'	[36]		Stadium: Wedaustadion Attendance: 11,870 Referee: Peter Müller (Dresden)

DFB-Ligapokal

20 July 1997 R1	Borussia Dortmund	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Koblenz
20:30	Chapuisat  89' (pen.)	[37]		Stadium: Stadion Oberwerth Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Hans-Peter Best (Kämpfelbach)

UEFA Cup

16 September 1997 R1 1st leg	Trabzonspor	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Trabzon
19:00	Hami  22' (pen.) Çetin  45'	[38][39]	Bałuszyński  1' (pen.)	Stadium: Avni Aker Stadium Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Jorge Monteiro Coroado (Portugal)

30 September 1997 R1 2nd leg	VfL Bochum	5 – 3 (6 – 5 agg.)	Trabzonspor	Bochum
20:30	Stickroth  22' Yuran  44', 51' Dickhaut  60' Peschel  68'	[38][40]	Missé-Missé  31' Ogün  73' Osman  78'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 24,500 Referee: Miroslav Radoman (Yugoslavia)

21 October 1997 R2 1st leg	Club Brugge KV	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Bruges
19:00	Jbari  80'	[38][41]		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Karol Ihring (Slovakia)

6 November 1997 R2 2nd leg	VfL Bochum	4 – 1 (4 – 2 agg.)	Club Brugge KV	Bochum
18:00	Donkov  12' (pen.), 57' Yuran  83' Wosz  90'	[38][42]	Jbari  37'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 23,900 Referee: Charles Agius (Malta)

25 November 1997 R3 1st leg	AFC Ajax	4 – 2	VfL Bochum	Amsterdam
20:45	Laudrup  34', 36' Arveladze  38' F. de Boer  45'	[38][43]	Reis  20' Wałdoch  24'	Stadium: Amsterdam Arena Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Serge Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)

11 December 1997 R3 2nd leg	VfL Bochum	2 – 2 (4 – 6 agg.)	AFC Ajax	Bochum
20:30	Hofmann  59' Mamić  70'	[38][44]	Arveladze  51' Dani  73'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 24,500 Referee: Claude Colombo (France)

Squad

Squad, appearances and goals scored

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal		DFB-Ligapokal		UEFA Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Uwe Gospodarek	24	0	16	0	2	0	1	0	5	0
2	DF		Thomas Stickroth	13	3	9	1	1	1	1	0	2	1
3	DF		Torsten Kracht	37	1	28	0	2	1	1	0	6	0
4	DF		Mirko Dickhaut	38	4	30	3	1	0	1	0	6	1
5	DF		Tomasz Wałdoch	33	2	27	1	2	0	0	0	4	1
6	MF		Peter Közle	17	0	12	0	1	0	1	0	3	0
7	MF		Kai Michalke	30	4	26	4	2	0	0	0	2	0
8	MF		Peter Peschel	31	7	24	6	1	0	1	0	5	1
9	FW		Henryk Bałuszyński	18	2	12	1	2	0	0	0	4	1
10	MF		Dariusz Wosz	42	7	33	5	2	1	1	0	6	1
11	FW		Georgi Donkov	28	5	23	3	0	0	1	0	4	2
12	MF		Yıldıray Baştürk	18	1	17	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
13	MF		Norbert Hofmann	36	3	31	2	0	0	1	0	4	1
14	DF		Karsten Hutwelker	15	2	10	2	2	0	1	0	2	0
15	FW		Danny Winkler	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	MF		Mirko Reichel	14	0	9	0	1	0	0	0	4	0
17	MF		Olaf Schreiber	35	1	27	1	2	0	1	0	5	0
18	FW		Delron Buckley	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	DF		Axel Sundermann	29	1	23	1	0	0	1	0	5	0
20	MF		Zoran Mamić	26	4	22	3	1	0	0	0	3	1
21	GK		Thomas Ernst	19	0	18	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
22	DF		Thomas Reis	31	2	23	1	2	0	1	0	5	1
23	FW		Sergei Yuran	28	7	23	4	1	0	0	0	4	3
24	FW		Neşat Gülünoğlu	17	1	14	1	1	0	1	0	1	0
29	DF		Frank Fahrenhorst	8	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
31	GK		Stefan Wächter	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

• Source:

Summer

In: No. Pos. Nation Player 4 DF  GER Mirko Dickhaut (from Eintracht Frankfurt) 12 MF  TUR Yıldıray Baştürk (from SG Wattenscheid 09) 13 MF  GER Norbert Hofmann (from SV Waldhof Mannheim) 16 MF  GER Mirko Reichel (from SV Waldhof Mannheim) 19 DF  GER Axel Sundermann (from SC Freiburg) 23 FW  RUS Sergei Yuran (from Fortuna Düsseldorf)

Out: No. Pos. Nation Player 12 DF  GER Christian Herrmann (retired) 13 DF  GER Max Eberl (to SpVgg Greuther Fürth) 18 FW  GER Roland Wohlfarth (to VfB Leipzig) 19 DF  GER Mathias Jack (to Fortuna Düsseldorf) 23 MF  CRO Filip Tapalović (to FC Schalke 04) 24 MF  ISL Þórður Guðjónsson (to K.R.C. Genk)

Sources

1. "VfL Bochum - Arminia Bielefeld 1:0" (in German). kicker.
2. "Bayer 04 Leverkusen - VfL Bochum 3:2" (in German). kicker.
3. "VfL Bochum - MSV Duisburg 0:0" (in German). kicker.
4. "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 5:2" (in German). kicker.
5. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Kaiserslautern 1:3" (in German). kicker.
6. "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.
7. "VfL Bochum - VfL Wolfsburg 2:1" (in German). kicker.
8. "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.
9. "VfL Bochum - Bayern München 2:3" (in German). kicker.
10. "Hertha BSC - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). kicker.
11. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Köln 2:1" (in German). kicker.
12. "FC Schalke 04 - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
13. "Hansa Rostock - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). kicker.
14. "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 0:2" (in German). kicker.
15. "Karlsruher SC - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
16. "VfL Bochum - Werder Bremen 0:1" (in German). kicker.
17. "1860 München - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). kicker.
18. "Arminia Bielefeld - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). kicker.
19. "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0:0" (in German). kicker.
20. "MSV Duisburg - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
21. "VfL Bochum - Borussia Dortmund 2:1" (in German). kicker.
22. "1. FC Kaiserslautern - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). kicker.
23. "VfL Bochum - Bor. Mönchengladbach 3:1" (in German). kicker.
24. "VfL Wolfsburg - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). kicker.
25. "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 0:0" (in German). kicker.
26. "Bayern München - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). kicker.
27. "VfL Bochum - Hertha BSC 2:1" (in German). kicker.
28. "1. FC Köln - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.
29. "VfL Bochum - FC Schalke 04 3:0" (in German). kicker.
30. "VfL Bochum - Hansa Rostock 1:3" (in German). kicker.
31. "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
32. "VfL Bochum - Karlsruher SC 3:3" (in German). kicker.
33. "Werder Bremen - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.
34. "VfL Bochum - 1860 München 1:0" (in German). kicker.
35. "Hamburger SV II - VfL Bochum 2:3" (in German). kicker.
36. "MSV Duisburg - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.
37. "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.
38. "The UEFA Cup 1997/98 - VfL Bochum (GER)". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.
39. "Trabzonspor-Bochum". UEFA.
40. "Bochum-Trabzonspor". UEFA.
41. "Club Brugge-Bochum". UEFA.
42. "Bochum-Club Brugge". UEFA.
43. "Ajax-Bochum". UEFA.
44. "Bochum-Ajax". UEFA.

External links

• 1997–98 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de (in German)
• 1997–98 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de (in German)
• 1997–98 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de (in German)