1987–88 Fußball-Bundesliga

Fußball-Bundesliga

Season	1987–88
Champions	SV Werder Bremen 2nd Bundesliga title 2nd German title
Relegated	FC Homburg FC Schalke 04
European Cup	SV Werder Bremen
Cup Winners' Cup	Eintracht Frankfurt
UEFA Cup	FC Bayern Munich 1. FC Köln VfB Stuttgart 1. FC Nuremberg Bayer 04 Leverkusen (title holders)
Goals scored	945
Average goals/game	3.09
Top goalscorer	Jürgen Klinsmann (19)
Biggest home win	FC Bayern 8–1 Schalke 04 (9 April 1988)
Biggest away win	Hamburg 0–4 Karlsruhe (26 August 1987) Homburg 0–4 Nuremberg (5 September 1987)
Highest scoring	M'gladbach 8–2 Hamburg (10 goals) (26 September 1987)
← 1986–87 1988–89 →

Fußball-Bundesliga 1987–88 was the 25th season of the Fußball-Bundesliga, West Germany's premier football league. It began on 31 July 1987 and ended on 21 May 1988. FC Bayern Munich were the defending champions.

Competition modus

Every team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. If two or more teams were tied on points, places were determined by goal difference and, if still tied, by goals scored. The team with the most points were crowned champions while the two teams with the least points were relegated to 2. Fußball-Bundesliga. The third-to-last team had to compete in a two-legged relegation/promotion play-off against the third-placed team from 2. Bundesliga.

Team changes to 1986–87

Fortuna Düsseldorf and SpVgg Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin were directly relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after finishing in the last two places. They were replaced by Hannover 96 and Karlsruher SC. Relegation/promotion play-off participant FC Homburg won on aggregate against FC St. Pauli and thus retained their Bundesliga status.

Team overview

Bremen

Dortmund

Frankfurt

Hamburg

Hannover

Homburg

K'lautern      

Karlsruhe

Köln

Leverkusen

Mannheim

MGL

Bayern

Nuremberg

Schalke

Stuttgart

Uerdingen            

      Bochum

Location of teams in Bundesliga 1987–88

Club	Ground	Capacity
Bochum !VfL Bochum	Ruhrstadion	40,000
Bremen !SV Werder Bremen	Weserstadion	32,000
Dortmund !Borussia Dortmund	Westfalenstadion	54,000
Frankfurt !Eintracht Frankfurt	Waldstadion	62,000
Hamburg !Hamburger SV	Volksparkstadion	62,000
Hannover !Hannover 96	Niedersachsenstadion	60,400
Homburg !FC Homburg	Waldstadion	24,000
Kaiserslautern !1. FC Kaiserslautern	Stadion Betzenberg	42,000
Karlsruhe !Karlsruher SC	Wildparkstadion	50,000
Koln !1. FC Köln	Müngersdorfer Stadion	61,000
Leverkusen !Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion	20,000
Mannheim !SV Waldhof Mannheim	Südweststadion	75,000
Mönchengladbach !Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bökelbergstadion	34,500
München Bayern !FC Bayern Munich	Olympiastadion	80,000
Nuremberg !1. FC Nuremberg	Frankenstadion	64,238
Schalke !FC Schalke 04	Parkstadion	70,000
Stuttgart !VfB Stuttgart	Neckarstadion	72,000
Uerdingen !Bayer 05 Uerdingen	Grotenburg-Stadion	35,700

• ^1 Waldhof Mannheim played their matches in nearby Ludwigshafen because their own ground did not fulfil Bundesliga requirements.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Werder Bremen (C)	34	22	8	4	61	22	+39	52	1988–89 European Cup First round
2	Bayern Munich	34	22	4	8	83	45	+38	48	1988–89 UEFA Cup First round
3	1. FC Köln	34	18	12	4	57	28	+29	48
4	VfB Stuttgart	34	16	8	10	69	49	+20	40
5	1. FC Nuremberg	34	13	11	10	44	40	+4	37
6	Hamburger SV	34	13	11	10	63	68	−5	37
7	Borussia Mönchengladbach	34	14	5	15	55	53	+2	33
8	Bayer Leverkusen	34	10	12	12	53	60	−7	32	1988–89 UEFA Cup First round
9	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	10	11	13	51	50	+1	31	1988–89 European Cup Winners' Cup First round
10	Hannover 96	34	12	7	15	59	60	−1	31
11	Bayer Uerdingen	34	11	9	14	59	61	−2	31
12	VfL Bochum	34	10	10	14	47	51	−4	30
13	Borussia Dortmund	34	9	11	14	51	54	−3	29
14	1. FC Kaiserslautern	34	11	7	16	53	62	−9	29
15	Karlsruher SC	34	9	11	14	37	55	−18	29
16	Waldhof Mannheim	34	7	14	13	35	50	−15	28	Relegation/Promotion play-off
17	FC Homburg (R)	34	7	10	17	37	70	−33	24	2. Fußball-Bundesliga
18	Schalke 04 (R)	34	8	7	19	48	84	−36	23

Source: www.dfb.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
¹Bayer Leverkusen won the UEFA Cup and thereby automatically qualified as title holders.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Relegation/Promotion play-off

SV Waldhof Mannheim and third-placed 2. Bundesliga team SV Darmstadt 98 had to compete in a two-legged relegation/promotion play-off. After a two-leg series, both teams were tied 4–4 on aggregate, so a deciding third match had to be scheduled. Mannheim won this match in a penalty shootout and retained their Bundesliga status.

2 June 1988	SV Darmstadt 98	3–2	SV Waldhof Mannheim	Böllenfalltor, Darmstadt Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Wolf-Rüdiger Umbach (Rottorf)
	Gutzler  63' Posniak  66' Gu  73'		Tsionanis  2' Bührer  47'

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5 June 1988	SV Waldhof Mannheim	2–1	SV Darmstadt 98	Südweststadion, Ludwigshafen Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)
	Schön  20' Lux  87'	Report link (German)	Kuhl  88'

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9 June 1988	SV Waldhof Mannheim	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	SV Darmstadt 98	Ludwigspark, Saarbrücken Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Gerhard Theobald (Neunkirchen (Saar))
		Report link (German)
		Penalties
	Lux Bockenfeld Bührer Trieb Cvetković Quaisser Klotz	5–4	Posniak Kuhl Schreml Gu Emig Scholz Bernecker

Results

Home \ Away1

BOC

BRE

DOR

FRA

HAM

H96

HOM

KAI

KAR

KÖL

LEV

WMA

MGL

FCB

NUR

S04

STU

UER

VfL Bochum

0–1

2–0

1–0

4–0

1–1

4–4

1–1

5–0

0–0

3–1

1–0

1–2

0–2

3–0

1–3

5–1

1–4

Werder Bremen

0–0

4–0

2–0

1–4

1–0

3–0

0–0

2–0

2–1

3–3

3–1

2–0

3–1

1–0

5–0

5–1

5–1

Borussia Dortmund

1–2

0–0

3–1

2–3

3–3

2–0

3–0

0–2

1–2

2–2

0–1

1–1

1–3

1–1

4–1

2–2

4–2

Eintracht Frankfurt

0–1

0–1

0–0

3–0

3–3

1–2

0–2

4–0

1–1

3–2

5–1

2–0

1–1

3–1

2–0

0–2

3–1

Hamburger SV

2–2

0–0

4–3

2–2

3–3

2–1

5–1

0–4

3–0

3–2

1–1

2–1

2–2

2–2

5–2

3–0

3–1

Hannover 96

1–0

0–1

2–3

1–2

3–1

5–1

1–0

3–2

0–3

6–1

3–1

2–4

2–1

1–2

3–1

3–3

0–0

FC Homburg

1–1

1–1

0–3

5–2

0–2

1–1

3–2

1–0

1–0

1–1

1–1

0–0

3–2

0–4

3–1

2–2

2–2

1. FC Kaiserslautern

4–2

0–0

3–1

2–2

0–3

4–1

1–0

1–1

3–0

1–3

2–2

5–2

3–1

1–2

5–2

2–1

2–2

Karlsruher SC

1–0

0–2

0–0

1–1

0–0

2–1

2–1

1–0

1–1

1–1

1–1

2–2

0–1

2–0

4–1

0–2

1–0

1. FC Köln

2–2

2–0

2–0

1–1

1–0

2–0

3–0

2–1

4–0

0–0

3–0

4–1

3–1

3–1

3–1

1–1

2–0

Bayer Leverkusen

0–0

1–3

2–2

1–3

2–0

2–0

2–1

2–0

0–0

1–1

1–0

2–1

3–4

1–1

3–2

2–1

2–2

Waldhof Mannheim

1–1

0–1

1–0

2–2

2–2

2–1

0–0

0–2

4–1

0–0

1–4

0–3

1–2

0–1

2–0

2–1

2–2

Borussia Mönchengladbach

3–0

1–2

0–3

3–1

8–2

1–2

2–0

1–0

2–2

0–1

2–1

0–1

2–0

3–0

1–1

0–1

2–1

Bayern Munich

5–0

2–1

1–3

3–2

6–0

4–1

6–0

4–2

2–1

2–2

3–2

2–1

1–0

1–0

8–1

2–1

3–0

1. FC Nuremberg

2–1

0–0

0–0

1–1

2–2

1–3

2–0

3–2

4–0

1–2

2–1

1–1

3–0

0–3

1–1

0–0

3–1

Schalke 04

2–1

1–4

3–0

0–0

1–0

0–2

3–0

5–0

3–1

2–2

2–2

1–1

0–3

1–4

0–0

3–4

2–1

VfB Stuttgart

3–0

1–0

2–2

1–0

5–1

3–1

2–1

3–0

2–2

0–2

4–1

1–1

6–0

3–0

0–1

4–0

1–3

Uerdingen

3–1

1–2

2–1

3–0

1–1

1–0

5–1

3–1

4–2

1–1

4–1

1–1

2–4

0–0

0–2

5–2

2–5

Source: www.dfb.de
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

19 goals

• Jürgen Klinsmann (VfB Stuttgart)

18 goals

• Karl-Heinz Riedle (SV Werder Bremen)

17 goals

• Lothar Matthäus (FC Bayern Munich)
• Siegfried Reich (Hannover 96)

16 goals

• Harald Kohr (1. FC Kaiserslautern)
• Fritz Walter (VfB Stuttgart)

15 goals

• Dieter Eckstein (1. FC Nuremberg)
• Frank Ordenewitz (SV Werder Bremen)

14 goals

• Olaf Thon (FC Schalke 04)

13 goals

• Stefan Kuntz (Bayer 05 Uerdingen)
• Uwe Leifeld (VfL Bochum)
• Flemming Povlsen (1. FC Köln)
• Jürgen Wegmann (FC Bayern Munich)
• Michael Zorc (Borussia Dortmund)

Champion squad

SV Werder Bremen

Goalkeepers: Oliver Reck (32); Dieter Burdenski (3). Defenders: Gunnar Sauer (33 / 2); Ulrich Borowka (31 / 1); Rune Bratseth (31); Jonny Otten (30); Thomas Schaaf (29 / 1); Michael Kutzop (17 / 1); Matthias Ruländer (2). Midfielders: Miroslav Votava (32 / 2); Günter Hermann (30); Norbert Meier (26 / 7); Thomas Wolter (16); Dieter Eilts (2); Benno Möhlmann (1). Forwards: Karl-Heinz Riedle (33 / 18); Frank Ordenewitz (30 / 15); Manfred Burgsmüller (26 / 6); Frank Neubarth (22 / 6). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Manager: Otto Rehhagel. On the roster but have not played in a league game: none.

See also

• 1987–88 2. Fußball-Bundesliga
• 1987–88 DFB-Pokal

External links

• DFB Bundesliga archive 1987/1988