1989–90 VfL Bochum season

VfL Bochum
1989–90 season
President	Ottokar Wüst
Head Coach	Reinhard Saftig
Stadium	Ruhrstadion
Bundesliga	16th
Relegation playoff	Winner
DFB-Pokal	Second Round
Top goalscorer	League: Leifeld (10); All: Leifeld (11)
Highest home attendance	40,000 (vs Borussia Mönchengladbach, 1 May 1990)
Lowest home attendance	9,500 (vs Bayer 05 Uerdingen, 10 March 1990)
Average home league attendance	18,365
	← 1988–89 1990–91 →

The 1989–90 VfL Bochum season was the 52nd season in club history.

Review and events

Matches

Legend

Win Draw Loss

Bundesliga

29 July 1989 1	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	1. FC Köln	Bochum
15:30		^[1]	Rahn 58' (pen.)	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 21,000 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)

5 August 1989 2	SV Waldhof Mannheim	3 – 2	VfL Bochum	Mannheim
15:30	Dais 5' (pen.) Rudel 38' Freiler 65'	^[2]	Kohn 8' (pen.) Kempe 90'	Stadium: Stadion am Alsenweg Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Hans-Peter Dellwing (Trier)

12 August 1989 3	VfL Bochum	3 – 1	Hamburger SV	Bochum
15:30	Wegmann 43' Kempe 84' Leifeld 88'	^[3]	von Heesen 69'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Werner Föckler (Bad Dürkheim)

16 August 1989 4	Eintracht Frankfurt	4 – 0	VfL Bochum	Frankfurt am Main
20:00	Gründel 19' Turowski 30', 57' Andersen 64'	^[4]		Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Hans-Heinrich Barnick (Schenfeld)

23 August 1989 5	Fortuna Düsseldorf	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Düsseldorf
20:00	Klotz 71' Fuchs 78'	^[5]	Leifeld 37', 51'	Stadium: Rheinstadion Attendance: 14,500 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

26 August 1989 6	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	VfB Stuttgart	Bochum
15:30	Leifeld 5', 35'	^[6]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Wolf-Rüdiger Umbach (Rottdorf)

1 September 1989 7	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Krefeld
19:30	Fach 20', 38' Laudrup 46'	^[7]	Leifeld 80'	Stadium: Grotenburg-Stadion Attendance: 11,500 Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)

9 September 1989 8	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Bochum
15:30	Kohn 49' Wegmann 77'	^[8]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 13,500 Referee: Hans Fux (Stutensee)

16 September 1989 9	FC Bayern Munich	5 – 1	VfL Bochum	Munich
15:30	McInally 2', 68' Schwabl 19' Oswald 71' (o.g.) Thon 73'	^[9]	Kohn 70' (pen.)	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

20 September 1989 10	VfL Bochum	0 – 2	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Bochum
20:00		^[10]	Demandt 56', 75'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 13,700 Referee: Hermann Albrecht (Kaufbeuren)

29 September 1989 11	FC St. Pauli	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
19:30	Golke 14' Knäbel 88'	^[11]		Stadium: Wilhelm-Koch-Stadion Attendance: 18,300 Referee: Manfred Amerell (Munich)

7 October 1989 12	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	SV Werder Bremen	Bochum
15:30		^[12]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,500 Referee: Kurt Witke (Mönchzell)

13 October 1989 13	Borussia Dortmund	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Dortmund
20:00		^[13]	Reekers 61'	Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 40,110 Referee: Manfred Neuner (Leimen)

21 October 1989 14	VfL Bochum	3 – 3	1. FC Nuremberg	Bochum
15:30	Leifeld 14' Wegmann 43' Kohn 56'	^[14]	Türr 63', 85' Kristl 68'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 14,500 Referee: Heinz Werner (Auersmacher)

28 October 1989 15	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1 – 2	VfL Bochum	Mönchengladbach
15:30	Bruns 75'	^[15]	Leifeld 22' Wegmann 55'	Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 9,900 Referee: Eugen Strigel (Horb am Neckar)

3 November 1989 16	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	FC 08 Homburg	Bochum
19:30	Nehl 47'	^[16]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 13,500 Referee: Hans Scheuerer (Munich)

18 November 1989 17	Karlsruher SC	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Karlsruhe
15:30	Schütterle 31' Harforth 44' (pen.)	^[17]		Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Hans-Joachim Osmers (Bremen)

25 November 1989 18	1. FC Köln	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Cologne
15:30	Janßen 38' Rudy 47'	^[18]		Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Dieter Pauly (Rheydt)

1 December 1989 19	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	SV Waldhof Mannheim	Bochum
20:00	Kohn 33' (pen.) Nehl 76'	^[19]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

9 December 1989 20	Hamburger SV	1 – 4	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
15:30	Dammeier 80'	^[20]	Rzehaczek 8', 30' Benatelli 13' Leifeld 16'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 8,100 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

14 December 1989 21	VfL Bochum	2 – 2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bochum
20:15	Nehl 49' Rzehaczek 51'	^[21]	Andersen 15' Körbel 27'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 20,500 Referee: Hans-Peter Dellwing (Trier)

24 February 1990 22	VfL Bochum	1 – 2	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Bochum
15:30	Kempe 78'	^[22]	Krümpelmann 43' Baffoe 60' (pen.)	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 18,500 Referee: Werner Föckler (Bad Dürkheim)

3 March 1990 23	VfB Stuttgart	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
15:30	O. Schmäler 71'	^[23]		Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 14,000 Referee: Lutz Michael Fröhlich (West Berlin)

10 March 1990 24	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	Bochum
15:30	Rzehaczek 2' Wegmann 19'	^[24]	Ridder 44' (o.g.)	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 9,500 Referee: Manfred Neuner (Leimen)

17 March 1990 25	1. FC Kaiserslautern	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Kaiserslautern
15:30	Lelle 75' Kuntz 85'	^[25]	Rzehaczek 13'	Stadium: Fritz-Walter-Stadion Attendance: 22,218 Referee: Manfred Amerell (Munich)

24 March 1990 26	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	FC Bayern Munich	Bochum
15:30		^[26]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Manfred Harder (Lüneburg)

31 March 1990 27	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Leverkusen
15:30	Feinbier 4' Kree 61'	^[27]	Rzehaczek 13' (pen.)	Stadium: Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion Attendance: 14,000 Referee: Hans-Jürgen Weber (Bielefeld)

6 April 1990 28	VfL Bochum	3 – 3	FC St. Pauli	Bochum
20:00	Kohn 37' Legat 53' Rzehaczek 60'	^[28]	Golke 22', 31' Knäbel 42'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Hermann Albrecht (Kaufbeuren)

12 April 1990 29	SV Werder Bremen	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Bremen
20:00	Riedle 83'	^[29]	Ridder 30'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 14,056 Referee: Rainer Boos (Kronberg)

21 April 1990 30	VfL Bochum	2 – 3	Borussia Dortmund	Bochum
15:30	Nehl 68', 82'	^[30]	Breitzke 20' Möller 60' Helmer 70'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 36,000 Referee: Hans-Heinrich Barnick (Schenfeld)

28 April 1990 31	1. FC Nuremberg	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Nuremberg
15:30	Wirsching 22' Philipkowski 86'	^[31]	Ostermann 83'	Stadium: Städtisches Stadion Attendance: 16,500 Referee: Wolf-Günter Wiesel (Ottbergen)

1 May 1990 32	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
20:00	Wegmann 4' Leifeld 34'	^[32]	Hochstätter 37'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

5 May 1990 33	FC 08 Homburg	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Homburg
15:30	Westerbeek 58'	^[33]		Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)

12 May 1990 34	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Karlsruher SC	Bochum
15:30	Rzehaczek 25' Nehl 36'	^[34]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)

Relegation playoff

24 May 1990 1st leg	1. FC Saarbrücken	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Saarbrücken
19:15		^[35]	Legat 65' (pen.)	Stadium: Ludwigsparkstadion Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Manfred Neuner (Leimen)

27 May 1990 2nd leg	VfL Bochum	1 – 1 (2 – 1 agg.)	1. FC Saarbrücken	Bochum
20:15	Leifeld 76'	^[36]	Yeboah 49'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)

DFB-Pokal

19 August 1989 R1	SV Wiesbaden	0 – 2	VfL Bochum	Wiesbaden
		^[37]	Wegmann 80', 90'	Stadium: Stadion an der Berliner Straße Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Siegbert Rubel (Neukenroth)

23 September 1989 R2	1. FC Pforzheim	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Pforzheim
	Pfirrmann 77'	^[38]		Stadium: Stadion Holzhof Attendance: 5,200 Referee: Gerald Kraus (Pfaffenhausen)

Squad

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals scored

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		Relegation playoff		DFB-Pokal
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	MF	FRG	Frank Benatelli	30	1	28	1	0	0	2	0
	DF	FRG	Olaf Dreßel	23	0	21	0	2	0	0	0
	MF	FRG	Dirk Eitzert	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
	FW	FRG	Thomas Epp	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
	MF	HUN	László Farkasházy	10	0	8	0	0	0	2	0
	MF	FRG	Frank Heinemann	22	0	20	0	1	0	1	0
	DF	FRG	Michael Hubner	14	0	12	0	2	0	0	0
	FW	FRG	Andreas Jeschke	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF	FRG	Thomas Kempe	33	3	30	3	2	0	1	0
	FW	FRG	Stefan Kohn	31	6	29	6	0	0	2	0
	FW	YUG	Kreso Kovacec	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MF	FRG	Joachim Kusch	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MF	FRG	Thorsten Legat	32	2	28	1	2	1	2	0
	FW	FRG	Uwe Leifeld	34	11	30	10	2	1	2	0
	MF	FRG	Meinolf Mehls (since 6 April 1990)	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	MF	FRG	Josef Nehl	29	4	26	4	2	0	1	0
	MF	FRG	Elard Ostermann	24	1	21	1	1	0	2	0
	DF	FRG	Walter Oswald	23	0	21	0	2	0	0	0
	DF	NED	Gerrit Plomp (until 10 December 1989)	11	0	10	0	0	0	1	0
	DF	NED	Rob Reekers	35	1	31	1	2	0	2	0
	DF	FRG	Andreas Ridder	11	1	8	1	2	0	1	0
	MF	FRG	Michael Rzehaczek	36	8	32	8	2	0	2	0
	DF	FRG	Dirk Sadowicz	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	MF	FRG	Martin Slawinski	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MF	FRG	Uwe Wegmann	35	8	31	6	2	0	2	2
	GK	FRG	Andreas Wessels	19	0	17	0	2	0	0	0
	DF	FRG	Peter Zanter	11	0	10	0	0	0	1	0
	GK	FRG	Ralf Zumdick	19	0	17	0	0	0	2	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Transfers

Summer

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	FRG	Dirk Eitzert (from SF Oestrich-Iserlohn)
—	MF	HUN	László Farkasházy (from BVSC Budapest)
—	FW	FRG	Andreas Jeschke (from VfB Lübeck)
—	FW	FRG	Stefan Kohn (from Hannover 96)
—	FW	CRO	Kreso Kovacec (from VfL Bochum II)
—	MF	FRG	Elard Ostermann (from TuS Hoisdorf)
—	DF	NED	Gerrit Plomp (from FC Utrecht)
—	DF	FRG	Andreas Ridder (from Arminia Bielefeld)
—	MF	FRG	Uwe Wegmann (from Rot-Weiss Essen)
—	DF	FRG	Peter Zanter (from Hannover 96)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	FRG	Thorsten Bolzek (to Fortuna Köln)
—	MF	FRG	Dirk Bremser (to SC Preußen Münster)
—	MF	POL	Andrzej Iwan (to Górnik Zabrze)
—	DF	FRG	Peter Jackisch (to Alemannia Aachen)
—	DF	FRG	Martin Kree (to Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
—	MF	FRG	Dirk Riechmann (to SC Preußen Münster)
—	DF	FRG	Oliver Westerbeek (to FC 08 Homburg)
—	DF	FRG	Lothar Woelk (to MSV Duisburg)

Winter

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	FRG	Meinolf Mehls (from VfL Bochum II)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	NED	Gerrit Plomp (to Feyenoord)

References

^ "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Köln 0:1" (in German). Kicker.
^ "Waldhof Mannheim - VfL Bochum 3:2" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 3:1" (in German). Kicker.
^ "Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 4:0" (in German). Kicker.
^ "Fortuna Düsseldorf - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
^ "Bayer 05 Uerdingen - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Kaiserslautern 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
^ "Bayern München - VfL Bochum 5:1" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0:2" (in German). Kicker.
^ "FC St. Pauli - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Werder Bremen 0:0" (in German). Kicker.
^ "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Nürnberg 3:3" (in German). Kicker.
^ "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfL Bochum 1:2" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - FC 08 Homburg 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
^ "Karlsruher SC - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
^ "1. FC Köln - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Waldhof Mannheim 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
^ "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 1:4" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Frankfurt 2:2" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Fortuna Düsseldorf 1:2" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Bayer 05 Uerdingen 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
^ "1. FC Kaiserslautern - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Bayern München 0:0" (in German). Kicker.
^ "Bayer 04 Leverkusen - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - FC St. Pauli 3:3" (in German). Kicker.
^ "Werder Bremen - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Borussia Dortmund 2:3" (in German). Kicker.
^ "1. FC Nürnberg - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Bor. Mönchengladbach 2:1" (in German). Kicker.
^ "FC 08 Homburg - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Karlsruher SC 2:0" (in German). Kicker.
^ "1. FC Saarbrücken - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). Kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Saarbrücken 1:1" (in German). Kicker.
^ "SV Wiesbaden - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
^ "1. FC Pforzheim - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Weltfussball.de.

External links

[1] "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Köln 0:1" (in German). Kicker.

[2] "Waldhof Mannheim - VfL Bochum 3:2" (in German). Kicker.

[3] "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 3:1" (in German). Kicker.

[4] "Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 4:0" (in German). Kicker.

[5] "Fortuna Düsseldorf - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). Kicker.

[6] "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 2:0" (in German). Kicker.

[7] "Bayer 05 Uerdingen - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). Kicker.

[8] "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Kaiserslautern 2:0" (in German). Kicker.

[9] "Bayern München - VfL Bochum 5:1" (in German). Kicker.

[10] "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0:2" (in German). Kicker.

[11] "FC St. Pauli - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). Kicker.

[12] "VfL Bochum - Werder Bremen 0:0" (in German). Kicker.

[13] "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). Kicker.

[14] "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Nürnberg 3:3" (in German). Kicker.

[15] "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfL Bochum 1:2" (in German). Kicker.

[16] "VfL Bochum - FC 08 Homburg 1:0" (in German). Kicker.

[17] "Karlsruher SC - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). Kicker.

[18] "1. FC Köln - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). Kicker.

[19] "VfL Bochum - Waldhof Mannheim 2:0" (in German). Kicker.

[20] "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 1:4" (in German). Kicker.

[21] "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Frankfurt 2:2" (in German). Kicker.

[22] "VfL Bochum - Fortuna Düsseldorf 1:2" (in German). Kicker.

[23] "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Kicker.

[24] "VfL Bochum - Bayer 05 Uerdingen 2:1" (in German). Kicker.

[25] "1. FC Kaiserslautern - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). Kicker.

[26] "VfL Bochum - Bayern München 0:0" (in German). Kicker.

[27] "Bayer 04 Leverkusen - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). Kicker.

[28] "VfL Bochum - FC St. Pauli 3:3" (in German). Kicker.

[29] "Werder Bremen - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). Kicker.

[30] "VfL Bochum - Borussia Dortmund 2:3" (in German). Kicker.

[31] "1. FC Nürnberg - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). Kicker.

[32] "VfL Bochum - Bor. Mönchengladbach 2:1" (in German). Kicker.

[33] "FC 08 Homburg - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Kicker.

[34] "VfL Bochum - Karlsruher SC 2:0" (in German). Kicker.

[35] "1. FC Saarbrücken - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). Kicker.

[36] "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Saarbrücken 1:1" (in German). Kicker.

[37] "SV Wiesbaden - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). Weltfussball.de.

[38] "1. FC Pforzheim - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). Weltfussball.de.

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