The 1980–81 VfL Bochum season was the 43rd season in club history.
| 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: Pinkall (22) | ||
| 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 | ||
Review and events
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
v VfL Bochum
| 26 June 1980 GS1 | PFC Slavia Sofia  | 2 – 0 | VfL Bochum | |
| [39] | Attendance: 3,000 |
v VfL Bochum
| 5 July 1980 GS2 | FK Napredak Kruševac  | 2 – 0 | VfL Bochum | |
| Kostić | [39] | Attendance: 5,000 |
IF Elfsborg
| 12 July 1980 GS3 | VfL Bochum | 2 – 1 |  IF Elfsborg | |
| Lemke 11' Jakobs 19' | [39] | Larsson 18' | Attendance: 2,300 |
PFC Slavia Sofia
| 19 July 1980 GS4 | VfL Bochum | 4 – 1 | PFC Slavia Sofia | |
| Gross 17', 87' Pinkall 20' Bast 36' | [39] | Tsvetkov 38' | Attendance: 2,000 |
FK Napredak Kruševac
| 26 July 1980 GS5 | VfL Bochum | 2 – 1 | FK Napredak Kruševac | |
| Pinkall 16' Abel 78' | [39] | Čop 68' | Attendance: 4,000 |
v VfL Bochum
| 2 August 1980 GS6 | IF Elfsborg | 1 – 0 | VfL Bochum | |
| Svensson 70' | [39] | Attendance: 1,000 |
Squad
Squad and statistics
Squad, appearances and goals scored
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | Intertoto Cup | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||
| FW |  FRG | Hans-Joachim Abel | 37 | 14 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 3 | |||
| MF | FRG | Dieter Bast | 37 | 6 | 34 | 5 | 3 | 1 | |||
| MF | FRG | Rolf Blau | 35 | 6 | 32 | 6 | 3 | 0 | |||
| DF | FRG | Hermann Gerland | 19 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
| MF |  SUI | Christian Gross | 30 | 6 | 26 | 4 | 4 | 2 | |||
| DF | FRG | Michael Jakobs | 31 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| FW | FRG | Josef Kaczor | 10 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| MF | FRG | Heinz Knüwe | 28 | 3 | 25 | 3 | 3 | 0 | |||
| DF | FRG | Michael Lameck | 38 | 2 | 34 | 1 | 4 | 1 | |||
| FW | FRG | Dieter Lemke | 11 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
| GK | FRG | Reinhard Mager | 37 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||
| MF | FRG | Walter Oswald | 20 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 1 | |||
| FW | FRG | Kurt Pinkall | 36 | 20 | 32 | 17 | 4 | 3 | |||
| GK | FRG | Werner Scholz | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| DF | FRG | Franz-Josef Tenhagen | 25 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |||
| DF | FRG | Lothar Woelk | 36 | 3 | 32 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||
| DF | YUG | Ivan Žugčić | 19 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |||
- Source: [citation needed]
Transfers
Summer
Out:
Sources
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)
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