VfL Bochum
1996–97 season
PresidentWerner Altegoer
Head CoachKlaus Toppmöller
StadiumRuhrstadion
Bundesliga5th
DFB-PokalQuarter-finals
Top goalscorerLeague: Donkov (10)
All: Donkov (10)
Highest home attendance36,344 (vs Borussia Dortmund, 4 October 1996; vs FC Bayern Munich, 22 February 1997)
Lowest home attendance20,498 (vs Karlsruher SC, 7 September 1996)
Average home league attendance28,484

The 1996–97 VfL Bochum season was the 59th season in club history.

Review and events

Matches

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

Bundesliga

17 August 1996 1 VfL Bochum 1 – 0 MSV Duisburg Bochum
15:30 Közle 31' [1] Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 28,142
Referee: Hermann Albrecht (Kaufbeuren)
21 August 1996 2 FC Bayern Munich 1 – 1 VfL Bochum Munich
19:30 Rizzitelli 52' [2] Peschel 73' Stadium: Olympiastadion
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Uwe Kemmling (Kleinburgwedel)
24 August 1996 3 VfL Bochum 1 – 1 Arminia Bielefeld Bochum
15:30 Jack 65' [3] Molata 58' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 24,117
Referee: Bernhard Zerr (Ottersweier)
27 August 1996 4 FC Schalke 04 1 – 1 VfL Bochum Gelsenkirchen
20:00 Thon 2' [4] Donkov 87' Stadium: Parkstadion
Attendance: 33,230
Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)
7 September 1996 5 VfL Bochum 3 – 1 Karlsruher SC Bochum
15:30 Donkov 32'
Wosz 72', 82'		 [5] Häßler 70' (pen.) Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 20,498
Referee: Hartmut Strampe (Handorf)
13 September 1996 6 SV Werder Bremen 5 – 1 VfL Bochum Bremen
20:00 Bode 17'
Herzog 32'
Labbadia 38', 56', 67'		 [6] Hutwelker 85' Stadium: Weserstadion
Attendance: 27,900
Referee: Franz-Xaver Wack (Biberbach)
21 September 1996 7 VfL Bochum 3 – 1 Hamburger SV Bochum
15:30 Bałuszyński 17'
Mamić 67'
Michalke 90'		 [7] Breitenreiter 76' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 24,135
Referee: Georg Dardenne (Nettersheim)
27 September 1996 8 1. FC Köln 2 – 0 VfL Bochum Cologne
20:00 Vlădoiu 56'
Oliseh 76' (pen.)		 [8] Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf
Attendance: 23,000
Referee: Torsten Koop (Lüttenmark)
4 October 1996 9 VfL Bochum 1 – 0 Borussia Dortmund Bochum
20:00 Wałdoch 63' [9] Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 36,344
Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Magdeburg)
13 October 1996 10 Fortuna Düsseldorf 2 – 2 VfL Bochum Düsseldorf
18:00 Seeliger 18'
Glavaš 21' (pen.)		 [10] Közle 50', 75' Stadium: Rheinstadion
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)
18 October 1996 11 VfL Bochum 2 – 2 TSV 1860 Munich Bochum
20:00 Guðjónsson 61'
Reis 66'		 [11] Winkler 25'
Walker 66'		 Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 25,442
Referee: Hans-Peter Best (Kämpfelbach)
27 October 1996 12 SC Freiburg 0 – 1 VfL Bochum Freiburg
18:00 [12] Peschel 9' Stadium: Dreisamstadion
Attendance: 22,500
Referee: Hartmut Strampe (Handorf)
1 November 1996 13 VfL Bochum 1 – 0 FC Hansa Rostock Bochum
20:00 Peschel 58' [13] Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 27,712
Referee: Lutz Wagner (Kriftel)
16 November 1996 14 VfB Stuttgart 3 – 1 VfL Bochum Stuttgart
15:30 Élber 15'
Hagner 24'
Poschner 30'		 [14] Közle 20' Stadium: Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Jürgen Aust (Cologne)
22 November 1996 15 VfL Bochum 2 – 0 Borussia Mönchengladbach Bochum
20:00 Donkov 16'
Közle 55'		 [15] Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 30,271
Referee: Georg Dardenne (Nettersheim)
9 April 1997 16 FC St. Pauli 2 – 1 VfL Bochum Wilhelm-Koch-Stadion
20:00 Émerson 6'
Scharping 8'		 [16] Kracht 75' Stadium: Hamburg
Attendance: 20,152
Referee: Burkard Hufgard (Mömbris)
6 December 1996 17 VfL Bochum 2 – 2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen Bochum
20:00 Stickroth 29' (pen.)
Wosz 89'		 [17] Kirsten 18'
Ramelow 56'		 Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 24,602
Referee: Winfried Buchhart (Schrobenhausen)
15 February 1997 18 MSV Duisburg 1 – 1 VfL Bochum Duisburg
15:30 Marin 23' (pen.) [18] Wosz 45' Stadium: Wedaustadion
Attendance: 20,200
Referee: Jürgen Aust (Cologne)
22 February 1997 19 VfL Bochum 1 – 1 FC Bayern Munich Bochum
15:30 Kracht 55' [19] Klinsmann 66' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 36,344
Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Magdeburg)
28 February 1997 20 Arminia Bielefeld 3 – 1 VfL Bochum Bielefeld
20:00 Meißner 43', 45'
Maul 71'		 [20] Wosz 84' Stadium: Bielefeld
Attendance: 22,512
Referee: Hans-Jürgen Weber (Essen)
7 March 1997 21 VfL Bochum 0 – 1 FC Schalke 04 Bochum
20:00 [21] Eigenrauch 70' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 33,141
Referee: Hartmut Strampe (Handorf)
11 March 1997 22 Karlsruher SC 2 – 3 VfL Bochum Karlsruhe
19:30 Kiriakov 9'
Fink 47'		 [22] Közle 2'
Stickroth 35'
Donkov 57'		 Stadium: Wildparkstadion
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Winfried Buchhart (Schrobenhausen)
16 March 1997 23 VfL Bochum 3 – 2 SV Werder Bremen Bochum
18:00 Donkov 38'
Gülünoğlu 53'
Michalke 72'		 [23] van Lent 75'
Herzog 85'		 Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 25,392
Referee: Torsten Koop (Lüttenmark)
22 March 1997 24 Hamburger SV 2 – 2 VfL Bochum Hamburg
15:30 Salihamidžić 30'
Breitenreiter 90'		 [24] Donkov 25'
Reis 75'		 Stadium: Volksparkstadion
Attendance: 21,898
Referee: Bernhard Zerr (Ottersweier)
27 March 1997 25 VfL Bochum 2 – 2 1. FC Köln Bochum
20:00 Stickroth 16' (pen.)
Schreiber 76'		 [25] Hauptmann 45'
Polster 51' (pen.)		 Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 33,300
Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)
5 April 1997 26 Borussia Dortmund 2 – 0 VfL Bochum Dortmund
15:30 Chapuisat 34', 72' (pen.) [26] Stadium: Westfalenstadion
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Georg Dardenne (Nettersheim)
13 April 1997 27 VfL Bochum 3 – 1 Fortuna Düsseldorf Bochum
18:00 Katemann 21' (o.g.)
Michalke 24'
Donkov 45'		 [27] Fach 68' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 27,070
Referee: Franz-Xaver Wack (Biberbach)
19 April 1997 28 TSV 1860 Munich 0 – 1 VfL Bochum Munich
15:30 [28] Donkov 20' Stadium: Olympiastadion
Attendance: 53,000
Referee: Uwe Kemmling (Kleinburgwedel)
26 April 1997 29 VfL Bochum 3 – 2 SC Freiburg Bochum
15:30 Wosz 6', 77'
Gülünoğlu 60'		 [29] Sundermann 22'
Spies 53'		 Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 23,209
Referee: Detlef Schütz (Norken)
2 May 1997 30 FC Hansa Rostock 0 – 0 VfL Bochum Rostock
19:30 [30] Stadium: Ostseestadion
Attendance: 20,700
Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)
10 May 1997 31 VfL Bochum 2 – 1 VfB Stuttgart Bochum
15:30 Michalke 69'
Peschel 79'		 [31] Hagner 61' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 34,393
Referee: Michael Malbranc (Hamburg)
17 May 1997 32 Borussia Mönchengladbach 6 – 2 VfL Bochum Mönchengladbach
15:30 Schneider 60'
Neun 68'
Dahlin 71', 89'
Lupescu 73' (pen.)
Juskowiak 75'		 [32] Wosz 35'
Hutwelker 83'		 Stadium: Bökelbergstadion
Attendance: 30,100
Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)
24 May 1997 33 VfL Bochum 6 – 0 FC St. Pauli Bochum
15:30 Donkov 35', 68'
Peschel 72'
Gülünoğlu 73'
Wosz 78'
Pfennig 89' (o.g.)		 [33] Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 30,121
Referee: Lutz Michael Fröhlich (Berlin)

DFB-Pokal

10 August 1996 R1 SV Bonlanden 2 – 4 (a.e.t.) VfL Bochum Bonlanden
15:30 Schweizer 64'
Frömmel 71'		 [35] Kracht 73'
Winkler 86'
Peschel 119', 120'		 Stadium: Stadion an der Humboldtstraße
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Jörg Friedrichs (Ilvesheim)
1 October 1996 R2 FC Schalke 04 2 – 3 VfL Bochum Gelsenkirchen
20:00 Wilmots 35'
Held 47'		 [36] Guðjónsson 1', 30'
Bałuszyński 60'		 Stadium: Parkstadion
Attendance: 20,150
Referee: Michael Malbranc (Hamburg)
22 October 1996 R3 Karlsruher SC II 0 – 1 VfL Bochum Karlsruhe
19:30 [37] Közle 66' Stadium: Wildparkstadion, Platz 2
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Christian Wack (Gersheim)
13 November 1996 QF Hamburger SV 2 – 1 VfL Bochum Hamburg
19:30 Schopp 39'
Cardoso 82'		 [38] Közle 63' Stadium: Volksparkstadion
Attendance: 17,240
Referee: Lutz Michael Fröhlich (Berlin)

Squad

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals scored

No. Pos Nat Player TotalBundesligaDFB-Pokal
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
1 GK Germany GER Uwe Gospodarek 37033040
2 DF Germany GER Thomas Stickroth 33330330
3 DF Germany GER Torsten Kracht 33329241
4 DF Bulgaria BUL Engibar Engibarov (until 31 December 1996) 000000
5 DF Poland POL Tomasz Wałdoch 33129140
6 MF Germany GER Peter Közle 32828642
7 MF Germany GER Kai Michalke 25425400
8 MF Germany GER Peter Peschel 25722532
9 FW Poland POL Henryk Bałuszyński 27223141
10 MF Germany GER Dariusz Wosz 36932940
11 FW Bulgaria BUL Georgi Donkov 3410301040
12 DF Germany GER Christian Herrmann 000000
13 DF Germany GER Max Eberl 706010
14 DF Germany GER Karsten Hutwelker 18215230
15 FW Germany GER Danny Winkler 716011
16 FW South Africa RSA Delron Buckley 302010
17 MF Germany GER Olaf Schreiber 27124130
18 FW Germany GER Roland Wohlfarth 505000
19 DF Germany GER Mathias Jack 31129120
20 MF Croatia CRO Zoran Mamić 27123140
21 GK Germany GER Thomas Ernst 101000
22 DF Germany GER Thomas Reis 37234230
23 MF Croatia CRO Filip Tapalović 21020010
24 MF Iceland ISL Þórður Guðjónsson 16313132
25 FW Turkey TUR Neşat Gülünoğlu (since 11 March 1997) 11311300
29 DF Germany GER Frank Fahrenhorst (since 15 February 1997) 404000
31 GK Germany GER Stefan Wächter 000000
  • Source:

Transfers

Summer

Winter

Sources

  1. ↑ "VfL Bochum - MSV Duisburg 1:0" (in German). kicker.
  2. ↑ "Bayern München - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
  3. ↑ "VfL Bochum - Arminia Bielefeld 1:1" (in German). kicker.
  4. ↑ "FC Schalke 04 - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
  5. ↑ "VfL Bochum - Karlsruher SC 3:1" (in German). kicker.
  6. ↑ "Werder Bremen - VfL Bochum 5:1" (in German). kicker.
  7. ↑ "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 3:1" (in German). kicker.
  8. ↑ "1. FC Köln - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
  9. ↑ "VfL Bochum - Borussia Dortmund 1:0" (in German). kicker.
  10. ↑ "Fortuna Düsseldorf - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). kicker.
  11. ↑ "VfL Bochum - 1860 München 2:2" (in German). kicker.
  12. ↑ "SC Freiburg - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). kicker.
  13. ↑ "VfL Bochum - Hansa Rostock 1:0" (in German). kicker.
  14. ↑ "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). kicker.
  15. ↑ "VfL Bochum - Bor. Mönchengladbach 2:0" (in German). kicker.
  16. ↑ "FC St. Pauli - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.
  17. ↑ "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2:2" (in German). kicker.
  18. ↑ "MSV Duisburg - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
  19. ↑ "VfL Bochum - Bayern München 1:1" (in German). kicker.
  20. ↑ "Arminia Bielefeld - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). kicker.
  21. ↑ "VfL Bochum - FC Schalke 04 0:1" (in German). kicker.
  22. ↑ "Karlsruher SC - VfL Bochum 2:3" (in German). kicker.
  23. ↑ "VfL Bochum - Werder Bremen 3:2" (in German). kicker.
  24. ↑ "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). kicker.
  25. ↑ "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Köln 2:2" (in German). kicker.
  26. ↑ "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
  27. ↑ "VfL Bochum - Fortuna Düsseldorf 3:1" (in German). kicker.
  28. ↑ "1860 München - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). kicker.
  29. ↑ "VfL Bochum - SC Freiburg 3:2" (in German). kicker.
  30. ↑ "Hansa Rostock - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). kicker.
  31. ↑ "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 2:1" (in German). kicker.
  32. ↑ "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfL Bochum 6:2" (in German). kicker.
  33. ↑ "VfL Bochum - FC St. Pauli 6:0" (in German). kicker.
  34. ↑ "Bayer 04 Leverkusen - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
  35. ↑ "SV Bonlanden - VfL Bochum 2:4" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
  36. ↑ "FC Schalke 04 - VfL Bochum 2:3" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
  37. ↑ "Karlsruher SC II - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
  38. ↑ "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). Weltfussball.de.
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