1984–85 VfL Bochum season

VfL Bochum 1984–85 football season

VfL Bochum

1984–85 season

President

Ottokar Wüst

Head Coach

Rolf Schafstall

Stadium

Ruhrstadion

Bundesliga

9th

DFB-Pokal

Second Round

Top goalscorer

League: Fischer (16)
All: Fischer (16)

Highest home attendance

42,000 (vs FC Bayern Munich, 11 May 1985)

Lowest home attendance

8,000 (vs Fortuna Düsseldorf, 8 June 1985)

Average home league attendance

23,000

Home colours

Away colours

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The 1984–85 VfL Bochum season was the 47th season in club history.

Review and events

Matches

Legend

Win Draw Loss

Bundesliga

VfL Bochum v Eintracht Frankfurt

24 August 1984 1	VfL Bochum	3 – 3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bochum
20:00	Fischer 1', 63' Schulz 48'	^[1]	Trieb 22', 29' Kraaz 72'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Heinz Werner (Auersmacher)

FC Schalke 04 v VfL Bochum

29 August 1984 2	FC Schalke 04	2 – 3	VfL Bochum	Gelsenkirchen
20:00	Dierßen 44' Täuber 46'	^[2]	Schulz 47' Fischer 66' Kuntz 81'	Stadium: Parkstadion Attendance: 40,700 Referee: Rüdiger Wuttke (Oberhausen)

VfL Bochum v Hamburger SV

8 September 1984 3	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	Hamburger SV	Bochum
15:30		^[3]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Norbert Brückner (Darmstadt)

Borussia Mönchengladbach v VfL Bochum

15 September 1984 4	Borussia Mönchengladbach	4 – 3	VfL Bochum	Mönchengladbach
15:30	Rahn 2' (51) Bruns 43' (pen.) Mill 54'	^[4]	Fischer 60', 71' Knäbel 90'	Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Robert Walz (Waiblingen)

Borussia Dortmund v VfL Bochum

21 September 1984 5	Borussia Dortmund	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Dortmund
20:00	Wegmann 79', 90' Răducanu 85' (pen.)	^[5]		Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Siegfried Brehm (Kemmern)

VfL Bochum v Bayer 04 Leverkusen

29 September 1984 6	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Bochum
15:30		^[6]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Peter Correll (Heilbronn)

Karlsruher SC v VfL Bochum

5 October 1984 7	Karlsruher SC	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Karlsruhe
20:00	Künast 56'	^[7]	Fischer 20'	Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Wolf-Rüdiger Umbach (Rottdorf)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Kaiserslautern

23 October 1984 8	VfL Bochum	3 – 0	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Bochum
20:00	Kuntz 22' Fischer 76', 84'	^[8]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Peter Gabor (West Berlin)

Eintracht Braunschweig v VfL Bochum

19 October 1984 9	Eintracht Braunschweig	1 – 3	VfL Bochum	Braunschweig
20:00	Geiger 27'	^[9]	Fischer 36' Kuntz 48' Tenhagen 81'	Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Hans Scheuerer (Munich)

VfL Bochum v Arminia Bielefeld

26 October 1984 10	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	Arminia Bielefeld	Bochum
20:00	Kuntz 56' (pen.)	^[10]	Reich 54'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Fischenich)

SV Werder Bremen v VfL Bochum

2 November 1984 11	SV Werder Bremen	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Bremen
20:00	Völler 28' Schaaf 65'	^[11]	Knüwe 52' Schreier 80'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Manfred Neuner (Leimen)

VfL Bochum v Bayer 05 Uerdingen

9 November 1984 12	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	Bochum
20:00	Schulz 64'	^[12]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Wolf-Günter Wiesel (Ottbergen)

FC Bayern Munich v VfL Bochum

14 November 1984 13	FC Bayern Munich	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Munich
20:00	Grobe 15' Mathy 18'	^[13]	Oswald 6' Kuntz 24' (pen.)	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Gerd Zimmermann (Kiel)

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Köln

17 November 1984 14	VfL Bochum	1 – 3	1. FC Köln	Bochum
15:30	Kree 74'	^[14]	Littbarski 3', 88' Engels 75'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Adolf Ermer (Weiden)

VfB Stuttgart v VfL Bochum

24 November 1984 15	VfB Stuttgart	1 – 2	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
15:30	Reichert 18'	^[15]	Schulz 24', 44'	Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 17,400 Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)

VfL Bochum v Waldhof Mannheim

30 November 1984 16	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	Waldhof Mannheim	Bochum
20:00		^[16]	Bührer 56'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 21,000 Referee: Udo Horeis (Hamburg)

Fortuna Düsseldorf v VfL Bochum

8 December 1984 17	Fortuna Düsseldorf	0 – 2	VfL Bochum	Düsseldorf
15:30		^[17]	Kuntz 16' Schulz 18'	Stadium: Rheinstadion Attendance: 13,500 Referee: Werner Föckler (Bad Dürkheim)

Eintracht Frankfurt v VfL Bochum

2 February 1985 18	Eintracht Frankfurt	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Frankfurt am Main
15:30	Sievers 38'	^[18]	Fischer 33'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Volker Roth (Salzgitter)

VfL Bochum v FC Schalke 04

16 February 1985 19	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	FC Schalke 04	Bochum
15:30		^[19]	Täuber 26'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 36,000 Referee: Wolf-Rüdiger Umbach (Rottdorf)

Hamburger SV v VfL Bochum

9 April 1985 20	Hamburger SV	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
20:00	Wehmeyer 8' Milewski 43', 83'	^[20]	Schulz 74'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 15,700 Referee: Hans-Peter Dellwing (Trier)

VfL Bochum v Borussia Mönchengladbach

5 March 1985 21	VfL Bochum	0 – 2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
20:00		^[21]	Hochstätter 74' Dreßen 89'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Hans-Heinrich Barnick (Schenfeld)

VfL Bochum v Borussia Dortmund

9 March 1985 22	VfL Bochum	4 – 1	Borussia Dortmund	Bochum
15:30	Fischer 63' Kuntz 77', 90' Schulz 82'	^[22]	Zorc 85' (pen.)	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Wolf-Dieter Ahlenfelder (Oberhausen)

Bayer 04 Leverkusen v VfL Bochum

16 March 1985 23	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Leverkusen
15:30	Cha 32'	^[23]	Fischer 4'	Stadium: Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Dieter Pauly (Rheydt)

VfL Bochum v Karlsruher SC

22 March 1985 24	VfL Bochum	5 – 2	Karlsruher SC	Bochum
20:00	Kree 12' Fischer 53' Knüwe 55' Kuntz 57' Benatelli 59'	^[24]	Groß 26' Keim 31'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Heinz Werner (Auersmacher)

1. FC Kaiserslautern v VfL Bochum

21 May 1985 25	1. FC Kaiserslautern	5 – 2	VfL Bochum	Kaiserslautern
20:00	Moser 21' Hübner 63' Melzer 66' Schupp 68' Allofs 71'	^[25]	Fischer 78' Kuntz 82'	Stadium: Betzenbergstadion Attendance: 9,587 Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (Freiburg)

VfL Bochum v Eintracht Braunschweig

3 April 1985 26	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Eintracht Braunschweig	Bochum
20:00	Schulz 88'	^[26]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Gerhard Theobald (Neunkirchen)

Arminia Bielefeld v VfL Bochum

13 April 1985 27	Arminia Bielefeld	2 – 3	VfL Bochum	Bielefeld
15:30	Rautiainen 22' Foda 74'	^[27]	Woelk 12' Benatelli 43' Fischer 50'	Stadium: Alm Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Rüdiger Wuttke (Oberhausen)

VfL Bochum v SV Werder Bremen

20 April 1985 28	VfL Bochum	1 – 3	SV Werder Bremen	Bochum
15:30	Benatelli 3'	^[28]	Oswald 24' (o.g.) Völler 37' Möhlmann 78'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Siegfried Brehm (Kemmern)

Bayer 05 Uerdingen v VfL Bochum

3 May 1985 29	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Krefeld
20:00	F. Funkel 18' (pen.) W. Funkel 53' (pen.) Raschid 80'	^[29]	Fischer 41'	Stadium: Grotenburg-Stadion Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Norbert Brückner (Darmstadt)

VfL Bochum v FC Bayern Munich

11 May 1985 30	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	FC Bayern Munich	Bochum
15:30	Benatelli 70'	^[30]	Matthäus 28'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 42,000 Referee: Franz-Josef Hontheim (Trier)

1. FC Köln v VfL Bochum

17 May 1985 31	1. FC Köln	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Cologne
20:00	Lehnhoff 25' Engels 71'	^[31]	Kuntz 43'	Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Dieter Pauly (Rheydt)

VfL Bochum v VfB Stuttgart

25 May 1985 32	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	VfB Stuttgart	Bochum
15:30	Schulz 9' Förster 61' (o.g.)	^[32]	Claesen 48'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Volker Roth (Salzgitter)

SV Waldhof Mannheim v VfL Bochum

1 June 1985 33	SV Waldhof Mannheim	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Ludwigshafen am Rhein
15:30	Rombach 12' Walter 90'	^[33]		Stadium: Südweststadion Attendance: 11,500 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)

VfL Bochum v Fortuna Düsseldorf

8 June 1985 34	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Bochum
15:30	Schulz 34'	^[34]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Manfred Neuner (Leimen)

DFB-Pokal

TSV Havelse v VfL Bochum

1 September 1984 R1	TSV Havelse	2 – 2 (a.e.t.)	VfL Bochum	Garbsen
	Stoffregen 70' (pen.) Zerr 113'	^[35]	Woelk 26' Schreier 96'	Stadium: Willhelm-Langrehr-Stadion Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Uwe Kasperowski (West Berlin)

VfL Bochum v TSV Havelse

25 September 1984 R1 replay	VfL Bochum	4 – 0	TSV Havelse	Bochum
	Lameck 4' Kuntz 25', 36' (pen.), 48'	^[36]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Hans Puchalski (Duisburg)

Alemannia Aachen v VfL Bochum

21 November 1984 R2	Alemannia Aachen	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Aachen
	Habig 56' Thomas 66' Willkomm 78'	^[37]		Stadium: Tivoli Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Anton Matheis (Rodalben)

Squad

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals scored

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	FW	FRG	Frank Benatelli	15	4	15	4	0	0
	MF	FRG	Siegfried Bönighausen	17	0	16	0	1	0
	GK	FRG	Markus Croonen	1	0	0	0	1	0
	FW	FRG	Klaus Fischer	37	16	34	16	3	0
	DF	FRG	Florian Gothe	10	0	9	0	1	0
	MF	FRG	Peter Knäbel	2	1	1	1	1	0
	DF	FRG	Thomas Knauer	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF	FRG	Heinz Knüwe	32	2	29	2	3	0
	DF	FRG	Martin Kree	30	2	27	2	3	0
	MF	FRG	Michael Kühn	15	0	14	0	1	0
	FW	FRG	Stefan Kuntz	37	14	34	11	3	3
	MF	FRG	Michael Lameck	36	1	33	0	3	1
	MF	FRG	Walter Oswald	32	1	29	1	3	0
	DF	FRG	Ingo Pickenäcker	24	0	22	0	2	0
	DF	FRG	Frank Saborowski (since 1 January 1985)	5	0	5	0	0	0
	FW	FRG	Toni Schreier	22	2	19	1	3	1
	MF	FRG	Frank Schulz	36	11	34	11	2	0
	DF	FRG	Franz-Josef Tenhagen	26	1	24	1	2	0
	DF	FRG	Lothar Woelk	35	2	32	1	3	1
	DF	YUG	Ivan Žugčić	27	0	25	0	2	0
	GK	FRG	Ralf Zumdick	36	0	34	0	2	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Transfers

Summer

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	GK	FRG	Markus Croonen (from VfL Bochum II)
—	FW	FRG	Klaus Fischer (from 1. FC Köln)
—	MF	FRG	Peter Knäbel (from VfL Bochum youth)
—	DF	FRG	Thomas Knauer (from SV Holzwickede)
—	DF	FRG	Ingo Pickenäcker (from Borussia Mönchengladbach)
—	FW	FRG	Toni Schreier (from VfB Waltrop)
—	DF	FRG	Franz-Josef Tenhagen (from Borussia Dortmund)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	FRG	Andreas Bordan (to SV Darmstadt 98)
—	DF	FRG	Bernd Gerber (to Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin)
—	DF	FRG	Hermann Gerland (to VfL Bochum II)
—	MF	FRG	Peter Grünberger (to SG Union Solingen)
—	FW	FRG	Günter Habig (to Alemannia Aachen)
—	FW	FRG	Frank Islacker (retired)
—	MF	FRG	Dieter Kramer (to VfL Bochum II)
—	FW	FRG	Detlef Krella (to 1. FC Nürnberg)
—	GK	FRG	Reinhard Mager (to Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin)
—	FW	FRG	Stefan Pater (to Arminia Bielefeld)
—	FW	FRG	Christian Schreier (to Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
—	MF	FRG	Reinhold Zagorny (to VfL Bochum II)

Winter

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	FRG	Frank Saborowski (from Bayer 04 Leverkusen)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player

Sources

^ "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Frankfurt 3:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "FC Schalke 04 - VfL Bochum 2:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 0:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfL Bochum 4:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "Karlsruher SC - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Kaiserslautern 3:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "Eintracht Braunschweig - VfL Bochum 1:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Arminia Bielefeld 1:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "Werder Bremen - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Bayer 05 Uerdingen 1:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "Bayern München - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Köln 1:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 1:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Waldhof Mannheim 0:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "Fortuna Düsseldorf - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - FC Schalke 04 0:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Bor. Mönchengladbach 0:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Borussia Dortmund 4:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "Bayer 04 Leverkusen - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Karlsruher SC 5:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "1. FC Kaiserslautern - VfL Bochum 5:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Braunschweig 1:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "Arminia Bielefeld - VfL Bochum 2:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Werder Bremen 1:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "Bayer 05 Uerdingen - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Bayern München 1:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "1. FC Köln - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 2:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "Waldhof Mannheim - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Fortuna Düsseldorf 1:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "Spielstatistik TSV Havelse gegen VfL Bochum 2:2 n.V." [Match statistic TSV Havelse vs. VfL Bochum 2–2 aet] (in German). fussballdaten.de.
^ "Spielstatistik VfL Bochum gegen TSV Havelse 4:0 (4:0)" [Match statistic VfL Bochum vs. TSV Havelse 4–0 (4–0)] (in German). fussballdaten.de.
^ "Spielstatistik Alemannia Aachen gegen VfL Bochum 3:0 (0:0)" [Match statistic Alemannia Aachen vs. VfL Bochum 3–0 (0–0)] (in German). fussballdaten.de.