1987–88 Bundesliga

Bundesliga
Season	1987–88
Dates	31 July 1987 – 21 May 1988
Champions	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 Nürnberg; 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 Nürnberg (5 September 1987)
Highest scoring	M'gladbach 8–2 Hamburg (10 goals) (26 September 1987)
	← 1986–87 1988–89 →

The 1987–88 Bundesliga was the 25th season of the Bundesliga, the premier football league in West Germany. It began on 31 July 1987^[1] and ended on 21 May 1988.^[2] 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 fewest points were relegated to 2. 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

K'lautern

Uerdingen

Bochum

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Location of teams in Bundesliga 1987–88

Club	Location	Ground^[3]	Capacity^[3]
VfL Bochum	Bochum	Ruhrstadion	40,000
SV Werder Bremen	Bremen	Weserstadion	32,000
Borussia Dortmund	Dortmund	Westfalenstadion	54,000
Eintracht Frankfurt	Frankfurt	Waldstadion	62,000
Hamburger SV	Hamburg	Volksparkstadion	62,000
Hannover 96	Hanover	Niedersachsenstadion	60,400
FC Homburg	Homburg	Waldstadion	24,000
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Kaiserslautern	Fritz-Walter-Stadion	42,000
Karlsruher SC	Karlsruhe	Wildparkstadion	50,000
1. FC Köln	Cologne	Müngersdorfer Stadion	61,000
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Leverkusen	Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion	20,000
SV Waldhof Mannheim	Ludwigshafen	Südweststadion^[1]	75,000
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Mönchengladbach	Bökelbergstadion	34,500
FC Bayern Munich	Munich	Olympiastadion	80,000
1. FC Nürnberg	Nuremberg	Städtisches Stadion	64,238
FC Schalke 04	Gelsenkirchen	Parkstadion	70,000
VfB Stuttgart	Stuttgart	Neckarstadion	72,000
Bayer 05 Uerdingen	Krefeld	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	Qualification to European Cup first round
2	Bayern Munich	34	22	4	8	83	45	+38	48	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round^[a]
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 Nürnberg	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	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round^[a]
9	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	10	11	13	51	50	+1	31	Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round
10	Hannover 96	34	12	7	15	59	60	−1	31
11	Bayer 05 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	Qualification to relegation play-offs
17	FC Homburg (R)	34	7	10	17	37	70	−33	24	Relegation to 2. Bundesliga
18	Schalke 04 (R)	34	8	7	19	48	84	−36	23	Relegation to 2. Bundesliga

Source: www.dfb.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Bayer Leverkusen won the UEFA Cup and thereby automatically qualified as title holders.

Results

Home \ Away	BOC	SVW	BVB	SGE	HSV	H96	HOM	FCK	KSC	KOE	B04	WMA	BMG	FCB	FCN	S04	VFB	B05
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	0–0
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 Nürnberg	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
Bayer 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: DFB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

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
Gutzler 63' Posniak 66' Gu 73'	^[4]	Tsionanis 2' Bührer 47'

Böllenfalltor, Darmstadt

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Wolf-Rüdiger Umbach (Rottorf)

5 June 1988

SV Waldhof Mannheim	2–1	SV Darmstadt 98
Schön 20' Lux 87'	Report link (in German)	Kuhl 88'

Südweststadion, Ludwigshafen

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Ottobrunn)

9 June 1988

SV Waldhof Mannheim	0–0 (a.e.t.)	SV Darmstadt 98
	Report link (in German)
Penalties
Lux Bockenfeld Bührer Trieb Cvetković Quaisser Klotz	5–4	Posniak Kuhl Schreml Gu Emig Scholz Bernecker

Ludwigspark, Saarbrücken

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Gerhard Theobald (Neunkirchen (Saar))

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 Nürnberg)
Frank Ordenewitz (SV Werder Bremen)

14 goals

Olaf Thon (FC Schalke 04)

13 goals

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 (captain; 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.

References

^ "Schedule Round 1". DFB. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011.
^ "Archive 1987/1988 Round 34". DFB. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011.
^ ^a ^b Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs, Band 7: Vereinslexikon (in German). Kassel: AGON Sportverlag. ISBN 3-89784-147-9.
^ Grüne, Hardy (2000). Bundesliga & Co. Enzyklopädie des deutsche Ligafußballs (in German). Kassel: AGON Sportverlag. ISBN 3-89609-113-1.

External links

DFB Bundesliga archive 1987/1988

[table_note_res_UC10.31918248968161-4] Bayer Leverkusen won the UEFA Cup and thereby automatically qualified as title holders.

[1] "Schedule Round 1". DFB. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011.

[2] "Archive 1987/1988 Round 34". DFB. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011.

[Vereinslexikon-3] Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs, Band 7: Vereinslexikon (in German). Kassel: AGON Sportverlag. ISBN 3-89784-147-9.

[5] Grüne, Hardy (2000). Bundesliga & Co. Enzyklopädie des deutsche Ligafußballs (in German). Kassel: AGON Sportverlag. ISBN 3-89609-113-1.

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