1959–60 Eintracht Frankfurt season

The 1959–60 Eintracht Frankfurt season was the 60th season in the club's football history. In 1959–60 the club played in the Oberliga Süd, the top tier of German football. It was the club's 15th season in the Oberliga Süd.

Eintracht Frankfurt

1959–60 season
Chairman	Rudolf Gramlich
Manager	Paul Oßwald
Oberliga Süd	3rd
DFB-Pokal / SFV-Pokal	Final (58–59)[lower-alpha 1]
DFB-Pokal / SFV-Pokal	Semi-final[lower-alpha 2]
European Cup	Runners-up
Top goalscorer	League: Stein (24) All: Stein (43)
Highest home attendance	38,000 27 December 1959 v Karlsruher SC (league)
Lowest home attendance	3,500 5 December 1959 v SSV Reutlingen 05 (league)
Average home league attendance	14,467
Home colours

Matches

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendlies

4 August 1959	Moldova Kishinev	5–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Kishinev, Soviet Union
		(Report)	Weilbächer

6 August 1959	Arsenal Kiev	0–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Kiev, Soviet Union
		(Report)	Kress

9 August 1959	Admiral Leningrad	2–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Leningrad, Soviet Union
	Kislov Chapovizki	(Report)	Stein  32' Pfaff	Attendance: 30,000

6 August 1959	Helsinki XI	0–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Helsinki, Finland
		(Report)	Stinka Stein  70'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium

19 August 1959	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Korbach, West Germany
	Pfaff  71'	(Report)		Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Böttcher

8 September 1959	Eintracht Frankfurt	5–1	Standard Liège	Frankfurt, Germany
20:00 CEST	Meier  16' Bäumler or Weilbächer  27' Pfaff  39' Lindner  69' Solz  88'	(Report)	Piters  76'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Dietrich

3 October 1959	Servette FC	2–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Geneva, Switzerland
	Fatton  38' Makay  44'	(Report)	Kress  37' Stein  39' Bäumler  72'	Stadium: Stade des Charmilles Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Domeniconi

7 October 1959	TuS Neuendorf	4–4	Eintracht Frankfurt	Koblenz, West Germany
	Klein  27' Weiand  39', 89' Stupp  82'	(Report)	Stein  28' Solz  29' Lindner  32', 75'	Stadium: Stadion Oberwerth Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Dietz

11 May 1960	Eintracht Frankfurt	4–0	RC Strasbourg	Frankfurt, West Germany
20:00 CEST	Stinka  34' Meier  45' Kress  53' Lindner  80'	(Report)		Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Eisemann

28 May 1960	FC St. Pauli	3–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Hamburg, West Germany
	Krüger  20' Haecks  75' Krafczyk  89'	(Report)	Kress  60' Lindner  65'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Sturm

4 June 1960	ARA La Gantoise	2–2	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Willems  38' Goyvaerts  62'	(Report)	Kress  20' Pfaff  35'	Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Willems

14 June 1960	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–4	Santos FC	Frankfurt, West Germany
20:00 CEST	Stein  22', 24'	(Report)	Zito  35', 71' Pelé  63' Mengálvio  79'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Handwerker

18 June 1960	Sportfreunde Herdorf	2–6	Eintracht Frankfurt	Herdorf, West Germany
	Krämer  5' Grünebach  25'	(Report)	Meier  6' Schämer  20', 62' Stein  37', 72' Pfaff  80'	Attendance: 7,000

19 June 1960	Hamborn 07	3–5	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Carel  71' Rinas  73' Poll  80'	(Report)	Schämer  7' Stein  12', 18', 27' Pfaff  23'	Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Plänker

Oberliga

League fixtures and results

22 August 1959 1	Eintracht Frankfurt	5–3	SpVgg Fürth	Frankfurt, Germany
17:30 CEST	Bäumler  34' Lindner  36' Stein  40', 65' Kress  46'	(Report)	Stumptner  22' Landleiter  24' Appis  51'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Fritz

30 August 1959 2	VfB Stuttgart	2–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Stuttgart, West Germany
	Geiger  14' Praxl  52'	(Report)	Stein  13', 16' Pfaff  66'	Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Meißner

13 September 1959 3	TSV 1860 München	4–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Munich, West Germany
	Feigenspan  21', 48' Kölbl  44' Fallisch  49'	(Report)	Bäumler  61', 83'	Stadium: Grünwalder Stadion Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Fierhauser

19 September 1959 4	Eintracht Frankfurt	11–0	Bayern Hof	Frankfurt, Germany
17:30 CEST	Bäumler  31', 54', 56' Stein  40', 44' Lindner  41', 71', 86' Kress  63' Pfaff  69', 81'	(Report)		Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Klein

27 September 1959 5	FSV Frankfurt	2–4	Eintracht Frankfurt	Frankfurt, West Germany
15:00 CEST	Hofmann  15', 87'	(Report)	Stein  19', 49', 54', 74'	Stadium: Stadion am Bornheimer Hang Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Rodenhausen

11 October 1959 6	Eintracht Frankfurt	6–2	Stuttgarter Kickers	Frankfurt, Germany
15:00 CEST	Stein  26', 39', 76' Lindner  37', 85' Kress  68'	(Report)	Lettl  21' Hanek  46'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Ott

18 October 1959 7	1. FC Nürnberg	3–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Nuremberg, West Germany
	Strehl  34' Schweinberger  48' Dirrigl  51'	(Report)	Pfaff  9', 53' Lindner  62'	Stadium: Sportpark Zerzabelshof Attendance: 47,000 Referee: Jakobi

25 October 1959 8	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–2	FC Bayern Munich	Frankfurt, West Germany
15:00 CEST		(Report)	Kuhnert  7' Lutz  72' (o.g.)	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Kreitlein

1 November 1959 9	Kickers Offenbach	2–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Offenbach, West Germany
14:30 CEST	Kraus  74' (pen.) Nuber  78'	(Report)	Bäumler  60'	Stadium: Bieberer Berg Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Handwerker

15 November 1959 10	Eintracht Frankfurt	5–0	1. FC Schweinfurt 05	Frankfurt, West Germany
15:00 CEST	Lindner  9' Bäumler  44' (pen.) Pfaff  58' Meier 86' Stein  87'	(Report)		Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Scheffer

21 November 1959 11	VfR Mannheim	1–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Mannheim, West Germany
14:30 CEST	Hoffmann  25'	(Report)	Lindner  55'	Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Eckel

28 November 1959 12	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–2	Viktoria Aschaffenburg	Frankfurt, West Germany
14:30 CEST	Stein  2' Bäumler  22' Pfaff  35'	(Report)	Wille  52' Buchwalter  67'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Treiber

5 December 1959 13	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–2	SSV Reutlingen 05	Frankfurt, West Germany
14:30 CEST	Lindner  6' Bäumler  8'	(Report)	Sattler  28' Gernhardt  61'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Riegg

13 December 1959 14	TSG Ulm 1846	0–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Ulm, West Germany
		(Report)	Solz  10'	Stadium: Donaustadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Meißner

27 December 1959 15	Eintracht Frankfurt	4–1	Karlsruher SC	Frankfurt, West Germany
14:00 CEST	Stinka  26' Solz  40' Dieter Lindner  49', 68'	(Report)	Wischnowski  58'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 38,000 Referee: Fischer

3 January 1960 16	SpVgg Fürth	4–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Fürth, West Germany
14:30 CEST	Gettinger  56' Gottinger  65' Heidner  70' Schmidt  84'	(Report)		Stadium: Sportpark Ronhof Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Jedele

9 January 1960 17	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–4	VfB Stuttgart	Frankfurt, West Germany
14:30 CEST	Stein  49' Pfaff  69'	(Report)	Waldner  3' Geiger  21', 24', 58'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Meißner

17 January 1960 18	Karlsruher SC	2–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Karlsruhe, West Germany
	Lindner  18'	(Report)	Herrmann  30' Wischnowski  46'	Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Dusch

24 January 1960 19	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–2	TSV 1860 München	Frankfurt, Germany
	Pfaff  14' Solz  24' Kress  31'		Kölbl  16' Lihl  78'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Deuschel

31 January 1960 20	Bayern Hof	1–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Hof, West Germany
14:30 CEST	Horn  81'	(Report)		Stadium: Stadion Grüne Au Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Handwerker

7 February 1960 21	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–1	FSV Frankfurt	Frankfurt, Germany
14:30 CEST	Weilbächer  70', 81'	(Report)	Hofmann  37'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Eisemann

14 February 1960 22	Stuttgarter Kickers	0–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Stuttgart, West Germany
14:30 CEST		(Report)	Lindner  73' Kress  88'	Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Kandelbinder

21 February 1960 23	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–1	1. FC Nürnberg	Frankfurt, Germany
14:30 CEST	Lindner  7', 33' Pfaff  14'	(Report)	Albrecht  81'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Jakobi

6 March 1960 24	FC Bayern Munich	3–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Munich, West Germany
16:30 CEST	Sieber  32' Grosser  37' Huber  61'	(Report)		Stadium: Grünwalder Stadion Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Deuschel

13 March 1960 25	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–2	Kickers Offenbach	Frankfurt, Germany
15:00 CEST	Weilbächer  40' Meier  68' Stein  85'	(Report)	Kaufhold  45' Nuber  70'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Ott

27 March 1960 26	1. FC Schweinfurt 05	4–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Schweinfurt, West Germany
	Wendrich  17' Schweighöfer  27' (76) Grübert  39'	(Report)	Meier  33' Schymik  74'	Stadium: Willy-Sachs-Stadion Attendance: 8,500 Referee: Hubbuch

3 April 1960 27	Eintracht Frankfurt	4–0	VfR Mannheim	Frankfurt, Germany
15:00 CEST	Stein  28', 87' Pfaff  36' Kress  83'	(Report)		Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Scheuring

9 April 1960 28	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–1	TSG Ulm 1846	Frankfurt, Germany
17:00 CEST	Stein  7'	(Report)	Ruoff  28'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Reil

24 April 1960 29	Viktoria Aschaffenburg	4–4	Eintracht Frankfurt	Aschaffenburg
	Hitzel  29' Wille  49' Buchwalter  54' Kreuz  73'	(Report)	Stein  35', 53' Meier  48' Kress  82'	Stadium: Stadion am Schönbusch Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Kreitlein

30 April 1960 30	SSV Reutlingen 05	2–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Schwenningen, West Germany
	Dulz  17' Sattler  47'	(Report)	Pfaff  24' Stein  52', 85'	Stadium: Gustav-Strom-Stadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Scheffler

League table

Position	Team	Played	Goals	Points
01.	Karlsruher SC	30	78-39	45-15
02.	Kickers Offenbach	30	75-45	39-21
03.	Eintracht Frankfurt (C)	30	81-57	37-23
04.	TSV 1860 München	30	65-56	35-25
05.	FC Bayern Munich	30	81-55	34-26[lower-alpha 3]
06.	1. FC Nürnberg	30	73-54	34-26
07.	VfB Stuttgart	30	66-57	33-27
08.	SSV Reutlingen 05	30	55-57	31-29
09.	FSV Frankfurt	30	59-53	28-32
10.	VfR Mannheim	30	55-52	27-33
11.	SpVgg Fürth	30	48:59	26:34
12.	1. FC Schweinfurt 05	30	48-64	25-35
13.	Bayern Hof (P)	30	45-84	25-35
14.	TSG Ulm 1846	30	39-64	21-39
15.	Viktoria Aschaffenburg	30	43-73	21-39
16.	Stuttgarter Kickers (P)	30	38-80	15-45

	Participation at the 1960 German football championship round
	Participation at the qualification to the 1960 German football championship round
	Relegated to 1960–61 2. Oberliga Süd
(C)	1958–59 Oberliga Süd champions
(P)	Promoted from 1958–59 2. Oberliga Süd

1958–59

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25 July 1959 Quarter-finals	Kickers Offenbach	1–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Frankfurt, West Germany
18:00 CEST	Nuber  66'	(Report)	Pfaff  42', 75' Kress  54'	Stadium: Waldstadion[lower-alpha 4] Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Jakobi

1 August 1959 Semi-finals	VfB Stuttgart	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Eintracht Frankfurt	Stuttgart, West Germany
	Weise  30' Blessing  43'	(Report)	Stein  77' Kress  85'	Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Handwerker

16 August 1959 Semi-finals	Eintracht Frankfurt	5–0	VfB Stuttgart	Frankfurt, West Germany
15:00 CEST	Stein  15', 41', 81' Bäumler  38' Pfaff  56'	(Report)		Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Hubbuch

6 September 1959 Final	VfR Mannheim	1–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Karlsruhe, West Germany
	Loy  13' (o.g.)	(Report)		Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Kandlbinder

1959–60

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19 December 1959 1st Round	Rödelheimer FC	0–8	Eintracht Frankfurt
		(Report)	Stein  15', 22', 32', 57' Bäumler  30', 45' Kress  59' Meier  83'	Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Wenzel

28 February 1960 2nd Round	SV Darmstadt 98	2–3	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Mühlbach  20' Ley  78'	(Report)	Kress  60' Bäumler  63' Pfaff  73'	Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Rosenhausen

20 March 1960 3rd Round	Freiburger FC	2–3	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Lebefromm  7' Burgert  16'	(Report)	Weilbächer  57' Solz  81' Stein  90'	Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Fischer

24 May 1960 Quarter-finals	Eintracht Frankfurt[lower-alpha 5]	4–1	SpVgg Fürth	Frankfurt, Germany
	Stein  5', 81' Lindner  13' Kress  77'	(Report)	Schneider  57'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 7,000

11 June 1960 Semi-finals	Eintracht Frankfurt	4–2	FSV Frankfurt	Frankfurt, West Germany
	Stein  12', 18', 64' Meier  78'	(Report)	Straub  37' Niebel  66' (pen.)	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Meißner

European Cup

3 September 1959 Preliminary round

Eintracht Frankfurt

(w/o)[lower-alpha 6]

KuPS

8 September 1959 Preliminary round

KuPS

(w/o)

Eintracht Frankfurt

4 November 1959 2nd Round	BSC Young Boys	1–4	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bern, Switzerland
	Eugen Meier  24'	(Report)	Weilbächer  4' Stein  70' Bäumler  78' (pen.) Erich Meier 83'	Stadium: Wankdorfstadion Attendance: 33,322 Referee: Zariquiegui

25 November 1959 2nd Round	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–1	BSC Young Boys	Frankfurt, West Germany
20:00	Bäumler  68' (pen.)	(Report)	Schneider  89'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 30,800 Referee: Pérez

3 March 1960 Quarter-finals	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–1	Wiener Sport-Club	Frankfurt, West Germany
20:00 CEST	Lindner  17' Meier  59'	(Report)	Skerlan  48'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 32,867 Referee: Quinard

16 March 1960 Quarter-finals	Wiener Sport-Club	1–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Vienna, Austria
	Hof  3'	(Report)	Stein  60'	Stadium: Praterstadion Attendance: 47,423 Referee: Huber

13 April 1960 Semi-finals	Eintracht Frankfurt	6–1	Rangers	Frankfurt, West Germany
20:00 CEST	Stinka  28' Pfaff  52', 55' Lindner  73', 84' Stein  87'	(Report)	Caldow  29' (pen.)	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 75,069 Referee: Lindberg

5 May 1960 Semi-finals	Rangers	3–6	Eintracht Frankfurt	Glasgow, Scotland
19:30 WET	McMillan  12', 53' Wilson  73'	(Report)	Lindner  8' Pfaff  20', 88' Kress  27' Meier  67', 69'	Stadium: Ibrox Park Attendance: 68,578 Referee: Lööw

Final match

18 May 1960

19:30 BST

Real Madrid	7–3	Eintracht Frankfurt
Di Stéfano  20', 23', 73' Puskás  45+1', 56' (pen.), 60', 71'	Report	Kress  18' Stein  72', 75'

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 127,621

Referee: Jack Mowat (Scotland)

Real Madrid

Eintracht Frankfurt

GK 1 Rogelio Domínguez RB 2 Marquitos LB 3 Pachín RH 4 José María Vidal CB 5 [lower-alpha 7] José Santamaría LH 6 José María Zárraga (c) OR 7 Canário IR 8 Luis del Sol CF 9 [lower-alpha 8] Alfredo Di Stéfano IL 10 Ferenc Puskás OL 11 Francisco Gento Manager: Miguel Muñoz

GK 1 Egon Loy RB 2 Friedel Lutz LB 3 Hermann Höfer RH 4 Hans Weilbächer (c) CB 5 Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt LH 6 Dieter Stinka OR 7 Richard Kress IR 8 Dieter Lindner CF 9 Erwin Stein IL 10 Alfred Pfaff OL 11 Erich Meier Manager: Paul Oßwald

Squad

Squad and statistics

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Oberliga		DFB-Pokal/SFV-Pokal		European Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	GK		Hans-Günter Kirchhof	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	0
	GK		Egon Loy	42	0	27	0	8	0	7	0
	DF		Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt	25	0	15	0	6	0	4	0
	DF		Hermann Höfer	36	0	22	0	7	0	7	0
	DF		Fritz Kübert	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
	DF		Eberhard Schymik	30	1	21	1	5	0	4	0
	MF		Adolf Bechtold	14	0	11	0	2	0	1	0
	MF		Willi Herbert	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
	MF		Friedel Lutz	42	0	28	0	8	0	6	0
	MF		Severin Sorger	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
	MF		Dieter Stinka	42	2	28	1	7	0	7	1
	MF		Hans Weilbächer	44	5	29	3	8	1	7	1
	FW		Erich Bäumler	25	16	19	10	4	4	2	2
	FW		Richard Kress	39	14	24	7	9	5	6	2
	FW		Dieter Lindner	44	21	29	16	8	1	7	4
	FW		Erich Meier	26	10	14	4	6	2	6	4
	FW		Alfred Pfaff	40	20	25	12	8	4	7	4
	FW		Wolfgang Solz	11	4	9	3	2	1	0	0
	FW		Erwin Stein	37	43	24	24	7	14	6	5
	FW		István Sztáni	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0

Transfers

In: No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  FRG Willi Herbert (from Eintracht Frankfurt Academy) — GK  FRG Fritz Kübert (from Eintracht Frankfurt Academy) — GK  FRG Wolfgang Solz (from Eintracht Frankfurt Academy) — GK  FRG Hans-Günter Kirchhof (from Waldhof Mannheim) — GK  FRG Severin Sorger (from TuS Neuendorf) — GK  FRG Erwin Stein (from SpVgg Griesheim 02)

Out: No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  FRG Helmut Abraham (to Borussia Neunkirchen) — FW  FRG Eckehard Feigenspan (to TSV 1860 Munich) — GK  FRG Helmut Henig (retired) — FW  HUN István Sztáni (to Standard Liège)

See also

• 1959–60 European Cup
• 1960 European Cup Final

Notes

1. The 1958–59 cup competition was continued in the 1959-60 season due to the club's participation in the 1959 championship round.
2. The 1959–60 cup competition was continued in the 1960-61 season due to the club's participation in the 1960 European Cup final.
3. Due to a violation against the contract regulations Bayern were punished with a 4 point deduction. The deducation is considered in this table.
4. The match was moved to the Waldstadion due to safety reasons.
5. Eintracht bought Fürth's right to play at home for 16,000 DM.
6. Initially, Kuopion Palloseura planned to move their home match to Schwenningen, West Germany, to generate more income. That plan was rejected by UEFA, so KuPS withdrew and Eintracht Frankfurt walkover.
7. Although Santamaría had amassed 20 caps for his native Uruguay from 1952 to 1957, he had been representing Spain in international play since 1958.[1]
8. Di Stéfano, a native Argentine, had represented both Argentina and Colombia earlier in his international career; however, he became a naturalised citizen of Spain in 1956, and began playing for the Spanish national team in 1957.[2][3]

References

Sources

• Matheja, Ulrich (2011). Unsere Eintracht - Eintracht Frankfurt - Die Chronik. Die Werkstatt. ISBN 978-3-89533-750-5.

External links

• Official English Eintracht website Archived 2 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine
• German archive site
• 1959–60 Oberliga Süd season at Fussballdaten.de (in German)