1996–97 FC Bayern Munich season

The 1996–97 FC Bayern Munich season saw the club clinch its 13th Bundesliga title.

FC Bayern Munich

1996–97 season
Manager	Giovanni Trapattoni
Bundesliga	1st
UEFA Cup	1st Round
DFB-Pokal	Quarter-final
Top goalscorer	League: Jürgen Klinsmann (15) All: Jürgen Klinsmann (17)
Home colours Away colours

Players

Squad, appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		UEFA Cup		DFB-Pokal
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Oliver Kahn	38	0	32	0	2	0	4	0
12	GK		Sven Scheuer	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
2	DF		Markus Babbel	36	2	31	2	1	0	4	0
17	DF		Christian Ziege	33	9	27	7	2	1	4	1
10	DF		Lothar Matthäus	33	1	28	1	2	0	3	0
5	DF		Thomas Helmer	26	4	24	4	0	0	2	0
15	DF		Samuel Kuffour	25	0	22	0	1	0	2	0
3	DF		Markus Münch	14	0	11	0	1	0	2	0
4	DF		Oliver Kreuzer	13	0	9	0	2	0	2	0
6	MF		Christian Nerlinger	38	6	32	5	2	0	4	1
11	MF		Marcel Witeczek	32	3	28	3	2	0	2	0
13	MF		Mario Basler	31	8	27	8	1	0	3	0
16	MF		Dietmar Hamann	29	1	23	1	2	0	4	0
7	MF		Mehmet Scholl	28	6	23	5	2	0	3	1
8	MF		Thomas Strunz	25	1	19	1	2	0	4	0
23	MF		Frank Gerster	9	2	3	0	2	0	4	2
18	FW		Jürgen Klinsmann	39	17	33	15	2	0	4	2
21	FW		Alexander Zickler	38	8	33	7	1	0	4	1
20	FW		Ruggiero Rizzitelli	30	7	25	7	2	0	3	0
19	FW		Carsten Jancker	24	1	22	1	1	0	1	0
14	FW		Carsten Lakies	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0

Goals Pos. Player BL UC Cup Overall 1 Jürgen Klinsmann 15 0 2 17 2 Christian Ziege 7 1 1 9 3 Alexander Zickler 7 0 1 8 Mario Basler 8 0 1 8 5 Ruggiero Rizzitelli 7 0 0 7

Bookings N Pos. Nat. Name Notes 1 GK Oliver Kahn 2 10 DF Lothar Matthäus 8 1 17 DF Christian Ziege 8 1 15 DF Samuel Kuffour 5 2 DF Markus Babbel 4 4 DF Oliver Kreuzer 3 3 DF Markus Münch 1 5 DF Thomas Helmer 1 6 MF Christian Nerlinger 13 1 8 MF Thomas Strunz 6 13 MF Mario Basler 5 7 MF Mehmet Scholl 2 11 MF Marcel Witeczek 1 21 FW Alexander Zickler 5 1 18 FW Jürgen Klinsmann 5 20 FW Ruggiero Rizzitelli 3 19 FW Carsten Jancker 2 Source: Kicker Only competitive matches = Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.

In

First Team

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
3	DF		Markus Münch	23	EU	Bayer Leverkusen	Transfer	Summer		€1,300,000
13	MF		Mario Basler	27	EU	Werder Bremen	Transfer	Summer		€4,100,000
14	FW		Carsten Lakies	25	EU	Darmstadt 98	Transfer	Summer		Undisclosed	worldfootball.net
19	FW		Carsten Jancker	21	EU	Rapid Wien	Transfer	Summer		€770,000	Footballdatabase.eu
20	FW		Ruggiero Rizzitelli	28	EU	Torino	Transfer	Summer		Free
22	GK		Bernd Dreher	29	EU	KFC Uerdingen	Transfer	Summer		€250,000
24	MF		Markus Oberleitner	22	EU	SpVgg Unterhaching	Transfer	Summer		Undisclosed

Total spending: €6.42m

Out

First Team

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
3	MF		Dieter Frey	23	EU	SC Freiburg	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed
9	FW		Jean-Pierre Papin	32	EU	Bordeaux	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed	Worldfootball.net
14	MF		Ciriaco Sforza	26	EU	Internazionale	Transfer	Summer	€3,100,000
19	FW		Emil Kostadinov	28	EU	Fenerbahçe	Transfer	Summer	Undisclosed
20	MF		Andreas Herzog	27	EU	Werder Bremen	Transfer	Summer	€1,750,000
24	MF		Markus Oberleitner	23	EU	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Transfer	Winter	Undisclosed	Footballdatabase.eu

Total income: €4.85m

Management and coaching staff

Position	Staff
Manager	Giovanni Trapattoni
Assistant manager	Klaus Augenthaler
Goalkeeping coach	Sepp Maier
President	Franz Beckenbauer
Vice-president	Fritz Scherer
Vice-president	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Business manager	Uli Hoeneß
Leading physician	Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt

Results

FC Zürich Centenary Trophy

28 July Semifinals	Bayern Munich	1–2	Juventus F.C.	Zurich, Switzerland
	Witeczek  14'	[1]	Del Piero  30' Amoruso  81'	Stadium: Letzigrund

29 July Third place	Bayern Munich	3–2	Grasshopper Club Zürich	Zurich, Switzerland
	Rizzitelli  16' Zickler  21' Papin  64'	[1]	Yakin  61' (pen.) Bieli  76'	Stadium: Letzigrund

Fuji-Cup

5 August Semifinals	Bayern Munich	4–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Ulm
	Rizzitelli  23', 30' Klinsmann  63' Zickler  88' (pen.)	[2]

8 August Final	FC Schalke 04	2–2 (4–3 p)	Bayern Munich	Koblenz
	Mulder  15' Wilmots  65'	[2]	Hamann  70', 88'
	Penalties

Opel Master Cup

Bayern Munich was crowned champion due to goal difference. All matches lasted 45 minutes.[3]

12 August 2	Bayern Munich	2–0	Paris Saint-Germain F.C.	Berlin
	Klinsmann  17', 28'	[3]		Stadium: Olympic Stadium (Berlin)

12 August 3	Bayern Munich	1–2	A.C. Milan	Berlin
	Klinsmann  14'	[3]	Davids  43' Simone  45'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium (Berlin)

Bundesliga

16 August 1996 1	St. Pauli	1–2	Bayern Munich	Hamburg
20:00 CEST	Driller  9'	Report	Rizzitelli  34' Basler  37'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion[4] Attendance: 45,957 Referee: Georg Dardenne (Nettersheim)

21 August 1996 2	Bayern Munich	1–1	VfL Bochum	Munich
19:30 CEST	Rizzitelli  52'	Report	Peschel  73'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Uwe Kemmling (Kleinburgwedel)

25 August 1996 3	MSV Duisburg	0–4	Bayern Munich	Duisburg
18:00 CEST		Report	Klinsmann  15' Ziege  24', 90' Witeczek  60'	Stadium: Wedaustadion Attendance: 30,128 (sellout) Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Magdeburg)

28 August 1996 4	Bayern Munich	4–2	Bayer Leverkusen	Munich
19:30 CEST	Zickler  25' Helmer  36' Klinsmann  43' Rizzitelli  48'	Report	Paulo Sérgio  24' Feldhoff  53'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)

7 September 1996 5	Bayern Munich	1–0	Arminia Bielefeld	Munich
15:30 CEST	Ziege  58'	Report		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 55000 Referee: Torsten Koop (Lüttenmark)

14 September 1996 6	Schalke	1–1	Bayern Munich	Gelsenkirchen
15:30 CEST	Max  36'	Report	Strunz  70'	Stadium: Parkstadion Attendance: 70,500 Referee: Lutz Michael Fröhlich (Berlin)

21 September 1996 7	Bayern Munich	1–0	Karlsruher SC	Munich
15:30 CEST	Zickler  18'	Report		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 63,000 (sellout) Referee: Hellmut Krug (Gelsenkirchen)

28 September 1996 8	Werder Bremen	3–0	Bayern Munich	Bremen
15:30 CEST	Herzog  23' (pen.), 47' Labbadia  70'	Report		Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 36,000 (sellout) Referee: Jürgen Jansen (Essen)

5 October 1996 9	Bayern Munich	2–1	Hamburg	Munich
15:30 CEST	Zickler  7' Nerlinger  63'	Report	Spörl  53'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 63,000 (sellout) Referee: Herbert Fandel (Kyllburg)

12 October 1996 10	Köln	2–4	Bayern Munich	Cologne
15:30 CEST	Hauptmann  59' Polster  77' (pen.)	Report	Klinsmann  35', 68' Scholl  56' (pen.) Witeczek  90'	Stadium: Müngersdorferstadion Attendance: 52,000 {sellout} Referee: Markus Merk (Kaiserslautern)

20 October 1996 11	Bayern Munich	0–0	Borussia Dortmund	Munich
15:30 CEST		Report		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 63,000 (sellout) Referee: Lutz Michael Fröhlich (Berlin)

26 October 1996 12	Fortuna Düsseldorf	0–2	Bayern Munich	Düsseldorf
15:30 CEST		Report	Hamann  38' Scholl  83'	Stadium: Rheinstadion Attendance: 52,000 (sellout) Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Remagen)

1 November 1996 13	Bayern Munich	1–1	1860 Munich	Munich
18:00 CET	Markus Babbel  34'	Report	Nowak  55'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 69000 (sellout) Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)

16 November 1996 14	Freiburg	0–0	Bayern Munich	Freiburg
15:30 CET		Report		Stadium: Dreisamstadion Attendance: 22,500 (sellout) Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Magdeburg)

23 November 1996 15	Bayern Munich	2–1	Hansa Rostock	Munich
15:30 CET	Basler  31' (pen.), 43'	Report	Akpoborie  63'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Hellmut Krug (Gelsenkirchen)

1 December 1996 16	VfB Stuttgart	1–1	Bayern Munich	Stuttgart
19:00 CET	Verlaat  80'	Report	Basler  7' (pen.)	Stadium: Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion Attendance: 53,000 (sellout) Referee: Hartmut Strampe (Handorf)

7 December 1996 17	Bayern Munich	1–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Munich
14:30 CET	Klinsmann  51'	Report		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 63,000 (sellout) Referee: Jürgen Aust (Cologne)

15 February 1997 18	Bayern Munich	3–0	St. Pauli	Munich
15:30 CET	Klinsmann  28', 75' Helmer  53'	Report		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Frank Fleske (Schönow)

22 February 1997 19	VfL Bochum	1–1	Bayern Munich	Bochum
15:30 CET	Kracht  55'	Report	Klinsmann  66'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 36,344 (sellout) Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Magdeburg)

1 March 1997 20	Bayern Munich	5–2	MSV Duisburg	Munich
15:30 CET	Basler  3' Klinsmann  26' Ziege  48', 59' Reiter  53' (o.g.)	Report	Nijhuis  72', 83'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 39,000 Referee: Uwe Kemmling (Kleinburgwedel)

9 March 1997 21	Bayer Leverkusen	5–2	Bayern Munich	Leverkusen
19:00 CET	Paulo Sérgio  5' Rydlewicz  37' Feldhoff  42', 80', 84'	Report	Nerlinger  64' Basler  71'	Stadium: Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion Attendance: 22,500 (sellout) Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Remagen)

12 March 1997 23	Arminia Bielefeld	2–0	Bayern Munich	Bielefeld
20:00 CET	Kuntz  11', 29'	Report		Stadium: Bielefelder Alm Attendance: 22,512 (sellout) Referee: Georg Dardenne (Nettersheim)

15 March 1997 23	Bayern Munich	3–0	Schalke	Munich
15:30 CET	Helmer  13' Nerlinger  87' Klinsmann  90'	Report		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 63,000 (sellout) Referee: Markus Merk (Kaiserslautern)

23 March 1997 24	Karlsruher SC	0–2	Bayern Munich	Karlsruhe
19:00 CET		Report	Zickler  30', 90'	Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 33,000 (sellout) Referee: Hellmut Krug (Gelsenkirchen)

29 March 1997 25	Bayern Munich	1–0	Werder Bremen	Munich
15:30 CET	Zickler  1'	Report		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 63,00 (sellout) Referee: Jürgen Jansen (Essen)

5 April 1997 26	Hamburg	0–3	Bayern Munich	Hamburg
15:30 CEST		Report	Klinsmann  16' Basler  43' Helmer  64'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 57,950 Referee: Bernd Heynemann (Magdeburg)

12 April 1997 27	Bayern Munich	3–2	Köln	Munich
15:30 CEST	Markus Babbel  43' Klinsmann  51' Rizzitelli  59'	Report	Scherr  79' Zdebel  88'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 63,000 (sellout) Referee: Hartmut Strampe (Handorf)

19 April 1997 28	Borussia Dortmund	1–1	Bayern Munich	Dortmund
15:30 CEST	Riedle  2'	Report	Rizzitelli  3'	Stadium: Westfalenstadion Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)

26 April 1997 29	Bayern Munich	5–0	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Munich
15:30 CEST	Nerlinger  6' Basler  35' Rizzitelli  38' Zickler  45' Matthäus  52'	Report		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 61,000 Referee: Bernhard Zerr (Ottersweiser)

4 May 1997 30	1860 Munich	3–3	Bayern Munich	Munich
18:00 CEST	Heldt  15', 18' Böhme  82'	Report	Klinsmann  45' Scholl  57' Jancker  88'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 69000 (sellout) Referee: Hans-Jurgen Weber (Essen)

10 May 1997 31	Bayern Munich	0–0	Freiburg	Munich
15:30 CEST		Report		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 63,000 (sellout) Referee: Frank Fleske (Schönow)

16 May 1997 32	Hansa Rostock	0–3	Bayern Munich	Rostock
20:00 CEST		Report	Ziege  33' Klinsmann  56' Scholl  62'	Stadium: Ostseestadion Attendance: 24,200 (sellout) Referee: Hellmut Krug (Gelsenkirchen)

24 May 1997 33	Bayern Munich	4–2	VfB Stuttgart	Munich
15:30 CEST	Ziege  33' Scholl  45' Rizzitelli  65' Witeczek  78'	Report	Schwarz  17' Bobic  51'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 63,000 (sellout) Referee: Markus Merk (Kaiserslautern)

31 May 1997 34	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–2	Bayern Munich	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CEST	Paßlack  44' Pflipsen  47'	Report	Klinsmann  42' Nerlinger  86'	Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 34,500 (sellout) Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	D	W	W	W	D	W	L	W	W	D	W	D	D	W	D	W	W	D	W	L	L	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	D	D	W	W	D
Position	5	3	2	1	1	2	1	3	3	2	2	2	1	3	1	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Source: Kicker
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

DFB Pokal

10 August 1996 1st Round	Tennis Borussia Berlin	0–3	Bayern Munich	Berlin
15:30 CEST		Report	Nerlinger  49' Scholl  88' Strunz  90'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 39,542 Referee: Hellmut Krug (Gelsenkirchen)

2 October 1996 2nd Round	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–2	Bayern Munich	Mönchengladbach
20:30 CEST	Neun  9'	Report	Strunz  28' Zickler  85'	Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 34,500 (sellout) Referee: Hartmut Strampe (Handorf)

12 November 1996 Round of 16	Bayern Munich	3–0	1. FSV Mainz 05	Munich
20:30 CET	Klinsmann  45', 89' Ziege  65'	Report		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Georg Dardenne (Nettersheim)

19 February 1997 QF	Karlsruher SC	1–0	Bayern Munich	Karlsruhe
20:30 CET	Fink  21'	Report		Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 33,0000 Referee: Hans-Jürgen Weber (Essen)

UEFA Cup

10 September 1996

Valencia	3 – 0	Bayern Munich
Engonga  19' (pen.) López  26' Moya  47'

Valencia

24 September 1996

Bayern Munich	1 – 0	Valencia
Ziege  3'

Munich

Valencia won 3–1 on aggregate.

Team kit

Home

Home (2)

Away

Reserve team

Bayern's reserve team were managed by Rainer Ulrich and finished 8th in the Regionalliga Süd.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  GER Harald Huber — GK  GER Michael Probst — GK  GER Sven Scheuer — GK  GER Tomas Tomic — DF  GER Rainer Aigner — DF  GER Stefan Beckenbauer — DF  GER Jens Feix — DF  GER Roman Grill — DF  GER Siegfried Kaiser (from January) — DF  GER Alexander Klitzpera — DF  GHA Samuel Osei Kuffour — DF  GHA Christian Saba — DF  GER Werner Wirkner — DF  GER Frank Wiblishauser — MF  GER Matthias Born — MF  GER Frank Gerster

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  GER Wolfgang Gerstmeier — MF  GER Tim Gutberlet — MF  CZE David Jarolim — MF  GER Stefan Leitl — MF  GER Werner Protzel — MF  ESP Javier Sanchez — MF  GER Steffen Schellenbauer — MF  GER Holger Seitz — MF  TUR Ferudun Sentürk — MF  GER Markus Weinzierl — FW  GHA Emmanuel Bentil — FW  ITA Mario Chiaradia — FW  GER Roland Fischer — FW  GER Carsten Lakies — FW  CRO Darko Perić

References

1. "FC Zürich Centenary Trophy 1996". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
2. "Fuji Cup". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
3. "Opel Master Cup". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
4. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/spieltag/1-bundesliga/1996-97/1/10001/spielanalyse_fc-st-pauli-18_bayern-muenchen-14.html

Sources

• Soccerbase.com
• kicker