1999–2000 VfL Bochum season

The 1999–2000 VfL Bochum season was the 62nd season in club history.

VfL Bochum

1999–2000 season
President	Werner Altegoer
Head Coach	Ernst Middendorp (until 24 October 1999) Bernard Dietz, ad interim (until 31 December 1999) Ralf Zumdick (since 1 January 2000)
Stadium	Ruhrstadion
2. Bundesliga	2nd (promoted)
DFB-Pokal	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Weber (19) All: Weber (22)
Highest home attendance	33,063 (vs Borussia Mönchengladbach, 17 April 2000)
Lowest home attendance	10,007 (vs Tennis Borussia Berlin, 24 October 1999)
Average home league attendance	16,076
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Review and events

On 24 October 1999 head coach Ernst Middendorp was sacked. Bernard Dietz was appointed caretaker on 25 October 1999. Ralf Zumdick was appointed head coach on 1 January 2000.

Matches

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

2. Bundesliga

16 August 1999 1	Karlsruher SC	1 – 3	VfL Bochum	Karlsruhe
20:15	Krieg  90'	[1]	Weber  10' (pen.) Lust  47' Peschel  90'	Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 15,050 Referee: Helmut Fleischer (Ulm)

20 August 1999 2	VfL Bochum	5 – 0	Alemannia Aachen	Bochum
19:00	Heeren  12' (o.g.) Peschel  48' Buckley  60' Bałuszyński  71' Weber  76'	[2]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 24,063 Referee: Torsten Koop (Lüttenmark)

29 August 1999 3	FC St. Pauli	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
15:00		[3]		Stadium: Millerntor-Stadion Attendance: 14,863 Referee: Olaf Blumenstein (Berlin)

13 September 1999 4	VfL Bochum	2 – 3	1. FC Köln	Bochum
20:15	Weber  21' Ristau  53'	[4]	Azizi  31' Kurth  60', 68'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 25,010 Referee: Michael Wendorf (Gransee)

17 September 1999 5	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Oberhausen
19:00	Lipinski  13', 64' (pen.) Vier  89' (pen.)	[5]		Stadium: Niederrheinstadion Attendance: 7,556 Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)

24 September 1999 6	VfL Bochum	1 – 2	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Bochum
19:00	Weber  66'	[6]	Sbordone  12' Meichelbeck  64'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 12,724 Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)

3 October 1999 7	Stuttgarter Kickers	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
15:00		[7]		Stadium: Gazi-Stadion auf der Waldau Attendance: 3,317 Referee: Burkard Hufgard (Mömbris)

16 October 1999 8	VfL Bochum	2 – 4	FC Energie Cottbus	Bochum
15:30	Bałuszyński  66' Weber  76' (pen.)	[8]	Latoundji  34' Heidrich  57' Wawrzyczek  61' Helbig  77'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,907 Referee: Peter Sippel (Munich)

24 October 1999 9	VfL Bochum	2 – 6	Tennis Borussia Berlin	Bochum
15:00	Weber  29' Peschel  72'	[9]	Rösler  1', 85', 90' Tredup  38' Kiriakov  41' Copado  57'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,007 Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)

1 November 1999 10	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Mönchengladbach
20:15		[10]	Baştürk  37'	Stadium: Bökelbergstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Christian Schößling (Leipzig)

5 November 1999 11	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	SV Waldhof Mannheim	Bochum
19:00	Peschel  26', 50'	[11]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 11,310 Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

19 November 1999 12	Kickers Offenbach	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Offenbach
19:00	Bundea  52' Simon  54'	[12]	Weber  66' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadion am Bieberer Berg Attendance: 12,500 Referee: Jürgen Kreyer (Hilden)

27 November 1999 13	VfL Bochum	3 – 0	Fortuna Köln	Bochum
15:30	Weber  51', 73' Vardanyan  87' (o.g.)	[13]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,199 Referee: Peter Lange (Filderstadt)

5 December 1999 14	1. FSV Mainz 05	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Mainz
15:00		[14]	Buckley  44'	Stadium: Bruchwegstadion Attendance: 6,135 Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg am Neckar)

11 December 1999 15	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	1. FC Nürnberg	Bochum
15:30	Schindzielorz  24' Stoilov  90' (o.g.)	[15]	Leitl  39'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 14,511 Referee: Volker Wezel (Tübingen)

14 December 1999 16	Chemnitzer FC	3 – 3	VfL Bochum	Chemnitz
19:00	Dittgen  58', 72' Skela  68'	[16]	Peschel  9' Weber  41', 70'	Stadium: Stadion an der Gellertstraße Attendance: 5,960 Referee: Thomas Frank (Hannover)

9 February 2000 17	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Hannover 96	Bochum
19:00	Peschel  42' Baştürk  52'	[17]	Milovanovic  47'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 14,142 Referee: Detlef Schütz (Norken)

14 February 2000 18	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Karlsruher SC	Bochum
20:15	Peschel  36' Dickhaut  76'	[18]	Krieg  64'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,541 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)

20 February 2000 19	Alemannia Aachen	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Aachen
15:00		[19]	Peschel  90'	Stadium: Tivoli Attendance: 19,600 Referee: Markus Schmidt (Stuttgart)

25 February 2000 20	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	FC St. Pauli	Bochum
19:00	Peschel  76' Lust  87'	[20]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,710 Referee: Dirk Margenberg (Wermelskirchen)

3 March 2000 21	1. FC Köln	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Cologne
19:00	Timm  36' Springer  62' Donkov  77'	[21]		Stadium: Radrennbahn Müngersdorf Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Jürgen Jansen (Essen)

12 March 2000 22	VfL Bochum	1 – 0	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	Bochum
15:00	Weber  85'	[22]		Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,945 Referee: Christian Schößling (Leipzig)

18 March 2000 23	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	2 – 2	VfL Bochum	Fürth
15:30	Walther  26' Türr  77'	[23]	Bemben  16' Baştürk  35'	Stadium: Playmobil-Stadion Attendance: 6,825 Referee: Matthias Anklam (Buchholz in der Nordheide)

25 March 2000 24	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Stuttgarter Kickers	Bochum
15:30	Weber  50' Marić  52'	[24]	Kümmerle  84'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 14,155 Referee: Ralf Hilmes (Nordhorn)

3 April 2000 25	FC Energie Cottbus	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Cottbus
20:15	Rath  82'	[25]	Weber  17'	Stadium: Stadion der Freundschaft Attendance: 10,697 Referee: Bernd Hauer (Hambühren)

10 April 2000 26	Tennis Borussia Berlin	0 – 4	VfL Bochum	Berlin
20:15		[26]	Ristau  48' Müller  6' Peschel  64' Marić  69'	Stadium: Mommsenstadion Attendance: 3,221 Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg am Neckar)

17 April 2000 27	VfL Bochum	2 – 2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bochum
20:15	Weber  33' Baştürk  72'	[27]	van Lent  45' Ketelaer  79'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 33,063 Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

22 April 2000 28	SV Waldhof Mannheim	4 – 2	VfL Bochum	Mannheim
15:30	Vata  42', 83' Licht  55', 78'	[28]	Baştürk  53' Marić  54'	Stadium: Carl-Benz-Stadion Attendance: 8,100 Referee: Olaf Blumenstein (Berlin)

28 April 2000 29	VfL Bochum	6 – 1	Kickers Offenbach	Bochum
19:00	Peschel  7', 88' Kolinger  45' (o.g.) Dickhaut  70' Buckley  72' Toplak  78'	[29]	Dama  41' (pen.)	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 15,600 Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)

6 May 2000 30	Fortuna Köln	2 – 3	VfL Bochum	Cologne
15:30	Ibrahim  70' Ćatić  85'	[30]	Weber  34' Baştürk  53' Peschel  65'	Stadium: Südstadion Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Christian Schößling (Leipzig)

15 May 2000 31	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	1. FSV Mainz 05	Bochum
20:15		[31]	Demandt  37'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 14,821 Referee: Bernd Hauer (Hambühren)

18 May 2000 32	1. FC Nürnberg	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Nuremberg
20:15		[32]	Bałuszyński  83'	Stadium: Frankenstadion Attendance: 18,500 Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)

21 May 2000 33	VfL Bochum	5 – 1	Chemnitzer FC	Bochum
15:00	Weber  9', 25' Schindzielorz  29' Peschel  69' Baştürk  77'	[33]	Kujat  15'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 20,577 Referee: Stephan Kammerer (Karlsruhe)

26 May 2000 34	Hannover 96	3 – 3	VfL Bochum	Hannover
19:00	Blank  29' Keita  76' Morinas  90'	[34]	Marić  15' Ristau  58' Weber  87'	Stadium: Niedersachsenstadion Attendance: 8,449 Referee: Markus Schmidt (Stuttgart)

DFB-Pokal

6 August 1999 R2	SSV Reutlingen 05	2 – 3	VfL Bochum	Reutlingen
18:30	Marić  11' Djappa  36'	[35]	Baştürk  9' Buckley  20' Bałuszyński  55'	Stadium: Stadion an der Kreuzeiche Attendance: 3,610 Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)

13 October 1999 R3	VfL Bochum	1 – 1 (a.e.t.) (6 – 5 p)	MSV Duisburg	Bochum
19:00	Baştürk  70'	[36]	Spies  86'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 12,928 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)
	Penalties
	Reis Rietpietsch Stickroth Lust Weber Buckley Dickhaut		Hirsch Beierle M. Zeyer Voss Hajto Neun Wolters

1 December 1999 R4	VfL Bochum	5 – 4	VfL Wolfsburg	Bochum
19:30	Weber  41', 43' Peschel  47' (pen.) Baştürk  58', 90'	[37]	Feldhoff  28' Thomsen  40' Akonnor  55', 84' (pen.)	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 10,895 Referee: Lutz Wagner (Kriftel)

21 December 1999 QF	VfL Bochum	1 – 2	SV Werder Bremen	Bochum
20:30	Weber  63'	[38]	Aílton  79', 87'	Stadium: Ruhrstadion Attendance: 20,063 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

Squad

Squad, appearances and goals scored

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		2. Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Rein van Duijnhoven	17	0	16	0	1	0
2	DF		Samir Toplak	16	1	15	1	1	0
3	DF		Sven Boy	8	0	7	0	1	0
4	DF		Axel Sundermann	29	0	25	0	4	0
5	DF		Thomas Reis	22	1	18	0	4	1
6	MF		Matthias Lust	22	3	19	2	3	1
7	MF		Peter Peschel	37	16	34	15	3	1
8	MF		Sebastian Schindzielorz	32	2	29	2	3	0
9	FW		Achim Weber	35	22	31	19	4	3
10	MF		Yıldıray Baştürk	34	11	30	7	4	4
11	FW		Delron Buckley	37	5	33	3	4	2
12	DF		Thomas Stickroth	34	1	31	0	3	1
13	DF		Frank Fahrenhorst	4	0	4	0	0	0
14	DF		Mike Rietpietsch	10	1	8	0	2	1
15	MF		Olaf Schreiber	11	0	10	0	1	0
16	DF		Hilko Ristau	26	3	23	3	3	0
17	FW		Henryk Bałuszyński	14	4	13	3	1	1
19	FW		Zdravko Drinčić	5	0	5	0	0	0
20	FW		Björn Joppe	1	0	1	0	0	0
21	GK		Thomas Ernst	21	0	18	0	3	0
22	FW		René Müller	12	1	9	1	3	0
23	DF		Mirko Dickhaut	35	3	31	2	4	1
24	DF		Michael Bemben	31	1	28	1	3	0
25	MF		Jan Majewski	1	0	1	0	0	0
26	FW		Jacek Ratajczak	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	MF		Norbert Hofmann (until 31 October 1999)	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	FW		Marijo Marić (since 1 December 1999)	18	4	18	4	0	0
28	MF		Jan Holland	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	MF		Paul Freier	6	0	6	0	0	0
31	GK		Stefan Wächter	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	GK		Klaus Schlapka	0	0	0	0	0	0

• Source:

Summer

In: No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  NED Rein van Duijnhoven (from MVV Maastricht) 3 DF  GER Sven Boy (from Arminia Bielefeld) 6 MF  GER Matthias Lust (from SpVgg Unterhaching) 9 FW  GER Achim Weber (from Rot-Weiß Oberhausen) 14 DF  GER Mike Rietpietsch (from SC Freiburg) 16 DF  GER Hilko Ristau (from SG Wattenscheid 09) 17 FW  POL Henryk Bałuszyński (loan return from Arminia Bielefeld) 22 FW  GER René Müller (from SC Preußen Münster) 30 MF  GER Paul Freier (from VfL Bochum II)

Out: No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Maik Kischko (to Stuttgarter Kickers) 3 DF  GER Torsten Kracht (to Eintracht Frankfurt) 5 DF  POL Tomasz Wałdoch (to FC Schalke 04) 7 MF  GER Kai Michalke (to Hertha BSC) 10 MF  GER Maurizio Gaudino (to Antalyaspor) 11 FW  GER Stefan Kuntz (retired) 14 MF  SVN Emir Dzafič (to NK Samobor) 15 MF  GER Andreas Zeyer (to SC Freiburg) 20 DF  CRO Alen Petrović (to NK Slaven Belupo) 24 FW  TUR Neşat Gülünoğlu (to A.S. Roma) 32 MF  ROU Viorel Ion (to FC Oțelul Galați) 33 MF  IRN Mehdi Mahdavikia (to Hamburger SV)

Winter

In: No. Pos. Nation Player 27 FW  CRO Marijo Marić (from SSV Reutlingen 05)

Out: No. Pos. Nation Player 27 MF  GER Norbert Hofmann (to 1. FC Saarbrücken)

VfL Bochum II

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Regionalliga West/Südwest
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	DF		Daniel Antweiler	6	0	6	0
	DF		Michael Bemben	7	0	7	0
	FW		Bakary Diakité	3	0	3	0
	FW		Tobias Dudeck	1	0	1	0
	FW		Francis-Joseph Etouké	31	1	31	1
	DF		Frank Fahrenhorst	14	0	14	0
	MF		Giovanni Federico	31	7	31	7
	MF		Paul Freier	35	11	35	11
	MF		Tobias Gerwing-Gerwer	1	0	1	0
	MF		Arek Grad	27	3	27	3
	MF		Benjamin Heydel	5	0	5	0
	DF		Jan Holland	36	3	36	3
	MF		Gerrit Hundshagen	31	2	31	2
	MF		Björn Joppe	23	6	23	6
	MF		Sascha Lindner	38	0	38	0
	FW		César M'Boma	12	1	12	1
	MF		Jan Majewski	29	13	29	13
	FW		Marijo Marić (since 4 December 1999)	1	0	1	0
	DF		Wojtek Meinert	6	1	6	1
	MF		Nicolas Michaty	0	0	0	0
	DF		Aykan Özer	14	0	14	0
	FW		Jacek Ratajczak	18	0	18	0
	MF		Damian Schindzielorz	6	0	6	0
	GK		Klaus Schlapka	1	0	1	0
	DF		Rouven Schröder	38	0	38	0
	FW		Sascha Siebert	34	12	34	12
	MF		Farat Toku	5	0	5	0
	GK		Stefan Wächter	37	0	37	0
	DF		Bekir Burak Yarar	29	0	29	0

• Source:

Sources

1. "Karlsruher SC - VfL Bochum 1:3" (in German). kicker.
2. "VfL Bochum - Alemannia Aachen 5:0" (in German). kicker.
3. "FC St. Pauli - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). kicker.
4. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Köln 2:3" (in German). kicker.
5. "Rot-Weiß Oberhausen - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). kicker.
6. "VfL Bochum - SpVgg Greuther Fürth 1:2" (in German). kicker.
7. "Stuttgarter Kickers - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). kicker.
8. "VfL Bochum - Energie Cottbus 2:4" (in German). kicker.
9. "VfL Bochum - Tennis Borussia Berlin 2:6" (in German). kicker.
10. "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). kicker.
11. "VfL Bochum - Waldhof Mannheim 2:0" (in German). kicker.
12. "Kickers Offenbach - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.
13. "VfL Bochum - Fortuna Köln 3:0" (in German). kicker.
14. "1. FSV Mainz 05 - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). kicker.
15. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Nürnberg 2:1" (in German). kicker.
16. "Chemnitzer FC - VfL Bochum 3:3" (in German). kicker.
17. "VfL Bochum - Hannover 96 2:1" (in German). kicker.
18. "VfL Bochum - Karlsruher SC 2:1" (in German). kicker.
19. "Alemannia Aachen - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). kicker.
20. "VfL Bochum - FC St. Pauli 2:0" (in German). kicker.
21. "1. FC Köln - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). kicker.
22. "VfL Bochum - Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 1:0" (in German). kicker.
23. "SpVgg Greuther Fürth - VfL Bochum 2:2" (in German). kicker.
24. "VfL Bochum - Stuttgarter Kickers 2:1" (in German). kicker.
25. "Energie Cottbus - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
26. "Tennis Borussia Berlin - VfL Bochum 0:4" (in German). kicker.
27. "VfL Bochum - Bor. Mönchengladbach 2:2" (in German). kicker.
28. "Waldhof Mannheim - VfL Bochum 4:2" (in German). kicker.
29. "VfL Bochum - Kickers Offenbach 6:1" (in German). kicker.
30. "Fortuna Köln - VfL Bochum 2:3" (in German). kicker.
31. "VfL Bochum - 1. FSV Mainz 05 0:1" (in German). kicker.
32. "1. FC Nürnberg - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). kicker.
33. "VfL Bochum - Chemnitzer FC 5:1" (in German). kicker.
34. "Hannover 96 - VfL Bochum 3:3" (in German). kicker.
35. "SSV Reutlingen 05 - VfL Bochum 2:3" (in German). kicker.
36. "VfL Bochum - MSV Duisburg 6:5" (in German). kicker.
37. "VfL Bochum - VfL Wolfsburg 5:4" (in German). kicker.
38. "VfL Bochum - Werder Bremen 1:2" (in German). kicker.

External links

• 1999–2000 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de (in German)
• 1999–2000 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de (in German)
• 1999–2000 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de (in German)