2007–08 VfL Bochum season

The 2007–08 VfL Bochum season was the 70th season in club history.

VfL Bochum

2007–08 season
Chairman	Werner Altegoer
Head Coach	Marcel Koller
Stadium	rewirpowerSTADION
Bundesliga	12th
DFB-Pokal	Second Round
Top goalscorer	League: Šesták (13) All: Šesták (13)
Highest home attendance	31,328 (vs Bayern Munich, 20 October 2007; vs Borussia Dortmund, 29 March 2008; vs Schalke 04, 6 May 2008)
Lowest home attendance	18,615 (vs 1. FC Nürnberg, 29 September 2007)
Average home league attendance	24,398
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Matches

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

Bundesliga

11 August 2007 1	VfL Bochum	2 – 2	Werder Bremen	Bochum
15:30	Šesták  47' Bechmann  49'	[1]	Diego  39' (pen.) Sanogo  45+1'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 29,037 Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg)

19 August 2007 2	Energie Cottbus	1 – 2	VfL Bochum	Cottbus
17:00	Skela  49'	[2]	Bechmann  14', 42'	Stadium: Stadion der Freundschaft Attendance: 16,382 Referee: Helmut Fleischer (Ulm)

24 August 2007 3	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Hamburger SV	Bochum
20:30	Šesták  45' Imhof  83'	[3]	Van der Vaart  86' (pen.)	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 30,449 Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

1 September 2007 4	Hannover 96	3 – 2	VfL Bochum	Hannover
15:30	Hanke  12' Rosenthal  36' Hashemian  71'	[4]	Bechmann  44' Maltritz  66' (pen.)	Stadium: AWD-Arena Attendance: 30,794 Referee: Michael Kempter (Sauldorf)

15 September 2007 5	Bayer Leverkusen	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Leverkusen
15:30	Haggui  62' Friedrich  88'	[5]		Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 22,500 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

21 September 2007 6	VfL Bochum	0 – 0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bochum
20:30		[6]		Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 25,536 Referee: Jochen Drees (Münster-Sarmsheim)

26 September 2007 7	VfB Stuttgart	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Stuttgart
20:00	Hilbert  50'	[7]		Stadium: Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion Attendance: 34,000 Referee: Florian Meyer (Burgdorf)

29 September 2007 8	VfL Bochum	3 – 3	1. FC Nürnberg	Bochum
15:30	Mięciel  62' Šesták  43', 66'	[8]	Kluge  40', 60' Misimović  81'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 18,615 Referee: Herbert Fandel (Kyllburg)

5 October 2007 9	Borussia Dortmund	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	Dortmund
20:30	Tinga  17' Federico  70'	[9]	Mięciel  35'	Stadium: Signal Iduna Park Attendance: 72,200 Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)

20 October 2007 10	VfL Bochum	1 – 2	Bayern Munich	Bochum
15:30	Grote  11'	[10]	Ribéry  35' Schweinsteiger  78'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,328 Referee: Herbert Fandel (Kyllburg)

27 October 2007 11	Hertha BSC	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Berlin
15:30	Maltritz  26' (o.g.) Pantelić  35'	[11]		Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 34,580 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)

4 November 2007 12	VfL Bochum	5 – 3	VfL Wolfsburg	Bochum
17:00	Šesták  4', 44' Maltritz  20' (pen.) Fuchs  42' Epalle  63'	[12]	Schäfer  49' Grafite  56', 73'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 20,940 Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)

9 November 2007 13	MSV Duisburg	0 – 2	VfL Bochum	Duisburg
20:30		[13]	Imhof  29' Bechmann  84'	Stadium: MSV-Arena Attendance: 24,259 Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)

24 November 2007 14	VfL Bochum	3 – 0	Arminia Bielefeld	Bochum
15:30	Mięciel  12', 15' Dabrowski  55'	[14]		Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 20,478 Referee: Michael Kempter (Sauldorf)

1 December 2007 15	Schalke 04	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	Gelsenkirchen
15:30	Bordon  32'	[15]		Stadium: Arena AufSchalke Attendance: 61,482 Referee: Florian Meyer (Burgdorf)

8 December 2007 16	VfL Bochum	2 – 2	Karlsruher SC	Bochum
15:30	Šesták  18', 59'	[16]	Hajnal  24' Freis  56'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 20,784 Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg)

16 December 2007 17	Hansa Rostock	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Rostock
17:00	Bülow  7' Hähnge  43'	[17]		Stadium: DKB-Arena Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Felix Brych (Munich)

3 February 2008 18	Werder Bremen	1 – 2	VfL Bochum	Bremen
17:00	Jensen  44'	[18]	Auer  68' Yahia  84'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 37,149 Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

9 February 2008 19	VfL Bochum	3 – 3	Energie Cottbus	Bochum
15:30	Ipša  7' (o.g.) Šesták  42' Auer  68'	[19]	Papadopulos  45' Skela  69' Jelić  79'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 22,075 Referee: Babak Rafati (Hannover)

17 February 2008 20	Hamburger SV	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	Hamburg
17:00	Olić  40' Jarolím  64', 71'	[20]		Stadium: AOL Arena Attendance: 50,069 Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)

22 February 2008 21	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Hannover 96	Bochum
20:30	Cherundolo  30' (o.g.) Auer  52'	[21]	Hanke  47'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 19,902 Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)

2 March 2008 22	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Bayer Leverkusen	Bochum
17:00	Zdebel  66' Dabrowski  88'	[22]		Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 23,781 Referee: Jochen Drees (Münster-Sarmsheim)

8 March 2008 23	Eintracht Frankfurt	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Frankfurt am Main
15:30	Toski  49'	[23]	Azaouagh  67'	Stadium: Commerzbank-Arena Attendance: 46,700 Referee: Felix Brych (Munich)

15 March 2008 24	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	VfB Stuttgart	Bochum
15:30	Dabrowski  20'	[24]	Hitzlsperger  47'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 25,086 Referee: Peter Sippel (Munich)

22 March 2008 25	1. FC Nürnberg	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	Nuremberg
15:30	Misimović  8'	[25]	Šesták  5'	Stadium: easyCredit-Stadion Attendance: 43,547 Referee: Babak Rafati (Hannover)

29 March 2008 26	VfL Bochum	3 – 3	Borussia Dortmund	Bochum
15:30	Dabrowski  3' Auer  9', 42'	[26]	Kehl  37' Petrić  39' Tinga  64'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,328 Referee: Helmut Fleischer (Ulm)

6 April 2008 27	Bayern Munich	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	Munich
17:00	Lúcio  31' Ribéry  74' (pen.) Lell  88'	[27]	Azaouagh  4'	Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 69,000 Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

12 April 2008 28	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	Hertha BSC	Bochum
15:30	Yahia  42'	[28]	Skácel  28'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 20,883 Referee: Felix Brych (Munich)

15 April 2008 29	VfL Wolfsburg	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Wolfsburg
20:00		[29]	Šesták  88'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 18,101 Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)

26 April 2008 30	VfL Bochum	1 – 1	MSV Duisburg	Bochum
15:30	Šesták  84'	[30]	Niculescu  26'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 24,339 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

3 May 2008 31	Arminia Bielefeld	2 – 0	VfL Bochum	Bielefeld
15:30	Mijatović  70' Kamper  90'	[31]		Stadium: Schüco-Arena Attendance: 23,800 Referee: Babak Rafati (Hannover)

6 May 2008 32	VfL Bochum	0 – 3	Schalke 04	Bochum
20:00		[32]	Asamoah  34' Rakitić  67' Bordon  85'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,328 Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg)

10 May 2008 33	Karlsruher SC	1 – 3	VfL Bochum	Karlsruhe
15:30	Eggimann  88'	[33]	Azaouagh  45' Dabrowski  47' Šesták  50'	Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 27,920 Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)

17 May 2008 34	VfL Bochum	1 – 2	Hansa Rostock	Bochum
15:30	Mavraj  36'	[34]	Kern  40' Bartels  77'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 18,883 Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)

DFB-Pokal

5 August 2007 R1	Dynamo Dresden	0 – 1	VfL Bochum	Dresden
17:00		[35]	Grote  55'	Stadium: Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion Attendance: 17,137 Referee: Peter Sippel (Munich)

30 October 2007 R2	Alemannia Aachen	3 – 2	VfL Bochum	Aachen
19:00	Milchraum  50' Pecka  62' Ebbers  81'	[36]	Ebbers  21' (o.g.) Drsek  83'	Stadium: Tivoli Attendance: 17,838 Referee: Jochen Drees (Münster-Sarmsheim)

Squad

Squad, appearances and goals scored

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Philipp Heerwagen	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	DF		Matias Concha	20	0	18	0	2	0
3	DF		Martin Meichelbeck	6	0	5	0	1	0
4	DF		Marcel Maltritz	33	2	31	2	2	0
5	MF		Christoph Dabrowski	30	5	28	5	2	0
6	DF		Pavel Drsek	13	1	12	0	1	1
7	FW		Tommy Bechmann	22	5	20	5	2	0
8	MF		Tomasz Zdebel	27	1	26	1	1	0
9	FW		Stanislav Šesták	35	13	33	13	2	0
10	FW		Joël Epalle	28	1	26	1	2	0
11	FW		Marcin Mięciel	27	4	25	4	2	0
13	MF		Danny Fuchs	18	1	17	1	1	0
14	FW		Benjamin Auer	18	5	17	5	1	0
15	MF		Daniel Imhof	24	2	24	2	0	0
16	FW		Marc Sand	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	MF		Ivo Iličević (until 31 December 2007)	7	0	6	0	1	0
17	FW		Oleksiy Byelik (since 30 January 2008)	4	0	4	0	0	0
18	MF		Oliver Schröder	16	0	15	0	1	0
19	MF		Dennis Grote	20	2	18	1	2	1
20	DF		Mërgim Mavraj	2	1	2	1	0	0
21	DF		Marc Pfertzel	29	0	28	0	1	0
22	MF		Mimoun Azaouagh (since 1 January 2008)	14	3	14	3	0	0
23	MF		Shinji Ono (since 29 January 2008)	12	0	12	0	0	0
24	DF		Philipp Bönig	25	0	25	0	0	0
25	DF		Antar Yahia	35	2	33	2	2	0
26	MF		Heinrich Schmidtgal	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	GK		Jan Laštůvka	27	0	25	0	2	0
28	MF		David Zajas	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	DF		Patrick Fabian	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	GK		René Renno	10	0	10	0	0	0
35	MF		İlkay Gündoğan (since 1 January 2008)	0	0	0	0	0	0

• Source:

Summer

In: No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Philipp Heerwagen (from SpVgg Unterhaching) 2 DF  SWE Matias Concha (from Djurgårdens IF) 9 FW  SVK Stanislav Šesták (from MŠK Žilina) 11 FW  POL Marcin Mięciel (from PAOK) 13 MF  GER Danny Fuchs (from SpVgg Greuther Fürth) 14 FW  GER Benjamin Auer (loan return from 1. FC Kaiserslautern) 16 FW  AUT Marc Sand (from FC Kärnten) 20 DF  GER Mërgim Mavraj (from Darmstadt 98) 21 DF  FRA Marc Pfertzel (from Livorno) 25 DF  ALG Antar Yahia (from Nice, previously on loan) 26 MF  GER Heinrich Schmidtgal (from SC Verl) 27 GK  CZE Jan Laštůvka (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk) 30 DF  GER Patrick Fabian (from VfL Bochum II)

Out: No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  DEN Peter Skov-Jensen (to Sandefjord Fotball) 2 DF  GER Benjamin Lense (to Hansa Rostock) 9 FW  BRA Fábio Júnior (to Hapoel Tel Aviv) 10 MF  GER Dariusz Wosz (retired) 11 FW  BEL Joris Van Hout (to Westerlo) 16 MF  BIH Zvjezdan Misimović (to 1. FC Nürnberg) 17 DF  GER Heiko Butscher (to SC Freiburg) 21 MF  CZE Filip Trojan (to FC St. Pauli) 22 FW  GRE Theofanis Gekas (loan return to Panathinaikos) 23 MF  GER Ersan Tekkan (to Antalyaspor) 26 GK  GER Alexander Bade (to SC Paderborn) 27 DF  GER David Czyszczon (to Rot-Weiss Essen) 28 MF  GER Lucas Oppermann (to Wuppertaler SV) 29 FW  GER Sebastian Hille (to Borussia Dortmund II) 36 DF   SUI David Pallas (released) 45 GK  CZE Jaroslav Drobný (loan return to Ipswich Town)

Winter

In: No. Pos. Nation Player 17 FW  UKR Oleksiy Byelik (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk) 22 MF  GER Mimoun Azaouagh (on loan from Schalke 04) 23 MF  JPN Shinji Ono (from Urawa Red Diamonds) 35 MF  GER İlkay Gündoğan (from VfL Bochum U-19)

Out: No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  CRO Ivo Iličević (on loan to SpVgg Greuther Fürth)

VfL Bochum II

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Oberliga Westfalen
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	MF		Mirkan Aydın	14	2	14	2
	GK		David Buchholz	25	0	25	0
	DF		Jürgen Duah	31	3	31	3
	FW		Sami El-Nounou	32	26	32	26
	DF		Patrick Fabian	31	0	31	0
	MF		Dennis Grote	6	0	6	0
	FW		Dilaver Güçlü	32	6	32	6
	DF		Thiemo Höhn	14	0	14	0
	MF		Ivo Iličević	4	2	4	2
	DF		Christian Kalina	8	0	8	0
	DF		Daniel Klinger	27	4	27	4
	GK		Andreas Luthe	8	0	8	0
	MF		Martin Lyttek	6	0	6	0
	DF		Mërgim Mavraj	7	1	7	1
	DF		Martin Meichelbeck	1	0	1	0
	DF		Marc-Andre Nimptsch	26	1	26	1
	FW		Marko Onucka	9	0	9	0
	DF		Oliver Rademacher	4	0	4	0
	GK		René Renno	2	0	2	0
	FW		Marc Sand	16	0	16	0
	MF		Heinrich Schmidtgal	30	4	30	4
	DF		Lukas Schmitz	13	2	13	2
	DF		Rouven Schröder	31	0	31	0
	FW		Suri Ucar	18	2	18	2
	MF		Sebastian Westerhoff	12	5	12	5
	MF		Kevin Wölk	26	2	26	2
	MF		Dennis Yilmaz	3	1	3	1
	MF		David Zajas	32	0	32	0
	MF		Gianluca Zavarise	2	0	2	0

• Source:

Sources

1. "VfL Bochum - Werder Bremen 2:2" (in German). kicker.
2. "Energie Cottbus - VfL Bochum 1:2" (in German). kicker.
3. "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 2:1" (in German). kicker.
4. "Hannover 96 - VfL Bochum 3:2" (in German). kicker.
5. "Bayer 04 Leverkusen - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
6. "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Frankfurt 0:0" (in German). kicker.
7. "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.
8. "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Nürnberg 3:3" (in German). kicker.
9. "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.
10. "VfL Bochum - Bayern München 1:2" (in German). kicker.
11. "Hertha BSC - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
12. "VfL Bochum - VfL Wolfsburg 5:3" (in German). kicker.
13. "MSV Duisburg - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). kicker.
14. "VfL Bochum - Arminia Bielefeld 3:0" (in German). kicker.
15. "FC Schalke 04 - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.
16. "VfL Bochum - Karlsruher SC 2:2" (in German). kicker.
17. "Hansa Rostock - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
18. "Werder Bremen - VfL Bochum 1:2" (in German). kicker.
19. "VfL Bochum - Energie Cottbus 3:3" (in German). kicker.
20. "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). kicker.
21. "VfL Bochum - Hannover 96 2:1" (in German). kicker.
22. "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2:0" (in German). kicker.
23. "Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
24. "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 1:1" (in German). kicker.
25. "1. FC Nürnberg - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
26. "VfL Bochum - Borussia Dortmund 3:3" (in German). kicker.
27. "Bayern München - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). kicker.
28. "VfL Bochum - Hertha BSC 1:1" (in German). kicker.
29. "VfL Wolfsburg - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). kicker.
30. "VfL Bochum - MSV Duisburg 1:1" (in German). kicker.
31. "Arminia Bielefeld - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
32. "VfL Bochum - FC Schalke 04 0:3" (in German). kicker.
33. "Karlsruher SC - VfL Bochum 1:3" (in German). kicker.
34. "VfL Bochum - Hansa Rostock 1:2" (in German). kicker.
35. "Dynamo Dresden - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). kicker.
36. "Alemannia Aachen - VfL Bochum 3:2" (in German). kicker.

External links

• 2007–08 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de (in German)
• 2007–08 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de (in German)
• 2007–08 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de (in German)