Jubiläum 50 by CHRISTOPHER boud

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Celebrating the Bundesliga's 50th Campaign 1963 - 2013

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Contents

JUBILÄUM 50 Contents

BundesligaFootball

Table of Contents Credits

Note from the Editor

Foreword

The Long Struggle for the Bundesliga

FC Köln a long way from their successful past

MSV Duisburg/ Meidericher Spielverein

Eintracht Frankfurt

Borrusia Dortmund Proﬁle

Conditioned for Success - Olly Bartlett

VfB Stuttgart - Taste of success lingers for ambitious Swabians

Hamburger SV

TSV 1860 München Proﬁle

Schalke 04 Proﬁle

1. FC Nürnberg Proﬁle

SV Werder Bremen - Klaus-Dieter Fischer

Eintracht Braunschweig

Ottmar Hitzfeld talks to Bundesliga Football

1. FC Kaiserslautern - Proﬁle

Marco Haber talks Kaiserslautern

Karlsruher SC - Sean Dundee

Hertha in the Bundesliga - Instability to rely upon

SC Preußen Münster

1.FC Saarbrücken Proﬁle

The Future of the Bundesliga

The bundesliga in Pictures

other problems too with debts, and

years to come. The key word, I guess, is patience.

then with supporters, but I think after Things are looking bright for the 1990 World Cup and 2006

Dortmund were patient by keeping a

tournaments, we moved in the right

stable club over the last few years

direction.

and now, are looking strong with

We have had so many exciting

everyone in German football. I hope the 50th season provides the same some great coaches and young

creativity and excitement of previous years. players. There are many teams, like seasons and the increasing TV money can only be a huge thing for German

FC Hansa and others, who have huge fan bases, to learn from Dortmund.

Enjoy the season!

pre Bundesliga

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BundesligaFootball

Suspendisse feugiat mi sed lectus The long struggle for the Bundesliga Stefan Bienkowski

Hans Passlack, Willi Hübner, Franz Kremer, Ludwig Franz, Walter Baresel and Hermann Neuberger.

Like the history of

became the super power

could use a

Germany itself; football

and corner stone to the

football team

has walked a long, bumpy

sport in Europe that it is

‒ the exciting new sport

and frustrating road since

today.

that the English were

the ﬁrst ever oﬃcial football ground in Berlin

ﬁnding so fascinating. It The sport began, like it did

ﬁrst cropped up in Berlin

in most European

where young sides would

countries, in the middle of

be found engaging in

almost

the

century within the

military parade grounds

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minds of intrigued middle

on a Sunday morning ‒

years

class student s who felt

since gymnastic clubs

their local sports club

didn t allow football

ago, until it

19th

pre Bundesliga

JUBILÄUM 50 Pre Bundesliga

BundesligaFootball games on their grounds ‒ where it would later spread to Hamburg, Stuttgart and then south to Baden and Karlsruhe. By the dawn of the 20th

FC Köln vs FC Bayern in 1901

century, the German game had its own words such as

ﬂocked to

40,000 spectators ‒ a far

Sturmer and Tor, or

Nuremberg s Zabo

cry from the 6000 or so

Eckball, meaning Forward,

Stadium to watch their

that had attended the last

Goal and Corner

side face oﬀ against

pre-war ﬁnal ‒ as the sport

respectively, to

Tottenham Hotspur. The

once again found its

accompany the eighty six

game ended 1-1 as the

footing throughout the

football clubs spread

third friendly match

country. With this success

throughout the land, and

between the German side

came the ever-growing

the newly formed

and English opposition in

pressure of

Deutscher Fussball Bund

as many years. Two

professionalism in an

to govern. Football was

months later the two

amateur sport. Despite the

ﬁnally German, and thus

countries were at war.

idea of a footballer earning

the sport never looked back.

a wage being a part of the The Great War acted as a

sport in England and

catalyst to many things in

Scotland since the 1880 s,

From there, fussball

Germany; political parties

German football was still,

integrated itself in to

found themselves on new

in structure, an amateur

German life and grew

ground as the monarchy

game.

throughout society from

was tore down in favour of

the grass roots up.

the ill-fated Weimar

Based on the athletics of

Beginning with basic clubs

Republic. The strong

old, and governed by a

dotted around the

middle-class had spent the

generation that put local

country, a network was

duration of the war

pride before morality, the

soon threaded together

desperate basic amenities

DFB s original

and before long, regional

and now found

constitution from 1900

leagues known as

themselves below any

stated that Every

Oberligas , and

sense of a poverty line,

regional

competitions were in full

and football, a sport still in

association or local

swing.

its infancy, was adopted as

club can become a

part of a greater

full member of the

By 1914, German football

programme of escapism

DFB, provided

was alive with the

from the post-war reality.

none of its

infectious fever of

members are

domestic football. In May

The ﬁrst cup ﬁnal after the

of that year, 8000 fans

war attracted close to

professional players. Yet,

pre Bundesliga

JUBILÄUM 50 Pre Bundesliga

BundesligaFootball by the mid-twenties, the

guilty of 14 of their

mandate was already

ﬁrst team players

sounding a little outdated.

receiving expenses greatly in excess of

Clubs such as Schalke were

what is acceptable,

bringing in regular crowds

which led to their

of 30,000 and travelling

exclusion from the

throughout the country

West German FA, and

yet their players weren t

organised football. The

allowed to earn a single

local clubs, in an act

penny for their

often described as

performances. Even early

heroics but more likely

participants of the national

a simple opportunity

team were expected to

to mask their own

pay their own way to away

activities, condemned

grounds, and accept the

the decision and

loss in earnings while they

threatened to form a

were away.

breakaway league. With the Western

Most clubs got around this

clubs from the Ruhr ‒

by helping ﬁrst team

the true heartbeat of

players set up their own

German football ‒

local businesses, or

demanding an

oﬀering generous

alteration to the

donations to certain

constitution and the

organisations, and

approval of paid

eﬀectively oﬀering a basic

players, and the North,

wage or income to oﬀset

East, and Southern FA s

the time for a full-time job.

refusing to budge on the

This of course, was never

issue, the DFB arrange a

going to oﬀer a solution,

general meeting to solve

and was rather a simple

the issue of

transition towards the

professionalism in the

inevitable conclusion that

sport for the 25th of May

the sport would

1933.

eventually have to start paying its star players.

Schalke were found

Above: The Yugoslavia team celebrate their 1:0 victory. The loss helped push the drive for the bundesliga

Von Hindenburg s oﬃce in Berlin, a young Adolf Hitler was being sworn in as the new German chancellor and the issue would become trivial in the subsequent years.

Domestic football under the Third Reich was often

Unfortunately for German football, three months before the clubs could even sit down to solve the

In late 1930,

Top:Uwe Seeler takes on Vlatko Marković as Germany olay Yugoslavia in the 1962 world cup quarter final.

issue, 515 kilometres to the east in President Paul

heralded as a public banner or propaganda machine for the Nazis during the war. T continued throughout the

pre Bundesliga

JUBILÄUM 50 Pre Bundesliga

BundesligaFootball duration of the conﬂict, but

from the German leagues

domestic league, and later

by 1945 when Germany

overcame the famous

by Franz Kremer of the West

surrendered to the allied

Hungary side of the time.

German FA in 1961, who

troops, the sport was on its knees and desperate for aid.

proposed an oﬃcial motion Yet this wouldn t last long,

to consider the formation of

and like the initial DFB

a nationwide, professional

The beautiful game, like all

constitution rulings that

league.

sport, was initially banned

thwarted the league s

under the allied occupation,

progression in the twenties,

On July 28th, 1962 - 75 years

but within a few years the

German football found itself

after the formation of the

regional Oberligas were

hit a glass ceiling and slowly

English football league, 72

back up and running and by

demise as players began

years after the formation of

1948 Nürnburg and

moving abroad in favour of

the Scottish Football

Kaiserslautern were battling

larger contracts from Italian,

League, and 34 years after

it out to become the ﬁrst

Dutch and Spanish

the formation of the Italian

champions of this new

counterparts. Coupled with

Serie A and Spanish Primera

Germany. Having lost the

disappointing

Division - 129 oﬃcials

Viktoria trophy during the

performances in Europe

from clubs all over

war, a new cup was forged

from Germany s domestic

Germany sat down

and named the

sides, and the German

to a DFB council

Meisterschale to represent

national team s forgetful

meeting in

the national champions.

performance in the 1962

Dortmund and voted

The trophy that Jurgen

World Cup and before long,

103 to 26 in favour of

Klopp and his Dortmund

the campaign for change

a new national,

squad lifted not three

was gathering pace.

professional football

months ago after winning

league in Germany. It was

the Bundesliga was the very

Lobbying from inﬂuential

same Salad Bowl .

members of the sport

called the Bundesliga .

proved successful, initially

As one chapter of

The 1950 s oﬀered a

from national team coach

Germany s footballing

welcome golden age in

Sepp Herberger who

history was closed, the

German football when the

passionately believed that

modern-era began.

player under contract rule

die Mannschaft would

was introduced, ﬁnally

only ever be as good

allowing clubs to pay their

as the nation s

players a minimum wage as the domestic game began to rebuild itself once again. This came to a climax with the World Cup victory in 1954 where a squad of semi-professional players

FC Köln celebrate winning the first ever bundelsiga

1. FC Köln

JUBILÄUM 50 1. FC Köln

BundesligaFootball

FC Köln fans bringing the RheinEnergie Stadion to life

FC Köln a long way from their successful past Christopher Gallagher May 5, 2012 was a disappointing

Bundesliga. Cue plumes of black smoke,

between the the ﬁrst and second tier of

day to be a Köln fan. The ﬁnal game of

a pitch invasion and the locals battling it

the Bundesliga. Opening with a dismal

the 2011/12 campaign gave the Billy

out with riot police. A disastrous end to

1-0 defeat to Eintracht Braunschweig on

Goats an opportunity to save

the season, which

themselves from the nightmare of

summed up the

relegation. It would be Lukas Podolski s

embittered feeling of

ﬁnal match in front of the RheinEnergie

betrayal the supporters

Stadion faithful, before his move to the

have for the clubs

champions won t be

English Premier League with Arsenal.

hierarchy.

involved in the league as it

the opening weekend, the

1. FC Köln where the first side to win the Bundesliga

The stage was set for a grandstand ﬁnale but unfortunately for Köln it was not to be their day.

more mature fans will reﬂect with sadness that the inagural Bundesliga

celebrates its 50th season. In recent years, Köln fans have been at odds with the club they love;

Golden Era

disharmony behind the scenes, a poor In a sub-standard display in front of

product on the pitch and a lack of action

their devoted support, the home

to match high ambition has resulted in a

Competing in the Oberliga West before

side were soundly

tepid atmosphere between the fans and

the induction of the Bundesliga, The

beaten by Champions

the boardroom.

Billy Goats were crowned champions of

League ﬁnalists Bayern Munich, resulting in relegation to 2.

The 1960s was FC Köln s golden era.

their regional division in its ﬁnal four The modern era has not been kind to Die Geißböcke with the club ﬂitting

years of existence. Going on to compete in the National German Championship,

1. FC Köln

BundesligaFootball

JUBILÄUM 50 1. FC Köln

the club would make it to the ﬁnal three years out of four.

between themselves and Meidericher SV,

1968 they would win their ﬁrst DFB

in second place, a comfortable six points.

trophy, convincingly defeating VfL Bochum 4-1 in the ﬁnal.

1962 saw Köln win their ﬁrst national

As German champions, Köln would

championship, defeating Nuremberg by

represent Germany in the European Cup.

Double Success

four clear goals in the ﬁnal in Berlin. It

The club would be better equipped than

was third-time lucky for the club after

in their previous campaign, progressing

they suﬀered defeat to Hamburg in the

to the quarter-ﬁnal stage were they faced

clubs history was the double winning

1960 ﬁnal and were unable to get out of

Liverpool. The German and English

campaign of 1977/78. In one of the

the group stage in 1961. The title

champions played out two goalless

closest run Bundesliga seasons ever, Köln

triumph would see Köln compete in

draws in North Rhine-Westphalia as well

won the title on the last day of the

European football for the ﬁrst time, it

as on Merseyside.

season due to a superior goal diﬀerence.

The most successful season in the

would end in early disappointment though after a preliminary round defeat

Unable to be separated over two

Going into the ﬁnal match of the

to Scottish side Dundee 8 -1 on

legs, the tie would be decided by a

championship, Köln were equal on

aggregate.

playoﬀ in Rotterdam. The match ﬁnished

points with main title rivals

in a 2-2 draw, the victors would be

Borussia Mönchengladbach.

decided by a coin-toss, the English side

Köln, with a vastly superior

saw Köln make history, as they were

had the luck and progressed at the

goal diﬀerence, defeated St.

crowned its ﬁrst champions. Die

expense of Köln.

Pauli by ﬁve clear goals.

The introduction of the Bundesliga

The other deciding

Geißböcke dominated throughout the entire ﬁrst season, losing only two league

Incapable of retaining their title the

match saw

games all season. They outscored

following season, it would be some time

Mönchengladbach

everyone in the league with the gap

before Köln would get their hands on the

defeated by Dortmund, a

biggest prize in German football again. In

league record 12 goals to nil. However, it wasn t enough and Köln were crowned

Club At a Glance

Bundesliga champions for the second time.

Honours

Founded 1948

The club would go on to complete the domestic double by defeating

2 Top Scorer Hannes Löhr

166

Stadium RheinEnergieStadion 50,000

Fortuna Düsseldorf 2-0 in the ﬁnal of the DFB Pokal. Köln would become only the

second team in history to do the double in Germany alongside Bavarian giants Bayern Munich. They have since been joined by Werder

1. FC Köln

JUBILÄUM 50 1. FC Köln

BundesligaFootball Bremen (2004) and more recently Borussia Dortmund (2012).

Of the ten cup ﬁnals in the

match would ﬁnish 3-3, setting up a European Record

In the twenty seasons Köln

two-legged ﬁnal with Real Madrid.

The ﬁrst-leg of the ﬁnal took

1970 s Köln would be involved in

have competed in European

place in Madrid and a 5-1 defeat all

ﬁve of them, lifting the trophy twice

competition, they have reached

but ended Köln s hopes of lifting

after consecutive victories in 1977

four quarter-ﬁnals and six semi-

the trophy. The return saw the

and 1978. The club also reached a

ﬁnals. The 1985/86 season was their

German side regain some pride as

further three DFB cup ﬁnals,

greatest ever European campaign,

they defeated the Spaniards 2-0 but

victorious in 1983 and runners up in

reaching the ﬁnal of the UEFA cup

it wasn t enough, their ﬁrst and

1980 and 1991. Köln are the fourth

against the mighty Real Madrid.

until this point, only European ﬁnal

most successful club in the history of the DFB with ten overall

ended in disappointment. Negotiating their way through

appearances, four victories and 6

the early rounds, Köln disposed of

ﬁnal defeats.

Sporting Gijon, Bohemians 1905

in European football was a run to

and Hammerby. A quarter-ﬁnal tie

the semi-ﬁnals of the much-derided

against Sporting Lisbon brought a

Intertoto Cup in 1997. With the club

in the Bundesliga in 1982 as well as

3-1 aggregate victory. A semi-ﬁnal

in its current state of disarray and

ﬁnishing in second place two years

tie against Belgian side Waregem

with promotion to the Bundesliga

running in 1989 and 1990. The club

was over after the ﬁrst leg as Köln

their primary, European football is

would be a mainstay of the

romped to a 4-0 victory. The return

but a distant memory for fans of the

Köln would ﬁnish as runners up

Bundesliga until the 1997/98 season, when they were relegated to the second tier of German football not returning until 2000/01. The passionate support has stuck by Köln through every relegation and promotion, with average gates of around 41,000 whilst in the second division articulating the passion of the local crowds.

Billy goat fans celebrate promotion to 1.Bundesliga in 2008

Köln s most recent adventure

Billy Goats.

MSV Duisburg

JUBILÄUM 50 MSV Duisburg

BundesligaFootball

MSV Duisburg/ Meidericher Spielverein Christopher Boud

The 2011 MSV Duisburg vs Schalke DFB Pokal Final

Formation ‒ Bundesliga

the club merged with Sport Club Viktoria Meiderich.

The Zebras (so called because

The reorganisation of German football by the Nazis in 1933

of their striped tops) started life

The club performed admirably

as Meidericher Spielverein.

in its early years building from

Meidericher Spielverein was

strength to strength. By the

formed on June 2, 1902 and

1920 s, playing in the Lower

was admitted to the West

Rhine district class, the club

German Football Association in

earned the nickname eternal

September of the same year.

second after a series of runner-

Meiderich, which was an

up spots. The Zebras would

independent municipality, was

soon put this name to bed with

incorporated into the city of

a string of victories, winning

Duisburg in 1905 at which time

the District league in 1929, 1931 and 1932.

led to a downturn in fortune for the club. They missed out in qualiﬁcation for the top league, the Gauliga, which meant top players leaving to seek a higher level of play with other clubs. This downturn wouldn t be reversed until after the Second World War.

MSV Duisburg

JUBILÄUM 50 MSV Duisburg

BundesligaFootball

It wasn t until 1946 that the

in the new league and used a

match day, Meidericher

Allied Forces allowed the

complicated points system

Spielverein received

formation of football

based on each teams

conﬁrmation that they were to

competitions. The people of

performance over the last ten

be admitted to the Bundesliga.

Duisburg, still recovering from

seasons. With things tight in

Meidericher s gain was

the destruction of the the war,

the rankings all was to play for

Alemannia Aachen s loss, a loss

were not overly enthused by the

in the ﬁnal season before the

that was taken bitterly - "the

league. After a 5th placed ﬁnish

Bundesliga kicked oﬀ. Things

Potato Beetles" (Kartoﬀelkäfer)

in the ﬁrst oﬃcial season the

started badly for Meidericher

actually ﬁnished fourth in the

club failed to qualify for the new

Spielverein taking ﬁve points

rankings whereas Meidericher

Oberliga West, which was the

from ﬁve games. Their season

Spielverein came in sixth,

highest rung in

however the

West

ranking system

Club At a Glance

Germany.

deemed any

After four years

club within 50

in the lower leagues the club managed to qualify for

other where

Top Scorer Ronald Worm

the Oberliga

West and,

Stadium Schauinsland-ReisenArena 31,500

with the exception of one season, managed to

points each

Honours

Founded 1902

No Bundesliga, DFB Pokal or Major European Trophies. MSV have been runners up in the Bundesliga once and in the German cup on four occasions. They have also won the Intertoto cup on three occasions

ranked equally and the 1962/63 season league position was used to determine the qualifying team. Having scraped

stay there until the formation of

started to pick up

the Bundesliga.

but with the winter break eﬀectively extended to three

Qualiﬁcation and early seasons of the Bundesliga

months due to harsh weather conditions [with just one match

Qualiﬁcation to the Bundesliga

taking place between 14th

wasn t a sure thing for

December and 18th of February]

Meidericher. Oberliga West was to provide ﬁve of the 16 teams to participate

the fans had a long wait to get a conclusion to the qualiﬁcation saga.

through to Bundesliga qualiﬁcation the Duisburg side were seen as prime candidates for instant relegation but would shock the nation by ﬁnishing in jointsecond place along with Eintracht Frankfurt. The best defensive record in the league was pivotal in securing their surprise runner-up spot and

Performances improved and after victory on the penultimate

intrinsic to the

MSV Duisburg

JUBILÄUM 50 MSV Duisburg

BundesligaFootball team s fantastic defensive

the inaugural Bundesliga season

now named Ennatz. Dietz is

record was coach, Rudolf (Rudi)

was not to be repeated it was

considered by many as the

Gutendorf. At 36-years-old, he

clear that Meidericher

greatest defender to have

was the youngest coach in the

Spielverein was now the team

graced the Bundesliga, he was

Bundesliga and was chosen due

that represented all of Duisburg

certainly Honours one of the most

to the defensive tactical ﬂair he

not simply the region of

proliﬁc, scoring 77 goals (70 for

had demonstrated whilst

Meiderich. In 1967 the oﬃcial

MSV Duisburg) during his

managing TSV Marl-Hüls. His

name change to Meidericher

Bundesliga career. He was

defensive tactics earned him the

Spielverein 02 e. V. Duisburg

originally a striker converted to

nickname Riegel-Rudi or Bolt/

(MSV Duisburg) took place.

left-back which explains his

Bar-Rudi.

clinical ﬁnishing ability. Dietz MSV Dietzburg

Also playing a major role in that ﬁrst season s success was German legend Helmut Rahn. Known as the Boss , Rahn was signed up just before the Bundesliga kicked oﬀ from Dutch side, SC Enschede. Famous for scoring the decisive goal in the 1954 Miracle of Bern , the 34-year-old marquee signing brought great

The club would remain in the

accruing just 11 yellow cards

top-tier of German football for

and no reds in his time in the

around two decades however in

Bundesliga.

the 1969-70 season the team found themselves just four points from relegation. This led to an evaluation of how the club was running and a new drive towards utilising young players. Encapsulating this new

leadership skills and was known as a bit of a joker. Meidericher s opponents weren t laughing though as Rahn put in some superb performances and notched up eight goals for the

was also a very clean defender,

Although the team wouldn t achieve any higher ranking than 6th in the Bundesliga, Dietz had overseen some memorable highs for the club. As well as making the DFB-Pokal ﬁnal in 1975 for only the second time (at that point) in their history

Milan Sasic enjoys a beer courtesy of Olcay Sahan following the semi final victory over Energie Cottbus, May 2011

season. Rahn also managed a

(defeated by Eintracht Frankfurt 1-0), the team also managed their best ever European showing, a

Bundesliga ﬁrst, becoming the

approach was

semi-ﬁnal

ﬁrst man sent-oﬀ in the

Bernard

appearance in

Bundesliga, conceded during a

Ennatz Dietz.

the 1979 Uefa

3-1 home defeat against Hertha

He was so

Cup. However

Berlin on the 14th September.

important to the

Dietz s most

The season was a great success and had seen home crowds averaging around 25,000 a game. Although the success of

team that during his 12 years at the club they were nicknamed MSV Dietzburg and the club mascot, a zebra, is

memorable match from his time at the club is most

MSV Duisburg

JUBILÄUM 50 MSV Duisburg

BundesligaFootball

likely the nine goal thriller

relegated again, to

against Bayern München on

Oberliga Nordrhein.

May 11, 1977. Dietz opened the

After three seasons

scoring, before Rainer Kunkel

in the wilderness of

drew things level. Gerd Müller

third-tier football

grabbed a brace for Bayern,

they managed

punctuated by Dietz s second.

promotion back

With the Bavarian side ahead for

into 2. Bundesliga.

the second time at 3-2 Dietz

MSV set a target of

went into overdrive and scored

a top-ﬂight return

another two goals, in a two-

after two years and

minute spell, putting Duisburg

managed to

ahead by four to three. Ronald

succeed, earning

Worm and Norbert Stoltenberg

promotion for the

ﬁnished up the scoring to give

1991 season. Things started very

season. They do however have a

MSV a 6-3 victory. As well as

well with the club sitting in

number of reasons to look to

Müller, Bayern boasted two

second after match day 13 and

the future optimistically; having

other 1974 World Cup winners;

it was reasonable for fans to

replaced their stadium in 2003

Hans-Georg "Katsche"

assume they were back for the

they have modern, up-to-date

Schwarzenbeck and Sepp Maier

long haul. However

plus the 22-year-old striker Karl-

inﬁghting seen the

Heinz Rummenigge.

side once again mired in a survival

Elevator Club

battle they would

Dietz s time at the club

ﬁnal day after

With the club under signiﬁcant

a 0-1 defeat to

ﬁnancial strain it was not

Borussia

expected that they would

Dortmund.

return to the Bundesliga

Thus began

were to be further

facilities. After restructuring in 2010

MSV Duisburg v Eintracht Frankfurt - 31st August 1963

they have improved ﬁnances and in 2011 they managed to

lose on the

ended with their relegation.

immediately. Fans

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge nearly takes Bernard Dietz’s head off as he scores the first goal in Duisburg’s famous 6:3 victory over Bayern München

the elevatorclub culture that has seen MSV Duisburg relegated or promoted nine times in the last

reach the club s fourth DFB-

20 years.

Pokal ﬁnal, although the 5-0

disappointed however when after four campaigns in 2. Bundesliga the club were

defeat at the hands of Schalke MSV seem to have settled into a mid-table slot within 2. Bundesliga ﬁnishing tenth last

04 in Berlin s Olympiastadion may be something the fans would rather forget.

Eintracht Frankfurt

JUBILÄUM 50 Eintracht Frankfurt

BundesligaFootball

Eintracht Frankfurt Ross Dunbar

Far Left: Jürgen Grabowski lifts the DFB Pokal Centre Top Dieter Linder shows off his skills[L] & a signed Linder sticker. Centre Bottom Commerzbank-Arena. Right: Frankfurt vs Kickers ProgramStielike [R]pose with the

It was only ﬁtting that in the 50th season

Linder

of the Bundesliga, Eintracht Frankfurt

explains the character and style of the

secured a quick return to the top-ﬂight

1959 title-winning side.

"They were all mainly Frankfurt boys, and we all had normal jobs." Linder said.

had some of their best success on the

"Some were clerks or public servants,

domestic and European stage - including

there was a locksmith, Kress was a

a showpiece European Cup Final in 1960

pharamcist, Pfaﬀ was a gastronome. Only

at Hampden Park, Glasgow. Of course,

Istvan Sztani was without a job. We

they took a 7-3 hammering from Real

played a great season and an incredible

Madrid but it is widely-regarded that

group stage.

the highlight of Eintracht's 50 years since

soaked Glasgow in May, 1960.

The German champions were written oﬀ in the semi-ﬁnals against Glasgow Rangers but thrashed their Scottish opponents 6-1 in Germany to reach the prestigious

Eintracht played a massive part in making one of the most entertaining

"It was jublilation everywhere. Some fans

matches in the history of football.

ran on to the pitch, and the singing

Eintracht were German champions in

seemed never ending. I was the

1959 after beating local rivals Kickers

youngest in the team and felt a lot of

Offenbach in the one-off final in Berlin.

pressure fall oﬀ our shoulders. In the

The Frankfurters were unbeaten in 30

changing room, I cried."

league that season. Star man Dieter

German titles to their name. However,

1963 came in wind-swept and rain-

new league structure in 1963, Die Adler

matches with a total of 71 goals in the

championship was not their only success in the 1950s, with another ﬁve South

after a 12-month stay in Division Two.

In the years before the formation of the

Their ﬁrst national German

ﬁnal at Hampden. The famous Real Madrid side included the likes of De Stefano, Puskas and Gento which dazzled the 130,000-strong crowd.

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He insisted

"Well later, when we won the German title

Eintracht's strong-

I was 34 years old. You do not want to

friendship between

move far away then, there were some

the squad was key

oﬀers but I was always very attached to

to their success in

home."

1960. After the swinging-Sixties, Eintracht He said: "That was

Frankfurt never reached the same heights

the case, yes. With

in Europe and could not dominate the

Eintracht anyway,

national game. They won the DFB Pokal

but also with the

four times between 1974 and 1988 and

German squad, that

collected the UEFA Cup in 1980. The

was a good bunch of Eagles came close to the Bundesliga guys. There was no

championship in 1992 when they ﬁnished

trouble or jealousy.

just two points behind VfB Stuttgart.

We all had daytime

Eintracht Frankfurt vs Real Madrid match Program

jobs as well, it is not

After 33 years in the top-ﬂight, they were

like today where

relegated to the second division in 1996

players do nothing

and have since bounced between the two

else than training

divisions, making a return to the

and football. We

Bundesliga this summer for the

worked all day and

anniversary campaign.

then we went to training.

But it was the Germans who took the lead

Thanks to Holger Ruhl for translating the exclusive Eintracht interviews. Follow

on 18 minutes through Kress which

him on Twitter @biggrabowski.

sparked some historic football from the Castillans. They scored six goals without

Club At a Glance

reply, before Eintracht's slight hopes were dashed late in the match. All of Real's seven goals were netted between the legendary Hungarian Puskas and De Stefano.

Alfred Pfaﬀ was the club captain for the ﬁnal and had been with The Eagles since he

Honours

Founded 1899 Top Scorer Bernd Hölzenbein 201 Stadium Commerzbank-Arena

was 10 years old. The inspiring midﬁelder was also a member of the Germany 1954 World Cup winning side.

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Clockwise from Right: Signal Iduna Park. Dortmund Champions league victory; they defeated Juventus 3:1. Jürgen Kohler(L) is pleased with Ottmar Hitzfeld (R) after said victory. Murdo MacLeod unleashes a shot.

Borrusia Dortmund Profile Louis John McCaffrey Borussia Dortmund are the

who wished to leave their

infamous yellow and black was

current Bundesliga champions

current football team Trinity

displayed as the new club

after winning back-to-back titles

Youth . Trinity Youth was a

colours.

in the past two seasons. The

Church sponsored football team,

team is young and exciting to

however due to strict leadership

The next two decades in the life

watch, a result of major changes

from the parish priest, many

of Borussia Dortmund brought

at Dortmund in recent times. Die

young men were unhappy and

little signiﬁcant success to the

Schwartzgelbe have had a

sought to form their own club.

club. Local league football was as

number of highs and lows

After what seems to be a German

high as the club could play in

throughout their history,

past time of forming sports clubs

German football.. Recognising

however they are one of the

in pubs, Borussia Dortmund

that major success would only

most successful German clubs.

became a reality. Despite todays

come by recruiting better

iconic yellow and black strip,

players, the club decided to

which is globally recognized as

take a gamble and sign a

Dortmund s, it was in fact a blue

number of pro footballers.

The sports club Ballspiel-Verein

and white strip with red sash

This unfortunately was to

Borussia 1909 e. V. Dortmund ,

which was originally worn by the

backﬁre on the club as the

known as BVB, was founded by a

ﬁrst Dortmund playing squad. It

team failed to perform to the

group of young men in 1909,

wasn't until 1913 that the now

level many had

Formation

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troubled times. A

This failure caused severe

club president

ﬁnancial damage to the club

was sacked and

and the possibility of

replaced when he

bankruptcy was acknowledged

refused to swear

as a real possibility. However a

allegiance to the

local businessman who covered

Nazi party. In

the debts of the club to place

1936 the football

Dortmund on a sound ﬁnancial

league in

footing rescued the club.

Germany was

Program from the the European Cup Winners Cup played at Hampden Park, 1966. Dortmund won 2:1 After Extra Time

restructured as World War 2/Post-War

the Gauliga, and

club disbanded

this is where Dortmund

in an attempt to disassociate

The 1930 s saw huge change

developed its intense rivalry

themselves with the Nazi past. It

within the German game as the

with Schalke 04. Titled the

didn't take long for the club to

Third Reich fundamentally

Revierderby due to both teams

be reformed and as a result

changed German society,

being located within the region

Ballspiel-Verein Borussia made

including a restructure

of Ruhr, they enjoyed a ﬁerce

their ﬁrst appearance in a

of the football

rivalry particularly during the

national league ﬁnal in 1949,

Gualiga era of the game.

which they lost to Mannheim.

Schalke were the most

Despite losing in the ﬁnal, this

board

successful/dominant team of

gave the club ambition and

members had

the time and displayed their

hope for the future.

numerous

superiority - winning 14 of the

leagues. The Dortmund

altercations with the Nazi party during these

ﬁrst 16 encounters, Dortmund s

The 1950 s saw the creation of

ﬁrst win against Schalke came in

the Oberliga West , a ﬁrst

1943. Post-War society saw the

division league which Dortmund played in. This league

Club At a Glance

was hugely popular at the time with Dortmund winning the league in 1956 to record their

Top Scorer Alfred Preissler

ﬁrst national title. The very next

Honours

Founded 1909

season Dortmund managed to

win the league for a second time in a row with the same

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Stadium Signal Iduna Park 80,720

playing squad from the previous season. Their third national title

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came in 1963 which granted them entry into the soon to be Bundesliga.

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Dortmund ﬁnish 4th in the

Dortmund were back in

league, however they

the Bundesliga after

managed to reach the ﬁnal

The formation of the

clinching promotion. The

of the UEFA cup, however

Bundesliga in 1963

80 s brought about yet

they lost that ﬁnal to

presented Dortmund with

more ﬁnancial uncertainty

Juventus. Despite the

the opportunity to play in

to the club, and the

disappointment of losing

the top-tier of German

football team failed to

in the ﬁnal of a major

football. Friedhelm

record any major

European competition,

Konietzka scored

achievements, other than

Dortmund earned 25

Dortmund s ﬁrst ever

a German Cup win in 1989.

million Deutsche Marks as

Bundesliga

Bundesliga goal in a match they lost 3-2 to Werder

a result of their European Golden era

Bremen. 1965 saw

endeavours. This new found fortune gave

Dortmund win their ﬁrst

In 1992 Ottmar Hitzfeld

Dortmund the ﬁnancial

German Cup. The

took the reigns at

power to sign a

following year they played

Dortmund and in his ﬁrst

crop of top

Liverpool in the European

season with the club

footballing

Cup Winners Cup, which

guided them to a second

talent.

they won. However

place ﬁnish, narrowly

Dortmund

Bundesliga results started

missing out on the

won the

to slide towards the end of

championship on the last

Bundesliga title

the season and the club

day of the Bundesliga

in both 1995 and

lost 4 of their remaining 5

season. 1993 saw

1996 with one of

game to squander their lead at the top of the league and as a result finish in second place. The 1970 s brought tough financial times to the club which effected the playing squad. Dortmund were relegated from the

Right: Dortmund defeated Köln to win the last German Football Championship

Bundesliga in 1972. Two years later optimism was renewed as the club opened its new stadium, the Westfalenstadion. A

As is evident the “Salad dish/ bowl” predates the Bundesliga. It was created in 1949

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their star names, Matthais Sammer, being named European Footballer of the Year. Champions League glory still evaded the team from Germany, however in 1997 they managed to reach the ﬁnal and create history. Playing against Italian side

Above: Celebrating the 88/89 DFB Pokal win

Juventus, Dortmund out fought the favourites for the trophy and won the ﬁnal 3-1 to win their ﬁrst Champions League title. Dortmund also became the second German

same season as Dortmund

bidder.

reached the ﬁnal of the UEFA

In 2006

cup, unfortunately losing to

the stadium was renamed

Feyenoord in a thrilling ﬁnal.

Signal Iduna Park after a local insurance company

team to win the Intercontinental Cup as they beat Brazilian side Cruzeiro 2-0.

Turn of the Millennium

After welcoming the turn of the Millennium, the decision was made to make Borussia Dortmund a publicly traded company, meaning it would be traded on the German stock exchange. This was a bold decision for the club to make as they were and still are the only publicly traded club on the German stock market. In 2002 after a close competition between themselves and Bayer Leverkusen, Dortmund clinched their third Bundesliga title. European success came close in the

Financial problems troubled

purchased the naming rights.

the club throughout the 00 s,

The years that followed

with poor ﬁnancial

brought little success to the

management oﬀ the pitch

club. The team failed to

and failures on the playing

challenge for the

side as they failed to qualify

Bundesliga title,

for lucrative European

and

competitions. In 2005 the

European

club looked to be ﬂirting with

eﬀorts

bankruptcy however this was

were

avoided due to a number of

rare.

severe cost cutting measure, such as a playing staﬀ wage

Relegation

cut of 20%. The clubs

from the

stadium has always been a

Bundesliga

proud asset of the club as it is

began a real possibility

the largest football stadium

in 2007/2008; thankfully the

in Germany with a capacity

club managed to avoid such

of 80,720, however in order

a decline, and even reached

to help balance the books,

the ﬁnal of the German Cup

and pay oﬀ club debts, the

in 2008, which they lost in

decision was made to sell the

extra time to

naming rights of the Westfalen to the highest

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talent in German football

thrashing Bayern in the

appearance in the ﬁnal

within the playing squad

ﬁnal of the DFB-Pokal.

gained Dortmund entry to

and the ﬁnancial prize of

Dortmund have attracted

the UEFA cup the following

reaching the group stages

and developed young

year.

The Klopp years

With the resignation of coach Thomas Doll in May 2008, Jürgen Klopp took over to spark a revival at

Above: Jürgen Klopp looks happy with himself, as he should be. Right: The Dortmund squad celebrate another victory

players who are regarded as not only some of the of

Dortmund. Klopp brought a new footballing

the Champions League,

philosophy to the club,

Dortmund has been

injected the team with a

rejuvenated.

crop of young talent from

best talent in Germany, but in European football. The likes of Mats Hummels, Mario Götze and Marco Reus are all top quality

both Germany and abroad.

Last season Dortmund

Klopp brought about a

managed to win the

renewed hope and unity

Bundesliga title for a

among supporters and

second year running, much

players. In 2010/2011,

to the disappointment of

Klopp guided Dortmund to

league rivals Bayern

their ﬁrst Bundesliga title

Munich. Not only did

in nine years to conﬁrm

Dortmund successfully

the clubs return to

defend their Bundesliga

prominence. With some of

title, but made it a ﬁrst

the most exciting young

league and cup double by

players with great potential at a young age. Jürgen Klopp has returned Dortmund to the summit of German football and with his guidance Dortmund will now be looking to emulate.

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Conditioned for Success

A victorious and youthful Dortmund side led by captain Sebastian Kehl who personally recommended Bartlett after working with him at Germany

Borussia Dortmund’s fitness guru Oliver Bartlett gives Bundesliga Football the insight into the champions’ preparations. By Ross Dunbar Just ﬁve German sides have secured the famous ‘double’ in the same season.

staff ahead of the 2008 European Championships in Austria “I was working at the rehab centre and and Switzerland. Despite losing in the final, Borussia Dortmund added their name to the taking care of athletes and being reasonably there were encouraging signs from the illustrious list with a 5-‐2 annihila?on of FC successful.” BartleO said. rapidly-‐changing na?onal side with a Bayern Munich in the DFB Pokal Final, just a number of the beaten finalists never playing week aHer geJng their hands on the “I was asked by the club and athletes to for the German side again. Bundesliga crown. work for them full-‐?me. That was the ?me when Jurgen Klinsmann was head of the The familiarity and consistency of BartleO’s As part of spor?ng director Michael Zorc’s Na?onal Team and puJng a bit more training methods between the U21 and full revamp of Borussia’s football opera?ons, emphasis and public focus on fitness. na?onal squad allowed an easy transi?on the addi?on of athle?c coach Oliver BartleO for so many of Germany’s prized young has been a vital component of their current “Therefore, crea?ng an interest in the world assets in the current na?onal setup. success. of soccer in Germany on the fitness side but taking it another step forward again. More But it was a glowing reference from one of Born in London with a German mother, clubs became more aware of puJng more Germany’s more experienced interna?onals BartleO had an interest in the science of focus on the fitness aspect of football. that preceded a call from Borussia sports from an early age aHer spending Dortmund. most of his childhood in Darwin, Australia “We managed to keep Osnabruck in the where his father worked in a local hospital. second division because everyone was He explained: “It was a follow-‐up from looking at us going down due to the limited being busy with the U21s and the personal BartleO studied Biology at the University of financial means. We successful defended experience of Sebas?an Kehl with the Adelaide before finally making the move to our posi?on in the second league.” na?onal team. Germany to enter a more sports-‐specific fitness degree at the highly-‐ He was draHed in by the DFB to take charge “He was very posi?ve about the work we regarded University of of the fitness aspect of the German were doing there and tried to bring that Cologne. Na?onal Team and the U21 squad. BartleO back to the club as an asset for Borussia had instant success with the youth squads Dortmund so it’s his personal experience But the 43-‐year-‐ as the U21’s cruised the 2009 U21 UEFA from the training that we do and old, who was European Championship’s with the likes of recommending me to the club.” brought up in a Manuel Neuer, Mats Hummels and Mesut track-‐and-‐field Özil showing early promise. The Dortmund skipper has suffered a background, number of serious injuries in recent seasons soon made his From the star?ng XI that thrashed England and has a lot of his ?me working with first strides into 4-‐0 in the final, just Sandro Wagner has not BartleO on his way to recovery. German football been capped at full interna?onal level, with His arrivial at Signal Iduna Park coincided with VfL Fabian Johnson and Sebas?an Boenisch with the start of Jurgen Klopp’s era at the Osnabruck and his choosing to play for the United States and work crucial in their Poland respec?vely. BartleO was high on the club aHer joining from FSV Mainz in 2008. BartleO and Klopp had never worked ?me spend in the list to join Joachim Löw’s new coaching 2.Bundesliga.

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BundesligaFootball together before their switches to Dortmund The London-‐born athle?c coach is now in charge of fitness and condi?oning in Klopp’s backroom staff for the first-‐team squad, as well as, the Dortmund youth setup. The duo were quick to sing from the same hymn sheet as Die Borussen thrived from BartleO’s well-‐planned fitness regimes which had an immediate impact on the intensity of Dortmund’s game. “We’re trying to make athletes feel beOer and perform beOer and give them the feeling that they can perform beOer which gives them more confidence to play at a higher pace and compe??ve level. “If the players feel that and can connect that to what we’re doing, that’s what we want. It’s to help the player perform beOer. “It always depends on what a coach wants, of course, in a strategy or the type of tac?cs he implements. That’s the philosophy of the coach. “But it’s my job to make the athletes able to perform at this level and to this standard, week-‐in, week-‐out. For that, you need to analyse the pre-‐requisites, what is needed from the player, how do you train it and how do you train it so a player can perform every week at this level without geJng injured or having fluctua?on in any level.

“On top of that, it’s more about how the coach wants to train. You need to adapt these ideas to soccer training and how it needs to be played. It needs to fit this whole system. “That’s probably the trickiest part – how do you fit all of this in?” The connec?ons between BarteO’s training philosophy and the incredible progress of the German na?onal team is no coincidence. At club level, Borussia Dortmund have excelled since BartleO’s arrival in 2008 with their financial woes forcing the club to look for a long-‐term strategy to allow them to compete on both a domes?c and con?nental level. Indeed, it could be compared to Barcelona’s footballing philosophy – without the said La Masia conveyer belt, of course.

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One of Dortmund’s best signings in recent ?mes has been Japanese aOacking-‐ midfielder Shinji Kagawa who joined from Cerezo Osaka for just £300,000. The 23-‐ year-‐old was a perfect fit in the system with incredible dynamism, pace and flair which are integral to allowing non-‐ Dortmund trained players to integrate into the star?ng eleven. But the blow of Kagawa’s transfer to Manchester United has been soHened by the incoming Reus who has had the experience of working under BartleO on interna?onal duty and his physical abili?es are almost uncanny to Kagawa who has been a revela?on in the side. The 22-‐year-‐old star from Gladbach has the same dynamism, pace, accelera?on and skill as the Japanese midfielder and should be a perfect fit into Dortmund’s aOacking line-‐up. The energy and pace of Großkreutz, Götze and Kagawa have been integral to Klopp’s high-‐pressing, high-‐ tempo style of football in the last two seasons.

For Kevin Großkreutz, Mario Götze and Mats Hummels, the task of performing at such an intense pace and compe??ve level is helped by the familiarity to BartleO’s training methods. The aforemen?oned trio, plus the likes of Marcel Schmelzer and the new arrival of Marco Reus, have worked with the 43-‐year-‐old for around ﬁve years in the German setup.

The lucra?ve signing of the Dortmund-‐ born aOacker is another milestone reached for Dortmund aHer years of ﬁnancial insecurity in the last decade. The German champions fought oﬀ a challenge from FC Bayern for Reus’ signature which marks an incredible rise to the summit of the na?onal game.

“To be able to do this, and get to the next level, that takes a while.” VfL Osnabruck Germany U21 Germany Borussia Dortmund

And more impressively, the aOen?on to detail in player recruitment under spor?ng director Michael Zorc needs to be admired.

But for Dortmund to be so successful, it requires immense prepara?on and understanding of each player that is signed to suit a speciﬁc role in the team. The Jurgen Klopp football culture requires younger players, eager to learn, with the required dynamics able to perform in Dortmund’s ﬂourishing 4-‐2-‐3-‐1 system.

BartleO added: “ The most important thing is that the players will allow themselves to do our intense programmes in training and get adjusted to it and to get them to reach the next higher level.

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I’m able to do more and for the players because they can perform beOer.”

“That’s one of the things we’ve done very successfully and it helps when I’ve been able to work with them at U21 level, as well as, with Dortmund and the German Na?onal Team. It works for me because

And aHer two championships in consecu?ve seasons, including a historic double this campaign, the focus will be on conquering the con?nental stage – like they did exactly 15 years ago.

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VfB Stuttgart - Taste of success lingers for ambitious Swabians By Ross Dunbar VfB Stuttgart were one of the leading

to secure their ﬁrst crown in the new

in the following campaign. The German

sides in Southern Germany in the lead-

format. In an unprecedented campaign,

champions were 3-0 up after the ﬁrst-leg

up to the formation of the Bundesliga. In

the top ﬁve clubs were separated by just

against Howard Wilkinson's Leeds side

the post-war years, the Swabians

three points, with Stuttgart clinching the

but even though they lost 4-1 at Elland

collected two German cups and clashed

crown having scored seven goals more

Road, Stuttgart would have gone

in a ﬁerce rivalry in the regional division

than Hamburger SV.

through on the away-goals rule.

Incredibly, Helmut Benthaus' side failed

However, Christoph Daum's decision to

Despite winning

to win in their last three matches but 18

introduce Serbian defender Jovo

the German

goals in the four matches prior proved

Simanić on 83 minutes - their fourth

national

to be just enough for the club to win

foreign player on the pitch - meant that

championship

their ﬁrst Bundesliga title.

Stuttgart had to play a one-oﬀ match in

with Stuttgarter Kickers.

twice in the 1950 s, Die Roten were forced to wait two decades after the inception of the Bundesliga

Barcelona against Leeds. In the end, they Their 1991/92 title triumph meant they

were beaten 2-1 by the English side.

would be the ﬁrst German representatives to participate in the

Icelandic striker Eyjólfur Sverrisson

newly-formed UEFA Champions League

joined Stuttgart in 1989 and made 31

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"My

campaign of 1992. The forward talks,

relationship

exclusively to Bundesliga Football, about

was good

his ﬁve-year spell with the Swabians.

with

Germany team mates Mario Gomez and Sami Khedira

Christoph "I settled in fairly quickly actually. There

Daum. He

isn't much of a diﬀerence and most

worked with

Icelandics are able to settle wherever they

the team

are. After a few weeks, I felt at home.", he

very well

said.

and he is a terriﬁc motivator. He had a big

featured in the

role in the championship we won in

Champions League twice and is still

"Having Asgier there helped make things

1991/92 and the ﬁrst German champions,

regularly competing for Europa League

comfortable. I learned the language very

in the united country.

places.

within a few weeks. I think that is very

Success for Stuttgart was rare in the lead-

But with Fredi Bobic and Bruno Labbadia

important for any player in a new country

up to the new Millennium with just the

at the helm, the club is aiming to make

that if you can learn the language quickly,

1997 DFB Pokal added to their honours

the lucrative fourth Champions League

you are able to communicate."

list. However, they qualiﬁed for the Group

position a

Stages of the UEFA Champions League for

realistic

"I came from the second division in

the ﬁrst time in 2003 under Felix Magath

target,

Iceland and I was the top scorer there, but

and then secured a surprise Bundesliga

coming to the Bundesliga was a huge

championship win in 2007.

quickly so I was able to speak German

competing against the

step. It's a big diﬀerence. We had some

likes of

fantastic players, like Matthias Sammer, he

Goals from Thomas Hitzlsperger and Sami

was very skillful. He was a world class

Khedira on the ﬁnal matchday against

player.

Energie Cottbus secured their ﬁfth

Mönchengladbach

German title. Since then, the club has

and high-spending

Borussia

Wolfsburg.

Club At a Glance

Stuttgart are a club who continue to develop, now playing at the impressive

Honours

Founded 1893

Mercedes-Benz Arena in front of an average of over 55,000 fans fortnightly,

3 Top Scorer Karl Allgöwer

have the infrastructure of to make them a real force in the league.

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Stadium Mercedes-Benz Arena 60,441

Bringing through top players such as Sami Khedira and Mario Gomez, perhaps in future Stuttgart will be able to retain players in that mould and achieve their ambitious aims with them at the club.

Hamburger SV

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In the lead-up to the formation of the Bundesliga, Hamburg were at the top of the German game with two national championships in the 1920s, 10 Northern championships in 12 years and a further 15 Oberliga-Nord titles in 16 seasons. Added to that, Hamburg scored over 100

Hamburg legend Kevin Keegan sports a rather fetching perm

times in ﬁve of these campaigns in the 1950s and 60s, with the legendary Uwe Seeler at the fore-front of their incredible scoring records ‒ he netted 404 league goals for HSV between 1953 and 1972. The Red Shorts were a sleeping giant of German football until they enjoyed some captivating success in the 1970s. Firstly, in 1976, Hamburg won the DFB Pokal for the third time in their history, before adding the European Cup Winners Cup, just a year

Hamburger SV Current custodians wrestle with significant change whilst protecting proud history of Bundesliga ever-presents.

later. Kevin Keegan s arrival at the Volksparkstadion brought a sustained period of success on the domestic and continental front. Following years of average league finishes, Hamburg soon become a prominent fixture in the German top-flight and they secured their first

Ross Dunbar

Bundesliga championship in 1978 under immensely proud of their 50 years in the

the pragmatic eyes of Branko Zebec. The

most successful clubs will have a

German top-ﬂight which is unmatched by

Yugoslavian coach is well-known for his

double-celebration this coming

any club in the country. In the last few

strict and regimented training

season, commemorating the 50th

decades, they have been dwarfed by the

programmes and Zebec built a side

campaign in the Bundesliga and

stunning domestic success of FC Bayern

capable of becoming one of the best in the

their own 125th anniversary.

but HSV can hold claim to being one of the

country.

The Kings of the North are

biggest clubs in German football.

In domestic terms, they held their own at

Hamburger SV, one of Germany s

the top of the Bundesliga into the 1980s

Hamburger SV

JUBILÄUM 50 Hamburger SV

BundesligaFootball with two consecutive second-placed

Champions League and the development

Arnesen becoming the club s sporting

ﬁnishes but they were pipped again in

of German football, economically, allowed

director. Arnesen promised a fresh

1979 by the resilient FC Bayern.

them to expand their Volksparkstadion to

mentality, with an increasing focus on

Keegan s spell in Hamburg had a lasting

a 55,000-seater arena which is now used

youth development, due to the inability to

legacy on the club and the

promise regular Champions League

supporters. The Northern

football.

German side in the end

However, Arnesen and Hamburg

recovered from his departure in

had a scare in 2011-12 with Thorsten

1980, where they lost the

Fink s side locked in a relegation

European Cup Final, and then

battle until the last few weeks of the

lost the UEFA Cup in 1982.

campaign. The club has added a

Arguably, Hamburg s ﬁnest

handful of new players but even in

moment in their history came

their historic 50th

when Felix Magath scored a

campaign, their

historic goal against Italian

short-term stay

giants Juventus to secure the

in the

European Cup in 1983.

Bundesliga is far

Their European success came

from secure.

when the club appointed Austrian coach Ernst Happel as

Sporting Director Frank Arnesen [left] and Head Coach Thorsten Fink [right]

their new boss. Under Happel s reign between 1981 and 1987, Hamburg won two Bundesliga titles, a European Cup and the DFB Pokal in his ﬁnal campaign. They also ﬁnished second in the league on two occasions, were

Their unbroken Bundesliga status is

for various football matches, events and

something which the fans

concerts. In 2011, Hamburg opted for a major overhaul of their football operations with former Chelsea director of football Frank

cherish and the current custodians of the club will be fully expected to retain the unique honour.

runners-up in the Super Cup, UEFA Cup and Intercontinental Cup. In the decade after, Hamburg failed to pick up a single trophy and were unable

Club At a Glance

to compete at the top of the Bundesliga or at the latter stages of European competition. The club went through

Honours

Founded 1887

seven coaches in the 1990s and only Ralf Schehr ‒ who was in charge for two matches ‒ could manage a win record of

Top Scorer Uwe Seeler

507

3 3

over 50%. Heading into the new millennium, Hamburg were still without another German Cup or championship after their ﬂirt with success in the 1980s. But die Rothosen became regulars in the modern

Stadium Imtech Arena 56889

1 1

TSV 1860 München

JUBILÄUM 50 TSV 1860 München

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The Allianz Arena turns a brilliant blue when TSV 1860 München play

TSV 1860 München Profile Louis John McCaffrey Turn-und Sportverein

club occurred as a result of

The football team within

München von 1860, more

a meeting within a local

the club was established in

commonly known as TSV

Munich pub during the

March 1899 however had

1860 München, are often

time of revolutions. Despite

to wait three years before

discarded in favour of their

the creation of the Physical

playing against other

more illustrious rivals FC

ﬁtness and gymnastics

opposition. 1911 was a

Bayern. Currently the

association in 1848, action

signiﬁcant year for the

football team plays in

was taken by the Bavarian

team as they further

2.Bundesliga however they

Monarchy to ban such an

established themselves as

association due to what

a serious footballing side.

founding clubs

they described as

The side, as well as the

of Germanys

republican activities being

famous Lion as their team

top football

undertaken by the sporting

crest, adopted the name

league, the

club. It was not until 1860

TSV München 1860, the

Bundesliga.

that the club became

same crest they use to this

oﬃcially re-established, as

day.

are one of the

Foundation

The founding of the sporting

well as a merger with other sporting associations

1860 Munich started to

within Munich.

play competitive football during the 1920 s,

TSV 1860 München

JUBILÄUM 50 TSV 1860 München

BundesligaFootball featuring in the Bezirksliga

In the post-

Bayern, which was the

war period,

highest association football

1860 Munich

league in Bavaria between

played in the

1923 and 1933. The team

Oberliga Süd,

managed to reach two

and in 1963

national semi-ﬁnals

they were

however failed to progress

crowned

to the ﬁnal each time. 1933

league champions. It wasn't

The rest

saw German football re-

just the achievement of

of the 1960 s saw the team

organized by the third Reich

winning the league which

from Bavaria earn numerous

into 16 divisions called

1860 were rewarded with

achievements, such as

Gauligen, TSV were part of

though but also an

winning their second

Gauliga Bayern and

invitation to play in the new

German cup in 1964,

performed well throughout

national professional

winning the Bundesliga title

their time within the

football league, the

in 1966, and ﬁnishing

division. They managed to

Bundesliga. One rule the

league runners up the

achieve second place in

governing body enforced

following year.

1934, 1938 and 1939

was that only one team per

however the real ambition

city could feature in the

Despite such positive

was to top the division and

Bundesliga, therefore as a

results in the 1960 s, the

become champions, a

result of 1860 s entry to the

following two decades will

dream that was realised in

league, Bayern Munich were

be remembered for a

1941.

refused, much to the

number of relegations and

amusement of their arch

trouble both on and oﬀ the

rivals.

park. 1860 went through a

Bundesliga

The King of the Lions, former president Karl-Heinz Wildmoser 1939 - 2010

long period of yo-yoing between divisions, which as a result damaged the

Club At a Glance

commercial side of the club and in 1982 the club were

Honours

Founded 1848/1860 Top Scorer Rudolf Brunnenmeier Stadium Alllianz Arena

forced into the third amateur tier of Oberliga Bayern.

1860 were absent

139

from the Bundesliga for 12 years however that ended in 1994

69901

when they gained promotion. Club president Karl-Heinz

TSV 1860 München

JUBILÄUM 50 TSV 1860 München

BundesligaFootball Wildmoser and team

took the decision to

players who have came

coach Werner Lorant

ground share with local

through 1860 s own

began to change things

rivals Bayern Munich in

football academy. 2011

for their future survival

the newly built Allianz

saw the club again ﬂirting

within the Bundesliga. The

Arena. This decision

with insolvency however

concept of mixing

sparked outrage from

thanks to yet more aid

talented youth players

supporters of both clubs

from Bayern Munich the

with more quality-

as they protested the

club was able to prevent

experienced professional

actions of club oﬃcials.

such serious actions.

was quickly adopted, and

Yet more ﬁnancial

Recently a Jordanian

it came to fruition. 1860

diﬃculties emerged as the

investor, Hasan Abdullah

managed to turn

team on the pitch failed to

Ismaik, purchased a

themselves into a decent mid-table team throughout the remainder of the 1990 s. European football was the next ambition of the club and they ﬁnally got their opportunity to

Hey indeed, Striker Benjamin Lauth models the reversible 150th anniversary top

experience European footballs elite

excite the fans with

majority stake in the club,

competition, the

their performances.

which has given the club

Champions League in

Bayern Munich became

and its fans optimism for

2000 as they ﬁnished

unlikely saviours of 1860

the future. From 2008,

fourth in the Bundesliga

as they bought out the

1860 have managed to

campaign.

clubs stake in the Allianz

stabilise their position in

Arena, which alleviated

2.Bundesliga, and last

some of 1860 s ﬁnancial

season they ﬁnished 6th in

woes.

the league.

Modern day 1860

TSV 1860 Munich look to

Decline

After managing to establish themselves in the Bundesliga for the

be ﬁnally growing closer

last decade, the

1860 have remained in

to a long awaited return

2003/2004 season saw

2.Bundesliga since 2006

to the Bundesliga with

1860 suﬀer relegation

despite the introduction

relative ﬁnancial stability

again to 2.Bundesliga.

of several new managers

edging closer and a

With ﬁnancial issues at

targeting promotion. The

young, home-grown

the club growing, Club

current playing squad is

squad turnout out for The

President Wildmoser

made up of home-grown

Lions each week.

Schalke 04

JUBILÄUM 50 Schalke 04

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Schalke 04 Profile Louis McCaffrey looks at the evolution of FC Schalke 04 as the club continue to strive for a Bundesliga success which has thus far eluded them.

Dangermen Raul [L] & Huntelaar [R] The original team colours of Schalke were not the current blue and white but red and yellow. The majority of the playing staﬀ lived locally in Gelsenkirchen, many of which worked within the coal mines, hence

Formation

the nickname Die Knappen (Miners). The club recorded its ﬁrst honour in

Schalke were founded back in 1904

1923 as the team was

with the title, Westfalia Schalke , by a

crowned champions

number of school students. This was an

of the Schalke

amateur team with big ambitions

Kreisliga. In 1924

however they were refused entry into

Schalke took a

oﬃcial footballing associations and as a

major step in

result played their football within one of

becoming

the wild associations of the game in

the

Germany. It wasn't until 1919, and

Schalke

various mergers with other sports clubs,

football

that the club oﬃcially started its life

club we

within Germanys football league

know

structure.

today. The

sports club was separated with the footballing side of the club taking the name FC Schalke 04 , as well as changing their team colours to blue and white. Schalke enjoyed immediate local success, dominating the game and reaching their top regional league of the time, Gauliga Ruhr.

Era of Domination

With a new stadium built and the club rising in popularity, the club tried to connect further with their local region and its inhabitants by renaming the club FC Gelsenkirchen-

Schalke 04

JUBILÄUM 50 Schalke 04

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145.

out to Bayern Munich to ﬁnish in 2nd

competitive match in almost six months

place.

for disregarding a strict wage structure,

In the post-war period, German society

Schalke s popularity was at an all time

took a long time to recover. Football clubs

The early 1970s also found Schalke at a

high, and when the team did return to the

were no diﬀerent, Schalke themselves

new home, the Parkstadion, built

ﬁeld of play, 70,000 fans ﬂocked to see

took until the 1950s to recreate the quality especially for the 1974 World Cup. The

them. The 1930s saw Schalke begin to

they possessed before the war. After

club went through a diﬃcult period on

dominate the

and oﬀ the pitch during

Club At a Glance

German game. After league

the 70 s however they did manage to ﬁnish runners

restructuring in

up in the Bundesliga in

Honours

Founded 1904

1933, Schalke found

Borussia

themselves in

Top Scorer Klaus Fischer

the Gauliga Westfalen. Schalke's

182

within their league was

Mönchengladbach.

The 1980s weren t kind on the club from

Stadium Veltins-Arena 61673

dominance

1977, behind winners

Gelsenkirchen either, as they suﬀered relegation to the second tier of

remarkable, and

German football, gained

is still the most

promotion to the

successful period in their history. The team won the league year-on-year and reached 14 out of 18 national ﬁnals. Schalke were clearly a cut above the rest, never losing a home game in the league

appearances in the German Cup final and close finishes in the league, Schalke finally secured the national

ever national championship.

within the Gauliga Westfalen.

162 of their 189 league matches, drawing 21 and losing six. The team also managed to score 924 goals whilst only conceding

1997 saw Schalke earn their ﬁrst major

Inter Milan in the ﬁnal of the UEFA Cup. This triumph was largely thanks to then

With Schalke ﬁnishing in the top four the previous season; they were invited to be one of the founding members of

From 1933 to 1945 Schalke won

repeat its self throughout the decade.

honour since the 1970 s as they defeated The Bundesliga Years

same time period, and even went unbeaten throughout 6 whole seasons

again. This was a habit that seemed to

championship in 1958; this was their last

throughout 11 seasons. They managed to lose just 6 games away from home in the

Bundesliga, then suﬀered relegation

Germany s new top-ﬂight football league. Schalke didn't enjoy much success in the early years of the Bundesliga; in fact it wasn't until 1972 that Schalke managed to ﬁnish in a respectable league position. In 1972 though, Schalke were league leaders for the majority of the campaign losing

coach Hubb Stevens as he transformed Schalke into a strong defensive unit. The system and style Stevens implemented during his time with the club had a last eﬀect not only on the club but also on its fans viewing him still as a hero. The dawn of the new millenium brought about much needed change to the club, particularly as a commercial entity. The

Schalke 04

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JUBILÄUM 50 Schalke 04

season. Felix Magath took control at Schalke after turning VfL Wolfsburg into a Championship winning side. Magath lasted two seasons with Schalke and was soon replaced by Ralf

Oops! Schalke general manager "Rudi" Assauer damaged the German Cup in 2002 whilst celebrating

Rangnick. Rangnick made an notable

Head Coach Huub Stevens

impact, which saw Schalke defeat Inter

two seasons between 2010 and 2012.

Milan to progress to the semi ﬁnals of

Rangnick announced his resignation

the Champions League in 2011.

from his post at Schalke due to health

Schalke were paired with Manchester

concerns and former manager Hubb

United in the semi-ﬁnal and despite a

Stevens replaced him.

valiant performance, lost the tie on aggregate. One notable former player club set about establishing itself as one of Germany s major footballing forces. 2001 and 2002 saw back-to-back German Cups as well as second place Bundesliga ﬁnishes in 2001, 2005 and 2007.

Modern Schalke

In the 07/08 season, Schalke managed

Last season Schalke

who had a large impact on not only

ﬁnished 3rd in the

Schalke but also German football as a

Bundesliga, gaining

whole was Raúl, formerly of Real

them entry into next

Madrid. Upon leaving Real Madrid

seasons Champions

where he played continuously

League. The lure of

throughout his professional career, Raúl

European football

choose to sign for Schalke. This move

continues to progress

was hugely successful for both player

Schalke as they seek a Bundesliga title

and club as he became one of the key

which has thus far eluded them.

players and a fans favourite during his

to progress from the group stages of the Champions League, and then made it to the quarter-ﬁnals after beating Porto on penalties. The run was to end there as they were defeated by Barcelona in the last eight. 2006 brought real hope for the future of the club as they signed a sponsorship deal with Russian oil company Gazprom. This deal was to see Gazprom pledge investment of €125 million into the club. The past few years have seen several managerial changes at the club. Mirko Slomka was sacked as headcoach after a string of heavy defeats that included elimination from the Champions League. Fred Rutten was next to be given the hot seat however he too was dismissed after just one

Below: After dogs were released at an earlier fixture between Schalke and Dortmund, Schalke decided to up the stakes by borrowing a Lion from the local zoo

1. FC Nürnberg

JUBILÄUM 50 1. FC Nürnberg Profile

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Club fans would like the Stadium named after club legend Max Morlock, However the club have so far ignored these pleas preferring to

use the naming rights as an income source

1. FC Nürnberg Profile Christopher Gallagher It s one of the most

Like most major European

signiﬁcant cities in German,

cities, it takes pride in its

if not European history. It s

football team. The iconic

twinned with iconic towns like Prague, Venice and

FC Nürnberg or Der Club as its aﬀectionately known is an important part of the

Glasgow. It s

city s makeup. An all-

located in

conquering force in the

Bavaria and

1920 s, it has found success

known for it s culture.... welcome to Nürnberg.

hard to come by in recent times.

Season 2011/12 saw Nürnberg finish in 10th position in the Bundesliga. Having flirted with European qualification throughout the campaign, they missed out by a mere six points. Der Ruhmreiche s current three season run in Germany s top division has seen them grow from relegation

1. FC Nürnberg

JUBILÄUM 50 1. FC Nürnberg Profile

BundesligaFootball candidates to mid table

in the third tier of German

when they adopted the

stalwarts.

football in 1996, they set up

phrase "The club is an idiot"

a trust to assist and

which was coined by a local

The club is currently moving

represent their loyal

commentator after

in the right direction but

followers. Since 2000 the

Nürnberg were relegated

the supporters are well

club has employed a fan

from the Bundesliga in

aware they re never far

representative to liaise and

1994.

away from becoming relegation fodder once again. A run in the top division between 2004 and 2008 saw the club strengthen, earn

Former club president, michael A. Roth spent over 30 year on the board and in that time seen 15 coaches come and go.

two top ten ﬁnishes, win a trophy and qualify for Europe. It also saw them relegated at the end of the

keep a clear communication between the supporters

Demotion to 2.Bundesliga

and the club.

that year was bad enough but an investigation into

2007/08 season.

The fans are a huge part of what Nürnberg is all about. When the club was playing

Known for their self

ﬁnancial improprieties lead

deprecating humour, fans

to the club being docked six

of The Club have seen it

points and a further

all. Their fun spirit can be

relegation, this time to the

summed up beautifully

third tier of German football.

Club At a Glance Founded 1900 Top Scorer Max Morlock 588 confirmed - est 700 Stadium Stadion Nürnberg 48548

Banishment to the Regionalliga Süd

Honours

took its toll on the

club but, with the help of the fans, they

regrouped and within two seasons were back in the top division. The last two decades have seen Nürnberg staggering their

1. FC Nürnberg

JUBILÄUM 50 1. FC Nürnberg Profile

BundesligaFootball time between the

The team celebrate their only Bundesliga victory. After which Manager Max Merkel decided to refresh the squad, a disastrous decision as the team were

Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga, ﬁnding it incredibly diﬃcult to consolidate in the top league.

Legacy

Der Altmeister did consolidate themselves at the top of the tree in the 1920 s, winning ﬁve

three separate occasions

round of

national titles between

defeating Fortuna

matches, they would

1920 and 1932. It may

Düsseldorf in 1936 and

remain there until the end

have been six had it not

losing twice to Schalke in

of the season. It would be

been for the judgment

1934 and 1937.

Der Club s ﬁrst Bundesliga trophy and their ninth

taken by the DFB to award Hamburg the 1922 title.

The formation of the

German national

Due to injury, the inability

Bundesliga saw Nürnberg

championship overall.

to make substitutions and

invited as part of

referee incompetence, the

the Oberliga

decision was made that as

Süd draft.

Nürnberg were down to

Initially they

seven men they couldn t

found

continue. The decision

themselves

was contested but the

nothing more

Bavarian club renounced

than a mid table

the title in the name of

team, struggling

sportsmanship.

to really assert

The 1930 s and early 40s was a

The euphoria of 1. FC Nürnberg have the dubious honour of being the only team to be relegated as defending Bundesliga champions and also as reigning DFB Pokal winners.

winning their ﬁrst, and at this point only, Bundesliga title would be overshadowed a mere twelve months later when, as German

themselves but that

champions, FC Nürnberg

would all change in the

were relegated.

1967/68 season. A positive start to the

period that had In a remarkable campaign,

current Bundesliga

under the guidance of

campaign will likely be

Max Merkel, Nürnberg

taken with a pinch of salt

would be dominant.

by a very unique group of

their peers. Nürnberg

Sitting atop the

fans, so seldom seen in

would contest the ﬁnal on

Bundesliga after the ﬁfth

the modern game.

a dominant Schalke win the championship more than any of

Werder Bremen

JUBILÄUM 50 Werder Bremen

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SV Werder Bremen - Klaus-Dieter Fischer Allan Edgar

From Top Left to Right: Head Coach Thomas Schaaf, fans celebrate the historic Double, players lift the DFB-Pokal, General manager Klaus Allofs,

Werder Bremen President

is now in his sixth decade

talks to Bundesliga

Current club President

with the club, attributes

Football about striving for

Klaus-Dieter Fischer kindly

their continued

success at Werder Bremen,

spoke to Bundesliga

relative success to a

but not at any cost.

Football about Werder s

number of

evolution since the advent

factors.

One of the most

of the Bundesliga.

prominent and consistent

Fischer

clubs in the Bundesliga,

Aside from an ultimately

Werder Bremen were the

productive one-year stint

second side to win a

in the second division in

Bundesliga title. The

1980/81, Werder have

success would be the ﬁrst

been a mainstay of the

of four Bundesliga titles

Bundesliga and have

and came on the 1,000th

enjoyed signiﬁcant success

anniversary of the city of

both at home and in

Bremen in 1965.

Europe. Herr Fischer, who

advises that their success is derived, unsurprisingly, from a number of factors,

Werder Bremen

JUBILÄUM 50 Werder Bremen

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some of which may even frustrate the fans at the Weserstadion.

I think it is very important that Werder did not take part the rapid economic development like some other clubs in the Bundesliga. We have never been trend-setters in this ﬁeld, indeed, we reacted relatively late in this respect. That is

Islanders push for domestic success but Herr Fischer

not at any cost and it is a policy which

“I think it is very important that Werder did not take part the rapid economic development like some other clubs in the Bundesliga.”

may frustrate some of their fans. Fischer

partly because of the Hanseatic commercial behaviour that we have here in Bremen.

however reserved special praise and credit for the fans who have backed their side continually in his reign as President.

The fans always support the calm and reﬂective behaviour of Werder Bremen,

even in diﬃcult situations. You can see that in the situation we have at the moment. After two not- so-

Fischer s assertions ring true in an era when

successful seasons, there are very few less fans

Bundesliga clubs, particularly those with European

backing the club.

endeavours, in the last decade can expect to see a sustainable and substantial income. In the last ten years, Werder have spend

Club At a Glance

approximately €137 million on new players, averaging just over €14 million each

Honours

Founded 1899

year. In the same period though they have taken in around €160 million in transfer fees - showing a positive balance between acquisitions and sales.

Top Scorer Marco Bode

101

Stadium 1

Weserstadion ! ! 42,500

Whilst other clubs have taken signiﬁcant risks in the same period (both with and without success), Werder have continued to remain a force in the Bundesliga; they ﬁnished runners-up to Bayern Munich in both 2005/06 and in 2007/08 and narrowly missed out on UEFA Cup success in 2008/09 to cashrich Shakhtar Donetsk.

Werder s hierarchy fully support the River

When discussing consistency and Werder, Thomas Schaaf is seldom far from the discussion. At 51-years-old, Schaaf has spent a staggering 41 years with the club - his development and footballing evolution has occurred exclusively with Werder. Fischer s praise for the current coach could not be higher.

He took over and established his quiet and meticulous way of coaching and as

Werder Bremen

JUBILÄUM 50 Werder Bremen

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of yet, I cannot see any signs

that he took charge of the

an expression here in

of fatigue. He always feels up

U-17 team as well as his role

Bremen that describes our

for the new challenges and

in the ﬁrst-team. It is a

belief in unexpected

he stays calm in critical

decision which has perhaps

success. We call it

situations. That is typical for

gone on to deﬁne Werder

Miracles of the

Werder Bremen as a club

Bremen in the preceding

Weser ".

also.

quarter of a century. Fans will

Schaaf brought the club

The story of Schaaf and

cling on

arguably its biggest success

sporting director Klaus Allofs

to the

when they won a domestic

goes a long way to deﬁning

words

double in 2004, capturing

the modern Werder Bremen.

of the

the Bundesliga title and the

In footballing terms though,

President,

DFB-Pokal. The appointment

2004 will seem a long-time

hoping for

of the second team coach

to the fans who visit the

another such

Schaaf in 1999 was justiﬁed

Weserstadion each week

miracle in the near

immediately but in 2004 the

and the current squad seems

future.

coach aﬃrmed his status as

ill-equipped to come close

one of the Werder greats.

such a feat again.

Fischer recalls Schaaf asking

Whilst their ﬁfth Bundesliga

for a new contract in 1987

title seems a long way away,

and looking for an extra 500

Fischer retains faith in a

Deutsche Marks per month,

model that has served their

around £200 pounds, and

club well since the formation

Fischer agreeing on the basis

of the Bundesliga: We have

When Werder won the double in 2004 they were only the Third team to do so. Bayern München and Köln were the others. Dortmund joined the elite group in 2012.

JUBILÄUM 50 Eintracht Braunschweig

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Eintracht Braunschweig Left: The controversial & immensely talented Paul Breitner [C], Friedhelm Haebermann [L] & Uli Stielike [R] Below: The Eintracht Braunschweig squad pose with the salad bowl

Eintracht Braunschweig Allan Edgar Being only the fourth team to Eintracht Braunschweig are one

Football to take us a little deeper

of the founding members of

into the history of the club.

Bundesliga and won the famous salad bowl in 1967 - it would be

Lower-Saxony club proudly sing about the title-winning side at

The memory of 1967 is very

their only top-ﬂight title. It

prevalent but we have to

remains to this day the clubs

remember that this success was

greatest achievement and is

over 45 years ago Leppert said.

fondly remembered by their fans.

win the Bundesliga, fans of the

every match in the 67th minute as a tribute. Clearly the shadow of that success looms large over the club and whilst they have not played in the top-tier since 1985, only recently

Just over 45 years since that momentous victory though, Eintracht ply their trade in 2. Bundesliga and have ﬂirted with relegation to the Regionalliga in recent years. Eintracht Braunschweig historian and author of Ein roter Löwe auf der Brust (A red lion on the chest) spoke to Bundesliga

Eintracht Braunschweig

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Bundesliga as 3. Liga champions

to develop these players and

adjusted.

in 2010/11. A respectable 8th

make them into 2. Bundesliga

ﬁnish upon their return to 2.

players

Just as important a date for the

Bundesliga suggests

future of the club though could

Lieberknecht is a promising

With an average age of 25.10 in

be May 31, 2008. The 2007/2008

coach at only 38.

the current ﬁrst-team squad,

campaign of the Regionalliga was to be its ﬁnal as the third-tier

Lieberknecht has clearly Leppert enthuses about the

assembled a side developing

of German football with

organically - it is the

the introduction of 3.

only way a club like

Liga from 2008/09. The

Braunschweig can

top two sides from the

attempt to

league would be

compete as they

promoted to 2.

have watched the

Bundesliga. Clubs

likes of 1899

ﬁnishing 11th - 19th

Hoﬀenheim and

would be relegated to

ﬁerce rivals

what would be the

Hannover 96 pass

fourth-tier of the

them by in their

league system.

charge to the Bundesliga.

Braunschweig managed to ﬁnish 10th, a mere three goals separating them

Eintracht haven t Eintracht Braunschweig squad displaying their new team badge. The team swapped their lion logo for the Jägermeister stag for a reported 100,000 marks in 1973

from 1. FC Magdeburg who would face relegation. Winning two of their ﬁnal three matches, new coach Torsten Lieberknecht (who had

club from straying into the fourth-division for the ﬁrst time in their history.

Braunschweig have improved year-on-year under Lieberknecht ﬁnishing 13th, 4th and then ﬁnally being promoted to 2.

whilst Hoﬀenheim,

ethos in which the current regime at The Lions now operate with the emphasis upon developing players.

under benefactor Dietmarr Hopp, have spent around €70

In the recent years, our players had to come from the Bundesliga or have played there before. They were expensive but they were not particularly good. Since 2008

Since those tense ﬁnal days,

for a player under the current coach

just been promoted as under-19 coach), had spared the historic

paid a transfer fee

though, we have a new way. Now we look for free players or cheaper players, sometimes from the ﬁfth league where nobody knows them. Lieberknecht looks

million in the same period. Despite the clear disparity in ﬁnancial might and Hoﬀenheim s top-tier status, both clubs

Eintracht Braunschweig

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have similar attendances with the Red Lions attracting around

Club At a Glance

25,000 each home-match in 2. Bundesliga. Hoﬀenheim can expect an average of 28,000 per week at the Rhein-Neckar Arena in the small town of Sinsheim.

Clearly this diﬀerence between the two sides is a concern for fans of Eintracht as they fear a growing gap in ﬁnances between

Honours

Founded 1895 Top Scorer Ronald Worm

102

Stadium Eintracht-Stadion 25540

Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga sides and even between the top and bottom half of the Bundesliga.

West. After a friendly between

however there has been no clear

Dynamo Berlin and FC

evidence presented.

Kaiserslautern, Eigendorf opted Whilst Eintracht fans will never forget their glorious past, they are clearly recalibrating their expectations and won t measure

not to return to the East and

Eintracht are a club that have

instead remained in the West

been through testing times on

where he would play in the

and oﬀ the ﬁeld, and at times

Bundesliga with Kaiserslautern.

ﬂirted with the relative

the current success against that of the past.

Eintracht s history though, like many other German clubs, carries with it the scars of a

anonymity of the Regionalliga The defection was particularly

and ﬁnancial ruin. Under their

embarrassing to the GDR and

current coach though The Lions

particularly their Ministry for

look a side comfortable with

State Security who were so

making small steps in the right

closely linked with Dynamo

direction that leave them with a

Berlin. In 1983, after only eight

sustainable long-term future.

games for Eintracht, Eigendorf was killed in a driving collision.

turbulent 20th Century. In 1982, midﬁelder Lutz Eigendorf would join Braunschweig but only a year later he would die in suspicious circumstances.

In March 1979, Eigendorf defected from the East to the

Whilst they look back to their glory days in the formative years

Heribert Schwan s 2000

in the Bundesliga and the big-

documentary The long arm of

names signings such as Paul

the Stasi and the fall of Lutz

Breitner from Real Madrid in

Eigendorf and the 2010 court

1977, the current coach is a

testimony by Karl-Heinz Felgner

sobering inﬂuence not only on

certainly suggest that Eigendorf s

the clubs hierarchy but also,

death could have been

crucially, the legions of Eintracht

orchestrated by the Stasi

fans who revel in their former glory.

Ottmar Hitzfeld

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Left: Ottmar Hitzfeld Below: Paul Lambert Lifts the UEFA Champions League Trophy

Ottmar Hitzfeld talks to Bundesliga Football Ross Dunbar The mantlepiece in the Hitzfeld

Hitzfeld's old clubs - dominating

tell them what do you no. They

household boats some of the best

the Bundesliga landscape. The 63-

know enough.

honours in world football. In nearly

year-old coach knows how much

seven-and-a-half years in Bavaria,

of blow ﬁnishing second for two

he won ﬁve Bundesliga

seasons running will be.

championships, three DFB Pokal

Apart from that, they have already got a very skillful Swiss national team player

cups and a Champions League

Speaking exclusively to Bundesliga

winners medal.

Football, he said: It is very hard for

And of course, the

this club to end up with no title.

Swiss international

During his ﬁrst spell in Munich,

They could have won 3 of them ‒

mentioned by the

between 1998 and 2004, Hitzfeld

the Bundesliga, DFB Pokal and

experienced coach

created a super-power in German

UEFA Champions League. At the

is the young,

football and the legacy of his

end, the success wasn't there and

attacking-midﬁelder

mentally-strong, self-conﬁdent

the disappointment huge - since

Xherdan Shaqiri, who

sides are still felt in Munich to this

Bayern is obliged to win at least to

will bring a refreshing

day.

win one title in a year.

option for Jupp Heynckes next season.

But in recent seasons, success has

When asked about how FC Bayern

evaded the 22-time German

should improve for next season, he

However, one of Hitzfeld's best

champions, with a new-look

added: Yet, it is not up to me to

imports whilst at Borussia

Borussia Dortmund - one of

Dortmund was Scottish midﬁelder

Ottmar Hitzfeld

JUBILÄUM 50 Ottmar Hitzfeld

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mates in the dressing rooms,

host of other awards, including,

Borussen to become Champions

taking care of both young players

World Coach of the Year on two

League winners in 1997. The

and those who played under the

occasions, FC Bayern's greatest-

Baden-born coach led the club to

weather.

ever coach, UEFA Coach of the

two Bundesliga trophies in the 1990s, as well as, the 1996-97

Year and German Football Coach He was what I call a 100%

Champions League, won in his

of the Year.

professional.

future home in Munich.

And despite collecting a plethora Hitzfeld is joined in a select camp

of honours in Germany, Hitzfeld

He was impressed by Lambert

of Dortmund coaches to win back-

feels his successes in Switzerland

during Motherwell's UEFA Cup

to-back titles by current coach

were just as important in his early

clash with Dortmund in 1994-1995

Jurgen Klopp. The 44-year-old

development as a coach.

and just 12 months later, Hitzfeld

secured the club's ﬁrst title in nine

pulled out all the stops to sign the

seasons before clinching their ﬁrst-

"Yes, of course, these wins are very

defensive-midﬁelder.

ever double-winning triumph. The

important for any team manager.",

Champions LeagueLambert spent 12

he said.

winning coach is

months in Germany before returning to Scotland with Celtic but he made a telling impact, winning the

"That year in Germany changed my life forever and for the better, and I'll always be grateful for what they did."

Champions League and the Bundesliga in

impressed by what

"However, I do not like listing titles

Klopp has achieved at

in some sort of a top chart. When I

Dortmund over the last

started my career as a team

four years.

manager in the early 80's I gave myself ﬁve years to settle in this

He added: They have

Paul Lambert

the same season. His

business.

done very, very well indeed in the

"Lucky enough, I was able to win a

former coach in Dortmund, who

championship. They may have

title with my ﬁrst ever team Zug,

spent most of his playing career

taken advantage of an early drop

then a title with my second team

with FC Basel and VfB Stuttgart,

out in the UEFA Champions

Aarau, then I could move to the

believes Lambert played an

League, whereas Bayern kept

famous Grasshopper Club in

essential, and under-rated, role in

going on to the ﬁnal and being

Zurich. So these ﬁrst wins with

his Champions League-winning

part of three competitions.

small clubs in Switzerland are very

side.

important ones, too." As expectations grow in times of

Being a player, he used to think as a team manager. , he noted.

success Dortmund need to do better on the international carpet, whereas Bayern have got used to it. In the Bundesliga, though, the

Teams Managed SC Zug

1983–1984

those teams again, I am sure. And

FC Aarau

1984–1988

has been

remember, FC Bayern have always

Grasshopper Club Zürich 1988–1991

successful since

given good answers to questions

Borussia Dortmund

1991–1997

he became a

like yours.

Bayern Munich

1998–2004

Between Dortmund and Bayern,

Bayern Munich

2007–2008

Hitzfeld won 16 major honours in

Switzerland

2008–

So it is no

way to the victory leads across

surprise that he

coach now. He was a leader on the pitch and outside of it, speaking to his team

German football and racked up a

JUBILÄUM 50 1. FC Kaiserslautern

1. FC Kaiserslautern

1. FC Kaiserslautern Profile Christopher Gallagher Originally playing in the

legendary forward spent

were one of the big

Oberliga Südwest from

his entire career at the

players in German football

1945 until the formation of

club scoring a remarkable

with admittance to the

the Bundesliga in 1963, FC

380 goals in 411

Bundesliga guaranteed in

Kaiserslautern were

appearances. The

1963.

crowned champions of the

Kaiserslautern native is

German Southwest league

held in such high regard

Having dominated

on 11 diﬀerent occasions.

by the club, the stadium

their regional league

The Rhineland-Palatinate

now bears his name. The

so overwhelmingly,

club would go on to lift

Hero of Berne never got

would Kaiserslautern

the

German

n a t i o n a l championship twice during this period, in 1950/51 and 1952/53.

The club’s top Goal scorer, Fritz Wlater, didn’t have the opportunity to play in the Bundesliga

the opportunity to

ﬁnd the same success

play

the

on a national level? Sadly

Bundesliga,

for them the answer is no.

retiring before its

In fact it would be several

inception.

decades before the club

from Germany s South The Bundesliga

West would win another

The spirit of Die

trophy.

Roten Teufel throughout

After

winning

their regional days could

remarkable 11 titles from a

The 1960 s saw

be summed up by one

possible 18 in the Oberliga

Kaiserslautern

man, Fritz Walter. The

Südwest, Kaiserslautern

struggle in the

Below: Westkurve Kaiserslautern

1. FC Kaiserslautern

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Bundesliga with their only

defending champions Bayern

consequential drop to 2.

notable performance coming

Munich, put them top of the

Bundesliga followed. In what

in the 1966/67 season, securing

Bundesliga, a position they

was a bitter sweet season for

a top ﬁve ﬁnish. The 1970s and

would hold until the end of the

the side, they also lifted the

80s saw the club ﬁnish mainly

season.

DFB Pokal for the second time

in mid-table in Germany s top

in their history, defeating

ﬂight but they did have success

It was an exceptional title

Karlsruher SC by a single goal

in the DFB Pokal, making it to

triumph for a club that hadn t

in the ﬁnal.

the ﬁnal in 1972, 1976 and

tasted championship success

1981. Sadly they were on the

since 1953. The Kaiserslautern

Starting life in 2.Bundesliga in

losing side on each occasion.

fans, renowned for their

September 1996, no one could

knowledge and passion for the

have predicted they would be

The 90 s would start with a

game, could only dream of

crowned German champions at

bang for the club, as the

such success.

the end of the following

1990/91 season heralded their ﬁrst ever Bundesliga title

season. In an unprecedented The Highs and Lows

feat, new manager Otto

victory. The previous campaign

Rehhagel

guided

saw the club win the DFB cup,

Having competed in the

Kaiserslautern to promotion to

yet avoid relegation by a mere

Bundesliga since its inception

the Bundesliga before winning

point. With no expectation

in 1963, Kaiserslautern were

the title itself.

on their shoulders a great

part of an elite group that had

start to the 1990/91

never experienced relegation.

In a squad which included

championship was

However, in 1996 that all

Swiss midﬁeld maestro Ciriaco

compounded in March

changed when they ﬁnished

Sforza, Bulgarian international

when a victory over

16 th in the table and the

Marian Hristov and veteran Andreas Brehme, the quality of the players was balanced by

Club At a Glance

Rehhagel s

Oﬀensive or controlled attack approach. The club lost only

Honours

Founded 1900

four matches all season,

2 Top Scorer Fritz Walter

380

Stadium Fritz-Walter-Stadion 49,780

kontrollierte

remaining top of the table on 32 out of the 34 match days. On their return to the

Bundesliga they were crowned champions making history in the process.

The "Westkurve" section of the Fritz-Walter-Stadion was said

1. FC Kaiserslautern

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to be comparable to the

shortfall in television

An uninspiring push for

Kop at Anﬁeld throughout

revenue due to the

promotion

the season, as the fans

collapse of KirchMedia, as

Kaiserslautern languish in

took on the role of the

well as a cost spiralling

the second division for

team s eleventh man. The

renovation of the Franz-

three years, until the

electrifying atmosphere

Walter-Stadion in

2009/10 season when they

generated by the

preparation for the 2006

gained automatic

Kaiserslautern faithful

World

left

p r o m o t i o n .

helped the team record

Kaiserslautern on the brink

Kaiserslautern s run in the

important victories against

of bankruptcy.

Cup

top division

Dortmund, Hamburg and Mönchengladbach on

A consortium took

their way to the title.

over the reigns at the club and in

The Cost of Success

order to relieve some

saw

lasted only two

The Fritz-Walter-Stadion was originally called Sportplatz Betzenberg and is built upon Betzenberg Hill, hence its nickname "Betze". The name change took place along with renovations in the mid 1980’s

seasons; they now

ﬁnd

themselves facing life in

the

2.Bundesliga

The Bundesliga winning

ﬁnancial burden,

season of 1997/98 has

sold the stadium to a

to an abysmal showing

become a distant memory

specially-created company

in 2011/12.

to the fans of the club, as

in which the city, the

they have never hit those

regional government of

heady heights again. The

Rheinland-Phalz and local

Kaiserslautern fans

following campaign the

banks would take shares.

can again only

The Red Devils competed

In a further move to raise

dream of being one of

in the Champions League,

funds the club sold the

Germany s top side, they

making it as far as the

transfer rights of Miroslav

need only to look back on

quarter-ﬁnal stage before

Klose to the regional

the glorious 1990/91

being humbled by

branch of lottery company

campaign for inspiration.

compatriots Bayern

Lotto, for €5 million.

For the moment though, 2.

Munich by six clear goals on aggregate.

once more due

Bundesliga is The Red The perilous ﬁnancial

Devils reality.

situation took its toll on The departure of Otto

the team with the quality

Rehhagel in 2000, as well

of player being recruited

as some key players, would

dropping signiﬁcantly. The

see the Rhineland-

fears of the fans were

Palatinate club start a slide

recognised as the club was

down the Bundesliga table

relegated from the

from which they wouldn t

Bundesliga at the end of

recover. To add to the

the 2005/06 season.

woes on the ﬁeld, a

Fritz Walter with the world cup after the Miracle of Berne

Marco Haber

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Marco Haber talks Kaiserslautern Christopher Gallagher

The ‘91 Kaiserslautern squad celebrate their victory

Marco Haber spent six years with Kaiserslautern from 1989 till 1995. During his time at Die roten Teufel the Grünstadt native won the Bundesliga title and the DFB Pokal. The former German International is currently team manager at The Red Devils and looks back at his playing days with the club aﬀectionately.

Bundesliga Football: What is your fondest memory of your time at Kaiserslautern?

MH: In 1991 we won the German championship and our fans went totally nuts. Believe me, starting in Cologne where we won the last match, during the long ride home and then for more than a week, it was like the worlds biggest party in one of the smallest football towns. Bundesliga Football: The Kaiserslautern fans are notoriously passionate, what was it like playing in front of the famous Westcurve? MH: I was born close to Kaiserslautern and played for the club s

Marco Haber

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youth teams. As a young guy I myself was one of the spectators on the Westkurve. It is like a natural force to play in front of them and as a player you sometimes feel a push of energy rushing through your veins anytime the crowd is extremely passionate. Bundesliga Football: What players did you enjoy playing with most during your time at the club? MH: I enjoyed playing with many players but not one in particular. We always played as a team and were successful as a team. This is what FCK is famous for, being a real team and fighting until the very end. Bundesliga Football: Having won the Bundesliga in the 1997/98 season and then playing in the Champions League the following campaign, can you ever see theclub hitting those heights again? MH: To be honest, football has changed an awful lot and the business side of the game becomes more and more dependent on money and economic factors. We are in a very good position, due to the fact that we modernised the club down to the core, but to be as successful as we were years ago? I don't see it in the near future. Bundesliga Football: The 2011/12 season saw Kaiserslautern relegated to the2.Bundesliga. How equipped are the club to regain promotion to theGerman top flight? MH: We have done our homework and are going to fight for promotion. Bundesliga Football: The upcoming season will be the Bundesliga's 50th anniversary, how do you think it compares to Europe s other top leagues? MH: If you take a close look at the Bundesliga, you'll see that it s the most professional, most successful, most attractive and most competitive league in Europe an football and possibly the world. Maybe the Bundesliga doesn't have the worlds greatest players in it but the stadiums are class A and nowhere else are so many spectators attending the matches. Even with the recent economic downturn, the Marco as coach [above] and in his playing days [right]

Bundesliga is prospering.

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Karlsruher SC

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Karlsruher SC - Sean Dundee Allan Edgar

15,343, the club attracted

The 1990 s is perhaps one of

Karlsruhe struggled in the ﬁrst

the most fascinating eras in the

ﬁve years of the Bundesliga,

development of the modern

not managing any better than

Bundesliga; reuniﬁcation of

a 13th place ﬁnish before

East and West re-introduced

being relegated to the

an old dynamic, the TV boom

Regionalliga Süd in 1967/68.

under Premiere Sports and

They would not return to the

success at both the 1990 World

Bundesliga until 1975 and

Cup and in Euro 1996 made

consistently dropped between

German football once again

the Bundesliga and the newly-

exciting.

formed 2.Bundesliga before

an average gate of 28,833 in the 1994/95 campaign.

Sean Dundee joined Karlsruhe from TSF Ditzingen at the start of the 1995/96 campaign; the South-African forward spent 16 of his 17 years in professional football in Germany and spoke to Bundesliga Football about his time at Karlsruhe.

settling into a top-ﬂight Despite being one of the

continuity under head coach

original members of the

Winfried Schäfer.

goals in 34 Bundesliga Süd games made him an attractive

league, Karlsruher SC (based in the south-

Karlsruhe s relative success in

west of Germany)

the mid-nineties Bundesliga

would make this era

may have been modest but by

their most successful

their current standards, it could

one after three

be deﬁned as a golden-era.

decades in which they struggled to remain at the top-tier of the

professional game.

Dundee s proliﬁc record of 24

Compared to last season s average attendance of

proposition to Karlsruhe but the forward was as excited by the move as his new employers.

As a young player playing for a team where one of my heroes played was a moment in my career I'll never forget. Before leaving South Africa I had

BundesligaFootball - Marco Haber- Christopher Gallagher

Karlsruher SC

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secured a seventh place ﬁnish in

fans a glimpse at the level

wall at home so going to

1996 and sixth in 1997 to

expected of top-

Karlsruhe then was a dream and I

secure European football

tier sides.

looked up to so many players

as well as suggesting a

that played there when I was

long-term stay in the

Dundee returned

there and learnt a lot.

Bundesliga.

to Karlsruhe in 2004 and began

Häßler joined Karlsruhe in 1994

Karlsruhe, though, were

after spells with Juventus and

unable to take their

to notice changes which Sean Dundee : “ ... football in Germany has got a lot better ..”

Roma in Serie A. The midﬁelder

momentum into the

he can see to this

was German Footballer of the

1997/98 campaign, in

year in 1989 and 1992, winning

which, a promising start

the 1990 World Cup before

did not continue and by March

somewhat surprisingly moving

1998, the club hero Schäfer was

to Karlsruhe in a record-deal in

relieved of his duties as the club

1994. The previous year,

hovered above the relegation

Germany has certainly got a lot

Karlsruhe reached the semi-ﬁnals

spots. The change in personnel,

better, the development of

of the UEFA Cup including a

though, would not herald a

young players is paying oﬀ and

stunning 7-0 aggregate win over

revival and the club were then

every season there are groups of

Valencia. Clearly, Karlsruhe were

relegated in 1998.

young players coming through

day in the German game

a team looking to deﬁne

and how it is viewed.

Well I see that football in

and doing well. Even in South

themselves as one of the top

Since that relegation in 1998,

Africa it's becoming very

sides in Germany.

Karlsruhe have spent 11 of the 15

popular, during the

subsequent years in the

Euros the amount of

Dundee would go on to score 33

2.Bundesliga with a brief two-

people that spoke

goals in 61 games for Karlsruhe

year spell in the Bundesliga again

about German

between 1995 and 1997. KSC

between 2007 and 2009, giving

football had increased since the

Club At a Glance

World Cup.

While German football as a

Founded 1894

Honours

whole is well-set to remain at the top of the game for the foreseeable future, the same

Top Scorer Emanuel Günther 139 Stadium Wildparkstadion 29,699

cannot be said for Karlsruhe. One

of the founding members of the league will look to return to the second-tier this year - the heights of the Bundesliga and glory nights in Europe seem a long time ago.

Hertha BSC

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Hertha in the Bundesliga - Instability to rely upon Ross Dunbar Hertha Berlin may not have been one

Hertha s timeline was postponed until

championship s with Tennis only two

of the top sides in the Bundesliga for a

sporting institutions were giving

triumphs coming in 1932 and 1941

few decades now but The Old Lady has a

permission to re-form in

rich history of triumphs to add to their

the late 1940s.

troubles.

But, even though the

Before the Second World War, Hertha

war had concluded in

were by far the most successful team in

1945, Hertha s location in

Berlin with 12 Oberliga Berlin

the capital, when Berlin

championships and a further four Berlin

was split between the

Cup victories. The era of the Third Reich

Allied Forces meant there

and the years

of war meant that

against the dominant Old Lady.

The Olympiastadion was built for the 1936 summer Olympics and has been Hertha Berlin’s home since 1963

were signiﬁcant political

The long-term dominance of Hertha BSC meant they were awarded entry to the newly-formed Bundesliga in 1963. After a spell of consistent football and success, Hertha s history

barriers that had to be hurdled in order to

faced another hurdle when they were

play football. The Blues found a sturdy

demoted from the top division in 1965

local opponent in Tennis Borussia Berlin

for bribing players to play in the hostile

when they were banned from competing

city, following the erection of the Berlin

against East German clubs in the 1950s.

Wall. Despite a return to the league in

Tennis Berlin collected a host of

1968-69, Hertha were involved in more

honours in the ﬁfties including 16 Berlin-

controversy, as part of a match-ﬁxing

Landespokal s which is a record, to this

scandal in 1971 where the sale of their

day. However, Hertha were still on top

former ground

when it came to Berlin league

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raised enough ﬁnance to keep the club aﬂoat. The seventies, though, brought

Club At a Glance

some of Hertha s greatest sides under the management of Georg Kessler and Kuno Klötzer, with four UEFA Intertoto Cup victories, a second-placed Bundesliga ﬁnish in 1975 and a place in two DFB

Honours

Founded 1892 Top Scorer Michael Preetz

Pokal ﬁnals, in the space of three years at the end of the decade. At the heart of this positive era were the likes of Erich Beer, Ludwig Müller, Norbert Nigbur and

Stadium The Olympiastadion 77,166

Karl-Heinz Granitza ‒ all of the former were voted into Hertha s Team of the Century in 2011.

and the club invested heavily in

New boss Jos Luhukay, who led FC

international stars, such as, Brazilian

Augsburg to the Bundesliga last season,

be continuous though. They spent much

attacking-midﬁelder Marcelinho. Jürgen

has been handed the task of leading

of the 1980s in the 2.Bundesliga with 13

Röber s tenure at the Berlin

Hertha back to the top-ﬂight over the

of 17 seasons in the second division.

Olympiastadion took Hertha into the

next 12 months. The Old Lady have not

However, led by head coach Werner

UEFA Cup and in 1999, the UEFA

been shy in showing their ambition with

Fuchs, they returned to the Bundesliga in

Champions League where they faced

the likes of Sami Allagui, Ben Sahar and

1990, just months after the dramatic

Barcelona and Chelsea in the group

Sandro Wagner joining the club over the

events in the centre of Berlin. They

stages. Two of the current coaches in the

close season.

returned to a league where East German

Bundesliga, Huub Stevens and Lucien

sides were not playing against their

Favre, had successful stints in Berlin with

20 years in the second

Western counterparts.

the current Borussia Mönchengladbach

division since the

coach, Favre, leading Hertha to a fourth-

formation of the

place ﬁnish in 2009.

Bundesliga, this

Hertha s relative success would not

It was a brief stay in the league though as the romance of the capital side did not translate onto the pitch, they

Since then, Hertha have bounced

Having spent well-over

will be familiar

were relegated in the same season. Like

between the top and second divisions,

territory to the

many other clubs in Germany, Hertha

returning to the Bundesliga in 2011

most successful side

suffered some financial difficulties in the

under Markus Babbel and then dropping

from the German

mid-90 s and they plunged into 10m DM

back to the 2.Bundesliga this season,

capital. Berliner s can again

(around €5.10m) worth of debt before

following the controversial promotion/

look forward to a derby between

returning to the Bundesliga in 1997.

relegation play-oﬀ against Fortuna

Hertha BSC in the West and FC Union

Dusseldorf in May 2012.

Berlin in the East.

The millennium brought a change in direction and ambitions for The Old Lady

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SC Preußen Münster Christopher Boud

Münster fans eager for a look at the 100,00 mark line

Hundred-ThousandMark Line , a precursor to the likes of the Galácticos of Real Madrid. This was a forward five consisting of: right winger Felix Fiffi Gerritzen, Borussia Dortmund legend Alfred Adi Preißler, striker Rudolf Schulz, left wing Joseph "Jupp" Lammers and inside forward Siegfried "Sigi" Rachuba. Briefly included in the group was Altona 93 s impressive forward, Werner Erb. Erb Although known as

ranks with German

couldn t reproduce the

Die Adler (the Eagles),

Football tradition and

form he had shown for

at one time SC Preußen

decided to augment

the Hamburg club

Münster had a good

and improve the team

though and only

claim to Bayern

with the purchase of

managed four starts in

players.

the year he spent with

München s now famous nickname, FC Hollywood. It was during Hollywood s own Golden Age that the Prussian club broke

The signiﬁcant break

Münster.

from amateurism

The Hundred

started in the 1940 s

Thousand Mark

under suspicion and by

moniker was an

1951 this spending

indicator of just how

resulted in the

valuable this all-star

formation of what

ensemble was, rather

became known as the

than actual cost to

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assemble the players. Bringing the stars of the day in what was still an amateur environment required some ingenuity on the behalf of the Prussian club s board; the player contract statute of the day meant players could be oﬀered a maximum of 320DM a month including a 10 DM match-day bonus (around £458 today). Led by club chairman and engineering magnate Josef Granpa

Above: a ticket from one of Münster’s 1.Bundesliga games, a 0:2 defeat to Eintracht Braunsweig. Helmut Hosung and Hans-Georg Dulz scored in the 83rd and 87th minute respectively

Oevermann who had helped forge the Prussia-ring a group of local businessmen

change to SC Preußen Münster took place. The

willing to provide incentives for players to ply

club became the ﬁrst team [along with their

their trade for Münster. The club supplemented

opponents] to have one of its games broadcast

incomes with rent-free, furnished ﬂats and

live on German radio ‒ they played Arminia

oﬀered to help provide future careers for players

Bielefeld.

by helping set up businesses, from painting companies to petrol stations. According to Adi Preißler (petrol station proprietor) they also received some additional beneﬁts:

With the restructuring of German Football that took place under the Nazi regime, Preußen found themselves in the Gauliga Westfalen, one of the 16 topﬂight leagues that were created

"After the training we were given a bottle of milk

throughout the country. In what was an

and a sausage with potato salad.

indicator of their, soon to be, elevator-club status between 1933 and 1941 the club were

Innovative, controversial and initially successful, Münster were one of the greatest German front lines and managed to make it all the way to the national ﬁnal in 1951 where a fantastic 1.FC Kaiserslautern defeated them. 107,000 spectators watched as Münster took the lead only to lose to a second half resurgence from a team that included ﬁve of the future Miracle of Bern team.

relegated twice. After the Second World War had ended they managed to return to the top ﬂight to what was now the Oberliga West. The club s reemergence in the 1948-49 season tied into the teams period of

The ﬁnal in Berlin s Olympiastadion was one of

spending. After impressive

the club s ﬁnest moments. They had humble

second and fourth place

beginnings, formed as FC Preußen in 1906 by a

ﬁnishes the club settled into a

group of students at Johann-Conrad-Schlaun

mid-table placing. To the delight of the club s

Grammar School. The team quickly tasted

supporters those results where enough for Die

success becoming Westphalia Champions in

Alter to be included in the inaugural Bundesliga.

1914 and again in 1921. It was in 1921 the name

pattern of

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That ﬁrst season started reasonably well for

than one occasion during the 1970 s the club

Münster, the opening game of the league was

have spent most of their subsequent seasons

located in the Preußen-Stadion as Die Alter faced

moving between the second and third-tiers of

Hamburg SV. In another set of ﬁrsts, it was the ﬁrst

German football. In 1994 the team lifted the now

ever-recorded Bundesliga match and also the

defunct German Amateur Championship, with a

only sell out of the ﬁrst round. The match ended

1-0 victory over Kickers Oﬀenbach.

in a one-all draw with Preußen striker Falk Dörr In their centenary year, 2006, the team had the

grabbing a late equaliser. Unfortunately for

misfortune to be relegated to Germany s fourth-

Münster fans the rest of the season was not so enjoyable; the team only managed seven victories

tier, the decisive defeat [a 2-1 reverse against Wuppertaler SV Borussia], took place on the very

that year and suﬀered a number of poor results

day of the association s 100th anniversary.

such as the return leg against Hamburg, where Preußen were destroyed 5-0. Finishing 15th in the

After that embarrassing event the club tried to

16 team league they shared the dishonour of

emulate the success of the 1951 Hundred-

relegation with 1. FC Saarbrücken. They do not

Thousand-Mark Line team by spending,

however share with anyone the dubious honour

relatively, big and bringing in players with

of being the only founding Bundesliga

experience of playing in the second and third-

member to have

tiers. It was an expensive failure as the team failed

played just one

to gain promotion. The board took a new

season in the

direction and installed the young Roger Schmidt

league.

as head coach. Schmidt rejuvenated the side,

Although coming close to promotion to the Bundesliga on more

utilising younger, less expensive players. The team showed gradual but marked improvement and the board continued this trust in youth policy replacing Schmidt with Marc Fascher, and Fascher with Pavel Dotschew, both young managers who have continued

Club At a Glance Founded 1906 Top Scorer Siegfried Rachuba 97 Stadium Preußenstadion 15,050

Honours

Schmidt s good work at the club. Fascher gained the side promotion to 3.Bundesliga in the 2010-11 season and he and Dotschew managed to secure a

No Bundesliga, German Cup or European Trophies.

solid 12th place ﬁnish this season. SC Preußen Münster fans will hope that with continued hard work they may see their team once again grace the heights of the Bundesliga.

1. FC Saarbrücken

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Above: Tony Yeboah Left: FCS fan set off flares at SV Eintracht Trier 05

1.FC Saarbrücken Profile Ross Dunbar There is not a club, like 1.FC

War, 1.FC Saarbrücken returned ‒ but

representing the region in UEFA

Saarbrücken, who can symbolise the

in the French league system. With

Competitions and winning the

fractured nature of Germany s

Saarland still occupied by French

Ehrenliga in 1951.

political and football history.

forces until 1957, die Molschder had a

Saarbrücken is the capital of the

spell in the second division across the

Saarland state which lies precariously

border.

The rest of Germany had been planning for the inception of the Bundesliga for a number of years, to on the German and French border with just over one million inhabitants

Progress was being made in mending in the region. broken relationships

replace the Although Saarbrücken won the French Ligue 2, they were denied entry to Ligue 1, possibly to avoid the embarrassment of having a German team win the French Championship

Before the First World War, Saarland

with the German FA

did not exist and the population was

but Saarland became

split between Prussia and Bavaria. It

an autonomous

did unify with the rest of the German

region, establishing

states in 1935 but was soon at the

their own FIFA membership and

heart of the struggles between the

competing in the Olympic Games and

two neighbouring countries in the

World Cup of 1952 and 1954,

1940 s.

respectively. At club level, Saarbrücken were obviously the

After being banned by the authorities in the late years of the Second World

dominant force in Saarland,

complex regional system that had been in place for nearly six decades.

Herrmann Neuberger was the inﬂuential ﬁgure in, not just the league s formation, but securing a place for Saarbrücken, amongst the

1. FC Saarbrücken

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Hamburg (3-2) in back-to-

were weaker than a number of other

back matches in March.

rivals from Saarland.

Roland Stegmeyer scored 35 Bundesliga goals in his

Despite being one of the founding career and netted four members, Saarbrücken s spells in the against the Bavarians in German top-ﬂight have been limited, their home win. with just ﬁve seasons there since 1963. The club was relegated in the

Their following season in

ﬁrst year of the Bundesliga, ﬁnishing

the Bundesliga would

bottom of the table after 30 league

eventually end in relegation

games.

but many fans might have been content given that

Saarbrücken returned to the Bundesliga in 1970 s and spent two

Kraﬀt s side defeated FC Bayern (2-1), Hamburg (2-1) seasons under the stewardship of and Schalke (2-1). Manfred Kraﬀt. In 1976/77, they Germany vs Saarland Program

After a short spell in the Amateur

provincial German

Oberliga s, Saarbrücken returned to

clubs. They failed to

the end of the

the Bundesliga for two more spells in

meet the DFB s

campaign. Although,

1986 but dropped back to the second

licensing

division in tame fashion. Having been

requirements in 1995 and were forced

up some

relegated in 1993 from the Bundesliga

to drop back into the regional leagues

memorable

in their most-recent period in the top-

which proved to be an immense blow

ﬂight, Saarbrücken plunged into a

for the club.

survived by just a few points, ﬁnishing in 15th place at

Saarbrücken did pick

victories, hammering FC Bayern (6-1) and

ﬁnancial crisis, like many other

They have yo-yoed between the 2.Bundesliga and Regional Divisions

Club At a Glance Founded 1903 Top Scorer Herbert Martin 253

Honours

for the last two decades, spending four years in the second-tier, including an eighth-place ﬁnish in 2001. The introduction of the 3.Liga came as a welcome boost for die

No Bundesliga, DFB Pokal or Major European Trophies.

Molschder who have become a solid mid-table side in the third-tier since 2010. That said, in their ﬁrst campaign

Stadium Ludwigsparkstadion 35303

in the 3.Liga, they ﬁnished in an excellent sixth but fell another four places at the end of the following season.

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The Future of the Bundesliga Allan Edgar whole reality. Last year, there were a number of In our own short-time covering the Bundesliga, we have been continually reminded by our readers and listeners of the strengths of the German model of

protests by different sets of top-flight supporters to defend the affordable pricing structure offered by clubs.

football. Fans of both Borussia Dortmund and Hamburger SV It is easy to see why; the regularly cited beneﬁts including a more fan-orientated, cost-eﬀective and welcoming environment for the fans. There is a real feeling amongst football fans in other parts of Europe, most notably for us in the UK, that we are merely consumers.

With such vocal support from beyond the borders it is easy to be swept up in the idea of a Utopian football structure and league. That however is not the

were appalled at the ticket hikes, of up to 54% percent, for their match at the Imtech Arena last season. Fan-backing is vital to the clubs even although ticket sales are not quite as lucrative as they are to their European counterparts.

Should the primacy of the fan in the Bundesliga pyramid be altered, they key diﬀerence between

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European leagues may well be blurred. An average of 44,293 fans attended each Bundesliga match last-year, the closest competitor in Europe was the

Logo of the The ‘Kein Zwanni‘ Protest - no to €20 campaign

English Premier League with an average of 34,601 at each match. The last trophy for the German Whilst Bundesliga clubs are now run on a more sustainable business, it is a continual ﬁght

national side came at the 1996 European Championships, held in England. The impending era of UEFA s

between securing a long-term future and achieving success. Bundesliga coaches are as expendable as there peers in neighbouring leagues and are subject to the same pressures.

Since the dawn of the new millennium, German success in Europe has been sparse with

Although German sides have

Financial Fair Play (FFP) has

continually populated the

been largely welcomed by

latter stages of European

German clubs, feeling their

competition, it is an area which

relative prudence (against

they have been unable to excel

European counterparts) may

in. Spanish sides have won 10

now have a tangible and not

of 26 possible UEFA honours

just morale beneﬁt.

(Champions League and UEFA/ Europa League) since 2000.

sceptical of the ability of UEFA Bayern s 2001 Champions League victory the only European trophy success. Since that success, Bayern have ﬁnished runners-up

Whilst many have been

That volume of success dwarfs

to enforce a level ﬁnancial

what Bundesliga sides have

playing-ﬁeld, the early signs

been able to achieve, relying

are perhaps encouraging. 23

heavily on the continuity of

clubs, including Europa League

Bayern Munich to maintain a

winners Atletico Madrid, had

German presence in the latter

prize money withheld as they

stages of the Europe s premier

had

club competition, the Champions League.

twice and Bayer Leverkusen also lost out in the 2002 ﬁnal. There have been UEFA Cup (and latterly Europa League) runners-up spots for both Borussia Dortmund and Werder Bremen since 2000.

Although the funding gap which may be required to achieve European success will need to be bridged somehow, fans groups will continue to ﬁght to ensure they are not the main source.

The DFB Pokal

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Reus, Höwedes and Götze the young stars of Germany who promise a bright future failed to pay out important payments to other clubs, employees or national authorities. The development of the Bundesliga has not always Such a move appears to suggest that UEFA, on the

been as forward-thinking and productive as the last

face of it at least, are determined to impose more

decade but the fact that it is at that stage now

responsible ﬁnancing upon clubs. Clubs will be able

suggests the Bundesliga s status as one of the most

to circumvent the rules, particularly the top-end

successful professional sports leagues in the world is

clubs but the new moves could possibly see an

all but assured.

aggregate improvement for German clubs who are, at least somewhat, better equipped to welcome the new climate.

Despite only now celebrating a 50th professional anniversary, German football could be described as a market-leader in a number of ﬁelds including structure, solvency and crucially, product.

References

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FURTHERREADING JUBILÄUM 50 References

English-Language Websites: •

www.bundesliga.com

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www.bundesligafanatic.com

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www.bundesligalounge.com

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www.bundesligafootball.co.uk

English Podcasts: •

www.Talkingfussball.podbean.com

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www.Bundesligafanatic.podbean.com

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www.Bundesligashow.posterous.com

German-Language Websites: •

www.kicker.de

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www.sportbild.bild.de

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www.bundesliga.de

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www.spielverlagerung.de

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www.11freunde.de

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www.fussballdaten.de

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www.express.de

Books: •

Tor! ‒ Uli Hesse

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Englischer Fussball ‒ Raphael Honigstein

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Robert Enke: A Life Too Short ‒ Ronald Reng

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Kicker Sonderheft ‒ 2012/2013