VfL Bochum
Full name	VfL Bochum 1848 e.V.
Founded	1848
Ground	rewirpowerSTADION
Capacity	31,328
Chairman	Werner Altegoer
Manager	Marcel Koller
League	Bundesliga
2006/07	Bundesliga, 8th
Home colours Away colours

VfL Bochum is a German football club based in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. Image File history File links VfL_Bochum. ... Year 1848 (MDCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Ruhrstadion is a multi-use stadium in Bochum, Germany. ... Rungnado May Day Stadium is the worlds largest football stadium. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Switzerland. ... Marcel Koller (born in Zürich, November 11, 1960) is a former Swiss football (soccer) player, a midfielder, and is currently the coach of VfL Bochum. ... The official Bundesliga logo. ... Hamburger SV SV Werder Bremen Hannover 96 VfL Wolfsburg Hertha BSC Berlin Energie Cottbus Arminia Bielefeld Borussia Mönchengladbach FC Schalke 04 VfL Bochum Borussia Dortmund Alemannia Aachen Bayer 04 Leverkusen Eintracht Frankfurt 1. ... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... body of kit template - modified to include navyblue stripes It creates based on Image:Kit body whitestripes. ... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ... This is a list of football clubs in Germany. ... Bochum is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Coat of arms Location Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DEA Capital Düsseldorf Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU) Governing parties CDU / FDP Votes in Bundesrat 6 (from 69) Basic statistics Area  34,084 km² (13,160 sq mi) Population 18,033,000...

History

Founding to World War II

VfL is one of the oldest sports organizations in Germany claiming an origin date of July 1848 when planning began for the creation of a new gymnastics club. Bochumer TV was then formally established on February 18, 1849. However, the honour of being Bochum's first football club goes to the predecessor side Fußballklub 06, later known as SV Germania 06 Bochum. Year 1848 (MDCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Another ancestor - SuS Bochum - was formed in 1908, and played its first football match versus VfL Hamm in 1911. After a merger with another local side in 1919, they took on the name TuS Bochum 1848. 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ...

Two of these clubs played in the Gauliga Westfalen, one of sixteen top-flight divisions established through the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich in 1933. TuS Bochum appeared there briefly in 1936 and 1937, while Germania Bochum played in the division from 1933 to 1938. VfL Bochum was formed when the Nazis ordered the consolidation of TuS, Germania, and Turnverein Bochum 1848 and began play in the 1938-39 season. After 1943 they played with yet another club as the combined wartime side Kriegsspielgemeinschaft (KSG) VfL 1848 Bochum/Preußen Bochum until the end of the conflict. Although the club was able to field competitive sides, they had the misfortune of playing in the same division as Schalke 04 which was the dominant team of the era: Bochum's best results were a number of distant second place finishes. Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... FC Schalke 04 (short S04) is a German football team based in Gelsenkirchen. ...

Postwar and entry to Bundesliga play

Following the war the football section resumed play as the independent VfL Bochum Fussballgemeinschaft 1848 and played its first season in the second division 2.Oberliga West in 1949, while Preußen Bochum went on to lower tier amateur level play. VfL captured the division title in 1953 to advance to the Oberliga West for a single season. They repeated their divisional win in 1956 and returned to the top-flight until again being relgated after the 1960-61 season. 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

With the formation of the Bundesliga, Germany's new professional league, in 1963, VfL found itself in the third tier Amateurliga Westfalen. A first place result there in 1965 raised them to the Regionalliga West (II) from where they began a steady climb up the league table to the Bundesliga in 1971. During this rise Bochum also played its way to the final of the 1968 German Cup where they dropped a 1:4 decision to 1. FC Köln. The official Bundesliga logo. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The German Cup trophy The German Cup (official German name: DFB-Pokal, after Deutscher Fußball Bund Pokal or German Football Association Cup) is an elimination football (soccer) tournament held annually. ... 1. ...

In spite of being a perennial lower table side, Bochum developed a reputation for tenaciousness on the field in a run of twenty seasons at the top flight. The club made a repeat appearance in the German Cup final in 1988, this time going down 0:1 to Eintracht Frankfurt. Relegated after a 16th place finish in 1993, the team has become a classic "elevator side", bouncing up and down between the Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga. The club's best Bundesliga results have come relatively recently as 5th place finishes in 1997 and 2004, which earned them appearances in the UEFA Cup tournament. In 1997, they advanced to the third round where they were put out by Dutch side Ajax Amsterdam, and in 2004, they were eliminated early through away goals (0-0 and 1-1) by Standard CL Liège of Belgium. Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club, based in Frankfurt, Hesse that is best known for its football team. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... The 2nd Bundesliga is the Second Division of German soccer. ... Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams, organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). ... Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ... Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (Euronext: AJAX) also referred to as Ajax Amsterdam, AFC Ajax, or simply Ajax (pronounced /ˈʌɪjaks/), is a professional football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in football matches contested over two legs in which a winner must be determined. ... Royal Standard de Liège, usually referred to as Standard Liège is a Belgian football club from the town of Liège. ...

Current

Today's sports club has 5,000 members with the football department accounting for over 2,200 of these. Other sections now part of the association include athletics, badminton, basketball, dance, fencing, gymnastics, handball, hockey, swimming, table tennis, tennis, and volleyball. A womens 400m hurdles race on a typical outdoor red rubber track. ... The Danish Olympic badminton player Peter Gade Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. ... Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by throwing a ball through a 10-foot high hoop (the basket) under organized rules. ... Dance (from French danser, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to movement used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. ... Fencing advertisement for the 1900 Summer Olympic Games This article is about the sport, which is distinguished from stage fencing and academic fencing (mensur). ... Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, balance, endurance, and kinesthetic awareness, such as handsprings, handstands, split leaps, aerials and cartwheels. ... Handball is the name of several different sports: Team handball, or Olympic/European Handball is a game somewhat similar to association football, but the ball is played with the hand, not the foot. ... Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a ball, or a hard, round disc called a puck, into the opponents net or goal, using a hockey stick. ... This article concentrates on human swimming. ... Jan-Ove Waldner Table tennis (also commonly known as ping-pong) is a game in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth to each other with bats (also sometimes called racquets or paddles). ... Arthur Ashe Stadium at Flushing Meadows, New York Tennis is a game played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players (doubles). ... Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms or (rarely) other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net. ...

Current players

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No. Position Player 1 GK Philipp Heerwagen 2 DF Matias Concha 3 DF Martin Meichelbeck 4 DF Marcel Maltritz (vice-captain) 5 MF Christoph Dabrowski 6 DF Pavel Drsek 7 FW Tommy Bechmann 8 MF Tomasz Zdebel (captain) 9 FW Stanislav Šesták 10 MF Joël Epalle 11 FW Marcin Mięciel 13 MF Danny Fuchs 14 FW Benjamin Auer 15 MF Daniel Imhof

No. Position Player 16 FW Marc Sand 17 MF Ivo Iličević 18 MF Oliver Schröder 19 MF Dennis Grote 20 DF Mergim Mavraj 21 MF Marc Pfertzel 24 DF Philipp Bönig 25 DF Antar Yahia 26 MF Heinrich Schmidtgal 27 GK Jan Laštůvka (on loan from FC Shakhtar Donetsk) 28 MF David Zajas 30 DF Patrick Fabian 31 GK René Renno

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Tommy Bechmann (born 22 December 1981) is a Danish football forward playing in VfL Bochum. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Poland. ... The Midfield in relation to the football positions In association football, a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders (highlighted in blue on the diagram). ... Tomasz Zdebel (born May 25, 1973) is a Polish footballer. ... The team captain of a football team, sometimes known as the skipper, is a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team: it is often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player that can heavily influence a game. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Slovakia. ... The striker (wearing the red shirt) has run past the defender (in the white shirt) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to attempt to stop the ball. ... Stanislav Šesták (born 16 December 1982) is a Slovak football (soccer) striker. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Cameroon. ... The Midfield in relation to the football positions In association football, a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders (highlighted in blue on the diagram). ... Joël Dieudonné Epalle (born February 20, 1978) is a Cameroonian football player. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Poland. ... The striker (wearing the red shirt) has run past the defender (in the white shirt) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to attempt to stop the ball. ... Marcin Mięciel (born December 22, 1975 in Gdynia) is a Polish footballer who plays for PAOK. Categories: | | | | | | ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... 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Oliver Schröder Oliver Schröder (Born June 11, 1980 in Berlin, Germany) is a midfielder for Hertha Berlin. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... The Midfield in relation to the football positions In association football, a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders (highlighted in blue on the diagram). ... Dennis Grote (born August 9, 1986 in Kaiserslautern, Germany) is a German footballer. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Mergim Mavraj (born 9 June 1986) is a German/Kosovo Albanian football player. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The Midfield in relation to the football positions In association football, a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders (highlighted in blue on the diagram). ... Marc Pfertzel (born 21 May 1981 in Mulhouse, France) is a French football defender who currently plays for A.S. Livorno Calcio. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Philipp Bönig (born March 20, 1980 in Erding, Germany) is a German footballer. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Algeria. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Antar (also Anthar) Yahia (Arabic: ) (born March 21, 1982 in Mulhouse) is a French-born Algerian football player who plays for German club VfL Bochum. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... The Midfield in relation to the football positions In association football, a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders (highlighted in blue on the diagram). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic. ... A goalkeeper. ... 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Players out on loan

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2007–2008 transfers

In

No. Position Player 1 GK Philipp Heerwagen (from SpVgg Unterhaching) 2 DF Matias Concha (from Djurgårdens IF) 9 FW Stanislav Šesták (from MŠK Žilina) 11 FW Marcin Mięciel (from PAOK) 13 MF Danny Fuchs (from SpVgg Greuther Fürth) 14 FW Benjamin Auer (back from a loan to 1.FC Kaiserslautern) 16 FW Marc Sand (from FC Kärnten)

No. Position Player 20 DF Mergim Mavraj (from SV Darmstadt 98) 21 MF Marc Pfertzel (from A.S. Livorno Calcio) 26 MF Heinrich Schmidtgal (from SC Verl) 27 GK Jan Laštůvka (on loan from FC Shakhtar Donetsk) 28 MF David Zajas (on trial from VfL Bochum II) 30 DF Patrick Fabian (on trial from VfL Bochum II)

Out

No. Position Player 1 GK Peter Skov-Jensen (to Sandefjord Fotball) 2 DF Benjamin Lense (to F.C. Hansa Rostock) 9 FW Fábio Júnior (to Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C.) 10 MF Dariusz Wosz (retired) 11 FW Joris van Hout (to K.V.C. Westerlo) 16 MF Zvjezdan Misimović (to 1. FC Nürnberg)

No. Position Player 17 DF Heiko Butscher (to SC Freiburg) 21 MF Filip Trojan (FC St. Pauli) 22 FW Theofanis Gekas (to Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 26 GK Alexander Bade (to SC Paderborn 07) 36 DF David Pallas (end of contract) 45 GK Jaroslav Drobný (to Hertha BSC Berlin)

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This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Denmark. ... A goalkeeper. ... Peter Skov-Jensen (born June 9, 1971) is a Danish football player who, as of 2005 was playing for VfL Bochum. ... Sandefjord Fotball is a professional Norwegian football club. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Benjamin Lense (Born November 30, 1978 in Lich, Germany) is a German footballer. ... F.C. Hansa Rostock is a German football club currently playing in the 2. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Brazil. ... The striker (wearing the red shirt) has run past the defender (in the white shirt) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to attempt to stop the ball. ... Fábio Júnior Pereira (Born November 20, 1977) is a Brazilian footballer. ... 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VfL Bochum II squad

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No. Position Player — GK David Buchholz — GK Andreas Luthe — DF Jürgen Duah (also holds German citizenship ) — DF Patrick Fabian — DF Thiemo Höhn — DF Christian Kalina (also holds German citizenship ) — DF Daniel Klinger — DF Marc-André Nimptsch — DF Oliver Rademacher — DF Rouven Schröder — MF Mirkan Aydın (also holds German citizenship ) — MF Pascal Groß

No. Position Player — MF Dilaver Güçlü (also holds German citizenship ) — MF Martin Lyttek (also holds German citizenship ) — MF Lukas Schmitz — MF Kevin Wölk — MF Deniz Yilmaz (also holds German citizenship ) — MF David Zajas (also holds Polish citizenship ) — FW Sami El-Nounou (also holds German citizenship ) — FW Stefan Kratofiel — FW Marko Onucka — FW Patrick Ziegler

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Honours

UEFA Cup

1997/98 (Third Round), 2004/05 (First Round)

German Cup finalists

1968, 1988

Bundesliga UEFA Cup qualification

1996/97 (5th), 2003/04 (5th)

Bundesliga top goal scorer

1985/86 (Stefan Kuntz, 22 goals), 2002/03 (Thomas Christiansen, 21 goals (w/Giovane Elber)), 2006/07 (Theofanis Gekas, 20 goals)

2. Bundesliga champions

1993/94, 1995/96, 2005/06

Promoted to Bundesliga

1970/71 (1st Regionalliga West, 1st promotion group #1), 1993/94 (1st), 1995/96 (1st), 1999/2000 (2nd), 2001/02 (3rd), 2005/06 (1st)

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League results

Notable players

See also: Category:VfL Bochum players

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Stadium

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The fully-roofed venue's capacity is 31,328, including standing room for 15,639.

Team trivia

• One of the most prominent supporters of VfL Bochum is popular German musician and actor Herbert Grönemeyer, who wrote the song "Bochum" which soon became the club's unofficial anthem sung by VfL fans prior to every home match.
• Some team supporters share a fan-friendship with FC Bayern Munich.
• In 1955, VfL Bochum became the first German football club to travel to Israel to play a friendship match.
• The club does not assign the number 12 to any player in order to honour its fans as the 12th man.

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Coaches

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External links

• The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
• Official website
• fussball.com