1966–67 Bundesliga

Bundesliga
Season 1966–67
Champions Eintracht Braunschweig
1st Bundesliga title
1st German title
Relegated Fortuna Düsseldorf
Rot-Weiss Essen
European Cup Eintracht Braunschweig
Cup Winners' Cup Bayern Munich (title holders)
Hamburger SV (losing DFB Cup finalists to Bayern)
Goals scored 895
Average goals/game 2.92
Top goalscorer Lothar Emmerich (28)
Gerd Müller (28)
Biggest home win M'gladbach 11–0 Schalke (7 January 1967)
Biggest away win Karlsruhe 1–6 FC Bayern (10 September 1966)
Düsseldorf 0–5 Dortmund (7 January 1967)
Highest scoring M'gladbach 11–0 Schalke (11 goals) (7 January 1967)

The 1966–67 Bundesliga was the fourth season of the Bundesliga, West Germany's premier football league. It began on 20 August 1966 and ended on 3 June 1967.[1] 1860 Munich were the defending champions.

Competition modus

Every team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. If two or more teams were tied on points, places were determined by goal average. The team with the most points were crowned champions while the two teams with the least points were relegated to their respective Regionalliga divisions.

Team changes to 1965–66

Borussia Neunkirchen and Tasmania Berlin were relegated to the Regionalliga after finishing in the last two places. They were replaced by Fortuna Düsseldorf and Rot-Weiss Essen, who won their respective promotion play-off groups.

Season overview

The 1966–67 season was surprisingly won by Eintracht Braunschweig. The Lower Saxony side, located near the border to the Soviet occupation zone, had previously been a mid-table team and were not expected to have anything to with the title race before the season. But a strong defense, which only allowed 27 goals in 34 games, an unexpectedly even-balanced league and struggling opposition (for example, runners-up 1860 Munich were in 17th place after one third of the season before starting a comeback) eventually benefitted the team of coach Helmuth Johannsen.

In European competitions, the Cup Winners' Cup was transferred from Dortmund to another West German team as FC Bayern beat Rangers from Scotland on a Franz Roth goal in the final at Nuremberg. The team from Munich also defended their domestic cup title, enabling finalists Hamburger SV, who finished the season in a dismal 14th place, to enter the Cup Winners' Cup as well.

At the bottom side of the table, newly promoted sides Fortuna Düsseldorf and Rot-Weiss Essen had to leave the league again after only one year. The competitional differences between the professional Bundesliga and the semi-professional Regionalligen had already become very difficult to compensate so that the demotion of both teams was inevitable the more the season continued.

On a minor note, Meidericher SV was renamed MSV Duisburg effective to the start of the year 1967.

Team overview

Club Ground[2] Capacity[2]
Eintracht Braunschweig Eintracht-Stadion 38,000
SV Werder Bremen Weserstadion 32,000
Borussia Dortmund Stadion Rote Erde 30,000
MSV Duisburg Wedaustadion 38,500
Fortuna Düsseldorf Flinger Broich 28,000
Rot-Weiss Essen Georg-Melches-Stadion 40,000
Eintracht Frankfurt Waldstadion 87,000
Hamburger SV Volksparkstadion 80,000
Hannover 96 Niedersachsenstadion 86,000
1. FC Kaiserslautern Stadion Betzenberg 42,000
Karlsruher SC Wildparkstadion 50,000
1. FC Köln Müngersdorfer Stadion 76,000
Borussia Mönchengladbach Bökelbergstadion 34,500
TSV 1860 München Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße 44,300
FC Bayern Munich Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße 44,300
1. FC Nuremberg Städtisches Stadion 64,238
FC Schalke 04 Glückauf-Kampfbahn 35,000
VfB Stuttgart Neckarstadion 53,000

League table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GAvg
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Eintracht Braunschweig (C) 34 17 9 8 49 271.815 43 1967–68 European Cup First round
2 1860 Munich 34 17 7 10 60 471.277 41 1967–68 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round
3 Borussia Dortmund 34 15 9 10 70 411.707 39
4 Eintracht Frankfurt 34 15 9 10 66 491.347 39 1967–68 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round
5 1. FC Kaiserslautern 34 13 12 9 43 421.024 38
6 Bayern Munich 34 16 5 13 62 471.319 37 1967–68 European Cup Winners' Cup First round 1
7 1. FC Köln 34 14 9 11 48 481 37 1967–68 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round
8 Borussia Mönchengladbach 34 12 10 12 70 491.429 34
9 Hannover 96 34 13 8 13 40 460.87 34 1967–68 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round
10 1. FC Nürnberg 34 12 10 12 43 500.86 34
11 MSV Duisburg 34 10 13 11 40 420.952 33
12 VfB Stuttgart 34 10 13 11 48 540.889 33
13 Karlsruher SC 34 11 9 14 54 620.871 31
14 Hamburger SV 34 10 10 14 37 530.698 30 1967–68 European Cup Winners' Cup First round 1
15 Schalke 04 34 12 6 16 37 630.587 30
16 Werder Bremen 34 10 9 15 49 560.875 29
17 Fortuna Düsseldorf (R) 34 9 7 18 44 660.667 25 Regionalliga
18 Rot-Weiss Essen (R) 34 6 13 15 35 530.66 25

Source: www.dfb.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal average
Meidericher SV changed their name to MSV Duisburg during the season.
1Bayern Munich won the 1966–67 European Cup Winners' Cup and thereby automatically qualified as defending champions. As Bayern also won the 1966–67 DFB-Pokal, runners-up Hamburger SV were given the European spot reserved for the domestic cup winners.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away BRS BRE DORDUIDÜSRWEFRAHAMH96KAIKARKÖLMGLM60MUNNURS04STU
Eintracht Braunschweig 20 31 00 40 00 30 20 01 20 41 10 21 10 52 41 10 11
Werder Bremen 23 21 11 10 00 30 51 30 11 03 13 22 24 41 44 21 12
Borussia Dortmund 00 20 41 12 00 31 70 30 21 21 61 32 11 40 01 62 11
MSV Duisburg 00 10 15 11 20 00 21 30 11 01 10 13 12 00 20 30 00
Fortuna Düsseldorf 11 01 05 15 20 24 22 10 31 10 13 22 01 00 22 31 33
Rot-Weiss Essen 00 01 11 01 04 11 11 30 11 31 13 21 22 31 11 41 13
Eintracht Frankfurt 01 41 33 10 30 50 13 33 11 51 40 10 33 21 14 42 40
Hamburger SV 10 11 11 00 21 11 02 21 10 10 13 20 32 31 01 11 11
Hannover 96 42 21 20 30 02 10 21 10 21 31 01 11 22 21 20 12 22
1. FC Kaiserslautern 20 20 11 00 21 52 11 21 10 31 00 10 03 10 11 10 33
Karlsruher SC 30 44 20 30 32 01 32 11 00 22 11 33 31 16 01 10 41
1. FC Köln 10 41 11 11 20 21 14 00 11 21 22 12 20 24 20 21 31
Borussia Mönchengladbach 00 11 40 33 31 43 00 42 20 11 31 30 23 12 20 110 12
1860 Munich 21 21 12 33 30 10 21 20 30 30 30 21 43 10 12 02 11
Bayern Munich 20 10 10 21 12 41 12 31 00 50 22 20 43 30 01 50 11
1. FC Nürnberg 04 21 20 31 42 11 01 10 11 12 22 11 10 22 01 04 33
Schalke 04 00 01 14 21 21 11 11 20 21 03 13 10 00 10 21 10 20
VfB Stuttgart 12 11 10 13 31 10 30 13 12 01 20 22 02 20 24 10 11

Source: www.dfb.de
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

28 goals
18 goals
17 goals
15 goals
14 goals
13 goals

Champion squad

Eintracht Braunschweig
Goalkeepers: Horst Wolter (32); Hans Jäcker (2).

Defenders: Jürgen Moll (34 / 5); Peter Kaack (34); Walter Schmidt (33); Klaus Meyer (30); Wolfgang Matz (5); Wolfgang Brase (3).
Midfielders: Joachim Bäse (33); Hans-Georg Dulz (32 / 5).
Forwards: Erich Maas (33 / 11); Gerd Saborowski (33 / 8); Lothar Ulsaß (32 / 14); Klaus Gerwien (21 / 4); Wolfgang Grzyb (15 / 2); Wolf-Rüdiger Krause (2).
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

Manager: Helmuth Johannsen.

On the roster but have not played in a league game: Wolfgang Simon; Werner Rinas.

See also

References

  1. "Archive 1966/1967 Schedule". DFB. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011.
  2. 1 2 Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs, Band 7: Vereinslexikon (in German). Kassel: AGON Sportverlag. ISBN 3-89784-147-9.

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