The 1988–89 Bundesliga was the 26th season of the Bundesliga, the premier football league in West Germany. It began on 22 July 1988 and ended on 17 June 1989. SV Werder Bremen 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 difference and, if still tied, by goals scored. The team with the most points were crowned champions while the two teams with the fewest points were relegated to 2. Bundesliga. The third-to-last team had to compete in a two-legged relegation/promotion play-off against the third-placed team from 2. Bundesliga.
Team changes to 1987–88 FC Homburg and FC Schalke 04 were directly relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after finishing in the last two places. They were replaced by FC St. Pauli and Stuttgarter Kickers. Relegation/promotion play-off participant SV Waldhof Mannheim won the penalty shootout of a decisive third match, which had become necessary after the regular two-legged series ended in an aggregated tie, against SV Darmstadt 98 and thus retained their Bundesliga status.
Team overview
Club Location Ground Capacity Bochum Ruhrstadion 40,000 Bremen Weserstadion 32,000 Dortmund Westfalenstadion 54,000 Frankfurt Waldstadion 62,000 Hamburg Volksparkstadion 62,000 Hanover Niedersachsenstadion 60,400 Kaiserslautern Fritz-Walter-Stadion 42,000 Karlsruhe Wildparkstadion 50,000 Cologne Müngersdorfer Stadion 61,000 Leverkusen Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion 20,000 Ludwigshafen Südweststadion 75,000 Mönchengladbach Bökelbergstadion 34,500 Munich Olympiastadion 80,000 Nuremberg Städtisches Stadion 64,238 Hamburg Stadion am Millerntor 18,000 Stuttgart Neckarstadion 72,000 Stuttgart Neckarstadion 72,000 Krefeld Grotenburg-Stadion 35,700
Waldhof Mannheim played their matches in nearby Ludwigshafen because their own ground did not fulfil Bundesliga requirements.
League table
Results
Relegation play-offs Eintracht Frankfurt and third-placed 2. Bundesliga team 1. FC Saarbrücken had to compete in a two-legged relegation/promotion play-off. Frankfurt won 3–2 on aggregate and retained their Bundesliga status.
Top goalscorers 17 goals Thomas Allofs (1. FC Köln) Roland Wohlfarth (FC Bayern Munich)
15 goals Uwe Bein (Hamburger SV)
13 goals Hans-Jörg Criens (Borussia Mönchengladbach) Jürgen Klinsmann (VfB Stuttgart) Harald Kohr (1. FC Kaiserslautern) Stefan Kuntz (Bayer 05 Uerdingen) Uwe Leifeld (VfL Bochum) Frank Neubarth (SV Werder Bremen) Karl-Heinz Riedle (SV Werder Bremen) Fritz Walter (VfB Stuttgart) Jürgen Wegmann (FC Bayern Munich)
Champion squad
FC Bayern MunichGoalkeeper: Raimond Aumann (34). Defenders: Hans Pflügler (34 / 4); Klaus Augenthaler (captain; 31 / 6); Norbert Nachtweih (29 / 3); Roland Grahammer (28); Erland Johnsen (13). Midfielders: Olaf Thon (32 / 8); Ludwig Kögl (32); Stefan Reuter (32); Hansi Flick (30 / 2); Hans Dorfner (22 / 6); Armin Eck (21 / 1); Helmut Winklhofer (1). Forwards: Roland Wohlfarth (33 / 17); Jürgen Wegmann (31 / 13); Johnny Ekström (23 / 7). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
Manager: Jupp Heynckes.
On the roster but have not played in a league game: Sven Scheuer; Uli Bayerschmidt; Matthias Hamann.
Attendances Source:
No. Team Attendance Change Highest 1 Borussia Dortmund 30,572 3.9% 54,000 2 Bayern München 30,412 8.5% 68,000 3 VfB Stuttgart 26,876 2.2% 68,900 4 1. FC Kaiserslautern 21,986 2.2% 38,300 5 FC St. Pauli 21,085 147.4% 53,950 6 1. FC Köln 20,941 -6.6% 60,000 7 Werder Bremen 20,591 -7.1% 37,204 8 Karlsruher SC 20,559 -4.9% 40,000 9 1. FC Nürnberg 18,929 -29.2% 42,000 10 Hamburger SV 17,615 10.0% 48,000 11 Eintracht Frankfurt 17,326 -18.6% 47,000 12 VfL Bochum 15,059 -11.4% 36,000 13 Hannover 96 14,325 -31.7% 29,900 14 Borussia Mönchengladbach 13,294 -6.7% 34,500 15 Waldhof Mannheim 13,007 -9.6% 28,000 16 Stuttgarter Kickers 12,296 102.8% 32,000 17 Bayer Leverkusen 12,253 28.8% 24,000 18 Bayer 05 Uerdingen 11,418 6.6% 28,000
See also 1988–89 2. Bundesliga 1988–89 DFB-Pokal
References
External links DFB Bundesliga archive 1988/1989