Fußball-Bundesliga

Season	1978–79
Champions	Hamburger SV 1st Bundesliga title 4th German title
Relegated	Arminia Bielefeld 1. FC Nuremberg SV Darmstadt 98
European Cup	Hamburger SV
Cup Winners' Cup	Fortuna Düsseldorf
UEFA Cup	VfB Stuttgart 1. FC Kaiserslautern FC Bayern Munich Eintracht Frankfurt Borussia Mönchengladbach (title holders)
Goals scored	946
Average goals/game	3.09
Top goalscorer	Klaus Allofs (22)
Biggest home win	Düsseldorf 7-1 FC Bayern (9 December 1978)
Biggest away win	M'gladbach 1-7 FC Bayern (24 March 1979) Darmstadt 1-7 Stuttgart (9 June 1979)
Highest scoring	7 games with 8 goals each
← 1977–78 1979–80 →

Fußball-Bundesliga 1978–79 was the sixteenth season of the Fußball-Bundesliga, West Germany's premier football league. It began on 11 August 1978^[1] and ended on 9 June 1979.^[2] 1. FC Köln were the defending champions.

Contents 1 Competition modus 2 Team changes to 1977–78 3 Season overview 4 Team overview 5 League table 6 Results 7 Top goalscorers 8 Champion Squad 9 See also 10 External links 11 References

[edit] 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 three teams with the least points were relegated to their respective 2. Fußball-Bundesliga divisions.

[edit] Team changes to 1977–78

TSV 1860 Munich, 1. FC Saarbrücken and FC St. Pauli were relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after finishing in the last three places. They were replaced by Arminia Bielefeld, winners of the 2. Bundesliga Northern Division, SV Darmstadt 98, winners of the Southern Division and 1. FC Nuremberg, who won a two-legged promotion play-off against Rot-Weiß Essen.

[edit] Season overview

[edit] Team overview

Club	Ground[3]	Capacity[3]
Berlin Hertha BSC Hertha BSC Berlin	Olympiastadion	100,000
Bielefeld Arminia Bielefeld	Stadion Alm	35,000
Bochum VfL Bochum	Ruhrstadion	40,000
Braunschweig Eintracht Braunschweig	Eintracht-Stadion	38,000
Bremen SV Werder Bremen	Weserstadion	32,000
Darmstadt SV Darmstadt 98	Stadion am Böllenfalltor	30,000
Dortmund Borussia Dortmund	Westfalenstadion	54,000
Duisburg MSV Duisburg	Wedaustadion	38,500
Dusseldorf Fortuna Düsseldorf	Rheinstadion	59,600
Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt	Waldstadion	62,000
Hamburg Hamburger SV	Volksparkstadion	80,000
Kaiserslautern 1. FC Kaiserslautern	Stadion Betzenberg	42,000
Koln 1. FC Köln	Müngersdorfer Stadion	61,000
Mönchengladbach Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bökelbergstadion	34,500
München Bayern FC Bayern München	Olympiastadion	80,000
Nuremberg 1. FC Nuremberg	Städtisches Stadion	64,238
Schalke FC Schalke 04	Parkstadion	70,000
Stuttgart VfB Stuttgart	Neckarstadion	72,000

[edit] League table

 

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Hamburg  (C)	34	21	7	6	78	32	+46	49	European Cup 1979–80 First round
2	Stuttgart	34	20	8	6	73	34	+39	48	UEFA Cup 1979–80 First round
3	Kaiserslautern	34	16	11	7	62	47	+15	43
4	Bayern Munich	34	16	8	10	69	46	+23	40
5	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	16	7	11	50	49	+1	39
6	Köln	34	13	12	9	55	47	+8	38
7	Fortuna Düsseldorf	34	13	11	10	70	59	+11	37	Cup Winners' Cup 1979–80 First round
8	Bochum	34	10	13	11	47	46	+1	33
9	Eintracht Braunschweig	34	10	13	11	50	55	−5	33
10	Mönchengladbach	34	12	8	14	50	53	−3	32	UEFA Cup 1979–80 First round 1
11	Werder Bremen	34	10	11	13	48	60	−12	31
12	Borussia Dortmund	34	10	11	13	54	70	−16	31
13	Duisburg	34	12	6	16	43	56	−13	30
14	Hertha BSC	34	9	11	14	40	50	−10	29
15	Schalke 04	34	9	10	15	55	61	−6	28
16	Arminia Bielefeld (R)	34	9	8	17	43	56	−13	26	2. Fußball-Bundesliga
17	Nuremberg  (R)	34	8	8	18	36	67	−31	24
18	SV Darmstadt 98  (R)	34	7	7	20	40	75	−35	21

Source: www.dfb.de
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored.
¹Mönchengladbach won the UEFA Cup 1978–79 and thereby automatically qualified as defending champions.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

[edit] Results

[edit] Top goalscorers

22 goals

• Klaus Allofs (Fortuna Düsseldorf)

21 goals

• Klaus Fischer (FC Schalke 04)

18 goals

• Rüdiger Abramczik (FC Schalke 04)

17 goals

• Kevin Keegan (Hamburger SV)
• Klaus Toppmöller (1. FC Kaiserslautern)

16 goals

• Dieter Hoeneß (VfB Stuttgart)
• Harald Nickel (Eintracht Braunschweig)

15 goals

• Manfred Burgsmüller (Borussia Dortmund)

14 goals

• Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (FC Bayern Munich)
• Georg Volkert (VfB Stuttgart)

[edit] Champion Squad

1.

Hamburger SV

Goalkeeper: Rudolf Kargus (34). Defenders: Manfred Kaltz (34 / 6); Peter Nogly (34 / 1); Ivan Buljan (32 / 5); Peter Hidien (31 / 3); Hans-Jürgen Ripp (8); Uwe Beginski (1). Midfielders: Kevin Keegan (34 / 17); Jimmy Hartwig (34 / 10); Caspar Memering (34 / 4); Horst Bertl (24 / 5); Felix Magath (21 / 4). Forwards: Horst Hrubesch (34 / 13); Willi Reimann (26 / 5); Bernd Wehmeyer (19 / 2); Hans-Günther Plücken (7 / 1). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Manager: Branko Zebec . On the roster but have not played in a league game: Jürgen Stars; Bernd Gorski; Andreas Karow; Thomas Bliemeister.

[edit] See also

• 2. Bundesliga 1978–79
• DFB-Pokal 1978–79

[edit] External links

• DFB Bundesliga archive 1978/1979

[edit] References

v • d • e Fußball-Bundesliga seasons 1963–64 · 1964–65 · 1965–66 · 1966–67 · 1967–68 · 1968–69 · 1969–70 · 1970–71 · 1971–72 · 1972–73 · 1973–74 · 1974–75 · 1975–76 · 1976–77 · 1977–78 · 1978–79 · 1979–80 · 1980–81 · 1981–82 · 1982–83 · 1983–84 · 1984–85 · 1985–86 · 1986–87 · 1987–88 · 1988–89 · 1989–90 · 1990–91 · 1991–92 · 1992–93 · 1993–94 · 1994–95 · 1995–96 · 1996–97 · 1997–98 · 1998–99 · 1999–2000 · 2000–01 · 2001–02 · 2002–03 · 2003–04 · 2004–05 · 2005–06 · 2006–07 · 2007–08 · 2008–09 · 2009–10