1966–67 Bundesliga

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.

Bundesliga
Season1966–67
Dates20 August 1966 – 3 June 1967
ChampionsEintracht Braunschweig
1st Bundesliga title
1st German title
RelegatedFortuna Düsseldorf
Rot-Weiss Essen
European CupEintracht Braunschweig
Cup Winners' CupBayern Munich (title holders)
Hamburger SV (losing DFB Cup finalists to Bayern)
Goals scored895
Average goals/game2.92
Top goalscorerLothar Emmerich (28)
Gerd Müller (28)
Biggest home winM'gladbach 11–0 Schalke (7 January 1967)
Biggest away winKarlsruhe 1–6 FC Bayern (10 September 1966)
Düsseldorf 0–5 Dortmund (7 January 1967)
Highest scoringM'gladbach 11–0 Schalke (11 goals) (7 January 1967)

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 fewest 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 do 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
Location of teams in Bundesliga 1966–67
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 Munich Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße 44,300
FC Bayern Munich Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße 44,300
1. FC Nürnberg 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 GR Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Eintracht Braunschweig (C) 34 17 9 8 49 27 1.815 43 Qualification to European Cup first round
2 1860 Munich 34 17 7 10 60 47 1.277 41 Qualification to Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round
3 Borussia Dortmund 34 15 9 10 70 41 1.707 39
4 Eintracht Frankfurt 34 15 9 10 66 49 1.347 39 Qualification to Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round
5 1. FC Kaiserslautern 34 13 12 9 43 42 1.024 38
6 Bayern Munich 34 16 5 13 62 47 1.319 37 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round[lower-alpha 1]
7 1. FC Köln 34 14 9 11 48 48 1.000 37 Qualification to Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round
8 Borussia Mönchengladbach 34 12 10 12 70 49 1.429 34
9 Hannover 96 34 13 8 13 40 46 0.870 34 Qualification to Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round
10 1. FC Nürnberg 34 12 10 12 43 50 0.860 34
11 MSV Duisburg[lower-alpha 2] 34 10 13 11 40 42 0.952 33
12 VfB Stuttgart 34 10 13 11 48 54 0.889 33
13 Karlsruher SC 34 11 9 14 54 62 0.871 31
14 Hamburger SV 34 10 10 14 37 53 0.698 30 Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round[lower-alpha 1]
15 Schalke 04 34 12 6 16 37 63 0.587 30
16 Werder Bremen 34 10 9 15 49 56 0.875 29
17 Fortuna Düsseldorf (R) 34 9 7 18 44 66 0.667 25 Relegation to Regionalliga
18 Rot-Weiss Essen (R) 34 6 13 15 35 53 0.660 25
Source: www.dfb.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal ratio.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. Bayern 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.
  2. Meidericher SV changed their name to MSV Duisburg during the season.

Results
Home \ Away EBS SVW BVB DUI F95 RWE SGE HSV H96 FCK KSC KOE BMG M60 FCB FCN S04 VFB
Eintracht Braunschweig — 2–0 3–1 0–0 4–0 0–0 3–0 2–0 0–1 2–0 4–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 5–2 4–1 1–0 1–1
Werder Bremen 2–3 — 2–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 3–0 5–1 3–0 1–1 0–3 1–3 2–2 2–4 4–1 4–4 2–1 1–2
Borussia Dortmund 0–0 2–0 — 4–1 1–2 0–0 3–1 7–0 3–0 2–1 2–1 6–1 3–2 1–1 4–0 0–1 6–2 1–1
MSV Duisburg 0–0 1–0 1–5 — 1–1 2–0 0–0 2–1 3–0 1–1 0–1 1–0 1–3 1–2 0–0 2–0 3–0 0–0
Fortuna Düsseldorf 1–1 0–1 0–5 1–5 — 2–0 2–4 2–2 1–0 3–1 1–0 1–3 2–2 0–1 0–0 2–2 3–1 3–3
Rot-Weiss Essen 0–0 0–1 1–1 0–1 0–4 — 1–1 1–1 3–0 1–1 3–1 1–3 2–1 2–2 3–1 1–1 4–1 1–3
Eintracht Frankfurt 0–1 4–1 3–3 1–0 3–0 5–0 — 1–3 3–3 1–1 5–1 4–0 1–0 3–3 2–1 1–4 4–2 4–0
Hamburger SV 1–0 1–1 1–1 0–0 2–1 1–1 0–2 — 2–1 1–0 1–0 1–3 2–0 3–2 3–1 0–1 1–1 1–1
Hannover 96 4–2 2–1 2–0 3–0 0–2 1–0 2–1 1–0 — 2–1 3–1 0–1 1–1 2–2 2–1 2–0 1–2 2–2
1. FC Kaiserslautern 2–0 2–0 1–1 0–0 2–1 5–2 1–1 2–1 1–0 — 3–1 0–0 1–0 0–3 1–0 1–1 1–0 3–3
Karlsruher SC 3–0 4–4 2–0 3–0 3–2 0–1 3–2 1–1 0–0 2–2 — 1–1 3–3 3–1 1–6 0–1 1–0 4–1
1. FC Köln 1–0 4–1 1–1 1–1 2–0 2–1 1–4 0–0 1–1 2–1 2–2 — 1–2 2–0 2–4 2–0 2–1 3–1
Borussia Mönchengladbach 0–0 1–1 4–0 3–3 3–1 4–3 0–0 4–2 2–0 1–1 3–1 3–0 — 2–3 1–2 2–0 11–0 1–2
1860 Munich 2–1 2–1 1–2 3–3 3–0 1–0 2–1 2–0 3–0 3–0 3–0 2–1 4–3 — 1–0 1–2 0–2 1–1
Bayern Munich 2–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–2 4–1 1–2 3–1 0–0 5–0 2–2 2–0 4–3 3–0 — 0–1 5–0 1–1
1. FC Nürnberg 0–4 2–1 2–0 3–1 4–2 1–1 0–1 1–0 1–1 1–2 2–2 1–1 1–0 2–2 0–1 — 0–4 3–3
Schalke 04 0–0 0–1 1–4 2–1 2–1 1–1 1–1 2–0 2–1 0–3 1–3 1–0 0–0 1–0 2–1 1–0 — 2–0
VfB Stuttgart 1–2 1–1 1–0 1–3 3–1 1–0 3–0 1–3 1–2 0–1 2–0 2–2 0–2 2–0 2–4 1–0 1–1 —
Source: DFB
Legend: 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. Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs, Band 7: Vereinslexikon (in German). Kassel: AGON Sportverlag. ISBN 3-89784-147-9.
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