1995–96 1. FC Kaiserslautern season

Season summary

Kaiserslautern suffered their worst season since the inception of the Bundesliga. A mere two years after coming within a point of winning the title, they were relegated in 16th place. Although they only lost 10 league games all season - as many as runners-up Bayern Munich - they also only won 6 of those remaining 24 games, the second-worst in the division. There was a silver lining to this season, as Kaiserslautern won the DFB-Pokal for only the second time in their history, ensuring a sixth appearance in European competition in the past seven seasons. Otto Rehhagel, recently ousted from Bayern Munich, was given the task of returning Kaiserslautern to the Bundesliga.

Players

First team squad
Squad at end of season[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  GER Andreas Reinke
2 DF  GER Frank Greiner
4 DF  GER Axel Roos
5 DF  CZE Miroslav Kadlec
6 DF  GER Andreas Brehme
7 FW  GER Uwe Wegmann
8 MF  GER Martin Wagner
9 FW  CZE Pavel Kuka
10 MF  GER Claus-Dieter Wollitz
11 FW  GER Olaf Marschall
13 DF  GER Roger Lutz
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 DF  GER Mario Kern
15 DF  GER Thomas Hengen
19 MF  GER Dirk Flock
20 DF  GER Oliver Schäfer
21 DF  GER Harry Koch
22 GK  GER Gerry Ehrmann
23 MF  GER Thomas Riedl
24 MF  GER Marco Reich
25 MF  TUR Cem Karaca[notes 1]
26 DF  GER Wolfgang Funkel
27 GK  AUS Mark Schwarzer

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
3 MF  GER Bernd Hollerbach (to Hamburg)
12 DF  GER Thomas Ritter (to Karlsruhe)
No. Pos. Nation Player
16 MF  GER Dirk Anders (to MSV Duisburg)
17 DF  GER Matthias Hamann (to 1860 Munich)

References
  1. "1.FC Kaiserslautern - 1995/96". FootballSquads.

Notes
  1. Karaca was born in Hofheim, West Germany (now Germany), but also qualified to represent Turkey internationally and represented Turkey at U-21 and B level.


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