1999–2000 SpVgg Unterhaching season

Season summary

SpVgg Unterhaching surprised everyone with a respectable 10th-place result in their inaugural Bundesliga season, and also famously played the spoiler's role in deciding who would win the championship that year. Their first Bundesliga win came in just their second match of the season, with a 2-0 victory over MSV Duisburg at home. While struggling in away matches, Unterhaching remained undefeated at home in nine games before losing 2-0 to their stronger neighbours, Bayern Munich. Prior to this loss, they had earned wins at home in matches against highly favoured teams like VfB Stuttgart and Borussia Dortmund, beating them 2-0 and 1-0 respectively. They earned their first away win in the Bundesliga by beating VfB Stuttgart 2-0 once again.

On the final matchday of the season, visiting Bayer Leverkusen needed only a draw in Unterhaching to secure their first national title, but instead went down to defeat to the determined home side. Things took a bad turn for Leverkusen when Michael Ballack scored an own goal that put home side ahead in the 20th minute. Their title hopes ended when Haching midfielder Markus Oberleitner made the score 2-0 in the 72nd minute. Meanwhile, Bayern Munich beat Werder Bremen 3-1 at home and were able to overtake Leverkusen on goal difference to snatch away the title.

With a 10th-place result, Unterhaching finished ahead of long-established sides Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04. They ended the season with the league's fifth best home record with 10 wins and 5 draws in 17 matches, having lost only to Bayern Munich and 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

First team squad

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  GER Jürgen Wittmann
2 DF  GER Alexander Strehmel
3 MF  GER Oliver Straube
4 DF  GER Ralf Bucher
5 MF  GER Matthias Zimmermann
6 DF  GER Jörg Bergen
7 MF  GER Dirk Hofman
8 MF  GER Peter Zeiler
9 FW  ALB Altin Rraklli
10 MF  GER Markus Oberleitner
11 DF  GER Jochen Seitz
12 MF  GER Danny Schwarz
13 FW  GER Mark Zimmermann
14 FW  GER Alfonso Garcia
15 DF  GER Arne Tammen
No. Pos. Nation Player
16 MF  GER Andreas Hartig
17 DF  GER Jan Seifert
18 MF  GER Ludwig Kögl
19 MF  GER Marco Haber
20 DF  GER Dennis Grassow
21 MF  GER Björn Hertl
22 GK  GER Udo Mai
23 DF  GER Ulrich Pflug
24 DF  CRO Ivica Vladimir
25 DF  GER Stefan Frühbeis
26 MF  GER André Breitenreiter
27 GK  GER Peter Sirch
28 GK  GER Gerhard Tremmel
32 MF  GER Alberto Méndez (on loan from Arsenal)
38 DF  GER Tobias Iseli

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