1967–68 Bundesliga

Bundesliga
Season	1967–68
Champions	1. FC Nuremberg 1st Bundesliga title 9th German title
Relegated	Borussia Neunkirchen Karlsruher SC
European Cup	1. FC Nuremberg
Cup Winners' Cup	1. FC Köln
Goals scored	993
Average goals/game	3.25
Top goalscorer	Johannes Löhr (27)
Biggest home win	M'gladbach 10–0 Neunkirchen (4 November 1967)
Biggest away win	M'gladbach 1–6 Schalke (6 January 1968) Neunkirchen 0–5 VfB Stuttgart (18 May 1968)
Highest scoring	M'gladbach 10–0 Neunkirchen (10 goals) (4 November 1967) M'gladbach 8–2 1. FC Kaiserslautern (10 goals) (9 September 1967) Nuremberg 7–3 FC Bayern (10 goals) (2 December 1967)
← 1966–67 1968–69 →

The 1967–68 Bundesliga was the fifth season of the Bundesliga, West Germany's premier football league. It began on 18 August 1967^[1] and ended on 28 May 1968.^[2] Eintracht Braunschweig 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 average. The team with the most points were crowned champions while the two teams with the least points were relegated to their respective Regionalliga divisions.

Team changes to 1966–67

Fortuna Düsseldorf and Rot-Weiss Essen were relegated to the Regionalliga after finishing in the last two places. They were replaced by Alemannia Aachen and Borussia Neunkirchen, who won their respective promotion play-off groups.

Season overview

The 1967–68 season started with an innovation. It was now allowed to substitute one player per team during the game. Although such a move was only permitted in case of an injury, it was soon used by the coaches for tactical changes as well.

The title was won by 1. FC Nuremberg. The team around coach Max Merkel continuously collected points and were seven points clear after half of the games were played. Even a slight collapse near the end of the season could not jeopardize the first Nuremberg Bundesliga title, which also was a record ninth German championship overall for the club.

In European competitions, the Cup Winners' Cup saw both West German teams advance into the semifinals. It needed Italian club AC Milan to prevent a title hat-trick for Bundesliga sides, knocking out title holders Bayern Munich 2–0 on aggregate before beating Hamburger SV, who were the fourth West German team in the final in four consecutive years, at Rotterdam's Feijenoord Stadion by the same score. Hamburg had reached the final by beating Welsh side Cardiff City 4–3 on aggregate. The achievement eased the disappointment on another lackluster season by the club from the North, who finished its campaign only in 13th place.

The bottom side of the table saw an early decision in the relegation race. Borussia Neunkirchen and Karlsruher SC were demoted to the Regionalliga with four rounds to go. Both teams clearly lacked quality players on both sides of the pitch, as they provided the worst attacks and defenses of all clubs.

Team overview

Location of teams in Bundesliga 1967–68

Club	Ground^[3]	Capacity^[3]
Aachen !Alemannia Aachen	Tivoli	30,000
Braunschweig !Eintracht Braunschweig	Eintracht-Stadion	38,000
Bremen !SV Werder Bremen	Weserstadion	32,000
Dortmund !Borussia Dortmund	Stadion Rote Erde	30,000
Duisburg !MSV Duisburg	Wedaustadion	38,500
Frankfurt !Eintracht Frankfurt	Waldstadion	87,000
Hamburg !Hamburger SV	Volksparkstadion	80,000
Hannover !Hannover 96	Niedersachsenstadion	86,000
Kaiserslautern !1. FC Kaiserslautern	Stadion Betzenberg	42,000
Karlsruhe !Karlsruher SC	Wildparkstadion	50,000
Köln !1. FC Köln	Müngersdorfer Stadion	76,000
Mönchengladbach !Borussia Mönchengladbach	Bökelbergstadion	34,500
München 1860 !TSV 1860 München	Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße	44,300
München Bayern !FC Bayern Munich	Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße	44,300
Neunkirchen !Borussia Neunkirchen	Ellenfeld	32,000
Nuremberg !1. FC Nuremberg	Städtisches Stadion	64,238
Schalke !FC Schalke 04	Glückauf-Kampfbahn	35,000
Stuttgart !VfB Stuttgart	Neckarstadion	53,000

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAvg	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	1. FC Nürnberg (C)	34	19	9	6	71	37	1.919	47	1968–69 European Cup First round
2	Werder Bremen	34	18	8	8	68	51	1.333	44
3	Borussia Mönchengladbach	34	15	12	7	77	45	1.711	42
4	1. FC Köln	34	17	4	13	68	52	1.308	38	1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup First round
5	Bayern Munich	34	16	6	12	68	58	1.172	38
6	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	15	8	11	58	51	1.137	38	1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round
7	MSV Duisburg	34	13	10	11	69	58	1.19	36
8	VfB Stuttgart	34	14	7	13	65	54	1.204	35
9	Eintracht Braunschweig	34	15	5	14	37	39	0.949	35
10	Hannover 96	34	12	10	12	48	52	0.923	34	1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round
11	Alemannia Aachen	34	13	8	13	52	66	0.788	34
12	1860 Munich	34	11	11	12	55	39	1.41	33	1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round
13	Hamburger SV	34	11	11	12	51	54	0.944	33	1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round
14	Borussia Dortmund	34	12	7	15	60	59	1.017	31
15	Schalke 04	34	11	8	15	42	48	0.875	30
16	1. FC Kaiserslautern	34	8	12	14	39	67	0.582	28
17	Borussia Neunkirchen (R)	34	7	5	22	33	93	0.355	19	Regionalliga
18	Karlsruher SC (R)	34	6	5	23	32	70	0.457	17	Regionalliga

Source: www.dfb.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal average
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away	Alemannia Aachen !AAC	Eintracht Braunschweig !BRS	Werder Bremen !BRE	Borussia Dortmund !DOR	MSV Duisburg !DUI	Eintracht Frankfurt !FRA	Hamburger SV !HAM	Hannover 96 !H96	1. FC Kaiserslautern !KAI	Karlsruher SC !KAR	Köln !KÖL	Borussia Mönchengladbach !MGL	1860 Munich !M60	Bayern Munich !MUN	Borussia Neunkirchen !NKI	1. FC Nürnberg !NUR	Schalke 04 !S04	Stuttgart !STU
Alemannia Aachen !Alemannia Aachen		2–1	1–1	3–0	4–4	2–1	2–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	4–2	0–0	3–3	0–4	5–1	2–0	2–1	3–2
Eintracht Braunschweig !Eintracht Braunschweig	2–0		0–3	2–0	3–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–0	4–2	0–3	1–0	2–1
Werder Bremen !Werder Bremen	0–1	3–2		2–1	3–3	2–0	1–4	1–0	2–1	6–1	3–1	0–4	2–2	4–1	2–1	0–4	2–0	3–1
Borussia Dortmund !Borussia Dortmund	1–0	0–1	1–1		4–3	2–1	2–2	3–1	4–0	5–0	2–0	3–1	0–0	6–3	6–0	1–2	2–1	2–1
MSV Duisburg !MSV Duisburg	3–0	2–3	1–1	2–2		0–1	1–2	1–2	7–0	2–1	3–2	2–2	2–1	3–3	3–1	2–0	1–1	3–3
Eintracht Frankfurt !Eintracht Frankfurt	1–1	2–0	5–3	4–1	3–2		1–1	3–0	5–2	2–0	1–2	3–1	2–1	2–3	4–1	1–2	2–2	4–0
Hamburger SV !Hamburger SV	5–1	0–0	2–1	3–2	1–3	0–1		2–3	1–1	0–0	3–1	2–3	2–2	2–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	1–1
Hannover 96 !Hannover 96	1–1	1–1	4–2	2–2	2–2	2–1	2–2		2–1	2–0	3–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	2–1
1. FC Kaiserslautern !1. FC Kaiserslautern	1–0	2–2	2–2	2–2	0–1	1–1	3–3	0–0		1–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	2–2	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–0
Karlsruher SC !Karlsruher SC	2–4	1–2	1–2	2–0	0–2	0–1	2–1	3–1	2–2		0–1	3–2	0–3	0–2	5–1	1–1	1–0	1–4
Köln !1. FC Köln	3–1	1–0	1–4	3–0	3–0	5–1	2–1	2–1	5–0	4–0		2–5	1–0	3–3	2–1	3–3	7–0	2–2
Borussia Mönchengladbach !Borussia Mönchengladbach	3–0	2–0	3–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	4–1	5–1	8–2	0–0	1–0		1–1	1–1	10–0	1–1	1–6	1–1
1860 Munich !1860 Munich	6–0	1–0	1–3	3–0	0–1	5–0	0–1	3–1	0–3	3–0	0–1	0–0		3–2	5–0	1–2	1–2	3–3
Bayern Munich !Bayern Munich	4–1	3–0	2–3	2–0	0–4	3–0	1–0	1–0	4–1	3–0	0–3	3–1	2–2		4–0	0–2	2–0	3–1
Borussia Neunkirchen !Borussia Neunkirchen	0–1	1–2	0–0	3–2	2–1	2–2	0–3	3–1	2–1	3–2	2–1	0–3	1–0	1–1		2–2	1–5	0–5
1. FC Nürnberg !1. FC Nürnberg	4–1	3–1	0–0	2–1	4–1	0–2	4–0	2–1	4–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	7–3	3–0		2–3	5–1
Schalke 04 !Schalke 04	2–1	0–2	0–2	1–0	0–3	0–0	3–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	3–4	0–0	0–1	2–0	0–0		2–1
Stuttgart !VfB Stuttgart	4–1	0–0	0–3	4–1	3–0	4–0	4–1	2–0	0–1	3–2	2–0	1–3	2–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	2–0

Source: www.dfb.de
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

27 goals

Johannes Löhr (1. FC Köln)

25 goals

Franz Brungs (1. FC Nuremberg)

19 goals

Herbert Laumen (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
Peter Meyer (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
Gerd Müller (FC Bayern Munich)
Rainer Ohlhauser (FC Bayern Munich)

18 goals

Lothar Emmerich (Borussia Dortmund)
Heinz Strehl (1. FC Nuremberg)

17 goals

Horst Köppel (VfB Stuttgart)

16 goals

Rainer Budde (MSV Duisburg)
Werner Görts (SV Werder Bremen)

Champion squad

1. FC Nuremberg
Goalkeepers: Roland Wabra (34); Gyula Toth (1). Defenders: Horst Leupold (34 / 1); Ferdinand Wenauer (34); Ludwig Müller (33 / 1); Fritz Popp (32); Helmut Hilpert (4). Midfielders: Karl-Heinz Ferschl (32 / 4); Heinz Müller (29 / 2); August Starek (24 / 5). Forwards: Franz Brungs (34 / 25); Heinz Strehl (33 / 18); Georg Volkert (33 / 9); Zvezdan Čebinac (33 / 3); Hubert Schöll (3). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Manager: Max Merkel . On the roster but have not played in a league game: Adolf Ruff; Ewald Schäffner; Horst Blankenburg; Claus-Jürgen Braun; Manfred Ebenhöh; Wulf-Ingo Usbeck.

References

↑ "Schedule Round 1". DFB.
↑ "Archive 1967/1968 Round 34". DFB.
1 2 Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs, Band 7: Vereinslexikon (in German). Kassel: AGON Sportverlag. ISBN 3-89784-147-9.

External links

DFB Bundesliga archive 1967/1968

Bundesliga

2016–17 clubs	FC Augsburg Bayer Leverkusen Bayern Munich Borussia Dortmund Borussia Mönchengladbach Darmstadt 98 Eintracht Frankfurt SC Freiburg Hamburger SV Hertha BSC 1899 Hoffenheim FC Ingolstadt 1. FC Köln RB Leipzig Mainz 05 Schalke 04 Werder Bremen VfL Wolfsburg

Former clubs	TSV 1860 Munich Alemannia Aachen Arminia Bielefeld Bayer 05 Uerdingen/KFC Uerdingen 05 Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin VfL Bochum Borussia Neunkirchen Dynamo Dresden Eintracht Braunschweig Energie Cottbus Fortuna Düsseldorf Fortuna Köln SpVgg Greuther Fürth Hannover 96 Hansa Rostock FC 08 Homburg 1. FC Kaiserslautern Karlsruher SC Kickers Offenbach VfB Leipzig Meidericher SV/MSV Duisburg 1. FC Nürnberg Preußen Münster Rot-Weiss Essen Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 1. FC Saarbrücken SC Paderborn 07 FC St. Pauli VfB Stuttgart Stuttgarter Kickers Tasmania Berlin Tennis Borussia Berlin SSV Ulm 1846 SpVgg Unterhaching Waldhof Mannheim Wattenscheid 09 Wuppertaler SV

History	Reichsliga Introduction in 1963 1965 scandal 1971 scandal 2005 scandal

Lists and statistics	All-time table List of clubs Records Borussia Mönchengladbach 12–0 Borussia Dortmund Foreign players Top scorers Attendance

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 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Managers Players Seasons Top scorers

1967–68 in European football (UEFA)

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League cups	England Scotland

UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup

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