1966–67 Bundesliga
| Season | 1966–67 |
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| Champions | Eintracht Braunschweig 1st Bundesliga title 1st German title |
| Relegated | Fortuna Düsseldorf Rot-Weiss Essen |
| European Cup | Eintracht Braunschweig |
| Cup Winners' Cup | Bayern Munich (title holders) Hamburger SV (losing DFB Cup finalists to Bayern) |
| Goals scored | 895 |
| Average goals/game | 2.92 |
| Top goalscorer | Lothar Emmerich (28) Gerd Müller (28) |
| Biggest home win | M'gladbach 11–0 Schalke (7 January 1967) |
| Biggest away win | Karlsruhe 1–6 FC Bayern (10 September 1966) Düsseldorf 0–5 Dortmund (7 January 1967) |
| Highest scoring | M'gladbach 11–0 Schalke (11 goals) (7 January 1967) |
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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.
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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 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 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
| 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 München | Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße | 44,300 |
| FC Bayern Munich | Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße | 44,300 |
| 1. FC Nuremberg | 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 |
GAvg |
Pts |
Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eintracht Braunschweig (C) | 34 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 49 | 27 | 1.815 | 43 | 1967–68 European Cup First round |
| 2 | 1860 Munich | 34 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 60 | 47 | 1.277 | 41 | 1967–68 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 | 1967–68 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 | 1967–68 European Cup Winners' Cup First round 1 |
| 7 | 1. FC Köln | 34 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 48 | 48 | 1 | 37 | 1967–68 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 | 0.87 | 34 | 1967–68 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First round |
| 10 | 1. FC Nürnberg | 34 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 43 | 50 | 0.86 | 34 | |
| 11 | MSV Duisburg | 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 | 1967–68 European Cup Winners' Cup First round 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 | Regionalliga |
| 18 | Rot-Weiss Essen (R) | 34 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 35 | 53 | 0.66 | 25 |
Source: www.dfb.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal average
Meidericher SV changed their name to MSV Duisburg during the season.
1Bayern 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.
(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 | BRS | BRE | DOR | DUI | DÜS | RWE | FRA | HAM | H96 | KAI | KAR | KÖL | MGL | M60 | MUN | NUR | S04 | STU |
| 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 München | 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: 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
- 28 goals
- 18 goals
- 17 goals
- 15 goals
Josef Heynckes (Borussia Mönchengladbach)- Bernd Rupp (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
- Lothar Ulsaß (Eintracht Braunschweig)
- Reinhold Wosab (Borussia Dortmund)
- 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). Manager: Helmuth Johannsen. On the roster but have not played in a league game: Wolfgang Simon; Werner Rinas. |
