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1966–67 Bundesliga
4th season of the Bundesliga
4th season of the Bundesliga
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| competition | Bundesliga |
| season | 1966–67 |
| dates | 20 August 1966 – 3 June 1967 |
| winners | Eintracht Braunschweig |
| 1st Bundesliga title | |
| 1st German title | |
| relegated | Fortuna Düsseldorf |
| Rot-Weiss Essen | |
| continentalcup1 | European Cup |
| continentalcup1 qualifiers | Eintracht Braunschweig |
| continentalcup2 | Cup Winners' Cup |
| continentalcup2 qualifiers | Bayern Munich (title holders) |
| Hamburger SV (losing DFB Cup finalists to Bayern) | |
| league topscorer | 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) |
| total goals | 895 |
| average goals | |
| prevseason | 1965–66 |
| nextseason | 1967–68 |
1st Bundesliga title 1st German title Rot-Weiss Essen Hamburger SV (losing DFB Cup finalists to Bayern) Gerd Müller (28) Düsseldorf 0–5 Dortmund (7 January 1967) 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. 1860 Munich 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 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
| Club | last=Grüne | first=Hardy | title=Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs, Band 7: Vereinslexikon | publisher=AGON Sportverlag | location=Kassel | year=2001 | isbn=3-89784-147-9 | language=de}} | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eintracht-Stadion | 38,000 | ||||||||
| Weserstadion | 32,000 | ||||||||
| Stadion Rote Erde | 30,000 | ||||||||
| Wedaustadion | 38,500 | ||||||||
| Flinger Broich | 28,000 | ||||||||
| Georg-Melches-Stadion | 40,000 | ||||||||
| Waldstadion | 87,000 | ||||||||
| Volksparkstadion | 80,000 | ||||||||
| Niedersachsenstadion | 86,000 | ||||||||
| Stadion Betzenberg | 42,000 | ||||||||
| Wildparkstadion | 50,000 | ||||||||
| Müngersdorfer Stadion | 76,000 | ||||||||
| Bökelbergstadion | 34,500 | ||||||||
| Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße | 44,300 | ||||||||
| Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße | 44,300 | ||||||||
| Städtisches Stadion | 64,238 | ||||||||
| Glückauf-Kampfbahn | 35,000 | ||||||||
| Neckarstadion | 53,000 |
League table
Results
Top goalscorers
;28 goals
- Germany Lothar Emmerich (Borussia Dortmund)
- Germany Gerd Müller (FC Bayern Munich)
;18 goals
- Germany Herbert Laumen (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
;17 goals
- Germany Christian Müller (Karlsruher SC)
;15 goals
- Germany Josef Heynckes (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
- Germany Bernd Rupp (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
- Germany Lothar Ulsaß (Eintracht Braunschweig)
- Germany Reinhold Wosab (Borussia Dortmund)
;14 goals
- Germany Hans Küppers (TSV 1860 Munich)
;13 goals
- Germany Johannes Löhr (1. FC Köln)
Champion squad
| Eintracht Braunschweig |
|---|
| Goalkeepers: Horst Wolter (32); Hans Jäcker (2). |
References
References
- "Archive 1966/1967 Schedule". DFB.
- Grüne, Hardy. (2001). "Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs, Band 7: Vereinslexikon". AGON Sportverlag.
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