Football match Borussia Mönchengladbach - Borussia Dortmund on April 29, 1978

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The soccer match between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Borussia Dortmund on April 29, 1978 took place on the last day of the Bundesliga season 1977/78 . Borussia Mönchengladbach won the game 12-0 and set the record for the highest victory in the Bundesliga , which is still valid today .

prehistory

Table situation after the 33rd match day

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. 1. FC Cologne (P)  33  21st  4th  8th 081:410 +40 46:20
 2. Borussia Mönchengladbach (M)  33  19th  8th  6th 074:440 +30 46:20

Borussia Mönchengladbach went into the 1977/78 season as defending champions. After a bad start to the season, the team finished second behind 1. FC Köln from the 22nd matchday on . Before the last match day, both teams were tied at the top of the table, with Cologne having a goal difference ten goals better .

Borussia Dortmund, on the other hand, struggled in the second season after rising again in 1976 to re-establish themselves in the Bundesliga. After a 2-0 win at FC Schalke 04 on matchday 31, the team secured relegation. The first leg of the two clubs ended 3: 3. Before the last day of the match, Dortmund's goalkeeper Horst Bertram was back in action after an injury break. Nevertheless, coach Otto Rehhagel decided to use Bertram's deputy, Peter Endrulat . Endrulat should have another chance to recommend itself for an extension of its contract, which expired on June 30, 1978. The morning before the game, however, Finalrulat was informed by the club that his contract would not be extended.

Table situation after the 34th matchday

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. 1. FC Cologne (P)  34  22nd  4th  8th 086:410 +45 48:20
 2. Borussia Mönchengladbach (M)  34  20th  8th  6th 086:440 +42 48:20

The game

38,000 spectators saw the match , led by referee Ferdinand Biwersi . Since the actual venue of the Gladbacher, the Bökelbergstadion , was rebuilt, the game took place in the Düsseldorf Rheinstadion .

Although the Gladbach team didn't think they had any chance of winning the title, they went into the game highly motivated. In the first minute of the game, Jupp Heynckes gave the hosts the lead. With two more goals from Heynckes and one goal each from Nielsen , Del'Haye and Wimmer , Mönchengladbach scored 6-0 at half-time. The direct competitor from Cologne also led 1-0 at FC St. Pauli, who were already relegated .

Dortmund coach Otto Rehhagel only gave a short speech at half-time and appealed to the players for their honor. There was no player change on the Dortmund side, as none of the reserve players wanted to be substituted on. Rehhagel asked goalkeeper Endrulat if he would like to be replaced. However, he stated that he wanted to continue playing. He later described this decision as wrong.

“Today I know: I should have gone out. Then Horst Bertram would have got the six things. I am convinced of that. Most of them forget that I actually kept almost everything that was durable. "

- Peter Endrulat

In the second half, Mönchengladbach continued scoring goals. Heynckes (59th minute) and Nielsen (61st) increased to 8: 0. Dortmund's coach Rehhagel wanted to replace 35-year-old Sigfried Held , but he declined with the words "Coach, should I turn things around now?" Del'Haye scored the 9-0 after 66 minutes.

“The substitutes' bench kept shouting to us how many goals we still had to score to grab Cologne. When the score was 9: 0 and they shouted 'three more', I answered: “Don't you have them all anymore?” "

- Jupp Heynckes

After further hits from Heynckes (77th), Lienen (87th) and Kulik (90th), the game ended 12-0.

Game dates

Borussia Monchengladbach Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Monchengladbach
34th matchday
April 29, 1978 at 3:30 p.m. in Düsseldorf ( Rheinstadion )
Spectators: 38,000
Referee: Ferdinand Biwersi ( Bliesransbach )
Borussia Dortmund


Wolfgang Kleff - Berti Vogts , Hans-Jürgen Wittkamp , Wilfried Hannes , Horst Wohlers - Christian Kulik , Herbert Wimmer , Carsten Nielsen - Karl Del'Haye , Jupp Heynckes , Allan Simonsen (77th Ewald Lienen )
Trainer: Udo Lattek 		Peter Endrulat - Amand Theis , Werner Schneider , Lothar Huber , Herbert Meyer - Burkhard Segler , Miroslav Votava , Hans-Joachim Wagner - Manfred Burgsmüller , Wolfgang Frank , Peter Geyer
Trainer: Otto Rehhagel
goal1: 0 Jupp Heynckes (1st)
goal2: 0 Jupp Heynckes (12th)
goal3: 0 Carsten Nielsen (13th)
goal4: 0 Karl Del'Haye (22nd)
goal5: 0 Jupp Heynckes (32nd)
goal6: 0 Herbert Wimmer (38.)
goal7: 0 Jupp Heynckes (59.)
goal8: 0 Carsten Nielsen (61.)
goal9: 0 Karl Del'Haye (66.)
goal10: 0 Jupp Heynckes (77.)
goal11: 0 Ewald Lienen ( 87.)
goal12: 0 Christian Kulik (90.)

Effects

Despite the record victory, Mönchengladbach missed the championship. 1. FC Köln also won 5-0 at FC St. Pauli and had a goal difference three goals better with the same number of points. With that, the Cologne team won their third German championship. The Pauli fans had become suspicious of the announcement of the intermediate results from Düsseldorf and had started to cheer on 1. FC Köln. After the end of the game, they celebrated the championship and a fan friendship developed.

The day after the game, coach Otto Rehhagel, who was subsequently called "Otto Torhagel", was dismissed. Sigfried Held became interim trainer before Carl-Heinz Rühl took over as trainer for the new season .

“After this disaster, I went back with Otto Rehhagel, who also lived in Essen , and he told me that I would have a new coach tomorrow. He guessed what was going to happen. It was of course not Rehhagel's fault. Otto Rehhagel was the pawn sacrifice so that the association could save face. "

- Manfred Burgsmüller

The Borussia Dortmund club fined the players involved in the amount of 2,000 marks each . The reason was “poor commitment” and “behavior that was harmful to the association”. Goalkeeper Peter Endrulat was deported to the second division tennis Borussia Berlin . In the weeks that followed, the Borussia Dortmund team was mocked by the audience at various friendly matches.

Suspected manipulation

Claims that the game was manipulated are vehemently denied by the Dortmund side. Defender Amand Theis explained that "in the end every shot was a hit and that at some point the team gave up". Mönchengladbach's Herbert Wimmer , who, like Jupp Heynckes, played his last Bundesliga game in the 12-0 win , said in an interview that he was happy that his team did not become champions, as this would have "only given speculation about postponement". The DFB only made brief investigations. This is how the Dortmund players involved had to explain themselves at the Frankfurt DFB headquarters. In 2012, the then BVB captain Lothar Huber contradicted such allegations:

“But it got really cruel in the coming weeks, because unfortunately the club's management had already agreed on a few friendlies against amateur teams before this disaster. We went through the villages and had to put up with being called fraudsters. “Where is your new house, your new car!” Shouted the audience. They seriously believed we had sold this game. "

- Lothar Huber

However, he is still embarrassed about the game. Even more than 30 years later, he still regrets that “after the game, God and the world pounced on our coach Otto Rehhagel”, which must have been terrible for him. According to Huber, the BVB players were happy at the time because the public would have found a scapegoat in Rehhagel, said the defender Huber at the time.

Remarkable

Both teams met again on the second match day of the following season . The game took place on August 19, 1978 in the Bökelberg Stadium in Mönchengladbach and ended 2-2.

A curiosity is that twelve goals exactly corresponded to the capacity of the scoreboard in the Düsseldorf Rheinstadion for goal successions and goal scorers, further goals could not have been displayed.

It wasn't until May 2019 that a Bundesliga team managed to score six goals in the first half. Bayer 04 Leverkusen scored six goals against Eintracht Frankfurt after just 36 minutes and beat the record for the fastest six goals they own after kick-off by two minutes.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fussballdaten.de: Bundesliga table after the 33rd matchday
  2. ↑ fussballdaten.de: Bundesliga table after the 31st matchday
  3. ↑ http://www.fussballdaten.de/bundesliga/1978/17/
  4. ↑ a b 11freunde.de: »I should have gone out« ( Memento from May 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The fame, the dream and the money - The history of Borussia Dortmund . Verlag die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-480-4 , p. 169 .
  6. ↑ a b Spiegel Online : May it be a little more?
  7. ↑ a b c d derwesten.de: Otto Torhagel and the fat dozen
  8. ↑ rp-online.de: The record that wasn't enough ( Memento from February 20, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  9. ↑ fussballdaten.de: Final table of the 1977/78 season
  10. ^ A question of generations, 11Freunde , September 12, 2010.
  11. ↑ in detail in: Der finale Wahnsinn, in: RevierSport 43/2013, p. 52 f.
  12. ↑ http://www.11freunde.de/interview/best-2012-lothar-huber-bvb-legende-und-platzwart
  13. ↑ http://www.11freunde.de/interview/best-2012-lothar-huber-bvb-legende-und-platzwart
  14. ↑ fussballdaten.de: Season 1978/79, 2nd matchday, match statistics Borussia M'gladbach - Borussia Dortmund 2: 2 (2: 1)
  15. ↑ Notes in: Echt- das Stadionmagazin, issue 45 of September 29, 2012, p. 17 f.
  16. ↑ Match report Bayer 04 Leverkusen vs. Eintracht Frankfurt on May 5, 2019 ; kicker.de, accessed on May 7, 2019

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