Helmut Bergfelder

Helmut Bergfelder
Personnel
birthday	November 21, 1946
place of birth	Flamersheim,  Germany
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1966	BC Bliesheim
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1966-1968	1. FC Cologne	1 (0)
1968-1970	Bonner SC	55 (19)
1970-1976	SC Fortuna Cologne	147 (20)
1976-1981	Eintracht Trier	138 (11)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1966-1971	Germany amateurs	22 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.

Helmut Bergfelder (born November 21, 1946 in Flamersheim) is a former German football player . The 22-time amateur national striker (four goals) has played 33 games (three goals) in the Bundesliga for the clubs 1. FC Köln and SC Fortuna Köln . In the second -rate regional football league West , Bergfelder played a total of 141 games with 34 goals for Bonner SC and Fortuna Köln from 1968 to 1973 . From the introduction of the 2nd Bundesliga in 1974/75 up to and including the 1980/81 season, Cologne-based Fortuna and Eintracht Trier added another 167 league games with 13 goals.

career

Cologne and Bonn, until 1976

Helmut Bergfelder's high-class career began in 1966/67 when he was accepted into the professional squad of 1. FC Köln. The talented attacker came from BC Bliesheim , from the city of Erftstadt , which had existed since 1969 , to FC Köln and played mainly on the right winger. Since with Roger Magnusson from Juventus Turin, a Swedish international striker had been signed for the right wing position and, in addition, with Heinz Flohe , Jürgen Jendrossek , Karl-Heinz Struth and Paul Alger, other outstanding talents had come to the championship of 1963/64 , Bergfelder had in his first season no league use. In the second year it didn't get any better either: Only on matchday 31 of the 1967/68 season did FC coach Willi Multhaup trust him and even let him play from the beginning. Cologne lost 2: 3 at the time at MSV Duisburg . Magnusson had left FC after just one round, but with Carl-Heinz Rühl an assertive and experienced striker took over his place on the right wing.

In the summer of 1968 Bergfelder joined the Bonner SC in the second-rate regional football league West. He really wanted to gain match practice, which he hadn't managed to do at 1. FC Köln, despite his talent. The start was tough: The amateur national striker was immediately part of the BSC team, but they started the round with 0: 6 points. It became a round of steady battle for relegation. At the end of the round, Bonn saved itself to 15th place with 25:43 points; Bergfelder had scored 13 goals in 31 league appearances alongside other players such as Manfred Cremer , Alfred Glenski , Werner Grau , Horacio Troche and Werner Waddey . In his second year in Bonn, 1969/70, his personal record sank to 24 league games with six goals, while the BSC improved to 30:38 points and finished in 13th place. Above all, the 25: 9 points achieved in the home games had ensured the point account, the weak 5:29 away points on the other hand prevented the BSC from moving into the safe midfield. After two years in Bonn, Bergfelder returned to Cologne, he joined the Bonn league competitor in the Regionalliga West, SC Fortuna Cologne , for the 1970/71 season .

In the Cologne Südstadt, the team of President and patron Hans Löring , he got to do with trainer Ernst-Günter Habig and the goals were completely different from those in Bonn: Löring wanted his team in the Bundesliga. In addition to Bergfelder, Waddey, Gerd Zimmermann , Manfred Kreis , Wolfgang Glock and Uwe Blotenberg also signed with Fortuna . Winger Bergfelder made 29 appearances with six goals and Fortuna Köln finished fourth. In the second year, 1971/72, the man from Bliesheim repeated his usage and goals record of the first year and his club improved to 3rd place. The newcomers Rolf Kucharski , Hans-Günter Neues , Rolf Bauerkämper and Noel Campbell also contributed to this .

During the first half of the 1972/73 season, coach Habig was replaced by Martin Luppen on November 1, 1972 . Luppen reached the runner-up and thus the entry into the Bundesliga promotion round 1973. Bergfelder had contributed three goals in 28 league games. In the successful promotion round, the Fortuna prevailed with 13: 3 points against the competitors FC St. Pauli, FSV Mainz 05, Karlsruher SC and Blau-Weiß Berlin, the winger had played in all eight matches and scored five goals. In particular, his two hits on June 3, 1973 for a 2-1 away win at St. Pauli were of great importance for the promotion.

In 1973/74 Bergfelder played 32 league games and scored three goals for the Bundesliga promoted team . Fortuna Köln rose level on points with Wuppertaler SV, both teams showed 25:43 points, but because of the worse goal difference than 17th, they immediately withdrew from the Bundesliga. The coaching decisions had not contributed to the lap goal of relegation: Fortuna tackled the Bundesliga without promotion coach Luppen and opened with Volker Kottmann ; Loering was in charge of training from January 1st to 20th, 1974, and Willi Holdorf was the third trainer from January 21st to the end of the round . Both Kottmann and Holdorf came from athletics, and none of them had any merits in football, especially as a coach in professional football, before joining Fortuna.

After relegation Bergfelder stayed two more rounds at Fortuna Cologne in the 2nd Bundesliga. The return to the Bundesliga did not succeed, not even under "globetrotter" Rudi Gutendorf , who had taken over the coaching position at Fortuna Cologne for the 1975/76 season. Loering's faith only lasted until October 1975, when he entrusted Heinz Hornig with the task of coaching his Fortuna. Bergfelder had played 29 games with two goals in two rounds and joined Eintracht Trier in the 2nd Bundesliga Group South for the 1976/77 season . A major reason was the simultaneous employment with the city of Trier , where he worked as a "bridge builder between the city and the clubs". His tasks also included maintaining contact with the partner cities Gloucester, Ascoli, s-Hertogenbosch and Pula.

Trier, 1976 to 1981

The team from the Mosel Stadium made his debut on August 14, 1976 in a 0-2 home defeat against FC Homburg. He now experienced again the fight against relegation, which the Eintracht under the coaches Hans-Wilhelm Loßmann (up to 1/77) and Hans-Dieter Roos at the end of the round standing just in 17th place, was able to fend off. Bergfelder had scored three goals in 33 appearances alongside other players such as Werner Vollack , Reiner Brinsa , Heinz Histing , Michael Veit , Erwin Zimmer , Rolf Bauerkämper , Georg Müllner and Wolfgang Schlief . In the following two rounds, 1977/78 and 1978/79, the blue-white-black managed to advance into the lower midfield with places 12th and 10th. Bergfelder completed another 53 games with five goals for Trier alongside striker Lothar Leiendecker in the two rounds. When under the new coach Werner Kern in the 1979/80 season with the 15th place the relegation battle was in the foreground, the ex-Cologne was a member of the regular squad with 36 appearances (3 goals). The weak 8:32 away points were the main reason for the battle for relegation.

The 1980/81 season was the last with two seasons of the 2nd Bundesliga. From 1981/82 there was a single-track 2nd division. The qualification criteria were as follows: a) The three Bundesliga relegated members, the second not promoted and the clubs in third and fourth places of the two groups were automatically qualified. The remaining twelve places were assigned according to a numbering system, in which the 1978/79 season should be rated single, 1979/80 double and 1980/81 triple. The relegated teams were not taken into account and there were also no promoters from the amateur leagues. Trier took eighth place in 1980/81, but that meant they were not qualified for the single-track 2nd Bundesliga. Bergfelder ended his career in the summer of 1981 after a total of 167 second division games with 13 goals.

Amateur national team, 1966 to 1971

During his playing days he was appointed to the German amateur national team several times . His first use for this selection he denied on December 7, 1966 against Yugoslavia . The game ended in a 3: 3 draw. He was regularly invited to this DFB team for five years . When the DFB amateurs made a trip to Asia in the winter of 1970/71 with games against Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Philippines and Japan, the three Cologne attackers Bergfelder, Paul Alger and Werner Thelen were also there. In 1971, in the 1: 3 defeat against Denmark , he was the last time for the Germans on the field. The current president of FC Bayern Munich , Uli Hoeneß, was also present .

successes

• 1964 A-Junior Vice-Middle Rhine Champion
• 1968 DFB Cup winner

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Bergfelder - player profile. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .