Jürgen Schult (soccer player)

Jürgen Schult (born August 20, 1939 in Düsseldorf ) is a former German soccer player who played 18 Bundesliga games for Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 1966/67 season and scored five goals, including the first Bundesliga club in the club's history.

career

Viktoria Cologne, 1961 to 1964

From the association league Niederrhein, from Düsseldorfer SC 99 , Jürgen Schult made his way to the 1961/62 round to SC Viktoria Cologne in the Oberliga West . Coach Hennes Weisweiler immediately brought the newcomer from the amateur field to use in the first game of the 1961/62 series. On August 6, 1961, Schult made his debut on half left in the 3-0 away defeat against ETB Schwarz-Weiss Essen at the side of Gero Bisanz and Carl-Heinz Rühl in the Oberliga West. Viktoria came in 10th and the man from Düsseldorf played 20 games with ten goals. On October 8, 1961, the Weisweiler protégé was appointed to the U23 junior national team. The DFB-Elf defeated Poland 5-0 in Gelsenkirchen. With the attack by Rühl, Hüls, Klaus Matischak , Schult and Willibert Kremer , coach Weisweiler's team scored the most goals in the west - goal difference of 81:69 - in the last year of the league, 1962/63, to a top position or even to But it was not enough to be nominated for the new Bundesliga. Viktoria finished eighth and Schult had played 26 games with 14 goals. On the last league match day, May 11, 1963, Viktoria won 3-2 goals at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, he scored his 24 goals in the league.

When Viktoria made the unsuccessful attempt at promotion from Regionalliga West to the Bundesliga in the 1963/64 round - it was only enough for fifth place - Schult formed the left wing with Willibert Kremer and completed 38 games with 18 goals. He accepted Fortuna Düsseldorf's offer for round 1964/65 and moved back to his hometown.

Fortuna Düsseldorf, 1964 to 1967

Two more rounds in the Regionalliga West followed with Fortuna. In 1965, coach Kuno Klötzer's team took third place behind Borussia Mönchengladbach and Alemannia Aachen, and in 1966 the championship was celebrated in the west. In the promotion round, Schult played two games with two goals and Düsseldorf narrowly prevailed against FK Pirmasens with the same number of points and rose to the Bundesliga. The attacking cast of the master and climber mostly consisted of the players Hilmar Hoffer , Reinhold Straus , Peter Meyer , Schult and Waldemar Gerhardt . Düsseldorf started the Bundesliga round in 1966/67 with a 2-1 away win at Borussia Dortmund and Schult took the 1-0 lead in the 63rd minute. Fortuna Düsseldorf was relegated as 17th and Jürgen Schult had played 18 games with five goals. In total, he was used for Fortuna in 62 games in which he scored 27 goals. Jürgen Schult signed with VfR Mannheim and moved to the Regionalliga Süd for the 1967/68 round .

VfR Mannheim, 1967 to 1970

With coach Oswald Pfau , striker Franz Schäffner (27 goals) and new signing Schult, the Mannheim lawn athletes took sixth place in the 1967/68 round in the Regionalliga Süd. In the next two rounds, however, the table went down, in 1969 VfR landed 14th and in 1970 15th. Schult played a total of 81 games with 15 goals in the Regionalliga Süd for Mannheim from 1967 to 1970. The 31-year-old stayed in Mannheim, his adopted home, even after his active career.

literature

• Hans Dieter Baroth : Boys, Heaven is yours! The history of the Oberliga West 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1988, ISBN 3-88474-332-5 .
• Ulrich Homann (Ed.): Farmer's heads, miners and a pascha. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 1, Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-345-7 .
• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Web links

• Jürgen Schult in the database of fussballdaten.de with pictures
• Player data Schult at Fortuna Düsseldorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Schult is celebrating his 70th birthday. Retrieved September 5, 2019 . 
2. ^ First Bundesliga club for Fortuna Düsseldorf