Siegfried Bönighausen

Siegfried Bönighausen (born March 20, 1955 in Gladbeck ) is a former German soccer player . As a player for Rot-Weiss Essen , Borussia Dortmund and VfL Bochum , the midfielder and defender played a total of 117 league games and scored six goals in the Bundesliga between 1976 and 1985 .

Career

Bönighausen came from FC Schalke 04 to Bonner SC and was part of the BSC championship team in the Mittelrhein Association League in 1975/76 . After promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga, he left Bonn and signed a new contract with Bundesliga club Rot-Weiss Essen for the 1976/77 season, moving to the Bundesliga. The trained high-voltage electrician, together with Frank Mill, should keep the two losses of Manfred Burgsmüller and Willi Lippens at the team from Bergeborbeck within limits. Bönighausen made his debut on August 14, 1976 in a 2-2 away draw at Tennis Borussia Berlin in the Bundesliga. He stormed into the team from coach Ivica Horvaton the left wing and formed the attack together with Flemming Lund and Horst Hrubesch . With a weak defense, the 103 goals conceded and an indisputable away record with 4:30 points, Essen was relegated to bottom of the table from the Bundesliga. Bönighausen had completed 25 league games (1 goal) and Horst Hrubesch scored 20 goals despite the poor team performance. In the DFB Cup , Bönighausen and colleagues only failed in the semi-finals on April 7, 1977, 4-0 at 1. FC Köln.

After relegation, he played with the team from Hafenstrasse in the 2nd Bundesliga until 1980 . In these three years he came to twelve goals in 89 second division games. In 1978 and 1980 he was runner-up with RWE. In the relegation games against the southern runners-up 1. FC Nürnberg and Karlsruher SC, however, Essen failed each time.

The move to Borussia Dortmund followed in the 1980/81 season. Under coach Udo Lattek , however, he only played one Bundesliga game in his first year with black and yellow: On February 14, 1981, he came on for Erdal Keser in the second half with a 2-2 draw at Fortuna Düsseldorf . Under coach Branko Zebec he played his first league game on September 19, 1981 in a 1-1 draw against Arminia Bielefeld, where he formed the defensive chain in front of goalkeeper Eike Immel with Lothar Huber , Jürgen Sobieray and Rolf Rüssmann as a left full-back. Eight days later, BVB beat FC Bayern Munich 2-0 with the same defensive formation in front of 54,000 spectators in the home game. At the end of the round, Bönighausen had played in eleven league games and Dortmund had qualified for the 1982/83 UEFA Cup with 6th place in the table . In his third year in Dortmund, Bönighausen also experienced his third coach, Karlheinz Feldkamp . Now, with 32 league games and two goals, he was also a member of the regular formation, which mostly featured Immel, Huber, Rüssmann, Meinolf Koch and Ralf Loose on the defensive . On September 15 and 29, he also represented Borussia in the two UEFA Cup games against Glasgow Rangers. The home game ended 0-0 and in Glasgow BVB lost 2-0.

This was followed by three rounds at VfL Bochum from 1983 to 1986, where he was unable to play another competitive game after a protracted injury from the home game on March 22, 1985 in a 5-2 win against Karlsruher SC. He played his last Bundesliga game under coach Rolf Schafstall at the side of goalkeeper Ralf Zumdick , Ingo Pickenäcker , Heinz Knüwe and Martin Kree .

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 65.
• Georg Schrepper, Uwe Wick: "... RWE again and again!" The story of Rot-Weiss Essen. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-89533-467-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Siegfried Bönighausen - Statistics. Retrieved February 20, 2020 . 
2. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 82

Web links

• Siegfried Bönighausen in the database of fussballdaten.de
• BVB profile at schwatzgelb.de