1976–77 Tennis Borussia Berlin season

The 1976–77 season was the second occasion on which Tennis Borussia Berlin played in the Bundesliga, the highest tier of the German football league system. After 34 league games, Tennis Borussia ended up in 17th position as they had done two seasons previously. Second from the bottom of the table, they only finished one place above Rot-Weiss Essen due to a better goal difference. As in the previous season, the club reached the third round of the DFB-Pokal; this time losing 5–1 away to the season's eventual cup winners 1. FC Köln. Swedish striker Benny Wendt scored 20 of the club's 47 league goals.

Tennis Borussia Berlin
1976–77 season
ManagerRudi Gutendorf
StadiumMommsenstadion (12), Olympiastadion (5)
Bundesliga17th (relegated)
DFB-PokalThird Round
Top goalscorerLeague:
Benny Wendt (20)

All:
Benny Wendt (22)
Highest home attendance42,000
(vs. Hertha BSC)
Lowest home attendance4,000
(vs. 1. FC Kaiserslautern)
Average home league attendance16,968

1976–77 Tennis Borussia Berlin squad edit

No. Pos. Nation Player
GK   FRG Hubert Birkenmeier
GK   FRG Volkmar Groß
DF   FRG Hans-Jürgen Baake
DF   FRG Peter Eggert
DF   FRG Klaus-Peter Hanisch
DF   FRG Dieter Hochheimer (from 1 December 1976)
DF   FRG Stephan Hoffmann
DF   FRG Hans-Georg Kraus
DF   FRG Ernst Savkovic
DF   FRG Reinhard Schmitz
DF   FRG Hans Sprenger
MF   FRG Winfried Berkemeier
MF   FRG Dirk Heun
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF   FRG Ditmar Jakobs
MF   FRG Lothar Schneider
MF   FRG Jürgen Schulz
MF   FRG Gerd Schwidrowski
MF   FRG Michael Zimmer
FW   FRG Albert Bittlmayer (until 2 June 1977)
FW   FRG Detlef Bruckhoff
FW   FRG Christian Sackewitz (until 20 November 1976)
FW   FRG Klaus-Günter Stade
FW   FRG Winfried Stradt (from 1 November 1976)
FW   FRG Karlheinz Subklewe
FW   SWE Benny Wendt

1976–77 fixtures edit

6 August 1976 DFB-Pokal – R1 Tennis Borussia Berlin 5 – 0 SC Sparta Bremerhaven Mommsenstadion, Berlin
Kraus   4'
Hanisch   9'
Schmitz   50'
Jakobs   83'
Sackewitz   85' (pen.)
Report Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Volker Roth (Salzgitter)
14 August 1976 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 2 – 2 Rot-Weiss Essen Olympiastadion, Berlin
15:30 Wendt   13', 55' Report Dörre   22'
Hrubesch   74'
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Walter Niemann (Hamburg)
21 August 1976 Bundesliga Eintracht Frankfurt 7 – 1 Tennis Borussia Berlin Waldstadion, Frankfurt
15:30 Hölzenbein   14', 53' (pen.), 71'
Nickel   31'
Kraus   37', 79'
Grabowski   54'
Hölzenbein  
Report Berkemeier   61'
Jakobs  
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Walter Eschweiler (Euskirchen)
28 August 1976 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 4 – 2 Fortuna Düsseldorf Mommsenstadion, Berlin
15:30 Wendt   5', 33', 68', 78' Report Brei   35' (pen.)
Geye   51'
Baltes   Schmitz   Köhnen  
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Jürgen Meßmer (Mannheim)
3 September 1976 Bundesliga Eintracht Braunschweig 3 – 1 Tennis Borussia Berlin Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig
20:00 Dremmler   37'
Frank   38'
Popivoda   85'
Report Wendt   54' Attendance: 24,000
Referee: Manfred Wichmann (Gelsenkirchen)
10 September 1976 Bundesliga FC Bayern München 9 – 0 Tennis Borussia Berlin Olympiastadion, Munich
20:00 Kapellmann   23'
Rummenigge   30', 77', 89'
Müller   35', 39', 48', 57', 85'
Schwarzenbeck  
Report Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Heinz Quindeau (Ludwigshafen)
18 September 1976 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 3 – 2 1. FC Köln Mommsenstadion, Berlin
15:30 Wendt   2'
Schulz   13'
Subklewe   55'
Kraus  
Report Löhr   87'
Müller   90'
Van Gool  
Attendance: 18,454
Referee: Herbert Lutz (Bremen)
25 September 1976 Bundesliga FC Schalke 04 5 – 4 Tennis Borussia Berlin Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen
15:30 Kremers   19'
Schulz   33' (o.g.)
Fischer   33', 57'
Oblak   70'
Report Schneider   44', 52'
Subklewe   54'  
Wendt   63'  
Kraus   Sackewitz  
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Manfred Dölfel (Fürth)
2 October 1976 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 1 – 1 Hamburger SV Olympiastadion, Berlin
15:30 Wendt   57' (pen.)
Kraus   Sackewitz   Schneider  
Report Eigl   67' Attendance: 37,500
Referee: Werner Burgers (Essen)
16 October 1976 DFB-Pokal – R2 Tennis Borussia Berlin 4 – 4
(a.e.t.)
FC Olympia Bocholt 1911 Mommsenstadion, Berlin
Wendt   63'
Subklewe   72'
Schmitz   83', 99'
Report Sprenger   43', 65', 95'
Brings   86'
Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Walter Niemann (Hamburg)
23 October 1976 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 4 – 2 Karlsruher SC Olympiastadion, Berlin
15:30 Wendt   7', 37'
Schmitz   42'
Schneider   90'
Kraus  
Report Krauth   58'
Janzon   62'
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Jan Redelfs (Hanover)
6 November 1976 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 1 – 5 MSV Duisburg Mommsenstadion, Berlin
15:30 Zimmer   50'
Savkovic  
Report Büssers   9', 12', 29'
Worm   25', 90'
Pirsig  
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Klaus Ohmsen (Hamburg)
13 November 1976 Bundesliga Hertha BSC 2 – 0 Tennis Borussia Berlin Olympiastadion, Berlin
15:30 Hermandung   49'
Beer   73'
Diefenbach   Horr  
Report Sackewitz   Schmitz   Wendt   Attendance: 74,762
Referee: Wilfried Hilker (Bochum)
17 November 1976 DFB-Pokal – R2
Replay
FC Olympia Bocholt 1911 1 – 1
(a.e.t.)

(1 – 3 p)
Tennis Borussia Berlin Stadion am Hünting, Bocholt
Odendahl   84'
Korbel  
Report Wendt   63'   Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Volker Roth (Salzgitter)
Penalties
Odendahl     Sackewitz
  Jakobs
  Schneider
20 November 1976 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 1 – 1 VfL Bochum Mommsenstadion, Berlin
15:30 Wendt   78'   Report Kaczor   20'
Trimhold  
Attendance: 9,500
Referee: Walter Horstmann (Hildesheim)
27 November 1976 Bundesliga Borussia Dortmund 4 – 0 Tennis Borussia Berlin Westfalenstadion, Dortmund
15:30 Vöge   14'
Burgsmüller   45'
Hartl   60'
Huber   78'  
Report Savkovic   Schneider   Wendt   Attendance: 28,500
Referee: Günter Linn (Altendiez)
4 December 1976 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 2 – 4 SV Werder Bremen Mommsenstadion, Berlin
15:30 Subklewe   39'
Schulz   44'
Report Siegmann   6', 79'
Görts   47'
Kamp   76'
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Walter Eschweiler (Euskirchen)
11 December 1976 Bundesliga 1. FC Kaiserslautern 3 – 1 Tennis Borussia Berlin Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Kaiserslautern
15:30 Pirrung   1', 80'
Toppmöller   89'
Scheller  
Report Wendt   26'
Baake   Berkemeier  
Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Wolf-Dieter Ahlenfelder (Oberhausen)
15 December 1976 DFB-Pokal – R3 1. FC Köln 5 – 1 Tennis Borussia Berlin Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne
Müller   3'
Flohe   17' (pen.)
Van Gool   34'
Löhr   60'
Neumann   81'
Simmet  
Report Peter Eggert   37' Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Jan Redelfs (Hanover)
5 February 1977 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 0 – 0 Eintracht Braunschweig Mommsenstadion, Berlin
15:30 Berkemeier   Savkovic   Report Dremmler   Hollmann   Attendance: 11,000
Referee: Karl-Heinz Fork (Unna)
12 February 1977 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 3 – 1 FC Bayern München Olympiastadion, Berlin
15:30 Wendt   43', 76'
Baake   52'
Report Kirschner   83' Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Rainer Waltert (Paderborn)
26 February 1977 Bundesliga 1. FC Köln 8 – 4 Tennis Borussia Berlin Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne
15:30 Müller   5', 8', 67', 82'
Simmet   20', 49'
Overath   25'
Flohe   85'
Report Hochheimer   2'
Stradt   44'
Berkemeier   68'
Subklewe   74'
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Jürgen Meßmer (Mannheim)
5 March 1977 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 1 – 3 FC Schalke 04 Mommsenstadion, Berlin
15:30 Rüssmann   3' (o.g.)
Savkovic  
Report Rüssmann   28'  
Abramczik   30'
Kremers   86'
Attendance: 13,000
Referee: Manfred Dölfel (Fürth)
12 March 1977 Bundesliga Hamburger SV 2 – 1 Tennis Borussia Berlin Volksparkstadion, Hamburg
15:30 Volkert   68'  
Keller   85'  
Report Schulz   49'
Sprenger  
Attendance: 27,000
Referee: Gerd Hennig (Duisburg)
15 March 1977 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 1 – 1 Eintracht Frankfurt Mommsenstadion, Berlin
20:00 Wendt   59' (pen.)
Savkovic  
Report Wenzel   62' Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Gert Meuser (Ingelheim)
19 March 1977 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 1 – 1 1. FC Saarbrücken Mommsenstadion, Berlin
15:30 Schneider   75' Report Traser   68'
Förster  
Attendance: 11,500
Referee: Manfred Wichmann (Gelsenkirchen)
26 March 1977 Bundesliga Karlsruher SC 4 – 1 Tennis Borussia Berlin Wildparkstadion, Karlsruhe
15:30 Flindt-Bjerg   13', 20'
Struth   35' (pen.)
Janzon   84'
Report Jakobs   85' Attendance: 28,000
Referee: Paul Kindervater (Cologne)
2 April 1977 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 0 – 1 Borussia Mönchengladbach Mommsenstadion, Berlin
15:30 Report Simonsen   63' Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Max Klauser (Munich)
7 April 1977 Bundesliga MSV Duisburg 1 – 1 Tennis Borussia Berlin Wedaustadion, Duisburg
20:00 Seliger   50' (pen.)
Pirsig  
Report Wendt   57'
Schneider   Sprenger   Stradt  
Attendance: 13,000
Referee: Heinz Quindeau (Ludwigshafen)
16 April 1977 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 2 – 0 Hertha BSC Olympiastadion, Berlin
15:30 Schulz   66'
Stradt   83'
Baake     84'
Schneider  
Report Kliemann     41'
Hermandung   Sziedat  
Attendance: 42,000
Referee: Werner Burgers (Essen)
22 April 1977 Bundesliga VfL Bochum 2 – 1 Tennis Borussia Berlin Ruhrstadion, Bochum
20:00 Kaczor   52'
Lameck   65'
Report Stradt   72'   Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Jürgen Walther (Würzburg)
7 May 1977 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 2 – 3 Borussia Dortmund Mommsenstadion, Berlin
15:30 Stradt   18', 42' Report Vöge   32', 37'
Huber   89'
Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Dieter Dreher (Darmstadt)
21 May 1977 Bundesliga Tennis Borussia Berlin 4 – 2 1. FC Kaiserslautern Mommsenstadion, Berlin
15:30 Wendt   27', 48'
Schneider   57'
Groß   89' (pen.)
Report Toppmöller   56'
Metzler   90'
Melzer  
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Karl-Heinz Fork (Unna)

Player statistics edit

Pos Player Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Bundesliga DFB-Pokal Total
DF   Hans-Jürgen Baake 19 1 2 0 21 1
MF   Winfried Berkemeier 33 2 2 0 35 2
GK   Hubert Birkenmeier 17 0 4 0 21 0
FW   Albert Bittlmayer 0 0 0 0 0 0
FW   Detlef Bruckhoff 5 0 0 0 5 0
DF   Peter Eggert 9 0 4 1 13 1
GK   Volkmar Groß 17 1 0 0 17 1
DF   Klaus-Peter Hanisch 9 0 1 1 10 1
MF   Dirk Heun 10 0 2 0 12 0
DF   Dieter Hochheimer 17 1 1 0 18 1
DF   Stephan Hoffmann 0 0 0 0 0 0
MF   Ditmar Jakobs 33 1 4 1 37 2
DF   Hans-Georg Kraus 31 0 2 1 33 1
FW   Christian Sackewitz 10 0 3 1 13 1
DF   Ernst Savkovic 29 0 3 0 32 0
DF   Reinhard Schmitz 26 1 4 3 30 4
MF   Lothar Schneider 33 5 4 0 37 5
MF   Jürgen Schulz 34 4 4 0 38 4
MF   Gerd Schwidrowski 2 0 1 0 3 0
DF   Hans Sprenger 20 0 1 0 21 0
FW   Klaus-Günter Stade 3 0 0 0 3 0
FW   Winfried Stradt 21 5 1 0 22 5
FW   Karlheinz Subklewe 22 4 2 1 24 5
FW   Benny Wendt 30 20 3 2 33 22
MF   Michael Zimmer 21 1 3 0 24 1

Final league position – 17th edit

1976–77 Bundesliga: extract from the final league table[1]
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Points
1 Borussia Mönchengladbach (C) 34 17 10 7 58 34 +24 44:24
15 VfL Bochum 34 11 7 16 47 62 –15 29:39
16 Karlsruher SC (R) 34 9 10 15 53 75 –22 28:40
17 Tennis Borussia Berlin (R) 34 6 10 18 47 85 –38 22:46
18 Rot-Weiss Essen (R) 34 7 8 19 49 103 –54 22:46

References edit

  1. ^ "Abschlusstabelle der Bundesliga 1976/1977". fussballdaten.de (in German). 21 May 1977. Retrieved 26 January 2011.

External links edit