2001–02 VfL Bochum season

The 2001–02 VfL Bochum season was the 64th season in club history.

VfL Bochum
2001–02 season
PresidentWerner Altegoer
Head CoachBernard Dietzad interim
(until 3 December 2001)
Peter Neururer
(since 4 December 2001)
StadiumRuhrstadion
2. Bundesliga3rd (promoted)
DFB-PokalSecond Round
Top goalscorerLeague: Christiansen (17)
All: Christiansen (18)
Highest home attendance17,523 (vs 1. FC Union Berlin, 28 April 2002)
Lowest home attendance9,361 (vs SpVgg Unterhaching, 19 December 2001)
Average home league attendance12,552

Review and events edit

The VfL Bochum encountered some difficulties signing a new head coach. Bernard Dietz, the head coach of the clubs reserve team, took over as caretaker and served double duty until Peter Neururer was signed on 4 December 2001.

Matches edit

Legend edit

  Win   Draw   Loss

2. Bundesliga edit

29 July 2001 1 SpVgg Unterhaching 0 – 2 VfL Bochum Unterhaching
15:00 [1] Colding   58'
Freier   74'
Stadium: Generali Sportpark
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg am Neckar)
4 August 2001 2 VfL Bochum 1 – 1 Karlsruher SC Bochum
15:00 Schröder   7' [2] Fuchs   10' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 16,217
Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)
10 August 2001 3 VfL Bochum 2 – 1 1. FSV Mainz 05 Bochum
19:00 Graulund   41', 44' [3] Thurk   7' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 14,025
Referee: Peter Lange (Filderstadt)
19 August 2001 4 Hannover 96 2 – 0 VfL Bochum Hannover
15:00 Keita   69'
Nehrbauer   90'
[4] Stadium: Niedersachsenstadion
Attendance: 20,078
Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)
9 September 2001 5 VfL Bochum 3 – 3 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen Bochum
15:00 Fahrenhorst   10'
Christiansen   45', 81' (pen.)
[5] Rietpietsch   9'
Obad   22'
Tiéku   62'
Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 13,094
Referee: Christian Schößling (Leipzig)
14 September 2001 6 LR Ahlen 2 – 5 VfL Bochum Ahlen
19:00 Hamann   5'
Schuster   42'
[6] Colding   12'
Buckley   70', 87'
Schröder   75'
Bemben   90'
Stadium: Wersestadion
Attendance: 8,415
Referee: Matthias Anklam (Buchholz)
22 September 2001 7 VfL Bochum 4 – 1 SV Babelsberg 03 Bochum
15:00 Hashemian   4'
Christiansen   28', 66'
Buckley   56'
[7] Efe   77' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 10,773
Referee: Babak Rafati (Hannover)
28 September 2001 8 SSV Reutlingen 05 3 – 0 VfL Bochum Reutlingen
19:00 Garcia   39'
Frommer   67'
Hoffmann   86'
[8] Stadium: Stadion an der Kreuzeiche
Attendance: 6,730
Referee: Stefan Weber (Eisenach)
15 October 2001 9 VfL Bochum 1 – 1 SV Waldhof Mannheim Bochum
20:15 Schindzielorz   15' (pen.) [9] Teber   10' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 10,077
Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)
19 October 2001 10 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 3 – 3 VfL Bochum Schweinfurt
19:00 Wirsching   13'
Sprećaković   41'
Melunović   50'
[10] Toppmöller   59'
Fahrenhorst   72'
Bemben   81'
Stadium: Willy-Sachs-Stadion
Attendance: 8,125
Referee: Kai Voss (Großhansdorf)
28 October 2001 11 VfL Bochum 3 – 2 1. FC Saarbrücken Bochum
15:00 Ristau   55', 89'
Schröder   87'
[11] Laping   28'
Brnas   78'
Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 9,808
Referee: Stefan Trautmann (Bodenwerder)
5 November 2001 12 Eintracht Frankfurt 1 – 0 VfL Bochum Frankfurt am Main
20:15 Kryszałowicz   56' [12] Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 13,675
Referee: Franz-Xaver Wack (Biberbach)
17 November 2001 13 VfL Bochum 0 – 0 Arminia Bielefeld Bochum
15:00 [13] Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 13,244
Referee: Florian Meyer (Burgdorf)
23 November 2001 14 MSV Duisburg 0 – 1 VfL Bochum Duisburg
19:00 [14] Graulund   2' Stadium: Wedaustadion
Attendance: 11,312
Referee: Edgar Steinborn (Sinzig)
30 November 2001 15 VfL Bochum 1 – 1 SpVgg Greuther Fürth Bochum
19:00 Freier   43' [15] Ruman   35' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 9,397
Referee: Torsten Koop (Lüttenmark)
7 December 2001 16 1. FC Union Berlin 1 – 0 VfL Bochum Berlin
19:00 Fiél   41' [16] Stadium: Stadion An der Alten Försterei
Attendance: 7,240
Referee: André Stachowiak (Duisburg)
16 December 2001 17 VfL Bochum 5 – 3 Alemannia Aachen Bochum
15:00 Buckley   1'
Hashemian   8', 54' (pen.)
Meichelbeck   19'
Toplak   77'
[17] Pflipsen   37'
Zernicke   65'
Xie   66'
Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 10,993
Referee: Felix Brych (Munich)
19 December 2001 18 VfL Bochum 4 – 0 SpVgg Unterhaching Bochum
19:00 Meichelbeck   14'
Wosz   31'
Freier   34'
Hashemian   85'
[18] Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 9,361
Referee: Dirk Margenberg (Wermelskirchen)
25 January 2002 19 Karlsruher SC 4 – 1 VfL Bochum Karlsruhe
19:00 Fuchs   6'
Graf   37'
Melkam   55'
Heinzen   71'
[19] Hashemian   77' Stadium: Wildparkstadion
Attendance: 8,800
Referee: Uwe Kemmling (Kleinburgwedel)
3 February 2002 20 1. FSV Mainz 05 1 – 1 VfL Bochum Mainz
15:00 Nkufo   69' (pen.) [20] Christiansen   64' Stadium: Bruchwegstadion
Attendance: 11,300
Referee: Alfons Berg (Konz)
6 February 2002 21 VfL Bochum 4 – 2 Hannover 96 Bochum
19:00 Wosz   2', 83'
Christiansen   44'
Buckley   68'
[21] Stendel   3'
Štefulj   27'
Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 13,042
Referee: Mike Pickel (Mendig)
10 February 2002 22 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 6 – 1 VfL Bochum Oberhausen
15:00 Obad   2', 60'
Wojtala   18'
Lipinski   21' (pen.), 67'
Chiquinho   78'
[22] Christiansen   48' Stadium: Niederrheinstadion
Attendance: 7,276
Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)
17 February 2002 23 VfL Bochum 3 – 1 LR Ahlen Bochum
15:00 Wosz   17'
Christiansen   69' (pen.), 73'
[23] Labak   89' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 10,339
Referee: Volker Wezel (Tübingen)
24 February 2002 24 SV Babelsberg 03 1 – 2 VfL Bochum Potsdam
13:30 Härtel   21' [24] Wosz   37'
Freier   70'
Stadium: Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion
Attendance: 3,640
Referee: Lutz Wagner (Kriftel)
20 March 2002 25 VfL Bochum 3 – 1 SSV Reutlingen 05 Bochum
19:00 Freier   27'
Buckley   39'
Hashemian   87'
[25] Frommer   71' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 11,017
Referee: Kai Voss (Großhansdorf)
8 March 2002 26 SV Waldhof Mannheim 1 – 2 VfL Bochum Mannheim
19:00 Zinnow   22' [26] Christiansen   35'
Wosz   36'
Stadium: Carl-Benz-Stadion
Attendance: 5,100
Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg am Neckar)
15 March 2002 27 VfL Bochum 3 – 1 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 Bochum
19:00 Reis   52', 87'
Hashemian   90'
[27] Melunović   37' (pen.) Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 11,256
Referee: Peter Lange (Filderstadt)
24 March 2002 28 1. FC Saarbrücken 0 – 2 VfL Bochum Saarbrücken
15:00 [28] Christiansen   42'
Reis   51'
Stadium: Ludwigsparkstadion
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Torsten Koop (Lüttenmark)
1 April 2002 29 VfL Bochum 3 – 0 Eintracht Frankfurt Bochum
20:15 Ristau   3'
Christiansen   45' (pen.), 58'
[29] Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 17,506
Referee: Lutz Michael Fröhlich (Berlin)
7 April 2002 30 Arminia Bielefeld 3 – 0 VfL Bochum Bielefeld
15:00 Kauf   36'
Hofschneider   77'
Albayrak   80' (pen.)
[30] Stadium: Alm
Attendance: 26,601
Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)
12 April 2002 31 VfL Bochum 3 – 0 MSV Duisburg Bochum
19:00 Hashemian   58'
Christiansen   70', 85'
[31] Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 15,720
Referee: Peter Sippel (Munich)
19 April 2002 32 SpVgg Greuther Fürth 1 – 1 VfL Bochum Fürth
19:00 Amanatidis   27' [32] Christiansen   45' Stadium: Playmobil-Stadion
Attendance: 11,026
Referee: Florian Meyer (Burgdorf)
28 April 2002 33 VfL Bochum 2 – 1 1. FC Union Berlin Bochum
15:00 Buckley   9'
Fahrenhorst   89'
[33] Divić   17' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 17,523
Referee: Jörg Keßler (Höhenkirchen)
5 May 2002 34 Alemannia Aachen 1 – 3 VfL Bochum Aachen
15:00 Caillas   48' [34] Christiansen   28' (pen.)
Freier   43', 86'
Stadium: Tivoli
Attendance: 16,631
Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

DFB-Pokal edit

26 August 2001 R1 FC Schalke 04 II 0 – 1 VfL Bochum Gelsenkirchen
15:00 [35] Christiansen   64' Stadium: Parkstadion
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Dirk Margenberg (Wermelskirchen)
11 December 2001 R2 VfL Bochum 2 – 3 Bayer 04 Leverkusen Bochum
19:00 Freier   28'
Colding   75'
[36] Berbatov   27', 77', 90+1' Stadium: Ruhrstadion
Attendance: 11,882
Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)

Squad edit

Squad and statistics edit

Squad, appearances and goals scored edit

No. Pos Nat Player Total 2. Bundesliga DFB-Pokal
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK   NED Rein van Duijnhoven 30 0 29 0 1 0
2 DF   CRO Samir Toplak 18 1 17 1 1 0
3 DF   GER Martin Meichelbeck 18 2 17 2 1 0
4 DF   GER Mirko Dickhaut 28 0 26 0 2 0
5 DF   DEN Søren Colding 29 3 27 2 2 1
6 MF   GER Matthias Lust (until 31 December 2001) 5 0 4 0 1 0
7 MF   GER Paul Freier 32 8 30 7 2 1
8 MF   GER Sebastian Schindzielorz 25 1 25 1 0 0
9 FW   ESP Thomas Christiansen 31 18 30 17 1 1
10 MF   GER Dariusz Wosz 29 6 27 6 2 0
11 FW   DEN Peter Graulund 13 3 13 3 0 0
12 DF   GER Thomas Stickroth 6 0 5 0 1 0
13 GK   GER Christian Vander 6 0 5 0 1 0
14 MF   AUT Dietmar Berchtold 10 0 9 0 1 0
15 DF   GER Rouven Schröder 16 3 16 3 0 0
16 FW   IRN Vahid Hashemian 22 8 21 8 1 0
17 MF   GER Malek Barudi 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 FW   CRO Marijo Marić (until 30 September 2001) 3 0 2 0 1 0
19 FW   GER Mike Busch 2 0 2 0 0 0
20 MF   RUS Sergei Mandreko 27 0 26 0 1 0
21 FW   RSA Delron Buckley 33 7 31 7 2 0
22 DF   GER Thomas Reis 16 3 15 3 1 0
23 MF   GER Dino Toppmöller 13 1 12 1 1 0
24 DF   GER Michael Bemben 31 2 29 2 2 0
25 DF   GER Frank Fahrenhorst 28 3 26 3 2 0
26 MF   GER Björn Joppe 7 0 7 0 0 0
27 FW   GER Sascha Siebert (until 31 December 2001) 0 0 0 0 0 0
27 MF   GER Markus Ehrhard (since 3 February 2002) 4 0 4 0 0 0
28 DF   GER Hilko Ristau 20 3 19 3 1 0
29 DF   GER Axel Sundermann 0 0 0 0 0 0
30 GK   GER Sebastian Selke (since 1 January 2002) 0 0 0 0 0 0

Transfers edit

Summer edit

Winter edit

VfL Bochum II edit

No. Pos Nat Player Total Oberliga Westfalen
Apps Goals Apps Goals
MF   GER Malek Barudi 20 1 20 1
MF   GER Emanuel Benner 4 0 4 0
FW   GER Mike Busch 4 1 4 1
MF   GER Markus Ehrhard 28 4 28 4
MF   POL Arek Grad 25 6 25 6
MF   GER Mike Grühn 17 3 17 3
GK   BIH Senad Hecimovic 2 0 2 0
MF   GER Sascha Höhle 3 0 3 0
MF   GER Björn Joppe 26 8 26 8
FW   GER Seyfullah Kalayci 7 0 7 0
DF   GER Christoph Keim 26 3 26 3
DF   GER Sebastian Kroth 13 1 13 1
MF   GER Sascha Lindner 21 1 21 1
MF   GER Wojtek Meinert 7 0 7 0
DF   GER Mirko Mustroph 28 2 28 2
FW   GER Göktan Özdemir 1 0 1 0
DF   TUR Aykan Özer 24 0 24 0
MF   ESP Angel Parla-Diaz 18 0 18 0
DF   GER Florian Schäfer 1 0 1 0
GK   GER Marco Schulz 24 0 24 0
MF   GER Rainer Schümann 26 1 26 1
DF   GER Tobias Seiler 16 0 16 0
GK   GER Sebastian Selke (since 1 January 2002) 7 0 7 0
FW   GER Sascha Siebert (until 31 December 2001) 18 7 18 7
FW   GER Alexander Thamm 5 2 5 2
MF   GER Dino Toppmöller 2 4 2 4
GK   GER Christian Vander 1 0 1 0
MF   ITA Luciano Velardi 31 8 31 8
MF   GER Danny Woidtke 29 5 29 5
MF   TUR Engin Yavuzaslan 27 0 27 0
MF   GER David Zajas 6 0 6 0

Sources edit

  1. ^ "SpVgg Unterhaching - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). kicker.
  2. ^ "VfL Bochum - Karlsruher SC 1:1" (in German). kicker.
  3. ^ "VfL Bochum - 1. FSV Mainz 05 2:1" (in German). kicker.
  4. ^ "Hannover 96 - VfL Bochum 2:0" (in German). kicker.
  5. ^ "VfL Bochum - Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 3:3" (in German). kicker.
  6. ^ "LR Ahlen - VfL Bochum 2:5" (in German). kicker.
  7. ^ "VfL Bochum - SV Babelsberg 03 4:1" (in German). kicker.
  8. ^ "SSV Reutlingen 05 - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). kicker.
  9. ^ "VfL Bochum - Waldhof Mannheim 1:1" (in German). kicker.
  10. ^ "1. FC Schweinfurt 05 - VfL Bochum 3:3" (in German). kicker.
  11. ^ "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Saarbrücken 3:2" (in German). kicker.
  12. ^ "Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.
  13. ^ "VfL Bochum - Arminia Bielefeld 0:0" (in German). kicker.
  14. ^ "MSV Duisburg - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). kicker.
  15. ^ "VfL Bochum - SpVgg Greuther Fürth 1:1" (in German). kicker.
  16. ^ "1. FC Union Berlin - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.
  17. ^ "VfL Bochum - Alemannia Aachen 5:3" (in German). kicker.
  18. ^ "VfL Bochum - SpVgg Unterhaching 4:0" (in German). kicker.
  19. ^ "Karlsruher SC - VfL Bochum 4:1" (in German). kicker.
  20. ^ "1. FSV Mainz 05 - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
  21. ^ "VfL Bochum - Hannover 96 4:2" (in German). kicker.
  22. ^ "Rot-Weiß Oberhausen - VfL Bochum 6:1" (in German). kicker.
  23. ^ "VfL Bochum - LR Ahlen 3:1" (in German). kicker.
  24. ^ "SV Babelsberg 03 - VfL Bochum 1:2" (in German). kicker.
  25. ^ "VfL Bochum - SSV Reutlingen 05 3:1" (in German). kicker.
  26. ^ "Waldhof Mannheim - VfL Bochum 1:2" (in German). kicker.
  27. ^ "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 3:1" (in German). kicker.
  28. ^ "1. FC Saarbrücken - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). kicker.
  29. ^ "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Frankfurt 3:0" (in German). kicker.
  30. ^ "Arminia Bielefeld - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). kicker.
  31. ^ "VfL Bochum - MSV Duisburg 3:0" (in German). kicker.
  32. ^ "SpVgg Greuther Fürth - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
  33. ^ "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Union Berlin 2:1" (in German). kicker.
  34. ^ "Alemannia Aachen - VfL Bochum 1:3" (in German). kicker.
  35. ^ "FC Schalke 04 II - VfL Bochum 0:1" (in German). kicker.
  36. ^ "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2:3" (in German). kicker.

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