2006–07 VfL Bochum season

VfL Bochum
2006–07 season
Chairman	Werner Altegoer
Head Coach	Marcel Koller
Stadium	rewirpowerSTADION
Bundesliga	8th
DFB-Pokal	Third Round
Top goalscorer	League: Gekas (20); All: Gekas (22)
Highest home attendance	31,328 (vs Bayern Munich, 20 August 2006; vs Werder Bremen, 14 October 2006; vs Schalke 04, 27 April 2007; vs VfB Stuttgart, 12 May 2007)
Lowest home attendance	18,110 (vs 1. FC Nürnberg, 11 February 2007)
Average home league attendance	24,969
	← 2005–06 2007–08 →

The 2006–07 VfL Bochum season was the 69th season in club history.

Review and events[]

Matches[]

Legend[]

Win Draw Loss

Bundesliga[]

12 August 2006 1	Mainz 05	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	showMainz
15:30	Damm 29' Azaouagh 71' (pen.)	^[1]	Zdebel 86'	Stadium: Stadion am Bruchweg Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

20 August 2006 2	VfL Bochum	1 – 2	Bayern Munich	showBochum
17:00	Fábio Júnior 52'	^[2]	Makaay 42' Lahm 65'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,328 Referee: Babak Rafati (Hannover)

26 August 2006 3	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	Energie Cottbus	showBochum
15:30		^[3]	Silva 85'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 21,666 Referee: Michael Kempter (Sauldorf)

16 September 2006 4	1. FC Nürnberg	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	showNuremberg
15:30	Polák 30'	^[4]	Gekas 10'	Stadium: easyCredit-Stadion Attendance: 40,240 Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)

24 September 2006 5	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Arminia Bielefeld	showBochum
17:00	Fábio Júnior 58' Iličević 73'	^[5]	Gabriel 11'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 20,318 Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)

30 September 2006 6	Alemannia Aachen	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	showAachen
15:30	Schlaudraff 48' Rösler 49'	^[6]	Misimović 36'	Stadium: Tivoli Attendance: 20,300 Referee: Lutz Wagner (Kriftel)

14 October 2006 7	VfL Bochum	0 – 6	Werder Bremen	showBochum
15:30		^[7]	Hunt 7' Schulz 60' Vranješ 75' Diego 77' Fritz 88' Naldo 90'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,328 Referee: Michael Weiner (Giesen)

20 October 2006 8	Borussia Dortmund	1 – 1	VfL Bochum	showDortmund
20:30	Smolarek 35'	^[8]	Gekas 31'	Stadium: Signal Iduna Park Attendance: 75,100 Referee: Peter Sippel (Munich)

28 October 2006 9	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	VfL Wolfsburg	showBochum
15:30		^[9]	Hanke 25'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 18,650 Referee: (Ulm)

3 November 2006 10	Hannover 96	0 – 2	VfL Bochum	showHannover
20:30		^[10]	Drsek 4' Gekas 76'	Stadium: AWD-Arena Attendance: 30,042 Referee: Markus Schmidt (Stuttgart)

8 November 2006 11	VfL Bochum	1 – 3	Bayer Leverkusen	showBochum
20:00	Iličević 48'	^[11]	Barbarez 7' Voronin 32' Barnetta 71'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 18,469 Referee: Lutz Wagner (Kriftel)

11 November 2006 12	Hertha BSC	3 – 3	VfL Bochum	showBerlin
15:30	Pantelić 9' Van Burik 58' Neuendorf 80'	^[12]	Gekas 39' Misimović 45+1', 47'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 29,104 Referee: Felix Brych (Munich)

17 November 2006 13	VfL Bochum	4 – 3	Eintracht Frankfurt	showBochum
20:30	Misimović 29' (pen.) Maltritz 33' Butscher 36' Gekas 46'	^[13]	Streit 1', 5' Amanatidis 56'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 21,260 Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)

24 November 2006 14	Schalke 04	2 – 1	VfL Bochum	showGelsenkirchen
20:30	Rafinha 19' Løvenkrands 27'	^[14]	Gekas 49'	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 61,482 Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)

2 December 2006 15	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Hamburger SV	showBochum
15:30	Dabrowski 5' Misimović 70'	^[15]	Ljuboja 42'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 25,715 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)

9 December 2006 16	VfB Stuttgart	1 – 0	VfL Bochum	showStuttgart
15:30	Streller 87'	^[16]		Stadium: Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

15 December 2006 17	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	showBochum
20:30	Gekas 45+1' Kahê 85' (o.g.)	^[17]		Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 30,500 Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)

27 January 2007 18	VfL Bochum	0 – 1	Mainz 05	showBochum
15:30		^[18]	Rose 38'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 20,487 Referee: Florian Meyer (Burgdorf)

30 January 2007 19	Bayern Munich	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	showMunich
20:00		^[19]		Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 64,000 Referee: Jochen Drees (Münster-Sarmsheim)

3 February 2007 20	Energie Cottbus	0 – 0	VfL Bochum	showCottbus
15:30		^[20]		Stadium: Stadion der Freundschaft Attendance: 11,650 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Ergolding)

11 February 2007 21	VfL Bochum	0 – 2	1. FC Nürnberg	showBochum
17:00		^[21]	Saenko 88', 90+1'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 18,110 Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg)

18 February 2007 22	Arminia Bielefeld	1 – 3	VfL Bochum	showBielefeld
17:00	Wichniarek 26'	^[22]	Gekas 2', 10' Dabrowski 51'	Stadium: Schüco-Arena Attendance: 21,025 Referee: Felix Brych (Munich)

24 February 2007 23	VfL Bochum	2 – 2	Alemannia Aachen	showBochum
15:30	Gekas 25' Epalle 53'	^[23]	Ibišević 35' Lehmann 59'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 21,350 Referee: Peter Sippel (Munich)

3 March 2007 24	Werder Bremen	3 – 0	VfL Bochum	showBremen
15:30	Hunt 25', 73', 76'	^[24]		Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 40,156 Referee: Lutz Wagner (Kriftel)

10 March 2007 25	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Borussia Dortmund	showBochum
15:30	Gekas 48', 83'	^[25]		Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,278 Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)

17 March 2007 26	VfL Wolfsburg	3 – 1	VfL Bochum	showWolfsburg
15:30	Boakye 21' Madlung 26' Marcelinho 83'	^[26]	Gekas 66'	Stadium: Volkswagen-Arena Attendance: 15,743 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

1 April 2007 27	VfL Bochum	2 – 0	Hannover 96	showBochum
17:00	Gekas 35' Epalle 42'	^[27]		Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 24,177 Referee: (Ulm)

8 April 2007 28	Bayer Leverkusen	1 – 4	VfL Bochum	showLeverkusen
17:00	Kießling 62'	^[28]	Haggui 8' (o.g.) Yahia 16' Gekas 22', 90'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 22,500 Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)

14 April 2007 29	VfL Bochum	1 – 3	Hertha BSC	showBochum
15:30	Gekas 1'	^[29]	Giménez 58' Gilberto 66' Ede 90'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 27,181 Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)

21 April 2007 30	Eintracht Frankfurt	0 – 3	VfL Bochum	showFrankfurt am Main
15:30		^[30]	Gekas 32' Epalle 58', 69'	Stadium: Commerzbank Arena Attendance: 47,962 Referee: Babak Rafati (Hannover)

27 April 2007 31	VfL Bochum	2 – 1	Schalke 04	showBochum
20:30	Misimović 33' Gekas 41'	^[31]	Kurányi 8'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,328 Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg)

5 May 2007 32	Hamburger SV	0 – 3	VfL Bochum	showHamburg
15:30		^[32]	Gekas 61' Grote 66' Misimović 80' (pen.)	Stadium: AOL Arena Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Felix Brych (Munich)

12 May 2007 33	VfL Bochum	2 – 3	VfB Stuttgart	showBochum
15:30	Schröder 4' Maltritz 42'	^[33]	Hitzlsperger 24' Gómez 62' Cacau 73'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 31,328 Referee: Florian Meyer (Burgdorf)

19 May 2007 34	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0 – 2	VfL Bochum	showMönchengladbach
15:30		^[34]	Dabrowski 24' Wosz 82'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 50,001 Referee: Markus Merk (Otterbach)

DFB-Pokal[]

9 September 2006 R1	FC 08 Homburg	1 – 2	VfL Bochum	showHomburg
18:30	Petri 85'	^[35]	Misimović 19' (pen.) Gekas 51'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 6,375 Referee: (Hannover)

24 October 2006 R2	VfL Bochum	3 – 2	Karlsruher SC	showBochum
19:30	Gekas 26' Butscher 29', 87'	^[36]	Porcello 44', 62'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 10,480 Referee: (Biberbach)

19 December 2006 R3	VfL Bochum	1 – 4	VfB Stuttgart	showBochum
19:30	Bechmann 85'	^[37]	Gómez 34' Hitzlsperger 49', 58' Cacau 90'	Stadium: rewirpowerSTADION Attendance: 18,650 Referee: Peter Sippel (Munich)

Squad[]

Squad and statistics[]

Squad, appearances and goals scored[]

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Peter Skov-Jensen	13	0	12	0	1	0
2	DF		Benjamin Lense	9	0	8	0	1	0
3	DF		Martin Meichelbeck	11	0	9	0	2	0
4	DF		Marcel Maltritz	34	2	31	2	3	0
5	MF		Christoph Dabrowski	34	3	31	3	3	0
6	MF		Daniel Imhof	7	0	7	0	0	0
7	MF		Tommy Bechmann	12	1	11	0	1	1
8	MF		Tomasz Zdebel	34	1	32	1	2	0
9	FW		Fábio Júnior Pereira	18	2	16	2	2	0
10	MF		Dariusz Wosz	1	1	1	1	0	0
11	MF		Joris Van Hout	15	0	14	0	1	0
13	GK		René Renno	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	MF		Ivo Iličević	20	2	19	2	1	0
15	DF		Pavel Drsek	30	1	27	1	3	0
16	MF		Zvjezdan Misimović	32	8	30	7	2	1
17	DF		Heiko Butscher	22	3	20	1	2	2
18	MF		Oliver Schröder	31	1	28	1	3	0
19	MF		Dennis Grote	17	1	16	1	1	0
20	FW		Benjamin Auer (until 31 December 2006)	3	0	2	0	1	0
20	MF		Joël Epalle (since 1 January 2007)	17	4	17	4	0	0
21	FW		Filip Trojan	29	0	26	0	3	0
22	FW		Theofanis Gekas	35	22	32	20	3	2
23	MF		Ersan Tekkan	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	DF		Philipp Bönig	33	0	30	0	3	0
25	FW		Thomas Rathgeber (until 31 December 2006)	2	0	1	0	1	0
25	DF		Antar Yahia (since 29 January 2007)	16	1	16	1	0	0
26	GK		Alexander Bade	7	0	5	0	2	0
27	DF		David Czyszczon	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	MF			0	0	0	0	0	0
29	MF		Sebastian Hille	1	0	1	0	0	0
31	GK		Andreas Luthe	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	MF		David Zajas	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	GK		Polat Keser (until 31 December 2006)	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	DF		David Pallas	9	0	8	0	1	0
45	GK		Jaroslav Drobný (since 22 January 2007)	17	0	17	0	0	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Transfers[]

Summer[]

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	GER	Benjamin Lense (from 1. FC Nürnberg)
5	MF	GER	Christoph Dabrowski (from Hannover 96)
14	MF	CRO	Ivo Iličević (from Darmstadt 98)
18	MF	GER	Oliver Schröder (from Hertha BSC)
20	FW	GER	Benjamin Auer (from Mainz 05)
22	FW	GRE	Theofanis Gekas (on loan from Panathinaikos)
26	GK	GER	Alexander Bade (from 1. FC Köln)
31	GK	GER	Andreas Luthe (from VfL Bochum II)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	NED	Rein van Duijnhoven (retired)
2	DF	BRA	China (loan return to Flamengo)
5	DF	DEN	Søren Colding (retired)
22	FW	BRA	Edu (to Mainz 05)
26	MF	GER	Claus Costa (to Fortuna Düsseldorf)
27	FW	GER	Alexander Thamm (to Preußen Münster)
28	DF	GER	Thorsten Barg (to Karlsruher SC II)
29	FW	TUR	Haluk Türkeri (to Karlsruher SC II)
31	GK	GER	Christian Vander (to Werder Bremen)

Winter[]

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	MF	CMR	Joël Epalle (from Iraklis)
25	DF	ALG	Antar Yahia (on loan from Nice)
45	GK	CZE	Jaroslav Drobný (on loan from Ipswich Town)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	FW	GER	Benjamin Auer (on loan to 1. FC Kaiserslautern)
25	FW	GER	Thomas Rathgeber (to SpVgg Unterhaching)
33	GK	TUR	Polat Keser (to Antalyaspor)

VfL Bochum II[]

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Oberliga Westfalen
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	DF		David Czyszczon	34	3	34	3
	DF		Patrick Fabian	29	0	29	0
	MF		Dennis Grote	6	0	6	0
	FW		Dilaver Güçlü	24	7	24	7
	FW		Faruk Gül	2	0	2	0
	FW			1	0	1	0
	FW		Sebastian Hille	33	18	33	18
	MF		Ivo Iličević	8	5	8	5
	FW		Aurélien Joachim (until 30 January 2007)	4	0	4	0
	GK		Polat Keser (until 31 December 2006)	0	0	0	0
	MF			11	0	11	0
	DF			24	1	24	1
	DF			15	0	15	0
	DF			12	1	12	1
	FW			21	9	21	9
	GK		Andreas Luthe	34	0	34	0
	MF			30	2	30	2
	DF			30	1	30	1
	FW			3	0	3	0
	MF			22	2	22	2
	MF		David Pallas	1	0	1	0
	FW		Thomas Rathgeber	8	3	8	3
	MF			10	0	10	0
	GK			0	0	0	0
	MF		Ersan Tekkan	5	2	5	2
	MF		Deran Toksöz	1	0	1	0
	FW			26	5	26	5
	MF			23	1	23	1
	MF		David Zajas	32	0	32	0
	FW			18	0	18	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Sources[]

^ "1. FSV Mainz 05 - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Bayern München 1:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Energie Cottbus 0:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "1. FC Nürnberg - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Arminia Bielefeld 2:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "Alemannia Aachen - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Werder Bremen 0:6" (in German). kicker.
^ "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - VfL Wolfsburg 0:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "Hannover 96 - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "Hertha BSC - VfL Bochum 3:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Frankfurt 4:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "FC Schalke 04 - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 2:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Bor. Mönchengladbach 2:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - 1. FSV Mainz 05 0:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "Bayern München - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "Energie Cottbus - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Nürnberg 0:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "Arminia Bielefeld - VfL Bochum 1:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Alemannia Aachen 2:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "Werder Bremen - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Borussia Dortmund 2:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Wolfsburg - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Hannover 96 2:0" (in German). kicker.
^ "Bayer 04 Leverkusen - VfL Bochum 1:4" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Hertha BSC 1:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 0:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - FC Schalke 04 2:1" (in German). kicker.
^ "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 0:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 2:3" (in German). kicker.
^ "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "FC 08 Homburg - VfL Bochum 1:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - Karlsruher SC 3:2" (in German). kicker.
^ "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 1:4" (in German). kicker.

External links[]

2006–07 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de (in German)
2006–07 VfL Bochum season at kicker.de (in German)
2006–07 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de (in German)

[1] "1. FSV Mainz 05 - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.

[2] "VfL Bochum - Bayern München 1:2" (in German). kicker.

[3] "VfL Bochum - Energie Cottbus 0:1" (in German). kicker.

[4] "1. FC Nürnberg - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.

[5] "VfL Bochum - Arminia Bielefeld 2:1" (in German). kicker.

[6] "Alemannia Aachen - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.

[7] "VfL Bochum - Werder Bremen 0:6" (in German). kicker.

[8] "Borussia Dortmund - VfL Bochum 1:1" (in German). kicker.

[9] "VfL Bochum - VfL Wolfsburg 0:1" (in German). kicker.

[10] "Hannover 96 - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). kicker.

[11] "VfL Bochum - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1:3" (in German). kicker.

[12] "Hertha BSC - VfL Bochum 3:3" (in German). kicker.

[13] "VfL Bochum - Eintracht Frankfurt 4:3" (in German). kicker.

[14] "FC Schalke 04 - VfL Bochum 2:1" (in German). kicker.

[15] "VfL Bochum - Hamburger SV 2:1" (in German). kicker.

[16] "VfB Stuttgart - VfL Bochum 1:0" (in German). kicker.

[17] "VfL Bochum - Bor. Mönchengladbach 2:0" (in German). kicker.

[18] "VfL Bochum - 1. FSV Mainz 05 0:1" (in German). kicker.

[19] "Bayern München - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). kicker.

[20] "Energie Cottbus - VfL Bochum 0:0" (in German). kicker.

[21] "VfL Bochum - 1. FC Nürnberg 0:2" (in German). kicker.

[22] "Arminia Bielefeld - VfL Bochum 1:3" (in German). kicker.

[23] "VfL Bochum - Alemannia Aachen 2:2" (in German). kicker.

[24] "Werder Bremen - VfL Bochum 3:0" (in German). kicker.

[25] "VfL Bochum - Borussia Dortmund 2:0" (in German). kicker.

[26] "VfL Wolfsburg - VfL Bochum 3:1" (in German). kicker.

[27] "VfL Bochum - Hannover 96 2:0" (in German). kicker.

[28] "Bayer 04 Leverkusen - VfL Bochum 1:4" (in German). kicker.

[29] "VfL Bochum - Hertha BSC 1:3" (in German). kicker.

[30] "Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL Bochum 0:3" (in German). kicker.

[31] "VfL Bochum - FC Schalke 04 2:1" (in German). kicker.

[32] "Hamburger SV - VfL Bochum 0:3" (in German). kicker.

[33] "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 2:3" (in German). kicker.

[34] "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfL Bochum 0:2" (in German). kicker.

[35] "FC 08 Homburg - VfL Bochum 1:2" (in German). kicker.

[36] "VfL Bochum - Karlsruher SC 3:2" (in German). kicker.

[37] "VfL Bochum - VfB Stuttgart 1:4" (in German). kicker.

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