The 1991–92 Bundesliga was the 29th season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. It began on 2 August 1991 and ended on 16 May 1992. 1. FC Kaiserslautern were the defending champions.

As Germany had been reunified on 3 October 1990, this was the first season that the Bundesliga contained teams from the former East Germany.

Competition format Owing to the incorporation of two teams from former East Germany, the number of clubs was extended to 20, being reduced to the ″traditional″ number of 18 immediately after this one season. Hence, the season consisted of 38 matchdays. Every team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. If two or more teams were tied on points, places were determined by goal difference and, if still tied, by goals scored. The team with the most points were crowned champions while the four teams with the fewest points were relegated to 2. Bundesliga (to be replaced by just two teams from that league).

Team changes to 1990–91 Bayer 05 Uerdingen and Hertha BSC were directly relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after finishing in the last two places. They were replaced by FC Schalke 04 and MSV Duisburg. Uerdingen and Hertha BSC were eventually joined in demotion by relegation/promotion play-off participant FC St. Pauli, who lost on aggregate against Stuttgarter Kickers.

Due to German reunification, teams from the former DDR-Oberliga were also accommodated to the Bundesliga. These were the best two teams of the 1990–91 season, Hansa Rostock and Dynamo Dresden.

Season overview The season saw some surprises, including Hansa Rostock being at the top of the league table early in the season, and Bayern Munich only finishing mid-table. On the final matchday, three teams had chances to win the Bundesliga title: Eintracht Frankfurt, VfB Stuttgart and Borussia Dortmund each had 50 points before kick-off, and all three had an away match to play. Frankfurt seemed to have the easiest task, but lost 1–2 to Rostock and only finished third. They were overtaken by Stuttgart who won 2–1 at Bayer Leverkusen and achieved their 4th German championship. Dortmund won 1–0 at MSV Duisburg and finished second.

Despite their 2–1 win, Rostock were relegated, along with Fortuna Düsseldorf, Duisburg and Stuttgarter Kickers. Out of the teams that had been promoted from Bundesliga Two, FC Schalke 04 were the only one to stay in the league. Dynamo Dresden remained as the only team from Eastern Germany.

Team overview

Club Location Ground Capacity Bochum Ruhrstadion 40,000 Bremen Weserstadion 32,000 Dortmund Westfalenstadion 52,616 Dresden Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion 30,000 Duisburg Wedaustadion 31,500 Düsseldorf Rheinstadion 59,600 Frankfurt Waldstadion 62,000 Hamburg Volksparkstadion 62,000 Kaiserslautern Fritz-Walter-Stadion 38,500 Karlsruhe Wildparkstadion 50,000 Cologne Müngersdorfer Stadion 55,000 Leverkusen Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion 27,800 Mönchengladbach Bökelbergstadion 34,500 Munich Olympiastadion 70,000 Nuremberg Frankenstadion 55,000 Rostock Ostseestadion 25,000 Gelsenkirchen Parkstadion 70,000 Stuttgart Neckarstadion 68,000 Stuttgart Neckarstadion 68,000 Wattenscheid Lohrheidestadion 15,000

League table

Results

Top goalscorers 22 goals Fritz Walter (VfB Stuttgart)

20 goals Stéphane Chapuisat (Borussia Dortmund)

17 goals Roland Wohlfarth (FC Bayern Munich)

15 goals Tony Yeboah (Eintracht Frankfurt)

14 goals Lothar Sippel (Eintracht Frankfurt)

13 goals Marcus Marin (Stuttgarter Kickers) Michael Spies (Hansa Rostock) Michael Tönnies (MSV Duisburg)

12 goals Marco Bode (SV Werder Bremen) Dieter Eckstein (1. FC Nürnberg) Ulf Kirsten (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) Andreas Möller (Eintracht Frankfurt) Dimitrios Moutas (Stuttgarter Kickers)

Attendances Source:

No. Team Attendance Change Highest 1 Schalke 04 47,468 37.0% 70,200 2 Borussia Dortmund 44,355 23.5% 52,616 3 1. FC Nürnberg 38,053 63.1% 52,500 4 VfB Stuttgart 33,789 17.0% 67,900 5 1. FC Kaiserslautern 33,672 4.7% 38,500 6 Bayern München 32,526 -9.4% 65,000 7 Eintracht Frankfurt 29,868 22.9% 60,500 8 1. FC Köln 23,105 8.8% 47,000 9 Hamburger SV 22,604 -5.8% 52,400 10 Borussia Mönchengladbach 21,679 12.4% 34,500 11 MSV Duisburg 21,654 67.8% 31,500 12 VfL Bochum 18,737 -0.3% 41,000 13 Karlsruher SC 17,921 -2.0% 30,000 14 Werder Bremen 17,388 -14.8% 33,000 15 Dynamo Dresden 16,642 66.2% 30,000 16 Bayer Leverkusen 15,216 11.7% 26,000 17 Wattenscheid 09 14,326 5.2% 39,000 18 Fortuna Düsseldorf 14,000 -15.6% 40,000 19 Hansa Rostock 13,668 36.3% 25,000 20 Stuttgarter Kickers 12,653 93.5% 36,500

See also 1991–92 2. Bundesliga 1991–92 DFB-Pokal

References

External links DFB Bundesliga archive 1991/1992