The 1990–91 Bundesliga was the 28th season of the Bundesliga, the premier football league in West Germany. It began on 8 August 1990 and ended on 15 June 1991. FC Bayern Munich were the defending champions.
With the Reunification of Germany on 3 October 1990, it was the last season that the league was exclusive to teams from the former West Germany before it was opened to teams from the former East Germany.
Competition format 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 two teams with the fewest points were relegated to 2. Bundesliga. The third-to-last team had to compete in a two-legged relegation/promotion play-off against the third-placed team from 2. Bundesliga.
Team changes to 1989–90 SV Waldhof Mannheim and FC Homburg were directly relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after finishing in the last two places. They were replaced by Hertha BSC and SG Wattenscheid 09. Relegation/promotion play-off participant VfL Bochum won on aggregate against 1. FC Saarbrücken and thus retained their Bundesliga status.
Team overview
Club Location Ground Capacity Berlin Olympiastadion 76,000 Bochum Ruhrstadion 40,000 Bremen Weserstadion 32,000 Dortmund Westfalenstadion 54,000 Düsseldorf Rheinstadion 59,600 Frankfurt Waldstadion 62,000 Hamburg Volksparkstadion 62,000 Kaiserslautern Fritz-Walter-Stadion 42,000 Karlsruhe Wildparkstadion 50,000 Cologne Müngersdorfer Stadion 61,000 Leverkusen Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion 20,000 Mönchengladbach Bökelbergstadion 34,500 Munich Olympiastadion 70,000 Nuremberg Städtisches Stadion 64,238 Hamburg Stadion am Millerntor 18,000 Stuttgart Neckarstadion 72,000 Krefeld Grotenburg-Stadion 34,500 Bochum Lohrheidestadion 15,000
Wattenscheid played their first six home matches at Ruhrstadion because their own ground was upgraded to meet Bundesliga requirements.
League table
Results
Relegation play-offs FC St. Pauli and third-placed 2. Bundesliga team Stuttgarter Kickers had to compete in a two-legged relegation/promotion play-off. After a two-leg series, both teams were tied 2–2 on aggregate, so a deciding third match had to be scheduled. Stuttgarter Kickers won this match and were promoted to the Bundesliga.
Top goalscorers 21 goals Roland Wohlfarth (FC Bayern Munich)
20 goals Jan Furtok (Hamburger SV)
16 goals Andreas Möller (Eintracht Frankfurt)
15 goals Thomas Allofs (Fortuna Düsseldorf) Wynton Rufer (SV Werder Bremen)
14 goals Maurice Banach (1. FC Köln)
13 goals Souleyman Sané (SG Wattenscheid 09)
12 goals Hans-Jörg Criens (Borussia Mönchengladbach) Fritz Walter (VfB Stuttgart)
11 goals Ulf Kirsten (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) Stefan Kohn (VfL Bochum) Stefan Kuntz (1. FC Kaiserslautern) Nando (Hamburger SV) Matthias Sammer (VfB Stuttgart) Rainer Schütterle (Karlsruher SC)
Attendances Source:
No. Team Attendance Change Highest 1 Borussia Dortmund 35,923 -3.4% 53,000 2 Bayern München 35,885 -1.0% 73,153 3 1. FC Kaiserslautern 32,145 26.4% 38,500 4 VfB Stuttgart 28,882 16.1% 68,000 5 Eintracht Frankfurt 24,310 -9.1% 60,843 6 Hamburger SV 23,994 12.4% 61,000 7 1. FC Nürnberg 23,337 -6.9% 51,750 8 1. FC Köln 21,235 -4.7% 55,000 9 Werder Bremen 20,420 6.0% 32,875 10 Borussia Mönchengladbach 19,291 -1.9% 34,000 11 VfL Bochum 18,786 2.3% 40,051 12 FC St. Pauli 18,628 -2.1% 38,200 13 Karlsruher SC 18,294 -5.0% 33,000 14 Fortuna 95 16,588 -16.8% 48,000 15 Hertha BSC 15,186 13.0% 38,752 16 Bayer Leverkusen 13,618 -5.6% 25,800 17 Wattenscheid 09 13,612 168.6% 43,200 18 Bayer 05 Uerdingen 10,547 -13.8% 23,000
See also 1990–91 2. Bundesliga 1990–91 DFB-Pokal
References
External links DFB Bundesliga archive 1990/1991