The 1983–84 Bundesliga was the 21st season of the Bundesliga, the premier football league in West Germany. It began on 12 August 1983 and ended on 26 May 1984. Stuttgart won the championship. Defending champions, Hamburg finished second. The 1983–84 Bundesliga season holds the record for most goals scored in a Bundesliga season.
Competition modus 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 1982–83 Karlsruher SC and Hertha BSC were directly relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after finishing in the last two places. They were replaced by SV Waldhof Mannheim and Kickers Offenbach. Karlsruhe and Hertha BSC were eventually joined in demotion by relegation/promotion play-off participant FC Schalke 04, who lost on aggregate against Bayer 05 Uerdingen.
Season overview
On the 32nd game day of the season 53 goals were scored in 9 games, marking the highest number of goals ever scored in a single game day of the Bundesliga. The 1983–84 season is also the season in which the most goals of the course of the whole season were scored, 1097 in total.
Team overview
Club Location Ground Capacity Bielefeld Stadion Alm 35,000 Bochum Ruhrstadion 40,000 Braunschweig Stadion an der Hamburger Straße 38,000 Bremen Weserstadion 32,000 Dortmund Westfalenstadion 54,000 Düsseldorf Rheinstadion 59,600 Frankfurt am Main Waldstadion 62,000 Hamburg Volksparkstadion 80,000 Kaiserslautern Stadion Betzenberg 42,000 Cologne Müngersdorfer Stadion 61,000 Leverkusen Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion 20,000 Ludwigshafen am Rhein Südweststadion 75,000 Mönchengladbach Bökelbergstadion 34,500 Munich Olympiastadion 80,000 Nuremberg Städtisches Stadion 64,238 Offenbach am Main Bieberer Berg 30,000 Stuttgart Neckarstadion 72,000 Krefeld Grotenburg-Kampfbahn 28,000
Waldhof Mannheim played their matches in nearby Ludwigshafen because their own ground did not fulfil Bundesliga requirements.
League table
Results
Relegation play-offs Eintracht Frankfurt and third-placed 2. Bundesliga team MSV Duisburg had to compete in a two-legged relegation/promotion play-off. Frankfurt won 6–1 on aggregate and remained in the Bundesliga.
Top goalscorers 26 goals Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (FC Bayern Munich)
20 goals Klaus Allofs (1. FC Köln)
19 goals Frank Mill (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
18 goals Christian Schreier (VfL Bochum) Rudi Völler (SV Werder Bremen)
17 goals Pierre Littbarski (1. FC Köln)
16 goals Fritz Walter (SV Waldhof Mannheim)
15 goals Thomas Allofs (1. FC Kaiserslautern) Friedhelm Funkel (Bayer 05 Uerdingen) Dieter Schatzschneider (Hamburger SV) Herbert Waas (Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
Champion squad
VfB StuttgartGoalkeepers: Helmut Roleder (29); Armin Jäger (6). Defenders: Guido Buchwald (34 / 3); Bernd Förster (31 / 2); Karlheinz Förster (captain; 29 / 2); Günther Schäfer (26 / 2); Hans-Peter Makan (24 / 1); Rainer Zietsch (10). Midfielders: Hermann Ohlicher (32 / 8); Ásgeir Sigurvinsson (31 / 12); Karl Allgöwer (29 / 12); Kurt Niedermayer (27 / 3); Andreas Müller (20 / 5); Thomas Kempe (13 / 1). Forwards: Peter Reichert (31 / 13); Walter Kelsch (29 / 3); Dan Corneliusson (28 / 12); Achim Glückler (1); Rudi Lorch (1). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
Manager: Helmut Benthaus.
On the roster but have not played in a league game: none.
See also 1983–84 2. Bundesliga 1983–84 DFB-Pokal
References
External links DFB Bundesliga archive 1983/1984