1.) End of season on Sunday night
Before the Bundesliga was founded, football was usually only played on Sundays. Only then did Saturday become football day. Sunday, however, experienced a unique renaissance on the last match day 1969/1970, when all nine games fell on the holiday. Even more unusual: All games started at 8:00 p.m. to protect amateur footballers. Reason for the postponement: The severe winter with 42 game cancellations brought huge deadlines and had even postponed the end of the season. The 33rd matchday had to take place on Thursday before, so the season could not end on the scheduled Saturday. So Mönchengladbach had to celebrate his championship the following Monday. Günter Netzer personally ensured that the children were given no school.
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2.) The matchday without goals
The winter of 1970 caused another curiosity. If the 18th matchday was still completely canceled, on 17 January 1970 six teams ventured to the snow-covered pitches. But if they had stayed at home, fewer goals would have been scored. Schalke – Frankfurt, Oberhausen – Kaiserslautern and Aachen – Essen also had the result in common: 0: 0.
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3.) The 53 goal day
The 1983/1984 season is the penultimate that broke the 1000 goal mark. And unmatched with 1097 hits. This is largely thanks to the players who played so eagerly on May 12, 1984: 53 goals are still a Bundesliga record. Most fell on Friday evening under floodlights on Bieberer Berg, where Kickers Offenbach’s descent (3: 7 against Werder Bremen) was sealed. Bremen’s Uwe Reinders even failed with a penalty to Oliver Reck.
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4.) The double triad
On the last day of the mammoth season 1991/1992 – after the top two GDR teams had started, 20 teams played 38 games each – almost nothing had been resolved. Unique: three teams at the top were tied. Eintracht Frankfurt, VfB Stuttgart and Borussia Dortmund all had to compete on May 16. Frankfurt (in Rostock) and BVB (in Duisburg) for relegation candidates. Only one of four relegated relatives was identified. And VfB opponents Leverkusen were still fighting for Uefa Cup participation. The “kicker” headlined: “Hitchcock makes perfect.” Indeed, it became a crime thriller. All three candidates were at the top of the lightning table, Guido Buchwald’s goal in Leverkusen (86th) decided the drama for VfB. Thanks to Rostock, who beat Eintracht (2-1) and still descended. Hitzfelds Dortmund were the longest up (77 minutes), but the 1-0 in Duisburg was not enough. After the final whistle in Duisburg, there were only losers.
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5.) The matchday after September 11th
On the sixth match day in 2001/2002, numerous signals of solidarity with the USA, which had become the target of a terrorist attack with many fatalities on September 11, were sent out before kick-off. Bremen ran into the chest with “Keine Macht dem Terror”, players from both teams formed a circle in many stadiums, the officials from Schalke and Dortmund held a prayer in the stadium chapel in front of the Revierderby, the same text shining from all the scoreboards “Undivided solidarity” with the American people underlined. Condolence lists were available in Nuremberg. The coaches Schaaf and Lienen skipped the press conference.
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6.) Post break and taboo break
April 3, 1971 brought the DFB Sports Court more work than other match days. In Mönchengladbach, a goal post broke two minutes before the final whistle against Werder Bremen. As there was no replacement goal and repair attempts by Borussia were only half-heartedly – the league leaders speculated on repetition -, the referee stopped at the score of 1: 1. A precedent! The verdict was not final until 26 days later: The DFB rated the game as lost for the hosts (0-2). Frankfurt’s Friedel Lutz received his judgment faster. The first Bundesliga player to see a red card the day the post broke was banned from kicking the butt of a Braunschweig player for two games.
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7.) Just a home point
In football one speaks of the home advantage, and actually 50.65 percent of all Bundesliga games are won by the host, for the guest the chance of victory is 23.71 percent. So much for the statistics. In reality, it looked like this after the sixth matchday of the current season: a draw and eight (!) Away wins. Only Borussia Dortmund did not lose, but the 2-2 win against Werder also felt like a defeat. It was already the seventh game day without a home win, but only one home point and eight away wins were records. This happened on the weekend of September 27-29, 2019.
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8.) Home wins only
Except for expenses, nothing had happened – the guest teams were able to determine this seven times in Bundesliga history. Most recently, however, 30 years ago, on December 1 and 2, 1989. For the first time there was “all nine” on the 30th match day in 1967/1968, when Bayern also got under the wheel and practically out of the game after the 0: 3 in Stuttgart Eliminate title race.
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9.) Most draws, fewer goals
At the end of February 1999, goal-hungry football fans were served lean food in almost all stadiums. Five games ended 0-0, which led to the setting of the minus record of eleven goals (as on the 26th matchday 1989/1990). The number of draws, however, was unique, with the five 0-0 draws already followed by two 1-1 games on Friday evening. Only Bayern fell 4-0 in Rostock.
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10.) Three draws = three coach changes
After the 19th matchday 2006/2007, the events overturn. Coach changes are rather unusual immediately after the winter break, but 13 years ago the biggest coach quake in league history occurred immediately following a match day. You can observe a pattern: three traditional clubs with higher demands play at home, the coach leaves. In Gladbach (Jupp Heynckes) he gets ahead of the kick, in Munich (Magath) and Hamburg (Doll) the clubs pull the ripcord.
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