The 1998–99 Bundesliga was the 36th season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. It began on 14 August 1998[1] and ended on 29 May 1999.[2]1. FC Kaiserslautern were the defending champions.
Every team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received three 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 three teams with the fewest points were relegated to 2. Bundesliga.
While Bayern Munich clearly dominated the league and secured the championship in round 31, the season is well remembered for the struggle against relegation which remained close until the final whistle. In the last round (round 34), five teams needed a win to remain in the top flight, with one team having to join Mönchengladbach and Bochum who already had lost their chances. At halftime, Frankfurt looked like the relegated team, but they turned a 0–0 draw into a 5–1 win against Kaiserslautern. Rostock (3–2 at Bochum) and Stuttgart (1–0 against Bremen) also won their matches, and the other two teams, Nürnberg and Freiburg, faced each other. Nürnberg lost 1–2 and was eventually overtaken by the other four teams, dropping from position 12 to 16, and had to go down to 2. Bundesliga.
With around twenty minutes to go, league table position #16 changed hands several times:
68th minute: While Frankfurt had scored shortly after the break, Kaiserslautern equalized (1–1), therefore Frankfurt even more looked like the third relegated team.
70th to 74th minute: Frankfurt scored (2–1), which still would not have been enough, but Rostock (1–0 up) conceded two goals at Bochum and was now in 16th place.
77th to 82nd minute: Rostock equalized (2–2), but Frankfurt scored two more goals (4–1), leaving Rostock at #16 and now having the same goal difference as Nürnberg.
83rd minute: Rostock scored another goal (3–2), which meant that Nürnberg (still 0–2 down) dropped to 16th place and would have been relegated.
85th minute: Nürnberg scored (1–2) and climbed back up the table, leaving Frankfurt in the relegation zone again.
89th minute: With the penultimate goal of the season (the final one being scored for Schalke at Munich), Frankfurt scored for the final time during the match which resulted in a 5–1 win over Kaiserslautern. Soon afterwards the games in Nürnberg (1–2), Frankfurt and Bochum (a 3–2 win for Rostock) ended, and Nürnberg were relegated.
In a famous post-match interview, Frankfurt's striker Jan Åge Fjørtoft, who had scored the team's decisive goal, praised Frankfurt's manager Jörg Berger claiming that he would have also saved RMS Titanic.
^. DFB. Archived from the original on 28 September 2012.
^. DFB. Archived from the original on 28 September 2012.
^ abGrüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs, Band 7: Vereinslexikon (in German). Kassel: AGON Sportverlag. ISBN3-89784-147-9.
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The 1998 99 Bundesliga was the 36th season of the Bundesliga Germany s premier football league It began on 14 August 1998 1 and ended on 29 May 1999 2 1 FC Kaiserslautern were the defending champions BundesligaSeason1998 99Dates14 August 1998 29 May 1999ChampionsBayern Munich14th Bundesliga title15th German titleRelegated1 FC NurnbergVfL BochumBorussia MonchengladbachChampions LeagueBayern MunichBayer LeverkusenHertha BSCBorussia DortmundUEFA Cup1 FC KaiserslauternVfL WolfsburgWerder Bremen domestic cup winners Intertoto CupHamburger SVMSV DuisburgMatches played306Goals scored866 2 83 per match Top goalscorerMichael Preetz 23 Biggest home winWolfsburg 7 1 M gladbach 7 November 1998 Biggest away winM gladbach 2 8 Leverkusen 30 October 1998 Highest scoringM gladbach 2 8 Leverkusen 10 goals 30 October 1998 1997 981999 2000 Contents 1 Competition modus 2 Team changes to 1997 98 3 Season overview 4 Team overview 5 League table 6 Results 7 Top goalscorers 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksCompetition modus editEvery team played two games against each other team one at home and one away Teams received three 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 three teams with the fewest points were relegated to 2 Bundesliga Team changes to 1997 98 editKarlsruher SC 1 FC Koln and Arminia Bielefeld were relegated to the 2 Bundesliga after finishing in the last three places They were replaced by Eintracht Frankfurt SC Freiburg and 1 FC Nurnberg Season overview editWhile Bayern Munich clearly dominated the league and secured the championship in round 31 the season is well remembered for the struggle against relegation which remained close until the final whistle In the last round round 34 five teams needed a win to remain in the top flight with one team having to join Monchengladbach and Bochum who already had lost their chances At halftime Frankfurt looked like the relegated team but they turned a 0 0 draw into a 5 1 win against Kaiserslautern Rostock 3 2 at Bochum and Stuttgart 1 0 against Bremen also won their matches and the other two teams Nurnberg and Freiburg faced each other Nurnberg lost 1 2 and was eventually overtaken by the other four teams dropping from position 12 to 16 and had to go down to 2 Bundesliga With around twenty minutes to go league table position 16 changed hands several times 68th minute While Frankfurt had scored shortly after the break Kaiserslautern equalized 1 1 therefore Frankfurt even more looked like the third relegated team 70th to 74th minute Frankfurt scored 2 1 which still would not have been enough but Rostock 1 0 up conceded two goals at Bochum and was now in 16th place 77th to 82nd minute Rostock equalized 2 2 but Frankfurt scored two more goals 4 1 leaving Rostock at 16 and now having the same goal difference as Nurnberg 83rd minute Rostock scored another goal 3 2 which meant that Nurnberg still 0 2 down dropped to 16th place and would have been relegated 85th minute Nurnberg scored 1 2 and climbed back up the table leaving Frankfurt in the relegation zone again 89th minute With the penultimate goal of the season the final one being scored for Schalke at Munich Frankfurt scored for the final time during the match which resulted in a 5 1 win over Kaiserslautern Soon afterwards the games in Nurnberg 1 2 Frankfurt and Bochum a 3 2 win for Rostock ended and Nurnberg were relegated In a famous post match interview Frankfurt s striker Jan Age Fjortoft who had scored the team s decisive goal praised Frankfurt s manager Jorg Berger claiming that he would have also saved RMS Titanic Team overview edit nbsp nbsp Hertha BSC nbsp nbsp Bremen nbsp Dortmund nbsp MSV nbsp Frankfurt nbsp Freiburg nbsp Hamburg nbsp Kaiserslautern nbsp Leverkusen nbsp Monchengladbach nbsp 1860Bayern nbsp Nurnberg nbsp Rostock nbsp Schalke nbsp Stuttgart nbsp Wolfsburg nbsp Bochumclass notpageimage Location of teams in Bundesliga 1998 99 Club Location Ground 3 Capacity 3 Hertha BSC Berlin Olympiastadion 76 000VfL Bochum Bochum Ruhrstadion 36 344SV Werder Bremen Bremen Weserstadion 36 000Borussia Dortmund Dortmund Westfalenstadion 68 600MSV Duisburg Duisburg Wedaustadion 30 128Eintracht Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main Waldstadion 62 000SC Freiburg Freiburg Dreisamstadion 22 500Hamburger SV Hamburg Volksparkstadion 62 0001 FC Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern Fritz Walter Stadion 38 500Bayer 04 Leverkusen Leverkusen BayArena 22 500Borussia Monchengladbach Monchengladbach Bokelbergstadion 34 500TSV 1860 Munich Munich Olympiastadion 63 000FC Bayern Munich Munich Olympiastadion 63 0001 FC Nurnberg Nuremberg Frankenstadion 44 700FC Hansa Rostock Rostock Ostseestadion 25 850FC Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen Parkstadion 70 000VfB Stuttgart Stuttgart Gottlieb Daimler Stadion 53 700VfL Wolfsburg Wolfsburg VfL Stadion am Elsterweg 21 600League table editPos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation1 Bayern Munich C 34 24 6 4 76 28 48 78 Qualification to Champions League group stage2 Bayer Leverkusen 34 17 12 5 61 30 31 633 Hertha BSC 34 18 8 8 59 32 27 62 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round4 Borussia Dortmund 34 16 9 9 48 34 14 575 1 FC Kaiserslautern 34 17 6 11 51 47 4 57 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round6 VfL Wolfsburg 34 15 10 9 54 49 5 557 Hamburger SV 34 13 11 10 47 46 1 50 Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round8 MSV Duisburg 34 13 10 11 48 45 3 49 Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round9 1860 Munich 34 11 8 15 49 56 7 4110 Schalke 04 34 10 11 13 41 54 13 4111 VfB Stuttgart 34 9 12 13 41 48 7 3912 SC Freiburg 34 10 9 15 36 44 8 3913 Werder Bremen 34 10 8 16 41 47 6 38 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round a 14 Hansa Rostock 34 9 11 14 49 58 9 3815 Eintracht Frankfurt 34 9 10 15 44 54 10 3716 1 FC Nurnberg R 34 7 16 11 40 50 10 37 Relegation to 2 Bundesliga17 VfL Bochum R 34 7 8 19 40 65 25 2918 Borussia Monchengladbach R 34 4 9 21 41 79 38 21Source www dfb deRules for classification 1 points 2 goal difference 3 number of goals scored C Champions R RelegatedNotes Werder Bremen won the DFB Pokal domestic cup and thus qualified for the UEFA Cup Results editHome Away BSC BOC SVW BVB DUI SGE SCF HSV FCK B04 BMG M60 FCB FCN ROS S04 VFB WOBHertha BSC 4 1 1 0 3 0 1 3 3 1 1 0 6 1 1 1 0 1 4 1 2 1 1 0 3 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 2 0VfL Bochum 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 2 2 0 1 2 1 5 2 1 2 0 2 2 0 3 2 3 1 2 3 3 0 2Werder Bremen 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 0 0 0 1 2 2 4 1 4 1 0 1 2 3 0 3 1 0 2 2 0 1Borussia Dortmund 3 0 0 1 2 1 2 0 3 1 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 3 1 2 2 3 0 2 0 3 0 3 0 2 1MSV Duisburg 0 0 2 0 2 0 3 2 2 1 1 0 2 3 3 1 0 0 2 2 1 1 0 3 1 1 4 1 1 2 2 0 6 1Eintracht Frankfurt 1 1 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 3 1 2 2 5 1 2 3 0 0 2 3 1 0 3 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 0 1SC Freiburg 0 2 1 1 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 0 2 1 0 3 0 0 2 2 0 0 0Hamburger SV 0 4 1 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 0 1 2 1 2 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 2 2 3 1 1 11 FC Kaiserslautern 4 3 2 3 4 0 1 0 3 0 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 0 3 2 4 1 1 1 1 1Bayer Leverkusen 2 2 2 0 2 0 3 1 2 0 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 4 1 1 1 1 2 3 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 0Borussia Monchengladbach 2 4 2 2 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 1 3 1 2 2 0 2 2 8 2 0 0 2 0 2 1 1 3 0 2 3 5 21860 Munich 2 0 2 1 1 3 2 0 0 0 4 1 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 4 5 1 1 2 3Bayern Munich 1 1 4 2 1 0 2 2 3 1 3 1 2 0 5 3 4 0 2 0 4 2 3 1 2 0 6 1 1 1 2 0 3 01 FC Nurnberg 0 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 0 1 5 2 0 2 2 3 0 2 2 1 1Hansa Rostock 1 2 3 0 2 1 2 0 3 0 2 2 0 2 0 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 0 4 1 1 2 2 3 0 3 3Schalke 04 0 0 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 0 2 3 1 1 1 4 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 2 1 3 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 0VfB Stuttgart 0 0 4 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 3 1 3 1 4 0 0 1 2 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 2VfL Wolfsburg 2 1 4 1 2 4 0 0 4 2 2 0 1 1 4 1 2 1 1 0 7 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 3 2 Source DFBLegend Blue home team win Yellow draw Red away team win Top goalscorers editRank Player Club Goals1 nbsp Michael Preetz Hertha BSC 232 nbsp Ulf Kirsten Bayer 04 Leverkusen 193 nbsp Oliver Neuville Hansa Rostock 14 nbsp Tony Yeboah Hamburger SV5 nbsp Markus Beierle MSV Duisburg 13 nbsp Sasa Ciric Nurnberg nbsp Giovane Elber Bayern nbsp Carsten Jancker Bayern nbsp Andrzej Juskowiak VfL Wolfsburg10 nbsp Bernd Hobsch TSV 1860 Munich 12 nbsp Olaf Marschall KaiserslauternSee also edit1998 99 2 Bundesliga 1998 99 DFB PokalReferences edit Schedule Round 1 DFB Archived from the original on 28 September 2012 Archive 1998 1999 Round 34 DFB Archived from the original on 28 September 2012 a b Grune Hardy 2001 Enzyklopadie des deutschen Ligafussballs Band 7 Vereinslexikon in German Kassel AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3 89784 147 9 External links editDFB Bundesliga archive 1998 1999 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1998 99 Bundesliga amp oldid 1169339895, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
