1998–99 Bundesliga

36th season of the Bundesliga March 2023 Bundesliga 1998–99 14 August 1998 – 29 May 1999 Bayern Munich14th Bundesliga title15th German title 1. FC NürnbergVfL BochumBorussia Mönchengladbach Champions League Bayern MunichBayer LeverkusenHertha BSCBorussia Dortmund UEFA Cup 1. FC KaiserslauternVfL WolfsburgWerder Bremen (domestic cup winners) Intertoto Cup Hamburger SVMSV Duisburg Michael Preetz (23) Wolfsburg 7–1 M'gladbach (7 November 1998) M'gladbach 2–8 Leverkusen (30 October 1998) M'gladbach 2–8 Leverkusen (10 goals) (30 October 1998) 306 866 1997–98 1999–2000 The 1998–99 Bundesliga was the 36th season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. It began on 14 August 1998https://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=321221 Schedule Round 1 DFB dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120928202709/https://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=321221 28 September 2012 and ended on 29 May 1999.https://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=321583 Archive 1998/1999 Round 34 DFB dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120928202724/https://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=321583 28 September 2012 1. FC Kaiserslautern were the defending champions. Competition modus 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. Team changes to 1997–98 Karlsruher SC, 1. FC Köln 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 Nürnberg. Season overview 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 Titanic. Team overview Germany 375 right Location of teams in Bundesliga 1998–99 Germany 52.511274 13.242632 Hertha BSC left Germany 51.482987 7.211397 Germany 53.065337 8.836722 Bremen left Germany 51.512139 7.463394 Dortmund Germany 51.409033 6.778664 MSV left Germany 50.069206 8.644234 Frankfurt Germany 47.988945 7.892947 Freiburg Germany 53.587095 9.898711 Hamburg left Germany 49.434705 7.776408 Kaiserslautern Germany 51.037708 7.002651 Leverkusen bottom Germany 51.208908 6.439549 Mönchengladbach Germany 48.173086 11.545509 1860Bayern Germany 49.426230 11.125740 Nürnberg Germany 54.084953 12.095144 Rostock Germany 51.559146 7.067248 Schalke left Germany 48.792295 9.232141 Stuttgart Germany 52.425243 10.799942 Wolfsburg bottom Germany TransparentPlaceholder.png 51.559146 7.067248 Bochum top Club Location GroundGrüne Hardy Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs, Band 7: Vereinslexikon AGON Sportverlag Kassel 2001 3-89784-147-9 de Capacity Berlin Hertha BSC Hertha BSC Berlin Olympiastadion 76,000 Bochum VfL Bochum Bochum Ruhrstadion 36,344 Bremen SV Werder Bremen Bremen Weserstadion 36,000 Dortmund Borussia Dortmund Dortmund Westfalenstadion 68,600 Duisburg MSV Duisburg Duisburg Wedaustadion 30,128 Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main Waldstadion 62,000 Freiburg SC Freiburg Freiburg Dreisamstadion 22,500 Hamburg Hamburger SV Hamburg Volksparkstadion 62,000 Kaiserslautern 1. FC Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern Fritz-Walter-Stadion 38,500 Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen Leverkusen BayArena 22,500 Mönchengladbach Borussia Mönchengladbach Mönchengladbach Bökelbergstadion 34,500 Munich 1860 TSV 1860 Munich Munich Olympiastadion 63,000 Munich Bayern FC Bayern Munich Munich Olympiastadion 63,000 Nürnberg 1. FC Nürnberg Nuremberg Frankenstadion 44,700 Rostock FC Hansa Rostock Rostock Ostseestadion 25,850 Schalke FC Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen Parkstadion 70,000 Stuttgart VfB VfB Stuttgart Stuttgart Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion 53,700 Wolfsburg VfL Wolfsburg Wolfsburg VfL-Stadion am Elsterweg 21,600 League table main WDL 5 QR FCB Bayern Munich B04 Bayer Leverkusen BSC Hertha BSC BVB Borussia Dortmund FCK 1. FC Kaiserslautern WOB VfL Wolfsburg HSV Hamburger SV DUI MSV Duisburg M60 1860 Munich S04 Schalke 04 VFB VfB Stuttgart SCF SC Freiburg SVW Werder Bremen ROS Hansa Rostock SGE Eintracht Frankfurt FCN 1. FC Nürnberg BOC VfL Bochum BMG Borussia Mönchengladbach 24 6 4 76 28 C 17 12 5 61 30 18 8 8 59 32 16 9 9 48 34 17 6 11 51 47 15 10 9 54 49 13 11 10 47 46 13 10 11 48 45 11 8 15 49 56 10 11 13 41 54 9 12 13 41 48 10 9 15 36 44 10 8 16 41 47 9 11 14 49 58 9 10 15 44 54 7 16 11 40 50 R 7 8 19 40 65 R 4 9 21 41 79 R green1 Qualification to Champions League group stage CLGS CLGS green2 Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round CL3 CL3 blue1 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round UC1 UC1 #CCCCFF Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round IC3 #DDDDFF Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round IC2 blue1 Qualification to UEFA Cup first round Werder Bremen won the DFB-Pokal (domestic cup) and thus qualified for the UEFA Cup. SVW red1 Relegation to 2. Bundesliga R R R complete 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. www.dfb.de Results main DFB complete FBR BSC Hertha BSC BOC VfL Bochum SVW Werder Bremen BVB Borussia Dortmund DUI MSV Duisburg SGE Eintracht Frankfurt SCF SC Freiburg HSV Hamburger SV FCK 1. FC Kaiserslautern B04 Bayer Leverkusen BMG Borussia Mönchengladbach M60 1860 Munich FCB Bayern Munich FCN 1. FC Nürnberg ROS Hansa Rostock S04 Schalke 04 VFB VfB Stuttgart WOB VfL Wolfsburg 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 2–0 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 0–2 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 0–1 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 2–1 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 6–1 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 0–1 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 0–0 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 1–1 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 1–1 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 3–0 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 5–2 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 2–3 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 3–0 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 1–1 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 3–3 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 2–0 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 1–2 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 Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals1 GER Michael Preetz Hertha BSC232 GER Ulf Kirsten Bayer 04 Leverkusen193 GER Oliver Neuville Hansa Rostock14 GHA Tony Yeboah Hamburger SV5 GER Markus Beierle MSV Duisburg13 MKD Saša Ćirić Nürnberg BRA Giovane Élber Bayern GER Carsten Jancker Bayern POL Andrzej Juskowiak VfL Wolfsburg10 GER Bernd Hobsch TSV 1860 Munich12 GER Olaf Marschall Kaiserslautern Attendances Source:https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/ger/aveger99.htm Historical attendances European-football-statistics.co.uk 26 July 2026 No. Team Attendance Change Highest 1 Borussia Dortmund 65,494 20.8% 69,000 2 Bayern München 56,235 3.1% 69,000 3 Hertha BSC 52,461 -0.8% 76,000 4 Schalke 04 43,555 -13.4% 62,109 5 1. FC Kaiserslautern 41,058 8.0% 41,500 6 1. FC Nürnberg 36,100 45.8% 44,500 7 TSV 1860 32,476 -3.4% 69,000 8 Eintracht Frankfurt 31,944 35.4% 58,300 9 VfB Stuttgart 30,765 -22.3% 53,000 10 Werder Bremen 29,786 -1.4% 36,000 11 Borussia Mönchengladbach 26,082 -4.9% 34,500 12 Hamburger SV 24,361 -26.4% 29,052 13 VfL Bochum 23,734 -11.1% 33,063 14 Bayer Leverkusen 22,447 0.9% 22,500 15 SC Freiburg 22,412 20.7% 22,500 16 MSV Duisburg 17,318 4.2% 29,000 17 VfL Wolfsburg 16,714 -1.8% 21,600 18 Hansa Rostock 15,953 -15.3% 24,500 See also 1998–99 2. Bundesliga 1998–99 DFB-Pokal References External links DFB Bundesliga archive 1998/1999 Category:Bundesliga seasons 1 Germany