West Germany. Ranked 3rd. The most expensive transfer in the world was made by Eintracht (Frankfurt), selling Lajos Detari to Olympiakos (Piraeus). Records are records, German football was dominated by the familiar: Bayern. This country still used the classic 2-point-for-a-win system.
Four teams were going up from third level – the Oberliga regional leagues. Down there clubs with different histories played:
Clubs like SC08 Bamberg, which never played higher level football.
SV Asperden was also somewhere in the regional leagues. Standing from left: Peter Hermens, Dirk Wagner, Heinz-Gerd Giesen, Theo Joosten, Jürgen Krenkers, Andreas Wolf, Hansi Janßen, Heinz-Peter Bockhorn, Herbert Janssen, Linsen
Crouching: Gerd Coenen, Heiko v.d. Sandt, Michael Arts, Frank Maas, Reiner Singendonk, Berni Bodden, Ralf Billion, Jörg Nagorske, Leo Witting
front: Hubert Artz
Freiburger FC – the other and lesser known club from Freiburg. Second row from left: Arnold Brunner, Michael Hertwig, Thomas Schneider, Michael Fritz, Oliver Schäfer, Patrick Guillou,
Thomas Killenberger, Frank Wormuth, Trainer Werner Nickel.
Front roe: Michael Winkler, Matthias Bechthold, Peter Herrmann, Manuel Beron, Martin Ketterer, Uwe Herbstreit, Salvatore Perrone, Adolf Bachmann
Wacker 04 (West Berlin), which played a bit in the Second Division, but primarily played third level football.
Wormatia (Worms), which played mostly in the Second Division, but now was down on its luck. Top row from left: Liga-Obmann Manfred Brassen, Masseur Axel Brecht, Günter Braun, Stefan Mauer, Stefan Steinmetz, Michael Kaiser, Heinz-Jürgen Schlösser, Stefan Glaser
Middle row: Trainer Horst-Dieter Strich, Christian Waas, Jürgen Klotz, Mario Brassen, Rainer Schlösser, Horst Schellenschläger, Harald Nägle, Andreas Großmann, Platzwart Günter Reinhardt
Front: Marc Bals, Marc Schall, Jürgen Goschler, Thomas Frick, Günter Knecht, Jürgen Fischer, Frank Schuster, Frank Spölgen
1. SC Gottingen, which recently played in the Second Division, but went down.
TSV 1860 Munchen – perhaps the most famous name now out of the big picture. Top row from left: Armagan Sari, Joachim Goldstein, Rainer Aigner, Markus Wolf, Martin Spanring, Anton Schmidkunz, Bernd Jäger, Klaus Wabra, Jürgen Korus.
Middle row: Trainer Willi Bierofka, Masseur Hodrius, Andi Löbmann, Thomas Renner, Roland Kneißl, Stephan Beckenbauer, Srdjan Colakovic, Thomas Spindler, Co-Tainer Lutz.
Sitting: Herbert Brieger, Manfred Böhlert, Ralph Müller-Gesser, Daniel Sciopu, Markus Lach, Stephan Windsperger, Abdullah Kücükoglu, Gerhard Mastrodonato.
The important teams, however, were those earning promotion up and this season they were:
SpVgg Unterhaching – a big success for them, for they never played real professional football before.
Preussen Munster – returning to second division football.
KSV Hessen Kassel – like Preussen, returning to their more familiar Second Division.
MSV Duisburg, which unlike TSV 1860 Munchen, was recovering quickly from the disaster plunging them down to third level football. Top roe from left: Malischke, Vtic, R. Kessen, J. Kessen, Decker, Haremski, Kober, Lienen, Skripic, Janssen
Middle row: Co-Trainer Vos, Telljohann, Notthoff, Tönnies, Puszamszies, Struckmann, Rohr, Callea, Semlits, Trainer Pirsig
First row: Zeugwart Kasten und Ricken, Strunz, Vossnacke, Kellermann, Rusche, Böhlke, Zils, Canini, Masseur Hinkelmann (es fehlt Macherey)
As it was, only one newcomer to second level football – all others were simply returning.
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