First Division – Bundesliga. Compared to Italy and Spain, the German clubs imported foreign players of lower rank and at the moment, largely East Europeans and practically no South Americans. Clubs went up and down, Bayern stayed constantly on top. In a nutshell, that was all.
FC 08 Homburg – last with 24 points and relegated.
Waldhof (Mannheim) – 17th with 26 points and relegated.
VfL Bochum – 16th with 29 points and going to promotion/relegation play-off. Masters of survival, Bochum – they extracted 1-0 victory away against the 3rd in the Second Division, 1. FC Saarbrucken, and then kept 1-1 draw at home. Enough to stay in the Bundesliga.
Borussia (Moenchengladbach) barely survived – 15th with 30 points.
Bayer 05 (Uerdingen) – 14th with 30 points. Ahead of Borussia (M) on better goal-difference.
FC St. Pauli (Hamburg) – 13th with 31 points.
1. FC Kaiserslautern – 12th with 31 points. Nothing much in the league, but this happened to be the most successful season for the club since 1953.
Hamburger SV – 11th with 31 points.
Karlsruher SC – 10th with 32 points.
Fortuna (Dusseldorf) – 9th with 32 points.
1. FC Nurnberg – 8th with 33 points.
SV Werder (Bremen) – 7th with 34 points.
VfB Stuttgart – 6th with 36 points.
Bayer 04 (Leverkusen) – 5th with 39 points.
Borussia (Dortmund) – 4th with 41 points.
Eintracht (Frankfurt) – 3rd with 41 points. Ahead of Borussia (D) on better goal-difference.
1. FC Koln – 2nd with 43 points. Strong season, but not strong enough to challenge sufficiently Bayern.
And one more triumphal season for Bayern – sole leaders, no matter what. 19 wins, 11 ties, only 4 lost games, 64-28, and 49 points. Way above the rest, excellent coaching by once-upon-a-time rival Jupp Heynckes and – routinely – the strongest squad in the league, with one weak position – the goalkeeper. That is, comparatively weak post, but this situation would be remedied soon. Perhaps this squad was not great when compared to some earlier vintages, but currently the other German teams were not so great either and Bayern was head and shoulders above them and only the present really counts.
And in the present Bayern won its 12th title and proudly photographed the squad in retro-kit, no doubt a bit of fancy advertisement of their current sponsor, which did not pay the club just to win trophies, but also to promote and sell cars.
Of course, the cars were not the 1899 model, but the modest current Kadett, which probably no Bayern player owned. So… perhaps Opel was the real champion of West Germany this season.