Bundesliga. Bayern won its 10th title without any trouble. And set the new record of the league – lost only one match during the campaign.
Blau-Weiss 90 (West Berlin) finished last with 18 points and was relegated. No surprise.
Fortuna (Dusseldorf) – 17th with 20 points and out. Their best years were over and long road downhill to obscurity laid ahead.
FC Homburg – 16th with 21 points. Weak, but managed to prevail over FC St. Pauli in the promotion/relegation play-off and kept its place in the Bundesliga.
Eintracht (Frankfurt) – 15th with 25 points. Also a club which lost its leading position and steadily going down.
SV 07 Waldhof (Mannheim) – 14th with 28 points. Good for another year.
Schalke 04 – 13th with 32 points. Trying to reestablish itself in the top league.
VfB Stuttgart – 12th with 32 points. Hard to believe they were champions only a few years ago.
VfL Bochum – 11th with 32 points. Modest, but bravely surviving – that is, nothing new.
1. FC Koln – 10th with 35 points. Rattled by Schumacher’s book scandal, but hardly only by that. This squad – by names – should have been much higher in the table.
1. FC Nurnberg – 9th with 35 points. Not bad…
Bayer 05 (Uerdingen) – 8th with 35 points.
1. FC Kaiserslautern – 7th with 37 points.
Bayer (Leverkusen) – 6th with 39 points. Getting stronger with solid, yet not exceptional squad.
Werder (Bremen) – 5th with 40 points. Let say… coach Rehhagel.
Borussia (Dortmund) – 4th with 40 points. A miracle recovery from the terrible previous season – or may be the other way around: the previous season was accidental slip.
Borussia (Moenchengladbach) – 3rd with 43 points. Deserves to be the story of the season – started with 7 consecutive losses and seen as surely relegated team. Finished with new Bundesliga record – 10 consecutive wins. After so bad beginning, more than bronze medals was impossible, but bronze they got, scoring the most goals this season too. Jupp Heynckes delivered before saying good by.
Hamburger SV – 2nd with 47 points. Significantly weaker squad than the one they had in the early 1980s, but Ernst Happel did his magic again in his last season with the club. Unable to challenge Bayern for the title, but comfortably second.
Bayern – Udo Lattek provided the 10th title in his last season with Bayern. In grand style too: 20 wins, 13 ties, just a single loss, 67-31 goal-difference, 53 points. Six points ahead of Hamburger SV and new Bundesliga record for the least number of lost games in a championship.
Everybody happy – if happiness has to do with ever hungry for success Bayern. The strongest squad in West Germany by far, yet… there was lot of work for Jupp Heynckes, coming to replace Udo Lattek. And Dieter Hoeness announced his retirement. Nobody expected Bayern to go through some shaky period – so, records set and back to work for more.