1998–99 Eintracht Frankfurt season

Eintracht Frankfurt
1998-99 season
Chairman Rolf Heller
Manager Horst Ehrmantraut (resigned 8 December 1998)
Bernhard Lippert (caretaker from 8 December until 19 December 1998)
Reinhold Fanz (appointed 22 December 1998, resigned 18 April 1999)
Jörg Berger (appointed 19 April 1999)
Bundesliga 15th
DFB-Pokal 2nd Round
Top goalscorer League: Yang Chen (8)
All: Yang Chen (9)
Highest home attendance 58,500 31 October 1998 v Bayern Munich (league)
Lowest home attendance 17,000 19 December 1998 v MSV Duisburg (league)
Average home league attendance 23,647
Home colours
Away colours

The 1998–99 Eintracht Frankfurt season was the 99th season in the club's football history. In 1998–99 the club played in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football. It was the club's 97th season in the first tier and the club's first season back in the Bundesliga, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 2012.

The season ended in one the most exciting final match days in Bundesliga history when Eintracht secured their Bundesliga spot on day 34.

Prior to the last match far behind Eintracht won three matches in a row. Eintracht hosted reigning champions Kaiserslautern who were contending for a Champions League spot at the last match day. The match ended 5-1 and in the consequence sent Nürnberg down to the 2. Bundesliga on goal difference. The ultimate goal was scored by Jan Åge Fjørtoft who scored one of the most famous Bundesliga goals in the 89th minute when performing a step-over right in front of Lautern's goalkeeper Andreas Reinke before marking Eintracht's fifth goal.[1]

Friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss

Indoor soccer tournaments

Münster

Frankfurt

Dortmund

Competitions

  Win   Draw   Loss

Bundesliga

Main article: 1998–99 Bundesliga

League table


Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Bayern Munich (C) 34 24 6 4 76 28+48 78 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League First group stage
2 Bayer Leverkusen 34 17 12 5 61 30+31 63
3 Hertha BSC 34 18 8 8 59 32+27 62 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
4 Borussia Dortmund 34 16 9 9 48 34+14 57
5 1. FC Kaiserslautern 34 17 6 11 51 47+4 57 1999–2000 UEFA Cup First round
6 VfL Wolfsburg 34 15 10 9 54 49+5 55
7 Hamburger SV 34 13 11 10 47 46+1 50 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
8 MSV Duisburg 34 13 10 11 48 45+3 49 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup Second round
9 1860 Munich 34 11 8 15 49 567 41
10 Schalke 04 34 10 11 13 41 5413 41
11 VfB Stuttgart 34 9 12 13 41 487 39
12 SC Freiburg 34 10 9 15 36 448 39
13 Werder Bremen 34 10 8 16 41 476 38 1999–2000 UEFA Cup First round 1
14 Hansa Rostock 34 9 11 14 49 589 38
15 Eintracht Frankfurt 34 9 10 15 44 5410 37
16 1. FC Nürnberg (R) 34 7 16 11 40 5010 37 2. Fußball-Bundesliga
17 VfL Bochum (R) 34 7 8 19 40 6525 29
18 Borussia Mönchengladbach (R) 34 4 9 21 41 7938 21

Source: www.dfb.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1Werder Bremen won the DFB-Pokal (domestic cup) and thus qualified for the UEFA Cup.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results summary

OverallHomeAway
PldWDLGFGAGDPtsWDLGFGAGDWDLGFGAGD
34 9 10 15 44 54  −10 37 6 6 5 26 21  +5 3 4 10 18 33  −15

Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

Round12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334
GroundAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Result L L D D L W D L L W D W W L L L L D L D L D D W L L L D L D W W W W
Position 13 16 16 17 18 15 15 15 16 15 15 12 11 11 13 15 15 15 16 15 16 15 15 15 16 16 17 17 17 17 17 16 16 15

Source: kicker.de
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

DFB-Pokal

Main article: 1998–99 DFB-Pokal

Squad

Squad and statistics

No. Pos Nat Player TotalBundesliga DFB-Pokal
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK Republic of Macedonia Oka Nikolov 36 0 34 0 2 0
2 MF Germany Sascha Amstätter 2 0 2 0 0 0
4 MF Germany Thorsten Flick 1 0 1 0 0 0
4 DF Norway Tore Pedersen 20 1 20 1 0 0
5 DF Bulgaria Petar Hubchev 28 0 27 0 1 0
6 MF Germany Thomas Zampach 22 1 20 1 2 0
7 FW Germany Thomas Epp 10 1 9 1 1 0
8 DF Germany Ralf Weber 22 4 20 4 2 0
9 FW Switzerland Urs Güntensperger 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 FW Norway Jan Åge Fjørtoft 17 6 17 6 0 0
10 MF Germany Thomas Sobotzik 31 8 30 7 1 1
11 MF Germany Marco Gebhardt 19 3 17 2 2 1
12 GK Hungary Zsolt Petry 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 DF Germany Uwe Schneider 9 0 9 0 0 0
15 MF Germany Bernd Schneider 35 6 33 4 2 2
16 MF Germany Olaf Janßen 16 1 16 1 0 0
17 DF Hungary István Pisont 19 1 17 0 2 1
18 DF Germany Alexander Kutschera 31 0 29 0 2 0
20 DF Germany Uwe Bindewald 34 0 32 0 2 0
21 FW China Yang Chen 25 9 23 8 2 1
22 DF Turkey Burhanettin Kaymak 9 0 8 0 1 0
23 GK Germany Sven Schmitt 0 0 0 0 0 0
24 MF Germany Alexander Schur 32 4 30 4 2 0
25 MF Germany Alexander Rosen 1 0 1 0 0 0
26 FW Serbia and Montenegro Damir Stojak 9 1 9 1 0 0
29 MF Germany Frank Gerster 1 0 1 0 0 0
30 FW Austria Christoph Westerthaler 29 5 27 3 2 2
31 MF Nigeria Henry Nwosu 4 0 4 0 0 0
32 MF Germany Ansgar Brinkmann 31 1 29 1 2 0
35 MF Morocco Mourad Bounoua 7 0 7 0 0 0
36 MF Germany Stefan Zinnow 1 0 1 0 0 0

Transfers

Summer

In:

No. Position Player
3 Nigeria DF Donald Agu (from FC Augsburg)
4 Norway DF Tore Pedersen (from Blackburn Rovers)
9 Norway FW Jan Åge Fjørtoft (from Barnsley)
12 Hungary GK Zsolt Petry (from Feyenoord)
14 Germany MF Uwe Schneider (from 1. FC Nürnberg)
15 Germany MF Bernd Schneider (from FC Carl Zeiss Jena)
17 Hungary MF István Pisont (from Beitar Jerusalem)
21 China MF Yang Chen (loaned from Beijing Guoan)
22 Turkey DF Burhanettin Kaymak (from Eintracht Frankfurt II)
25 Germany MF Alexander Rosen (from FC Augsburg)
26 Serbia and Montenegro MF Damir Stojak (loaned from SSC Napoli)
28 Germany MF Patrick Glöckner (was loaned to Stuttgarter Kickers)
29 Germany MF Frank Gerster (from Bayern Munich II)
33 Germany MF Michael Mutzel (from FC Augsburg)

Out:

No. Position Player
3 Germany MF Dirk Wolf (to FC St. Pauli)
4 Germany MF Thorsten Flick (loaned to SSC Napoli)
13 Bosnia and Herzegovina MF Sead Mehić (loaned to SV Meppen)
17 Germany FW Oliver Bunzenthal (loaned to SV Wehen)
21 Germany MF Renato Levy (loaned to FSV Frankfurt)
33 Liberia MF Jonathan Sawieh (loaned to Waldhof Mannheim)

Winter

In:

No. Position Player
35 Morocco MF Mourad Bounoua (from Stuttgarter Kickers)

Out:

No. Position Player

Notes

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