1997–98 Eintracht Frankfurt season

Eintracht Frankfurt
1997-98 season
ChairmanRolf Heller
ManagerHorst Ehrmantraut
2. Bundesliga1st
DFB-PokalRound of 16
Top goalscorerLeague: Thomas Sobotzik (10)
All: Thomas Sobotzik (13)
Highest home attendance45,000 31 August 1997 v 1. FC Nürnberg (league)
Lowest home attendance13,500 7 December 1997 v FSV Zwickau (league)
Average home league attendance23,647

The 1997–98 Eintracht Frankfurt season was the 98th season in the club's football history. In 1997–98 the club played in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of German football. It was the club's 2nd season in the 2. Bundesliga after being relegated from the Bundesliga for the first time. The season ended for Eintracht with promotion to the Bundesliga after winning the 2. Bundesliga.

Friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss

1 July 1997 (1997-07-01) SV Groß-Bieberau 2–9 Eintracht Frankfurt Groß-Bieberau, Germany
19:00 CEST Agbemanyole 9'
Krömmelbein
(Report) Weber 11'
Amstätter
Sobotzik
Pisont
Cengiz
da Silva
Stadium: Sportanlage am Sepp-Herberger-Weg
Attendance: 2,000
4 July 1997 (1997-07-04) Eintracht Frankfurt 3–0 Fenerbahçe Frankfurt, Germany
Güntensperger 31'
Sobotzik 41'
Cengiz 73'
(Report) Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 4,985
Referee: Merk
9 July 1997 (1997-07-09) Oberneuland XI 1–20 Eintracht Frankfurt Ried, Austria
Gunolf 87' (Report) Cengiz
Güntensperger
Sobotzik
Weber
Epp
Hubchev
Amstätter
Wolf
Zampach
da Silva
Martini
Stadium: Rieder Stadion
Attendance: 500
12 July 1997 (1997-07-12) 1. FC Nürnberg 1–3 Eintracht Frankfurt Würzburg, Germany
Šmejkal 62' (Report) Güntensperger 26'
Levy 74'
Cengiz 76'
Stadium: Dallenbergstadion
Attendance: 3,500
15 July 1997 (1997-07-15) EGC Wirges / Sportfreunde Eisbachtal 0–0 Eintracht Frankfurt Nentershausen, Germany
19:00 CEST (Report) Stadium: Eisbachtalstadion
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Albers
19 July 1997 (1997-07-19) FSV Frankfurt 2–0 Eintracht Frankfurt Frankfurt, Germany
17:00 CEST Böhnke 2'
Guht 44'
(Report) Stadium: Stadion am Bornheimer Hang
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Ortola
26 August 1997 (1997-08-26) SpVgg Bad Homburg 0–3 Eintracht Frankfurt Bad Homburg, Germany
(Report) Cengiz 10'
Mehic 12'
Amstätter 73'
Stadium: Stadion Sandelmühle
Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Kantor
Note: Match suspended at the 84th minute due to darkness
4 September 1997 (1997-09-04) TSV Großen-Linden 0–9 Eintracht Frankfurt Linden
18:00 CEST (Report) Wolf 8'
da Silva 11'
Sobotzik 20', 35'
Levy 41'
Cengiz 43'
Janßen 58', 83' (pen.)
Epp 80'
Stadium: Sportplatz an der Heide
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Schön
5 September 1997 (1997-09-05) Nidderau XI 0–19 Eintracht Frankfurt Nidderau, Germany
19:00 CEST (Report) Sobotzik 12', 27'
Cengiz 14', 41', 64'
Wolf 15', 88'
Schur 17'
Mehic 20', 60', 73'
Gebhardt 22', 44'
Kutschera 33'
Levy 38', 69'
Bindewald 67'
Weber 77'
da Silva 80'
Stadium: Niddersportfeld
Attendance: 1,100
Referee: Chtaiti
8 October 1997 (1997-10-08) Eintracht Frankfurt 2–3 SSC Napoli Frankfurt, Germany
20:15 CEST Cengiz 11', 67' (Report) Calderón 15'
Protti 26', 87'
Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 2,500
11 October 1997 (1997-10-11) TV Haßloch 0–14 Eintracht Frankfurt Rüsselsheim, Germany
(Report) Cengiz
Weber
Wolf
Zampach
da Silva
Levy
Kljaić (guest player)
Ilie (guest player)
Attendance: 1,000
19 January 1998 (1998-01-19) Taunus XI 0–9 Eintracht Frankfurt Oberursel, Germany
(Report) Sobotzik 21', 28', 41'
Schur 43'
Sawieh 44'
Corrochano 64'
da Silva 65'
Epp 72', 75'
Stadium: Sportfeld am Tannenwald
Attendance: 500
4 February 1998 (1998-02-04) SV Bernbach 1–2 Eintracht Frankfurt Freigericht, Germany
Diop 82' (Report) Epp 10'
Martini 87'
Stadium: Stadion an der Birkenhainer Straße
Attendance: 775
Referee: Wagner
8 February 1998 (1998-02-08) Eintracht Frankfurt 4–0 SC Neukirchen Frankfurt, Germany
Westerthaler 9', 30', 36'
Brinkmann 67'
(Report) Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 300
Referee: Bastian
12 February 1998 (1998-02-12) FV Bad Vilbel 2–2 Eintracht Frankfurt Bad Vilbel, Germany
Repp 20', 40' (Report) Güntensperger 36'
Sobotzik 76'
Stadium: Niddasportfeld
Attendance: 300
15 April 1998 (1998-04-15) SG Hoechst 2–5 Eintracht Frankfurt
Kilić 4'
Kremer 42'
(Report) Mehic 39'
Gusić (guest player) 44', 82'
Amstätter 67'
Levy 85'
Attendance: 400
Referee: Lekić
27 May 1998 (1998-05-27) FC Kalbach 0–17 Eintracht Frankfurt Frankfurt, Germany
18:30 CEST (Report) Westerthaler
Weber
Sobotzik
Schur
Mehic
Hubchev
Epp
Brinkmann
Flick
da Silva
Yang (guest player)
Krolo o.g.'
Stadium: Bezirkssportanlage Kalbach
Attendance: 2,000
8 June 1998 (1998-06-08) SV Nieder-Wöllstadt 0–17 Eintracht Frankfurt Nieder-Wöllstadt, Germany
19:00 CEST (Report) Sobotzik 15', 31', 41', 44'
da Silva 29', 53'
Thurk (guest player) 34', 60', 63'
Amstätter 36'
Mehic 50', 75', 80', 88'
Zampach 58', 85'
Wolf 67'
Attendance: 2,500

Indoor soccer tournaments

Dortmund

3 January 1998 (1998-01-03) First match MSV Duisburg 2–1 Eintracht Frankfurt Dortmund, Germany
Wolters
Hirsch
(Report) Gebhardt Stadium: Westfalenhalle
3 January 1998 (1998-01-03) Third match Borussia Dortmund 4–3 Eintracht Frankfurt Dortmund, Germany
Timm
Booth
o.g.'
(Report) Martini
Zampach
Stadium: Westfalenhalle

Frankfurt

14 January 1998 (1998-01-14) First match Eintracht Frankfurt 3–0 Borussia Fulda Frankfurt, Germany


(Report) Stadium: Ballsporthalle
Attendance: 3,800
14 January 1998 (1998-01-14) Second match Eintracht Frankfurt 2–0 SG Egelsbach Frankfurt, Germany

(Report) Stadium: Ballsporthalle
Attendance: 3,800
14 January 1998 (1998-01-14) Third match Eintracht Frankfurt 1–1 Kickers Offenbach Frankfurt, Germany
Martini (Report) Koutsoliakos Stadium: Ballsporthalle
Attendance: 3,800
14 January 1998 (1998-01-14) Semi-Final Eintracht Frankfurt 1–3 Mainz 05 Frankfurt, Germany
(Report)

Stadium: Ballsporthalle
Attendance: 3,800
14 January 1998 (1998-01-14) Eintracht Frankfurt 0–0
(4–5 p)
SV Wehen Frankfurt, Germany
(Report) Stadium: Ballsporthalle
Attendance: 3,800

Competitions

  Win   Draw   Loss

2. Bundesliga

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Eintracht Frankfurt (C, P) 34 17 13 4 50 32 +18 64 Promotion to Bundesliga
2 SC Freiburg (P) 34 18 7 9 57 36 +21 61
3 1. FC Nürnberg (P) 34 17 8 9 52 35 +17 59
4 FC St. Pauli 34 14 14 6 43 31 +12 56
5 FC Gütersloh 34 13 16 5 43 26 +17 55
Source: Bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

Results by round

Round12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334
GroundHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
ResultWWWWWDWLDLDDLWDDWDWWWWWDDDWWWDLDDW
Position5211111112224445233321122111111111
Source: kicker.de
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

25 July 1997 (1997-07-25) 1 Eintracht Frankfurt 3–2 Fortuna Düsseldorf Frankfurt, Germany
19:15 CEST Epp 5'
Güntensperger 63' (pen.)
Gebhardt 82'
(Report) Younga-Mouhani 27'
Dobrovolski 59'
Jack Red card 73'
Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 19,000
Referee: Berg
3 August 1997 (1997-08-03) 2 SG Wattenscheid 09 0–1 Eintracht Frankfurt Bochum, Germany
15:00 CEST (Report) Sobotzik 28' Stadium: Lohrheidestadion
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Schößling
10 August 1997 (1997-08-10) 3 Eintracht Frankfurt 1–0 Stuttgarter Kickers Frankfurt, Germany
15:00 CEST Janßen 35' (Report) Malchow Yellow card 16' Yellow-red card Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Byernetzki
22 August 1997 (1997-08-22) 4 Energie Cottbus 0–1 Eintracht Frankfurt Cottbus, Germany
19:00 CEST (Report) Kutschera 21' Stadium: Stadion der Freundschaft
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Aust
31 August 1997 (1997-08-31) 5 Eintracht Frankfurt 4–1 1. FC Nürnberg Frankfurt, Germany
15:15 CEST Hubchev 15'
Güntensperger 27', 75' (pen.)
Weber 45'
(Report) Wiesinger 90' Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Hauer
12 September 1997 (1997-09-12) 6 SC Freiburg 0–0 Eintracht Frankfurt Freiburg, Germany
19:00 CEST (Report) Stadium: Dreisamstadion
Attendance: 22,500
Referee: Wendorf
19 September 1997 (1997-09-19) 7 Eintracht Frankfurt 3–2 VfB Leipzig Frankfurt, Germany
19:00 CEST Weber 30', 77'
Hubchev 40'
(Report) Heidrich 65'
Kujat 75'
Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 19,000
Referee: Wack
28 September 1997 (1997-09-28) 8 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 2–1 Eintracht Frankfurt Jena, Germany
15:00 CEST Holetschek 37'
Schneider 43'
(Report) Sobotzik 35' Stadium: Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Margenberg
5 October 1997 (1997-10-05) 9 FC Gütersloh 0–0 Eintracht Frankfurt Gütersloh, Germany
15:00 CEST Meyer Red card 75' (Report) Weber Yellow card 81' Yellow-red card Stadium: Heidewaldstadion
Attendance: 13,000
Referee: Hilmes
20 October 1997 (1997-10-20) 10 Eintracht Frankfurt 0–1 KFC Uerdingen 05 Frankfurt, Germany
19:15 CEST (Report) van Buskirk 72' Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Müller
24 October 1997 (1997-10-24) 11 SV Meppen 1–1 Eintracht Frankfurt Meppen, Germany
19:00 CEST Ukrow 65' (Report) Sobotzik 53' Stadium: Emslandstadion
Attendance: 10,500
Referee: Friedrichs
31 October 1997 (1997-10-31) 12 Eintracht Frankfurt 1–1 SpVgg Unterhaching Frankfurt, Germany
19:00 CEST Weber 63' (Report) Lust 55' Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 15,500
Referee: Blumenstein
9 November 1997 (1997-11-09) 13 SpVgg Greuther Fürth 2–1 Eintracht Frankfurt Fürth, Germany
14:30 CEST Kerbr 53'
Weigl 59'
(Report) Sobotzik 65' Stadium: Playmobil-Stadion
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Malbranc
24 November 1997 (1997-11-24) 14 Eintracht Frankfurt 4–2 FC St. Pauli Frankfurt, Germany
19:15 CEST Sobotzik 10'
Schur 16'
Weber 31' (pen.)
Wolf 85'
(Report) Marin 50'
Dammann 88'
Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Werthmann
28 November 1997 (1997-11-28) 15 Mainz 05 1–1 Eintracht Frankfurt Mainz, Germany
19:00 CEST Tanjga 42' (Report) Weber 77' Stadium: Stadion am Bruchweg
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Gettke
7 December 1997 (1997-12-07) 16 Eintracht Frankfurt 1–1 FSV Zwickau Frankfurt, Germany
15:00 CEST Wolf 38' (Report) Klee 49' Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 13,500
Referee: Fleischer
14 December 1997 (1997-12-14) 17 Fortuna Köln 1–2 Eintracht Frankfurt Cologne, Germany
15:00 CEST Brdarić 32'
Grlić Red card 66'
(Report) Weber 70'
Epp 82'
Stadium: Südstadion
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Weiner
16 February 1998 (1998-02-16) 18 Fortuna Düsseldorf 0–0 Eintracht Frankfurt Düsseldorf, Germany
19:30 CEST (Report) Stadium: Rheinstadion
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Hauer
23 February 1998 (1998-02-23) 19 Eintracht Frankfurt 2–1 SG Wattenscheid 09 Frankfurt, Germany
19:30 CEST Sobotzik 3'
Epp 43'
(Report) Süs 30' (pen.) Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 15,500
Referee: Kadach
28 February 1998 (1998-02-28) 20 Stuttgarter Kickers 2–3 Eintracht Frankfurt Stuttgart, Germany
15:30 CEST Malchow 84'
Carl 86'
(Report) Brinkmann 18', 89' (pen.)
Westerthaler 90'
Stadium: Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Schütz
8 March 1998 (1998-03-08) 21 Eintracht Frankfurt 2–0 Energie Cottbus Frankfurt, Germany
15:00 CEST Wehner 28' (o.g.)
2:0 Schur 53'
(Report) Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Neis
16 March 1998 (1998-03-16) 22 1. FC Nürnberg 0–1 Eintracht Frankfurt Nuremberg, Germany
19:30 CEST (Report) Epp 7' Stadium: Frankenstadion
Attendance: 36,000
Referee: Werthmann
23 March 1998 (1998-03-23) 23 Eintracht Frankfurt 2–0 SC Freiburg Frankfurt, Germany
19:30 CEST Sobotzik 3'
Zampach 60'
(Report) Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 36,000
Referee: Fröhlich
27 March 1998 (1998-03-27) 24 VfB Leipzig 1–1 Eintracht Frankfurt Leipzig, Germany
19:00 CEST Heidrich 70' (Report) Westerthaler 2' Stadium: Bruno-Plache-Stadion
Attendance: 9,500
Referee: Jansen
3 April 1998 (1998-04-03) 25 Eintracht Frankfurt 2–2 FC Carl Zeiss Jena Frankfurt, Germany
19:00 CEST Güntensperger 51'
Brinkmann 52'
(Report) Weber 25'
Schneider 35'
Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Weber
9 April 1998 (1998-04-09) 26 Eintracht Frankfurt 0–0 FC Gütersloh Frankfurt, Germany
19:00 CEST (Report) Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 26,000
Referee: Florian Meyer
20 April 1998 (1998-04-20) 27 KFC Uerdingen 05 0–1 Eintracht Frankfurt Krefeld, Germany
19:30 CEST (Report) Westerthaler 79' Stadium: Grotenburg-Stadion
Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Schößling
26 April 1998 (1998-04-26) 28 Eintracht Frankfurt 1–0 SV Meppen Frankfurt, Germany
15:00 CEST Westerthaler 37' (Report) Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Margenberg
3 May 1998 (1998-05-03) 29 SpVgg Unterhaching 1–2 Eintracht Frankfurt Unterhaching, Germany
15:00 CEST Rraklli 59' (pen.) (Report) Sobotzik 52'
Weber 88'
Stadium: Sportpark Unterhaching
Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Lange
10 May 1998 (1998-05-10) 30 Eintracht Frankfurt 1–1 SpVgg Greuther Fürth Frankfurt, Germany
15:00 CEST Flick 84' (Report) Weigl 78' Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 21,000
Referee: Kammerer
18 May 1998 (1998-05-18) 31 FC St. Pauli 2–0 Eintracht Frankfurt Hamburg, Germany
19:30 CEST Marin 45'
Mason 84'
(Report) Stadium: Wilhelm-Koch-Stadion
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Keßler
25 May 1998 (1998-05-25) 32 Eintracht Frankfurt 2–2 Mainz 05 Frankfurt, Germany
19:30 CEST Weber 10'
Westerthaler 38'
(Report) Hock 62'
Neustädter 65'
Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 33,000
Referee: Weiner
3 June 1998 (1998-06-03) 33 FSV Zwickau 1–1 Eintracht Frankfurt Zwickau, Germany
19:00 CEST Pinder 42' (Report) Wolf 40' Stadium: Westsachsenstadion
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Frey
7 June 1998 (1998-06-07) 34 Eintracht Frankfurt 4–2 Fortuna Köln Frankfurt, Germany
15:00 CEST Sobotzik 55', 59'
Gebhardt 70'
Bindewald 80' (pen.)
(Report) Majstorović Yellow card 49' Yellow-red card
Younga-Mouhani 54', 90'
Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 41,500
Referee: Florian Meyer

DFB-Pokal

16 August 1997 (1997-08-16) 1st Round VfL Halle 1896 0–4 Eintracht Frankfurt Halle, Germany
15:30 CEST (Report) Janßen 24'
Güntensperger 33' (pen.)
Sobotzik 48' (pen.), 71'
Stadium: Stadion am Zoo
Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Wendorf
23 September 1997 (1997-09-23) 2nd Round Eintracht Frankfurt 3–0 Werder Bremen Frankfurt, Germany
19:30 CEST Sobotzik 19' (pen.)
Janßen 36'
Weber 64'
(Report) Schierenbeck Yellow card 58' Yellow-red card Stadium: Waldstadion
Attendance: 35,086
Referee: Fandel
2 December 1997 (1997-12-02) Round of 16 MSV Duisburg 1–0 Eintracht Frankfurt Duisburg, Germany
Salou 83' (Report) Stadium: Wedaustadion
Attendance: 9,000

Squad

Squad and statistics

No. Pos Nat Player Total 2. Bundesliga DFB-Pokal
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK North Macedonia MKD Oka Nikolov 37 0 34 0 3 0
2 MF Germany GER Sascha Amstätter 3 0 3 0 0 0
3 DF Germany GER Dirk Wolf 29 3 26 3 3 0
4 MF Germany GER Thorsten Flick 8 1 8 1 0 0
5 DF Bulgaria BUL Petar Hubchev 34 2 32 2 2 0
6 MF Germany GER Thomas Zampach 36 1 33 1 3 0
7 FW Germany GER Thomas Epp 35 4 32 4 3 0
8 DF Germany GER Ralf Weber 33 10 30 9 3 1
9 FW Switzerland SUI Urs Güntensperger 16 5 15 4 1 1
10 MF Germany GER Thomas Sobotzik 35 13 32 10 3 3
11 MF Germany GER Marco Gebhardt 34 2 31 2 3 0
13 FW Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Sead Mehić 19 0 16 0 3 0
14 FW Turkey TUR Hakan Cengiz 12 0 11 0 1 0
16 MF Germany GER Olaf Janßen 13 3 11 1 2 2
18 DF Germany GER Alexander Kutschera 37 1 34 1 3 0
19 MF Brazil BRA Antônio da Silva 1 0 0 0 1 0
20 DF Germany GER Uwe Bindewald 37 1 34 1 3 0
21 MF Germany GER Renato Levy 7 0 6 0 1 0
22 DF Turkey TUR Burhanettin Kaymak 7 0 7 0 0 0
23 GK Germany GER Sven Schmitt 0 0 0 0 0 0
24 MF Germany GER Alexander Schur 34 2 31 2 3 0
27 MF Albania ALB Edi Martini 1 0 1 0 0 0
30 FW Austria AUT Christoph Westerthaler 16 5 16 5 0 0
31 MF Germany GER Alexander Lorenz 2 0 1 0 1 0
32 MF Germany GER Ansgar Brinkmann 17 3 17 3 0 0
33 FW Liberia LBR Jonathan Sawieh 7 0 7 0 0 0

Transfers

Summer

Winter

Notes


References

Sources

  • Matheja, Ulrich (2011). Unsere Eintracht - Eintracht Frankfurt - Die Chronik. Die Werkstatt. ISBN 978-3-89533-750-5.