1997–98 Eintracht Frankfurt season

Eintracht Frankfurt
1997-98 season
Chairman Rolf Heller
Manager Horst Ehrmantraut
2. Bundesliga 1st
DFB-Pokal Round of 16
Top goalscorer League: Thomas Sobotzik (10)
All: Thomas Sobotzik (13)
Highest home attendance 45,000 31 August 1997 v 1. FC Nürnberg (league)
Lowest home attendance 13,500 7 December 1997 v FSV Zwickau (league)
Average home league attendance 23,647
Home colours
Away colours
← 1996–97 1998–99 →

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

Indoor soccer tournaments

Dortmund

Frankfurt

Competitions

  Win   Draw   Loss

2. Bundesliga

League table


Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification 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
6 Fortuna Köln 34 11 13 10 53 530 46
7 Fortuna Düsseldorf 34 13 7 14 52 54−2 46
8 Energie Cottbus 34 10 15 9 38 36+2 45
9 SpVgg Greuther Fürth 34 11 12 11 32 320 45
10 Mainz 05 34 10 14 10 55 48+7 44
11 SpVgg Unterhaching 34 10 14 10 41 35+6 44
12 Stuttgarter Kickers 34 12 8 14 44 47−3 44
13 KFC Uerdingen 34 11 10 13 36 40−4 43
14 SG Wattenscheid 09 34 10 10 14 41 410 40
15 VfB Leipzig (R) 34 10 9 15 31 51−20 39 Relegation to Regionalliga
16 Carl Zeiss Jena (R) 34 8 9 17 39 61−22 33
17 FSV Zwickau (R) 34 6 10 18 32 55−23 28
18 SV Meppen (R) 34 6 9 19 35 61−26 27

Source: Bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
VfB Leipzig, FC Carl Zeiss Jena, and FSV Zwickau were relegated to Regionalliga Nordost. SV Meppen was relegated to Regionalliga Nord.
(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 by round

Round12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334
GroundHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
Result W W W W W D W L D L D D L W D D W D W W W W W D D D W W W D L D D W
Position 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 4 4 4 5 2 3 3 3 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

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

Matches

DFB-Pokal

Main article: 1997–98 DFB-Pokal

Squad

Squad and statistics

No. Pos Nat Player Total2. Bundesliga DFB-Pokal
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK Republic of Macedonia Oka Nikolov 37 0 34 0 3 0
2 MF Germany Sascha Amstätter 3 0 3 0 0 0
3 DF Germany Dirk Wolf 29 3 26 3 3 0
4 MF Germany Thorsten Flick 8 1 8 1 0 0
5 DF Bulgaria Petar Hubchev 34 2 32 2 2 0
6 MF Germany Thomas Zampach 36 1 33 1 3 0
7 FW Germany Thomas Epp 35 4 32 4 3 0
8 DF Germany Ralf Weber 33 10 30 9 3 1
9 FW Switzerland Urs Güntensperger 16 5 15 4 1 1
10 MF Germany Thomas Sobotzik 35 13 32 10 3 3
11 MF Germany Marco Gebhardt 34 2 31 2 3 0
13 FW Bosnia and Herzegovina Sead Mehić 19 0 16 0 3 0
14 FW Turkey Hakan Cengiz 12 0 11 0 1 0
16 MF Germany Olaf Janßen 13 3 11 1 2 2
18 DF Germany Alexander Kutschera 37 1 34 1 3 0
19 MF Brazil Antônio da Silva 1 0 0 0 1 0
20 DF Germany Uwe Bindewald 37 1 34 1 3 0
21 MF Germany Renato Levy 7 0 6 0 1 0
22 DF Turkey Burhanettin Kaymak 7 0 7 0 0 0
23 GK Germany Sven Schmitt 0 0 0 0 0 0
24 MF Germany Alexander Schur 34 2 31 2 3 0
27 MF Albania Edi Martini 1 0 1 0 0 0
30 FW Austria Christoph Westerthaler 16 5 16 5 0 0
31 MF Germany Alexander Lorenz 2 0 1 0 1 0
32 MF Germany Ansgar Brinkmann 17 3 17 3 0 0
33 FW Liberia Jonathan Sawieh 7 0 7 0 0 0

Transfers

Summer

In:

No. Position Player
2 Germany MF Sascha Amstätter (from FSV Frankfurt)
3 Germany MF Dirk Wolf (from Borussia Mönchengladbach)
6 Germany MF Thomas Zampach (from SV Wehen)
7 Germany MF Thomas Epp (from Waldhof Mannheim)
10 Germany MF Thomas Sobotzik (from FC St. Pauli)
11 Germany MF Marco Gebhardt (from SC Verl)
13 Bosnia and Herzegovina MF Sead Mehić (from KSV Klein-Karben)
14 Turkey MF Hakan Cengiz (from VfL Herzlake)
15 Albania MF Adrian Dashi (from KF Lushnja)
19 Brazil MF Antônio da Silva (to Sportfreunde Eisbachtal)
21 Germany MF Renato Levy (from FSV Frankfurt)
22 Turkey DF Burhanettin Kaymak (from Eintracht Frankfurt II)
27 Albania MF Edi Martini (from Vllaznia Shkodër)
31 Germany MF Alexander Lorenz (from Eintracht Frankfurt II)
32 Germany MF Ansgar Brinkmann (from BV Cloppenburg)
33 Liberia MF Jonathan Sawieh (from Waldhof Mannheim)

Out:

No. Position Player
4 Germany DF Dietmar Roth (to FSV Frankfurt)
6 Germany DF Mirko Dickhaut (to VfL Bochum)
7 Germany MF Matthias Becker (to VfB Stuttgart)
8 Germany MF Rudolf Bommer (retired)
10 Germany MF Maurizio Gaudino (to FC Basel)
11 Sweden FW Johnny Ekström (to IFK Göteborg)
12 Germany MF René Beuchel (to FSV Zwickau)
14 Italy DF Marco Rossi (to Piacenza FC)
19 Germany MF Michael König (to SV Wehen)
20 Serbia and Montenegro DF Zvezdan Pejović (to unknown)
21 Serbia and Montenegro MF Slobodan Komljenović (to MSV Duisburg)
27 Germany MF Carsten Hennig (to FSV Frankfurt)
31 Germany MF Michael Guht (to FSV Frankfurt)
32 Germany MF Patrick Glöckner (loaned to Stuttgarter Kickers)

Winter

In:

No. Position Player
30 Austria MF Christoph Westerthaler (from APOEL)

Out:

No. Position Player
14 Turkey FW Hakan Cengiz (to Waldhof Mannheim)

Notes

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