Season 1978–79 Cup Winners' Cup Fortuna Düsseldorf Goals scored 946 | European Cup Hamburger SV Average goals/game 3.09 | |
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Champions Hamburger SV
1st Bundesliga title
4th German title UEFA Cup VfB Stuttgart
1. FC Kaiserslautern
FC Bayern Munich
Eintracht Frankfurt
Borussia Mönchengladbach (title holders) Relegated Arminia Bielefeld, 1. FC Nürnberg, SV Darmstadt 98 Similar 1982–83 Bundesliga, 1973–74 Bundesliga, 1972–73 Bundesliga, 1970–71 Bundesliga, 1975–76 Bundesliga | ||
The 1978–79 Bundesliga was the 16th season of the Bundesliga, West Germany's premier football league. It began on 11 August 1978 and ended on 9 June 1979. 1. FC Köln were the defending champions.
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Competition modus
Every team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. If two or more teams were tied on points, places were determined by goal difference and, if still tied, by goals scored. The team with the most points were crowned champions while the three teams with the least points were relegated to their respective 2. Bundesliga divisions.
Team changes to 1977–78
TSV 1860 Munich, 1. FC Saarbrücken and FC St. Pauli were relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after finishing in the last three places. They were replaced by Arminia Bielefeld, winners of the 2. Bundesliga Northern Division, SV Darmstadt 98, winners of the Southern Division and 1. FC Nuremberg, who won a two-legged promotion play-off against Rot-Weiss Essen.
League table
Source: www.dfb.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1Borussia Mönchengladbach won the 1978–79 UEFA Cup and thereby automatically qualified as defending champions.
(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
Source: www.dfb.de
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.