On Wednesday nighttime FC Bayern München were knocked out of the DFB-Pokal alongside a 5-0 defeat at Borussia Mönchengladbach. This was the guild's heaviest defeat for 43 years. On that occasion they lost seven-one at Fortuna Düsseldorf, simply the social club’second heaviest defeat of all fourth dimension actually came but over ii years prior when they lost 7-0 to FC Schalke 04 inwards 1976. Here is the level about the biggest loss inward the history of Federal Republic of Germany'sec virtually famous refer and as well the actor who pose 4 past them that afternoon.
Asked if at that place was a huge political party inward the dressing room afterwards, Klaus Fischer told 11freunde inward a 2009 interview that he couldn't call back. One might assume this bout of amnesia on the field of study was due to him having celebrated past drinking copious amounts of alcohol together with if indeed that was the case and so who could blame him? After all, his side had simply place 7 past their more than illustrious opponents and he himself had scored iv of those seven.
FC Bayern München had lost exclusively 1 of their opening eight Bundesliga matches of the 1976-77 flavor. With 3 draws likewise to their cite, withal, it was hardly a most perfect kickoff only, so once again, it was likewise anything only a disaster as well as sure gave no indication every bit to what would follow in game nine. Hoping to improve on last flavor’s tertiary placed finish, the club were desperate to find the form that had seen them not alone crowned Bundesliga champions for a third successive time just two seasons earlier last merely as well attach those league accomplishments alongside iii successive European Cup triumphs betwixt 1974 in addition to 1976. Instead, however, a rude awakening was inward store.
Delivering that daze would live FC Schalke 04 – a lodge Klaus Fischer would spend 11 years at. The Gelsenkirchen based side made the 400-mile trip due south to Munich's Olympiastadion having won iv together with lost iv of their opening league fixtures with a 2-0 defeat away at ane. FC Köln preceding their trip to Munich. Since the turn of the decade Schalke had solely once finished exterior the height one-half come up the finish of each flavour just, a minute placed finish as well as a cup triumph inward 1972 aside, they had hardly prepare the world alight.
Sepp Maier, Franz Beckenbauer, Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, Uli Hoeneß, Gerd Müller, and a immature Karl-Heinz Rummenigge - It was a star-studded FC Bayern side who walked onto the champaign in front of over 50,000 spectators at their and so Olympiastadion dwelling house on 9 October 1976. Opponents Schalke did besides accept more or less international stars inwards their ranks, indeed Fischer, signed from TSV 1860 München aged 20 in 1970, would make 45 caps for FRG together with get Schalke's all-fourth dimension tape appearance holder alongside 556 games nether his belt, his 226 goals a society record in the Bundesliga era. But Fischer aside, Schalke did non quite accept the large names FC Bayern did, as well as as shown, certainly non in recent times had the same successes.
Even at half-time inward this fixture no one could take imagined the concluding event. Against a Bayern side playing a iv-3-3 formation alongside Beckenbauer every bit sweeper Schalke were ahead but their Pb was entirely by two goals - the rampage was still to come up. A depression right footed crusade that went through legs of Schwarzenbeck too past goalkeeper Maier saw Fischer hand the visitors the lead on eleven minutes alongside his 5th goal of the flavour whilst an Erwin Kremers header just before the interval saw Schalke double that Pb.
Whatever Bayern caput charabanc Dettmar Cramer said to his players at one-half-time it clearly did no expert every bit within a infinitesimal of the restart Schalke had scored a tertiary when Fischer headed abode to claim his moment - a marvelous diving header 1 must add!
Cramer had taken charge of Bayern in early on 1975 to bring an end to the 5 yr tenure of Udo Lattek who wasn't able to go a misfortunate showtime half of the 1974-75 flavour. Lattek would shortly notice Bundesliga success at Borussia Mönchengladbach amongst ii direct titles inward 1976 together with 1977 before returning to Bayern inwards the mid-1980s to in one case over again win iii successive league titles. Although Cramer had helped steer the guild to the final two of their three straight European Cup triumphs, farther domestic success had alluded him as well as at the terminate of the current flavour he would be out the door.
xviii minutes afterward Schalke scored their tertiary Manfred Dubski grabbed them a 4th whilst three minutes later on Fischer completed his lid-play tricks to make it 5-0 too the travelling back up were like a shot well as well as really inward dreamland. This fourth dimension it was a sort of scissor kicking for Fischer, like to just not quite the overhead-kicking type of goal he would attain a scrap of a reputation for alongside i particular attempt for FRG against Switzerland the next yr going downward in folklore.
It seemed equally if five only wasn't enough for Schalke, nonetheless. An fantabulous counter assault via a long ball frontward ended amongst Rüdiger Abramczik grabbing Schalke'sec sixth on 74 minutes whilst viii minutes subsequently Fischer was make in addition to waiting to complete the rout when a depression cross into the box saw him claim his fourth of the afternoon too his sides 7th. Fischer once said that “Football is a unproblematic sport” too the human being born in Kreuzstraßl nearly the German language-Czech border had sure made it expect elementary against Bayern that afternoon.
seven-0 the last mark - FC Bayern München's heaviest ever defeat, FC Schalke 04's biggest always win. Today that tape yet stands for Bayern, Schalke broke theirs alongside an xi-one DFB-Pokal win over FC Teningen in 2011.
Two years earlier Bayern, then league champions, had seen themselves mauled 6-0 past Kickers Offenbach but, having hoped that nightmare was a i off, hither they were having suffered an fifty-fifty more than horrifying fate. Having conceded eighteen goals inward their opening eight league matches they’d straight off conceded over a tertiary of that total inwards ane game lone.
In price of what do you do later a vii-0 drubbing, the respond for Bayern was a v-i abode win against boyfriend Bundesliga side Hamburger SV in the minute round of the DFB-Pokal whilst the next month they would defeat Brazilian side Cruzeiro Esporte Clube over 2 legs to win the Intercontinental Cup and be considered globe champions of club football game. Unfortunately, their domestic cup operate would come to an finish at the quarter-concluding stage, still, every bit would their hopes of a fourth successive European Cup triumph. A 3-0 aggregate defeat against Dynamo Kyiv their undoing at that place. The lodge's Bundesliga grade would inward the brusk term recover real well from the vii-0 humiliation alongside an unbeaten function of 5 wins in addition to a draw next that disaterous afternoon. Later, the guild’second grade would be mixed, notwithstanding, and Bayern ended the season in seventh home.
Schalke would lose every bit many games inward the residuum of the flavour equally they had inwards the 8 preceding the Bayern one - a further iv inward total. An first-class go of class that would run into them complete runners up to Gladbach in a thrilling championship race which saw Schalke finish entirely i bespeak behind the Udo Lattek coached champions.
In the longer term, Bayern, who interestingly gained revenge past defeating Schalke 7-i the next season, would eventually live crowned Bundesliga champions once again 3 years later. A moment successive triumph would follow merely that same flavor, 1980-81, would meet Schalke relegated in addition to Fischer get out for 1. FC Köln.
I mean nosotros've all lost count of how many more Bundesliga titles FC Bayern München have won inward the decades since and then, that seven-0 humiliation having had no bearing any on the 45 years that accept followed. The same tin can as well live for FC Schalke 04. They would soon return the Bundesliga too have remained in the superlative flight for virtually of the years since, with Fischer fifty-fifty taking temporary accuse on a duet of occasions. But Schalke faced Bayern on that sunny October afternoon having never won the Bundesliga as well as all these years afterwards are however yet to win it. Schalke may take been far superior on the twenty-four hours, only inwards the terminate, it is Bayern who went on to dominate German language football whilst Schalke were left inward their shadows.