The 2017–18

VfL Bochum Verein für Leibesübungen Bochum 1848 Fußballgemeinschaft, commonly referred to as simply VfL Bochum (), is a Football in Germany, German association football club based in the city of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has spent 35 seas ...

season is the 80th season in club history.

Review and events

On 11 July 2017 head coach

Gertjan Verbeek Gertjan Verbeek (; born 1 August 1962) is a Dutch former professional footballer who last managed Eerste Divisie side Almere City. Coaching career Netherlands After retiring from his playing career in 1994, Verbeek stayed with SC Heerenveen as ...

was sacked and replaced by

Ismail Atalan Ismail Atalan (born 1 April 1980) is a German-Turkish Manager (association football), football manager, who last managed Hallescher FC. Coaching career Ismail Atalan started his managerial career in 2008 as a player-manager for the reserve team o ...

. On 9 October 2017 head coach

was sacked and replaced by caretaker Jens Rasiejewski. Rasiejewski's tenure as caretaker ended on 8 December 2017, when he was appointed as head coach by athletic director Christian Hochstätter. On 7 February 2018 the supervisory board sacked both Christian Hochstätter and Jens Rasiejewski.

Heiko Butscher Heiko Butscher (born 28 July 1980) is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He is the current under-19 head coach of VfL Bochum. Career Butscher joined Eintracht Frankfurt from SC Freiburg in 2012. He previously pl ...

took over as caretaker. On 11 February 2018 the

announced signing

Robin Dutt Robin Dutt (; born 24 January 1965) is a German football coach, executive and former player. He is the manager of Austrian club Wolfsberger AC. Early life Dutt was born and brought up in Germany, the son of a German mother and Indian Bengali fat ...

as head coach.

Matches

Legend

Friendly matches

2. Bundesliga

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

DFB-Pokal

Squad

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals scored

Transfers

Summer

In: Out:

Winter

In: Out:

Sources

External links

2017–18 VfL Bochum season at Weltfussball.de

2017–18 VfL Bochum season at Fussballdaten.de
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Bochum Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous Germany, German federal state o ...

VfL Bochum seasons