2007–08 Bundesliga (women)
The 2007/08 season was the 18th season of the football league for women. The season began on 19 August 2007 and ended with the final matchday on 15 June 2008. Holders 1 FFC Frankfurt celebrated the championship for the seventh time.
During the World Cup 2007 ( 10 to 30 September 2007) the matches of the season 2007/ 08 has been interrupted. The players who did not go to the World Cup, contributed with their clubs in a World Cup tournament bridge.
The season
Duisburg got the best start of the Twelve field and won the first six games in a row. The 2-2 draw at VfL Wolfsburg meant the first point loss, followed by a 0-1 home defeat against 1 FFC Turbine Potsdam. Frankfurt pulled over and went a point clear in the winter break. With a 4-0 victory against the Frankfurt Duisburg, the defending champions secured the "Autumn Cup ". As Frankfurt stumbled and defeats against Bad Neuenahr and Munich had to put germinated in Duisburg hope. But Duisburg itself could following a 1:4 home defeat in the derby against food does not take advantage of the mistake.
On the penultimate day it came to a showdown in Duisburg. About 4,000 people watched a superior home team that came after 20 minutes with a goal from Kerstin Garefrekes behind. After 70 minutes, Inka Grings to level. Other goals were not, so the decision was made on the final day. Here let Frankfurt burn anything more, has already led 4-0 after 30 minutes and was able to celebrate after a 5-1 draw.
While Wattenscheid 09 had been decided after the third last game the decision was relegated to the second relegation on the last matchday. Hamburger SV and 1.FC Saarbrücken clashed two point equal teams. The HSV had a slight advantage due to superior goal difference. The visitors took 66 minutes with a goal by Selina Wagner lead. Four minutes later equalized Denise Lehmann and secured their team in the league.
The 1st FFC Frankfurt was able to defend his title and celebrated the victories in the DFB Cup and the UEFA Women 's Cup his most successful season since 2002., Only two defeats suffered Hess, among them the first defeat against Bayern Munich in the 1991/92 season. For the fourth consecutive year, the FCR 2001 Duisburg was runner-up. The team put the surprising coaching change - Thomas Obliers resigned, Martina Voss took over - well away, but missed due to unnecessary loss of points the possible titles. Inka Grings secured Meanwhile, with 26 goals the title of top scorer.
Again Third was the first FFC Turbine Potsdam. With Nadine Angerer the team lost in the winter break again a performance winner, but presented with the striker Jessica Wich one of the newcomers of the season. But a messed up second half and poor chance conversion prevented a better balance points. But on points with a worse goal difference was a goal Bayern Munich. The highlight of the season was the 3-2 victory over the 1st FFC Frankfurt and the achievement of the Cup semi-finals.
The SC 07 Bad Neuenahr was as in the previous fifth. After an average preliminary competition, the club parted surprisingly the coach Dietmar Schacht. Sandra Minnert led as a player coach the team through the second half. After the return of long injured Célia WM stabilized the team and was able to repeat the previous year placement. It was a disappointing season for VfL Wolfsburg. Despite the commitment of high-profile players like Shelley Thompson or Navina Omilade jumped out only sixth. With 48 goals against VfL presented the four worst defense.
Also for the SG Essen- Beautiful Beck was the season unsatisfactory. Despite the first victory over local rivals FCR 2001 Duisburg jumped out only seventh place. Was eighth SC Freiburg, who managed to get away after a disastrous first round ( three points ) and a stronger return series from the relegation zone. Ninth place went to the TSV Crailsheim.
With a blue eye of Hamburger SV came of it. After a decent first round the team slipped in the second half back to the relegation zone. Only on the last day you could save with a 1-1 draw against direct rivals 1.FC Saarbrücken. The bold climber taught himself in trouble when we started the postponed match against SC Freiburg (1-1) the locked Julia Leykauf. The game was rated 2-0 for Freiburg.
A disastrous season experienced the second climber Wattenscheid 09 also committed before the season international Kerstin Stegemann could not prevent the team almost continuously occupied the relegation zone. Coach Tanja Schulte had to go after the winter break. Her successor André Birkner was only a short time in office before as a player coach Stegemann finished the season.
Table
Cross Table
The cross table presents the results of all games this season represents the home team is listed in the left column and the visiting team in the top row.
Statistics
With 505 gates ten goals came less than last year. Thus, the average fell from 3.9 to 3.83. Inka Grings of Duisburg secured runner-up with 26 goals the title of top scorer. For the fourth time she won this item.
Top scorers
Audience
Again, the audience numbers had increased. A total of 116 855 spectators watched the 132 games. For the first time a six-figure total audience was reached. The average rose from 732 to 885, representing an increase of 21 percent. Most viewers saw the last match, the match between the first FFC Frankfurt and the SG Essen- Beautiful Beck ( 4520 ). In contrast, only 160 spectators wanted to see the match between Bayern Munich and Wattenscheid 09.
Four teams had accumulated more than 10,000 spectators at the home games, this is also a new record. In 42 games were more than 1,000, seven games had more than 2,000, more than 3,000 five games and two games had more than 4,000 viewers. The 1st FFC Frankfurt was the first club ever at all home games a four-digit number of audience. Frankfurt was able to record a spectator increase of 59%. Also have risen sharply Duisburg ( 54%) and Crailsheim ( 44%). In contrast, Potsdam suffered with 15 %, the highest minus.