Shame penalty of Leipzig

Shame penalty of Leipzig
Schand-Elfmeter von Leipzig

Game scene with, from left to right, Frank Rohde, Hans Richter, and Heiko Brestrich
Event 1985–86 DDR-Oberliga
Date 22 March 1986 (1986-03-22)
Venue Bruno-Plache-Stadion, Leipzig
Referee Bernd Stumpf (Jena)
Attendance 13,000

The shame penalty of Leipzig (German: Schand-Elfmeter von Leipzig) was a controversial penalty decision by referee Bernd Stumpf during a match in the 1985–86 season of the DDR-Oberliga between Lokomotive Leipzig and BFC Dynamo, which took place on 22 March 1986 at the Bruno-Plache-Stadion in Leipzig. Following the match, the Deutscher Fußball-Verband (DFV), the umbrella organization for football in East Germany, for the first time permanently banned a referee.[1]

Background

The game between Lokomotive Leipzig and BFC Dynamo took place on 22 March 1986 at the sold-out Bruno-Plache-Stadion in Leipzig in front of 13,000 spectators. While the defending champions and record title-holders from Berlin led the table before the 18th matchday, the hosts Leipzig, in fourth place, had to win if they wanted to keep up in the race for the championship.

Match

Summary

Leipzig took the lead from Olaf Marschall in the second minute and kept their lead into the break. In the fourth minute of stoppage time, referee Bernd Stumpf awarded a penalty to BFC after a duel between Leipzig player Hans Richter and Bernd Schulz of BFC, with its legitimacy not completely clear on the television images. Frank Pastor converted the penalty for Dynamo for the match to finish as a 1–1 draw, leaving Leipzig six points behind BFC with eight matchdays remaining, and now in fifth place, seemingly out of the title race. The fact that Leipzig finished only 2 points behind BFC at the end of season gave the game retrospective importance.

Details

22 March 1986 (1986-03-22)
15:00 CET
Lokomotive Leipzig 1–1 BFC Dynamo
Marschall  2' Report Pastor  90+4' (pen.)
Bruno-Plache-Stadion, Leipzig
Attendance: 13,000
Referee: Bernd Stumpf (Jena)
Lokomotive Leipzig
BFC Dynamo
GK 1 East Germany René Müller
RB East Germany Frank Baum
CB East Germany Ronald Kreer
CB East Germany Torsten Kracht
LB East Germany Uwe Zötzsche
RM East Germany Matthias Lindner  76'
CM East Germany Matthias Liebers Red card 84'
LM East Germany Uwe Bredow
RW East Germany Olaf Marschall
CF East Germany Hans Richter
LW East Germany Dieter Kühn  63'
Substitutes:
MF East Germany Lutz Moldt  76'
FW East Germany Hans-Jörg Leitzke  63'
Manager:
East Germany Hans-Ulrich Thomale
GK 1 East Germany Bodo Rudwaleit
RB East Germany Frank Rohde
CB East Germany Waldemar Ksienzyk
CB East Germany Bernd Schulz
LB East Germany Heiko Brestrich
RM East Germany Norbert Trieloff  76'
CM East Germany Michael Schulz
LM East Germany Christian Backs  74'
RW East Germany Frank Pastor
CF East Germany Rainer Ernst
LW East Germany Andreas Thom
Substitutes:
MF East Germany Eike Küttner  74'
MF East Germany Frank Terletzki  76'
Manager:
East Germany Jürgen Bogs

Consequences

Due to the alleged long-standing decisions that had gone the way of BFC for years, a tense and aggressive mood could be seen before the match. After the controversial penalty decision of referee Stumpf, unprecedented conclusions were drawn at the association level of East German football. The chairman of Lokomotive Leipzig, Peter Gießner, and high ranking SED officials of the district of Leipzig spoke openly of fraud and demanded that such important games no longer take place during the trade fair, "since even the foreign guests could notice some of the filth". Initially, Stumpf was given a one-year league suspension, but eventually he was permanently banned as a result of continuing negative headlines. The refereeing committee of the DFV was suspended and replaced by new members. In various reports, this game went down in history as the Schand-Elfmeter von Leipzig, or shame penalty of Leipzig.

Through a training video from a different perspective, which was published in 2000, it was shown that the penalty was correctly awarded and that the sanction of referee Stumpf was unjustified.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Christoph Dieckmann: Der Schand-Elfmeter von Leipzig In: Die Zeit. Issue 33/2000
General references
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