Shame penalty of Leipzig

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 1. FC 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]

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
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig BFC Dynamo 1 1
Date	22 March 1986 (1986-03-22)
Venue	Bruno-Plache-Stadion, Leipzig
Referee	Bernd Stumpf (Jena)
Attendance	13,000

Background

The game between 1. FC 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 Dynamo after a duel between Leipzig player Hans Richter and Bernd Schulz of BFC Dynamo, with its legitimacy not completely clear on the television images. Frank Pastor converted the penalty for BFC Dynamo for the match to finish as a 1–1 draw, leaving 1. FC Lokomotive 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

1. FC 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 René Müller RB Frank Baum CB Ronald Kreer CB Torsten Kracht LB Uwe Zötzsche RM Matthias Lindner  76' CM Matthias Liebers  84' LM Uwe Bredow RW Olaf Marschall CF Hans Richter LW Dieter Kühn  63' Substitutes: MF Lutz Moldt  76' FW Hans-Jörg Leitzke  63' Manager: Hans-Ulrich Thomale

GK 1 Bodo Rudwaleit RB Frank Rohde CB Waldemar Ksienzyk CB Bernd Schulz LB Heiko Brestrich RM Norbert Trieloff  76' CM Michael Schulz LM Christian Backs  74' RW Frank Pastor CF Rainer Ernst LW Andreas Thom Substitutes: MF Eike Küttner  74' MF Frank Terletzki  76' Manager: Jürgen Bogs

Consequences

Due to the alleged long-standing decisions that had gone the way of BFC Dynamo 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 1. FC 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. However, through a training video filmed 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][2]

References

1. Christoph Dieckmann: Der Schand-Elfmeter von Leipzig In: Die Zeit. Issue 33/2000
2. Willmann, Frank (18 June 2014). ""Die Mauer muss weg!"". bpb.de (in German). Bonn: Federal Agency for Civic Education. Retrieved 12 August 2020.

General references

• Schand-Elfmeter von Leipzig. In: Hanns Leske: Enzyklopädie des DDR-Fußballs. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3
• Weinreich, Jens (24 March 2005). "Büttel an der Pfeife" [Büttel at the whistle] (in German). Berliner Zeitung. Archived from the original on 28 November 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2007.
• Leske, Hanns (26 March 2006). "Foul von höchster Stelle" [Foul at the highest level] (in German). Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved 31 October 2016.