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Over the next three years, Peter becomes first choice making 98 Bundesliga appearances and scoring nine goals. In 1986 he reached the UEFA Cup final with the Cologne team where they lost to Real Madrid. He starts the 1987/88 season at FC Köln but moves to Belgium after matchday four to join the oldest Belgian football club, FC Royal Antwerpen. Here a becomes a crowd favourite in the next seven years and he wins the Belgian Cup with his teammates in 1992.
The following season is one of his most successful in the European Cup Winners Cup. After wins against Glenavon (on penalties), Admira Wacker Vienna (after extra time) and Steaua Bucharest (on away goals), Royal Antwerpen play Spartak Moscow in the semi-finals. After a 1-0 defeat in the first leg, Hans-Peter Lehnhoff converts a penalty 86 minutes into the second leg to make it 2-1, which takes his team to the final at Wembley Stadium. The Belgian side lose 3-1 to AC Parma on 12 May 1993. On the 125th anniversary of FC Royal Antwerpen Hans-Peter is voted the most important player in the club's history.
He faces AC Parma again two years later. In his first season at Leverkusen, Bayer 04 reach the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup where they lose to the Italian side 2-1 and 3-0. Hans-Peter settled in quickly at Leverkusen, thrilled the crowd with his attacking runs. The Bayer 04 fans cheering on with drawn-out chants of “Peeeeteeeer, Peeeeteeeer”, When he sprints down the wing with his flowing mane or when he scores one of his eleven Bundesliga goals for Bayer 04. When the Danish left-back Jan Heintze joins Bayer 04 from Uerdingen in 1996, the "oldest pair of wingers in the world" (quote from coach Christoph Daum) is complete. The two 33-year-olds are like whippersnappers on the wings in the autumn of their careers.
Lehnhoff finishes second in the Bundesliga with the Werkself in 1997 and 1999. Peter retires from the first team after the second time as runner-up. But he does not hang up his boots but plays for the Reserves for a season before finally ending his playing career in 2000. He does develop into a very important additional player in training. Assistant coach Peter Hermann described him as his most important player, who should never get injured, as with an odd number of outfield players Lehnhoff may be brought into the training match to up the training quality. At the age of 48 under coach Jupp Heynckes, he plays 20 minutes with the first team in a friendly as a thank you for his commitment in training. He still puts on his boots today for our Veterans team.
Peter has been the team liaison manager for the senior side since 2000 organising things in and around the Werkself such as arranging dates and hotel bookings and being as ever part of the Bayer 04 family.
Dear Peter, many happy returns on your 60th birthday, stay healthy and celebrate!
Jacek Krzynowek was born on 15 May 1976 in Kamiensk, Poland, and grew up as a typical country boy. He spent his childhood less in structured training sessions and more on simple pitches, where he spent hours playing football with older boys. He realised early on that he had exceptional shooting power and enormous stamina. But for a long time, he didn't appreciate just how much talent he had. While others dream of a great career, professional football initially seems like a distant world to him that he only knows from television.
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Carsten ‘Calle’ Ramelow was born in Berlin on 20 March 1974. He began his football career in the youth teams at Tasmania 73, Tennis Borussia, SC Siemensstadt and, last but not least, Hertha Berlin. It was here that he reached the DFB Pokal final in 1993 with the Hertha Bubis team, the amateur team at Hertha Berlin, against his future employer Bayer 04 Leverkusen. But even he was unable to prevent the Werkself's 1-0 victory thanks to a goal from Ulf Kirsten.
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The 1995/1996 season brought some innovations. For the first time, each player was given a squad number with his name printed on the back of the jersey. For the first time, coaches were allowed to make three substitutions and for the first time, three points are awarded for a win. And for the first time, I am no longer my team's number 1. I wear it on my back, but Dirk Heinen has taken over me in goal. So at first I sat on the bench a bit offended, but in the Rückrunde I realised I also had to make my contribution to the success of a team.
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In this video you can see impressive and important goals in the history of Bayer 04 from the month of May. It's not always about the beauty of the goals, but also a reminder of special games and players.
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Bayer 04 Leverkusen, promoted to the Oberliga West, welcome VfL 99 Köln for the last game of a successful season. This time, the crowd of just 2,000 spectators saw more of a friendly than a championship match. Little fight, little goalmouth action and few moves in midfield to warm the hearts of the spectators. It takes a corner to give Bayer 04 the lead. Peter Röger is on hand with his head and nods home on 43 minutes for the half-time lead. When Karl-Heinz Spikofski increased the lead to 2-0 a quarter of an hour after the restart, the result was settled. The team from Cologne were able to reduce the deficit to 2-1 in the final minute, but in the end the spectators went home looking forward to the first season for a Bayer 04 team in Oberliga West 1.
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