Dieter Versen
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| Date of birth | 22 June 1945 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bochum,[1] Allied-occupied Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 8 April 2025 (aged 79) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Left-back | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1959–1963 | VfL Bochum | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1963–1979 | VfL Bochum | 317 | (18) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1979 | San Jose Earthquakes | 29 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 346 | (19) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dieter Versen (22 June 1945 – 8 April 2025) was a German professional footballer who played as a left-back.[2][3] Versen died on 8 April 2025, at the age of 79.[4]
Career statistics
[edit]| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Other | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| VfL Bochum | 1963–64 | Verbandsliga Westfalen | 10 | 1 | — | — | — | 10 | 1 | |||
| 1964–65 | 15 | 1 | — | — | [a] | |||||||
| 1965–66 | Regionalliga West | 12 | 0 | — | — | — | 12 | 0 | ||||
| 1966–67 | 12 | 1 | — | — | — | 12 | 1 | |||||
| 1967–68 | 29 | 3 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 34 | 3 | ||||
| 1968–69 | 34 | 5 | — | — | — | 34 | 5 | |||||
| 1969–70 | 31 | 2 | — | — | 8[b] | 1 | 39 | 3 | ||||
| 1970–71 | 16 | 1 | — | — | 8[b] | 1 | 24 | 2 | ||||
| 1971–72 | Bundesliga | 23 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 27 | 0 | |||
| 1972–73 | 34 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 36 | 0 | |||
| 1973–74 | 34 | 2 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 36 | 3 | ||||
| 1974–75 | 28 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 33 | 1 | ||||
| 1975–76 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 15 | 0 | ||||
| 1976–77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 1977–78 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 16 | 1 | ||||
| 1978–79 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 11 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 317 | 18 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| San Jose Earthquakes | 1979 | NASL | 29 | 1 | — | — | — | 29 | 1 | |||
| Career total | 346 | 19 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
Notes
[edit]- ↑ Appearances in Verbandsliga Westfalen promotion playoffs
- 1 2 Appearances in Regionalliga promotion playoffs
References
[edit]- ↑ "Dieter Versen". NASLjerseys.com. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
- ↑ "Dieter Versen". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
- ↑ "Versen, Dieter" (in German). Kicker. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
- ↑ Der VfL trauert um Dieter Versen. vfl-bochum.de, 5 May 2025 (in German). Retrieved 5 May 2025.
External links
[edit]- Dieter Versen at fussballdaten.de (in German)
- NASL career stats at NASLjerseys.com
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- German men's footballers
- West German men's footballers
- Footballers from Bochum
- Men's association football full-backs
- Bundesliga players
- North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
- VfL Bochum players
- San Jose Earthquakes (1974–1988) players
- German expatriate men's footballers
- German expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
- German football defender, 1940s birth stubs