Memorial match for Bernd Hölzenbein | OneFootball

The Eintracht family will visit TuS Dehrn on 30 April as the legends team take to the field in memory of the World Cup winner, who passed away last spring.

If you mention the name Bernd Hölzenbein to anyone connected to Eintracht Frankfurt, there is plenty that springs to mind. He won four league titles as an Eagles player, while his record of 160 Bundesliga goals for the club is unlikely ever to be equalled. He won a penalty in the 1974 World Cup final to etch his name in German football history, and his header from a seated position against Dinamo Bucharest in the 1979/80 UEFA Cup will never be forgotten by those of an Eintracht persuasion. Neither will his mischievous nature on and off the pitch.

Eagles legend Hölzenbein passed away on 15 April this year, following on from the deaths of fellow former attackers Bernd Nickel in 2021 and Jürgen Grabowski in 2022. Memorial matches took place in Eisemroth and Biebrich – the home towns of Nickel and Grabowski respectively – a year after their passing, and another will be held at Hölzenbein’s first club, TuS Dehrn, on 30 April 2025, when Eintracht’s legends team take on an Over-40s Dehrn side.

Hölzenbein’s former team-mate Karl-Heinz Körbel will manage the legends team in the memorial match, which will be preceded by a ceremony to rename Dehrn’s home pitch the ‘Bernd Hölzenbein Sportfeld. “As was the case with Jürgen Grabowski and Bernd Nickel as well as Friedel Lutz this year, we the Eintracht family want to pay our last respects to Bernd,” said Körbel. “Bernd was definitely one of Eintracht’s biggest players. I’ll never forget his incredible ability as a footballer. We want to celebrate that one more time on 30 April.”