| Place | Player | Team | Goals | Penalties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Christian Sackewitz | Arminia Bielefeld | 35 | 1 |
| 2. | Dieter Schatzschneider | Hannover 96 | 33 | 7 |
| 3. | Norbert Eilenfeldt | Arminia Bielefeld | 30 | 0 |
| 4. | Karl-Heinz Modrath | Fortuna Köln | 26 | 1 |
| 5. | Norbert Stolzenburg | Tennis Borussia Berlin | 24 | 0 |
| 6. | Gerd-Volker Schock | Arminia Bielefeld | 21 | 0 |
| 7. | Ewald Hammes | SG Wattenscheid 09 | 18 | 0 |
| 7. | Bernd Krumbein | OSV Hanover | 18 | 0 |
| 7. | Peter Kunkel | SG Wattenscheid 09 | 18 | 3 |
| 10. | Norbert Lucke | DSC Wanne-Eickel | 17 | 0 |
| 10. | Frank-Michael Schonert | Viktoria Köln | 17 | 0 |
| 12. | Wilfried Seegler | Union Solingen | 16 | 5 |
| 12. | Hubert Clute-Simon | Alemannia Aachen | 16 | 0 |
| 12. | Uwe Pallaks | SC Herford | 16 | 0 |
| 12. | Frank Mill | Rot-Weiss Essen | 16 | 2 |
| 12. | Matthias Herget | Rot-Weiss Essen | 16 | 4 |
| 17. | Horst Feilzer | VfL Osnabrück | 15 | 0 |
| 17. | Werner Lenz | Union Solingen | 15 | 0 |
| 17. | Manfred Jochimiak | Holstein Kiel | 15 | 0 |
| 20. | Ente Lippens | Rot-Weiss Essen | 14 | 2 |
| 20. | Klaus Wolf | Rot-Weiss Lüdenscheid | 14 | 2 |
| 20. | Roland Kosien | DSC Wanne-Eickel | 14 | 4 |
| 20. | Karlheinz Meininger | Rot-Weiss Essen | 14 | 0 |
| 24. | Jurgen Halbe | Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | 13 | 7 |
| 24. | Ranko Petkovic | Rot-Weiss Lüdenscheid | 13 | 3 |
| 24. | Bernhard Ochmann | Viktoria Köln | 13 | 0 |
| 27. | Peter Hayduk | Hannover 96 | 12 | 0 |
| 27. | Wilhelm Mense | Preußen Münster | 12 | 1 |
| 29. | Winfried Stradt | Alemannia Aachen | 11 | 1 |
| 29. | Paul Linz | OSC Bremerhaven | 11 | 0 |
| 29. | Jurgen Jendrossek | Viktoria Köln | 11 | 0 |
| 32. | Michael Lorenz | VfL Osnabrück | 10 | 0 |
| 32. | Roland Stegmayer | Fortuna Köln | 10 | 0 |
| 32. | Elmar Jurgens | Fortuna Köln | 10 | 0 |
| 32. | Manfred Lopatenko | Rot-Weiss Lüdenscheid | 10 | 0 |
| 36. | Heinz-Josef Kehr | Alemannia Aachen | 9 | 0 |
| 36. | Manfred Wehmeier | SC Herford | 9 | 0 |
| 36. | Wolfgang Luttges | Viktoria Köln | 9 | 0 |
| 36. | Norbert Bebensee | Arminia Hanover | 9 | 0 |
| 36. | Edmund Kaczor | Preußen Münster | 9 | 0 |
| 36. | Thomas Grunenberg | Tennis Borussia Berlin | 9 | 0 |
| 42. | Manfred Mannebach | Rot-Weiss Essen | 8 | 0 |
| 42. | Herbert Poesger | OSV Hanover | 8 | 1 |
| 42. | Helmut Buhsfeld | Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | 8 | 0 |
| 42. | Reinhard Schmitz | Viktoria Köln | 8 | 0 |
| 42. | Hannes Linssen | Fortuna Köln | 8 | 0 |
| 42. | Werner Bertrams | Alemannia Aachen | 8 | 0 |
| 42. | Hartmut Sinnigen | Alemannia Aachen | 8 | 4 |
| 42. | Rainer Behrends | Arminia Hanover | 8 | 6 |
| 42. | Wilfried Zander | OSC Bremerhaven | 8 | 1 |