Dieter Bast (born 28 August 1951) is a former German footballer.
In total Bast played 412 Bundesliga games and scored 54 goals. His Bundesliga debut took place on his 19th birthday for Rot-Weiss Essen. He quickly established himself amongst the squad, however, in search of title-chasing football, he went to VfL Bochum where he played 192 games, and from 1983 until 1986, he played for Bayer Leverkusen. In 1986 he returned to Rot-Weiss Essen in the Second Bundesliga where he played until his retirement in 1989.
Bast played in the Under-23 national team in 1973, and in the National second team between 1976–77. Even though he played Bundesliga football for fifteen steady years, he failed to win a trophy for any team in which he played.
| Club performance | League | Cup | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Germany | League | DFB-Pokal | Total | |||||
| 1970–71 | Rot-Weiss Essen | Bundesliga | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 3 |
| 1971–72 | Regionalliga West | — | ||||||
| 1972–73 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| 1973–74 | Bundesliga | 34 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 11 | |
| 1974–75 | 32 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 37 | 5 | ||
| 1975–76 | 33 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 6 | ||
| 1976–77 | 28 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 33 | 5 | ||
| 1977–78 | VfL Bochum | 28 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 32 | 12 | |
| 1978–79 | 33 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 38 | 8 | ||
| 1979–80 | 29 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 33 | 2 | ||
| 1980–81 | 34 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 37 | 6 | ||
| 1981–82 | 34 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 41 | 2 | ||
| 1982–83 | 34 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 39 | 2 | ||
| 1983–84 | Bayer Leverkusen | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 1 | |
| 1984–85 | 31 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 35 | 1 | ||
| 1985–86 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | ||
| 1986–87 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 2. Bundesliga | 33 | 1 | — | 33 | 1 | |
| 1987–88 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 1 | ||
| 1988–89 | 32 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 35 | 0 | ||
| Total | Germany | 54 | 11 | |||||
| Career total | 54 | 11 | ||||||