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TEAM PROFILES
Arminia Bielefeld, Augsburg, Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Bochum, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia MG, Darmstadt, Eintracht Frankfurt, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Freiburg, Greuther Fürth, Heidenheim, Hertha Berlin, Hoffenheim, Köln, Leipzig, Mainz, Paderborn, Schalke, Stuttgart, Union Berlin, Werder Bremen, Wolfsburg
CURRENT TABLE
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | G | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen | 29 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 74 | 19 | +55 | 79 |
| 2 | Bayern Munich | 29 | 20 | 3 | 6 | 82 | 36 | +46 | 63 |
| 3 | Stuttgart | 29 | 20 | 3 | 6 | 67 | 34 | +33 | 63 |
| 4 | RB Leipzig | 29 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 67 | 33 | +34 | 56 |
| 5 | Borussia Dortmund | 29 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 57 | 34 | +23 | 56 |
| 6 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 29 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 43 | 39 | +4 | 42 |
| 7 | Augsburg 1907 | 29 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 47 | 46 | +1 | 39 |
| 8 | SC Freiburg | 29 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 41 | 52 | -11 | 39 |
| 9 | TSG 1899 Hoffenheim | 29 | 10 | 6 | 13 | 49 | 57 | -8 | 36 |
| 10 | Heidenheim | 29 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 42 | 50 | -8 | 34 |
| 11 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 29 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 50 | 56 | -6 | 31 |
| 12 | Werder Bremen | 29 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 36 | 49 | -13 | 31 |
| 13 | Union Berlin | 29 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 25 | 45 | -20 | 29 |
| 14 | Wolfsburg | 29 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 34 | 50 | -16 | 28 |
| 15 | VFL Bochum | 29 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 34 | 59 | -25 | 27 |
| 16 | Mainz | 29 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 30 | 47 | -17 | 26 |
| 17 | FC Cologne | 29 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 23 | 51 | -28 | 22 |
| 18 | Darmstadt | 29 | 2 | 8 | 19 | 28 | 72 | -44 | 14 |
RESULTS
Matchday 1
Werder 0-4 Bayern
Wolfsburg 2-0 Heidenheim
Hoffenheim 1-2 Freiburg
Augsburg 4-4 Gladbach
Stuttgart 5-0 Bochum
Leverkusen 3-2 Leipzig
Dortmund 1-0 Köln
Union 4-1 Mainz
Frankfurt 1-0 Darmstadt
Matchday 2
Leipzig 5-1 Stuttgart
Heidenheim 2-3 Hoffenheim
Köln 1-2 Wolfsburg
Darmstadt 1-4 Union
Bochum 1-1 Dortmund
Freiburg 1-0 Werder
Gladbach 0-3 Leverkusen
Mainz 1-1 Frankfurt
Bayern 3-1 Augsburg
Matchday 3
Dortmund 2-2 Heidenheim
Augsburg 2-2 Bochum
Leverkusen 5-1 Darmstadt
Hoffenheim 3-1 Wolfsburg
Werder 4-0 Mainz
Stuttgart 5-0 Freiburg
Gladbach 1-2 Bayern
Frankfurt 1-1 Köln
Union 0-3 Leipzig
Matchday 4
Bayern 2-2 Leverkusen
Freiburg 2-4 Dortmund
Wolfsburg 2-1 Union
Mainz 1-3 Stuttgart
Leipzig 3-0 Augsburg
Köln 1-3 Hoffenheim
Bochum 1-1 Frankfurt
Heidenheim 4-2 Werder
Darmstadt 3-3 Gladbach
Matchday 5
Stuttgart 3-1 Darmstadt
Augsburg 2-1 Mainz
Bayern 7-0 Bochum
Gladbach 0-1 Leipzig
Dortmund 1-0 Wolfsburg
Union 0-2 Hoffenheim
Werder 2-1 Köln
Leverkusen 4-1 Heidenheim
Frankfurt 0-0 Freiburg
Matchday 6
Hoffenheim 1-3 Dortmund
Köln 0-2 Stuttgart
Heidenheim 1-0 Union
Wolfsburg 2-0 Frankfurt
Bochum 1-3 Gladbach
Mainz 0-3 Leverkusen
Leipzig 2-2 Bayern
Darmstadt 4-2 Werder
Freiburg 2-0 Augsburg
Matchday 7
Gladbach 2-2 Mainz
Leipzig 0-0 Bochum
Stuttgart 3-1 Wolfsburg
Dortmund 4-2 Union
Augsburg 1-2 Darmstadt
Werder 2-3 Hoffenheim
Leverkusen 3-0 Köln
Bayern 3-0 Freiburg
Frankfurt 2-0 Heidenheim
Matchday 8
Dortmund 1-0 Werder
Wolfsburg 1-2 Leverkusen
Darmstadt 1-3 Leipzig
Union 0-3 Stuttgart
Hoffenheim 1-3 Frankfurt
Freiburg 2-1 Bochum
Mainz 1-3 Bayern
Köln 3-1 Gladbach
Heidenheim 2-5 Augsburg
Matchday 9
Augsburg 3-2 Wolfsburg
Werder 2-0 Union
Bayern 8-0 Darmstadt
Frankfurt 3-3 Dortmund
Leipzig 6-0 Köln
Leverkusen 2-1 Freiburg
Gladbach 2-1 Heidenheim
Stuttgart 2-3 Hoffenheim
Bochum 2-2 Mainz
Matchday 10
Union 0-3 Frankfurt
Freiburg 3-3 Gladbach
Hoffenheim 2-3 Leverkusen
Heidenheim 2-0 Stuttgart
Darmstadt 1-2 Bochum
Wolfsburg 2-2 Werder
Mainz 2-0 Leipzig
Köln 1-1 Augsburg
Dortmund 0-4 Bayern
Matchday 11
Gladbach 4-0 Wolfsburg
Leipzig 3-1 Freiburg
Leverkusen 4-0 Union
Darmstadt 0-0 Mainz
Bochum 1-1 Köln
Werder 2-2 Frankfurt
Augsburg 1-1 Hoffenheim
Bayern 4-2 Heidenheim
Stuttgart 2-1 Dortmund
Matchday 12
Frankfurt 1-2 Stuttgart
Heidenheim 0-0 Bochum
Köln 0-1 Bayern
Werder 0-3 Leverkusen
Freiburg 1-1 Darmstadt
Wolfsburg 2-1 Leipzig
Union 1-1 Augsburg
Dortmund 4-2 Gladbach
Hoffenheim 1-1 Mainz
Matchday 13
Bochum 3-1 Wolfsburg
Leipzig 2-1 Heidenheim
Stuttgart 2-0 Werder
Bayern 1-0 Union
Gladbach 2-1 Hoffenheim
Mainz 0-1 Freiburg
Leverkusen 1-1 Dortmund
Darmstadt 0-1 Köln
Augsburg 2-1 Frankfurt
Matchday 14
Köln 0-0 Mainz
Hoffenheim 3-1 Bochum
Heidenheim 3-2 Darmstadt
Wolfsburg 0-1 Freiburg
Dortmund 2-3 Leipzig
Stuttgart 1-1 Leverkusen
Frankfurt 5-1 Bayern
Werder 2-0 Augsburg
Union 3-1 Gladbach
Matchday 15
Gladbach 2-2 Werder
Leipzig 3-1 Hoffenheim
Darmstadt 0-1 Wolfsburg
Bochum 3-0 Union
Augsburg 1-1 Dortmund
Leverkusen 3-0 Frankfurt
Freiburg 2-0 Köln
Bayern 3-0 Stuttgart
Mainz 0-1 Heidenheim
Matchday 16
Frankfurt 2-1 Gladbach
Werder 1-1 Leipzig
Heidenheim 3-2 Freiburg
Dortmund 1-1 Mainz
Stuttgart 3-0 Augsburg
Leverkusen 4-0 Bochum
Union 2-0 Köln
Hoffenheim 3-3 Darmstadt
Wolfsburg 1-2 Bayern
Matchday 17
Freiburg 0-0 Union
Bayern 3-0 Hoffenheim
Bochum 1-1 Werder
Mainz 1-1 Wolfsburg
Gladbach 3-1 Stuttgart
Augsburg 0-1 Leverkusen
Darmstadt 0-3 Dortmund
Leipzig 0-1 Frankfurt
Köln 1-1 Heidenheim
Matchday 18
Bochum 1-0 Stuttgart
Heidenheim 1-1 Wolfsburg
Gladbach 1-2 Augsburg
Darmstadt 2-2 Frankfurt
Köln 0-4 Dortmund
Freiburg 3-2 Hoffenheim
Bayern 0-1 Werder
Mainz 1-1 Union
Leipzig 2-3 Leverkusen
Matchday 19
Stuttgart 5-2 Leipzig
Hoffenheim 1-1 Heidenheim
Augsburg 2-3 Bayern
Werder 3-1 Freiburg
Frankfurt 1-0 Mainz
Dortmund 3-1 Bochum
Wolfsburg 1-1 Köln
Union 1-0 Darmstadt
Leverkusen 0-0 Gladbach
Matchday 20
Mainz 0-1 Werder
Leipzig 2-0 Union
Bochum 1-1 Augsburg
Wolfsburg 2-2 Hoffenheim
Darmstadt 0-2 Leverkusen
Heidenheim 0-0 Dortmund
Freiburg 1-3 Stuttgart
Bayern 3-1 Gladbach
Köln 2-0 Frankfurt
Matchday 21
Hoffenheim 1-1 Köln
Augsburg 2-2 Leipzig
Stuttgart 3-1 Mainz
Werder 1-2 Heidenheim
Gladbach 0-0 Darmstadt
Union 1-0 Wolfsburg
Dortmund 3-0 Freiburg
Frankfurt 1-1 Bochum
Leverkusen 3-0 Bayern
Matchday 22
Wolfsburg 1-1 Dortmund
Köln 0-1 Werder
Leipzig 2-0 Gladbach
Freiburg 3-3 Frankfurt
Bochum 3-2 Bayern
Heidenheim 1-2 Leverkusen
Darmstadt 1-2 Stuttgart
Mainz 1-0 Augsburg
Hoffenheim 0-1 Union
Matchday 23
Bayern 2-1 Leipzig
Frankfurt 2-2 Wolfsburg
Union 2-2 Heidenheim
Werder 1-1 Darmstadt
Dortmund 2-3 Hoffenheim
Augsburg 2-1 Freiburg
Stuttgart 1-1 Köln
Leverkusen 2-1 Mainz
Gladbach 5-2 Bochum
Matchday 24
Wolfsburg 2-3 Stuttgart
Mainz 1-1 Gladbach
Heidenheim 1-2 Frankfurt
Hoffenheim 2-1 Werder
Köln 0-2 Leverkusen
Union 0-2 Dortmund
Freiburg 2-2 Bayern
Darmstadt 0-6 Augsburg
Bochum 1-4 Leipzig
Matchday 25
Bochum 1-2 Freiburg
Werder 1-2 Dortmund
Gladbach 3-3 Köln
Leipzig 2-0 Darmstadt
Bayern 8-1 Mainz
Augsburg 1-0 Heidenheim
Frankfurt 3-1 Hoffenheim
Stuttgart 2-0 Union
Leverkusen 2-0 Wolfsburg
Matchday 26
Köln 1-5 Leipzig
Freiburg 2-3 Leverkusen
Wolfsburg 1-3 Augsburg
Dortmund 3-1 Frankfurt
Union 2-1 Werder
Heidenheim 1-1 Gladbach
Darmstadt 2-5 Bayern
Mainz 2-0 Bochum
Hoffenheim 0-3 Stuttgart
Matchday 27
Gladbach 0-3 Freiburg
Bayern 0-2 Dortmund
Stuttgart 3-3 Heidenheim
Frankfurt 0-0 Union
Leverkusen 2-1 Hoffenheim
Bochum 2-2 Darmstadt
Augsburg 1-1 Köln
Werder 0-2 Wolfsburg
Leipzig 0-0 Mainz
Matchday 28
Hoffenheim 3-1 Augsburg
Freiburg 1-4 Leipzig
Dortmund 0-1 Stuttgart
Mainz 4-0 Darmstadt
Köln 2-1 Bochum
Wolfsburg 1-3 Gladbach
Heidenheim 3-2 Bayern
Frankfurt 1-1 Werder
Union 0-1 Leverkusen
Matchday 29
Augsburg 2-0 Union
Bayern 2-0 Köln
Mainz 4-1 Hoffenheim
Gladbach 1-2 Dortmund
Stuttgart 3-0 Frankfurt
Darmstadt 0-1 Freiburg
Leverkusen 5-0 Werder
Bochum 1-1 Heidenheim
Leipzig 3-0 Wolfsburg
FIXTURES
Matchday 30
Heidenheim vs Leipzig
Frankfurt vs Augsburg
Wolfsburg vs Bochum
Köln vs Darmstadt
Werder vs Stuttgart
Hoffenheim vs Gladbach
Union vs Bayern
Dortmund vs Leverkusen
Freiburg vs Mainz
Matchday 31
Augsburg vs Werder
Mainz vs Köln
Freiburg vs Wolfsburg
Darmstadt vs Heidenheim
Bayern vs Frankfurt
Leverkusen vs Stuttgart
Bochum vs Hoffenheim
Leipzig vs Dortmund
Gladbach vs Union
Matchday 32
Stuttgart vs Bayern
Werder vs Gladbach
Dortmund vs Augsburg
Union vs Bochum
Frankfurt vs Leverkusen
Heidenheim vs Mainz
Köln vs Freiburg
Hoffenheim vs Leipzig
Wolfsburg vs Darmstadt
Matchday 33
Gladbach vs Frankfurt
Darmstadt vs Hoffenheim
Bochum vs Leverkusen
Köln vs Union
Mainz vs Dortmund
Freiburg vs Heidenheim
Bayern vs Wolfsburg
Leipzig vs Werder
Augsburg vs Stuttgart
Matchday 34
Union vs Freiburg
Hoffenheim vs Bayern
Wolfsburg vs Mainz
Leverkusen vs Augsburg
Frankfurt vs Leipzig
Dortmund vs Darmstadt
Stuttgart vs Gladbach
Werder vs Bochum
Heidenheim vs Köln
DFB POKAL
Final
Leverkusen vs Kaiserslautern
Semi Finals
Saarbrücken 0-2 Kaiserslautern
Leverkusen 4-0 Düsseldorf
Quarter Finals
Saarbrücken 2-1 Gladbach
Hertha 1-3 Kaiserslautern
Leverkusen 3-2 Stuttgart
St Pauli 2(3)-(4)2 Düsseldorf
Round of 16
Magdeburg 1-2 Düsseldorf
Homburg 1-4 St Pauli
Hertha 3(5)-(3)3 Hamburg
Saarbrücken 2-0 Frankfurt
Leverkusen 3-1 Paderborn
Stuttgart 2-0 Dortmund
Gladbach 1-0 Wolfsburg
Kaiserslautern 2-0 Nürnberg
Round of 32
Dortmund 1-0 Hoffenheim
Sandhausen 2-5 Leverkusen
Arminia Bielefeld 1(3)-(4)1 Hamburg
Saarbrücken 2-1 Bayern
Viktoria Köln 0-2 Frankfurt
Wolfsburg 1-0 Leipzig
St Pauli 2-1 Schalke
Freiburg 1-3 Paderborn
Stuttgart 1-0 Union
Gladbach 3-1 Heidenheim
Kaiserslautern 3-2 Köln
Unterhaching 3-6 Düsseldorf
Kiel 3(3)-(4)3 Magdeburg
Hertha 3-0 Mainz
Homburg 2-1 Greuther Fürth
Nürnberg 3-2 Hansa Rostock
Round of 64
Sandhausen 3(4)-(2)3 Hannover
Saarbrücken 2-1 Karlsruhe
Bersenbrück 0-7 Gladbach
Braunschweig 1-3 Schalke
Balingen 0-4 Stuttgart
Carl Zeiss Jena 0-5 Hertha Berlin
Atlas Delmenhorst 0-5 St Pauli
Viktoria Köln 3-2 Werder
Schott Mainz 1-6 Dortmund
Gütersloh 0-2 Kiel
Oberneuland 1-9 Nürnberg
Teutonia Ottensen 0-8 Leverkusen
Arminia Bielefeld 2(4)-(1)2 Bochum
Hallescher 0-1 Greuther Fürth
Elversberg 0-1 Mainz
Rostocker 0-8 Heidenheim
Essen 3-4 Hamburg
Unterhaching 2-0 Augsburg
Lok Leipzig 0-7 Eintracht Frankfurt
Koblenz 0-5 Kaiserslautern
Oberachern 0-2 Freiburg
Illertissen 1-3 Düsseldorf
Makkabi Berlin 0-6 Wolfsburg
Energie Cottbus 0-7 Paderborn
Astoria Walldorf 0-4 Union Berlin
FSV Frankfurt 1(0)-(3)1 Hansa Rostock
Jahn Regensburg 1-2 Magdeburg
Lübeck 1-4 Hoffenheim
Homburg 3-0 Darmstadt
Osnabrück 1-3 1. FC Köln
Preußen Münster 0-4 Bayern
Wehen Wiesbaden 2-3 RB Leipzig
WHO’S COMING UP?
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | G | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holstein Kiel | 29 | 18 | 4 | 7 | 59 | 34 | +25 | 58 |
| 2 | FC St. Pauli | 29 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 54 | 32 | +22 | 57 |
| 3 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 29 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 63 | 35 | +28 | 52 |
| 4 | Hamburg | 29 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 55 | 41 | +14 | 49 |
| 5 | Hannover 96 | 29 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 51 | 36 | +15 | 45 |
| 6 | Hertha Berlin | 29 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 60 | 48 | +12 | 44 |
| 7 | Karlsruhe | 29 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 58 | 43 | +15 | 43 |
| 8 | Greuther Fürth | 29 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 40 | 42 | -2 | 42 |
| 9 | Paderborn | 29 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 44 | 49 | -5 | 40 |
| 10 | Elversberg | 29 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 43 | 51 | -8 | 39 |
| 11 | Nürnberg | 29 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 38 | 54 | -16 | 37 |
| 12 | Schalke 04 | 29 | 10 | 5 | 14 | 45 | 55 | -10 | 35 |
| 13 | Magdeburg | 29 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 40 | 46 | -6 | 33 |
| 14 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 29 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 31 | 40 | -9 | 31 |
| 15 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 29 | 9 | 4 | 16 | 30 | 41 | -11 | 31 |
| 16 | Hansa Rostock | 29 | 9 | 4 | 16 | 27 | 48 | -21 | 31 |
| 17 | FC Kaiserslautern | 29 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 45 | 58 | -13 | 29 |
| 18 | VFL Osnabrück | 29 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 27 | 57 | -30 | 24 |
HISTORY AND FORMAT
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Kicking off in 1963, the Bundesliga is the elite football competition in Germany. It is the best-attended football league in the world and is currently ranked the fourth strongest in Europe. Matches are played at a fast pace with plenty of honest endeavour and sportsmanship, so the Bundesliga tends to boast the highest goals per game ratio of the major European leagues.
As teams only have to play 34 league matches and participate in one domestic knock-out cup, the DFB Pokal, players are able to remain fresh all the way to the end of the season.
Format-wise, 18 teams take part in the competition each year with the top three entering the Champions League directly; the fourth placed side enters preliminary qualifying. At the other end of the table, the bottom two teams are automatically relegated, whilst the team in 16th place plays a two-legged relegation playoff with the team finishing third in the 2. Bundesliga.
Bayern Munich are the most successful team in the history of the German league with 33 titles to their name. They are also the current holders of the Meisterschale after snatching their eleventh title in a row from Dortmund on the final day of last season. RB Leipzig made it two cup wins on the bounce by defeating Frankfurt in the DFB Pokal final.
The all-time top scorer in German top-flight history is Gerd Müller, with 365 goals.
ROLL OF HONOUR
Bundesliga/National Championship Winners
33 Bayern Munich 9 Nürnberg 8 Borussia Dortmund 7 Schalke 6 Hamburg 5 Stuttgart, Borussia Mönchengladbach 4 Werder Bremen, Kaiserslautern 3 Köln, Lokomotive Leipzig, Greuther Fürth 2 Hertha Berlin, Viktoria Berlin, Dresdner SC, Hannover 1 Karlsruher FV, Holstein Kiel,1860 Munich, Blau-Weiß Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Eintracht Frankfurt, Wolfsburg, Freiburger FC, Rapid Wien, Mannheim, Rot-Weiss Essen, Eintracht Braunschweig, Bayer Leverkusen
DFB Pokal Winners
20 Bayern Munich 6 Werder Bremen 5 Eintracht Frankfurt, Borussia Dortmund 4 Köln, Schalke 3 Stuttgart, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Hamburg 2 Karlsruhe, Nürnberg, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Kaiserslautern, Leipzig 1 Rot-Weiss Essen, Schwarz-Weiss Essen, 1860 Munich, Kickers Offenbach, Bayer Uerdingen, Hannover, Bayer Leverkusen, Wolfsburg