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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, Holstein Kiel, Köln, Leipzig, Mainz, Paderborn, Schalke, St Pauli, Stuttgart, Union Berlin, Werder Bremen, Wolfsburg
FINAL TABLE 23/24
POS | TEAM | PTS |
1 | Bayer Leverkusen (C) | 90 |
2 | Stuttgart (CL) | 73 |
3 | Bayern Munich (CL) | 72 |
4 | RB Leipzig (CL) | 65 |
5 | Borussia Dortmund (CL) | 63 |
6 | Eintracht Frankfurt (EL) | 47 |
7 | Hoffenheim (EL) | 46 |
8 | Heidenheim (ECL) | 42 |
9 | Werder Bremen | 42 |
10 | Freiburg | 42 |
11 | Augsburg | 39 |
12 | Wolfsburg | 37 |
13 | Mainz | 35 |
14 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 34 |
15 | Union Berlin | 33 |
16 | Bochum | 33 |
17 | Köln (R) | 27 |
18 | Darmstadt (R) | 17 |
DFB POKAL
Final
Semi Finals
Quarter Finals
Stuttgart vs Augsburg
Leverkusen vs Köln
Bielefeld vs Bremen
Leipzig vs Wolfsburg
Round of 16
Regensburg 0-3 Stuttgart
Bayern 0-1 Leverkusen
Wolfsburg 3-0 Hoffenheim
Leipzig 3-0 Frankfurt
Bielefeld 3-1 Freiburg
Köln 2-1 Hertha
Bremen 1-0 Darmstadt
Karlsruhe 2(4)-(5)2 Augsburg
Round of 32
Leipzig 4-2 St. Pauli
Leverkusen 3-0 Elversberg
Augsburg 3-0 Schalke
Wolfsburg 1-0 Dortmund
Offenbach 0-2 Karlsruhe
Regensburg 1-0 Fürth
Stuttgart 2-1 Kaiserslautern
Köln 3-0 Kiel
Frankfurt 2-1 Gladbach
Hertha 2-1 Heidenheim
Freiburg 2-1 Hamburg
Mainz 0-4 Bayern
Bielefeld 2-0 Union
Hoffenheim 2-1 Nürnberg
Paderborn 0-1 Bremen
Dresden 2-3 Darmstadt
Round of 64
Wiesbaden 1-3 Mainz
Halle 2-3 St. Pauli
Würzburg 2(3)-(5)2 Hoffenheim
Ulm 0-4 Bayern
Aue 1-3 Gladbach
Greifswald 0-1 Union
Aalen 0-2 Schalke
Essen 1-4 Leipzig
Ingolstadt 1-2 Kaiserslautern
Aachen 2-3 Kiel
Osnabrück 0-4 Freiburg
Villingen 0-4 Heidenheim
Schott 0-2 Fürth
Viktoria 1-4 Augsburg
Saarbrücken 1(3)-(5)1 Nürnberg
Meppen 1-7 Hamburg
Regensburg 1-0 Bochum
Dresden 2-0 Düsseldorf
Ottensen 1-3 Darmstadt
Offenbach 2-1 Magdeburg
Sandhausen 2-3 Köln
Bielefeld 2-0 Hannover
Bremer 0-4 Paderborn
Rostock 1-5 Hertha
Hildesheim 0-7 Elversberg
Lotte 0-5 Karlsruhe
Cottbus 1-3 Bremen
Lübeck 1-4 Dortmund
Braunschweig 1-4 Frankfurt
Koblenz 0-1 Wolfsburg
Münster 0-5 Stuttgart
Jena 0-1 Leverkusen
2. BUNDESLIGA 23/24
POS | TEAM | PTS |
1 | Sankt Pauli (P) | 69 |
2 | Holstein Kiel (P) | 68 |
3 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 63 |
4 | Hamburg | 58 |
5 | Karlsruhe | 55 |
6 | Hannover | 52 |
7 | Paderborn | 52 |
8 | Greuther Fürth | 50 |
9 | Hertha Berlin | 48 |
10 | Schalke | 43 |
11 | Elversberg | 43 |
12 | Nürnberg | 40 |
13 | Kaiserslautern | 39 |
14 | Magdeburg | 38 |
15 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 38 |
16 | Wehen Wiesbaden (R) | 32 |
17 | Hansa Rostock (R) | 31 |
18 | Osnabrück (R) | 28 |
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. 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. However, they ended last season empty-handed as Xabi Alonso’s remarkable Leverkusen side completed an undefeated domestic campaign to do the double, only being denied a perfect season by Atalanta in the Europa League 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, Bayer Leverkusen 1 Rot-Weiss Essen, Schwarz-Weiss Essen, 1860 Munich, Kickers Offenbach, Bayer Uerdingen, Hannover, Wolfsburg