THE BUNDESLIGA

THE BUNDESLIGA

Full Name: Bundesliga
Founded: 1963
Level: 1
Number of Teams: 18
Record Bundesliga Titles: Bayern München, 20
Record German Championship Titles: Bayern München, 21
Official Website: bundesliga.de

Description:

The Bundesliga (National League) is the top tier of the German football pyramid. It was launched for the 1963-64 season - previously there had been regional

leagues leading up to a championship playoff.

The Bundesliga is the highest level of Germany's football league system. The term Bundesliga also applies to football in Austria and is used to refer to the

highest level league competitions in several other sports in the two countries.
Germany was unusual, in that, unlike in other countries, a unified national league structure was quite late in developing. The Bundesliga was not formed until

1963 and the structure and organisation of the nation's football leagues have undergone frequent changes right up to the present day. The league was

originally founded by the German Football Association, but is now operated by the Deutsche Fußball Liga.
The Bundesliga is composed of two divisions: the 1. Bundesliga (although it is rarely referred to with the First prefix), and, below that, the 2. Bundesliga

(Second Bundesliga), which has been the second tier of German football since 1974. The Bundesligen (pl.) are professional leagues. Since 2008, the 3. Liga (3rd

League) in Germany is also a professional league, but may not be called Bundesliga because the league is run by the German Football Association (DFB) and

not, as are the 2 Bundesligen, by the German Football League (DFL).

Format:

The 18 Bundesliga clubs play each other twice (home and away) for a total of 34 games. The season runs from August to May with a one month winter break.

The bottom 2 clubs are automatically relegated while the 16th-placed club goes into a promotion/relegation playoff with the 3rd-placed team from the

second-tier 2. Bundesliga. All Bundesliga clubs enter the German Cup (the DFB-Pokal) from the first round of 64 teams.
International Tournament Qualification:

* UEFA Champions League - The top two finishers in the Bundesliga qualify directly to the group stage of the Champions League. The 3rd-place finisher

enters at the 4th Qualifying Round.
* UEFA Europa League - the DFB-Pokal winner and the two next highest-placed Bundesliga finishers qualify for the Europa League. If the DFB-Pokal

winner qualifies for the Champions League the DFB-Pokal spot goes to the losing finalists. If both finalists qualify for the Champions League the spot goes to

the next-highest Bundesliga finisher.

German National Championship:

1903 VfB Leipzig
1904 Not Completed
1905 Union Berlin
1906 VfB Leipzig
1907 Freiburger FC
1908 Viktoria Berlin
1909 Phönix Karlsruhe
1910 Karlsruher FV
1911 Viktoria Berlin
1912 Holstein Kiel
1913 VfB Leipzig
1914 SpVgg Fürth

1920 1. FC Nürnberg
1921 1. FC Nürnberg
1922 Not Completed
1923 Hamburger SVer SV
1924 1. FC Nürnberg
1925 1. FC Nürnberg
1926 SpVgg Fürth
1927 1. FC Nürnberg
1928 Hamburger SV
1929 SpVgg Fürth
1930 Hertha BSC
1931 Hertha BSC
1932 Bayern München
1933 Fortuna Düsseldorf
1934 FC Schalke 04
1935 FC Schalke 04
1936 1. FC Nürnberg
1937 FC Schalke 04
1938 Hannover 96
1939 FC Schalke 04
1940 FC Schalke 04
1941 Rapid Wien
1942 FC Schalke 04
1943 Dresdner SC
1944 Dresdner SC

1948 1. FC Nürnberg
1949 VfR Mannheim
1950 VfB Stuttgart
1951 1. FC Kaiserslautern
1952 VfB Stuttgart
1953 Kaiserlautern
1954 Hannover 96
1955 Rot-Weiss Essen
1956 Borussia Dortmund
1957 Borussia Dortmund
1958 FC Schalke 04
1959 Eintracht Frankfurt
1960 Hamburger SV
1961 1. FC Nürnberg
1962 1. FC Köln
1963 Borussia Dortmund

Bundesliga Champions:

1964 1. FC Köln
1965 Werder Bremen
1966 1860 München
1967 Eintracht Braunschweig
1968 1. FC Nürnberg
1969 Bayern München
1970 Borussia Mönchengladbach
1971 Borussia Mönchengladbach
1972 Bayern München
1973 Bayern München
1974 Bayern München
1975 Borussia Mönchengladbach
1976 Borussia Mönchengladbach
1977 Borussia Mönchengladbach
1978 1. FC Köln
1979 Hamburger SV
1980 Bayern München
1981 Bayern München
1982 Hamburger SV
1983 Hamburger SV
1984 VfB Stuttgart
1985 Bayern München
1986 Bayern München
1987 Bayern München
1988 Werder Bremen
1989 Bayern München
1990 Bayern München
1991 1. FC Kaiserslautern
1992 VfB Stuttgart
1993 Werder Bremen
1994 Bayern München
1995 Borussia Dortmund
1996 Borussia Dortmund
1997 Bayern München
1998 1. FC Kaiserslautern
1999 Bayern München
1900 Bayern München
2001 Bayern München
2002 Borussia Dortmund
2003 Bayern München
2004 Werder Bremen
2005 Bayern München
2006 Bayern München
2007 VfB Stuttgart
2008 Bayern München
2009 VfL Wolfsburg

Total Bundesliga Titles:

20 Bayern München
5 Borussia Mönchengladbach
4 Werder Bremen
3 Borussia Dortmund, Hamburger SV, VfB Stuttgart
2 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 1. FC Köln
1 1. FC Nürnberg, 1860 München, Eintracht Braunschweig, VfL Wolfsburg

Total German Championship Titles:

21 Bayern München
9 1. FC Nürnberg
7 FC Schalke 04
6 Hamburger SV, Borussia Dortmund
5 VfB Stuttgart, Borussia Mönchengladbach
4 Werder Bremen, 1. FC Kaiserslautern
3 1. FC Köln, VfB Leipzig, Greuther Fürth
2 Hertha BSC, Viktoria 89 Berlin, Dresdner SC, Hannover 96
1 Karlsruher FV, Holstein Kiel, 1860 München, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Eintracht Frankfurt, Blau-Weiss Berlin, Eintracht Braunschweig, Rot-Weiss Essen,
Freiburger FC, Phönix Karlsruhe, VfR Mannheim, Rapid Wien, VfL Wolfsburg

Total Bundesliga Seasons:

46 Hamburger SV
45 Werder Bremen
44 Bayern München
43 VfB Stuttgart
42 1 FC Kaiserslautern, Borussia Dortmund
41 Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Schalke 04
40 1. FC Köln
33 VfL Bochum
30 Bayer Leverkusen
27 1. FC Nürnberg, Hertha BSC
25 MSV Duisburg
24 Karlsruher SC
22 Fortuna Dusseldorf
21 Hannover 96
20 1860 München, Eintracht Braunschweig
17 Arminia Bielefeld
14 Bayer Uerdingen
12 Hansa Rostock, VfL Wolfsburg
10 SC Freiburg
7 FC St Pauli, Kickers Offenbach, Rot-Weiss Essen, Waldhof Mannheim
6 Energie Cottbus
5 Saarbrucken
4 Alemania Aachen, Dynamo Dresden, Rot-Weiss Oberhausen, SG Wattenscheid 09
3 1. FSV Mainz, Borussia Neunkirchen, FC 08 Homburg, Meidericher, Wuppertaler SV Borussia
2 SpVgg Unterhaching, Stuttgart Kickers, SV Darmstad 98, Tennis Borussia Berlin
1 1899 Hoffenheim, Blau-Weiss Berlin, Fortuna Köln, Lokomotiv Leipzig, Preussen Munster, SSV Ulm 1846, Tasmania Berlin