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founded	1963
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relegation	2. Bundesliga
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champions	Borussia Dortmund (4 BL titles)
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most successful club	Bayern Munich (21 BL titles)
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The Fußball-Bundesliga (short: Bundesliga, , ''Federal League'') is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga. A total of 50 clubs have competed in the Bundesliga since its founding. Since the 1970s, FC Bayern Munich has dominated the championship, winning the title 21 times. However, the Bundesliga has seen other champions with Hamburger SV, Borussia Dortmund, Werder Bremen, Borussia Mönchengladbach and VfB Stuttgart being the most prominent ones. The Bundesliga is one of the top national leagues, currently ranked 3rd in Europe according to UEFA's league coefficient ranking, based on recent European performances. It is the number one football league in terms of average attendance and its average of 41,802 fans per game during the 2009–10 season was in fact only beaten, among all sports, by the Indian Premier League (cricket) and the National Football League (NFL) (American football).

Unlike other countries, in Germany a unified national football 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.

Overview

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 (plural) 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 (Deutsche Fußball-Liga or DFL).

Below the level of the 3rd league, leagues are generally often subdivided on a regional basis. For example, the Regionalligen are currently made up of Nord (North), Süd (South) and West divisions, and the Oberligen (upper leagues) are composed of nine divisions representing federal states or large urban and geographical areas. The levels below the Oberligen differ between the local areas. The league structure has changed frequently and typically reflects the degree of participation in the sport in various parts of the country. In the early 1990s, changes were driven by the reunification of Germany and the subsequent integration of the national leagues of East and West Germany.

Every team in the two Bundesligen must have a licence to play in the league, or else they are relegated into the regional leagues. To obtain a licence, teams must be financially healthy and meet certain standards of conduct as organisations.

As in other national leagues, there are significant benefits to being in the top division:

A greater share of television broadcast licence revenues goes to 1. Bundesliga sides.

1. Bundesliga teams draw significantly greater levels of fan support. Average attendance in the first league is 38,000 per game — more than twice the average of the 2. Bundesliga.

Greater exposure through television and higher attendance levels helps 1. Bundesliga teams attract the most lucrative sponsorships.

1. Bundesliga teams develop substantial financial muscle through the combination of television and gate revenues, sponsorships and marketing of their team brands. This allows them to attract and retain skilled players from domestic and international sources and to construct first-class stadium facilities.

The 1. Bundesliga is financially strong, and the 2. Bundesliga has begun to evolve in a similar direction, becoming more stable organisationally and financially, and reflecting an increasingly higher standard of professional play.

Internationally, the most well-known German clubs include Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV, Borussia Dortmund, Werder Bremen, Schalke 04, Bayer Leverkusen and VfB Stuttgart. Hamburger SV is the only team to have played continuously in the Bundesliga since its foundation.

In the 2008–09 season, the Bundesliga reinstated an earlier German system of promotion and relegation:

The bottom two finishers in the Bundesliga are automatically relegated to the 2. Bundesliga, with the top two finishers in the 2. Bundesliga taking their place.

The third-from-bottom club in the Bundesliga will play a two-legged match with the third-place team from the 2. Bundesliga, with the winner taking up the final place in the following season's Bundesliga.

For several years, a different system had been used in which the bottom three finishers of the Bundesliga had been automatically relegated, to be replaced by the top three finishers in the 2. Bundesliga. (Before 1974–75 it was only four clubs that changed places instead of six).

The season starts in early August and lasts until late May, with a winter break of six weeks (mid-December through to the end of January). In recent years, games have been played on Saturdays (seven games beginning at 3:30 pm) and Sundays (two games beginning at 5:00 pm). A new television deal in 2006 reintroduced a Friday game (beginning at 8:30 pm) in place of one of the Saturday matches.

History

Origins

:''For more details on this topic, see History of German football'' Prior to the formation of the Bundesliga, German football was played at an amateur level in a large number of sub-regional leagues until, in 1949, part time (semi-) professionalism was introduced and only five regional ''Oberligen (Premier Leagues)'' remained. Regional champions and runners-up played a series of playoff matches for the right to compete in a final game for the national championship. On 28 January 1900, a national association, the Deutscher Fußball Bund (DFB) had been founded in Leipzig with 86 member clubs. The first recognised national championship team was VfB Leipzig, who beat DFC Prague 7–2 in a game played at Altona on 31 May 1903.

Through the 1950s, there were continued calls for the formation of a central professional league, especially as professional leagues in other countries began to draw Germany's best players away from the semi-professional domestic leagues. At the international level the German game began to falter as German teams often fared poorly against professional teams from other countries. A key supporter of the central league concept was national team head coach Sepp Herberger who said, “If we want to remain competitive internationally, we have to raise our expectations at the national level.”

Meanwhile, in East Germany, a separate league was established with the formation of the DS-Oberliga (Deutscher Sportausschuss Oberliga) in 1950. The league was re-named the Football Oberliga DFV in 1958 and was generally referred to simply as the DDR-Liga or DDR-Oberliga. The league fielded 14 teams with two relegation spots.

Establishment

The defeat of the national team by Yugoslavia (0–1) in a 1962 World Cup quarter final game in Chile was one impetus (of many) to the formation of a national league. Under new DFB president Hermann Gösmann (elected that very day) the Bundesliga was created in Dortmund on 28 July 1962 to begin play starting with the 1963–64 season.

At the time, there were five ''Oberligen (Premier Leagues)'' in place representing West Germany's North, South, West, Southwest, and Berlin. East Germany, behind the Iron Curtain, maintained its separate league structure. Forty-six clubs applied for admission to the new league. Sixteen teams were selected based on their success on the field, economic criteria and representation of the various Oberligen.

From Oberliga Nord: Eintracht Braunschweig, Werder Bremen, Hamburger SV

From Oberliga West: Borussia Dortmund, 1. FC Köln, Meidericher SV (now MSV Duisburg), Preußen Münster, Schalke 04

From Oberliga Südwest: 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 1. FC Saarbrücken

From Oberliga Süd: Eintracht Frankfurt, Karlsruher SC, 1. FC Nuremberg, TSV 1860 München, VfB Stuttgart

From Oberliga Berlin: Hertha BSC Berlin

The first Bundesliga games were played on 24 August 1963. Early favorite 1. FC Köln was the first Bundesliga champion (with 45:19 points) over second place clubs Meidericher SV and Eintracht Frankfurt (both 39:25).

Structure and competition

The German football champion is decided strictly by play in the Bundesliga. Each club plays every other club once at home and once away. Originally, a victory was worth two points, with a draw worth one point and a loss no points. Since the 1995–96 season, a victory has been worth three points, with no change in the value of a draw or loss. The club with the most points at the end of the season becomes German champions. Currently, the top three clubs in the table qualify automatically for the group phase of the UEFA Champions League, while the fourth-place team enters the Champions League at the third qualifying round (see overview). The two teams at the bottom of the table are relegated into the 2nd Bundesliga, while the top two teams in the 2nd Bundesliga are promoted. The sixteenth place team (third last), and the third place team in the 2nd Bundesliga play a two-leg play-off match. The winner of this match plays the next season in the Bundesliga, and the loser in the 2nd Bundesliga.

If teams are level on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order: #Goal difference for the entire season. #Total goals scored for the entire season. #Head-to-head results (total points). #Head-to-head goals scored. #Head-to-head away goals scored. #Total away goals scored for the entire season.

If two clubs are still tied after all of these tiebreakers have been applied, a single match is held at a neutral site to determine the placement. However, this has never been necessary in the history of the Bundesliga.

In terms of team selection, matchday squads must have no more than five non-EU representatives. Seven substitutes are permitted to be selected, from which three can be used in the duration of the game.

Changes in league structure

Number of teams:

* 1963/64–1964/65: 16

* 1965/66–1990/91: 18

* 1991/92: 20, while East and West German leagues were being combined after German reunification

* Since 1992/93: 18

Number of teams relegated (automatic relegation except as noted):

* 1963/64–1973/74: 2

* 1974/75–1980/81: 3

* 1981/82–1990/91: 2 automatic plus the 16th-place team in the First Bundesliga played a two-leg test match against the third-place team of the Second Bundesliga for the final spot in the First Bundesliga

* 1991/92: 4

* 1992/93-2007/08: 3

* From 2008/09 on: 2 automatic plus the 16th-place team in the First Bundesliga playing a two-leg test match against the third-place team of the Second Bundesliga for the final spot in the First Bundesliga

European qualification (as of 2011–12)

1st, 2nd place and 3rd place: Group phase of UEFA Champions League

4th place: 4th qualifying round of Champions League for Non-Champions. Winners at this stage enter the group phase; losers enter the group phase of UEFA Europa League.

DFB-Pokal (German Cup) winner: Qualifies for 4th qualifying round of UEFA Europa League, regardless of league position.

*If the Cup winner qualifies for the Champions League, the Cup winner's place in the Europa League goes to the defeated Cup finalist if it is not already qualified for European competition—although the defeated Cup finalist will enter the competition a stage earlier than if it had won the Cup. This rule was retained from the Europa League's predecessor, the UEFA Cup.

** The team that benefits from this rule does not necessarily have to be a member of the First Bundesliga. For example, although the Second Bundesliga side Alemannia Aachen lost to Werder Bremen in the 2004 DFB-Pokal final, Alemannia secured an entry in the 2004–05 UEFA Cup, because Werder qualified for the Champions League as First Bundesliga champions.

** Also, if ''both'' Cup finalists qualify for the Champions League, an extra Europa League berth is granted to the highest finisher in the First Bundesliga not already qualified for Europe. This most recently happened in 2010, when the 2010 DFB-Pokal final pitted champions Bayern Munich against third placed Werder Bremen, with Bayern winning. As a result, sixth-place VfB Stuttgart received a berth in the 2010-11 UEFA Europa League.

5th place: Qualifies for 4th qualifying round of Europa League.

6th place: Qualifies for 3rd qualifying round of Europa League.

An additional place in the Europa League may also be granted via the UEFA Fair Play mechanism. This rule was maintained from the UEFA Cup. The last Bundesliga team to gain entry to the UEFA Cup via the fair play rule was Mainz 05 in 2005–06.

16th place: Plays a two-leg relegation match (home and away) against the 3rd placed team of the 2nd Bundesliga.

17th and 18th place: Directly relegated to 2nd Bundesliga.

The number of German clubs which may participate in UEFA competitions is determined by UEFA coefficients, which take into account the results of a particular nation's clubs in UEFA competitions over the preceding five years.

History of European qualification

European Cup/Champions League:

* Up to and including 1996/97: German champion only

* 1997–99: Top two teams

* 1999–2008: Top two teams automatically into first group phase (only one group phase starting in 2003/04). Depending on the DFB's UEFA coefficients standing, either one or two other clubs (most recently one) entered at the third qualifying round; winners at this level entered the group phase.

* 2008-2011: Top two teams automatically into group phase. Third placed team had to play in the play-off round for the right to play in the group stage.

UEFA Cup/Europa League:

*Starting with the 1999/2000 season, the DFB-Pokal (German Cup) winner automatically qualified. Depending on the DFB's UEFA coefficients standing, anywhere from zero to three extra participants could enter. Since the Cup Winners' Cup was folded into the UEFA Cup after 1999, the DFB was always entitled to enter a minimum of three clubs in the UEFA Cup, and was able to enter as many as four (the maximum for any European federation). Teams that entered via UEFA's Fair Play mechanism, or those that entered through the now-defunct Intertoto Cup, did not count against the national quota. From 2006 through the final Intertoto Cup in 2008, only one First Bundesliga side was eligible to enter the Intertoto Cup and possibly earn a UEFA Cup berth. For the 2005/06 season, the DFB earned an extra UEFA Cup place via the Fair Play draw; this place went to Mainz 05 as the highest-ranked club in the Fair Play table of the First Bundesliga not already qualified for Europe.

Cup Winners' Cup (abolished after 1999):

*DFB-Pokal winner entered the Cup Winners' Cup. Today, that club enters the UEFA Europa League.

Current members of the Bundesliga (2011–12 season)

Hertha BSC and FC Augsburg have just achieved promotion into the Bundesliga, replacing FC St. Pauli and Eintracht Frankfurt, who finished at the bottom two spots of the table at the end of the 2010–11 season and thus were relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga. Borussia Mönchengladbach earned the right to stay in the Bundesliga despite their 16th place finish by beating VfL Bochum in the 2011 relegation playoffs

! Team	! Location	! Stadium	! Capacity
	Augsburg		30,660
	Leverkusen	BayArena	30,210
	Munich	Allianz Arena	69,000
Borussia Dortmund	Dortmund		80,720
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Mönchengladbach	Borussia-Park	54,057
	Freiburg		25,000
Hamburger SV	Hamburg	Imtech Arena	57,000
Hannover 96	Hanover	AWD-Arena	49,000
Hertha BSC	Berlin		74,244
	Sinsheim	Rhein-Neckar-Arena	30,150
	Kaiserslautern	Fritz Walter Stadion	49,780
	Cologne	RheinEnergieStadion	50,000
	Mainz	Coface Arena	33,500
	Nuremberg		48,548
	Gelsenkirchen	Veltins-Arena	61,673
	Stuttgart	Mercedes-Benz Arena	60,300
	Bremen	Weserstadion	42,000
	Wolfsburg	Volkswagen Arena	30,000

Verdiente Meistervereine

In 2004, the honor of “Verdiente Meistervereine” (roughly “distinguished champion clubs”) was introduced, following a custom first practised by the Italian Football Federation, to recognize sides that have won multiple championships or other honours by the display of gold stars on their team crests and jerseys. Each country's usage is unique and in Germany the practice is to award one star for three titles, two stars for five titles, three stars for ten titles, and four stars for twenty titles.

The former East German side Berliner FC Dynamo laid claim to the three stars of a ten-time champion. They petitioned the league to have their DDR-Oberliga titles recognized, but received no reply. Dynamo eventually took matters into their own hands and emblazoned their jerseys with three stars. This caused some debate given what may be the tainted nature of their championships under the patronage of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi. The issue also affects other former East German and pre-Bundesliga champions. In November 2005, the DFB allowed all former champions to display a single star inscribed with the number of titles, including all German men's titles since 1903, women's titles since 1974 and East German titles.

The DFB format only applies to teams playing below the Bundesliga (the top two divisions), since there the DFL conventions remain in force. BFC Dynamo Berlin have not followed this guideline and continue to wear three stars, rather than a single star inscribed with the number 10. Greuther Fürth unofficially display three (silver) stars for pre-war titles in spite of being in the Bundesliga second division.

As of June 2010 the following clubs are allowed to wear stars while playing in the Bundesliga. The number in parentheses is for Bundesliga titles won.

20px20px20px20px Bayern Munich (21)

20px20px Borussia Mönchengladbach (5)

20px Borussia Dortmund (4)

20px SV Werder Bremen (4)

20px Hamburger SV (3)

20px VfB Stuttgart (3)

As of June 2010 the following clubs are allowed to wear one star while playing outside the Bundesliga. The number in parentheses is for total league championships won over the course of German football history, and would be included within the star.

20px Bayern Munich (22)

20px Berliner FC Dynamo (10)

20px 1. FC Nuremberg (9)

20px Dynamo Dresden (8)

20px Borussia Dortmund (7)

20px FC Schalke 04 (7)

20px Hamburger SV (6)

20px FC Viktoria Frankfurt (6)

20px Borussia Mönchengladbach (5)

20px VfB Stuttgart (5)

20px SV Werder Bremen (4)

20px 1. FC Kaiserslautern (4)

20px 1. FC Magdeburg (3)

20px FC Erzgebirge Aue (3)

20px Lokomotive Leipzig (3)

20px FC Carl Zeiss Jena (3)

20px 1. FC Köln (3)

20px SpVgg Greuther Fürth (3)

Media coverage

Domestically, Sky holds the rights to broadcast both all first and second division matches on a pay television basis. Deutsche Telekom holds the IPTV rights. Only four matches – the season opener, the first match after the winter break, and both legs of the relegation playoff – are broadcast on free television, on ARD.

GOL TV has exclusive U.S. and Canadian rights to broadcast the Bundesliga, however ESPN3 also broadcasts certain games that GOL TV does not pick up. In Australia the Bundesliga is broadcast by Setanta Sports and digital channel One HD. Sport Klub has the rights to broadcast in Serbia. In Greece, most Bundesliga matches are broadcasted on OTE's cable TV platform, Conn-x TV Sports. SportTV broadcast one live game per week for Portugal. In Spain the Bundesliga is broadcast by Digital+, In Italy the Bundesliga is broadcast by Sky Sport.

In the United Kingdom the Bundesliga was formerly available to Setanta Sports subscribers with two games shown per week on average. However after Setanta's UK division went out of business due to financial problems, Eurosport secured the rights to broadcast the Bundesliga in several European countries, on their secondary channel, Eurosport 2. From the start of the 2009–10 season, ESPN's UK channel broadcasts live Bundesliga matches in the UK.

In Australia four exclusive games per week from the Bundesliga are broadcast on Setanta Sports & Match of the Week Live or Delay on ONE HD.

In India, up to three matches a week are shown on Neo Sports, generally two live and one delayed.

The rights to broadcast the Bundesliga are generally marketed by the DFL.

In Mexico, TVC Deportes have 5 exclusive games per week.

In Philippines, AKTV on IBC have this exclusive games per week.

Champions

In total, 43 clubs have won the German championship. FC Bayern Munich have 22 titles, more than any other club. The clubs with the next most titles are BFC Dynamo Berlin (10; all accomplished in the GDR Oberliga) and 1. FC Nuremberg (9).

The clubs with the most ''Bundesliga'' titles besides FC Bayern Munich (21 titles) are Borussia Mönchengladbach (5), Werder Bremen and Borussia Dortmund (4). Hamburger SV and VfB Stuttgart are tied with (3) in addition to FC Köln and FC Kaiserslautern who have (2) while TSV 1860 Munich, Eintracht Braunschweig, 1. FC Nuremberg and VfL Wolfsburg have (1).

{| class=wikitable | Season |width="20%" | Bundesliga-Champion |width="2%" rowspan="13"| | Season |width="20%" | Bundesliga-Champion |width="2%" rowspan="13"| | Season |width="20%" | Bundesliga-Champion |width="2%" rowspan="13"| | Season |width="20%" | Bundesliga-Champion |- | 63–64 || 1. FC Köln || 75–76 || Borussia Mönchengladbach || 87–88 || SV Werder Bremen || 99–00 || FC Bayern Munich |- | 64–65 || SV Werder Bremen || 76–77 || Borussia Mönchengladbach || 88–89 || FC Bayern Munich || 00–01 || FC Bayern Munich |- | 65–66 || TSV 1860 München || 77–78 || 1. FC Köln || 89–90 || FC Bayern Munich || 01–02 || Borussia Dortmund |- | 66–67 || Eintracht Braunschweig || 78–79 || Hamburger SV || 90–91 || 1. FC Kaiserslautern || 02–03 || FC Bayern Munich |- | 67–68 || 1. FC Nuremberg || 79–80 || FC Bayern Munich || 91–92 || VfB Stuttgart || 03–04 || SV Werder Bremen |- | 68–69 || FC Bayern Munich || 80–81 || FC Bayern Munich || 92–93 || SV Werder Bremen || 04–05 || FC Bayern Munich |- | 69–70 || Borussia Mönchengladbach || 81–82 || Hamburger SV || 93–94 || FC Bayern Munich || 05–06 || FC Bayern Munich |- | 70–71 || Borussia Mönchengladbach || 82–83 || Hamburger SV || 94–95 || Borussia Dortmund || 06–07 || VfB Stuttgart |- | 71–72 || FC Bayern Munich || 83–84 || VfB Stuttgart || 95–96 || Borussia Dortmund || 07–08 || FC Bayern Munich |- | 72–73 || FC Bayern Munich || 84–85 || FC Bayern Munich || 96–97 || FC Bayern Munich || 08–09 || VfL Wolfsburg |- | 73–74 || FC Bayern Munich || 85–86 || FC Bayern Munich || 97–98 || 1. FC Kaiserslautern || 09–10 || FC Bayern Munich |- | 74–75 || Borussia Mönchengladbach || 86–87 || FC Bayern Munich || 98–99 || FC Bayern Munich || 10–11 || Borussia Dortmund |- |}

Borussia Dortmund are the current title-holders.

Records

{| align="left" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 0; border: 1px solid #999; border-right-width: 2px; border-bottom-width: 2px; background-color:ivory; width:64%; font-size: 95%;" |- style="background:beige;" |+ Top Ten Players With Most Appearances |- style="background:beige;" ! colspan="2" align="center"| Player ! align="center"| Period ! align="center" abbr="Club"| Club ! align="center"| Games |- ! 1 | Karl-Heinz Körbel | align="center"| 1972–1991 | align="center"| Eintracht Frankfurt | align="center"| 602 |- style="background:lemonchiffon;" ! 2 | Manfred Kaltz | align="center"| 1971–1991 | align="center"| Hamburger SV | align="center"| 581 |- style="background:lemonchiffon;"| ! 3 | Oliver Kahn | align="center"| 1987–2008 | align="center"| FC Bayern Munich | align="center"| 557 |- style="background:lemonchiffon;" ! 4 | Klaus Fichtel | align="center"| 1965–1988 | align="center"| FC Schalke 04 | align="center"| 552 |- style="background:lemonchiffon;"| ! 5 | Miroslav Votava | align="center"| 1976–1996 | align="center"| SV Werder Bremen | align="center"| 546 |- style="background:lemonchiffon;" ! 6 | Klaus Fischer | align="center"| 1968–1988 | align="center"| FC Schalke 04 | align="center"| 535 |- style="background:lemonchiffon;"| ! 7 | Eike Immel | align="center"| 1978–1995 | align="center"| VfB Stuttgart | align="center"| 534 |- style="background:lemonchiffon;" ! 8 | Willi Neuberger | align="center"| 1966–1983 | align="center"| Eintracht Frankfurt | align="center"| 520 |- style="background:lemonchiffon;"| ! 9 | Michael Lameck | align="center"| 1972–1988 | align="center"| VfL Bochum | align="center"| 518 |-- style="background:lemonchiffon;" ! 10 | Uli Stein | align="center"| 1978–1997 | align="center"| Hamburger SV | align="center"| 512 |}

{| align="left" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 0; border: 1px solid #999; border-right-width: 2px; border-bottom-width: 2px; background-color:ivory; width:64%; font-size: 95%;" |- style="background:beige;" |+ Top Ten Highest Goalscorers |- style="background:beige;" ! colspan="2" align="center"| Player ! align="center"| Period ! align="center" abbr="Club"| Club ! align="center"| Goals |- ! 1 | Gerd Müller | align="center"| 1965–1979 | align="center"| FC Bayern Munich | align="center"|365 (Ø 0,85) |- style="background:lemonchiffon;" ! 2 | Klaus Fischer | align="center"| 1968–1988 | align="center"| FC Schalke 04 | align="center"| 268 (Ø 0,50) |- ! 3 | Jupp Heynckes | align="center"| 1965–1978 | align="center"| Borussia Mönchengladbach | align="center"| 220 (Ø 0,60) |- style="background:lemonchiffon;" ! 4 | Manfred Burgsmüller | align="center"| 1969–1990 | align="center"| Borussia Dortmund | align="center"| 213 (Ø 0,48) |- ! 5 | Ulf Kirsten | align="center"| 1990–2003 | align="center"| Bayer 04 Leverkusen | align="center"| 181 (Ø 0,52) |- |- style="background:lemonchiffon;" ! 6 | Stefan Kuntz | align="center"| 1983–1999 | align="center"| 1. FC Kaiserslautern | align="center"| 179 (Ø 0,40) |- ! 7 | Dieter Müller | align="center"| 1973–1986 | align="center"| 1. FC Köln | align="center"| 177 (Ø 0,58) |- style="background:lemonchiffon;" ! 8 | Klaus Allofs | align="center"| 1975–1993 | align="center"| 1. FC Köln | align="center"| 177 (Ø 0,42) |- ! 9 | Hannes Löhr | align="center"| 1964–1977 | align="center"| 1. FC Köln | align="center"| 166 (Ø 0,44) |- style="background:lemonchiffon;" ! 10 | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | align="center"| 1974–1984 | align="center"| FC Bayern Munich | align="center"| 162 (Ø 0,52) |}

Player records

Most own goals scored: 6 by Manfred Kaltz of Hamburger SV. The oldest player was Klaus Fichtel of FC Schalke 04 (43 years old). The youngest player to play was Nuri Şahin of Borussia Dortmund (16 years and 335 days). The youngest player to score was Nuri Şahin of Borussia Dortmund (17 years and 82 days). Most red cards received: Jens Nowotny (8), Stefan Effenberg, Sergej Barbarez and Torsten Kracht (7 each). Most goals scored by a foreign player: 139 by Claudio Pizarro (as of 30 March 2011). Most goals scored by penalties: Manfred Kaltz (53 with 7 missed penalties). Most goals conceded by a goalkeeper: 829 by Eike Immel (in 534 games). Most clean sheets by a goalkeeper: 196 by Oliver Kahn (in 557 games). Most championships won as player: 8 by Mehmet Scholl and Oliver Kahn Most championships won as coach: 8 by Udo Lattek. The longest period of time as coach, is Volker Finke by over 16 years. Fastest Goal: Ulf Kirsten (Bayer Leverkusen) after 11 seconds (against Kaiserslautern in 2002.)

Club records

Most positive club records are held by Bayern Munich. The major ones are: Most titles won: 21

Most games won in a season: 25

Fewest games lost in a season: 1

Most goals scored in a season: 101

Fewest goals conceded in a season: 21

Most consecutive victories: 15 (19 March–20 September 2005)

Bayern is not the club with the most seasons in the Bundesliga, though. Hamburg is the only club that has participated in each of the 46 seasons. At the far end Tasmania 1900 Berlin holds an extraordinary list of worst-of records, all achieved in their 1965–66 one-season Bundesliga spell. These records include:

Most losses in a season: 28

Fewest games won in a season: 2

Most goals conceded in a season: 108

Fewest goals scored in a season: 15

See also

DFL (operator of the league)

2. Bundesliga

3rd Liga, launched in 2008–09

Oberliga

Women's Bundesliga

Promotion to the Fussball-Bundesliga

Historic Ranking of the Fußball-Bundesliga

Bundesliga top scorers

List of foreign Bundesliga players

List of attendance figures at domestic professional sports leagues — the Bundesliga in a worldwide context

References

External links

Map to all Germany clubs

DFB — Deutscher Fußball Bund (German Football Association)

Clear and Simple German Football Leagues

; History

Bundesliga — All results since 1963, statistics, compare teams.

Bundesliga : presentation — All time table and all results since 1963 with links to entire results and winners, second and third.

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Dream Team in sport, often only as a nickname, may refer to:

The roster of the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team in Barcelona

Brazil men's national volleyball team under coach Bernardo Rezende since 2002

FIFA Dream Team, an all-time all-star football team published by FIFA in 2004

The Puerto Rico national baseball team in the 1995 Caribbean Series

An era (1991–1994), in the history of FC Barcelona, a Spanish football club

The Philippines national basketball team in the 1990 Asian Games

The Dream Team (professional wrestling), professional wrestling tag-team in the World Wrestling Federation 1985–1987

Dramatic Dream Team, Japanese professional wrestling promotion

Super League Dream Team, award for players in the European rugby Super League

Dream Team Australian rules football team, that represented the States and territories of Australia other than Victoria in the AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match

AFL Dream Team, a notable online competition for supporters run by the Australian Football League

Dream Team in television and film may refer to:

Dream Team (TV series), a British television series

The Dream Team (film), a 1989 American comedy film

Dream Team (The Office) an episode of the American television series ''The Office''

The Dream Team (Entourage Episode), an episode of ''Entourage''

Let's Go Dream Team! Season 2, a Korean television series

Dream Team may also refer to:

Dream Team (theater), a Stage Management Team located in Terre Haute, IN that worked on shows including Real Girls Can't Win, 1,001 Arabian Nights, and Bad Dates

Dream Team (comics), a fictional group of Marvel Comics superheroes

The Dream Team (warez), a cracking/releasing warez group for the IBM PC active 1989–1996

LA Dream Team, American hip-hop act

Nickname for the defense legal team in the O. J. Simpson murder case

Category:Nicknamed groups of sportspeople

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Name	Sagopa Kajmer
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Yunus Özyavuz
Origin	Samsun, Turkey
Birth date	August 26, 1978
Genre	Turkish hip hop
Occupation	Rapper, producer, DJ
Years active	1998–present
Label	Melankolia Records
Associated acts	Kolera, Abluka Alarm
Website	}}

Yunus Özyavuz (born August 26, 1978), better known by his stage name Sagopa Kajmer (a.k.a. DJ Mic Check and Silahsız Kuvvet), is a Turkish rap artist, producer and DJ. He is also the pioneer of the Pessimist Rap subgenre of Turkish Hip Hop.

Musical Background

Sagopa Kajmer (Yunus Özyavuz), began his music career in Samsun, as a local radio DJ. At the time he was known by various stage names such as Rapper M.C. (Rapper Mic Check and DJ Mic Check). In 1998, he started an underground rap foundation named Kuvvetmira, which remains active today with members such as Kolera, Abluka Alarm and himself. In 1999, he contributed to a compilation album, Yeralti operasyonu under one of his pseudonyms, Silahsiz Kuvvet. In 2001 and 2002, he released two albums, Sozlerim Silahim and Ihtiyar Heyeti respectively. That was the last time he released an album under the name Silahsiz Kuvvet; In November 2004, Sagopa released his commercial single, ''Al Bir De Burdan Yak''', which was also the soundtrack of a Turkish feature film called G.O.R.A..

In 2006, Sagopa and his wife Kolera started a record company named Melankolia Records. He later revealed the reason behind this idea with a metaphor on an interview ; "if we were gonna drown anyway, we'd like to drown in our own pool, we thought...". Sagopa produced Kuvvetmira's album, Kafile, in 2006. Sagopa Kajmer was no.

Name

Sagopa kajmer got his name from a pyrimid wall that an explorer wrote on.

Albums

Yeraltı Operasyonu (1999) Silahsız Kuvvet

Toplama Kampı (2000) Silahsız Kuvvet, Ceza (Asya Sentez)

Sözlerim Silahım (2001) Silahsız Kuvvet

İhtiyar Heyeti (2002) Silahsız Kuvvet

On Kurşun (2002) Sagopa Kajmer

Sagopa Kajmer (2002) Sagopa Kajmer

Bir Pesimistin Gözyaşları (2003) Sagopa Kajmer

Romantizma (2005) Sagopa Kajmer

Kafile (2006) Kuvvetmira

İkimizi Anlatan Birşey (2007) Sagopa Kajmer, Kolera

Kötü İnsanları Tanıma Senesi (2008) Sagopa Kajmer

Şarkı Koleksiyoncusu (2009) Sagopa Kajmer

Bendeki Sen (2010) Sagopa Kajmer, Kolera

Saydam Odalar (2011) Sagopa Kajmer

Compilation albums

Melankolia Compilation Vol.1

Melankolia Compilation Vol.2

Melankolia Compilation Vol.3

Mixtape

Kuvvetmira Mixtape

Melankolia Mixtape Vol.1 (2006)

EP's

Pessimist E.P. 1 (2001)

Pessimist E.P. 2 (2002)

Pessimist E.P. 3 (2005)

Disstortion E.P. (2005)

Pessimist E.P. 4 - Lead Soldier (2006)

Pessimist E.P. 5 - Blind Surgeon (2008)

Saykodelik E.P. - Pessimist Orchestra (2009)

Category:1978 births Category:Living people Category:People from Samsun Category:Turkish rappers

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