This article is about the German men's football association. For the German ladies' football association, see Frauen-Bundesliga. For different purposes, see Bundesliga (disambiguation).

Bundesliga

Sorting out body Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL)

Founded 24 August; a long time back

Country Germany

Confederation UEFA

Number of teams 18 (starting around 1992-93)

Level on Pyramid 1

Transfer to 2. Bundesliga

Homegrown cup(s)

DFB-Pokal

DFL-Supercup

Worldwide cup(s)

UEFA Champions Association

UEFA Europa Association

UEFA Europa Gathering Association

Current champions Bayern Munich (32nd title)

(2022-23)

Most championships Bayern Munich (32 titles)

Most appearances Charly Körbel (602)

Top goalscorer Gerd Müller (365)

Television partners List of telecasters

Website bundesliga.com

Current: 2023-24 Bundesliga

The Bundesliga (German: [ˈbʊndəsˌliːɡa] ⓘ; lit. 'Government Association'), in some cases alluded to as the Fußball-Bundesliga ([ˌfuːsbal-]) or 1. Bundesliga ([ˌeːɐ̯stə-]), is an expert affiliation football association in Germany. At the highest point of the German Football Association framework, the Bundesliga is Germany's essential football rivalry. The Bundesliga contains 18 groups and works on an arrangement of advancement and transfer with the 2. Bundesliga. Seasons run from August to May. Games are played on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. All of the Bundesliga clubs partake in the DFB-Pokal Cup rivalry. The victor of the Bundesliga fits the bill for the DFL-Supercup.

56 clubs have contended in the Bundesliga since its establishment. Bayern Munich has come out on top for 32 of 60 championships, as well as the last eleven seasons, which is a European record.[1] The Bundesliga has likewise seen different bosses, with Borussia Dortmund, Burger SV, Werder Bremen, Borussia Mönchengladbach, and VfB Stuttgart generally conspicuous among them. The Bundesliga is one of the top public associations, positioned third in Europe as per UEFA's association coefficient positioning for the ebb and flow 2022-23 season, in light of exhibitions in European contests over the beyond five seasons.[2] The Bundesliga drove the UEFA positioning from 1976 to 1984 and in 1990. It has likewise delivered the mainland's top-of-the-line club multiple times. Bundesliga clubs have won eight UEFA Champions Association, seven UEFA Europa Association, four European Cup Victors' Cups, two UEFA Super Cups, two FIFA Club World Cups, and three Intercontinental Cup titles. Its players have collected nine Ballon d'Or grants, two The Best FIFA Men's Player grants, four European Brilliant Shoe, and three UEFA Men's Player of the Year grants including UEFA Club Footballer of the Year.

The Bundesliga is the main affiliation football association on the planet with regards to average participation; out of all games, its normal of 45,134 fans for each game during the 2011-12 season was the second-most elevated of any games association on the planet after the American Public Football League.[3] The Bundesliga is communicated on TV in more than 200 countries.[4]

The Bundesliga was established in 1962 in Dortmund[5] and the primary season began in 1963-64. The design and association of the Bundesliga, alongside Germany's other football associations, have gone through continuous changes. The Bundesliga was established by the Deutscher Fußball-Bund (English: German Football Affiliation), yet is presently worked by the Deutsche Fußball Liga (English: German Football Association).

Structure

The Bundesliga is made out of two divisions: the 1. Bundesliga (even though it is seldom alluded to with the Principal prefix), and, beneath that, the 2. Bundesliga (second Bundesliga), which has been the second level of German football starting around 1974. The Bundesligen (plural) are proficient associations. Beginning around 2008, the 3. Liga (third Association) in Germany has likewise been an expert association, however may not be called Bundesliga because the association is controlled by the German Football Affiliation (DFB) and not, similar to the two Bundesligen, by the German Football Association (DFL).

Beneath the level of the 3. Liga, associations are by and large partitioned on a provincial premise. For instance, the Regionalligen are as of now comprised of Nord (North), Nordost (Upper East), Süd (South), Südwest (Southwest), and West divisions. Underneath this are thirteen equal divisions, the vast majority of which are called Oberligen (upper associations) which address government states or enormous metropolitan and geological regions. The levels beneath the Oberligen contrast between the neighborhoods. The association structure has changed regularly and commonly mirrors the level of cooperation in the game in different pieces of the country. In the mid-1990s, changes were driven by the reunification of Germany and the ensuing mix of the public class of East Germany.

Each group in the two Bundesligen should have a permit to play in the association, or probably they are consigned to the provincial associations. To get a permit, groups should be monetarily solid and fulfill specific guidelines of lead as associations.

As in other public associations, huge advantages to are being in the top division:

A more noteworthy portion of transmission permit incomes goes to 1. Bundesliga sides.

1. Bundesliga groups draw altogether more prominent degrees of fan support. Normal participation in the principal association is 42,673 for every game — over two times the normal of the 2. Bundesliga.

More noteworthy openness through TV and higher participation levels helps 1. Bundesliga groups draw in the most rewarding sponsorships.

1. Bundesliga groups foster significant monetary muscle through the blend of TV and entryway incomes, sponsorships, and promotion of their group brands. This permits them to draw in and hold talented players from homegrown and global sources and to develop five-star arena offices.

The 1. Bundesliga is a serious area of strength for monetarily, the 2. Bundesliga has started to develop in a comparable course, turning out to be more steady hierarchically and monetarily, and mirroring an undeniably better quality of expert play.[citation needed]

Borussia Dortmund against rivals Schalke, known as the Revierderby, in the Bundesliga in 2009

Universally, the most notable German clubs incorporate Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Schalke 04, RB Leipzig, Cheeseburger SV, VfB Stuttgart, 1. FC Köln, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, Werder Bremen and Bayer Leverkusen.[6] Burger SV was the main club to have played constantly in the Bundesliga since its establishment, until 12 May 2018, when the club was consigned interestingly.

In the 2008-09 season, the Bundesliga restored a prior German arrangement of advancement and transfer, which had been being used from 1981 until 1991:

The last two finishers in the Bundesliga are consequently consigned to the 2. Bundesliga, with the main two finishers in the 2. Bundesliga taking their place.

The third-from-base club in the Bundesliga will play a two-legged bind with the third-place group from the 2. Bundesliga, with the champ assuming the last position in coming up next season's Bundesliga.

From 1992 until 2008, an alternate framework was utilized, in which the last three finishers of the Bundesliga were naturally consigned, to be supplanted by the main three finishers in the 2. Bundesliga. From 1963 until 1981 two, or later three, groups were consigned from the Bundesliga naturally, while advancement was chosen either totally or somewhat in advancement end of the season games.

The season begins in early August[7] and goes on until late May, with a colder time of year break of about a month and a half (mid-December through January). Beginning with the 2002-03 season, opening matches were acquainted with highlight reigning champs on Friday evenings on the main match day. Reigning champs have not lost the opening matches from that point forward, winning 16 of the 21 matches (up to the 2022-23 season). Beginning with the 2021-22 season, start times were changed with Friday matches beginning at 8:30 pm, Saturdays at 3:30 pm and 6:30 pm, and Sundays at 3:30 pm, 5:30 pm, and 7:30 pm.[8]

History

Beginnings

Additional data: History of German football

Before the development of the Bundesliga, German football was played at a beginner level in an enormous number of sub-local associations until, in 1949, part-time (semi-) impressive skill was presented and just five provincial Oberligen (Chief Associations) remained. Local heroes and other participants played a progression of season finisher matches for the option to contend in a last game for the public title. On 28 January 1900, a public affiliation, the Deutscher Fußball Bund (DFB) had been established in Leipzig with 86 part clubs. The main perceived public title group was VfB Leipzig, who beat DFC Prague 7-2 in a game played at Altona on 31 May 1903.

Through the 1950s, there was proceeded with requires the development of a focal expert association, particularly as expert associations in different nations started to draw Germany's best players from the semi-proficient homegrown associations. At the worldwide level, the German game started to vacillate as German groups frequently fared ineffectively against proficient groups from different nations. A critical ally of the focal association idea was public group lead trainer Sepp Herberger who said, "If we need to stay serious universally, we need to raise our assumptions at the public level."[This quote needs a citation]

In the meantime, in East Germany, a different association was laid out with the development of the DS-Oberliga (Deutscher Sportausschuss Oberliga) in 1950. The association was renamed the Football Oberliga DFV in 1958 and was for the most part referred to just as the DDR-Liga or DDR-Oberliga. The association handled 14 groups with two transfer spots.

Establishment

Principal article: Presentation of the Bundesliga

The Bundesliga was established at the yearly DFB show at the Westfalenhallen in Dortmund on 28 July 1962

The loss of the public group by Yugoslavia (0-1) in a 1962 World Cup quarter-last game in Chile was one catalyst (of many) towards the development of a public association. At the yearly DFB show under new DFB president Hermann Gösmann