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The Bundesliga 2023/24 season began on August 18 and will end on May 18
The campaign will feature 34 rounds of fixtures spread over a nine-month period
Bayer Leverkusen won the Bundesliga title on April 14
The Bundesliga 2023/24 title winner has been decided: Bayer Leverkusen are the new champions.
Bayern Munich were strong favorites to win the prize. They had claimed the title in each of the previous 11 seasons and were widely expected to do so again. Instead, Leverkusen sprung a major surprise.
Check out more information about the Bundesliga title below.
The odds for the Bundesliga 2023/24 title winner are no longer available. Bayer Leverkusen were crowned as German champions after thrashing Werder Bremen 5-0 on April 14.
This has been a spectacular season for Leverkusen. Bayern Munich have performed well below expectations, but Xabi Alonso’s side are worthy title winners. This is the first time in the club's history that Leverkusen have won the title.
Club | Number of Titles |
---|---|
Bayern Munich | 33 |
Nurnberg | 9 |
Borussia Dortmund | 8 |
Schalke | 7 |
Hamburg | 6 |
Stuttgart | 5 |
Borussia Monchengladbach | 5 |
Werder Bremen | 4 |
Kaiserslautern | 4 |
The Bundesliga was only formed in 1963, which was significantly later than the equivalent national competitions in England (1888), Spain (1929), Italy (1929) and France (1932).
West Germany was slow to professionalize the game and had already won one World Cup before this happened with the launch of the Bundesliga.
The above table includes title wins in the pre-Bundesliga era. Only one of Nurnberg’s victories occurred after 1963, yet they remain the second-most successful club in German soccer history.
Bayern Munich are the only team to have reached double figures, and the fact they are 24 titles clear of second place shows that their dominance of the German game is historic as well as recent.
Twenty-nine different clubs have won the German championship, including in the pre-Bundesliga era. Since the league was launched in its current guise in 1963, there have been 12 title winners.
By way of comparison, 12 different teams have won the English top flight since 1963 – which suggests the competitiveness of the two leagues has been similar over the last 60 years. Over in Spain, only seven clubs have won the La Liga title in the same period.
However, the last decade or so has ushered in an era of Bayern Munich dominance – as you can see below. Many argue that this is unhealthy for the Bundesliga, which only occasionally features a genuine title race.
Club | Season |
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Bayer Leverkusen | 2023/24 |
Bayern Munich | 2022/23 |
Bayern Munich | 2021/22 |
Bayern Munich | 2020/21 |
Bayern Munich | 2019/20 |
Bayern Munich | 2018/19 |
Bayern Munich | 2017/18 |
Bayern Munich | 2016/17 |
Bayern Munich | 2015/16 |
Bayern Munich | 2014/15 |
Greg Lea is a freelance soccer journalist from London. He is the former editor of The Set Pieces, and has contributed to the Guardian, FourFourTwo, and ESPN. A Crystal Palace fan, he is a long-time subscriber to the belief that it's the taking part that counts. Email: [email protected]
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