The Bundesliga 2025/26 season begins on August 22 and ends on May 16
There will be the traditional winter break midway through the 2025/26 campaign
Bayern Munich were the Bundesliga title winners in the 2024/25 season
The Bundesliga 2025/26 title winner will be decided by the results in the 34-gameweek season which is scheduled to get under way on August 22.
Bayern Munich are the defending champions and it will be tough for anyone to get the better of them this term. Vincent Kompany is now in his second season at the helm and Bayern have set about strengthening their roster in the transfer market.
Bayer Leverkusen are best placed to challenge Bayern according to the best online sportsbooks, although we will have to see if Erik ten Hag is an adequate replacement for Xabi Alonso. Borussia Dortmund could challenge for the prize, but it would take a huge effort for RB Leipzig or Eintracht Frankfurt to close the gap to Bayern.
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Bayern Munich won the Bundesliga title in the 2024/25 season. They led the way from early in the campaign and maintained their advantage thereafter, with Bayer Leverkusen consigned to second place.
Club | Number of Titles |
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Bayern Munich | 34 |
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 25 titles clear of second place shows that their dominance of the German game is historic as well as recent.
Thirty 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 13 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.
Club | Season |
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Bayern Munich | 2024/25 |
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 |
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