The Bundesliga 2024/25 season began on August 23 and will end on May 17
The campaign will feature 34 rounds of fixtures spread over a nine-month period
Bayer Leverkusen won the Bundesliga title in the 2023/24 season
The Bundesliga 2024/25 season got under way on August 23 with Bayer Leverkusen hoping to win the title for a second year in a row.
Xabi Alonso’s side stunned the German top flight last term, going unbeaten across 34 games to claim the prize in style.
Will Bayern Munich get back on top this time? Let’s explore the Bundesliga 2024/25 title race in more depth.
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Bayern Munich were the only team in the Bundesliga with maximum points after four rounds of fixtures, but they could only manage a 1-1 draw with Bayer Leverkusen in that crunch clash on Saturday.
Vincent Kompany was by no means Bayern’s first choice for the managerial job at the Allianz Arena, but he has got the team playing some fantastic soccer so far. The Bavarians are scoring goals for fun and they will hope that their firepower at the top of the pitch can help them win the title.
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Bayer Leverkusen made history last season, becoming the first team in Bundesliga history to go an entire campaign unbeaten. Xabi Alonso’s side are now aiming to retain the title after keeping their squad intact over the summer.
Leverkusen showed that they can keep pace with Bayern Munich in that 1-1 draw at the weekend. However, the Bundesliga champions must show they can balance the Bundesliga with the Champions League as that competition continues this week.
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Borussia Dortmund are still finding their feet under Nuri Sahin, who was the club’s assistant manager last season. Following Edin Terzic’s departure shortly after the Champions League final, Sahin was promoted at Signal Iduna Park - and the jury remains out on the former midfielder.
BVB have been pretty entertaining at least. They lost 5-1 to Stuttgart the weekend before last, before beating Bochum 4-2 in their most recent outing. Realistically, though, Dortmund should target a top-four finish rather than the Bundesliga title.
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RB Leipzig finished fourth last season and they are now fully established as one of the Bundesliga’s top teams. They are yet to win the title, though, and have not finished in the top two since 2020/21. Leipzig are once again outsiders in 2024/25.
Marco Rose’s men can give anyone a game on their day, but inconsistency could be a problem. For instance, Leipzig beat Bayer Leverkusen 3-2 earlier this month, but they have a tendency to drop points when you do not expect it - such as in goalless draws with Union Berlin and St Pauli.
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Stuttgart finished second last season in what was an astonishing achievement for a club that almost got relegated the previous year. They kick-started their Champions League campaign against Real Madrid last week and will enjoy every minute of their European adventure over the coming months.
In the Bundesliga, Stuttgart are fifth-favorites for the title. It will be tough for them to finish in the top two this time around, but a 5-1 thrashing of Borussia Dortmund earlier this month did make people sit up and take notice.
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Bayer Leverkusen won the Bundesliga title in the 2022/23 season. They went unbeaten across all 34 matches to finish on top of the table for the first time in the club’s history. Stuttgart finished second and Bayern Munich finished third.
Club | Number of Titles |
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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.
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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Bayer Leverkusen | 2023/24 |
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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