1. FC Köln

Here’s this week’s Bun­desliga XI. It is packed with Bayer 04, Hof­fen­heim and Werder play­ers. It does include a spe­cial shoutout to the man who ended Energie’s goal drought, an under appre­ci­ated defender from Arminia and a goal­keeper who lost. 1. Schalke 04 Now 10 of their last 13 have been scored by defend­ers. This time […]

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1. Ham­burg SV HSV have just opened up a cemetary next to the Nord­bank Arena. With Mar­tin Jol lead­ing the way, Ham­burg top the table for the first time in nine years. Mean­while, the big man’s old club are in last place in the EPL. Sup­port­ers of Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur are putting in inquiries to a plot […]

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Wel­come back to Bun­desliga Sta­tis­tics for week two. Stand­ing alone at the head of the table? Newly pro­moted TSG 1899 Hof­fen­heim with two wins from their first two games. Astound­ing stuff, but we’re here to talk num­bers not new­com­ers. Last week five cat­e­gories were fea­tured, this week it’s been expanded to eight. Fur­ther­more the categories […]

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If you’re any­thing like me, you love rev­el­ing in sta­tis­tics. While in iso­la­tion, espe­cially at the begin­ning of the Bun­desliga sea­son, they don’t reveal much. But as time goes on it should be pos­si­ble to dis­cern pat­terns between some of these sta­tis­tics and how the table shakes out. Here are some of the basic stats, […]

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1st Schalke What You Know: If baseball’s Chicago Cubs had a baby with the Red Sox prior to 2004, Schalke would be the off­spring. What You Don’t: All things both good and bad must end. What to Expect: Yes, Campe­ones! I say that, buck­ing all trends, and know­ing full well that Schalke could be lead­ing the […]

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The fix­tures for the open­ing day of the 2008/2009 Bun­desliga sea­son have been announced. All of these matches will be played on Sat­ur­day, August 16: FC Bay­ern v Ham­burg Schalke v Han­nover Wolfs­burg v Cologne Bayer Lev­erkusen v Borus­sia Dort­mund Ein­tra­cht Frank­furt v Hertha Berlin Karl­sruhe v Bochum Energie Cot­tbus v Hof­fen­heim Arminia Biele­feld v […]

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Season Finale

by Mark on May 18, 2008 · 0 comments

The 45th sea­son of the Bun­desliga has come to an end with com­par­a­tively lit­tle drama or the­atrics. Bay­ern all but guar­an­teed itself the title with a busy sum­mer in the trans­fer mar­ket, spend­ing 70 mil­lion Euros on Luca Toni (the league’s top scorer), Franck Ribery (world class play­maker) and the rest. While this invest­ment was […]

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