Opening Day Fixtures for 2008/2009 Bundesliga Season

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 Werder Bre­men
B. Mönchenglad­bach v Stuttgart

One of the most inter­est­ing matches will be between cur­rent Bun­desliga cham­pi­ons Bay­ern Munich and Ham­burg. Both teams will fea­ture new man­agers. Jür­gen Klins­mann for Bay­ern, and Mar­tin Jol for Hamburg.

Tagged as: 1. FC Köln, Bielefeld, Borussia Dortmund, Bremen, Cottbus, FC Bayern München, FC Schalke 04, Frankfurt, Gladbach, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha, Jürgen Klinsmann, Karlsruher SC, Leverkusen, Martin Jol, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg