Bundesliga

Germany · Season 2026–2027 · matchday 1

Germany's 18-club league: the best attendances in world football and a relegation play-off that keeps 16th alive.

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BayernvStuttgart
RB LeipzigvM'gladbach
MainzvSC Paderborn
Union BerlinvFrankfurt
ElversbergvLeverkusen
1. FC KölnvHoffenheim
DortmundvHSV
FreiburgvBremen

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The clubs

All 18 clubs in the Bundesliga this season, ordered by where they stand today. Form shows the last five matches each has played.

1. FC Köln
10 pts
Union Berlin
10 pts
Mainz
10 pts
Hoffenheim
10 pts
Leverkusen
10 pts
Bayern
10 pts
M'gladbach
10 pts
Dortmund
10 pts
Frankfurt
10 pts
Augsburg
10 pts
Schalke
10 pts
HSV
10 pts
RB Leipzig
10 pts
Freiburg
10 pts
SC Paderborn
10 pts
Elversberg
10 pts
Stuttgart
10 pts
Bremen
10 pts

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The 2026-27 season

Bayern Munich arrive as champions again. The 2025-26 title was their 34th Bundesliga championship and 35th German title overall, a record that has no parallel among the major European leagues. Any season here starts with the question of who might interrupt them.

The promotions produced one of the better stories of the German summer. Schalke came up as second-division champions and return a club whose average attendance would place them near the top of most leagues in Europe. Paderborn won the promotion play-off against Wolfsburg and are back after six years. Elversberg finished second in the 2. Bundesliga and reach the top flight for the first time in their history, a village club from Saarland with a stadium that holds a fraction of what Schalke fill every fortnight.

How the season works

Eighteen clubs and 34 rounds, the shortest season among the major leagues. Fewer matches means a bad run costs more: four defeats here weigh what five would in a 38-game season.

The top four go to the Champions League, fifth to the Europa League and sixth to the Conference League. At the other end, the bottom two are relegated outright and sixteenth plays a two-legged play-off against the third-placed club from the 2. Bundesliga. That play-off is why the relegation fight here stays alive later into the season than it does elsewhere.

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