Category: Bundesliga

With Joshua Zirkzee breaking through at Bayern this season and the new champions giving game time to youngsters Chris Richards and Jamal Musiala in the final games of the season, spare a thought for Jann-Fiete Arp. Remember him? Touted as a wonderkid striker in the making after banging in goals for fun at youth level…

The new four-year deal for the Bundesliga TV rights has been announced in Germany with Sky and DAZN splitting the package between them. The German Football League (DFL) will have €4.4 billion to distribute amongst the top two divisions meaning an annual pay-out of around €1.1 billion per season. This is down from the previous…

This year’s 3. Liga, the third tier of German football, has garnered lots of attention, for the right reasons. At the time of writing, just 6 points separate leaders MSV Duisburg from 11th placed Hansa Rostock, meaning the promotion race is wide open to more than half of the league. Like in the 2. Bundesliga,…

Lucas Hernandez’ €80 million move to Bayern Munich last summer made him the Bundesliga’s most expensive player, while Ousmane Dembélé’s €125 million transfer to Barcelona makes him the most expensive export. Where did this madness begin? On his 70th birthday, we bring you Roger van Gool. The Belgian right winger became the first DM1 million player…

Imagine it: Bayern Munich host Barcelona at the Allianz Arena. 75,000 fans have gathered to sing and cheer on their teams, but the noise of the crowd far exceeds the number of tickets sold, because it also includes the sound of millions watching across the globe — in living rooms and local pubs, at impromptu…

March  . . . a time for lovely weather, flowers blooming, spring breakers, and . . . worldwide COVID lock-down? The current crisis left a gaping hole for sports fans everywhere. Almost every sports league in the world shut down, nearly simultaneously. With everyone ¨social-distancing,¨ widespread stay-at-home orders, and many businesses here in the U.S.…

There are plenty of fierce rivalries in the Bundesliga and sometimes matches can be feisty occasions. However, nothing comes close to the most-dirty league match ever witnessed when Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich went head-to-head in 2001. History books teach that the Peace of Westphalia was signed in 1648 to end the 30 Years War,…

Kaiserslautern 7-4 Bayern Munich- Fritz Walter Stadion, 20 October 1973 The fact that 1.FC Kaiserslautern are a giant of German football means they have a multitude of memorable moments to hark back to, but neither the championships won with the legendary Fritz Walter or the Bundesliga triumph as a newly promoted side in 1998 stir…