by Adrian Sertl
Bundesliga Rewind – 1979-80 UEFA Cup Final Borussia Mönchengladbach vs. Eintracht Frankfurt This Saturday, the eyes of the footballing world will all be sharply focused on Wembley Stadium in London ...
Featured
VfL Osnabrück vs Dynamo Dresden – 2. Bundesliga Relegation Playoff Preview
by Jonathan Lines
Dynamo Dresden visit VfL Osnabrück on Friday evening for the first leg ...
Bundesliga Fanatic Podcast Episode 95: Champions League final preview with Uli Hesse
by Niklas Wildhagen
Uli Hesse, the author of Tor! The story of German football, gives ...
Champions League Final Predictions
by Gerry Wittmann
This is Germany’s year to tower over the footballing world. Not only ...
Latest
Hoffenheim 3-1 Kaiserslautern: Firmino double gives Hoffenheim the advantage
by Aleix Gwilliam
A Roberto Firmino double set Hoffenheim on their way to retain their Bundesliga status, as they beat 1.FC Kaiserslautern 3-1 in the first leg of the Bundesliga Relegation Playoff. Mohammadou Idrissou pulled a goal back for the visitors but super-sub Sven Schipplock made sure of the victory minutes later. The result puts Hoffenheim in the [...]
Women’s CL Final: VfL Wolfsburg Defeat Olympique Lyonnais to do the Treble !!!
by Gerry Wittmann
The women of VfL Wolfsburg achieved something almost unthinkable Thursday in London, defeating one of the truly great sides in current club football, Olympique Lyonnais, 1-0 on Martina Müller’s penalty kick in the 73rd minute. The exciting upset victory tops a tremendous 2012/2013 season for the Volkswagen city club as they are now Bundesliga, DFB [...]
Mario Götze to miss Champions League final and how Dortmund can compensate
by Cristian Nyari
Borussia Dortmund confirmed on Wednesday that influential playmaker and attacker Mario Götze will miss Saturday’s Champions League final against Bayern Munich. After training with the team earlier this week, the muscle injury he picked up in the semifinal second leg against Real Madrid forced him to sit out and the team doctors confirmed the worst [...]
The Bundesliga’s True “White Brazilian” – Part I
by Alex Handcock
“I’m not in right now… If you want to reach me you can find me down my local pub from five in the evening to five in the morning – Beeeeeeeeeeep.” It’s not an answer phone message you would want your mum to hear. And it’s certainly not a message you would expect from a [...]
The Last Ten Minutes: A look back at Bayern’s most heart-breaking European Cup finals
by Aleix Gwilliam
Behind Real Madrid (12) and AC Milan (11), Bayern München is the team that has played in the third most European Cup/Champions League finals with 9, 4 victories and 5 defeats. Out of these five defeats, perhaps it was the 2010 one against Inter Milan that was the most ‘painless’ one, as Inter ran out [...]
Bayern München in European Cup Finals – Gallery
by Cristian Nyari
On Saturday, May 25th, Bayern München have a chance to finally add the much coveted and desired European trophy. The much anticipated all German final is a truly historic occasion for the club and one that can dispel the ghosts of last year’s tragic loss. Bayern failed to win the trophy in 2010 and 2012 so [...]
Bundesliga Fanatic Podcast Episode 94: Match Day 34 Reviewed
by Niklas Wildhagen
Aleix Gwilliam and Niklas Wildhagen take a look at the ins and outs of match day 34. Segment 1: What on earth was going on in Dortmund? Should Schmelzer’s goal been given? What are the reasons for Fortuna’s dreadful form in the Rückrunde? And equally, who deserves the credit for Augsburg’s massive turnaround? Segment 2: [...]
“Only God Can Judge Me” – The Tumultuous Tale of Schalke’s Jermaine Jones
by Adrian Sertl
As his Schalke side prepare to meet Freiburg on the final matchday of the season, where a single point should be enough to secure fourth place in the table and the valuable Champions League qualification spot, Jermaine Jones stands at a crossroads in his career. In a recent article in Bild Jones hinted at a [...]
Team of the Week – Match Day 34
by Cristian Nyari
The 2012/13 finale proved to be one of the most dramatic in recent memory. Schalke beat Freiburg to secure the final Champions League spot while Hoffenheim, Augsburg and Fortuna Düsseldorf played out one of the most intense relegation battles in league history. Hoffenheim’s “miracle in Dortmund” will go down as one of the most nerve-wracking [...]
The collapse of Fortuna Düsseldorf: What went wrong?
by Chase Ruttig
Fortuna Düsseldorf began the season as one of the darlings of the Bundesliga. They started their 2012/13 Bundesliga campaign with five straight clean sheets on their way to two wins and three draws. To begin the season, Norbert Maier’s Fortuna came out blazing after being promoted to the top flight, beating Hertha Berlin in the [...]
Bundesliga News & Highlights
Podcast
RSS Feed
Now Available on Amazon Kindle
Bundesliga Classic
Matthias Sammer vs. Pep Guardiola - Germany vs. Spain at the 1994 World Cup. Nearly 20 years later, the two will now work alongside each other at Bayern Munich in managerial roles.
Two giants of the game, Germany’s Franz Beckenbauer and England’s Bobby Moore enjoying a game of chess.
Berti Vogts and Günter Netzer and former Borussia Mönchengladbach teammates in a Germany national team training camp in 1975.
Borussia Dortmund coach Horst Köppel and the team’s new transfers ahead of the 1990/91 season including a young Stefan Klos (a youth product) and Gerhard Poschner (transferred from VfB Stuttgart).
A 21-year old Dimitar Berbatov celebrating a goal for Bayer Leverkusen.
