The Bundesliga 2024/25 season began on August 23 and will end on May 17
The campaign will feature 34 rounds of fixtures spread over a nine-month period
Bayer Leverkusen won the Bundesliga title in the 2023/24 season
The Bundesliga 2024/25 season got under way on August 23 with Bayer Leverkusen hoping to win the title for a second year in a row.
Xabi Alonso’s side stunned the German top flight last term, going unbeaten across 34 games to claim the prize in style.
Will Bayern Munich get back on top this time? Let’s explore the Bundesliga 2024/25 title race in more depth.
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Bayern Munich did not win the Bundesliga title last season, which was major news not just in Germany but right around the continent. The appointment of Vincent Kompany in the summer raised eyebrows, but Bayern are once again the favorites to finish atop the table this term.
Kompany is off to a bright start at the Allianz Arena. Bayern opened up a five-point lead at the summit of the standings earlier this month and they have now won four matches in a row in the Bundesliga.
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Bayer Leverkusen are the reigning champions after their stunning title triumph last time out. Xabi Alonso’s side won the league in style, becoming the first team in Bundesliga history to go an entire campaign unbeaten. Leverkusen are now looking to become back-to-back champions.
However, they have already lost in 2024/25, going down 3-2 to RB Leipzig, and Alonso’s team have dropped several more points since then. Indeed, five of their last six Bundesliga matches have been draws.
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RB Leipzig were level on points with Bayern Munich at the top of the table after seven games, but they fell five behind the league leaders before the November international break. However, they remain second in the standings.
Leipzig have been defensively solid up to now, conceding only five goals in 10 encounters - the lowest such figure in the division. However, Champions League qualification is probably the objective shared by those inside the club.
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Borussia Dortmund reached the Champions League final last season, but they only finished fifth in the Bundesliga. That fact illustrates how inconsistent they were and new manager Nuri Sahin has not yet been able to instigate an improvement in that area.
This is Sahin’s first managerial job and there have already been a few teething problems for the former midfielder. In all likelihood, a top-four finish is the height of Dortmund’s realistic ambitions in 2024/25. A title challenge looks almost impossible.
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Eintracht Frankfurt have enjoyed a fine start to the Bundesliga season. After finishing sixth last term, Frankfurt are up to third place at the time of writing, having won six of their first 10 league matches.
Frankfurt held Bayern Munich to a draw last month, but keeping pace with Vincent Kompany’s side over 34 games will be near-impossible. Nevertheless, that does not mean Frankfurt cannot have a successful season.
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Bayer Leverkusen won the Bundesliga title in the 2022/23 season. They went unbeaten across all 34 matches to finish on top of the table for the first time in the club’s history. Stuttgart finished second and Bayern Munich finished third.
Club | Number of Titles |
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Bayern Munich | 33 |
Nurnberg | 9 |
Borussia Dortmund | 8 |
Schalke | 7 |
Hamburg | 6 |
Stuttgart | 5 |
Borussia Monchengladbach | 5 |
Werder Bremen | 4 |
Kaiserslautern | 4 |
The Bundesliga was only formed in 1963, which was significantly later than the equivalent national competitions in England (1888), Spain (1929), Italy (1929) and France (1932).
West Germany was slow to professionalize the game and had already won one World Cup before this happened with the launch of the Bundesliga.
The above table includes title wins in the pre-Bundesliga era. Only one of Nurnberg’s victories occurred after 1963, yet they remain the second-most successful club in German soccer history.
Bayern Munich are the only team to have reached double figures, and the fact they are 24 titles clear of second place shows that their dominance of the German game is historic as well as recent.
Thirty different clubs have won the German championship, including in the pre-Bundesliga era. Since the league was launched in its current guise in 1963, there have been 13 title winners.
By way of comparison, 12 different teams have won the English top flight since 1963 – which suggests the competitiveness of the two leagues has been similar over the last 60 years. Over in Spain, only seven clubs have won the La Liga title in the same period.
Club | Season |
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Bayer Leverkusen | 2023/24 |
Bayer Leverkusen | 2023/24 |
Bayern Munich | 2022/23 |
Bayern Munich | 2021/22 |
Bayern Munich | 2020/21 |
Bayern Munich | 2019/20 |
Bayern Munich | 2018/19 |
Bayern Munich | 2017/18 |
Bayern Munich | 2016/17 |
Bayern Munich | 2015/16 |
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