The Bundesliga is the first division of German football and is one of the most popular and well run football leagues in the world today. The League is also famous for being the football league with the highest average stadium attendance, and so also has one of the highest Football Ticket sales worldwide.
Many of the professional Bundesliga clubs like Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund have many fans all over the world and there’s always a great demand for Bundesliga tickets.
Tthe Bundesliga Football fixtures for the 2014/15 season were just announced a short while ago.
As always, we have dived in to review the Best Bundesliga Football Tickets for those of you travelling to Germany and Europe and hoping to see your favourite team play.
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The Bundesliga is the top-tier of club football in Germany and was founded in 1963. 18 sides compete in the league each season with the top 4 sides qualifying for the UEFA Champions League The league’s most successful club is Bayern Munich who have won the title 22 times.
The Bundesliga boasts the highest average football attendances in the world, and the second highest for any sport. The most recent average attendance was 42,421.
Bayern Munich are regarded by many to be the best side in world football, having recently won the European treble. Bayern’s star players include Arjen Robben, Toni Kroos and recent Ballon d’Or finalist Franck Ribery.
In 2012 Bayern Munich broke the German transfer record when they bought Athletic Bilbao defensive midfielder Javi Martinez for a fee of €40 million.
Borussia Dortmund are currently Bayern Munich’s biggest challengers and won back-to-back titles in the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons. Dortmund’s key men include Marco Reus, Ilkay Gündogan and striker Robert Lewandowski.
Their success has been largely attributed to the quality of their coach Jürgen Klopp who is considered to be one of the top managers in the world. Together, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund have won 16 of the last 20 Bundesliga titles.
German Bundesliga | ||
Augsburg | Bayer Leverkusen | Bayern Munich |
Borussia Dortmund | Borussia Monchengladbach | Eintracht Frankfurt |
FC Cologne | Hannover 96 | Hertha BSC Berlin |
Mainz | Paderborn 07 | SC Freiburg |
Schalke 04 | SV Hamburg | TSG Hoffenheim |
VfB Stuttgart | VfL Wolfsburg | Werder Bremen |
Scheduling for the Bundesliga Season
Before the start of the season, FIFA fill in the first spaces in the calendar with the international fixtures. UEFA then add the schedule for competitions such as the Champions League and Europa League.
Only then can the DFL and DFB (for the German FA Cup) fill in the national benchmark data. Television contracts provide a further framework for the respective matchday structures (e.g. the 2. Bundesliga usually has three matches on Friday, five on Sunday and one on Monday). June 15th is incidentally the cut-off date for ruling on whether all clubs in the top two leagues have met the criteria required for the issuing of a professional license for the following season.
The fixtures are then passed on to the Zentrale Informationsstelle für Sicherheit (ZIS), which checks for any possible security issues arising from factors such as “double-headers” – where two clubs in close proximity to each other (e.g. Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04) are both scheduled to play a home match at the same time.