2022–23 Bundesliga

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The 2022–23 Bundesliga was the 60th season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football competition. It began on 5 August 2022 and concluded on 27 May 2023.[1]

Season2022–23
Dates5 August 2022 – 27 May 2023
ChampionsBayern Munich
32nd Bundesliga title
33rd German title
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Bundesliga
Season2022–23
Dates5 August 2022 – 27 May 2023
ChampionsBayern Munich
32nd Bundesliga title
33rd German title
RelegatedSchalke 04
Hertha BSC
Champions LeagueBayern Munich
Borussia Dortmund
RB Leipzig
Union Berlin
Europa LeagueSC Freiburg
Bayer Leverkusen
Europa Conference LeagueEintracht Frankfurt
Matches306
Goals971 (3.17 per match)
Top goalscorerNiclas Füllkrug
Christopher Nkunku
(16 goals each)
Biggest home winWolfsburg 6–0 Freiburg
Köln 7–1 Bremen
Dortmund 6–0 Wolfsburg
Munich 6–0 Schalke
Biggest away winBochum 0–7 Munich
Highest scoringMunich 6–2 Mainz
Köln 7–1 Bremen
Munich 5–3 Augsburg
Longest winning run8 games
Dortmund
Longest unbeaten run13 games
Bayern Munich
Longest winless run13 games
Hoffenheim
Longest losing run7 games
Schalke
Highest attendance81,365
Fifteen games
Lowest attendance17,005
Hoffenheim v Bochum
Attendance12,976,427 (42,407 per match)
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Bayern Munich were the ten-time consecutive defending champions and retained their title.[2]

Going into the final match-day on 27 May, Borussia Dortmund needed a home win over Mainz 05 to clinch the title, irrespective of Bayern's result. However, they drew 2–2, and Jamal Musiala's late winner against 1. FC Köln sealed the eleventh consecutive Bundesliga for Bayern.[3] This was the first time since the 1999–2000 season, when Bayern pipped Bayer Leverkusen on goal difference, that the title was decided by a tiebreaker and a team won the title after starting the day second.[4]

Schalke 04 and Hertha BSC were relegated to the 2. Bundesliga.[5]

Bayern Munich celebrated a double championship when both the women's team and the men's team won the top national football leagues within two days.[6]

Summary

The 2022–23 Bundesliga was contested by 18 teams, including promoted sides FC Schalke 04 and SV Werder Bremen. Both promoted teams had recently ended long spells in the Bundesliga by being relegated together at the end of the 2020–21 season.[7]

The fixtures were announced on 17 June 2022.[8] As the 2022 FIFA World Cup was held between 20 November and 18 December 2022 in Qatar, the 2022–23 season featured an extended winter break. As national team players had to be released by their clubs on 14 November 2022, the last Bundesliga matchday before the break was played from 11–13 November (matchday 15). The league resumed ten weeks later on 20 January 2023.[1]

First half

After winning their first match 6–1 at Eintracht Frankfurt, the reigning champions FC Bayern Munich were at the top of the table. They were replaced by SC Freiburg after matchday 5, before 1. FC Union Berlin took over the top of the table for the first time in its Bundesliga history on the sixth matchday.[9] Union Berlin remained at the top of the table for seven weeks until a 5–0 loss to Bayer 04 Leverkusen, which allowed Bayern Munich to regain the lead.[10] Bayern were the only team to lose only once in the first half of the season (0–1 against FC Augsburg) and had a ten-match unbeaten run. With a gap of three points to Union Berlin, Bayern became Herbstmeister and won four more of their games, including a seven-goal defeat of VfL Bochum. Bayern scored the most goals (51) and also conceded the fewest goals (15) in the first 17 matchdays. UEFA Champions League and Europa League participants Frankfurt and RB Leipzig as well as Freiburg and Borussia Dortmund, who had dropped to 8th place in the meantime, were within striking distance.

In addition to Munich's 6–2 win against Mainz, another game in the first half ended with eight goals, namely Cologne's 7–1 win against newly promoted Bremen. After Robert Lewandowski, who was the top goal scorer in the last five seasons in a row, left the Bundesliga, French striker Christopher Nkunku was the top scorer in the first 17 games with 12 goals for Leipzig; Germany's top scorer was Niclas Füllkrug, who only scored one fewer goal.

Bochum finished last in the table between matchdays 3 and 10 after winning just one point in the first eight games. They were followed by FC Schalke 04, who only managed to collect nine points in the first half of the season and thus performed just as they did in the 2020–21 season. In addition, the team only scored 14 goals and therefore not even one per game on average. In contrast, they conceded 41 goals in the first half of the season.

Second half

At the beginning of the year, Borussia Dortmund managed a series of eight wins in eight games. On matchday 21, BVB equalized the gap to leaders Bayern Munich. Because Union Berlin also had 43 points at that point, three clubs were tied at the top of the table, which has never happened so late in a season since the three-point rule was introduced. While the team from Berlin lost touch a little after a 0–3 defeat in Munich, Dortmund was able to win on matchday 25 with a 6–1 win over Cologne and the simultaneous Bayern defeat (1–2 in Leverkusen) allowed them to take the lead in the table for the first time. A few days later, Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann was put on leave and Thomas Tuchel was introduced as his successor. Then BVB lost the direct duel with Bayern 2–4, after which they fell back to 2nd place. Dortmund went undefeated as a result, while Bayern lost 1–3 to Mainz 05 on matchday 29 and RB Leipzig on matchday 33. Both teams have each won one of their games 6–0 (BVB again Wolfsburg, Bayern against Schalke 04) and were two points apart going into the final matchday, with second-placed Bayern Munich having a 14-plus goal difference.

After six clubs fired their coaches in the first half of the season, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim followed suit after matchday 19 as the first club in the second half of the season. They parted ways with their coach André Breitenreiter at the beginning of February 2023 after they had not won nine times in a row from the 11th matchday and had thus slipped from fourth to 13th place, only three points ahead of the relegation play-off and five points ahead of the first relegation rank. After six games in a row without a defeat (ten points, one goal conceded), FC Schalke 04 left the last place in the table on the 23rd matchday. At that point, four teams at the bottom of the table (Stuttgart, Hoffenheim, Schalke and Bochum) each had 19 points and Hertha BSC were also almost level with 20 points. There has never been such a close standings in the history of the Bundesliga so late in the season. After Schalke and Bochum, Hoffenheim and Stuttgart finished bottom of the table one after the other, so that there were four different bottom teams on four consecutive match days. During the second half of the season, up to and including the 31st matchday, those teams at bottom of the table scored more points than the teams on top of the table (25:24). During matchday 25 to 30, the league leaders won only once (FC Bayern 1–0 at SC Freiburg). With a 1–1 draw against Hertha BSC, VfL Bochum, who were also threatened with relegation, sealed the relegation of the Berliners from the Bundesliga on matchday 33, after they were last promoted in 2013. Apart from Bochum with 32 points, Stuttgart, FC Schalke (31 points) and FC Augsburg (34 points), who have the same number of points, are fighting against relegation on the last day of the game. Ultimately, FC Schalke went straight down as 17th in the table after a 4–2 defeat at RB Leipzig. Stuttgart could not get more than 1–1 against Hoffenheim and ended up taking the relegation playoff place because Bochum won their home game against Leverkusen with 3–0. Augsburg lost 2–0 in Mönchengladbach but still finished 15th due to the draw in Stuttgart.

In the championship fight, the most exciting duel since the 2000–01 season was looming. With a win in the home game against Mainz, BVB could have become champion on their own. A draw would not have been enough for the championship if Bayern had won due to the worse goal difference.

On the last day of the season, FC Bayern took a 1–0 lead early on in Cologne. A short time later, Mainz made it 1–0 in Dortmund. In the provisional table, FC Bayern had passed BVB. A penalty kick just two minutes later to make it possible to make it 1–1 was missed. Mainz made it 2–0 10 minutes later. Although BVB ran up, whipped up by the 80,000 of their own fans, nothing happened until the middle of the second half. In the 69th minute, Dortmund scored a goal to make it 1–2. In the 81st minute, the Cologne team was awarded a penalty, which they converted to make it 1–1. At this point, BVB was again the leader of the table despite being behind against Mainz. However, Bayern made it 2–1 in the 89th minute and passed BVB again. Although Dortmund still equalized in injury time, the winning goal, which in turn would have meant Dortmund's title win, did not materialize.

Teams

A total of 18 teams participated in the 2022–23 edition of the Bundesliga.

Team changes

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Stadiums and locations

Personnel and kits

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Team Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
Front Sleeve
FC Augsburg Germany Enrico Maaßen Netherlands Jeffrey Gouweleeuw Nike WWK Versicherung Siegmund
Hertha BSC Hungary Pál Dárdai Germany Marvin Plattenhardt Autohero[30] CG Elementum
Union Berlin Switzerland Urs Fischer Austria Christopher Trimmel Adidas wefox[31] Comedy Central/Aroundtown (in cup and UEFA matches)
VfL Bochum Germany Thomas Letsch France Anthony Losilla Mizuno[32] Vonovia Viactiv Betriebskrankenkasse/AIC Service & Call Center (in cup matches)
Werder Bremen Germany Ole Werner Austria Marco Friedl Umbro Green Legend Ammerländer
Borussia Dortmund Germany Edin Terzić Germany Marco Reus Puma 1&1/Evonik (in cup and UEFA matches) GLS Group[33]
Eintracht Frankfurt Austria Oliver Glasner Germany Sebastian Rode Nike Indeed.com dpd/JOKA (in UEFA matches)
SC Freiburg Germany Christian Streich Germany Christian Günter Cazoo BABISTA
1899 Hoffenheim United States Pellegrino Matarazzo Germany Oliver Baumann Joma SAP hep global[34]
1. FC Köln Germany Steffen Baumgart Germany Jonas Hector Hummel REWE DEVK/Deutsche Telekom (in cup and UEFA matches)
RB Leipzig Germany Marco Rose Hungary Péter Gulácsi Nike Red Bull AOC | Die Stadtentwickler[35]/Veganz (in cup and UEFA matches)
Bayer Leverkusen Spain Xabi Alonso Finland Lukáš Hrádecký Castore[36] Barmenia Versicherungen Trive/Kumho Tyres (in cup matches)
Mainz 05 Denmark Bo Svensson Switzerland Silvan Widmer Kappa Kömmerling fb88.com/LOTTO Rheinland-Pfalz (in cup matches)
Borussia Mönchengladbach Germany Daniel Farke Germany Lars Stindl Puma flatex Sonepar
Bayern Munich Germany Thomas Tuchel Germany Manuel Neuer Adidas Deutsche Telekom Qatar Airways/Audi (in cup and UEFA matches)
Schalke 04 Germany Thomas Reis Germany Simon Terodde MeinAuto.de[37] Harfid
VfB Stuttgart Germany Sebastian Hoeneß Japan Wataru Endo Jako Mercedes-Benz Bank Mercedes-EQ
VfL Wolfsburg Croatia Niko Kovač Germany Maximilian Arnold Nike Volkswagen/ID.3 Linglong Tire
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Managerial changes

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Team Outgoing Manner Exit date Position in table Incoming Incoming date Ref.
Announced on Departed on Announced on Arrived on
Schalke 04 Germany Mike Büskens (interim) End of caretaker spell 7 March 2022 30 June 2022 Pre-season Germany Frank Kramer 7 June 2022 1 July 2022 [38][39]
Hertha BSC Germany Felix Magath (interim) 13 March 2022 Germany Sandro Schwarz 2 June 2022 [40][41]
FC Augsburg Germany Markus Weinzierl End of contract 14 May 2022 Germany Enrico Maaßen 8 June 2022 [42][43]
Borussia Mönchengladbach Austria Adi Hütter Mutual consent Germany Daniel Farke 4 June 2022 [44][45]
VfL Wolfsburg Germany Florian Kohfeldt 15 May 2022 Croatia Niko Kovač 24 May 2022 [46][47]
1899 Hoffenheim Germany Sebastian Hoeneß 17 May 2022 Germany André Breitenreiter [48][49]
Borussia Dortmund Germany Marco Rose 20 May 2022 Germany Edin Terzić 23 May 2022 [50][51]
RB Leipzig Italy Domenico Tedesco Sacked 7 September 2022 11th Germany Marco Rose 8 September 2022 [52][53]
VfL Bochum Germany Thomas Reis 12 September 2022 18th Germany Heiko Butscher (interim) 12 September 2022 [54]
Germany Heiko Butscher (interim) End of caretaker spell 22 September 2022 Germany Thomas Letsch 22 September 2022 [55]
Bayer Leverkusen Switzerland Gerardo Seoane Sacked 5 October 2022 17th Spain Xabi Alonso 5 October 2022 [56]
VfB Stuttgart United States Pellegrino Matarazzo 10 October 2022 Germany Michael Wimmer (interim) 11 October 2022 [57]
Schalke 04 Germany Frank Kramer 19 October 2022 Germany Matthias Kreutzer (interim) 20 October 2022 [58]
Germany Matthias Kreutzer (interim) End of caretaker spell 27 October 2022 18th Germany Thomas Reis 27 October 2022 [59]
VfB Stuttgart Germany Michael Wimmer (interim) 5 December 2022 16th Germany Bruno Labbadia 5 December 2022 [60]
1899 Hoffenheim Germany André Breitenreiter Sacked 6 February 2023 14th United States Pellegrino Matarazzo 8 February 2023 [61][62]
Bayern Munich Germany Julian Nagelsmann 24 March 2023 2nd Germany Thomas Tuchel 24 March 2023 [63]
VfB Stuttgart Germany Bruno Labbadia 3 April 2023 18th Germany Sebastian Hoeneß 3 April 2023 [64]
Hertha BSC Germany Sandro Schwarz 16 April 2023 Hungary Pál Dárdai 16 April 2023 [65]
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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Bayern Munich (C) 34 21 8 5 92 38 +54 71 Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2 Borussia Dortmund 34 22 5 7 83 44 +39 71
3 RB Leipzig 34 20 6 8 64 41 +23 66
4 Union Berlin 34 18 8 8 51 38 +13 62
5 SC Freiburg 34 17 8 9 51 44 +7 59 Qualification for the Europa League group stage[a]
6 Bayer Leverkusen 34 14 8 12 57 49 +8 50
7 Eintracht Frankfurt 34 13 11 10 58 52 +6 50 Qualification for the Europa Conference League play-off round[a]
8 VfL Wolfsburg 34 13 10 11 57 48 +9 49
9 Mainz 05 34 12 10 12 54 55 1 46
10 Borussia Mönchengladbach 34 11 10 13 52 55 3 43
11 1. FC Köln 34 10 12 12 49 54 5 42
12 1899 Hoffenheim 34 10 6 18 48 57 9 36
13 Werder Bremen 34 10 6 18 51 64 13 36
14 VfL Bochum 34 10 5 19 40 72 32 35
15 FC Augsburg 34 9 7 18 42 63 21 34
16 VfB Stuttgart (O) 34 7 12 15 45 57 12 33 Qualification for the relegation play-offs
17 Schalke 04 (R) 34 7 10 17 35 71 36 31 Relegation to 2. Bundesliga
18 Hertha BSC (R) 34 7 8 19 42 69 27 29
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Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored; 6) Away goals scored; 7) Play-off.[66]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. Since the 2022–23 DFB-Pokal winners, RB Leipzig, qualified for the Champions League based on league position, the Europa League group stage spot was passed to the sixth-placed team, and the Europa Conference League play-off round spot was passed to the seventh-placed team.

Results

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Home \ Away AUG BSC UNB BOC BRE DOR FRA FRE HOF KÖL LEI LEV MAI MÖN MUN SCH STU WOL
FC Augsburg 0–2 1–0 0–1 2–1 0–3 1–2 0–4 1–0 1–3 3–3 1–0 1–2 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–1 1–1
Hertha BSC 2–0 0–2 1–1 2–4 0–1 1–1 2–2 1–1 2–0 0–1 2–2 1–1 4–1 2–3 2–1 2–1 0–5
Union Berlin 2–2 3–1 1–1 1–0 2–0 2–0 4–2 3–1 0–0 2–1 0–0 2–1 2–1 1–1 0–0 3–0 2–0
VfL Bochum 3–2 3–1 2–1 0–2 1–1 3–0 0–2 5–2 1–1 1–0 3–0 1–2 2–1 0–7 0–2 2–3 1–5
Werder Bremen 0–1 1–0 1–2 3–0 0–2 3–4 1–2 1–2 1–1 1–2 2–3 0–2 5–1 1–2 2–1 2–2 2–1
Borussia Dortmund 4–3 4–1 2–1 3–0 2–3 4–0 5–1 1–0 6–1 2–1 1–0 2–2 5–2 2–2 1–0 5–0 6–0
Eintracht Frankfurt 1–1 3–0 2–0 1–1 2–0 1–2 2–1 4–2 1–1 4–0 5–1 3–0 1–1 1–6 3–0 1–1 0–1
SC Freiburg 3–1 1–1 4–1 1–0 2–0 1–3 1–1 2–1 2–0 0–1 1–1 2–1 0–0 0–1 4–0 2–1 2–0
1899 Hoffenheim 1–0 3–1 4–2 3–2 1–2 0–1 3–1 0–0 1–3 1–3 1–3 4–1 1–4 0–2 2–0 2–2 1–2
1. FC Köln 3–2 5–2 0–1 0–2 7–1 3–2 3–0 0–1 1–1 0–0 1–2 1–1 0–0 1–2 3–1 0–0 0–2
RB Leipzig 3–2 3–2 1–2 4–0 2–1 3–0 2–1 3–1 1–0 2–2 2–0 0–3 3–0 1–1 4–2 2–1 2–0
Bayer Leverkusen 1–2 4–1 5–0 2–0 1–1 0–2 3–1 2–3 0–3 1–2 2–0 2–3 2–2 2–1 4–0 2–0 2–2
Mainz 05 3–1 1–1 0–0 5–2 2–2 1–2 1–1 1–1 1–0 5–0 1–1 0–3 4–0 3–1 2–3 1–4 0–3
Borussia Mönchengladbach 2–0 1–0 0–1 2–0 2–2 4–2 1–3 0–0 3–1 5–2 3–0 2–3 0–1 3–2 0–0 3–1 2–0
Bayern Munich 5–3 2–0 3–0 3–0 6–1 4–2 1–1 5–0 1–1 1–1 1–3 4–0 6–2 1–1 6–0 2–2 2–0
Schalke 04 2–3 5–2 1–6 3–1 2–1 2–2 2–2 0–2 0–3 0–0 1–6 0–3 1–0 2–2 0–2 2–1 0–0
VfB Stuttgart 2–1 2–1 0–1 4–1 0–2 3–3 1–3 0–1 1–1 3–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 2–1 1–2 1–1 0–1
VfL Wolfsburg 2–2 1–2 1–1 4–0 2–2 2–0 2–2 6–0 2–1 2–4 0–3 0–0 3–0 2–2 2–4 0–0 3–2
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Source: DFB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

The relegation play-offs took place on 1 and 5 June 2023.[1] The away goals rule was no longer used.[67]

Overview

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
VfB Stuttgart (B) 6–1 Hamburger SV (2B) 3–0 3–1
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Matches

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More information VfB Stuttgart, 3–0 ...
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Attendance: 47,500
Referee: Tobias Welz
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Attendance: 55,500

VfB Stuttgart won 6–1 on aggregate, and therefore both clubs remained in their respective leagues.

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

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Player Club Against Result Date
Germany Serge Gnabry Bayern Munich Werder Bremen 6–1 (H) 8 November 2022
Italy Vincenzo Grifo SC Freiburg Union Berlin 4–1 (H) 13 November 2022
Austria Karim Onisiwo Mainz 05 VfL Bochum 5–2 (H) 28 January 2023
Germany Marvin Ducksch Werder Bremen Hertha BSC 4–2 (A) 22 April 2023
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Clean sheets

Awards

Monthly awards

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Month Player of the Month Rookie of the Month Goal of the Month Ref.
Player Club Player Club Player Club
August Suriname Sheraldo Becker Union Berlin England Lee Buchanan Werder Bremen Germany Leroy Sané Bayern Munich [70][71][72]
September Germany Niclas Füllkrug Werder Bremen Germany Tom Krauß Schalke 04 Germany Marco Richter Hertha BSC
October France Éric Junior Dina Ebimbe Eintracht Frankfurt Germany Leroy Sané Bayern Munich
November Germany Serge Gnabry Bayern Munich Germany Julian Brandt Borussia Dortmund
January Germany Julian Brandt Borussia Dortmund Germany Karim Adeyemi Borussia Dortmund Germany Joshua Kimmich Bayern Munich
February Germany Tom Krauß Schalke 04 Germany Marco Reus Borussia Dortmund
March Portugal Raphaël Guerreiro Germany Henning Matriciani France Benjamin Pavard Bayern Munich
April Netherlands Donyell Malen Netherlands Matthijs de Ligt Bayern Munich Netherlands Matthijs de Ligt
May N/a N/a Germany Jamal Musiala
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Annual awards

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Award Winner Club Ref.
Player of the Season England Jude Bellingham Borussia Dortmund [73]
Rookie of the Season Germany Karim Adeyemi Borussia Dortmund [74]
Goal of the Season Netherlands Matthijs de Ligt Bayern Munich [75]
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Team of the season

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EA Sports

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Attendances

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RankTeamHome gamesAverage attendance[78]
1Borussia Dortmund1781,228
2Bayern Munich1775,000
3Schalke 041761,133
4Hertha BSC1753,670
5Borussia Mönchengladbach1752,438
6Eintracht Frankfurt1750,100
71. FC Köln1749,694
8VfB Stuttgart1746,312
9RB Leipzig1745,961
10Werder Bremen1741,620
11SC Freiburg1734,012
12Mainz 051729,070
13Bayer Leverkusen1728,609
14FC Augsburg1727,956
15VfL Wolfsburg1725,394
16VfL Bochum1725,318
17TSG Hoffenheim1724,625
18Union Berlin1721,798
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