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MEDIA GUIDE2014/2015 Season

Foreword 03

Bundesliga 04

DFL/League Association 06

DFL Sports Enterprises 08

Digital Media 11

Sportcast 12

Clubs 14

FC Augsburg 16Hertha Berlin 18SV Werder Bremen 20Borussia Dortmund 22Eintracht Frankfurt 24Sport-Club Freiburg 26Hamburger SV 28Hannover 96 30TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 321. FC Köln 34Bayer 04 Leverkusen 361. FSV Mainz 05 38Borussia Mönchengladbach 40FC Bayern München 42SC Paderborn 07 44FC Schalke 04 46VfB Stuttgart 48VfL Wolfsburg 50

Fixture Lists 52

Imprint 55

Contents

Foreword

The Bundesliga – Thrilling and successful

At the end of a thrilling FIFA World Cup the German national team returned from Brazil as world champions. Germany is the first European nation to have won the World Cup gold trophy on the American continent – which marks an outstanding success, just like the recent results of the German clubs in the Champions League. Consequently, we are now looking forward to the 2014/2015 season with

particularly eager anticipation. The Bundesliga thrills football fans in nearly all countries of the world week after week, while more and more international stars recognise it as an attractive competition with plenty of goals being scored in frequently soldout stadiums.

To cater for the continually growing interest in the Bundesliga, we keep developing our digital offerings. At bundesliga.com news about the clubs and matches can be found in English, Japanese and Polish. The official YouTube channel of the Bundesliga, in addition to the greatest goals and emotions, features upandcoming stars, as well as heroes of the past. International newspapers, magazines, websites, and TV channels in particular, regularly inform their readers or viewers about the Bundesliga as well. By publishing this Media Guide the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga aims to provide optimum assistance to colleagues from international media. In addition to the key points of contact for the 18 Bundesliga clubs, it contains interesting facts and figures about the clubs and their history. Furthermore, it provides a wide range of information on German professional football, plus key points of contact for the DFL and its subsidiaries, DFL Sports Enterprises and Sportcast.

The entire team of the DFL Group wishes you an exciting 2014/2015 season. We look forward to continuing our excellent cooperation with you.

Best regards

Christian PfennigDirector Corporate and Brand Communications

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The league of goalsThe German national team thrilled foot-

ball fans around the world with its attacking style of play and brilliant goals in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and deservedly won the World Cup trophy. This also marked a major success for the Bundes-liga and its clubs whose youth academies initial-ly trained nearly all the players of the successful German team. 15 world champions alone, includ-ing world goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, DFB captain Philipp Lahm, the five-time goal scorer Thomas Müller, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Jérôme Boateng, Mario Götze, who scored the winning goal in the final, Mats Hummels or Benedikt Höwedes were again on the team lists of the clubs at the begin-ning of the 52nd Bundesliga season.

But the German Bundesliga players were not the only ones to deliver convincing per-formances in Brazil. A number of foreign stars who play in Germany made exceptional show-ings as well, such as Arjen Robben and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, who took third place with the Nether-lands, the Brazilian Luiz Gustavo or Belgium’s Kevin De Bruyne. In total, the 77 players from the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 scored 35 goals in the World Cup, more than the representatives of any other league in the world.

Thanks to this large number of nation-al and international top-flight stars, which in-clude Franck Ribéry or the Poles Robert Lewandowski and Jakub Bl⁄aszczykowski as well, the Bundes liga has been numbering among the most successful and attractive leagues in the world for years. Football featur-ing high technical quality and thrilling match-es attracted 42,609 spectators on average to the modern and convenient stadiums in the past season.

With an average of 3.16 goals – more than in any of the past 27 years – the Bundes-liga, in 2013/2014, was again the top league in Europe seeing the largest number of goals scored. The European best mark attests to the thrilling attacking style of football being played in Germany. Among other things, this offense-oriented style of play is rooted in the excellent training of young footballers in Germany. Since 2001 all professional clubs have been obligat-ed to operate youth academies and 925 million euros have been invested in talent promotion ever since – an investment that has more than paid off for the clubs and will continue to bear fruit in future.

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Professional structures for a professional league

Professional football must also be or-ganised professionally. This is why in 2000 the 36 clubs and joint stock companies of the Bun-desliga and Bundesliga 2 founded the League Association with the entire organisation of both professional leagues being undertaken by its executive arm, the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga. The League Association, in which all 36 clubs and joint stock companies have equal vot-ing rights, is managed by a nine-strong execu-tive board chaired by its president, currently Dr Reinhard Rauball, and two vice presidents. The League Association is also a member of the

German Football Association (DFB) and close-ly cooperates with Germany’s football govern-ing body.

On behalf of the League Association, the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga manages the operational side of the Bundesliga and Bun-desliga 2 and is primarily in charge of organis-ing and marketing professional football in Ger-many. Since 2005, Christian Seifert has headed up the DFL as CEO of the DFL Executive Board. COO is Andreas Rettig. The DFL’s main tasks in-clude setting up and carrying out all 612 fixtures

DFL/League Association

Andreas RettigChristian SeifertDr Reinhard Rauball

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in any season in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 as well as organising the Supercup and all rele-gation/promotion play-off matches. The licens-ing of the 36 clubs and joint stock companies is a central part of the DFL’s terms of reference. Only clubs that have successfully gone through licensing are permitted to play in the Bundesli-ga or Bundesliga 2. The DFL examines the abil-ity of all 36 clubs and joint stock companies to fulfil the requirements for professional football in sporting, administrative, infrastructure, secu-rity, media and, in particular, financial terms. The Bundesliga licensing system is considered to be the most stringent and exemplary in Europe. As a prerequisite for an exciting competition, it has also played a decisive role in ensuring that none of the clubs has been forced into administration during any season in the 51 years of the Bundes-liga’s history.

The DFL’s core business includes the cen-tralised marketing of national media rights held by the Bundesliga. Since its foundation, the DFL has succeeded in achieving a six-fold increase in this area. The new contract ensures that an av-erage total of 628 million euros will be split be-tween all League Association members during each of the seasons 2013/2014 to 2016/2017, an almost 50 per cent increase compared to the previous licensing period.

The DFL also continues to promote the development of the Bundesliga brand. Today, the Bundesliga is one of Germany’s best known brands and surveys indicate it is recognised by 98 per cent of Germans.

DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbHGuiollettstraße 44–46D-60325 Frankfurt/MainT +49 69 65005-0F +49 69 65005-555E [email protected] bundesliga.com

Contacts

International Communications

Head of International CommunicationsEliane Zäh

T +49 69 65005-279F +49 69 65005-557M +49 151 61673663E [email protected]

Business CommunicationsSusanne Jahrreiss


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Professional and successful international TV rights sales

Founded in 2008, the wholly-owned sub-sidiary DFL Sports Enterprises is in charge of marketing the worldwide audiovisual rights for all 612 fixtures of the Bundesliga and Bundesli-ga 2 as well as the relegation/promotion match-es and the Supercup on all platforms including TV, the internet and mobile devices, as well as promoting league-wide sponsorships and licens-ing rights.

Thanks to its professionalism and know-how, DFL Sports Enterprises has improved the global market position of the Bundesliga on a grand scale. With over 450,000 hours of broad-

casting, TV partners include international free- and pay-TV channels. The most recent example of DFL Sports Enterprises’ strategic marketing is the deal with 21st Century Fox and its worldwide network of broadcast outlets that will become the new home of the Bundesliga throughout the Americas, large parts of Asia, and in European markets like Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium.

With its own Asia-Pacific branch, DFL Sports Enterprises strives to further promote the Bundesliga’s successful international market strategy. As the first European top league, the Bundesliga has opened a representation office in

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ContactsDFL Sports Enterprises GmbHUlmenstraße 23–25D-60325 Frankfurt/MainT +49 69 65005-0F +49 69 65005-558E [email protected] dfl-sports-enterprises.de bundesliga.com

Singapore. Across the globe, all 209 FIFA coun-tries can follow German professional football and watch up to six live matches in High Defini-tion per weekend.

The local presence is supported by high-quality TV images and the DFL programme ‘Bun-desliga Preview Show’, which is broadcast in both English and Spanish. Produced in-house, the weekly half-hour programme sent out to all inter-national licensees offers an excellent overview of German professional football and is current-ly broadcast in over 150 FIFA member states. In fact, demand is so strong that numerous addi-tional special formats are produced allowing in-ternational TV stations to broadcast Bundesliga content even during the off-season period.

Vice President Sales Audiovisual RightsKay Dammholz


Director Sales Sponsoring, Licensing & Digital MediaAndy Meyer


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A service for fans around the world

Millions of supporters around the world track the action in the Bundesliga. View-ers in nearly all of the 209 FIFA countries can watch the games by now and almost all of them can do so with live coverage being provided. To satisfy this continually growing interest and the desire of the fans to be supplied with cur-rent information about the league the digital offerings of the Bundesliga have been subject to continuous expansion and further develop-ment for years.

The English-language BUNDESLIGA.COM website with a dedicated internation-al team of editors covers the needs of the fans around the world. The site comprises reports and portraits of Bundesliga clubs and players, news tickers, statistics during and after the meetings, match day photo galleries and videos, plus play-er and expert interviews – particularly with the international stars. BUNDESLIGA.COM exclu-sively provides facts that have been verified and that users can rely on one hundred per cent. For members of the media and broadcasters there is a separate area with preview kits, match day

reports and details, plus DFL publications and points of contact.

In addition to the English-language site there are dedicated Bundesliga websites for Poland (bundesliga.com/pl) and Japan (bun-desliga.com/jp) in the languages of these coun-tries. They, too, work with independent editorial teams and a dedicated editorial concept.

The Bundesliga is present on other digi-tal channels as well, for instance with its own Bun-desliga channel on YouTube. At youtube.com/bundesliga current match reports, portraits of the league’s stars, historic clips and humorous scenes are shown. Up to 20 new videos are pro-duced per week specifically for the YouTube portal, with English-language narratives, and in some cases featuring special versions tailored to the interests of specific countries. Of course the Bundesliga constantly supplies its fans with up-to-the-minute news and pictures on Twitter and Instagram as well. Since the summer of 2014 content has been available specifically for China on various Chinese social media platforms.

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Top-quality TV productionFounded in 2006, the TV media ser-

vice provider Sportcast GmbH, led by CEO Jupp Nehl and COO Alexander Günther, is also a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DFL, produc-ing the basic TV signal for all matches of the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 for the nation-al and international TV licensees. In addition, Sportcast produces the promotion/relegation play-offs and the Supercup, as well as all fix-tures of the German Cup since 2008. Sport-cast ensures that the Bundesliga can be seen anywhere in the world. Producing 440 hours of international programme per season makes for over ten hours of footage per matchday. Six matches per matchday are produced in HD as high-quality programmes with English com-mentary and international graphics distribut-ed live via satellite. Matchdays are also sum-marised in the highlight shows and in magazine programmes specially produced for interna-tional takers.

Sportcast also coordinates the contribu-tion and international distribution of the basic TV signal in over 200 countries. Using a proprietary Customer Service Tool, international TV licensees can easily go online and book the matches and pro-gramme formats they are interested in. Satellite data for distribution as well as up-to-date infor-mation on the matchday is also provided.

The central role of the tool is reflected by the figures: per matchday around 400 feed book-ings are made and around 2,700 system mails are sent. Both international and national broad-casters benefit from a high-quality basic TV sig-nal, which meets the highest of demands with different camera standards and the use of state-of-the-art technology.

The top match concept of the Bundesliga includes fourteen cameras: pitchside and super slow-motion, reverse-angle and chip cameras in

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Sportcast GmbHSiegburger Straße 183D-50679 KölnT +49 221 99559-0F +49 221 99559-599E [email protected] sportcast.de

AccreditationE [email protected]

Contacts

the goal allow viewers even more involvement in the match as well as capturing special moments such as reactions of coaches and spectators.

Head ofMedia OperationsOliver Büser

T +49 221 99559-452F +49 221 99559-5452E [email protected]

Head of Distribution ServicesFrank Hippler

T +49 221 99559-240F +49 221 99559-5240E [email protected]

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CLUBS

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FC Augsburg

FC Augsburg’s football philosophy has won many friends among Germany’s elite. The club, in its current form, was founded in 1969 as a merger between BC Augsburg and TSV Schwaben.

While playing in lower divisions, FC Augs-burg became famous for the successful educa-tion of the German internationals Helmut Haller and Bernd Schuster. Their subsequent ascent be-gan in the early 2000s. After reaching the Bun-desliga 2 in 2006, the club finally gained promo-tion to the Bundesliga in 2011. Playing in a brand new stadium, called SGL arena, FC Augsburg vi-talised the Bundesliga with a dynamic and well-organised style of play and respectable results. Finishing in an impressive 8th place at the end of the season 2013/2014, the team from South-ern Germany has demonstrated that they are on their best way to becoming an established force in German football.

Club Portrait Halil Altintop

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AddressFC Augsburg 1907 GmbH & Co. KGaADonauwörther Straße 170 D-86154 Augsburg W fcaugsburg.de

@FCAugsburg

Chief Executive OfficerWalther Seinsch

Members12,000

Fan Clubs70

StadiumSGL arena

Capacity30,660

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Titles/Club SuccessesPromotion to Bundesliga in 2011

Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)4 years

Highest win (H) Bundesliga4-1 vs Eintracht Braunschweig (14/12/2013)Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga0-4 vs Borussia Dortmund (01/10/2011)

ContactDominik SchmitzT +49 821 65040-520F +49 821 65040-555M +49 177 4977684 E [email protected]

Facts and FiguresClub

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Hertha BerlinClub Portrait

Hajime Hosogai

The biggest club of Germany’s capital, Hertha Berlin, has a long tradition in German foot-ball. Crowned as German Champions in 1930 and 1931, the founding members of the Bundesliga became a remarkable force in the national top flight. Since the foundation of the Bundesliga, they enjoyed their biggest success in the 1970s, finishing second in 1975 and not being stopped until the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup in 1979. After several years of playing in the lower divi-sions, the 1990s were one of the most success-ful times in the club’s history. Hertha Berlin not

only reached the DFB-Pokal final in 1993 with its second team, but was successfully promoted to the Bundesliga in the season 1996/1997 once again. Furthermore, the club gained internation-al attention with the qualification for the Cham-pions League in the 1999/2000 season. After their recurrent promotion from Bundesliga 2 to Bundesliga in 2013, the club has been providing more than 74,000 spectators the opportunity to watch excellent Bundesliga football once again in the Olympiastadion, which is Germany’s second largest stadium.

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AddressHertha BSC GmbH & Co. KGaAHanns-Braun-Straße/Friesenhaus 2 D-14053 Berlin W herthabsc.de

@HerthaBSC

Managing BoardMichael Preetz, Ingo Schiller

Members32,000

Fan Clubs338

StadiumOlympiastadion Berlin

Capacity74,475

Titles/Club SuccessesGerman Champion (2)1930, 1931German Cup Finalist (2)1977, 1979German League Cup Winner (2)2001, 2002


Highest win (H) Bundesliga9-1 vs Borussia Dortmund (18/04/1970)Worst defeat (H) Bundesliga0-6 vs Hamburger SV (05/04/1980)

ContactPeter BohmbachT +49 30 300928-201 F +49 30 300928-94 M +49 174 9494694 E [email protected]

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SV Werder Bremen

SV Werder Bremen is one of the most successful teams in Bundesliga history which is impressively demonstrated by their second place in the all-time Bundesliga table only be-hind FC Bayern München. As one of Bundesliga’s founding members, SV Werder Bremen became a dominant force in German football. This is under-lined by winning the Bundesliga Championship in 1965. In the mid-1980s and early-90s former head coach Otto Rehagel led the club to signifi-cant success. The Bundesliga titles in 1988 and 1993 as well as the back-to-back DFB-Pokal tri-umphs in 1991 and 1992 are ample proof. Ad-ditionally, the triumph in the European Cup Win-ners’ Cup in 1992 was an extraordinary highlight in the club’s history. Former head coach Thomas Schaaf, who stayed for 14 years in the city of Northern Germany, shaped another era by creat-ing a team that became famous for its attractive style of play.

Brimming with stars like Ailton and Johan Micoud, SV Werder Bremen had its peak in 2004, when team captain Frank Baumann lifted the ‘Meisterschale’ as well as the DFB-Pokal to the sky. In recent years, the appearance in the 2009 UEFA Cup final with stars like Mesut Özil, Per Mertesacker, Diego or Claudio Pizarro caused enormous international attention.

Club Portrait Nils Petersen

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AddressSV Werder Bremen GmbH & Co. KG aAFranz-Böhmert-Straße 1c D-28205 Bremen W werder.de W werder.tv

@werderbremen

Chief Executive OfficerKlaus Filbry

Members40,000

Fan Clubs693

StadiumWeser-Stadion

Capacity42,100

Titles/Club SuccessesGerman Champion (4)1965, 1988, 1993, 2004German Cup Winner (6)1961, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009German Supercup Winner (4)1988, 1993, 1994, 2009European Cup Winners’ Cup Winner (1)1992German Amateur Champion (3)1966, 1985, 1991German League Cup Winner (1)2006


Highest win (H) Bundesliga8-1 vs Arminia Bielefeld (29/09/2007)Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga2-9 vs Eintracht Frankfurt (14/11/1981)

ContactMichael Rudolph T +49 421 43459-1970F +49 421 43459-1530 M +49 162 9799197 E [email protected]

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Borussia DortmundClub Portrait

Marco Reus

Borussia Dortmund is one of the most popular clubs in Germany and well-known inter-nationally for the SIGNAL IDUNA PARK in which more than 80,000 fans create an incredible at-mosphere from matchday to matchday.

As one of the founding members of the Bundesliga, Borussia Dortmund experienced fluctuating success concerning the clubs’ stand-ing. The glorious eras both in the 1960s and mid-90s were highlighted by several domestic and in-ternational titles such as the UEFA Cup Winners’

Cup in 1966 and the UEFA Champions League trophy in 1997.

With coach Jürgen Klopp, Dortmund to-day is once again a powerhouse on national and international level, winning back-to-back Bun-desliga titles in 2011 and 2012 along with the National Cup in 2012. Their sustained success on national and international level is evidenced with their appearances in the 2013 UEFA Champions League final as well as in the DFB-Pokal final in the following season.

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AddressBorussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaARheinlanddamm 207–209 D-44137 Dortmund W bvb.de

@BVB

Chief Executive OfficerHans-Joachim Watzke

Members108,000

Fan Clubs650

StadiumSIGNAL IDUNA PARK

Capacity80,667

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Titles/Club SuccessesGerman Champion (8)1956, 1957, 1963, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2011, 2012German Cup Winner (3)1965, 1989, 2012German Supercup Winner (5)1989, 1995, 1996, 2013, 2014UEFA Champions League Winner (1)1997European Cup Winners’ Cup Winner (1)1966Intercontinental Cup Winner (1)1997


Highest win (H) Bundesliga11-1 vs Arminia Bielefeld (06/11/1982)Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga0-12 vs Borussia Mönchengladbach (29/04/1978)

ContactSascha FliggeT +49 231 9020-4600F +49 231 9020-4912E [email protected]


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Eintracht FrankfurtClub Portrait

Takashi Inui

Established in 1899, Eintracht Frank-furt is one of Germany’s best-supported and most successful clubs. National champions in 1959, the nicknamed ‘Eagles’ were founding members of the Bundesliga and remained a top-flight institution until 1996.

Their greatest achievements are four National Cup titles (1974, 1975, 1981 and 1988), one UEFA Cup triumph in 1980 as well as an appearance in the 1960 European Cup

final. In Eintracht Frankfurt’s long-lasting Bun-desliga history, several stars like ‘Charly’ Körbel who holds the Bundesliga record with 602 ap-pearances, Bernd Hölzenbein who scored 160 goals between 1967 and 1981, the Korean in-ternational Bum Kun Cha and striker Anthony Yeboah from Ghana wore the famous black, white and red coloured jersey. After the relega-tion in 2011, the club returned to the Bundesliga in 2012 and immediately qualified for the UEFA Europa League.

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AddressEintracht Frankfurt Fußball AGMörfelder Landstraße 362 D-60528 Frankfurt/Main W eintracht.de

@Eintracht_News

Chief Executive OfficerHeribert Bruchhagen

Members25,000

Fan Clubs700

StadiumCommerzbank-Arena

Capacity51,500

Titles/Club SuccessesGerman Champion (1)1959German Cup Winner (4)1974, 1975, 1981, 1988UEFA Cup Winner (1)1980


Highest win (H) Bundesliga9-1 vs Rot-Weiss Essen (05/10/1974)Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga0-7 vs 1. FC Köln (29/10/1983)

ContactCarsten KnoopT +49 69 95503-130 F +49 69 95503-139 M +49 179 4570860 E [email protected]

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Sport-Club Freiburg

Since first gaining promotion to the Bun-desliga in 1993, SC Freiburg has hopped be-tween the top two divisions no less than seven times. Volker Finke spent an impressive 16-year spell as Freiburg’s head coach between 1991 and 2007, laying the foundations for a tradition of youth development which has borne plenty of fruit in recent years.

A well-structured philosophy of foot-ball including an educational approach of young talents is available until today and guided SC Freiburg to three appearances in internation-al competitions (1995, 2001 and 2013). Finish-ing in third place at the end of the Bundesliga sea-son 1994/1995 can be pointed out as the club’s biggest success.

Club Portrait Sascha Riether

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AddressSport-Club Freiburg e. V.Schwarzwaldstraße 193 D-79117 Freiburg im BreisgauW scfreiburg.com

@sc_freiburg

ChairmanFritz Keller

Members7,700

Fan Clubs65

StadiumStadion an der Schwarzwaldstraße

Capacity24,000

Titles/Club SuccessesUEFA Cup Participation (2)1995/1996, 2001/2002UEFA Europa League Participation (1)2013/2014


Highest win (H) Bundesliga5-0 vs VfL Bochum (09/12/2000)Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga0-7 vs FC Bayern München (10/09/2011)

ContactRudi RaschkeT +49 761 38551-167 F +49 761 38551-170 M +49 178 2923281 E [email protected]

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Hamburger SVClub Portrait

As a founding member of the Bundes-liga, Hamburger SV is an institution in German football with a long-lasting tradition. They re-main the only club never to have been relegat-ed from Germany’s top flight. Hamburger SV enjoyed its most fruitful years on the nation-al scene in the 1970s and 1980s, when the so called ‘Rothosen’ were on top of the Bundes-liga at the end of three seasons and caused Euro pean attention with their two glamorous European Cup wins in 1977 and 1983. Their ap-pearance in two semi-finals of the UEFA Cup in

2009 and 2010 can be named as the greatest success on international level in recent years. Within the long history of Hamburg’s biggest club, a lot of prominent players like club legend Uwe Seeler, the German internationals Horst Hrubesch and Felix Magath as well as outstand-ing striker Kevin Keegan wore the famous jer-sey of Hamburger SV. In recent years some of the famous players were the Netherlands inter-nationals Rafael van der Vaart, Ruud van Nistel-rooy and Nigel de Jong or the Belgian national captain Vincent Kompany.

Pierre-Michel Lasogga

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AddressHSV Fußball AGSylvesterallee 7 D-22525 Hamburg W hsv.de

@HSV

Chief Executive OfficerDietmar Beiersdorfer

Members73,000

Fan Clubs850

StadiumImtech Arena

Capacity57,200

Titles/Club SuccessesGerman Champion (6)1923, 1928, 1960, 1979, 1982, 1983German Cup Winner (3)1963, 1976, 1987European Champions Cup Winner (1)1983European Cup Winners’ Cup Winner (1)1977German League Cup Winner (2)1973, 2003


Highest win (H) Bundesliga8-0 vs Karlsruher SC (12/02/1966)Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga0-7 vs Borussia Dortmund (20/05/1976)

ContactJörn WolfT +49 40 4155-1100 F +49 40 4155-1106 M +49 173 9136579 E [email protected]

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Hannover 96Club Portrait

In the last few years Hannover 96 expe-rienced a successful chapter in its long-lasting history that goes back to 1896. Two successive campaigns in the UEFA Europa League finally put the club on the European map.

Equipped with two German Champion-ships before the foundation of the Bundesliga in 1963, Hannover made history when they be-came the first ever second-division side to win the DFB-Pokal in 1992. Back in the Bundesliga since 2002, the Reds now look to having estab-lished themselves in Germany’s top flight again.

Club Portrait Leonardo Bittencourt

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AddressHannover 96 GmbH & Co. KGaARobert-Enke-Straße 1D-30169 HannoverW hannover96.de

@Hannover96

Chief Executive OfficerMartin Kind

Members20,500

Fan Clubs120 with 5,000 registered members

StadiumHDI Arena

Capacity49,000

Titles/Club SuccessesGerman Champion (2)1938, 1954German Amateur Champion (3)1960, 1964, 1965German Cup Winner (1)1992


Highest win (H) Bundesliga6-0 vs Borussia Neunkirchen (18/09/1965)Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga0-7 vs FC Bayern München (17/04/2010)

ContactAlex JacobT +49 511 96900-101F +49 511 96900-7101M +49 176 60011668E [email protected]

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TSG 1899 HoffenheimClub Portrait

Roberto Firmino

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim tells the sto-ry of an impressive promotion from the fifth division in 2000 to the Bundesliga within only eight years. The club took the Bundesliga by storm in their first season, being first in the table at Christmas 2008, only to be stopped by several injuries of their top players like Ve-dad Ibiševic, who scored 18 goals in his first 17 Bundesliga matches.

Similar success has proven elusive, and they only closely avoided relegation in 2012/2013, before coming back with an attrac-tive style of play featuring a tremendous goal av-erage in the following season.

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AddressTSG 1899 Hoffenheim Fußball-Spielbetriebs GmbH Dietmar-Hopp-Sportpark Horrenberger Straße 58 D-74939 Zuzenhausen W achtzehn99.de

@achtzehn99

Managing BoardPeter Rettig (chairman), Frank Briel

Members6,200

Fan Clubs122

StadiumWIRSOL Rhein-Neckar-Arena

Capacity30,150

Titles/Club SuccessesPromotion to Bundesliga 2 in 2007

Promotion to Bundesliga in 2008


Highest win (H) Bundesliga6-2 vs VfL Wolfsburg (02/03/2014)Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga1-7 vs FC Bayern München (10/03/2012)

ContactChristian FrommertT +49 7261 9493-189M +49 171 8348243E [email protected]

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1. FC KölnClub Portrait Patrick Helmes

The winners of the very first Bundesliga title in 1963/1964, 1. FC Köln can look back on a multi-faceted history in German football. On the one hand, the club had significant achievements by winning two Bundesliga Championships and four German Cup titles between 1964 and 1983.

The founding president of the club, Franz Kremer, was one of the masterminds be-hind the founding of the Bundesliga and the im-plementation of professional football in Germa-ny. The 8th place in the all-time Bundesliga table highlights the prominent role of the club which is well-known for its very loyal and passionate fan base with more than 60,000 members. Sever-al excellent players like Hans Schäfer, Wolfgang Overath, Toni Schumacher, Pierre Littbarski and Lukas Podolski became famous in the long-last-ing history of the red and white coloured club.

On the other hand, the biggest team in Co-logne was relegated to the second flight five times in the past sixteen years. However, they managed to come back after each relegation and are try-ing to become a sustainable force in Germany’s top flight after their last Bundesliga promotion in 2013/2014. Another feature of the nicknamed Billy Goats is the fact that their official mascot is a living billy goat, called Hennes, the current being Hennes the VIIIth in the club’s history.

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Address1. FC Köln GmbH & Co. KGaAPostfach 45 04 5650879 KölnW fc-koeln.de

@fckoeln and @fckoeln_live

PresidentWerner Spinner

Members65,000

Fan Clubs1,450

StadiumRheinEnergieStadion

Capacity50,000

Titles/Club SuccessesGerman Champion (3)1962, 1964, 1978German Cup Winner (4)1968, 1977, 1978, 1983


Highest win (A) Bundesliga8-0 vs FC Schalke 04 (08/11/1969)8-0 vs Eintracht Braunschweig (08/09/1979)Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga0-7 vs FC Bayern München (15/05/1971)

ContactTobias Kaufmann T +49 221 71616-470 F +49 221 71616-338 M +49 160 7161633 E [email protected]

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Bayer 04 LeverkusenClub Portrait

Bayer 04 Leverkusen began as an after-hours sports club set up by workers of the phar-maceutical and chemical company Bayer which has remained its only stakeholder to this day. In recent years, several outstanding players such as Rudi Völler, Michael Ballack or Lúcio became part of the so called Werkself and established Bayer 04 Leverkusen as a sustainable force in German football.

Winning the UEFA Cup in 1988 and the DFB-Pokal in 1993 as well as five runners-up

spots between 1996/1997 and 2010/2011 in the Bundes liga and their appearance in the 2002 Champions League final demonstrate Leverkusen’s prominent role in European and German football.

Heung-Min Son

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AddressBayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbHBismarckstraße 122–124 D-51373 Leverkusen W bayer04.de

@bayer04fussball

Managing DirectorMichael Schade

Members26,500

Fan Clubs321

StadiumBayArena

Capacity30,210

Titles/Club SuccessesGerman Cup Winner (1)1993UEFA Cup Winner (1)1988


Highest win (A) Bundesliga9-1 vs SSV Ulm 1846 (18/03/2000)Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga1-6 vs Hannover 96 (26/03/1988)

ContactMeinolf SprinkT +49 214 8660-190 F +49 214 8660-9190 M +49 151 58040004E [email protected]

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1. FSV Mainz 05Club Portrait

Shinji Okazaki

1. FSV Mainz 05 gained promotion to the Bundesliga for the first time in 2004 under their famous coach Jürgen Klopp. Since their come-back to the Bundesliga in 2009, the club has es-tablished itself as a sustainable force in Germa-ny’s top division. The season 2010/2011 can be seen as a landmark season for 1. FSV Mainz 05 as they finished fifth to secure European qual-ification for the first time in their history. This tremendous success was impressively repeat-ed in season 2013/2014. As the public festi-val Carnival is quite popular in the city of Mainz,

1. FSV Mainz 05 is nicknamed the ‘Carnival Club’. The special atmos phere is also carried through their stadium, labelled as the Coface Arena, where a popular Carnival song is played as goal anthem.

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Address1. FSV Mainz 05 e. V. Isaac-Fulda-Allee 5D-55124 MainzW mainz05.de

@1FSVMainz05

PresidentHarald Strutz

Members14,200

Fan Clubs230

StadiumCoface Arena

Capacity34,000

Titles/Club SuccessesGerman Amateur Champion (1)1982Promotion to Bundesliga (2)2004, 2009


Highest win (H) Bundesliga5-0 vs SC Freiburg (05/03/2005)Worst defeat (H) Bundesliga1-6 vs Werder Bremen (27/10/2006)

ContactTobias SparwasserT +49 6131 37550-22 F +49 6131 37550-33 M +49 162 9318306 E [email protected]

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Borussia MönchengladbachClub Portrait Raffael

No club in Germany enjoyed as much national success in the 1970s as Borussia Mönchengladbach. With five Bundesliga Cham-pionships, two UEFA Cup triumphs and one DFB-Pokal title, the team featuring stars like Jupp Heynckes, Günter Netzer, Berti Vogts and Rainer Bonhof – all part of the German World Cup win-ning national team in 1974 – will be remembered as one of the greatest ever.

The spirit of those times is still notice-able within the BORUSSIA-PARK where near-ly 55,000 spectators create an electrifying atmosphere on every matchday. The contem-porary team thrills the fans with a modern and fresh style of play and has developed to be a sustainable contender for the top places in the league. This was impressively demonstrated by reaching the international qualification places in 2011/2012 and 2013/2014.

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Borussia Mönchengladbach

AddressBorussia VfL 1900Mönchengladbach GmbHHennes-Weisweiler-Allee 1D-41179 MönchengladbachW borussia.de

@borussia

PresidentRolf Königs

Members63,500

Fan Clubs940

StadiumBORUSSIA-PARK

Capacity54,010

Titles/Club SuccessesGerman Champion (5)1970, 1971, 1975, 1976, 1977German Cup Winner (3)1960, 1973, 1995UEFA Cup Winner (2)1975, 1979German Supercup Winner (1)1977


Highest win (H) Bundesliga12-0 vs Borussia Dortmund (29/04/1978)Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga0-7 vs VfB Stuttgart (18/09/2010)

ContactMarkus AretzT +49 2161 9293-1301F +49 2161 9293-1309M +49 171 5455843E [email protected]

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FC Bayern MünchenClub Portrait Philipp Lahm

The Bundesliga’s record title-holder FC Bayern München has been a dominant force in German football since the end of the 1960s. Since 1969, only three times more than two years passed without Bayern München getting its hands on the precious trophy. 24 German Championships and 17 DFB-Pokal wins under-line the outstanding role of Germany’s most suc-cessful club.

Main personnel supplier to the national team, FC Bayern München also boast by far the largest membership of any club in Germany and after reaching the UEFA Champions League final three times between 2010 and 2013, the Bavar-ians finally lifted the desired trophy for the fifth time in club history in 2013 as a part of their his-toric treble-winning season. With the earliest win of the German Championship in Bundesliga his-tory as well as the title defence of the National Cup, the season 2013/2014 can be named as a record-breaking one not only in the long history of FC Bayern, but also in the long-lasting history of the Bundesliga.

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AddressFC Bayern München AG Säbener Straße 51–57 D-81547 München W fcbayern.de

@FCBayern

Chairman Executive BoardKarl-Heinz Rummenigge

Members236,000

Fan Clubs3,749

StadiumAllianz Arena

Capacity71,137

Titles/Club SuccessesGerman Champion (24)1932, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014German Cup Winner (17)1957, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014UEFA Champions League Winner (2)2001, 2013European Supercup Winner (1)2013European Champions Cup Winner (3)1974, 1975, 1976European Cup Winners’ Cup Winner (1)1967UEFA Cup Winner (1) 1996FIFA Club World Cup Winner (1) 2013Intercontinental Cup Winner (2)1976, 2001German Supercup Winner (5)1983, 1987, 1990, 2010, 2012German League Cup Winner (6)1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2007Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)50 yearsHighest win (H) Bundesliga11-1 vs Borussia Dortmund (27/11/1971)Worst defeat (H) Bundesliga0-7 vs Schalke 04 (09/10/1976)

ContactMarkus HörwickT +49 89 69931-7400 F +49 89 644200 E [email protected]

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SC Paderborn 07Club Portrait

Mahir Saglik

The black and blue coloured team of SC Paderborn 07 successfully promoted to the Bundesliga in the season 2013/2014 and en-ters Germany’s top flight as the 53rd team in Bundesliga history. Looking back, the club’s his-tory is marked by several mergers and bundling of forces. The merger between TuS Schloß Neu-haus and 1. FC Paderborn in 1985 can be seen as a milestone within this process and was finalised when the club took on its current name in 1997. After nine seasons in Bundesliga 2, the team of head coach André Breitenreiter finished in

second place in an impressive manner at the end of the season 2013/2014. Therefore, SC Pader-born 07 will welcome thousands of Bundesliga fans in the Benteler-Arena which was inaugurat-ed in 2008.

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AddressSC Paderborn 07 e. V.Paderborner Straße 89D-33104 PaderbornW scpaderborn07.de

@SCPaderborn07

PresidentWilfried Finke

Members10,047

Fan Clubs45

StadiumBenteler-Arena

Capacity15,000

Titles/Club SuccessesPromotion to Bundesliga2014

Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)1 year

Highest win (A) Bundesliga 26-1 vs Fortuna Düsseldorf (26/10/2013)Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga 20-6 vs FC Erzgebirge Aue (24/02/2008)

ContactMatthias HackT +49 5251 877-1999M +49 162 1010724E [email protected]

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FC Schalke 04

Julian Draxler

Club PortraitBased in the industrial city of Gelsen-

kirchen, FC Schalke 04 is one of the Bundesliga’s best-supported clubs, second only to FC Bay-ern München in terms of official members (more than 130,000 in 2014). They won seven national championships, the last one dating back to 1958. Shaped by the traditional values of the local soci-ety, the ‘Royal Blues’ have extremely passionate supporters. The famous ‘Eurofighters’ of 1997, including local hero Olaf Thon and Belgium’s star player Marc Wilmots, chalked up the club’s great-est success by winning the UEFA Cup. In the new

millennium, the team achieved significant suc-cess by winning the DFB-Pokal three times with-in a ten-year period from 2001 to 2011. Fur-thermore, FC Schalke 04 qualified for the UEFA Champions League six times in the past nine years, reaching the semi-finals in 2010/2011.

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AddressFußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V. Ernst-Kuzorra-Weg 1 D-45891 Gelsenkirchen W schalke04.de

@s04

Managing BoardHorst Heldt, Alexander Jobst and Peter Peters

Members130,000

Fan Clubsca. 1,500

StadiumVELTINS-Arena

Capacity61,973

Titles/Club SuccessesGerman Champion (7)1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1958German Cup Winner (5)1937, 1972, 2001, 2002, 2011UEFA Cup Winner (1)1997German League Cup Winner (1)2005German Supercup Winner (1)2011


Highest win (A) Bundesliga7-0 vs FC Bayern München (09/10/1976)Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga0-11 vs Borussia Mönchengladbach (07/01/1976)

ContactThomas SpiegelT +49 209 3618-173 E [email protected]

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VfB StuttgartClub Portrait Vedad Ibiševic

VfB Stuttgart is one of the most historic and successful clubs in German football. The im-portant role of the team from Southern Germa-ny is underlined by the fact that the three-time Bundesliga Champions (1984, 1992 and 2007) spent 50 out of 52 years in Germany’s top flight. More than that, the club’s history is filled with several outstanding generations of Bundesliga players such as the German internationals Gui-do Buchwald and Jürgen Klinsmann in the 1980s, the so called ‘magical triangle’ including Kras-simir Balakow, Fredi Bobic and Giovane Elber in the 1990s as well as the ‘young and vivid’ play-ers Timo Hildebrand, Kevin Kurányi, Sami Khedira and Mario Gómez in the 2000s.

In particular, the German Cup title in 1997 under the guidance of the subsequent national coach Joachim Löw, the appearance in the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup final in 1998 and especially the Bundesliga Championship in 2007 can be pointed out as important achievements within the last two decades.

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AddressVfB Stuttgart 1893 e. V.Mercedesstraße 109 D-70372 Stuttgart W vfb.de

@VfB

PresidentBernd Wahler

Members45,000

Fan Clubs375

StadiumMercedes-Benz Arena

Capacity60,441

Titles/Club SuccessesGerman Champion (5)1950, 1952, 1984, 1992, 2007German Cup Winner (3)1954, 1958, 1997German Supercup Winner (1)1992


Highest win (H) Bundesliga7-0 vs Borussia Mönchengladbach (18/09/2010)Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga0-7 vs Borussia Dortmund (14/03/1964)

ContactTobias HerwerthT +49 711 55007-200F +49 711 55007-205E [email protected]

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VfL WolfsburgClub Portrait

Kevin De Bruyne

Nobody, not even their head coach Felix Magath, had VfL Wolfsburg down as title candi-dates when they stunned Germany by winning the Bundesliga in 2009. A startling second half of the season propelled a team assembled to chal-lenge for a place in Europe to national glory, mak-ing them the first new name to appear on the tro-phy in 39 years.

Ever since, VfL Wolfsburg’s defined goal has been to establish their squad at the top of the league. With a selection of international-

ly well-known players like the Brazilian interna-tional Luiz Gustavo as well as rising star Kevin De Bruyne from Belgium, the UEFA Europa League participants in 2014/2015 are on a straight path to becoming a sustainable top team of the Bundesliga.

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AddressVfL Wolfsburg-Fußball GmbHIn den Allerwiesen 1 D-38446 Wolfsburg W vfl-wolfsburg.de

@VfL_Wolfsburg

Board of ManagementKlaus Allofs, Wolfgang Hotze, Thomas Röttgermann

Members19,500

Fan Clubs168

StadiumVOLKSWAGEN ARENA

Capacity30,000

Titles/Club SuccessesGerman Champion (1)2009German Cup Finalist (1)1995


Highest win (H) Bundesliga7-1 vs Borussia Mönchengladbach (07/11/1998)Worst defeat (H) Bundesliga2-7 vs Werder Bremen (19/09/1999)

ContactBarbara Ertel-LeichtT +49 5361 8903-204 F +49 5361 8903-200 E [email protected]

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1st half of the season

Matchday 1 22–24/08/14

Matchday 2 29–31/08/14

Matchday 3 12–14/09/14

Matchday 4 19–21/09/14

Matchday 5 23–24/09/14

Matchday 6 26–28/09/14

Matchday 7 03–05/10/14

Matchday 8 17–19/10/14

Matchday 9 24–26/10/14

Matchday 10 31/10–02/11/14

Matchday 11 07–09/11/14

Matchday 12 21–23/11/14

Matchday 13 28–30/11/14

Matchday 14 05–07/12/14

Matchday 15 12–14/12/14

Matchday 16 16–17/12/14

Matchday 17 19–21/12/14

2nd half of the season

Matchday 18 30/01–01/02/15

Matchday 19 03–04/02/15

Matchday 20 06–08/02/15

Matchday 21 13–15/02/15

Matchday 22 20–22/02/15

Matchday 23 27/02–01/03/15

Matchday 24 06–08/03/15

Matchday 25 13–15/03/15

Matchday 26 20–22/03/15

Matchday 27 04–05/04/15

Matchday 28 10–12/04/15

Matchday 29 17–19/04/15

Matchday 30 24–26/04/15

Matchday 31 02–03/05/15

Matchday 32 08–10/05/15

Matchday 33 16/05/15

Matchday 34 23/05/15

Fixture ListsBundesliga

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15–18/08/14 1st round (64 teams)

28–29/10/14 2nd round (32 teams)

03–04/03/15 3rd round (16 teams)

07–08/04/15 Quarter-finals

28–29/04/15 Semi-finals

30/05/15 Final (Berlin)

DFB Cup

Bundesliga – Bundesliga 2

28/05/15 16th Bundesliga v 3rd Bundesliga 2

01/06/15 3rd Bundesliga 2 v 16th Bundesliga

Bundesliga 2 – Third Division

29/05/15 3rd Third Division v 16th Bundesliga 2

02/06/15 16th Bundesliga 2 v 3rd Third Division

Play-offs

13/08/14 Borussia Dortmund v FC Bayern München 2-0

Supercup

2014/2015 Season 53

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