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12 unusual facts about Bundesliga


2010–11 Rugby-Bundesliga

A third team, the Karlsruher SV Rugby, withdrew from the league during the 2009-10 season.

Ben Fajzullin

Fajzullin still voices reports and produces for the German Football League’s worldwide TV show, GOAL!

EnBW

EnBW is also name- and main sponsor of Volleyball-Bundesliga-club EnBW TV Rottenburg and Beko Basketball-Bundesliga-club EnBW Ludwigsburg and main sponsor of Toyota Handball Bundesliga-club Frisch Auf Göppingen.

Herbert Runge

It stands just outside the away section of Wuppertal's Stadion am Zoo football stadium, home to former Bundesliga club Wuppertaler SV.

Ice hockey in Germany

The Oberliga was replaced 1958 by the reintroduced Ice Hockey Bundesliga, before 1963 the Deutsche Eishockey-Bund was created, which remained under the umbrella of the Deutschen Eissport-Verbandes.

Italian Peruvian

Claudio Pizarro – football player, the Bundesliga's top foreign-born scorer
His mother's surname is Bossio.

Non-League football

It is also used throughout Europe, although in Germany non-professional leagues are known as Regionalliga, as the leagues are all regional depending on the location of the town or city the team represents, unlike 1. Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga and 3. Liga all being national leagues.

Piotr Trochowski

His cousin Krystian is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Berliner RC in the Rugby-Bundesliga.

Sportschau

As there is a contractual agreement that the Bundesliga may only be shown from 6:30pm the program reports about the second and third league in the first half hour.

Sylvie Meis

Meis and her ex-husband moved to Germany when he left Ajax to play for Bundesliga football club Hamburger SV.

The Final Game

Some of the scenes were shot on 1 March 1998 in the Bundesliga match Hertha BSC Berlin against Hansa Rostock.

Wirsol

Since the 2011/2012 Bundesliga soccer season, Wirsol Solar AG has been the official sponsor of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.


1991 DFB-Supercup

Uniquely, because Germany had just been reunified, the competition featured four teams instead of the usual two: The previous season's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal winners, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and SV Werder Bremen, respectively, were joined by their counterparts from the East.

2009–10 Basketball Bundesliga

Mitteldeutscher BC and Phoenix Hagen of the Pro A division have qualified by sportive means to play in Basketball Bundesliga 2009–10.

Adama Diakité

He was than a half year free agent, before signed for German 2. Fußball-Bundesliga club SV Sandhausen, until the end of the season 2013/2014 (30 May 2014).

Alphonse Leweck

Leweck was close to retiring from football after being diagnosed with a serious fault with a heart valve, which cost him a chance to go on a trial with German Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Bensheim

Bernhard Trares (1965–    ), former German football player in the Bundesliga and football trainer

Charlotte Bonin

In 2011, Charlotte Bonin will also represent the elite club EJOT in the German Bundesliga circuit.

Daisuke Matsui

Among the teams which were believed to have shown interested in signing him at the time were Catania, Genoa, Lazio and Torino of Serie A, Celtic and Rangers of the Scottish Premier League, Werder Bremen and Wolfsburg of the Bundesliga, and Lille of Ligue 1.

Demba Ba

Ba was an integral part of Hoffenheim's promotion to the Bundesliga and their successful first season in the Bundesliga, where they finished seventh after leading during the Christmas break.

Digão

On 11 July 2009, Digão was handed a one-week trial with newly promoted Bundesliga side SC Freiburg, joining the team in the pre-season training camp in Schruns, Austria and playing 30 minutes in a friendly with Slavia Prague, as a substitute.

Edmar Figueira

He also passed a short period in Germany under negotiation with the Bundesliga Club SC Freiburg, but did not sign because of not having an EU passport.

Elek Schwartz

From July 1965 to June 1968 Schwartz coached - as successor to Ivica Horvat Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Bundesliga.

Hans-Jürgen Weber

The first and the last Bundesliga-match Weber has refereed ended 6 - 1 for the hometeam: Werder Bremen v 1. FC Kaiserslautern on 17 May 1985 und Hertha BSC Berlin v Hamburger SV on 29 May 1999.

Hoffenheim

Hoffenheim is the historic home to football club 1899 Hoffenheim which currently plays in the Bundesliga, Germany's top division, although the senior side now play their home games in the Rhein-Neckar-Arena, located in another Sinsheim suburb, Steinsfurt.

Horst Buhtz

After his spell in Stuttgart, where Buhtz had worked with future stars such as Jürgen Klinsmann or Guido Buchwald, he all but retired, only taking over at 2nd Bundesliga side Fortuna Köln for a few months in the 1986–87 season.

Ian Joy

Joy immediately became a fan favorite then won the Regionalliga Nord Championship with St. Pauli getting promotion to the German 2nd Bundesliga in his second season.

Jeffrey Leiwakabessy

In 2006–07 he moved to Alemannia Aachen in Germany, which had just returned to the Bundesliga after a four-decade absence; during the campaign he appeared in all 34 league matches, but could not help prevent the side's immediate relegation.

Johannes Linßen

On 23 January 1971, while playing for MSV Duisburg against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Linßen received the first ever yellow card to be awarded in the Bundesliga, although the card should in fact have been awarded to his teammate Đorđe Pavlić, the referee having confused the two players.

Marek Krejčí

Bundesliga and sharing the position of the league's second best goalscorer with Karlsruhe's Giovanni Federico.

Mario Cantaluppi

He joined German Bundesliga club 1. FC Nürnberg in 2004 and played there for the next two seasons before returning to Switzerland to play for FC Luzern.

Marjan Mijajlović

After the 2007/2008 Bundesliga season was over, Mijajlović took a job with Bosnian NTV Hayat to commentate Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team matches.

Mattersburg

It is the administrative center of the District of Mattersburg and home to a Bundesliga football team, SV Mattersburg.

Michaël Goossens

With the Gelsenkirchen club, Goossens notably scored in the quarterfinals of the 1997–98 UEFA Cup against F.C. Internazionale Milano, but the defending champions were eventually ousted after losing 1–0 away and a 1–1 home draw; with three goals, he was the best scorer in European competition for Schalke, but only netted five times in two and a half seasons combined in the Bundesliga.

National Paralympic Committee Germany

To raise awareness, players from Bundesliga club FC Bayern Munich along with players from the Football 5-a-side national team and students from the St. Anna Gymnasiums in Augsburg participated in an promotional training session.

Neale Marmon

He began his professional football career in Germany with VfL Osnabrück in the German 2. Bundesliga in 1985, having won the Oberliga championship the previous year.

Pak Kwang-Ryong

Following the affair with Raúl Bobadilla, then his subsequent transfer to Augsburg in the Bundesliga, and following an injury to Marco Streller Basel decided to recall the striker to their squad.

Petar Filipović

A product of the FC St. Pauli academy, Filipović played mostly in their reserve team, making his debut, and his only Bundesliga appearance so far on 14 May 2011, entering for Dennis Daube in a game vs. 1. FSV Mainz 05.

Raphael Honigstein

He has also worked as a German football expert for Sky Sports, alongside host Alan McInally, and on Setanta's coverage of the Bundesliga.

Rob Friend

During the 2007–08 season Friend scored 18 goals in 33 matches, making him Borussia Mönchengladbach's top scorer and the second top scorer in Bundesliga 2.

Robert Hoyzer

Hoyzer's career as a referee came to an abrupt end in January 2005 after he was suspected of betting on a first-round German Cup tie between regional league side Paderborn and 1st Bundesliga club Hamburger SV on 21 August 2004.

Rodrigo Millar

On 6 March 2004, it was reported that Millar was invited to train with the Bundesliga side Hertha BSC.

Saarland Hurricanes

This team played in the 2nd Bundesliga from 1983 onwards, but relocated to Dillingen in 1984 and became the Dillingen Hurrikanes.

Sofia Jakobsson

With three WSL games remaining until the end of the season she moved to the German Bundesliga alongside team mate Ester, signing for newly promoted team BV Cloppenburg.

Stadion Piast

The whole structure is almost an exact copy of the German Benteler Arena (previously know as Energieteam Arena), which is a home ground of SC Paderborn 07 currently playing in the 2. Bundesliga.

Thomas Ulimwengu

After Ulimwengu's 18th birthday in the summer of 2011, there was much speculation as to where he would sign for the 2011-12 football season, and the striker was linked to a number of clubs including TP Mazembe in the DR Congo Premier League, AS Monaco in Ligue 1 and Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga.

Tobias Welz

His made his Bundesliga debut at 28 August 2010 in a game between 1. FC Nuremberg and SC Freiburg.

VfL Bochum

;Bundesliga top goal scorer: 1985–86 (Stefan Kuntz, 22 goals), 2002–03 (Thomas Christiansen, 21 goals (w/Giovane Élber)), 2006–07 (Theofanis Gekas, 20 goals)

Vlademir Jeronimo Barreto

Vlademir is the brother of the naturalized German footballer Cacau, who plays for VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga.

Walter Bechtold

This saw the team qualify for the next season's European Cup Winners' Cup, where they were knocked out in the first round by Belgian side Club Brugge K.V. Bechtold played for a year in the Bundesliga with Offenbach before being relegated back to the regional league.