Bundesliga: Table & Standings
Bundesliga standings: points, wins, draws, losses and goal difference. Updated 1 August 2026. Team strength by chances created lives in the xG table; every game is in fixtures & results.
| # | Team | P | W | D | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Bayern München | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 2 |  Borussia Dortmund | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 3 |  RB Leipzig | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 4 |  VfB Stuttgart | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 5 |  1899 Hoffenheim | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 6 |  Bayer Leverkusen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 7 |  SC Freiburg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 8 |  Eintracht Frankfurt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 9 |  FC Augsburg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 10 |  FSV Mainz 05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 11 |  Union Berlin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 12 |  Borussia Mönchengladbach | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 13 |  Hamburger SV | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 14 |  1. FC Köln | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 15 |  Werder Bremen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 16 |  FC Schalke 04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 17 |  SV Elversberg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 18 |  SC Paderborn 07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
A League Forged From Regional Football Cultures
The Bundesliga was founded in 1963, when the German Football Association (DFB) united the strongest clubs from Germany's regional leagues into a single national professional division for the first time. Sixteen founding members took part in that first season, headlined by 1. FC Köln, who won the inaugural title. The competition grew to its present size over subsequent decades and has operated with 18 clubs since 1965, making it the smallest of Europe's traditional "big five" top flights by club count. Bayern Munich's sustained success from the 1970s onward, interrupted by shorter windows of rival dominance, has shaped the league's modern identity, while the DFB's fan-ownership rules — the "50+1" model restricting outside investor control — have kept ticket prices low and stadiums among the best-attended in world football.
Format and Points System
Eighteen clubs contest the Bundesliga across 34 matchdays, playing each opponent twice — once at home, once away — between August and May. A win earns three points, a draw one, and a defeat none. The champion is the club with the most points after all 34 rounds; there is no post-season playoff to decide the title, unlike several other major leagues that use knockout stages or conference splits.
Reading the Table
Bundesliga standings list Spiele (matches played), Siege (wins), Unentschieden (draws) and Niederlagen (defeats), followed by goals scored and conceded and the resulting goal difference, with total points determining rank. When two or more clubs finish level on points, head-to-head results are applied first, followed by goal difference and goals scored in matches between the tied clubs, then overall goal difference and goals scored across the season. A play-off match at a neutral venue is used only in the rare case that all other criteria fail to separate two sides for the title, European qualification or relegation.
The Relegation Play-Off and European Places
The top of the table sends four clubs into the following season's UEFA Champions League league phase, with additional places awarded to the Europa League and, depending on Germany's UEFA coefficient in a given season, the Conference League. At the bottom, the two lowest-placed clubs are relegated directly to 2. Bundesliga. The 16th-placed side avoids automatic relegation but must instead survive a two-legged play-off — home and away — against the third-placed team from 2. Bundesliga, a fixture that has produced some of German football's most tense late-season drama in recent editions.
Eras of Dominance
Bayern Munich has won the large majority of Bundesliga titles since the competition's founding, including a run of eleven consecutive championships between 2013 and 2023 that ended only when Bayer Leverkusen completed an unbeaten league campaign in 2023/24 under Xabi Alonso. Borussia Dortmund broke Bayern's earlier stranglehold with back-to-back titles in 2011 and 2012, built around a young core that later anchored Germany's 2014 World Cup-winning squad. Werder Bremen, Wolfsburg and Stuttgart have each produced one-off surprise titles at various points, underlining that the competitive gap outside Bayern has narrowed periodically even if it has rarely closed for long.
Frequently Asked Questions About the Bundesliga Table
How many clubs play in the Bundesliga?
Eighteen clubs compete in the Bundesliga each season, the smallest top-flight field among Europe's five traditionally strongest leagues.
How is the Bundesliga champion decided?
The champion is the club with the most points after 34 matchdays of a single round-robin table, home and away against every other club. There is no championship playoff.
How many Bundesliga clubs qualify for Europe?
Between four and seven clubs typically qualify for the Champions League, Europa League or Conference League depending on Germany's coefficient position that season, with the top four generally assured of Champions League football.
The Bundesliga's Standing Among Europe's Top Leagues
Alongside the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1, the Bundesliga is consistently ranked among Europe's five strongest domestic competitions by UEFA's coefficient system, which determines how many clubs from each country enter European competition. German clubs' record in the Champions League and Europa League over the past decade — including Bayern's 2020 and 2013 European Cup wins and Dortmund's two Champions League final appearances — keeps the league near the top of that ranking, even though its overall spending power trails the Premier League.
Why Bravsen Analyzes the Bundesliga Through xG
The league table shows how many points a club has taken from its matches, not whether that return matched the quality of chances it created or conceded along the way. Bravsen Intelligence breaks down individual Bundesliga fixtures with full shot, possession and chance-quality data, alongside a Crime Index that measures how closely a scoreline tracked the run of play. That layer of analysis is particularly useful for clubs fighting in the mid-table cluster around European qualification or the relegation play-off spot, where a handful of points — and the underlying process behind them — often decide the season.