March 13th, 2009

The Bundesliga Money League

By: Jan |

I never heard of Goldman Morgenstern & Partners Financial Intelligence Service before, but they published a press release which lists the turnover of each Bundesliga club for the 2007/2008 season. The data seems to come from an article in the print edition of Kicker magazine. Said article supposedly dealt with the official Bundesliga report for [...]

October 7th, 2008

DFB-Pokal Round of 16 and UEFA Cup Group Stage Draw

By: Jan |

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The DFB-Pokal Round of 16 draw took place on Sunday, and the UEFA Cup group stage draw just concluded an hour ago.
DFB-Pokal Round of 16
SC Freiburg – FSV Mainz 05
VfB Stuttgart – Bayern Munich
Bayer Leverkusen – Energie Cottbus
Hamburger SV – 1860 Munich
Karlsruher SC – SV Wehen Wiesbaden
VfL Wolfsburg – Hansa Rostock
Carl Zeiss Jena - FC [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, DFB-Pokal, Energie Cottbus, Europa League, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, FSV Mainz 05, Hamburger SV, Hansa Rostock, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, TSV 1860 Munich, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen

May 20th, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 34

By: Jan |

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1. Nuremberg complete relegation double.
Schalke scored two goals. Schalke almost scored two own goals. In between Nuremberg squandered their chances, like they squandered their chances all season. Eventually those were Nuremberg’s final 90 minutes in the Bundesliga.
Nuremberg are now in sole possession of two less than flattering relegation records. They won the relegation double, by [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Nuremberg, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hansa Rostock, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen

May 14th, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 33

By: Jan |

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1. Rostock and Duisburg return to the second division.
They went from newly-promoted to newly-relegated over the course of one season. Duisburg lost against Bayern at home (2-3), despite staging a semi-remarkable comeback after Lukas Podolski had made it 3-0 after just 20 minutes. Rostock lost against Leverkusen (1-2) in a game which kept Leverkusen’s [...]

May 9th, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 31 and 32

By: Jan |

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It was a busy week of Bundesliga football. And it was a busy week for me as well, so I focused my attention on the inevitable and the ugly. But there was more happening in the league, and it’s time to catch up with it in this double header edition.
1. Bremen and Schalke win Champions [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Nuremberg, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hansa Rostock, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, MSV Duisburg, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen

April 29th, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 30

By: Jan |

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1. Only math stands in Bayern’s way now.
Bayern beat Stuttgart 4-1 on Sunday. Angela blogged about how it happened and then Anna blogged about why it happened. Now I blog about how Bayern top the table with a 12 point lead. 20 goals stand between them and Werder Bremen. 24 goals stand between them and [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Nuremberg, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hansa Rostock, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, MSV Duisburg, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Nuremberg, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hansa Rostock, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Matchdays, MSV Duisburg, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen

April 15th, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 28

By: Jan |

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1. Nuremberg can no longer finish their matches.
Last week Nuremberg’s match against Frankfurt was stopped for 20 minutes, after some people from Nuremberg’s travelling support burned firecrackers and threw a flare onto the pitch. This Friday Nuremberg’s match against Wolfsburg got abandoned after heavy rain rendered the pitch unplayable. A Bundesliga first. Nuremberg were leading [...]

February 12th, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 19

By: Jan |

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1. There are entertaining 1-1 draws.
You could call them borderline exciting draws as well. The top of the table clashes between Leverkusen and Hamburg and Bayern and Bremen didn’t really help anyone in terms of results, but yet you didn’t feel you just wasted 90 minutes of your life either. With some good will – [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Nuremberg, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hansa Rostock, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen

February 7th, 2008

die Tabelle lügen nicht! (02/07)

By: Johnny on the Spot |

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1. Bayern Munich
Late in their match victory over Hansa Rostock, Hitzfeld switched Klose for Ottl and finally reverted from the toothless 4-4-2 to the dynamic 4-5-1 (or in their case a 4-2-3-1). Is he finally seeing the light?
2. Werder Bremen
A blatant offside for the first goal. A harsh red on Naldo. Did [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Nuremberg, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hansa Rostock, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, MSV Duisburg, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen

February 4th, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 18

By: Jan |

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1. If Bayern play bad their rivals will play worse.
Or at least drop points, while Bayern won’t. Let’s take Hamburg for this weekend’s example. They played a toothless first half, went down 0-1 and then needed an improved second half to draw the match against Hanover. Bayern played a good first half, went up 2-0 [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Nuremberg, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hansa Rostock, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, MSV Duisburg, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, Werder Bremen