Facts and Figures
The Numbers Game: Matchday 11
By: Jan |
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We keep it strictly binary this week.
0. The combined number of goals Bayern’s strike duo Miroslav Klose and Luca Toni scored so far this season.
1. The number of goals former Bayern striker Lukas Podolski scored so far this season. Lukas Podolski joined Cologne in the summer, after Klose and Toni were continuously given the nod [...]
Category: 1. FC Cologne, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, FC Bayern Munich, Facts and Figures, Hertha BSC Berlin
Tags: 1. FC Cologne, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Facts and Figures, FC Bayern Munich, Hertha BSC Berlin, Luca Toni, Lukas Podolski, Miroslav KloseThe Numbers Game: Matchday 9
By: Jan | 2 Comments
It wasn’t a good weekend for exciting football. It was a good weekend for exciting numbers. Or rather, a good weekend for those who can find numbers exciting.
619. Tim Wiese has kept a clean sheet for 619 minutes and counting. Remember, he did so while playing for Werder Bremen. Any other season this would [...]
The Money Game: Champions League vs Europa League
By: Jan | 5 Comments
We’re heading into a new season of European football, which for most people really only means Champions League football. The big question ahead of every Champions League season is of course not who wins it – Stuttgart won’t, Wolfsburg won’t and most probably Bayern won’t either so why bother – but who earns how much. [...]
Foreigners: Who They Are and Where They Come From
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Foreigners play for Arsenal London or Inter Milan. Foreigners made England’s footballers so bad, that they couldn’t qualify for Euro 2008. Foreigners now make England’s footballers so good, that they will easily qualify for the World Cup in 2010.
The Bundesliga currently employs 497 players, of which 260 players are foreigners (52,3%). That’s the fourth highest [...]
Category: Facts and FiguresGuide to the Bundesliga’s Season Finale
By: Jan | 7 Comments
Three matchdays to go and there is still pretty much everything to play for at the top and the bottom of the table. A welcome change to last season, where we had to make do with a little tussle for the UEFA Cup and Intertoto spots and Nuremberg putting up not much of a fight [...]
Category: Arminia Bielefeld, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, Facts and Figures, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg Tags: 1. Bundesliga, Arminia Bielefeld, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Energie Cottbus, Facts and Figures, FC Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL WolfsburgA Quick and Complicated Guide to Europe
By: Jan | 5 Comments
European football competitions used to be a straight forward affair. Two cups for each domestic league title and another one for the best of the rest all played out in a two-legged knockout format. Then came the G-14, breakaway league threats and UEFA’s response with a complicated mix of pre-group stage qualification knockout ties, group [...]
Job Security in Europe’s Top Leagues
By: Jan | 5 Comments
Getting the sack as a football coach isn’t really the worst thing that could happen to you and to Jürgen Klinsmann. Except for the banking sector there probably isn’t a job on this planet where screwing up pays you so much in golden handshakes. Looking at it this way, this season’s best places in Europe [...]
The Bundesliga Money League
By: Jan | 4 Comments
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 [...]
Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, 1. FC Nuremberg, 1899 Hoffenheim, 2. Bundesliga, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Facts and Figures, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hansa Rostock, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, MSV Duisburg, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen Tags: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, 1. FC Nuremberg, 1899 Hoffenheim, 2. Bundesliga, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, Facts and Figures, 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 BremenStat of the Day: Hertha Explained
By: Jan | 6 Comments
Statistics haven’t been too kind to Hertha this season. Wether you look at possession, shots on target or one-on-one situations – all the bragging rights relevant numbers usually favored Hertha’s opposition once the match was over. Numbers which reinforced the believe that this team was riding it’s luck and robbing others of their well deserved [...]
Transfer Fees: From Bayern via Hoffenheim to Cottbus
By: Jan | 6 Comments
In the light of ever more Hoffenheim table topping, coverage and hype, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at how much of their success is Dietmar Hopp’s money and how much of it is Ralf Rangnick’s genius. While at it, I decided to do the same for the remaining 17 Bundesliga [...]
Category: 1. FC Cologne, 1899 Hoffenheim, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Facts and Figures, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen Tags: 1. FC Cologne, 1899 Hoffenheim, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, Facts and Figures, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Miscellaneous, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen
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