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Club Division League/Level City State German champion Cup wins Inter-national trophies VfV 06 Hildesheim: Oberliga Niedersachsen: 5 Hildesheim: Lower Saxony
The Bundesliga (German: [ˈbʊndəsˌliːɡa] ⓘ; lit. ' Federal League '), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga ([ˌfuːsbal-]) or 1. Bundesliga ([ˌeːɐ̯stə-]), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system.
The German football league system, or league pyramid, refers to the hierarchically interconnected league system for association football in Germany that in the 2016–17 season consisted of 2,235 leagues in up to 13 levels having 31,645 teams, in which all divisions are bound together by the principle of promotion and relegation.
This is a list of clubs in the Bundesliga. It records all 57 clubs who played in the 61 seasons of the Bundesliga since its introduction in 1963 . The placings section is split in two periods, before and after the German reunification , which took place during the league's 1990–91 season, in October 1990.
West German football clubs have entered European association football competitions since the 1955–56 season, when Rot-Weiss Essen took part in European Cup competition. East German football clubs entered European association football competitions two years later, since the 1957–58 season, when FC Erzgebirge Aue took part in European Cup ...
A club that wants to play in the Regionalliga must meet two conditions. First, the team must qualify for the league. Second, the club must obtain a license from the DFB. This license is granted if the club can prove that they are financially sound, that their stadium conforms to the security regulations, and that they have a working youth section.
The Westfalenstadion, the largest football stadium in Germany and home of Borussia Dortmund. The following is a list of football stadiums in Germany with a total capacity of at least 20,000 spectators (seating and standing). Below a list of stadiums with a capacity of at least 10,000.
Clubs are sorted by the name of the city they are from. Football in Germany is governed by the DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund or German Football Association). The founding clubs of the DFB are listed here. The senior football circuit in Germany is the Bundesliga. A list of clubs from the rest of the world is available here