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The Bundesliga is the number one association football league in the world in terms of average attendance, with an average of 39,512 spectators per game as of the 2023-24 season [3] making it the second-highest attendance of any sports league in the world after the American National Football League. [4] The Bundesliga is broadcast on television ...
Since the DFB and Ligaverband organise the Bundesliga competitions jointly, a basic contract has been in place since the beginning of the 2004–05 season, which determines the rights and obligations of both parties. In particular, it grants the Ligaverband the right to organize the DFB-owned club competitions of the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga.
The DFL applies the procedure for the clubs of the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga, as well as for some of the clubs of the lower leagues under a business contract. In doing so, the DFL will examine the extent to which the individual clubs fulfill the requirements for participation in the professional football competitions.
50+1 rule is an informal term used to refer to a clause in the regulations of the Deutsche Fußball-Liga (German Football League). The clause states that, in order to obtain a license to compete in the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga, a club must either wholly- or majority-own its association football team. In case of majority ownership, the ...
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.
The 2020–21 Bundesliga was the 58th season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football competition. It began on 18 September 2020 and concluded on 22 May 2021. [1] The season was originally scheduled to begin on 21 August 2020 and conclude on 15 May 2021, [2] though this was delayed due to postponement of the previous season as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
Its highest league until the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963 was the Oberliga Südwest, the regional division of the former top level German Oberliga. Since the 2012–13 season, the FRVS, along with the Southern German football association is in charge of Regionalliga Südwest, a step 4 division in the German football league system.