1. FC Köln
Bundesliga14th last season
Cologne's club, famous for the goat mascot Hennes, a carnival-city atmosphere and a support that fills the ground through promotion and relegation.
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1. FC Union Berlin
Bundesliga11th last seasonAn east Berlin club whose supporters literally rebuilt the stadium with their own labour, and who reached the Champions League in 2023 with one of the smallest budgets in the division.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Bundesliga6th last seasonA works club founded by employees of the Bayer pharmaceutical company, long mocked for finishing second before finally winning the league unbeaten in 2024.
Bayern Munich
Bundesliga1st last seasonGermany’s dominant club and one of the most successful in Europe, majority-owned by its own members despite its size, with a women’s team that competes at the same level.
Borussia Dortmund
Bundesliga2nd last seasonHome of the Yellow Wall, the largest standing terrace in European football, and a club known for developing young players, including several Americans, before selling them on.
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Bundesliga12th last seasonThe foals of the 1970s, a club that once dominated Germany and now lives as a solid Bundesliga name with a strong local following.
Eintracht Frankfurt
Bundesliga8th last seasonA big-city German club with a huge travelling support, a Europa League win in 2022 and a reputation for chaos in the best sense.
FC Augsburg
Bundesliga9th last seasonA Bavarian club that treats survival as success and rarely pretends otherwise, with a practical, hard-running style.
A Hamburg club with an openly left-wing, anti-fascist supporter culture that has made it a global cult side, with a following far larger than its results would suggest.
Hamburger SV
Bundesliga13th last seasonHamburg's traditional giant, once a European champion, long stuck trying to reclaim the status it lost after relegation.
Hoffenheim
Bundesliga5th last seasonDietmar Hopp's project club, risen from village football to the Bundesliga with modern facilities and a fanbase that other German supporters often distrust.
Mainz 05
Bundesliga10th last seasonA small Rhineland club that punches above its weight with pressing football and coaching ideas that bigger clubs notice.
RB Leipzig
Bundesliga3rd last seasonFounded in 2009 and backed by Red Bull, Leipzig rose from the fifth tier to the Champions League in seven years by recruiting young players and pressing aggressively.
SC Freiburg
Bundesliga7th last seasonA small club in Germany’s south-west that consistently outperforms its budget through patient coaching, an outstanding academy, and unusual stability, one manager stayed for 14 years.
SC Paderborn
BundesligaA small Westphalian club for whom simply being in the Bundesliga conversation is the achievement.
Schalke 04
BundesligaDortmund's Revier rivals, a working-class Ruhr club with a massive arena and a painful recent stretch of relegation and rebuild.
SV Elversberg
BundesligaA Saarland village club whose rise is one of German football's stranger modern climbs.
SV Werder Bremen
Bundesliga15th last seasonA northern club with four league titles and a reputation for attacking football in the 1990s and 2000s, now operating in the middle of the division with a strong local identity.
VfB Stuttgart
Bundesliga4th last seasonA traditional southern club that mixes academy graduates with smart recruitment, recently back among Germany's stronger sides.
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