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2014/2015 Season
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Contents

Foreword03
Bundesliga04
DFL/League Association    06
DFL Sports Enterprises    08
Digital Media             11
Sportcast12
Clubs                     14
FC Augsburg               16
Hertha Berlin							       18
SV Werder Bremen          20
Borussia Dortmund         22
Eintracht Frankfurt       24
Sport-Club Freiburg       26
Hamburger SV              28
Hannover 96               30
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim       32
1. FC Köln                34
Bayer 04 Leverkusen       36
1. FSV Mainz 05           38
Borussia Mönchengladbach  40
FC Bayern München         42
SC Paderborn 07           44
FC Schalke 04             46
VfB Stuttgart             48
VfL Wolfsburg             50

Fixture Lists52
Imprint                   55
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Foreword

                                    The Bundesliga –
                                    Thrilling and successful
                                           At the end of a thrilling FIFA World Cup the German national
                                   team returned from Brazil as world champions. G    ­ ermany is the first
                                   European nation to have won the World Cup gold trophy on the Ameri­
                                   can continent – which marks an outstanding success, just like the re­
                                   cent results of the German clubs in the ­Champions League. Conse­
                                   quently, we are now looking forward to the 2014/2015 season with
particularly eager anticipation. The Bundesliga thrills football fans in nearly all countries of the world
week after week, while more and more international stars ­recognise it as an attractive competition with
plenty of goals being scored in frequently sold-out ­stadiums.

          To cater for the continually growing interest in the Bundesliga, we keep developing our digital
offerings. At bundesliga.com news about the clubs and matches can be found in English, Japanese and
Polish. The official YouTube channel of the Bundesliga, in addition to the greatest goals and emotions,
features up-and-coming stars, as well as heroes of the past. International newspapers, magazines, web­
sites, and TV channels in particular, regularly inform their readers or viewers about the Bundesliga as
well. By publishing this Media Guide the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga aims to provide optimum assistance
to colleagues from international media. In addition to the key points of contact for the 18 Bundesliga
clubs, it contains interesting facts and figures about the clubs and their history. Furthermore, it provides
a wide range of information on German professional football, plus key points of contact for the DFL and
its subsidiaries, DFL Sports ­Enterprises and Sportcast.

        The entire team of the DFL Group wishes you an exciting 2014/2015 season. We look forward
to continuing our excellent cooperation with you.

Best regards

Christian Pfennig
Director Corporate and Brand Communications

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Bundesliga
    The league of goals
             The German national team thrilled foot-              Thanks to this large number of nation-
    ball fans around the world with its attacking style   al and international top-flight stars, which in-
    of play and brilliant goals in the 2014 FIFA World    clude Franck Ribéry or the Poles R       ­obert
    Cup, and deservedly won the World Cup trophy.         Lewandowski and Jakub Bl⁄aszczykowski as
                                                          ­
    This also marked a major success for the Bundes-      well, the Bundes­  liga has been numbering
    liga and its clubs whose youth academies initial-     among the most successful and attractive
    ly trained nearly all the players of the successful   leagues in the world for years. Football featur-
    German team. 15 world champions alone, includ-        ing high technical quality and thrilling match-
    ing world goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, DFB captain        es attracted 42,609 spectators on average
    Philipp Lahm, the five-time goal scorer Thomas        to the modern and convenient stadiums in the
    Müller, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Jérôme Boateng,       past season.
    Mario Götze, who scored the winning goal in the
    final, Mats Hummels or Benedikt Höwedes were                    With an average of 3.16 goals – more
    again on the team lists of the clubs at the begin-    than in any of the past 27 years – the Bundes­
    ning of the 52nd Bundesliga season.                   liga, in 2013/2014, was again the top league
                                                          in Europe seeing the largest number of goals
             But the German Bundesliga players            scored. The European best mark attests to the
    were not the only ones to deliver convincing per-     thrilling attacking style of football being played
    formances in Brazil. A number of foreign stars        in Germany. Among other things, this offense-
    who play in Germany made exceptional show-            oriented style of play is rooted in the excellent
    ings as well, such as Arjen Robben and Klaas-Jan      training of young footballers in Germany. Since
    ­Huntelaar, who took third place with the Nether­     2001 all professional clubs have been obligat-
     lands, the Brazilian Luiz Gustavo or Belgium’s       ed to operate youth academies and 925 million
     Kevin De Bruyne. In total, the 77 players from the   euros have been invested in talent promotion
     Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 scored 35 goals in       ever since – an investment that has more than
     the World Cup, more than the representatives of      paid off for the clubs and will continue to bear
     any other league in the world.                       fruit in future.

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DFL/League Association
    Professional structures for a
    professional league
             Professional football must also be or-   German Football Association (DFB) and close-
    ganised professionally. This is why in 2000 the   ly cooperates with Germany’s football govern-
    36 clubs and joint stock companies of the Bun-    ing body.
    desliga and Bundesliga 2 founded the League
    Association with the entire organisation of               On behalf of the League Association,
    both professional leagues being undertaken        the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga manages the
    by its executive arm, the DFL Deutsche Fußball    operational side of the Bundesliga and Bun-
    Liga. The League Association, in which all 36     desliga 2 and is primarily in charge of organis-
    clubs and joint stock companies have equal vot-   ing and marketing professional football in Ger-
    ing rights, is managed by a nine-strong execu-    many. Since 2005, Christian Seifert has headed
    tive board chaired by its president, currently    up the DFL as CEO of the DFL Executive Board.
    Dr Reinhard Rauball, and two vice presidents.     COO is Andreas Rettig. The DFL’s main tasks in-
    The League Association is also a member of the    clude setting up and carrying out all 612 fixtures

    Dr Reinhard Rauball       Christian Seifert       Andreas Rettig

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Contacts
in any season in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2       DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH
as well as organising the Supercup and all rele-       Guiollettstraße 44–46
gation/promotion play-off matches. The licens-         D-60325 Frankfurt/Main
ing of the 36 clubs and joint stock companies is       T +49 69 65005-0
a central part of the DFL’s terms of reference.        F +49 69 65005-555
Only clubs that have successfully gone through         E info@bundesliga.com
licensing are permitted to play in the Bundesli-       W bundesliga.com
ga or Bundesliga 2. The DFL examines the abil-
ity of all 36 clubs and joint stock companies to
fulfil the requirements for professional football
in sporting, administrative, infrastructure, secu-     International
rity, media and, in particular, financial terms. The
Bundesliga licensing system is considered to be        Communications
the most stringent and exemplary in Europe. As
a prerequisite for an exciting competition, it has
also played a decisive role in ensuring that none                   Head of International
of the clubs has been forced into administration                    Communications
during any season in the 51 years of the Bundes-                    Eliane Zäh
liga’s history.                                        T   +49 69 65005-279
                                                       F   +49 69 65005-557
         The DFL’s core business includes the cen-     M   +49 151 61673663
tralised marketing of national media rights held       E   eliane.zaeh@bundesliga.de
by the Bundesliga. Since its foundation, the DFL
has succeeded in achieving a six-fold increase in
this area. The new contract ensures that an av-
erage total of 628 million euros will be split be-                  Business
tween all League Association members during                         Communications
each of the seasons 2013/2014 to 2016/2017,                         Susanne Jahrreiss
an almost 50 per cent increase compared to the         T   +49 69 65005-218
previous licensing period.                             F   +49 69 65005-557
                                                       M   +49 171 8391901
        The DFL also continues to promote the          E   susanne.jahrreiss@bundesliga.de
development of the Bundesliga brand. Today,
the Bundesliga is one of Germany’s best known
brands and surveys indicate it is recognised by
98 per cent of Germans.

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DFL Sports Enterprises
    Professional and successful
    international TV rights sales
             Founded in 2008, the wholly-owned sub-    casting, TV partners include international free-
    sidiary DFL Sports Enterprises is in charge of     and pay-TV channels. The most recent example
    marketing the worldwide audiovisual rights for     of DFL Sports Enterprises’ strategic marketing is
    all 612 fixtures of the Bundesliga and Bundesli-   the deal with 21st Century Fox and its worldwide
    ga 2 as well as the relegation/promotion match-    network of broadcast outlets that will become
    es and the Supercup on all platforms including     the new home of the Bundesliga throughout the
    TV, the internet and mobile devices, as well as    Americas, large parts of Asia, and in European
    promoting league-wide sponsorships and licens-     markets like Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium.
    ing rights.
                                                               With its own Asia-Pacific branch, DFL
            Thanks to its professionalism and know-    Sports Enterprises strives to further promote
    how, DFL Sports Enterprises has improved the       the Bundesliga’s successful international market
    global market position of the Bundesliga on a      strategy. As the first European top league, the
    grand scale. With over 450,000 hours of broad-     Bundesliga has opened a representation o­ ffice in

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Contacts
DFL Sports Enterprises GmbH                      Vice President Sales
Ulmenstraße 23–25                                Audiovisual Rights
D-60325 Frankfurt/Main                           Kay Dammholz
T +49 69 65005-0                   T   +49 69 65005-207
F +49 69 65005-558                 F   +49 69 65005-558
E info@dfl-sports-enterprises.de   M   +49 151 14015026
W dfl-sports-enterprises.de        E   kay.dammholz@bundesliga.de
   bundesliga.com

                                                 Director Sales
                                                 Sponsoring, Licensing &
                                                 Digital Media
                                                 Andy Meyer
                                   T   +49 69 65005-297
                                   F   +49 69 65005-558
                                   M   +49 160 5384842
                                   E   andy.meyer@bundesliga.de

                                   Singapore. Across the globe, all 209 FIFA coun-
                                   tries can follow German professional football
                                   and watch up to six live matches in High Defini-
                                   tion per weekend.

                                             The local presence is supported by high-
                                   quality TV images and the DFL programme ‘Bun-
                                   desliga Preview Show’, which is broadcast in both
                                   English and Spanish. Produced in-house, the
                                   weekly half-hour programme sent out to all inter-
                                   national licensees offers an excellent overview
                                   of German professional football and is current-
                                   ly broadcast in over 150 FIFA member states.
                                   In fact, demand is so strong that numerous addi-
                                   tional special formats are produced allowing in-
                                   ternational TV stations to broadcast Bundesliga
                                   content even during the off-season period.

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Digital Media
A service for fans around the world

        Millions of supporters around the            reports and details, plus DFL publications and
world track the action in the Bundesliga. View-      points of contact.
ers in nearly all of the 209 FIFA countries can
watch the games by now and almost all of them                 In addition to the English-language site
can do so with live coverage being provided. To      there are dedicated Bundesliga websites for
satisfy this continually growing interest and        Poland (bundesliga.com/pl) and Japan (bun-
the desire of the fans to be supplied with cur-      desliga.com/jp) in the languages of these coun-
rent information about the league the digital        tries. They, too, work with independent editorial
offerings of the Bundesliga have been subject        teams and a dedicated editorial concept.
to continuous expansion and further develop-
ment for years.                                               The Bundesliga is present on other digi-
                                                     tal channels as well, for instance with its own Bun-
         The English-language BUNDESLIGA.            desliga channel on YouTube. At youtube.com/
COM website with a dedicated internation-            bundesliga current match reports, portraits of
al team of editors covers the needs of the fans      the league’s stars, historic clips and humorous
around the world. The site comprises reports and     scenes are shown. Up to 20 new videos are pro-
portraits of Bundesliga clubs and players, news      duced per week specifically for the YouTube
tickers, statistics during and after the meetings,   portal, with English-language narratives, and in
match day photo galleries and videos, plus play-     some cases featuring special versions tailored
er and expert interviews – particularly with the     to the interests of specific countries. Of course
international stars. BUNDESLIGA.COM exclu-           the Bundesliga constantly supplies its fans with
sively provides facts that have been verified and    up-to-the-minute news and pictures on Twitter
that users can rely on one hundred per cent. For     and Instagram as well. Since the summer of 2014
members of the media and broadcasters there          content has been available specifically for China
is a separate area with preview kits, match day      on various Chinese social media platforms.

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Sportcast
     Top-quality TV production
              Founded in 2006, the TV media ser-
     vice provider Sportcast GmbH, led by CEO
     Jupp Nehl and COO Alexander Günther, is also
     a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DFL, produc-
     ing the basic TV signal for all matches of the
     Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 for the nation-
     al and international TV licensees. In addition,
     Sportcast produces the promotion/relegation
     play-offs and the Supercup, as well as all fix-
     tures of the German Cup since 2008. Sport-
     cast ensures that the Bundesliga can be seen
     anywhere in the world. Producing 440 hours
     of international programme per season makes
     for over ten hours of footage per matchday.
     Six matches per matchday are produced in HD
     as high-quality programmes with English com-
     mentary and international graphics distribut-
     ed live via satellite. Matchdays are also sum-
     marised in the highlight shows and in magazine
     programmes specially produced for interna-
     tional takers.

              Sportcast also coordinates the contribu-
     tion and international distribution of the basic TV
     signal in over 200 countries. Using a proprietary
     Customer Service Tool, international TV licensees
     can easily go online and book the matches and pro-
     gramme formats they are interested in. Satellite
     data for distribution as well as up-to-date infor-
     mation on the matchday is also provided.

              The central role of the tool is reflected by
     the figures: per matchday around 400 feed book-
     ings are made and around 2,700 system mails
     are sent. Both international and national broad-
     casters benefit from a high-quality basic TV sig-
     nal, which meets the highest of demands with
     different camera standards and the use of state-
     of-the-art technology.

             The top match concept of the Bundesliga
     includes fourteen cameras: pitchside and super
     slow-motion, reverse-angle and chip cameras in

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the goal allow viewers even more involvement in
the match as well as capturing special moments
such as reactions of coaches and spectators.

Contacts
Sportcast GmbH
Siegburger Straße 183
D-50679 Köln
T +49 221 99559-0
F +49 221 99559-599
E info@sportcast.de
W sportcast.de

             Head of
             Media Operations
            Oliver Büser
T +49 221 99559-452
F +49 221 99559-5452
E oliver.bueser@sportcast.de

             Head of
             Distribution Services
            Frank Hippler
T +49 221 99559-240
F +49 221 99559-5240
E frank.hippler@sportcast.de

Accreditation
E service@sportcast.de

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CLUBS

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FC Augsburg
     Club Portrait                                         Halil Altintop

            FC Augsburg’s football philosophy
     has won many friends among Germany’s elite.
     The club, in its current form, was founded in
     1969 as a merger between BC Augsburg and
     TSV Schwaben.

              While playing in lower divisions, FC Augs-
     burg became famous for the successful educa-
     tion of the German internationals Helmut Haller
     and Bernd Schuster. Their subsequent ascent be-
     gan in the early 2000s. After reaching the Bun-
     desliga 2 in 2006, the club finally gained promo-
     tion to the Bundesliga in 2011. Playing in a brand
     new stadium, called SGL a­ rena, FC Augsburg vi-
     talised the Bundesliga with a dynamic and well-
     organised style of play and respectable results.
     Finishing in an impressive 8th place at the end of
     the season 2013/2014, the team from South-
     ern Germany has demonstrated that they are on
     their best way to becoming an established force
     in German football.

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Club                               Facts and Figures
Address                            Titles/Club Successes
FC Augsburg 1907 GmbH & Co. KGaA   Promotion to Bundesliga in 2011
Donauwörther Straße 170
D-86154 Augsburg                   Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
W fcaugsburg.de                    4 years
   @FCAugsburg
                                   Highest win (H) Bundesliga
Chief Executive Officer            4-1 vs Eintracht Braunschweig (14/12/2013)
Walther Seinsch                    Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga
                                   0-4 vs Borussia Dortmund (01/10/2011)
Members
12,000

Fan Clubs
70

Stadium
SGL arena

Capacity
30,660

Jerseys                            Media/PR
                                   Contact
                                   Dominik Schmitz
                                   T +49 821 65040-520
                                   F +49 821 65040-555
                                   M +49 177 4977684
                                   E presse@fcaugsburg.de

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Hertha Berlin
     Club Portrait
              The biggest club of Germany’s capital,       only reached the DFB-Pokal final in 1993 with its
     Hertha Berlin, has a long tradition in German foot-   second team, but was successfully promoted to
     ball. Crowned as German Champions in 1930 and         the Bundesliga in the season 1996/1997 once
     1931, the founding members of the Bundesliga          again. Furthermore, the club gained internation-
     became a remarkable force in the national top         al attention with the qualification for the Cham-
     flight. Since the foundation of the Bundesliga,       pions League in the 1999/2000 season. After
     they enjoyed their biggest success in the 1970s,      their recurrent promotion from Bundesliga 2 to
     finishing second in 1975 and not being stopped        Bundesliga in 2013, the club has been providing
     until the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup in 1979.        more than 74,000 spectators the opportunity to
     After several years of playing in the lower divi-     watch excellent Bundesliga football once again in
     sions, the 1990s were one of the most success-        the Olympiastadion, which is Germany’s second
     ful times in the club’s history. Hertha Berlin not    largest stadium.

                  Hajime Hosogai

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Club                               Facts and Figures
Address                            Titles/Club Successes
Hertha BSC GmbH & Co. KGaA         German Champion (2)
Hanns-Braun-Straße/Friesenhaus 2   1930, 1931
D-14053 Berlin                     German Cup Finalist (2)
W herthabsc.de                     1977, 1979
   @HerthaBSC                      German League Cup Winner (2)
                                   2001, 2002
Managing Board
Michael Preetz, Ingo Schiller      Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
                                   32 years
Members
32,000                             Highest win (H) Bundesliga
                                   9-1 vs Borussia Dortmund (18/04/1970)
Fan Clubs                          Worst defeat (H) Bundesliga
338                                0-6 vs Hamburger SV (05/04/1980)

Stadium
Olympiastadion Berlin

Capacity
74,475

Jerseys                            Media/PR
                                   Contact
                                   Peter Bohmbach
                                   T +49 30 300928-201
                                   F +49 30 300928-94
                                   M +49 174 9494694
                                   E peter.bohmbach@herthabsc.de

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SV Werder Bremen
     Club Portrait                                           Nils Petersen

              SV Werder Bremen is one of the most
     successful teams in Bundesliga history which
     is impressively demonstrated by their second
     place in the all-time Bundesliga table only be-
     hind FC Bayern München. As one of Bundesliga’s
     founding members, SV Werder Bremen became a
     dominant force in German football. This is under-
     lined by winning the Bundesliga Championship in
     1965. In the mid-1980s and early-90s former
     head coach Otto Rehagel led the club to signifi-
     cant success. The Bundesliga titles in 1988 and
     1993 as well as the back-to-back DFB-Pokal tri-
     umphs in 1991 and 1992 are ample proof. Ad-
     ditionally, the triumph in the European Cup Win-
     ners’ Cup in 1992 was an extraordinary highlight
     in the club’s history. Former head coach ­Thomas
     Schaaf, who stayed for 14 years in the city of
     Northern Germany, shaped another era by creat-
     ing a team that became famous for its attractive
     style of play.

               Brimming with stars like Ailton and J­ ohan
     Micoud, SV Werder Bremen had its peak in 2004,
     when team captain Frank Baumann lifted the
     ‘Meisterschale’ as well as the DFB-Pokal to the
     sky. In recent years, the appearance in the 2009
     UEFA Cup final with stars like Mesut Özil, Per
     Mertesacker, Diego or Claudio Pizarro caused
     enormous international attention.

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Club                                Facts and Figures
Address                             Titles/Club Successes
SV Werder Bremen GmbH & Co. KG aA   German Champion (4)
Franz-Böhmert-Straße 1c             1965, 1988, 1993, 2004
D-28205 Bremen                      German Cup Winner (6)
W werder.de                         1961, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009
W werder.tv                         German Supercup Winner (4)
   @werderbremen                    1988, 1993, 1994, 2009
                                    European Cup Winners’ Cup Winner (1)
Chief Executive Officer             1992
Klaus Filbry                        German Amateur Champion (3)
                                    1966, 1985, 1991
Members                             German League Cup Winner (1)
40,000                              2006

Fan Clubs                           Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
693                                 51 years

Stadium                             Highest win (H) Bundesliga
Weser-Stadion                       8-1 vs Arminia Bielefeld (29/09/2007)
                                    Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga
Capacity                            2-9 vs Eintracht Frankfurt (14/11/1981)
42,100

Jerseys                             Media/PR
                                    Contact
                                    Michael Rudolph
                                    T +49 421 43459-1970
                                    F +49 421 43459-1530
                                    M +49 162 9799197
                                    E michael.rudolph@werder.de

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Borussia Dortmund
     Club Portrait
             Borussia Dortmund is one of the most        Cup in 1966 and the UEFA Champions League
     popular clubs in Germany and well-known inter-      trophy in 1997.
     nationally for the SIGNAL IDUNA PARK in which
     more than 80,000 fans create an incredible at-               With coach Jürgen Klopp, Dortmund to-
     mosphere from matchday to matchday.                 day is once again a powerhouse on national and
                                                         international level, winning back-to-back Bun-
              As one of the founding members of the      desliga titles in 2011 and 2012 along with the
     Bundesliga, Borussia Dortmund experienced           National Cup in 2012. Their sustained success on
     fluctuating success concerning the clubs’ stand-    national and international level is evidenced with
     ing. The glorious eras both in the 1960s and mid-   their appearances in the 2013 UEFA Champions
     90s were highlighted by several domestic and in-    League final as well as in the DFB-Pokal final in
     ternational titles such as the UEFA Cup Winners’    the following season.

     Marco Reus

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Club                                Facts and Figures
Address                             Titles/Club Successes
Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA   German Champion (8)
Rheinlanddamm 207–209               1956, 1957, 1963, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2011,
D-44137 Dortmund                    2012
W bvb.de                            German Cup Winner (3)
   @BVB                             1965, 1989, 2012
                                    German Supercup Winner (5)
Chief Executive Officer             1989, 1995, 1996, 2013, 2014
Hans-Joachim Watzke                 UEFA Champions League Winner (1)
                                    1997
Members                             European Cup Winners’ Cup Winner (1)
108,000                             1966
                                    Intercontinental Cup Winner (1)
Fan Clubs                           1997
650
                                    Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
Stadium                             48 years
SIGNAL IDUNA PARK
                                    Highest win (H) Bundesliga
Capacity                            11-1 vs Arminia Bielefeld (06/11/1982)
80,667                              Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga
                                    0-12 vs Borussia Mönchengladbach
                                    (29/04/1978)

Jerseys                             Media/PR
                                    Contact
                                    Sascha Fligge
                                    T +49 231 9020-4600
                                    F +49 231 9020-4912
                                    E media@bvb.de

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Eintracht Frankfurt
     Club Portrait
              Established in 1899, Eintracht Frank-   f­ inal. In Eintracht Frankfurt’s long-lasting Bun-
     furt is one of Germany’s best-supported and       desliga history, several stars like ‘Charly’ Körbel
     most successful clubs. National champions in      who holds the Bundesliga record with 602 ap-
     1959, the nicknamed ‘Eagles’ were founding        pearances, Bernd Hölzenbein who scored 160
     members of the Bundesliga and remained a top-     goals between 1967 and 1981, the Korean in-
     flight institution until 1996.                    ternational Bum Kun Cha and striker Anthony
                                                       Yeboah from Ghana wore the famous black,
            Their greatest achievements are four       white and red coloured jersey. After the relega-
     National Cup titles (1974, 1975, 1981 and         tion in 2011, the club returned to the Bundesliga
     1988), one UEFA Cup triumph in 1980 as well       in 2012 and immediately qualified for the UEFA
     as an appearance in the 1960 European Cup         Europa League.

                    Takashi Inui

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Club                             Facts and Figures
Address                          Titles/Club Successes
Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball AG   German Champion (1)
Mörfelder Landstraße 362         1959
D-60528 Frankfurt/Main           German Cup Winner (4)
W eintracht.de                   1974, 1975, 1981, 1988
   @Eintracht_News               UEFA Cup Winner (1)
                                 1980
Chief Executive Officer
Heribert Bruchhagen              Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
                                 46 years
Members
25,000                           Highest win (H) Bundesliga
                                 9-1 vs Rot-Weiss Essen (05/10/1974)
Fan Clubs                        Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga
700                              0-7 vs 1. FC Köln (29/10/1983)

Stadium
Commerzbank-Arena

Capacity
51,500

Jerseys                          Media/PR
                                 Contact
                                 Carsten Knoop
                                 T +49 69 95503-130
                                 F +49 69 95503-139
                                 M +49 179 4570860
                                 E c.knoop@eintrachtfrankfurt.de

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Sport-Club Freiburg
     Club Portrait                                          Sascha Riether

               Since first gaining promotion to the Bun-
     desliga in 1993, SC Freiburg has hopped be-
     tween the top two divisions no less than seven
     times. Volker Finke spent an impressive 16-year
     spell as Freiburg’s head coach between 1991
     and 2007, laying the foundations for a tradition
     of youth development which has borne plenty of
     fruit in recent years.

               A well-structured philosophy of foot-
     ball including an educational approach of young
     talents is available until today and guided
     SC Freiburg to three appearances in internation-
     al competitions (1995, 2001 and 2013). Finish-
     ing in third place at the end of the Bundesliga sea-
     son 1994/1995 can be pointed out as the club’s
     biggest success.

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Club                               Facts and Figures
Address                            Titles/Club Successes
Sport-Club Freiburg e. V.          UEFA Cup Participation (2)
Schwarzwaldstraße 193              1995/1996, 2001/2002
D-79117 Freiburg im Breisgau       UEFA Europa League Participation (1)
W scfreiburg.com                   2013/2014
   @sc_freiburg
                                   Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
Chairman                           16 years
Fritz Keller
                                   Highest win (H) Bundesliga
Members                            5-0 vs VfL Bochum (09/12/2000)
7,700                              Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga
                                   0-7 vs FC Bayern München (10/09/2011)
Fan Clubs
65

Stadium
Stadion an der Schwarzwaldstraße

Capacity
24,000

Jerseys                            Media/PR
                                   Contact
                                   Rudi Raschke
                                   T +49 761 38551-167
                                   F +49 761 38551-170
                                   M +49 178 2923281
                                   E raschke@scfreiburg.com

                                                                2014/2015 Season   27
Hamburger SV
     Club Portrait
              As a founding member of the Bundes-       2009 and 2010 can be named as the greatest
     liga, Hamburger SV is an institution in German     success on international level in recent years.
     football with a long-lasting tradition. They re-   Within the long history of Hamburg’s biggest
     main the only club never to have been relegat-     club, a lot of prominent players like club legend
     ed from Germany’s top flight. Hamburger SV         Uwe ­Seeler, the German internationals Horst
     enjoyed its most fruitful years on the nation-     Hrubesch and Felix Magath as well as outstand-
     al scene in the 1970s and 1980s, when the so       ing striker Kevin Keegan wore the famous jer-
     called ‘Rothosen’ were on top of the Bundes-       sey of Hamburger SV. In recent years some of
     liga at the end of three seasons and caused        the famous players were the Netherlands inter-
     Euro­pean attention with their two glamorous       nationals Rafael van der Vaart, Ruud van Nistel-
     European Cup wins in 1977 and 1983. Their ap-      rooy and Nigel de Jong or the Belgian national
     pearance in two semi-finals of the UEFA Cup in     captain Vincent Kompany.

     Pierre-Michel Lasogga

28
Club                      Facts and Figures
Address                   Titles/Club Successes
HSV Fußball AG            German Champion (6)
Sylvesterallee 7          1923, 1928, 1960, 1979, 1982, 1983
D-22525 Hamburg           German Cup Winner (3)
W hsv.de                  1963, 1976, 1987
   @HSV                   European Champions Cup Winner (1)
                          1983
Chief Executive Officer   European Cup Winners’ Cup Winner (1)
Dietmar Beiersdorfer      1977
                          German League Cup Winner (2)
Members                   1973, 2003
73,000
                          Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
Fan Clubs                 52 years
850
                          Highest win (H) Bundesliga
Stadium                   8-0 vs Karlsruher SC (12/02/1966)
Imtech Arena              Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga
                          0-7 vs Borussia Dortmund (20/05/1976)
Capacity
57,200

Jerseys                   Media/PR
                          Contact
                          Jörn Wolf
                          T +49 40 4155-1100
                          F +49 40 4155-1106
                          M +49 173 9136579
                          E presse@hsv.de

                                                       2014/2015 Season   29
Hannover 96
     Club Portrait                                      Leonardo Bittencourt

              In the last few years Hannover 96 expe-
     rienced a successful chapter in its long-lasting
     history that goes back to 1896. Two successive
     campaigns in the UEFA Europa League finally put
     the club on the European map.

              Equipped with two German Champion-
     ships before the foundation of the Bundesliga
     in 1963, Hannover made history when they be-
     came the first ever second-division side to win
     the DFB-Pokal in 1992. Back in the Bundesliga
     since 2002, the Reds now look to having estab-
     lished themselves in Germany’s top flight again.

30
Club                                Facts and Figures
Address                             Titles/Club Successes
Hannover 96 GmbH & Co. KGaA         German Champion (2)
Robert-Enke-Straße 1                1938, 1954
D-30169 Hannover                    German Amateur Champion (3)
W hannover96.de                     1960, 1964, 1965
   @Hannover96                      German Cup Winner (1)
                                    1992
Chief Executive Officer
Martin Kind                         Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
                                    27 years
Members
20,500                              Highest win (H) Bundesliga
                                    6-0 vs Borussia Neunkirchen (18/09/1965)
Fan Clubs                           Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga
120 with 5,000 registered members   0-7 vs FC Bayern München (17/04/2010)

Stadium
HDI Arena

Capacity
49,000

Jerseys                             Media/PR
                                    Contact
                                    Alex Jacob
                                    T +49 511 96900-101
                                    F +49 511 96900-7101
                                    M +49 176 60011668
                                    E alex.jacob@hannover96.de

                                                                 2014/2015 Season   31
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
     Club Portrait
             TSG 1899 Hoffenheim tells the sto-                   Similar success has proven elusive,
     ry of an impressive promotion from the fifth        and they only closely avoided relegation in
     division in 2000 to the Bundesliga within only      2012/2013, before coming back with an attrac-
     eight years. The club took the Bundesliga by        tive style of play featuring a tremendous goal av-
     storm in their first season, being first in the     erage in the following season.
     table at Christmas 2008, only to be stopped
     by several injuries of their top players like Ve-
     dad Ibišević, who scored 18 goals in his first
     17 ­Bundesliga matches.

                Roberto Firmino

32
Club                                   Facts and Figures
Address                                Titles/Club Successes
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim                    Promotion to Bundesliga 2 in 2007
Fußball-Spielbetriebs GmbH
Dietmar-Hopp-Sportpark                 Promotion to Bundesliga in 2008
Horrenberger Straße 58
D-74939 Zuzenhausen                    Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
W achtzehn99.de                        7 years
   @achtzehn99
                                       Highest win (H) Bundesliga
Managing Board                         6-2 vs VfL Wolfsburg (02/03/2014)
Peter Rettig (chairman), Frank Briel   Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga
                                       1-7 vs FC Bayern München (10/03/2012)
Members
6,200

Fan Clubs
122

Stadium
WIRSOL Rhein-Neckar-Arena

Capacity
30,150

Jerseys                                Media/PR
                                       Contact
                                       Christian Frommert
                                       T +49 7261 9493-189
                                       M +49 171 8348243
                                       E christian.frommert@achtzehn99.de

                                                                    2014/2015 Season   33
1. FC Köln
     Club Portrait                                           Patrick Helmes

               The winners of the very first Bundesliga
     title in 1963/1964, 1. FC Köln can look back on a
     multi-faceted history in German football. On the
     one hand, the club had significant achievements
     by winning two Bundesliga Championships and
     four German Cup titles between 1964 and 1983.

               The founding president of the club,
     Franz Kremer, was one of the masterminds be-
     hind the founding of the Bundesliga and the im-
     plementation of professional football in Germa-
     ny. The 8th place in the all-time Bundesliga table
     highlights the prominent role of the club which is
     well-known for its very loyal and passionate fan
     base with more than 60,000 members. Sever-
     al excellent players like Hans Schäfer, Wolfgang
     ­Overath, Toni Schumacher, Pierre Littbarski and
      Lukas Podolski became famous in the long-last-
      ing history of the red and white coloured club.

               On the other hand, the biggest team in Co-
     logne was relegated to the second flight five times
     in the past sixteen years. However, they managed
     to come back after each relegation and are try-
     ing to become a sustainable force in Germany’s
     top flight after their last Bundesliga promotion
     in 2013/2014. Another feature of the nicknamed
     Billy Goats is the fact that their official mascot is
     a living billy goat, called Hennes, the current being
     Hennes the VIIIth in the club’s history.

34
Club                            Facts and Figures
Address                         Titles/Club Successes
1. FC Köln GmbH & Co. KGaA      German Champion (3)
Postfach 45 04 56               1962, 1964, 1978
50879 Köln                      German Cup Winner (4)
W fc-koeln.de                   1968, 1977, 1978, 1983
   @fckoeln and @fckoeln_live
                                Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
President                       44 years
Werner Spinner
                                Highest win (A) Bundesliga
Members                         8-0 vs FC Schalke 04 (08/11/1969)
65,000                          8-0 vs Eintracht Braunschweig (08/09/1979)
                                Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga
Fan Clubs                       0-7 vs FC Bayern München (15/05/1971)
1,450

Stadium
RheinEnergieStadion

Capacity
50,000

Jerseys                         Media/PR
                                Contact
                                Tobias Kaufmann
                                T +49 221 71616-470
                                F +49 221 71616-338
                                M +49 160 7161633
                                E kaufmann@fc-koeln.de

                                                             2014/2015 Season   35
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
     Club Portrait
             Bayer 04 Leverkusen began as an after-      spots between 1996/1997 and 2010/2011
     hours sports club set up by workers of the phar-    in the Bundes­liga and their appearance in the
     maceutical and chemical company Bayer which         2002 Champions League final demonstrate
     has remained its only stakeholder to this day. In   ­Leverkusen’s prominent role in European and
     recent years, several outstanding players such as    German football.
     Rudi Völler, Michael Ballack or Lúcio became part
     of the so called Werkself and established Bayer
     04 Leverkusen as a sustainable force in German
     football.

           Winning the UEFA Cup in 1988 and the
     DFB-Pokal in 1993 as well as five runners-up

     Heung-Min Son

36
Club                               Facts and Figures
Address                            Titles/Club Successes
Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH   German Cup Winner (1)
Bismarckstraße 122–124             1993
D-51373 Leverkusen                 UEFA Cup Winner (1)
W bayer04.de                       1988
   @bayer04fussball
                                   Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
Managing Director                  36 years
Michael Schade
                                   Highest win (A) Bundesliga
Members                            9-1 vs SSV Ulm 1846 (18/03/2000)
26,500                             Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga
                                   1-6 vs Hannover 96 (26/03/1988)
Fan Clubs
321

Stadium
BayArena

Capacity
30,210

Jerseys                            Media/PR
                                   Contact
                                   Meinolf Sprink
                                   T +49 214 8660-190
                                   F +49 214 8660-9190
                                   M +49 151 58040004
                                   E meinolf.sprink@bayer04.de

                                                                2014/2015 Season   37
1. FSV Mainz 05
     Club Portrait
              1. FSV Mainz 05 gained promotion to the      1. FSV Mainz 05 is nicknamed the ‘Carnival Club’.
     Bundesliga for the first time in 2004 under their     The special atmos­phere is also carried through
     famous coach Jürgen Klopp. Since their come-          their stadium, labelled as the Coface Arena, where
     back to the Bundesliga in 2009, the club has es-      a popular Carnival song is played as goal anthem.
     tablished itself as a sustainable force in Germa-
     ny’s top division. The season 2010/2011 can be
     seen as a landmark season for 1. FSV Mainz 05
     as they finished fifth to secure European qual-
     ification for the first time in their history. This
     tremendous success was impressively repeat-
     ed in season 2013/2014. As the public festi-
     val Carnival is quite popular in the city of Mainz,

                    Shinji Okazaki

38
Club                    Facts and Figures
Address                 Titles/Club Successes
1. FSV Mainz 05 e. V.   German Amateur Champion (1)
Isaac-Fulda-Allee 5     1982
D-55124 Mainz           Promotion to Bundesliga (2)
W mainz05.de            2004, 2009
   @1FSVMainz05
                        Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
President               9 years
Harald Strutz
                        Highest win (H) Bundesliga
Members                 5-0 vs SC Freiburg (05/03/2005)
14,200                  Worst defeat (H) Bundesliga
                        1-6 vs Werder Bremen (27/10/2006)
Fan Clubs
230

Stadium
Coface Arena

Capacity
34,000

Jerseys                 Media/PR
                        Contact
                        Tobias Sparwasser
                        T +49 6131 37550-22
                        F +49 6131 37550-33
                        M +49 162 9318306
                        E tobias.sparwasser@mainz05.de

                                                     2014/2015 Season   39
Borussia Mönchengladbach
     Club Portrait                                        Raffael

             No club in Germany enjoyed as much
     national success in the 1970s as Borussia
     Mönchengladbach. With five Bundesliga Cham-
     pionships, two UEFA Cup triumphs and one DFB-
     Pokal title, the team featuring stars like Jupp
     Heynckes, Günter Netzer, Berti Vogts and Rainer
     Bonhof – all part of the German World Cup win-
     ning national team in 1974 – will be remembered
     as one of the greatest ever.

             The spirit of those times is still notice-
     able within the BORUSSIA-PARK where near-
     ly 55,000 spectators create an electrifying
     atmosphere on every matchday. The contem-
     porary team thrills the fans with a modern and
     fresh style of play and has developed to be a
     sustainable contender for the top places in the
     league. This was impressively demonstrated by
     reaching the international qualification places in
     2011/2012 and 2013/2014.

40
Club                        Facts and Figures
Address                     Titles/Club Successes
Borussia VfL 1900           German Champion (5)
Mönchengladbach GmbH        1970, 1971, 1975, 1976, 1977
Hennes-Weisweiler-Allee 1   German Cup Winner (3)
D-41179 Mönchengladbach     1960, 1973, 1995
W borussia.de               UEFA Cup Winner (2)
   @borussia                1975, 1979
                            German Supercup Winner (1)
President                   1977
Rolf Königs
                            Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
Members                     47 years
63,500
                            Highest win (H) Bundesliga
Fan Clubs                   12-0 vs Borussia Dortmund (29/04/1978)
940                         Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga
                            0-7 vs VfB Stuttgart (18/09/2010)
Stadium
BORUSSIA-PARK

Capacity
54,010

Jerseys                     Media/PR
                            Contact
                            Markus Aretz
                            T +49 2161 9293-1301
                            F +49 2161 9293-1309
                            M +49 171 5455843
                            E markus.aretz@borussia.de

                                                         2014/2015 Season   41
FC Bayern München
     Club Portrait                                          Philipp Lahm

              The Bundesliga’s record title-holder
     FC Bayern München has been a dominant force
     in German football since the end of the 1960s.
     Since 1969, only three times more than two
     years passed without Bayern München getting
     its hands on the precious trophy. 24 German
     Championships and 17 DFB-Pokal wins under-
     line the outstanding role of Germany’s most suc-
     cessful club.

              Main personnel supplier to the national
     team, FC Bayern München also boast by far the
     largest membership of any club in Germany and
     after reaching the UEFA Champions League final
     three times between 2010 and 2013, the Bavar-
     ians finally lifted the desired trophy for the fifth
     time in club history in 2013 as a part of their his-
     toric treble-winning season. With the earliest win
     of the German Championship in Bundesliga his-
     tory as well as the title defence of the National
     Cup, the season 2013/2014 can be named as a
     record-breaking one not only in the long history
     of FC Bayern, but also in the long-lasting history
     of the Bundesliga.

42
Club                       Facts and Figures
Address                    Titles/Club Successes
FC Bayern München AG       German Champion (24)
Säbener Straße 51–57       1932, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1980, 1981,
D-81547 München            1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1997,
W fcbayern.de              1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006,
   @FCBayern               2008, 2010, 2013, 2014
                           German Cup Winner (17)
Chairman Executive Board   1957, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1982, 1984,
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge      1986, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006,
                           2008, 2010, 2013, 2014
Members                    UEFA Champions League Winner (2)
236,000                    2001, 2013
                           European Supercup Winner (1)
Fan Clubs                  2013
3,749                      European Champions Cup Winner (3)
                           1974, 1975, 1976
Stadium                    European Cup Winners’ Cup Winner (1)
Allianz Arena              1967
                           UEFA Cup Winner (1) 1996
Capacity                   FIFA Club World Cup Winner (1) 2013
71,137                     Intercontinental Cup Winner (2)
                           1976, 2001
                           German Supercup Winner (5)
                           1983, 1987, 1990, 2010, 2012
                           German League Cup Winner (6)
                           1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2007
                           Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
                           50 years
                           Highest win (H) Bundesliga
                           11-1 vs Borussia Dortmund (27/11/1971)
                           Worst defeat (H) Bundesliga
                           0-7 vs Schalke 04 (09/10/1976)

Jerseys                    Media/PR
                           Contact
                           Markus Hörwick
                           T +49 89 69931-7400
                           F +49 89 644200
                           E media@fcb.de

                                                        2014/2015 Season   43
SC Paderborn 07
     Club Portrait
              The black and blue coloured team of        s­ econd place in an impressive manner at the end
     SC Paderborn 07 successfully promoted to the         of the season 2013/2014. Therefore, SC Pader-
     Bundesliga in the season 2013/2014 and en-           born 07 will welcome thousands of Bundesliga
     ters Germany’s top flight as the 53rd team in        fans in the Benteler-Arena which was inaugurat-
     Bundesliga history. Looking back, the club’s his-    ed in 2008.
     tory is marked by several mergers and bundling
     of ­forces. The merger between TuS Schloß Neu-
     haus and 1. FC Paderborn in 1985 can be seen as
     a milestone within this process and was finalised
     when the club took on its current name in 1997.
     After nine seasons in Bundesliga 2, the team
     of head coach André Breitenreiter ­finished in

                      Mahir Sağlik

44
Club                    Facts and Figures
Address                 Titles/Club Successes
SC Paderborn 07 e. V.   Promotion to Bundesliga
Paderborner Straße 89   2014
D-33104 Paderborn
W scpaderborn07.de      Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
   @SCPaderborn07       1 year

President               Highest win (A) Bundesliga 2
Wilfried Finke          6-1 vs Fortuna Düsseldorf (26/10/2013)
                        Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga 2
Members                 0-6 vs FC Erzgebirge Aue (24/02/2008)
10,047

Fan Clubs
45

Stadium
Benteler-Arena

Capacity
15,000

Jerseys                 Media/PR
                        Contact
                        Matthias Hack
                        T +49 5251 877-1999
                        M +49 162 1010724
                        E mhack@scpaderborn07.de

                                                   2014/2015 Season   45
FC Schalke 04
     Club Portrait
              Based in the industrial city of Gelsen-      millennium, the team achieved significant suc-
     kirchen, FC Schalke 04 is one of the Bundesliga’s     cess by winning the DFB-Pokal three times with-
     best-supported clubs, second only to FC Bay-          in a ten-year period from 2001 to 2011. Fur-
     ern München in terms of official members (more        thermore, FC Schalke 04 qualified for the UEFA
     than 130,000 in 2014). They won seven national        Champions League six times in the past nine
     championships, the last one dating back to 1958.      years, reaching the semi-finals in 2010/2011.
     Shaped by the traditional values of the local soci-
     ety, the ‘Royal Blues’ have extremely passionate
     supporters. The famous ‘Eurofighters’ of 1997,
     including local hero Olaf Thon and Belgium’s star
     player Marc ­Wilmots, chalked up the club’s great-
     est success by ­winning the UEFA Cup. In the new

     Julian Draxler

46
Club                             Facts and Figures
Address                          Titles/Club Successes
Fußballclub                      German Champion (7)
Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V.   1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1958
Ernst-Kuzorra-Weg 1              German Cup Winner (5)
D-45891 Gelsenkirchen            1937, 1972, 2001, 2002, 2011
W schalke04.de                   UEFA Cup Winner (1)
   @s04                          1997
                                 German League Cup Winner (1)
Managing Board                   2005
Horst Heldt, Alexander Jobst     German Supercup Winner (1)
and Peter Peters                 2011

Members                          Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
130,000                          47 years

Fan Clubs                        Highest win (A) Bundesliga
ca. 1,500                        7-0 vs FC Bayern München (09/10/1976)
                                 Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga
Stadium                          0-11 vs Borussia Mönchengladbach
VELTINS-Arena                    (07/01/1976)

Capacity
61,973

Jerseys                          Media/PR
                                 Contact
                                 Thomas Spiegel
                                 T +49 209 3618-173
                                 E thomas.spiegel@schalke04.de

                                                              2014/2015 Season   47
VfB Stuttgart
     Club Portrait                                       Vedad Ibišević

             VfB Stuttgart is one of the most historic
     and successful clubs in German football. The im-
     portant role of the team from Southern Germa-
     ny is underlined by the fact that the three-time
     Bundesliga Champions (1984, 1992 and 2007)
     spent 50 out of 52 years in Germany’s top flight.
     More than that, the club’s history is filled with
     several outstanding generations of Bundesliga
     players such as the German internationals Gui-
     do Buchwald and Jürgen Klinsmann in the 1980s,
     the so called ‘magical triangle’ including Kras-
     simir Balakow, Fredi Bobic and Giovane ­Elber in
     the 1990s as well as the ‘young and vivid’ play-
     ers Timo Hildebrand, Kevin Kurányi, Sami Khedira
     and Mario Gómez in the 2000s.

                In particular, the German Cup title in
     1997 under the guidance of the subsequent
     ­national coach Joachim Löw, the appearance in
      the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup final in 1998 and
      ­especially the Bundesliga Championship in 2007
       can be pointed out as important achievements
       within the last two decades.

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Club                       Facts and Figures
Address                    Titles/Club Successes
VfB Stuttgart 1893 e. V.   German Champion (5)
Mercedesstraße 109         1950, 1952, 1984, 1992, 2007
D-70372 Stuttgart          German Cup Winner (3)
W vfb.de                   1954, 1958, 1997
   @VfB                    German Supercup Winner (1)
                           1992
President
Bernd Wahler               Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
                           50 years
Members
45,000                     Highest win (H) Bundesliga
                           7-0 vs Borussia Mönchengladbach
Fan Clubs                  (18/09/2010)
375                        Worst defeat (A) Bundesliga
                           0-7 vs Borussia Dortmund (14/03/1964)
Stadium
Mercedes-Benz Arena

Capacity
60,441

Jerseys                    Media/PR
                           Contact
                           Tobias Herwerth
                           T +49 711 55007-200
                           F +49 711 55007-205
                           E t.herwerth@vfb-stuttgart.de

                                                        2014/2015 Season   49
VfL Wolfsburg
     Club Portrait
             Nobody, not even their head coach F    ­ elix   ly well-known players like the Brazilian interna-
     Magath, had VfL Wolfsburg down as title candi-          tional Luiz Gustavo as well as rising star Kevin De
     dates when they stunned Germany by winning              Bruyne from Belgium, the UEFA Europa League
     the Bundesliga in 2009. A startling second half of      participants in 2014/2015 are on a straight
     the season propelled a team assembled to chal-          path to becoming a sustainable top team of the
     lenge for a place in Europe to national glory, mak-     ­Bundesliga.
     ing them the first new name to appear on the tro-
     phy in 39 years.

             Ever since, VfL Wolfsburg’s defined goal
     has been to establish their squad at the top of
     the league. With a selection of international-

                 Kevin De Bruyne

50
Club                            Facts and Figures
Address                         Titles/Club Successes
VfL Wolfsburg-Fußball GmbH      German Champion (1)
In den Allerwiesen 1            2009
D-38446 Wolfsburg               German Cup Finalist (1)
W vfl-wolfsburg.de              1995
    @VfL_Wolfsburg
                                Bundesliga affiliation (since 1963)
Board of Management             18 years
Klaus Allofs, Wolfgang Hotze,
Thomas Röttgermann              Highest win (H) Bundesliga
                                7-1 vs Borussia Mönchengladbach
Members                         (07/11/1998)
19,500                          Worst defeat (H) Bundesliga
                                2-7 vs Werder Bremen (19/09/1999)
Fan Clubs
168

Stadium
VOLKSWAGEN ARENA

Capacity
30,000

Jerseys                         Media/PR
                                Contact
                                Barbara Ertel-Leicht
                                T +49 5361 8903-204
                                F +49 5361 8903-200
                                E barbara.ertel-leicht@vfl-wolfsburg.de

                                                             2014/2015 Season   51
Fixture Lists
     Bundesliga
     1st half of the season              2nd half of the season
     Matchday 1         22–24/08/14      Matchday 18       30/01–01/02/15
     Matchday 2         29–31/08/14      Matchday 19       03–04/02/15
     Matchday 3         12–14/09/14      Matchday 20       06–08/02/15
     Matchday 4         19–21/09/14      Matchday 21       13–15/02/15
     Matchday 5         23–24/09/14      Matchday 22       20–22/02/15
     Matchday 6         26–28/09/14      Matchday 23       27/02–01/03/15
     Matchday 7         03–05/10/14      Matchday 24       06–08/03/15
     Matchday 8         17–19/10/14      Matchday 25       13–15/03/15
     Matchday 9         24–26/10/14      Matchday 26       20–22/03/15
     Matchday 10        31/10–02/11/14   Matchday 27       04–05/04/15
     Matchday 11        07–09/11/14      Matchday 28       10–12/04/15
     Matchday 12        21–23/11/14      Matchday 29       17–19/04/15
     Matchday 13        28–30/11/14      Matchday 30       24–26/04/15
     Matchday 14        05–07/12/14      Matchday 31       02–03/05/15
     Matchday 15        12–14/12/14      Matchday 32       08–10/05/15
     Matchday 16        16–17/12/14      Matchday 33       16/05/15
     Matchday 17        19–21/12/14      Matchday 34       23/05/15

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Supercup
13/08/14		                  Borussia Dortmund v FC Bayern München		          2-0

DFB Cup
15–18/08/14		1st round (64 teams)
28–29/10/14		2nd round (32 teams)
03–04/03/15		3rd round (16 teams)
07–08/04/15		Quarter-finals
28–29/04/15		Semi-finals
30/05/15                    Final (Berlin)

Play-offs
Bundesliga – Bundesliga 2
28/05/15		16th Bundesliga v 3rd Bundesliga 2
01/06/15 		                 3rd Bundesliga 2 v 16th Bundesliga
Bundesliga 2 – Third Division
29/05/15		3rd Third Division v 16th Bundesliga 2
02/06/15 		                 16th Bundesliga 2 v 3rd Third Division

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