A greater share of television broadcast licence revenues goes to 1 | From 1963 until 1981 two, or later three, teams had been relegated from the Bundesliga automatically, while promotion had been decided either completely or partially in |
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In Canada, broadcast rights were sub-licensed to and | and were seeded into the top-tier Bundesliga division, with other clubs being sorted into lower tiers |
Current champions 30th title Most championships Bayern Munich 30 titles Most appearances 602 Top goalscorer 365 TV partners Website Current: The Bundesliga German: ; lit.
Germany was always entitled to send at least three teams to the competition and often as many as four | |
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Many young English talents have sought refuge in Germany in order to regain fitness and football skills | To obtain a licence, teams must be financially healthy and meet certain standards of conduct as organisations |
The Bundesliga broadcast rights are sold along with the broadcast rights to the relegation playoffs, and.
23Clubs [ ] Main article: Club Position in First Bundesliga season Number of seasons in Bundesliga First season of current spell Number of seasons of current spell Bundesliga titles National titles Last title 15th 1970—71 19 2020—21 2 0 0 — b 13th 2011—12 11 2011—12 11 0 0 — b 6th 1979—80 43 1979—80 43 0 0 — b 1st 1965—66 57 1965—66 57 30 31 2021 1st 1971—72 35 2021—22 1 0 0 — a 3rd 1963—64 55 1976—77 46 5 8 2012 8th 1965—66 54 2008—09 14 5 5 1977 a 5th 1963—64 53 2012—13 10 0 1 1959 10th 1993—94 22 2016—17 6 0 0 — 2nd 2012—13 2 2021—22 1 0 3 1929 a 14th 1963—64 38 2013—14 9 0 2 1931 b 11th 2008—09 14 2008—09 14 0 0 — a 16th 1963—64 50 2019—20 3 2 3 1978 b 2nd 2016—17 6 2016—17 6 0 0 — 12th 2004—05 16 2009—10 13 0 0 — a 9th 1963—64 55 2020—21 2 3 5 2007 b 7th 2019—20 3 2019—20 3 0 0 — b 4th 1997—98 25 1997—98 25 1 1 2009 a Founding member of the Bundesliga b Never been relegated from the Bundesliga Members for 2021—22 [ ] Locations of the 2021—22 Bundesliga teams Team Location Stadium Capacity Ref | The structure and organisation of the Bundesliga, along with Germany's other football leagues, have undergone frequent changes |
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In the 2008—09 season, the Bundesliga reinstated an earlier German system of promotion and relegation, which had been in use from 1981 until 1991:• Foundation [ ] The Bundesliga was founded at the annual DFB convention at the in on 28 July 1962 The defeat of the national team by Yugoslavia 0—1 in a 1962 World Cup quarter-final game in Chile was one impetus of many towards the formation of a national league | 4 million in 2009 financial year |
Bundesliga clubs are required to be majority-owned by German club members known as the [] to discourage control by a single entity and operate under tight restrictions on the use of debt for acquisitions a team only receives an operating licence if it has solid financials , as a result 11 of the 18 clubs were profitable after the 2008—09 season.
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