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Germany: 2024-25 Bundesliga – Location-map, with 3 Charts: Attendance, Seasons-in-1st-Division & All-time German Titles list
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By Bill Turianski ; twitter.com/billsportsmaps.
Links…
-2024-25 Bundesliga (en.wikipedia.org).
-World Football.net site…worldfootball.net/bundesliga.
-All the new Bundesliga jerseys for the 2024/25 season (from bundesliga.com/en).
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The map page shows a location-map for the 18 clubs in the 2024-25 Bundesliga, with recently promoted and relegated teams noted. (Promoted in 2024: FC St. Pauli, Holstein Kiel; relegated in 2024: FC Köln, Darmstadt.) The map also shows the 16 Federal States of Germany, and the 14 largest cities in Germany, with 2021 population estimates listed at the the top of the map.

The 3 charts are…
A) 2023-24 Attendance & 2023-24 finish, with teams playing in Europe noted. There are also columns listing Venue-capacities and Percent-capacities.
B) Seasons-in-Bundesliga by club, with consecutive seasons listed.
C) All-time German titles list (including the pre-1963-64/pre-Bundesliga amateur era), with current level [2024-25] of each title-winning club listed.
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Bayer Leverkusen – first-time Bundesliga champions…

Manager Xabi Alonso’s Leverkusen went undefeated, and won the club’s first Bundesliga title, supplanting the 11-consecutive-title-winning Bayern Munich. Leverkusen won the title with 5 games to spare, on the 14th of April, when they beat Werder Bremen 5-0. Leverkusen finished 28-6-0, with a +65 goal-difference, and 17 pts above 2nd-place finishers Stuttgart.

Xabi Alonso had taken over Leverkusen in October 2022, when the team was in the relegation-zone after 8 weeks; Alonso then led Leverkusen to a 6th-place finish. For 2023-24, Alonso had Leverkusen play 3-4-3, with the focus on passing and counter-attacking. Leverkusen ended up with a 51-game unbeaten run.

Alonso was linked to become the new manager of former clubs Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, and Liverpool, but he spurned those offers and, commendably, remains with Leverkusen for 2024-25.

Photo credits above – 2022-23 Leverkusen home jersey, from footzilla.shop. BayArena, photo by H005 at File:BayArena neu 2009.jpg (commons.wikimedia.org). -Xabi Alonso, celebrating a win with squad, photo by Powerpics/Alamy Stock Photo via medium.com/@m.warde1/[deciphering-xabi-alonsos-winning-formula-at-bayer-leverkusen]. -Victor Boniface, photo by Ina Fassbender/AFP via guardian.ng/sport. -Florian Wirtz, photo unattributed at dgmu.ru. -Jonas Hofmann, photo by Imago via transfermarkt.co.za. -Jeremie Frimpong, photo unattributed at caughtoffside.com. -Álex Grimaldo, photo by Andreas Pohl/Bild at bild.de/sport/fussball.

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2024: FC St. Pauli, promoted to the Bundesliga after an absence of 13 years…
St. Pauli is just west of Hamburg city centre, situated on the right bank of the Elbe river, near the Landungsbrücken (the northern part of the Port of Hamburg). FC St. Pauli’s ground in the dock area is also near Hamburg’s famous Reeperbahn (the centre of the city’s night life and its red-light district).

Despite limited success on the pitch, FC St. Pauli is world-renowned for its distinctive social culture – their supporters basically fly their freak-flag wide and high. FC St. Pauli is 100%-supporter-owned. FC St. Pauli supporters are known for their social activism and their resolute support of left wing politics. FC St. Pauli has a large popularity, and is one of Germany’s “Kult” clubs.

FC St. Pauli clinched promotion with 1 week to spare. It was their 6th promotion to the Bundesliga. In 2024-25, FC St Pauli will play their 9th season of top-flight football. And for the first time ever, in 2023-24, FC St Pauli finished higher in the table than their cross-city rivals, Hamburg SV.

Photo credits above – 2024-25 FC St. Pauli jersey, unattributed at footballkitarchive.com. Millerntor-Stadion, photo by Pixathlon via focus.de/sport/fussball. Flying a St. Pauli rainbow/Skull-and-Crossbones flag, at the pitch invasion at Millerntor-Stadion, on 12 May 2024, following FC St. Pauli’s promotion-clinching win – photo by Christian Charisius/Associated Press via sandiegouniontribune.com. Screenshot of 2.Bundesliga table [2023-24], from worldfootball.net.

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2024: Holstein Kiel, promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time…
Kiel is located, by road, 61 miles (98 km) N of Hamburg. Kiel is located, by road, around 60 miles (96 km) SE of the border with Denmark. Kiel was founded in 1233. It was then-situated only a few km south of the Danish border. Kiel is located on the SE of the Jutland peninsula, and on the SW shore of the Baltic Sea. This location has made Kiel one of Germany’s major maritime centres.

Holstein Kiel won a German title a little over a century ago, in 1912, beating Karlsruher 1-0. (This was back when the German title was decided by the regional winners playing in a round-robin format.) Kiel regularly made the national playoffs in the 1920s. In 1930, Kiel almost won their second national title, losing in the final 5-4 to Hertha Berlin. But since the Bundesliga was instituted in 1963-64 and the lower leagues were re-organized, Kiel has been primarily a third-or-fourth-tier side. Kiel have only played 10 seasons of 2nd-division football – a 3 season-spell from 1978-81, and the past 7 seasons from 2017-24. With their promotion to the top tier, Holstein Kiel are the northern-most club to play in the Bundesliga, replacing Hansa Rostock.

Photo credits above – 2024-25 Holstein Kiel jersey, unattributed at footballkitarchive.com. Port of Kiel, aerial photo unattributed at bioplasticsnews.com. Holstein-Stadion, photo by Ichwarsnur at File:Holstein-Stadion Luftbild 2019.jpg (commons.wikimedia.org).
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Thanks to all at the following links…
-Blank map of Germany, by NordNordWest at File:Germany location map.svg (Wikimedia Commons).
-Globe-map of Germany by Rob984 at File:EU-Germany (orthographic projection).svg.
-Populations of 14 largest German cities from List of cities in Germany by population (en.wikipedia.org).
-Bundesliga; -List of German football champions (en.wikipedia.org).
-(West) Germany – List of Champions (rsssf.com).
-2023-24 attendance figures from: soccerway.com. 2023-24 capacity figures: from 2023-24 Bundesliga/Stadiums and locations (en.wikipedia.org).