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- Form and history. Recent results and league position, plus averages for goals scored and conceded, corners and bookings.
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Who is in the Bundesliga in 2026/27?
Eighteen clubs will go after the title and the European places: 15 survivors from last season and three sides promoted from the 2. Bundesliga:
- Back from 2025/26: Augsburg, Union Berlin, Werder Bremen, Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt, Freiburg, Hoffenheim, RB Leipzig, Bayer Leverkusen, Mainz 05, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayern Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg and Cologne.
- Up from the 2. Bundesliga: Schalke 04 (second-tier champions, back after three years away), Elversberg (top-flight debutants, promoted automatically on the tiebreakers) and Paderborn (through the promotion play-off).
Heidenheim, St Pauli and Wolfsburg went the other way.
Format and key dates for the 2026/27 season
As ever, the campaign runs on the traditional autumn-to-spring calendar, with 34 matchdays in all.
The 2026 World Cup has pushed the start back. Matchday one opens on Friday 28 August with the only game of the day, Bayern Munich against Stuttgart; the other eight fixtures follow on 29–30 August. All nine matches on the final matchday kick off simultaneously on 22 May 2027.
Bayern had already picked up the season’s first piece of silverware before a ball was kicked in the league: on 22 August they beat Dortmund 2–1 at Signal Iduna Park to win the German Super Cup.
What the clubs are playing for
The top four in the 2026/27 Bundesliga qualify for the Champions League league phase the following year (2027/28). Fifth place brings Europa League football, while the sixth-placed side enters the Conference League play-off round. Off the back of 2025/26 it was England and Spain who earned the extra Champions League berths; Germany did not finish in the top two of the UEFA coefficient rankings, so there is no fifth Champions League place on offer here.
Sixth and seventh are worth fighting for too. If the DFB-Pokal is won by a club already inside the top five, its European place passes down the table: sixth takes the Europa League spot and seventh moves into Conference League qualifying. That is exactly what happened a year ago — cup winners Bayern were already in the Champions League, so Leverkusen went into the Europa League from sixth and Freiburg into Conference League qualifying from seventh.
International breaks, domestic cup and European nights
The Bundesliga calendar is not the most demanding in Europe on its own: 34 matchdays rather than the 38 played in the Premier League or La Liga, plus a winter break. The difference shows up at clubs in Europe, who add league-phase fixtures on top — eight in the Champions League and Europa League, six in the Conference League — followed by the knockout rounds and the DFB-Pokal. Those are the weeks when managers rotate most heavily, and precisely the ones worth having in front of you when you assess form.
The big change this season: FIFA has cut three autumn international breaks down to two — a double block from 21 September to 6 October and a standard one from 9 to 17 November. The national sides play the same number of matches, but the league is interrupted less often.
Here is the 2026/27 calendar of breaks and clashes.
One more date to keep in mind is Saturday 1 May 2027: it is left blank, which is why an extra midweek matchday has been slotted in on 2–4 March. The Conference League final takes place on 2 June in Istanbul and the Champions League final on 5 June in Madrid.
What to expect from Germany’s leading sides in 2026/27
To get a clearer picture of where the clubs and players stand, it is worth recapping last season.
How German clubs fared in 2025/26, at home and in Europe
Bayern defended their title and did it in style: the championship was wrapped up with four matchdays to spare, the winning margin was 16 points, and their 122 goals set a new Bundesliga record (the previous mark, 101, was set by Bayern themselves back in 1971/72). Borussia Dortmund finished second, their best return since 2018/19. RB Leipzig were back in the top three after a season out of Europe, with Stuttgart completing the four. Leverkusen, meanwhile, slipped to sixth.
The 2025/26 Bundesliga top seven
Pos |
Team |
W/D/L |
GF |
GA |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
🥇 |
Bayern Munich |
28/5/1 |
122 |
36 |
89 |
🥈 |
Borussia Dortmund |
22/7/5 |
70 |
34 |
73 |
🥉 |
RB Leipzig |
20/5/9 |
66 |
47 |
65 |
4 |
Stuttgart |
18/8/8 |
71 |
49 |
62 |
5 |
Hoffenheim |
18/7/9 |
65 |
52 |
61 |
6 |
Bayer Leverkusen |
17/8/9 |
68 |
47 |
59 |
7 |
Freiburg |
13/8/13 |
51 |
57 |
47 |
1st–4th: Champions League league phase. 5th–6th: Europa League league phase. 7th: Conference League play-off round.
There was still no European silverware for German clubs, but they made a far bigger impression than the year before. Bayern reached the Champions League semi-finals and went out 6–5 on aggregate to eventual winners Paris Saint-Germain. The story of the season, though, was Freiburg: a first European final in the club’s history, lost 3–0 to Aston Villa in Istanbul. Mainz 05 reached the Conference League quarter-finals.
Competition |
How the German clubs did |
|---|---|
Champions League |
Bayern Munich (semi-finals) Bayer Leverkusen (round of 16) Borussia Dortmund (knockout play-off) Eintracht Frankfurt (league phase) |
Europa League |
Freiburg (final) Stuttgart (round of 16) |
Conference League |
Mainz 05 (quarter-finals) |
At home, Bayern sealed the domestic double by beating Stuttgart 3–0 in the DFB-Pokal final. Freiburg made the semi-finals before losing to the same Stuttgart side in extra time.
Summer transfer business
The clubs at the top end of the table were busy in the market in the summer of 2026. Here are the key deals:
Club |
Key signings |
|---|---|
Bayern Munich |
Ismael Saibari (midfielder, from PSV) Nathaniel Brown (defender, from Eintracht Frankfurt) |
Borussia Dortmund |
Giannis Konstantelias (midfielder, from PAOK) Joey Veerman (midfielder, from PSV) Konstantinos Karetsas (midfielder, from Genk) Joane Gadou (defender, from Red Bull Salzburg) Justin Lerma (midfielder, from Independiente del Valle) |
RB Leipzig |
Maxime Estève (defender, from Burnley) |
Stuttgart |
Leo Sauer (forward, from Feyenoord) |
Bayer Leverkusen |
Facundo Medina (defender, from Marseille) Miguel Gutiérrez (defender, from Napoli) Afonso Moreira (forward, from Lyon) |
Bayern topped up selectively with versatile players for rotation, Dortmund rebuilt their attacking midfield and stocked up on young talent, Leipzig and Stuttgart each filled one priority position, and Leverkusen effectively had to reconstruct their defence following the departures of Grimaldo and Hincapié.
The other strand of the summer was the return of two familiar German names: Robin Gosens joined Schalke on loan from Fiorentina, while Niclas Füllkrug went back to Werder Bremen on loan from West Ham.
Bundesliga title odds for 2026/27
Bayern are the clear favourites: after the double, the goalscoring record and a convincing Super Cup win, the bookmakers make them the shortest price in the league by some distance. Dortmund are next in the market, with RB Leipzig and Leverkusen behind them. The gap between the favourite and the chasing pack is enormous — Bayern’s price is close to ten times shorter than the next club’s.
Top five in the Bundesliga title market
Team |
Odds |
|---|---|
Bayern Munich |
1/9
|
Borussia Dortmund |
10/1
|
RB Leipzig |
16/1
|
Bayer Leverkusen |
18/1
|
Stuttgart |
50/1
|
Stuttgart round off the list of realistic contenders at 50/1, already well into outsider territory. Everyone else, the debutants Elversberg included, is priced in triple figures.
Bundesliga top goalscorer betting: the favourites
The favourite for the scoring charts is unchanged: Harry Kane. The Bayern striker scored 36 last season and became the first player in the league’s history to win the Torjägerkanone in each of his first three campaigns in Germany. His closest challenger last time out was Stuttgart’s Deniz Undav on 19 goals, but a gap of 17 tells its own story. Serhou Guirassy (Borussia Dortmund), Patrik Schick (Bayer Leverkusen) and Kane’s Bayern team-mates Michael Olise and Luis Díaz are also prominent in the betting.
Favourites for the 2026/27 Bundesliga top goalscorer
Player |
2025/26 goals |
Team |
Odds |
|---|---|---|---|
Harry Kane |
36 |
Bayern Munich |
2/5
|
Deniz Undav |
19 |
Stuttgart |
8/1
|
Serhou Guirassy |
17 |
Borussia Dortmund |
8/1
|
Patrik Schick |
16 |
Bayer Leverkusen |
10/1
|
Michael Olise |
15 |
Bayern Munich |
16/1
|
Other team and player markets
Bookmakers offer plenty of alternatives to the outright:
- Winner without Bayern. Take the Munich side out of the equation and Dortmund become the favourites at 6/4, ahead of RB Leipzig (9/4) and Leverkusen (11/4). After that comes a sharp drop: Stuttgart are 14/1 and Hoffenheim 20/1.
- Top-four finish. A bet on a club finishing in the top four and, with it, reaching the Champions League. Dortmund (1/4), RB Leipzig (7/20) and Leverkusen (11/25) are all short prices. Rather more interesting are Stuttgart (5/2), Hoffenheim (4/1) and Eintracht Frankfurt (6/1), while Freiburg at 10/1 stand out among the longer shots for a Champions League place.
