2012–13 Bundesliga

Bundesliga 2012–13
Season information
Winners	Bayern Munich 22nd Bundesliga title 23rd German title
Relegated	Fortuna Düsseldorf Greuther Fürth
Season statistics
Goals scored	898
Top goalscorer	Stefan Kießling (25 goals)
Biggest home win	Bayern Munich 9–2 Hamburger SV
Biggest away win	Fortuna Düsseldorf 0–5 Bayern Munich Werder Bremen 0–5 Borussia Dortmund Greuther Fürth 1–6 Borussia Dortmund Hannover 96 1–6 Bayern Munich
Highest scoring	Bayern Munich 9–2 Hamburger SV
← 2011–12	2013–14 →

The 2012–13 Bundesliga was the 50th season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. The season began on 24 August 2012 with the season opening match at Westfalenstadion involving defending champions Borussia Dortmund and SV Werder Bremen and ended with the last games on 18 May 2013, with a winter break between the weekends around 15 December 2012 and 19 January 2013. Bayern Munich managed to secure the championship of the 2012–13 season after only 28 match days, beating their previous record by two matches.

The league comprises eighteen teams: The best fifteen teams of the 2011–12 season, the best two teams from the 2011–12 2. Bundesliga and the winners of the relegation play-off between the 16th-placed Bundesliga team and the third-placed 2. Bundesliga team.

Notably, in the 2012–13 season, there are no teams located in the former East Germany, including the capital city, Berlin.

Teams

1. FC Köln and 1. FC Kaiserslautern were relegated to the 2012–13 2nd Bundesliga after finishing in one of the bottom two spots of the table at the end of the 2011–12 season. Köln were relegated to the second level after four Bundesliga seasons, while Kaiserslautern ended a two-year tenure in the top flight.

The two relegated teams will be replaced by SpVgg Greuther Fürth and Eintracht Frankfurt. Greuther Fürth will make their Bundesliga debut while also returning to the top level after 49 seasons, as predecessors SpVgg Fürth missed out on qualification for the Bundesliga at the end of the 1962–63 season. In turn, Eintracht Frankfurt make an immediate comeback to the league after being relegated at the end of the 2010–11 season.

A further place in the league was determined by a two-legged play-off between Hertha BSC, the 16th-placed team of the 2011–12 season, and Fortuna Düsseldorf, the third-placed team of the 2011–12 2nd Bundesliga. Düsseldorf won the play-off by 4–3 on aggregate; the club returned to the top level after 15 years in lower levels of the league pyramid. Hertha made only a cameo appearance in the league and immediately dropped back to the 2nd Bundesliga.

Stadiums and locations

Promotees SpVgg Greuther Fürth expanded the capacity of their Trolli Arena to 18,000 spectators in order to guarantee all matches of the campaign being played at their own ground. Bayern Munich also expanded the capacity of their Allianz Arena by 2,000 people; the new total capacity for the ground is 71,000 spectators.

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Augsburg !FC Augsburg	Augsburg	SGL arena	30,660
Bayer Leverkusen	Leverkusen	BayArena	30,210
Bayern Munich	Munich	Allianz Arena	71,000
Borussia Dortmund	Dortmund	Westfalenstadion	80,645
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Monchengladbach !Mönchengladbach	Borussia-Park	54,010
Frankfurt !Eintracht Frankfurt	Frankfurt	Commerzbank-Arena	51,500
Fortuna Düsseldorf !Fortuna Düsseldorf	Düsseldorf	Esprit Arena	54,600
Freiburg !SC Freiburg	Freiburg	Dreisamstadion	24,000
Greuther Furth !SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Furth !Fürth	Trolli Arena	18,000
Hamburger SV	Hamburg	Volksparkstadion	57,000
Hannover 96	Hanover	AWD-Arena	49,000
Hoffenheim !TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Sinsheim	Rhein-Neckar Arena	30,150
Mainz !1. FSV Mainz 05	Mainz	Coface Arena	34,000
Nuremberg !1. FC Nuremberg	Nuremberg	Frankenstadion	50,000
Schalke !FC Schalke 04	Gelsenkirchen	Veltins-Arena	61,673
Stuttgart !VfB Stuttgart	Stuttgart	Mercedes-Benz Arena	60,300
SV Werder Bremen	Bremen	Weserstadion	42,100
Wolfsburg !VfL Wolfsburg	Wolfsburg	Volkswagen Arena	30,000

Personnel and kits

Borussia Dortmund changed their kit suppliers from Kappa to Puma, signing a contract through the 2019–20 season with the German sports brand. Furthermore, a couple of shirt sponsoring contracts were not renewed. VfB Stuttgart replaced the Gazi brand of dairy product company garmo with the banking section of automobile company Mercedes-Benz as their new shirt sponsors, and Fortuna Düsseldorf changed from home retail chain Bauhaus to discount phone company o.tel.o.

Three further clubs finalized new sponsoring contracts shortly before the first matches were played. Fraport chose not to renew their contract with Eintracht Frankfurt; the Hessian club announced a deal with brewery Krombacher at the end of July. Elsewhere, the agreements between 1. FC Nuremberg and Areva and between Werder Bremen and Targobank expired. Werder announced their new main sponsor to be poultry giant Wiesenhof in early August 2012, despite prolonged protests due to the company's suspected animal abuse. Finally, Nuremberg agreed to a multi-year contract with clothing retailers NKD just days before the start of the season.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Augsburg !FC Augsburg	Weinzierl, MarkusMarkus Weinzierl	Verhaegh, PaulPaul Verhaegh	Jako	AL-KO
Bayer Leverkusen	Hyypiä, SamiSami Hyypiä Lewandowski, SaschaSascha Lewandowski	Rolfes, SimonSimon Rolfes	adidas	SunPower
Bayern Munich	Heynckes, JuppJupp Heynckes	Lahm, PhilippPhilipp Lahm	adidas	T-Mobile
Borussia Dortmund	Klopp, JürgenJürgen Klopp	Kehl, SebastianSebastian Kehl	Puma	Evonik
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Favre, LucienLucien Favre	Daems, FilipFilip Daems	Lotto	Postbank
Eintracht Frankfurt	Veh, ArminArmin Veh	Schwegler, PirminPirmin Schwegler	Jako	Krombacher
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Meier, NorbertNorbert Meier	Lambertz, AndreasAndreas Lambertz	Puma	o.tel.o
Freiburg !SC Freiburg	Streich, ChristianChristian Streich	Schuster, JulianJulian Schuster	Nike	Ehrmann
Greuther Furth !SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Kramer, FrankFrank Kramer	Mavraj, MërgimMërgim Mavraj	Jako	Ergo Direkt Versicherungen
Hamburger SV	Fink, ThorstenThorsten Fink	Vaart, Rafael van derRafael van der Vaart	adidas	Emirates
Hannover 96	Slomka, MirkoMirko Slomka	Cherundolo, SteveSteve Cherundolo	Jako	TUI
Hoffenheim !TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Gisdol, MarkusMarkus Gisdol	Beck, AndreasAndreas Beck	Puma	Suntech
Mainz !1. FSV Mainz 05	Tuchel, ThomasThomas Tuchel	Noveski, NikolčeNikolče Noveski	Nike	Entega
Nuremberg !1. FC Nuremberg	Wiesinger, MichaelMichael Wiesinger	Schäfer, RaphaelRaphael Schäfer	adidas	NKD
Schalke !FC Schalke 04	Keller, JensJens Keller (caretaker)	Höwedes, BenediktBenedikt Höwedes	adidas	Gazprom
Stuttgart !VfB Stuttgart	Labbadia, BrunoBruno Labbadia	Tasci, SerdarSerdar Tasci	Puma	Mercedes-Benz Bank
SV Werder Bremen	Rolff, WolfgangWolfgang Rolff (caretaker)	Fritz, ClemensClemens Fritz	Nike	Wiesenhof (PHW-Gruppe)
Wolfsburg !VfL Wolfsburg	Hecking, DieterDieter Hecking	Benaglio, DiegoDiego Benaglio	adidas	Volkswagen

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
FC Augsburg	Jos Luhukay	Resigned	5 May 2012	Pre-season	Markus Weinzierl	17 May 2012
VfL Wolfsburg	Felix Magath	Mutual consent	25 October 2012	18th	Dieter Hecking	22 December 2012
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Markus Babbel	Sacked	3 December 2012	16th	Marco Kurz	1 January 2013
Schalke 04	Huub Stevens	Sacked	16 December 2012	7th	Jens Keller	16 December 2012
1. FC Nuremberg	Dieter Hecking	Signed by VfL Wolfsburg	22 December 2012	14th	Michael Wiesinger	24 December 2012
Greuther Fürth	Mike Büskens	Sacked	20 February 2013	18th	Frank Kramer	11 March 2013
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Marco Kurz	Sacked	2 April 2013	17th	Markus Gisdol	2 April 2013
Werder Bremen	Thomas Schaaf	Mutual consent	15 May 2013	14th	Wolfgang Rolff	15 May 2013

League table

2012–13 Fußball-Bundesliga table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bayern Munich (C)	34	29	4	1	98	18	+80	91	2013–14 UEFA Champions League group stage
2	Borussia Dortmund	34	19	9	6	81	42	+39	66
3	Bayer Leverkusen	34	19	8	7	65	39	+26	65
4	Schalke 04	34	16	7	11	58	50	+8	55	2013–14 UEFA Champions League play-off round
5	SC Freiburg	34	14	9	11	45	40	+5	51	2013–14 UEFA Europa League group stage
6	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	14	9	11	49	46	+3	51	2013–14 UEFA Europa League play-off round
7	Hamburger SV	34	14	6	14	42	53	−11	48
8	Borussia Mönchengladbach	34	12	11	11	45	49	−4	47
9	Hannover 96	34	13	6	15	60	62	−2	45
10	1. FC Nuremberg	34	11	11	12	39	47	−8	44
11	VfL Wolfsburg	34	10	13	11	47	52	−5	43
12	VfB Stuttgart	34	12	7	15	37	55	−18	43	2013–14 UEFA Europa League third qualifying roundNote
13	FSV Mainz 05	34	10	12	12	42	44	−2	42
14	Werder Bremen	34	8	10	16	50	66	−16	34
15	FC Augsburg	34	8	9	17	33	51	−18	33
16	1899 Hoffenheim (O)	34	8	7	19	42	67	−25	31	Qualification to the relegation play-offs
17	Fortuna Düsseldorf (R)	34	7	9	18	39	57	−18	30	Relegation to 2013–14 2. Bundesliga
18	SpVgg Greuther Fürth (R)	34	4	9	21	26	60	−34	21

Source: Bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

VfB Stuttgart qualified for the Europa League by playing Champions League-qualified Bayern Munich in the 2012–13 DFB-Pokal final. Since they lost, they will enter the third qualifying round, and the fifth- and sixth-placed team of the 2012–13 Bundesliga will enter the group stage and play-off round respectively.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Bayern Munich	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Borussia Dortmund	3	6	5	4	6	3	4	4	4	5	4	4	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Bayer Leverkusen	13	9	12	13	8	7	6	5	5	4	5	5	5	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Schalke 04	8	4	4	5	4	4	3	3	2	2	2	2	3	4	4	5	7	5	6	6	10	9	9	6	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
SC Freiburg	11	14	8	8	12	14	11	7	12	12	11	10	6	10	12	9	5	6	8	8	5	5	5	5	8	9	7	5	5	5	6	6	5	5
Eintracht Frankfurt	5	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	4	5	6	6	6	5	5	6	6
Hamburger SV	15	15	17	15	14	10	8	10	7	9	10	9	10	8	9	7	10	9	9	9	7	6	6	7	6	8	9	11	8	8	8	7	7	7
Borussia Mönchengladbach	4	8	9	9	10	13	10	13	9	11	8	11	11	9	10	8	8	8	7	7	8	10	10	9	9	7	8	7	7	7	7	8	8	8
Hannover 96	9	3	3	3	3	5	5	6	10	6	6	6	8	6	11	10	11	11	10	10	9	8	7	10	10	10	10	9	10	11	9	9	9	9
1. FC Nürnberg	6	7	6	6	9	12	14	15	15	14	15	15	15	13	14	13	14	15	15	14	13	14	14	13	11	11	11	10	11	12	13	13	13	10
VfL Wolfsburg	7	12	10	10	13	16	17	18	16	16	16	13	13	15	15	14	15	13	13	15	12	15	15	15	12	13	12	12	12	13	11	11	10	11
VfB Stuttgart	16	18	16	17	17	15	15	12	8	10	12	12	12	11	7	6	9	10	11	12	14	12	11	11	14	12	13	13	13	10	12	12	11	12
FSV Mainz 05	10	13	14	12	15	11	9	8	6	8	7	8	9	7	6	11	6	7	5	5	6	7	8	8	7	6	6	8	9	9	10	10	12	13
Werder Bremen	14	10	11	11	7	8	13	9	11	7	9	7	7	12	8	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	12	14	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
FC Augsburg	17	16	15	18	18	18	16	16	17	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	16	17	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15
1899 Hoffenheim	12	17	18	16	11	9	12	14	14	13	13	14	16	16	16	16	16	16	17	16	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	16
Fortuna Düsseldorf	2	5	7	7	5	6	7	11	13	15	14	16	14	14	13	15	13	14	14	13	15	13	13	12	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	17
SpVgg Greuther Fürth	18	11	13	14	16	17	18	17	18	17	17	17	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

Source: kicker.de

	Leader
	2013–14 UEFA Champions League Group stage
	2013–14 UEFA Champions League Play-off round
	2013–14 UEFA Europa League Play-off round
	2013–14 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
	Qualification to relegation playoffs
	Relegation to 2013–14 2. Fußball-Bundesliga

Results

Home \ Away

AUG

LEV

FCB

DOR

MGL

FRA

DÜS

FRE

GRF

HAM

H96

HOF

MAI

NUR

S04

STU

BRE

WOB

FC Augsburg

1–3

0–2

1–3

1–1

2–0

0–2

1–1

3–1

0–2

0–2

2–1

1–1

1–2

0–0

3–0

3–1

0–0

Bayer Leverkusen

2–1

1–2

2–3

1–1

3–1

3–2

2–0

2–0

3–0

3–1

5–0

2–2

1–0

2–0

2–1

1–0

1–1

Bayern Munich

3–0

1–2

1–1

1–1

2–0

3–2

1–0

2–0

9–2

5–0

2–0

3–1

4–0

4–0

6–1

6–1

3–0

Borussia Dortmund

4–2

3–0

1–1

5–0

3–0

1–1

5–1

3–1

1–4

3–1

1–2

2–0

3–0

1–2

0–0

2–1

2–3

Borussia Mönchengladbach

1–0

3–3

3–4

1–1

2–0

2–1

1–1

1–0

2–2

1–0

2–1

2–0

2–3

0–1

1–2

1–1

2–0

Eintracht Frankfurt

4–2

2–1

0–1

3–3

0–1

3–1

2–1

1–1

3–2

3–1

2–1

1–3

0–0

1–0

1–2

4–1

2–2

Fortuna Düsseldorf

2–3

1–4

0–5

1–2

0–0

4–0

0–0

1–0

2–0

2–1

1–1

1–1

1–2

2–2

3–1

2–2

1–4

SC Freiburg

2–0

0–0

0–2

0–2

2–0

0–0

1–0

1–0

0–0

3–1

5–3

1–1

3–0

1–2

3–0

1–2

2–5

SpVgg Greuther Fürth

1–1

0–0

0–3

1–6

2–4

2–3

0–2

1–2

0–1

2–3

0–3

0–3

0–0

0–2

0–1

1–1

0–1

Hamburger SV

0–1

0–1

0–3

3–2

1–0

0–2

2–1

0–1

1–1

1–0

2–0

1–0

0–1

3–1

0–1

3–2

1–1

Hannover 96

2–0

3–2

1–6

1–1

2–3

0–0

3–0

1–2

2–0

5–1

1–0

2–2

4–1

2–2

0–0

3–2

2–1

1899 Hoffenheim

0–0

1–2

0–1

1–3

0–0

0–4

3–0

2–1

3–3

1–4

3–1

0–0

2–1

3–2

0–1

1–4

1–3

FSV Mainz 05

2–0

1–0

0–3

1–2

2–4

0–0

1–0

0–0

0–1

1–2

2–1

3–0

2–1

2–2

3–1

1–1

1–1

1. FC Nürnberg

0–0

0–2

1–1

1–1

2–1

1–2

2–0

1–1

0–1

1–1

2–2

4–2

2–1

3–0

0–2

3–2

1–0

Schalke 04

3–1

2–2

0–2

2–1

1–1

1–1

2–1

1–3

1–2

4–1

5–4

3–0

3–0

1–0

1–2

2–1

3–0

VfB Stuttgart

2–1

2–2

0–2

1–2

2–0

2–1

0–0

2–1

0–2

0–1

2–4

0–3

2–2

1–1

3–1

1–4

0–1

Werder Bremen

0–1

1–4

0–2

0–5

4–0

1–1

2–1

2–3

2–2

2–0

2–0

2–2

2–1

1–1

0–2

2–2

0–3

VfL Wolfsburg

1–1

3–1

0–2

3–3

3–1

0–2

1–1

0–2

1–1

1–1

0–4

2–2

0–2

2–2

1–4

2–0

1–1

Source: Bundesliga.de
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

1899 Hoffenheim as 16th-placed team faced 3rd-placed 2012–13 2. Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern in a two-legged play-off.

23 May 2013 (2013-05-23) 20:30 CEST	1899 Hoffenheim	3–1	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Rhein-Neckar Arena, Sinsheim Attendance: 30,135 Referee: Felix Brych (Munich)
	Firmino  11', 29' Schipplock  67'	Report	Idrissou  58'

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27 May 2013 (2013-05-27) 20:30 CEST	1. FC Kaiserslautern	1–2	1899 Hoffenheim	Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Kaiserslautern Attendance: 49,780 Referee: Florian Meyer (Burgdorf)
	Baumjohann  65'	Report	Abraham  44' Vestergaard  74'

1899 Hoffenheim won 5–2 on aggregate and retained its Fußball-Bundesliga spot for the 2013–14 season.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Stefan Kießling	Bayer Leverkusen	25
2	Robert Lewandowski	Borussia Dortmund	24
3	Alexander Meier	Eintracht Frankfurt	16
4	Vedad Ibišević	VfB Stuttgart	15
	Mario Mandžukić	Bayern Munich	15
6	Marco Reus	Borussia Dortmund	14
7	Thomas Müller	Bayern Munich	13
	Ádám Szalai	1. FSV Mainz 05	13
9	Mame Biram Diouf	Hannover 96	12
	Artjoms Rudņevs	Hamburger SV	12
	Son Heung-Min	Hamburger SV	12

Top assists

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Franck Ribéry	Bayern Munich	15
2	Jakub Błaszczykowski	Borussia Dortmund	12
3	Szabolcs Huszti	Hannover 96	11
	Hiroshi Kiyotake	1. FC Nuremberg	11
	Philipp Lahm	Bayern München	11
	Thomas Müller	Bayern München	11

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Szalai, ÁdámÁdám Szalai	1. FSV Mainz 05	1899 Hoffenheim	3–0	02012-10-27-27 October 2012
Arnautović, MarkoMarko Arnautović	Werder Bremen	1899 Hoffenheim	4–1	02012-12-02-2 December 2012
Ibišević, VedadVedad Ibišević	VfB Stuttgart	Schalke 04	3–1	02012-12-08-8 December 2012
Reus, MarcoMarco Reus	Borussia Dortmund	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–0	02013-02-16-16 February 2013
Pizarro, ClaudioClaudio Pizarro4	Bayern Munich	Hamburger SV	9–2	02013-03-30-30 March 2013
Huntelaar, Klaas-JanKlaas-Jan Huntelaar	Schalke 04	Hamburger SV	4–1	02013-04-28-28 April 2013
Hrgota, BranimirBranimir Hrgota	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1. FSV Mainz 05	4–2	02013-05-11-11 May 2013

• ⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Number of teams by state

	State	Number of teams	Teams
1	North Rhine-Westphalia	5	Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Fortuna Düsseldorf and Schalke 04
2	Bavaria	4	1. FC Nuremberg, Bayern Munich, FC Augsburg, and SpVgg Greuther Fürth
3	Baden-Württemberg	3	1899 Hoffenheim, SC Freiburg and VfB Stuttgart
4	Lower Saxony	2	Hannover 96 and VfL Wolfsburg
5	Bremen	1	Werder Bremen
	Hamburg	1	Hamburger SV
	Hesse	1	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Rhineland-Palatinate	1	Mainz 05

External links

• Official website