2023–24 Bundesliga

Bundesliga 2023–24
Season information
Dates	18 August 2023 – 18 May 2024
Winners	Bayer Leverkusen (1st title)
Relegated	1. FC Köln Darmstadt 98
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	Bayer Leverkusen VfB Stuttgart Bayern Munich RB Leipzig Borussia Dortmund
Europa League	Eintracht Frankfurt TSG Hoffenheim
Conference League	1. FC Heidenheim
Season statistics
Matches played	306
Goals scored	985
Average	3.22 (per match)
Top goalscorer	Harry Kane (36)
Biggest home win	FC Bayern 8–0 Darmstadt 98
Biggest away win	Darmstadt 0–6 Augsburg Darmstadt 0–6 Hoffenheim
Highest scoring	FC Bayern 8–1 Mainz 05
← 2022–23	2024–25 →

The 2023–24 Bundesliga was the 61st season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football competition. It began on 18 August 2023 and concluded on 18 May 2024. The fixtures were announced on 30 June 2023.

On 14 April 2024, Bayer Leverkusen were crowned champions for the first time with five matches to spare following a 5–0 win over Werder Bremen, becoming the thirteenth different champion in Bundesliga history and ending previous holders Bayern Munich's run of eleven consecutive titles.

Bayer Leverkusen became the first Bundesliga team to finish a season unbeaten, ending the campaign with a record of 28 wins and six draws.

Teams

A total of 18 teams participated in the 2023–24 edition of the Bundesliga. As of 19 May 2023, 12 teams have confirmed their place in the league.

Team changes

Promoted from 2022–23 2. Bundesliga	Relegated from 2022–23 Bundesliga
Darmstadt 98 1. FC Heidenheim	Schalke 04 Hertha BSC

SV Darmstadt 98 return to Bundesliga after four-year absence. While, 1. FC Heidenheim play in Bundesliga for the first time in the league's history.

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
FC Augsburg	Augsburg	WWK Arena	30,660
Union Berlin	Berlin	Stadion An der Alten Försterei	22,012
VfL Bochum	Bochum	Vonovia Ruhrstadion	27,599
Werder Bremen	Bremen	Wohninvest Weserstadion	42,100
Darmstadt 98	Darmstadt	Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor	17,650
Borussia Dortmund	Dortmund	Signal Iduna Park	81,365
Eintracht Frankfurt	Frankfurt	Deutsche Bank Park	51,500
SC Freiburg	Freiburg im Breisgau	Europa-Park Stadion	34,700
1. FC Heidenheim	Heidenheim	Voith-Arena	15,000
1899 Hoffenheim	Sinsheim	PreZero Arena	30,150
1. FC Köln	Cologne	RheinEnergieStadion	49,698
RB Leipzig	Leipzig	Red Bull Arena	47,069
Bayer Leverkusen	Leverkusen	BayArena	30,210
Mainz 05	Mainz	Mewa Arena	33,305
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Mönchengladbach	Borussia-Park	54,057
Bayern Munich	Munich	Allianz Arena	75,000
VfL Wolfsburg	Wolfsburg	Volkswagen Arena	30,000

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
				Front	Sleeve
FC Augsburg	Jess Thorup	Ermedin Demirović	Nike	WWK Versicherung	Siegmund
Union Berlin	Nenad Bjelica	Christopher Trimmel		Adidas	wefox Comedy Central/Aroundtown (in cup and UEFA matches)
VfL Bochum	Heiko Butscher	Anthony Losilla	Mizuno	Vonovia	Viactiv Betriebskrankenkasse/AIC Service & Call Center (in cup matches)
Werder Bremen	Ole Werner	Marco Friedl	Umbro	Green Legend	Ammerländer
Darmstadt 98	Torsten Lieberknecht	Fabian Holland	Craft	Software AG	28 Black
Borussia Dortmund	Edin Terzić	Emre Can	Puma	1&1/Evonik (in cup and UEFA matches)	GLS Group
Eintracht Frankfurt	Dino Toppmöller	Sebastian Rode	Nike	Indeed	DPDgroup/JOKA (in UEFA matches)
SC Freiburg	Christian Streich	Christian Günter	Nike	Cazoo	BABISTA
1. FC Heidenheim	Frank Schmidt	Patrick Mainka	Puma	MHP	Voith
1899 Hoffenheim	Pellegrino Matarazzo	Oliver Baumann	Joma	SAP	hep global
1. FC Köln	Timo Schultz	Florian Kainz	Hummel	REWE	DEVK/Deutsche Telekom (in cup and UEFA matches)
RB Leipzig	Marco Rose	Willi Orbán	Nike	Red Bull	Die Stadtentwickler/Veganz (in cup and UEFA matches)
Bayer Leverkusen	Xabi Alonso	Lukáš Hrádecký	Castore	Barmenia Versicherungen	Trive/Kumho Tyres (in cup matches)
Mainz 05	Bo Svensson	Silvan Widmer	Kappa	Kömmerling	fb88.com/LOTTO Rheinland-Pfalz (in cup matches)
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Gerardo Seoane	Jonas Omlin	Puma	flatex	Sonepar
Bayern Munich	Thomas Tuchel	Manuel Neuer	Adidas	Deutsche Telekom	Audi (in cup and UEFA matches)
VfB Stuttgart	Sebastian Hoeneß	Waldemar Anton	Jako	Mercedes-Benz Bank	Mercedes-EQ
VfL Wolfsburg	Ralph Hasenhüttl	Maximilian Arnold	Nike	Volkswagen	Linglong Tire

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing	Manner	Exit date		Position in table	Incoming	Incoming date
			Announced on	Departed on			Announced on	Arrived on
Eintracht Frankfurt	Oliver Glasner	Mutual consent	9 May 2023	30 June 2023	Pre-season	Dino Toppmöller	12 June 2023	1 July 2023
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Daniel Farke	Sacked	2 June 2023			Gerardo Seoane	6 June 2023
FC Augsburg	Enrico Maaßen		9 October 2023		15th	Jess Thorup	15 October 2023
Mainz 05	Bo Svensson	Mutual consent	2 November 2023		18th	Jan Siewert	2 November 2023
Union Berlin	Urs Fischer		15 November 2023			Marco Grote (interim)	15 November 2023
	Marco Grote	End of interim spell	26 November 2023		17th	Nenad Bjelica	26 November 2023
1. FC Köln	Steffen Baumgart	Mutual consent	21 December 2023			Timo Schultz	4 January 2024
Mainz 05	Jan Siewert	Sacked	12 February 2024			Bo Henriksen	13 February 2024
VfL Wolfsburg	Niko Kovač		17 March 2024		14th	Ralph Hasenhüttl	17 March 2024
VfL Bochum	Thomas Letsch		8 April 2024		15th	Heiko Butscher	9 April 2024
Union Berlin	Nenad Bjelica		6 May 2024		15th	Marco Grote (interim)	6 May 2024

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bayer Leverkusen (C)	34	28	6	0	89	24	+65	90	Qualification for the Champions League league phase
2	VfB Stuttgart	34	23	4	7	78	39	+39	73
3	Bayern Munich	34	23	3	8	94	45	+49	72
4	RB Leipzig	34	19	8	7	77	39	+38	65
5	Borussia Dortmund	34	18	9	7	68	43	+25	63
6	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	11	14	9	51	50	+1	47	Qualification for the Europa League league phase
7	TSG Hoffenheim	34	13	7	14	66	66	0	46
8	1. FC Heidenheim	34	10	12	12	50	55	−5	42	Qualification for the Conference League play-off round
9	Werder Bremen	34	11	9	14	48	54	−6	42
10	SC Freiburg	34	11	9	14	45	58	−13	42
11	FC Augsburg	34	10	9	15	50	60	−10	39
12	VfL Wolfsburg	34	10	7	17	41	56	−15	37
13	Mainz 05	34	7	14	13	39	51	−12	35
14	Borussia Mönchengladbach	34	7	13	14	56	67	−11	34
15	Union Berlin	34	9	6	19	33	58	−25	33
16	VfL Bochum (O)	34	7	12	15	42	74	−32	33	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
17	1. FC Köln (R)	34	5	12	17	28	60	−32	27	Relegation to 2. Bundesliga
18	Darmstadt 98 (R)	34	3	8	23	30	86	−56	17

Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored; 6) Away goals scored; 7) Play-off.
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (R) Relegated

• Since the 2023–24 DFB-Pokal winners, Bayer Leverkusen, qualified for the Champions League via league position, the spot reserved for the DFB-Pokal winners (Europa League league phase) was passed to the seventh-placed team, and the Conference League play-off round spot was passed to the eighth-placed team.
• The Bundesliga gained an additional Champions League place as a result of Germany finishing as one of the two associations with the highest UEFA coefficient points in 2023–24.

Results

Home \ Away	AUG	UNB	BOC	BRE	DAR	DOR	FRA	FRE	HEI	HOF	KÖL	LEI	LEV	MAI	MÖN	MUN	STU	WOL
FC Augsburg	—	2–0	2–2	0–3	1–2	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–1	2–1	4–4	2–3	0–1	3–2
Union Berlin	1–1	—	3–4	2–1	1–0	0–2	0–3	2–1	2–2	0–2	2–0	0–3	0–1	4–1	3–1	1–5	0–3	1–0
VfL Bochum	1–1	3–0	—	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	3–2	1–1	1–4	0–5	2–2	1–3	3–2	1–0	3–1
Werder Bremen	2–0	2–0	4–1	—	1–1	1–2	2–2	3–1	1–2	2–3	2–1	1–1	0–3	4–0	2–2	0–4	2–1	0–2
Darmstadt 98	0–6	1–4	1–2	4–2	—	0–3	2–2	0–1	0–1	0–6	0–1	1–3	0–2	0–0	3–3	2–5	1–2	0–1
Borussia Dortmund	5–1	4–2	3–1	1–0	4–0	—	3–1	3–0	2–2	2–3	1–0	2–3	1–1	1–1	4–2	0–4	0–1	1–0
Eintracht Frankfurt	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	3–3	—	0–0	2–0	3–1	1–1	2–2	1–5	1–0	2–1	5–1	1–2	2–2
SC Freiburg	2–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–4	3–3	—	1–1	3–2	2–0	1–4	2–3	1–1	3–3	2–2	1–3	1–2
1. FC Heidenheim	2–5	1–0	0–0	4–2	3–2	0–0	1–2	3–2	—	2–3	4–1	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	3–2	2–0	1–1
TSG Hoffenheim	3–1	0–1	3–1	2–1	3–3	1–3	1–3	1–2	1–1	—	1–1	1–1	2–3	1–1	4–3	4–2	0–3	3–1
1. FC Köln	1–1	3–2	2–1	0–1	0–2	0–4	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–3	—	1–5	0–2	0–0	3–1	0–1	0–2	1–2
RB Leipzig	3–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	4–1	0–1	3–1	2–1	3–1	6–0	—	2–3	0–0	2–0	2–2	5–1	3–0
Bayer Leverkusen	2–1	4–0	4–0	5–0	5–1	1–1	3–0	2–1	4–1	2–1	3–0	3–2	—	2–1	0–0	3–0	2–2	2–0
Mainz 05	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	4–0	3–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	4–1	1–1	2–0	0–3	—	1–1	1–3	1–3	1–1
Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–2	0–0	5–2	2–2	0–0	1–2	1–1	0–3	2–1	2–1	3–3	0–1	0–3	2–2	—	1–2	3–1	4–0
Bayern Munich	3–1	1–0	7–0	0–1	8–0	0–2	2–1	3–0	4–2	3–0	2–0	2–1	2–2	8–1	3–1	—	3–0	2–0
VfB Stuttgart	3–0	2–0	5–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	3–0	5–0	3–3	2–3	1–1	5–2	1–1	3–1	4–0	3–1	—	3–1
VfL Wolfsburg	1–3	2–1	1–0	2–2	3–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–3	1–3	1–2	2–3	—

Source: DFB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

The relegation play-offs took place on 23 and 27 May 2024.

Overview

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
VfL Bochum (B)	3–3 (6–5 p)	Fortuna Düsseldorf (2B)	0–3	3–0 (a.e.t.)

Matches

23 May 2024 20:30	VfL Bochum	0–3	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Vonovia Ruhrstadion, Bochum Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Robert Schröder
		Report	P. Hofmann  13' (o.g.) Klaus  64' Engelhardt  72'

27 May 2024 20:30	Fortuna Düsseldorf	0–3 (a.e.t.)	VfL Bochum	Merkur Spiel-Arena, Düsseldorf Attendance: 51,500 Referee: Deniz Aytekin
		Report	P. Hofmann  18', 66' Stöger  70' (pen.)
		Penalties
	A. Hofmann Jóhannesson Engelhardt Oberdorf Tzolis Niemiec Uchino	5–6	Paciência Bero Mašović Asano Stöger Schlotterbeck Wittek

3–3 on aggregate. VfL Bochum won 6–5 on penalties, and therefore both clubs remained in their respective leagues.

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Harry Kane	Bayern Munich	36
2	Serhou Guirassy	VfB Stuttgart	28
3	Loïs Openda	RB Leipzig	24
4	Deniz Undav	VfB Stuttgart	18
5	Maximilian Beier	TSG Hoffenheim	16
6	Ermedin Demirović	FC Augsburg	15
	Andrej Kramarić	TSG Hoffenheim
8	Victor Boniface	Bayer Leverkusen	14
	Benjamin Šeško	RB Leipzig
10	Donyell Malen	Borussia Dortmund	13

Hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Kevin Behrens	Union Berlin	Mainz 05	4–1 (H)	02023-08-20-20 August 2023
Serhou Guirassy	VfB Stuttgart	Mainz 05	3–1 (A)	02023-09-16-16 September 2023
Harry Kane	Bayern Munich	VfL Bochum	7–0 (H)	02023-09-23-23 September 2023
Serhou Guirassy	VfB Stuttgart	VfL Wolfsburg	3–1 (H)	02023-10-07-7 October 2023
Harry Kane	Bayern Munich	Darmstadt 98	8–0 (H)	02023-10-28-28 October 2023
		Borussia Dortmund	4–0 (A)	02023-11-04-4 November 2023
Patrik Schick	Bayer Leverkusen	VfL Bochum	4–0 (H)	02023-12-20-20 December 2023
Deniz Undav	VfB Stuttgart	RB Leipzig	5–2 (H)	02024-01-27-27 January 2024
Niclas Füllkrug	Borussia Dortmund	VfL Bochum	3–1 (H)	02024-01-28-28 January 2024
Harry Kane	Bayern Munich	Mainz 05	8–1 (H)	02024-03-09-9 March 2024
Florian Wirtz	Bayer Leverkusen	Werder Bremen	5–0 (H)	02024-04-14-14 April 2024
Robin Hack	Borussia Mönchengladbach	TSG Hoffenheim	3–4 (A)	02024-04-20-20 April 2024
Andrej Kramarić	TSG Hoffenheim	Bayern Munich	4–2 (H)	02024-05-18-18 May 2024

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Lukas Hradecky	Bayer Leverkusen	15
2	Alexander Nübel	VfB Stuttgart	11
3	Noah Atubolu	SC Freiburg	10
4	Gregor Kobel	Borussia Dortmund	7
	Frederik Rønnow	Union Berlin
	Kevin Trapp	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Robin Zentner	Mainz 05
8	Kevin Müller	1. FC Heidenheim	6
	Manuel Neuer	Bayern Munich
	Michael Zetterer	Werder Bremen

External links

• Official website