History of the Bundesliga

History of the Bundesliga

In 1897, the football league began in southern Germany and Brandenburg, followed by the Southern German Championship, the Brandenburg German Championship, the Central German Championship, the Western German Championship, the Northern German Championship, the South West German Championship, and the Baltic German Championship. And in each league, there was a German championship in which the winners went through playoffs and decided the winners.

As league methods such as "Gauliga" and "Overliga" fell below other European countries, it began by creating a unified league that formed 16 teams representing three regions of West Germany. 

In 1965, a total of 18 teams participated, adding two teams, and it has continued to this day. Originally, it was intended to maintain 16 teams, but when the team was lost in Berlin in 1965 due to the illegal pay scandal in Hertha Berlin, the German Football Association had to increase the number of teams to 20 teams, but it did not come true.It seems that the reason is that it is difficult to play many games due to the relatively cold climate.

The dramatic victory at the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland raised the enthusiasm for soccer, and the government gave a lot of support, which continues to this day. The representative part is the infrastructure part that will be described later. On top of that, the German Football Association established a strong foundation through management of the financial and foreign players.

The Bundesliga match-fixing incident in 1971 briefly bottomed out its popularity, but in 1974, West Germany won the World Cup and began to be recognized as the best league in Europe. Since then, he has not missed the top three European leagues until the revival of the English Premier League in the late 1990s. In the meantime, Germany was unified in 1990, and the top two teams of the former East German first division DDR Overliga were incorporated into the Bundesliga and the next six teams were incorporated into the 2. Bundesliga.

However, as the Premier League grew in earnest from the end of the 1990s, it gradually became a league similar to the French Ligue 1, the Portuguese Primera Liga, and the Dutch Eredivisie. This was the time when the German national football team was being ridiculed for being called rusty chariots. This downturn lasted quite a long time even as we entered the 2000s. It was a time when the German economy was in trouble due to the cost problem spent in the process of German unification, and it can be said that this also affected the league.

In 2002, when the media group Kirch went bankrupt, Bundesliga clubs collapsed due to a plunge in broadcasting rights in the Bundesliga, and most clubs were forced to sell players to foreign clubs in the face of bankruptcy because they could not afford the main players' weekly wages. Originally, German players rarely played in foreign leagues, but at this time, a large number of forced entry was achieved (?). Considering that the Bundesliga broadcasting rights exceeded half of EPL (a third of EPL's new broadcasting rights contract) only in recent years, it is possible to guess a little how serious the situation was at the time. Bundesliga and TV

However, it has steadily maintained financial stability and is aiming for the top 3 position in Europe again. After the Calciopoli scandal, Serie A has been shaken, almost catching up in terms of the league's status, and considering the soundness of the league, the Bundesliga is rather ahead. Until the 2009–10 season, there was only one point difference between Serie and Bundesliga in the UEFA League rankings, and it would have been reversed if it were not for Mourinho's international treble, namely Bayern Munich's treble. And finally four teams from the 2013–14 Champions League. Finally over the Serie. It has succeeded in rebuilding the once-broken league's status as it is based on good performance in the Europa League and a strong financial base and a large football-loving population that has made it to the quarterfinals.

In the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League, all three teams advanced to the round of 16 and all four in the Europa League advanced to the round of 32, the first in Bundesliga history and the only team to advance to the European tournament this season, so they are chasing the second-ranked Premier League. Bayern Munich and Dortmund advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League, and both teams advanced to the semifinals, which is likely to lead the Premier League, which failed to advance to the quarterfinals. In the Champions League semifinals, Bayern and Dortmund defeated Barcelona and Real Madrid, respectively, marking the first Champions League final in history between German clubs. And Bayern Munich won the championship, achieving the first treble of the German club. He also surpassed the EPL in the 2015–16 season and ranked second in the league.

Some predicted that the Bundesliga would regain its splendid heyday in the past 70s as clubs that could raise the league ranking appeared, but after the end of the 2017-18 season, the rest of the teams except Bayern Munich were wiped out early in the European match and fell to fourth place in the UEFA League rankings. Except for Bayern Munich, the problem is that it falls significantly in terms of club size compared to Europe's leading big clubs. With the club's management soundness-oriented climate and the 50+1 rule blocking Sugar Daddy's entry, Bundesliga clubs find it difficult to spend a lot of money in the transfer market and maintain an expensive high-week squad. In the 2018-19 season, all clubs except Munich were eliminated from the round of 16, but Eintracht Frankfurt advanced to the semifinals of Europa, beating Serie A and rising to third place again.

In the 2019-20 season, all clubs, except Borussia Mönchengladbach, advanced to the Europa round of 16, and in addition, there was an unprecedented situation in which two Ligue 1 teams and two Bundesliga teams remained in the semifinals. 토토사이트