2008–09 Bundesliga

Bundesliga
Season2008–09
Dates15 August 2008 – 23 May 2009
ChampionsVfL Wolfsburg
1st Bundesliga title
1st German title
RelegatedEnergie Cottbus (via play-off)
Karlsruher SC
Arminia Bielefeld
Champions LeagueVfL Wolfsburg
Bayern Munich
VfB Stuttgart
Europa LeagueHertha BSC
Hamburger SV
Werder Bremen (via domestic cup)
Matches played306
Goals scored894 (2.92 per match)
Top goalscorerGrafite (28)
Biggest home winDortmund 6–0 Bielefeld (16 May 2009)[1]
Biggest away winFrankfurt 0–5 Bremen (13 May 2009)[2]
Hannover 0–5 Wolfsburg (16 May 2009)[3]
Highest scoringBremen 5–4 Hoffenheim (27 September 2008)[4]
(9 goals)
Average attendance42,565
Fussball-Bundesliga Deutschland 2008-09

The 2008–09 Bundesliga was the 46th season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. The season began on 15 August 2008 with a 2–2 draw between defending champions Bayern Munich and Hamburger SV and ended with the last matches on 23 May 2009.[5] VfL Wolfsburg secured their first national title in the last match after a 5–1 win at home against Werder Bremen.

Changes from 2007–08

Structural changes

Starting with the 2008–09 season, two-legged relegation playoffs between the third last team of the Bundesliga and the third team of the 2. Bundesliga at the end of the regular season were re-introduced.

Due to the restructuring of European competitions, the third-placed team qualified for the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League, entering in a separate qualifying round for non-champions. The fourth-placed team and the winner of the 2008–09 DFB-Pokal qualified for the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League play-off round; the fifth-placed team qualified for the third qualifying round. The sixth-placed team did not qualify for any European competitions because the UEFA Intertoto Cup will not be continued after its final edition in 2008.

Promotion and relegation

1. FC Nürnberg, Hansa Rostock and MSV Duisburg finished the 2007–08 season in 16th through 18th place, respectively, and therefore were relegated to the 2. Bundesliga. They were replaced by the top three teams of 2007–08 2. Bundesliga: Borussia Mönchengladbach, 1899 Hoffenheim and 1. FC Köln, respectively.

Teams

Stadia and locations

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Location of teams in the 2008–09 Fußball-Bundesliga
Team Location Venue Capacity
Hertha BSC Berlin Olympic Stadium 74,228
Arminia Bielefeld Bielefeld Bielefelder Alm 28,008
VfL Bochum Bochum rewirpowerSTADION 31,328
Werder Bremen Bremen Weserstadion 42,358
Energie Cottbus Cottbus Stadion der Freundschaft 22,450
Borussia Dortmund Dortmund Westfalenstadion 80,708
Eintracht Frankfurt Frankfurt Commerzbank-Arena 52,300
Hamburger SV Hamburg HSH Nordbank Arena 57,274
Hannover 96 Hanover AWD-Arena 49,000
1899 Hoffenheim Sinsheim Rhein-Neckar-Arena1 30,000
Karlsruher SC Karlsruhe Wildparkstadion 32,306
1. FC Köln Cologne RheinEnergieStadion 50,374
Bayer Leverkusen Leverkusen BayArena2 22,500
Borussia Mönchengladbach Mönchengladbach Borussia-Park 54,067
Bayern Munich Munich Allianz Arena 69,901
Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen Veltins-Arena 61,673
VfB Stuttgart Stuttgart Mercedes-Benz Arena 58,000
VfL Wolfsburg Wolfsburg Volkswagen Arena 30,122
Notes
  1. 1899 Hoffenheim played their 2008 home matches at Carl-Benz-Stadion in Mannheim because their Rhein-Neckar-Arena had not yet been completed.
  2. Bayer Leverkusen played their 2009 home matches at LTU-Arena in Düsseldorf because their BayArena was being upgraded to a capacity of 30,000.

Personnel and sponsoring

Team Head Coach Team Captain Kitmaker Shirt sponsor
Hertha BSC Switzerland Lucien Favre Germany Arne Friedrich Nike Deutsche Bahn
Arminia Bielefeld Germany Jörg Berger Germany Rüdiger Kauf Saller Krombacher
VfL Bochum Switzerland Marcel Koller Germany Marcel Maltritz Do You Football KiK
Werder Bremen Germany Thomas Schaaf Germany Frank Baumann Kappa Citibank
Energie Cottbus Slovenia Bojan Prašnikar Germany Timo Rost Saller enviaM
Borussia Dortmund Germany Jürgen Klopp Germany Sebastian Kehl Nike Evonik
Eintracht Frankfurt Germany Friedhelm Funkel Greece Ioannis Amanatidis Jako Fraport
Hamburger SV Netherlands Martin Jol Czech Republic David Jarolím adidas Emirates
Hannover 96 Germany Dieter Hecking Germany Robert Enke Under Armour TUI
1899 Hoffenheim Germany Ralf Rangnick Germany Selim Teber Puma TV Digital
Karlsruher SC Germany Edmund Becker Germany Maik Franz Jako EnBW
1. FC Köln Germany Christoph Daum Slovenia Milivoje Novaković Reebok REWE
Bayer Leverkusen Germany Bruno Labbadia Germany Simon Rolfes adidas TelDaFax
Borussia Mönchengladbach Germany Hans Meyer Belgium Filip Daems Lotto Kyocera
Bayern Munich Germany Jupp Heynckes1 Netherlands Mark van Bommel adidas T-Home
Schalke 04 Germany Mike Büskens,
Netherlands Youri Mulder and
Germany Oliver Reck2 		Serbia Mladen Krstajić adidas Gazprom
VfB Stuttgart Germany Markus Babbel Germany Thomas Hitzlsperger Puma EnBW
VfL Wolfsburg Germany Felix Magath Brazil Josué Nike Ein Herz Für Kinder*/Polo
Notes
  1. Jupp Heynckes acted as caretaker for the remainder of the season.
  2. Mike Büskens, Youri Mulder and Oliver Reck acted as caretakers for the remainder of the season.
  • Ein Herz Für Kinder took the place of Volkswagen's sponsorship during the 2008–09 season to celebrate the 20th year of the Charity.

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Replaced by Date of appointment Position in table
Bayer Leverkusen Germany Michael Skibbe Sacked 30 June 2008[citation needed] Germany Bruno Labbadia 1 July 2008[citation needed] Pre-season
Bayern Munich Germany Ottmar Hitzfeld End of contract 30 June 2008[6] Germany Jürgen Klinsmann 1 July 2008[7] Pre-season
Borussia Dortmund Germany Thomas Doll Resigned 30 June 2008[citation needed] Germany Jürgen Klopp 1 July 2008[citation needed] Pre-season
Hamburger SV Netherlands Huub Stevens End of contract 30 June 2008[8] Netherlands Martin Jol 1 July 2008[9] Pre-season
Schalke 04 Germany Mike Büskens &
Netherlands Youri Mulder 		Stepped down
to assistant position 		30 June 2008[10] Netherlands Fred Rutten 1 July 2008[10] Pre-season
Borussia Mönchengladbach Netherlands Jos Luhukay Sacked 5 October 2008[11] Germany Hans Meyer 18 October 2008[12] 18th
VfB Stuttgart Germany Armin Veh Sacked 23 November 2008[13] Germany Markus Babbel 23 November 2008[13] 11th
Schalke 04 Netherlands Fred Rutten Sacked 26 March 2009[14] Germany Mike Büskens,
Netherlands Youri Mulder and
Germany Oliver Reck 		1 April 2009[15] 8th
Bayern Munich Germany Jürgen Klinsmann Sacked 27 April 2009[16] Germany Jupp Heynckes 27 April 2009[16] 3rd
Arminia Bielefeld Germany Michael Frontzeck Sacked 17 May 2009[17] Germany Jörg Berger 19 May 2009[18] 16th

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 VfL Wolfsburg (C) 34 21 6 7 80 41 +39 69 Qualification to Champions League group stage
2 Bayern Munich 34 20 7 7 71 42 +29 67
3 VfB Stuttgart 34 19 7 8 63 43 +20 64 Qualification to Champions League play-off round
4 Hertha BSC 34 19 6 9 48 41 +7 63 Qualification to Europa League play-off round
5 Hamburger SV 34 19 4 11 49 47 +2 61 Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
6 Borussia Dortmund 34 15 14 5 60 37 +23 59
7 1899 Hoffenheim 34 15 10 9 63 49 +14 55
8 Schalke 04 34 14 8 12 47 35 +12 50
9 Bayer Leverkusen 34 14 7 13 59 46 +13 49
10 Werder Bremen[a] 34 12 9 13 64 50 +14 45 Qualification to Europa League play-off round
11 Hannover 96 34 10 10 14 49 69 −20 40
12 1. FC Köln 34 11 6 17 35 50 −15 39
13 Eintracht Frankfurt 34 8 9 17 39 60 −21 33
14 VfL Bochum 34 7 11 16 39 55 −16 32
15 Borussia Mönchengladbach 34 8 7 19 39 62 −23 31
16 Energie Cottbus (R) 34 8 6 20 30 57 −27 30 Qualification to relegation play-offs
17 Karlsruher SC (R) 34 8 5 21 30 54 −24 29 Relegation to 2. Bundesliga
18 Arminia Bielefeld (R) 34 4 16 14 29 56 −27 28
Source: kicker (in German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Werder Bremen qualified for the play-off round of the UEFA Europa League by winning the 2008–09 DFB-Pokal.

Results

Home \ Away BSC DSC BOC SVW FCE BVB SGE HSV H96 TSG KSC KOE B04 BMG FCB S04 VFB WOB
Hertha BSC — 1–1 2–0 2–1 0–1 1–3 2–1 2–1 3–0 1–0 4–0 2–1 1–0 2–1 2–1 0–0 2–1 2–2
Arminia Bielefeld 1–1 — 1–1 2–2 1–1 0–0 0–0 2–4 2–2 0–2 1–2 2–0 2–1 0–2 0–1 0–2 2–2 0–3
VfL Bochum 2–3 2–0 — 0–0 3–2 0–2 2–0 1–1 0–2 1–3 2–0 1–2 2–3 2–2 0–3 2–1 1–2 2–2
Werder Bremen 5–1 1–2 3–2 — 3–0 3–3 5–0 2–0 4–1 5–4 1–3 3–1 0–2 1–1 0–0 1–1 4–0 2–1
Energie Cottbus 1–3 2–1 1–1 2–1 — 0–1 2–3 1–2 3–1 0–3 1–0 0–2 3–0 0–1 1–3 0–2 0–3 2–0
Borussia Dortmund 1–1 6–0 1–1 1–0 1–1 — 4–0 2–0 1–1 0–0 4–0 3–1 1–1 2–1 1–1 3–3 3–0 0–0
Eintracht Frankfurt 0–2 1–1 4–0 0–5 2–1 0–2 — 2–3 4–0 1–1 2–1 2–2 0–2 4–1 1–2 1–2 2–2 0–2
Hamburger SV 1–1 2–0 3–1 2–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 — 2–1 1–0 2–1 0–1 3–2 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–0 1–3
Hannover 96 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 4–4 1–1 3–0 — 2–5 3–2 2–1 1–0 5–1 1–0 1–0 3–3 0–5
1899 Hoffenheim 0–1 3–0 0–3 0–0 2–0 4–1 2–1 3–0 2–2 — 4–1 2–0 1–4 1–0 2–2 1–1 0–0 3–2
Karlsruher SC 4–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 0–0 0–1 0–1 3–2 2–3 2–2 — 0–2 3–3 0–0 0–1 0–3 0–2 2–1
1. FC Köln 1–2 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 0–1 1–1 1–2 2–1 1–3 0–0 — 0–2 2–4 0–3 1–0 0–3 1–1
Bayer Leverkusen 0–1 2–2 1–1 1–1 1–1 2–3 1–1 1–2 4–0 5–2 0–1 2–0 — 5–0 0–2 2–1 2–4 2–0
Borussia Mönchengladbach 0–1 1–1 0–1 3–2 1–3 1–1 1–2 4–1 3–2 1–1 1–0 1–2 1–3 — 2–2 1–0 1–3 1–2
Bayern Munich 4–1 3–1 3–3 2–5 4–1 3–1 4–0 2–2 5–1 2–1 1–0 1–2 3–0 2–1 — 0–1 2–1 4–2
Schalke 04 1–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 4–0 1–1 1–0 1–2 3–0 2–3 2–0 1–0 1–2 3–1 1–2 — 1–2 2–2
VfB Stuttgart 2–0 0–0 2–0 4–1 2–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 2–0 3–3 3–1 1–3 0–2 2–0 2–2 2–0 — 4–1
VfL Wolfsburg 2–1 4–1 2–0 5–1 3–0 3–0 2–2 3–0 2–1 4–0 1–0 2–1 2–1 3–0 5–1 4–3 4–1 —
Source: DFB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

Energie Cottbus, as the 16th-placed team, faced third-placed 2. Bundesliga team 1. FC Nürnberg for a two-legged playoff. Nürnberg won both matches on an aggregated score of 5–0 and thus secured promotion to the 2009–10 Bundesliga, while Cottbus were relegated to the 2009–10 2. Bundesliga.

After Energie were relegated, no teams from the former East Germany played in the Bundesliga until RB Leipzig earned promotion to the Bundesliga for 2016–17.

Energie Cottbus0–31. FC Nürnberg
Report
(in German)		 Boakye 13', 89'
Eigler 56'
Attendance: 22,000 (capacity crowd)
1. FC Nürnberg2–0Energie Cottbus
Eigler 29'
Mintál 37'		 Report
(in German)
Attendance: 46,780 (capacity crowd)

Statistics

Awards

Player of the Month

Month Player Team
August[19] Poland Artur Wichniarek Arminia Bielefeld
September[20] Germany Mesut Özil Werder Bremen
October[21] Bosnia and Herzegovina Vedad Ibišević 1899 Hoffenheim
November[22] France Franck Ribéry Bayern Munich
December[23] Germany Sami Khedira VfB Stuttgart
February[24] Germany Mario Gómez VfB Stuttgart
March[25] Brazil Grafite VfL Wolfsburg
April[26] Germany Mario Gómez VfB Stuttgart
May[27] Germany Mario Gómez VfB Stuttgart

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