2001–02 Bundesliga

The 2001–02 Bundesliga was the 39th season of the Bundesliga. It began on 28 July 2001 and concluded on 4 May 2002.^[1]

Bundesliga

Season	2001–02
Dates	28 July 2001 – 4 May 2002
Champions	Borussia Dortmund 3rd Bundesliga title 6th German title
Relegated	Freiburg Köln St. Pauli
Champions League	Borussia Dortmund Bayer Leverkusen Bayern Munich
UEFA Cup	Hertha BSC Schalke 04 Werder Bremen
Intertoto Cup	Kaiserslautern Stuttgart 1860 Munich
Matches played	306
Goals scored	893 (2.92 per match)
Top goalscorer	Márcio Amoroso Martin Max (18 goals each)
← 2000–01 2002–03 →

Teams

Eighteen teams competed in the league – the top fifteen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the 2. Bundesliga. The promoted teams were 1. FC Nürnberg, Borussia Mönchengladbach and FC St. Pauli. 1. FC Nürnberg and Borussia Mönchengladbach returned to the top flight after an absence of two years while FC St. Pauli returned to the top fight after an absence of four years. They replaced SpVgg Unterhaching, Eintracht Frankfurt and VfL Bochum, ending their top flight spells of two, three and one years respectively.

Team overview

Hertha BSC

Bremen

Cottbus

Dortmund

Freiburg

Hamburg

Kaiserslautern

Köln

Leverkusen

Mönchengladbach

1860
Bayern

Nürnberg

Rostock

Schalke

St. Pauli

Stuttgart

Wolfsburg

Location of teams in Bundesliga 2001–02

Stadiums

Club	Location	Ground[2]	Capacity[2]
Hertha BSC	Berlin	Olympiastadion	76,000
SV Werder Bremen	Bremen	Weserstadion	36,000
FC Energie Cottbus	Cottbus	Stadion der Freundschaft	21,000
Borussia Dortmund	Dortmund	Westfalenstadion	68,600
SC Freiburg	Freiburg im Breisgau	Dreisamstadion	25,000
Hamburger SV	Hamburg	Volksparkstadion	62,000
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Kaiserslautern	Fritz-Walter-Stadion	41,500
1. FC Köln	Cologne	Müngersdorfer Stadion	46,000
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Leverkusen	BayArena	22,500
Borussia Mönchengladbach*	Mönchengladbach	Bökelbergstadion	34,500
TSV 1860 Munich	Munich	Olympiastadion	63,000
FC Bayern Munich	Munich	Olympiastadion	63,000
1. FC Nürnberg*	Nuremberg	Frankenstadion	44,700
F.C. Hansa Rostock	Rostock	Ostseestadion	25,850
FC Schalke 04	Gelsenkirchen	Arena AufSchalke	61,973
FC St. Pauli*	Hamburg	Stadion am Millerntor	20,550
VfB Stuttgart	Stuttgart	Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion	53,700
VfL Wolfsburg	Wolfsburg	VfL-Stadion am Elsterweg	21,600

(*) Promoted from 2. Bundesliga.

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
TSV 1860 Munich	Peter Pacult	Nike	FTI Touristik
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Klaus Toppmöller	Adidas	RWE
FC Bayern Munich	Ottmar Hitzfeld	Adidas	Opel
Borussia Dortmund	Matthias Sammer	Goool.de	E.ON
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Hans Meyer	Reebok	Maxdata (H)/Belinea (A)
FC Energie Cottbus	Eduard Geyer	Jako	enviaM
SC Freiburg	Volker Finke	Jako	NaturEnergie
Hamburger SV	Kurt Jara	Nike	TV Spielfilm
FC Hansa Rostock	Armin Veh	Jako	Kia
Hertha BSC	Falko Götz	Nike	o.tel.o/Arcor
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Andreas Brehme	Nike	Deutsche Vermögensberatung
1. FC Köln	Friedhelm Funkel	Puma	VPV Versicherungen
1. FC Nürnberg	Klaus Augenthaler	Adidas	Adecco
FC Schalke 04	Huub Stevens	Adidas	Victoria Versicherung
FC St. Pauli	Dietmar Demuth	Kappa	Securvita
VfB Stuttgart	Felix Magath	Adidas	Debitel
SV Werder Bremen	Thomas Schaaf	Kappa	None
VfL Wolfsburg	Wolfgang Wolf	Puma	Volkswagen

League table

The final table of the 1st Bundesliga, Season 2001/02

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Borussia Dortmund (C)	34	21	7	6	62	33	+29	70	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Bayer Leverkusen	34	21	6	7	77	38	+39	69
3	Bayern Munich	34	20	8	6	65	25	+40	68	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4	Hertha BSC	34	18	7	9	61	38	+23	61	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5	Schalke 04	34	18	7	9	52	36	+16	61
6	Werder Bremen	34	17	5	12	54	43	+11	56
7	1. FC Kaiserslautern	34	17	5	12	62	53	+9	56	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
8	VfB Stuttgart	34	13	11	10	47	43	+4	50	Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round
9	1860 Munich	34	15	5	14	59	59	0	50
10	VfL Wolfsburg	34	13	7	14	57	49	+8	46
11	Hamburger SV	34	10	10	14	51	57	−6	40
12	Borussia Mönchengladbach	34	9	12	13	41	53	−12	39
13	Energie Cottbus	34	9	8	17	36	60	−24	35
14	Hansa Rostock	34	9	7	18	35	54	−19	34
15	1. FC Nürnberg	34	10	4	20	34	57	−23	34
16	SC Freiburg (R)	34	7	9	18	37	64	−27	30	Relegation to 2. Bundesliga
17	1. FC Köln (R)	34	7	8	19	26	61	−35	29
18	FC St. Pauli (R)	34	4	10	20	37	70	−33	22

Source: bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BSC	SVW	FCE	BVB	SCF	HSV	FCK	KOE	B04	BMG	M60	FCB	FCN	ROS	S04	STP	VFB	WOB
Hertha BSC	—	3–1	2–3	0–2	1–1	6–0	5–1	3–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	2–0	2–0
Werder Bremen	0–3	—	3–2	1–1	3–2	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–3	1–0	3–0	4–3	3–0	3–2	1–2	1–0
Energie Cottbus	1–0	2–1	—	0–2	2–0	1–0	0–2	2–3	2–3	3–3	1–1	0–3	1–0	3–0	2–0	4–0	0–0	3–3
Borussia Dortmund	3–1	2–1	3–0	—	0–2	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	0–2	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	4–0
SC Freiburg	1–3	3–0	3–1	1–5	—	4–3	3–1	0–0	2–2	0–1	1–3	0–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	0–2	0–0
Hamburger SV	4–0	0–4	5–2	3–4	1–1	—	2–3	4–0	1–1	3–3	2–1	0–0	3–1	0–1	0–0	4–3	2–0	1–1
1. FC Kaiserslautern	4–1	2–1	4–0	1–0	3–0	2–2	—	2–1	2–4	3–2	1–3	0–0	2–1	3–1	0–0	5–1	2–2	3–2
1. FC Köln	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–2	2–0	2–1	0–1	—	1–2	0–2	2–0	0–2	1–2	4–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	0–4
Bayer Leverkusen	2–1	1–2	2–0	4–0	4–1	4–1	2–1	2–0	—	5–0	4–0	1–1	4–2	2–0	0–1	3–1	4–1	2–1
Borussia Mönchengladbach	3–1	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–2	2–1	0–2	4–0	0–1	—	2–4	1–0	1–0	0–2	0–0	2–2	2–2	0–2
1860 Munich	0–3	3–1	1–0	1–3	5–2	1–1	0–4	3–0	1–4	2–2	—	1–5	1–0	2–0	1–2	4–2	3–3	2–1
Bayern Munich	3–0	2–2	6–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	4–1	3–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	—	0–0	3–2	3–0	2–0	4–0	3–3
1. FC Nürnberg	1–3	0–4	2–0	2–2	2–0	0–0	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	—	2–0	0–3	0–0	2–4	3–0
Hansa Rostock	1–1	0–1	0–0	0–2	4–0	1–1	2–1	3–0	0–3	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	—	1–3	1–0	1–1	1–2
Schalke 04	0–0	1–4	2–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	3–0	3–1	3–3	2–0	1–0	5–1	2–1	3–1	—	4–0	2–1	1–2
FC St. Pauli	0–0	0–3	4–0	1–2	1–0	0–4	1–1	1–2	2–2	1–1	0–3	2–1	2–3	0–1	0–2	—	1–2	3–1
VfB Stuttgart	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–2	3–0	3–0	4–3	0–0	0–2	1–1	0–1	0–2	2–3	2–1	3–0	2–0	—	2–1
VfL Wolfsburg	1–3	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	5–1	3–1	3–1	1–3	0–1	5–0	4–0	3–1	1–1	0–2	—

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

Overall

• Most wins - Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen (21)
• Fewest wins - FC St. Pauli (4)
• Most draws - Borussia Mönchengladbach (12)
• Fewest draws - 1. FC Nürnberg (4)
• Most losses - 1. FC Nürnberg and FC St. Pauli (20)
• Fewest losses - Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich (6)
• Most goals scored - Bayer Leverkusen (77)
• Fewest goals scored - 1. FC Köln (26)
• Most goals conceded - FC St. Pauli (70)
• Fewest goals conceded - Bayern Munich (25)

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Márcio Amoroso	Borussia Dortmund	18
	Martin Max	1860 Munich
3	Michael Ballack	Bayer Leverkusen	17
	Giovane Élber	Bayern Munich
5	Aílton	Werder Bremen	16
	Miroslav Klose	1. FC Kaiserslautern
7	Claudio Pizarro	Bayern Munich	15
8	Oliver Neuville	Bayer Leverkusen	13
	Marcelinho	Hertha BSC
10	Arie van Lent	Borussia Mönchengladbach	12
	Michael Preetz	Hertha BSC
	Tomislav Marić	VfL Wolfsburg