2013–14 Bundesliga

The 2013–14 Bundesliga was the 51st season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. The season began on 9 August 2013 and the final matchday was on 10 May 2014. The winter break started on 23 December 2013 and ended on 24 January 2014.^[2]

Bundesliga

Season	2013–14
Dates	9 August 2013 – 10 May 2014
Champions	Bayern Munich 23rd Bundesliga title 24th German title
Relegated	1. FC Nürnberg Eintracht Braunschweig
UEFA Champions League	Bayern Munich Borussia Dortmund Schalke 04 Bayer Leverkusen
UEFA Europa League	VfL Wolfsburg Borussia Mönchengladbach FSV Mainz 05
Matches played	306
Goals scored	967 (3.16 per match)
Top goalscorer	Robert Lewandowski (20 goals)
Biggest home win	Hertha BSC 6–1 Eintracht Frankfurt (10 August 2013) Borussia Dortmund 5–0 SC Freiburg (28 September 2013) Borussia Dortmund 6–1 VfB Stuttgart (1 November 2013) Bayern Munich 5–0 Eintracht Frankfurt (2 February 2014)
Biggest away win	Werder Bremen 0–7 Bayern Munich (7 December 2013)
Highest scoring	VfB Stuttgart 6–2 Hoffenheim (1 September 2013) Borussia Dortmund 6–2 Hamburger SV (13 September 2013) Bayer Leverkusen 5–3 Hamburger SV (9 November 2013) Hoffenheim 4–4 Werder Bremen (30 November 2013) Hoffenheim 6–2 VfL Wolfsburg (2 March 2014)
Longest winning run	19 games Bayern Munich
Longest unbeaten run	28 games Bayern Munich
Longest winless run	17 games Nürnberg
Longest losing run	8 games VfB Stuttgart
Highest attendance	80,645 Borussia Dortmund 6–2 Hamburger SV (13 September 2013)
Lowest attendance	23,000 Eintracht Braunschweig 0–1 Werder Bremen (10 August 2013)
Average attendance	43,502[1]
← 2012–13 2014–15 →

Bayern Munich were the defending champions and officially clinched the championship on 25 March 2014 after defeating Hertha BSC, on the 27th matchday of the season. This broke their previous record from last season, where Bayern clinched the Bundesliga on matchday 28.^[3]

Teams

A total of 18 teams were contesting the league, including 15 sides from the 2012–13 season and two sides promoted directly from the 2012–13 2. Bundesliga season. Fortuna Düsseldorf and Greuther Fürth were relegated from the Bundesliga after a single season and were replaced by Hertha Berlin, 2. Bundesliga champions and runners-up Eintracht Braunschweig. Hertha made an immediate return to the top level, but Eintracht made their first appearance after 28 years in the second and third levels. The final participant was determined in the two-legged play-off, in which 16th placed Bundesliga side TSG 1899 Hoffenheim defeated 1. FC Kaiserslautern, who finished third in 2. Bundesliga.

2013–14 Teams

• Bayern Munich
• Borussia Dortmund
• Bayer Leverkusen
• Schalke 04
• SC Freiburg
• Eintracht Frankfurt
• Hamburger SV
• Borussia Mönchengladbach
• Hannover 96
• 1. FC Nürnberg
• VfL Wolfsburg
• VfB Stuttgart
• FSV Mainz 05
• Werder Bremen
• FC Augsburg
• TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (winner of the promotion-relegation play-off)
• Hertha BSC (2012–13 2. Bundesliga champion)
• Eintracht Braunschweig (2012–13 2. Bundesliga runner-up)

Stadiums and locations

Augsburg

Bayern Munich

Dortmund

Freiburg

Leverkusen

Schalke

Mönchengladbach

E. Frankfurt

Hamburg

Hertha BSC

Braunschweig

Hannover

Wolfsburg

Mainz

Stuttgart

Nürnberg

Werder Bremen

Hoffenheim

Locations of the 2013–14 Fußball-Bundesliga teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity[4]
FC Augsburg	Augsburg	SGL arena	30,660
Bayer Leverkusen	Leverkusen	BayArena	30,210
Bayern Munich	Munich	Allianz Arena	71,000
Borussia Dortmund	Dortmund	Signal Iduna Park	80,645
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Mönchengladbach	Stadion im Borussia-Park	54,010
Eintracht Braunschweig	Braunschweig	Eintracht-Stadion	23,325[5]
Eintracht Frankfurt	Frankfurt	Commerzbank-Arena	51,500
SC Freiburg	Freiburg	MAGE SOLAR Stadion	24,000
Hamburger SV	Hamburg	Imtech Arena	57,000
Hannover 96	Hanover	HDI-Arena	49,000
Hertha BSC	Berlin	Olympiastadion	74,244
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Sinsheim	Rhein-Neckar Arena	30,150
1. FSV Mainz 05	Mainz	Coface Arena	34,000
1. FC Nürnberg	Nuremberg	Grundig-Stadion	50,000
Schalke 04	Gelsenkirchen	Veltins-Arena	61,973
VfB Stuttgart	Stuttgart	Mercedes-Benz Arena	60,441
Werder Bremen	Bremen	Weserstadion	42,100
VfL Wolfsburg	Wolfsburg	Volkswagen Arena	30,000

Personnel and kits

As of 19 February 2014.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer[6]	Shirt sponsor[7]
FC Augsburg	Markus Weinzierl	Paul Verhaegh	Jako	AL-KO
Bayer Leverkusen	Sascha Lewandowski (caretaker)	Simon Rolfes	adidas	LG Electronics
Bayern Munich	Pep Guardiola	Philipp Lahm	adidas	Deutsche Telekom
Borussia Dortmund	Jürgen Klopp	Sebastian Kehl	Puma	Evonik
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Lucien Favre	Filip Daems	Kappa	Postbank
Eintracht Braunschweig	Torsten Lieberknecht	Dennis Kruppke	Nike[8]	SEAT[9]
Eintracht Frankfurt	Armin Veh	Pirmin Schwegler	Jako	Alfa Romeo[7]
SC Freiburg	Christian Streich	Julian Schuster	Nike	Ehrmann
Hamburger SV	Mirko Slomka	Rafael van der Vaart	adidas	Fly Emirates
Hannover 96	Tayfun Korkut	Steve Cherundolo	Jako	TUI
Hertha BSC	Jos Luhukay	Fabian Lustenberger	Nike	Deutsche Bahn
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Markus Gisdol	Andreas Beck	Puma	SAP
1. FSV Mainz 05	Thomas Tuchel	Nikolče Noveski	Nike	Entega
1. FC Nürnberg	Roger Prinzen	Raphael Schäfer	adidas	NKD
Schalke 04	Jens Keller	Benedikt Höwedes	adidas	Gazprom
VfB Stuttgart	Huub Stevens	Christian Gentner	Puma	Mercedes-Benz Bank
Werder Bremen	Robin Dutt	Clemens Fritz	Nike	Wiesenhof
VfL Wolfsburg	Dieter Hecking	Diego Benaglio	adidas	Volkswagen/e-Up!

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager(s)	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager(s)	Date of appointment
Werder Bremen	Thomas Schaaf	Mutual consent	15 May 2013[10]	14th (2012–13)1	Robin Dutt	27 May 2013[11]
Bayern Munich	Jupp Heynckes	Retirement	26 June 2013	Pre-season	Pep Guardiola	26 June 2013[12]2
Bayer Leverkusen	Sami Hyypiä & Sascha Lewandowski	Lewandowski stepped down	30 June 2013[13]		Sami Hyypiä	30 June 20133
VfB Stuttgart	Bruno Labbadia	Sacked	26 August 2013[14]	17th	Thomas Schneider	26 August 2013[15]
Hamburger SV	Thorsten Fink	Sacked	17 September 2013[16]	15th	Bert van Marwijk	22 September 2013[17]
1. FC Nürnberg	Michael Wiesinger	Sacked	7 October 2013[18]	16th	Gertjan Verbeek	22 October 2013[19]
Hannover 96	Mirko Slomka	Sacked	27 December 2013[20]	13th	Tayfun Korkut	31 December 2013[21]
Hamburger SV	Bert van Marwijk	Sacked	15 February 2014[22]	17th	Mirko Slomka	17 February 2014[23]
VfB Stuttgart	Thomas Schneider	Sacked	9 March 2014[24]	15th	Huub Stevens	9 March 2014[24]
Bayer Leverkusen	Sami Hyypiä	Sacked	5 April 2014[25]	4th	Sascha Lewandowski (caretaker)	5 April 2014[25]
1. FC Nürnberg	Gertjan Verbeek	Sacked	23 April 2014	17th	Roger Prinzen	23 April 2014

Notes

1. Werder Bremen and Thomas Schaaf terminated their contract after the penultimate matchday of the 2012–13 season. Robin Dutt was named as the new permanent manager in the off-season.
2. Announced on 16 January 2013.^[12]
3. Announced on 15 May 2013.^[13]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bayern Munich (C)	34	29	3	2	94	23	+71	90	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Borussia Dortmund	34	22	5	7	80	38	+42	71
3	Schalke 04	34	19	7	8	63	43	+20	64
4	Bayer Leverkusen	34	19	4	11	60	41	+19	61	Qualification for the Champions League play-off round
5	VfL Wolfsburg	34	18	6	10	63	50	+13	60	Qualification for the Europa League group stage[a]
6	Borussia Mönchengladbach	34	16	7	11	59	43	+16	55	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round[a]
7	Mainz 05	34	16	5	13	52	54	−2	53	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round[a]
8	FC Augsburg	34	15	7	12	47	47	0	52
9	1899 Hoffenheim	34	11	11	12	72	70	+2	44
10	Hannover 96	34	12	6	16	46	59	−13	42
11	Hertha BSC	34	11	8	15	40	48	−8	41
12	Werder Bremen	34	10	9	15	42	66	−24	39
13	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	9	9	16	40	57	−17	36
14	SC Freiburg	34	9	9	16	43	61	−18	36
15	VfB Stuttgart	34	8	8	18	49	62	−13	32
16	Hamburger SV (O)	34	7	6	21	51	75	−24	27	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
17	1. FC Nürnberg (R)	34	5	11	18	37	70	−33	26	Relegation to 2. Bundesliga
18	Eintracht Braunschweig (R)	34	6	7	21	29	60	−31	25

Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. The 2013–14 DFB-Pokal finalists (Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich) qualified for the UEFA Champions League, thus the three Europa League places were distributed through league positions.

Results

Home \ Away	FCA	BSC	EBS	SVW	BVB	SGE	SCF	HSV	H96	TSG	B04	M05	BMG	FCB	FCN	S04	VFB	WOB
FC Augsburg	—	0–0	4–1	3–1	0–4	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	2–0	1–3	2–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	1–2	2–1	1–2
Hertha BSC	0–0	—	2–0	3–2	0–4	6–1	0–0	1–0	0–3	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–0	1–3	1–3	0–2	0–1	1–2
Eintracht Braunschweig	0–1	0–2	—	0–1	1–2	0–2	0–1	4–2	3–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	2–3	0–4	1–1
Werder Bremen	1–0	2–0	0–0	—	1–5	0–3	0–0	1–0	3–2	3–1	1–0	2–3	1–1	0–7	3–3	1–1	1–1	1–3
Borussia Dortmund	2–2	1–2	2–1	1–0	—	4–0	5–0	6–2	1–0	3–2	0–1	4–2	1–2	0–3	3–0	0–0	6–1	2–1
Eintracht Frankfurt	1–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	1–2	—	1–4	2–2	2–3	1–2	0–2	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	3–3	2–1	1–2
SC Freiburg	2–4	1–1	2–0	3–1	0–1	1–1	—	0–3	2–1	1–1	3–2	1–2	4–2	1–1	3–2	0–2	1–3	0–3
Hamburger SV	0–1	0–3	4–0	0–2	3–0	1–1	1–1	—	3–1	1–5	2–1	2–3	0–2	1–4	2–1	0–3	3–3	1–3
Hannover 96	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–3	2–0	3–2	2–1	—	1–4	1–1	4–1	3–1	0–4	3–3	2–1	0–0	2–0
1899 Hoffenheim	2–0	2–3	3–1	4–4	2–2	0–0	3–3	3–0	3–1	—	1–2	2–4	2–1	1–2	2–2	3–3	4–1	6–2
Bayer Leverkusen	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	0–1	3–1	5–3	2–0	2–3	—	0–1	4–2	1–1	3–0	1–2	2–1	3–1
Mainz 05	3–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	1–3	1–0	2–0	3–2	2–0	2–2	1–4	—	0–0	0–2	2–0	0–1	3–2	2–0
Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–2	3–0	4–1	4–1	2–0	4–1	1–0	3–1	3–0	2–2	0–1	3–1	—	0–2	3–1	2–1	1–1	2–2
Bayern Munich	3–0	3–2	2–0	5–2	0–3	5–0	4–0	3–1	2–0	3–3	2–1	4–1	3–1	—	2–0	5–1	1–0	1–0
1. FC Nürnberg	0–1	2–2	2–1	0–2	1–1	2–5	0–3	0–5	0–2	4–0	1–4	1–1	0–2	0–2	—	0–0	2–0	1–1
Schalke 04	4–1	2–0	3–1	3–1	1–3	2–0	2–0	3–3	2–0	4–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–4	4–1	—	3–0	2–1
VfB Stuttgart	1–4	1–2	2–2	1–1	2–3	1–1	2–0	1–0	4–2	6–2	0–1	1–2	0–2	1–2	1–1	3–1	—	1–2
VfL Wolfsburg	1–1	2–0	0–2	3–0	2–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	1–3	2–1	3–1	3–0	3–1	1–6	4–1	4–0	3–1	—

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

Relegation play-offs

Hamburger SV, who finished 16th, faced SpVgg Greuther Fürth, the 3rd-placed 2013–14 2. Bundesliga side for a two-legged play-off. The winner on aggregate score after both matches earned entry into the 2014–15 Bundesliga. Hamburger SV prevailed, avoiding their possible first relegation.

First leg

15 May 2014

20:30 CEST

Hamburger SV	0–0	SpVgg Greuther Fürth
	Report

Imtech Arena, Hamburg

Attendance: 56,479

Referee: Felix Zwayer (Berlin)

Hamburg

Fürth

GK 1 Jaroslav Drobný RB 2 Dennis Diekmeier CB 5 Johan Djourou CB 3 Michael Mancienne LB 19 Petr Jiráček CM 37 Robert Tesche  60' CM 14 Milan Badelj RW 8 Tomás Rincón  90' AM 23 Rafael van der Vaart (c) LW 9 Hakan Çalhanoğlu CF 20 Pierre-Michel Lasogga Substitutions: GK 30 Sven Neuhaus DF 4 Heiko Westermann  90' DF 28 Jonathan Tah MF 6 Ouasim Bouy MF 7 Marcell Jansen  60' MF 25 Ola John MF 27 Kerem Demirbay Manager: Mirko Slomka

GK 1 Wolfgang Hesl (c) RB 20 Daniel Brosinski CB 5 Mërgim Mavraj CB 2 Benedikt Röcker LB 31 Niko Gießelmann  66' CM 8 Stephan Fürstner CM 6 Tim Sparv  19' RW 7 Zoltán Stieber  88' LW 18 Baba Rahman CF 33 Ilir Azemi  85' CF 10 Nikola Đurđić  71' Substitutions: GK 39 Tom Mickel DF 3 Zsolt Korcsmár MF 14 Tom Weilandt  71' MF 16 Goran Šukalo MF 17 Thomas Pledl MF 27 Florian Trinks  88' FW 22 Niclas Füllkrug  85' Manager: Frank Kramer

Assistant referees: Florian Steuer Marcel Pelgrim Fourth official: Daniel Siebert

Second leg

18 May 2014

17:00 CEST

SpVgg Greuther Fürth	1–1	Hamburger SV
Fürstner 59'	Report	Lasogga 14'

Trolli Arena, Fürth

Attendance: 17,500

Referee: Knut Kircher (Rottenburg)

Fürth

Hamburg

GK 1 Wolfgang Hesl (c) RB 20 Daniel Brosinski  88' CB 5 Mërgim Mavraj CB 2 Benedikt Röcker LB 18 Baba Rahman CM 8 Stephan Fürstner CM 6 Tim Sparv  78' RW 7 Zoltán Stieber LW 14 Tom Weilandt CF 10 Nikola Đurđić  72' CF 33 Ilir Azemi Substitutions: GK 30 Mark Flekken DF 3 Zsolt Korcsmár MF 16 Goran Šukalo  78' MF 17 Thomas Pledl MF 21 Robert Zillner FW 9 Ognjen Mudrinski  88' FW 22 Niclas Füllkrug  72' Manager: Frank Kramer

GK 1 Jaroslav Drobný RB 2 Dennis Diekmeier CB 5 Johan Djourou  31' CB 4 Heiko Westermann LB 19 Petr Jiráček CM 14 Milan Badelj CM 18 Tolgay Arslan  64' RW 9 Hakan Çalhanoğlu AM 23 Rafael van der Vaart (c)  75' LW 7 Marcell Jansen CF 20 Pierre-Michel Lasogga Substitutions: GK 30 Sven Neuhaus DF 3 Michael Mancienne  31' DF 28 Jonathan Tah MF 8 Tomás Rincón  64' MF 27 Kerem Demirbay MF 37 Robert Tesche  75' FW 31 Jacques Zoua Manager: Mirko Slomka

Assistant referees: Robert Kempter Thorsten Schiffner Fourth official: Guido Winkmann

1–1 on aggregate. Hamburg won on away goals.

Statistics

Top scorers

As of 10 May 2014^[26]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Lewandowski, RobertRobert Lewandowski	Borussia Dortmund	20
2	Mandžukić, MarioMario Mandžukić	Bayern Munich	18
3	Drmić, JosipJosip Drmić	1. FC Nürnberg	17
4	Firmino, RobertoRoberto Firmino	1899 Hoffenheim	16
	Ramos, AdriánAdrián Ramos	Hertha BSC
	Reus, MarcoMarco Reus	Borussia Dortmund
7	Kießling, StefanStefan Kießling	Bayer Leverkusen	15
	Okazaki, ShinjiShinji Okazaki	Mainz 05
	, RaffaelRaffael	Borussia Mönchengladbach
10	Olić, IvicaIvica Olić	VfL Wolfsburg	14