Season | 2012–13 |
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Champions |
Bayern Munich 22nd Bundesliga title 23rd German title |
Relegated |
Fortuna Düsseldorf Greuther Fürth |
Champions League |
Bayern Munich Borussia Dortmund Bayer Leverkusen Schalke 04 |
Europa League |
SC Freiburg Eintracht Frankfurt VfB Stuttgart (via domestic cup) |
Matches played | 306 |
Goals scored | 898 (2.93 per match) |
Top goalscorer |
Stefan Kießling (25 goals) |
Biggest home win | Bayern Munich 9–2 Hamburger SV |
Biggest away win |
Fortuna Düsseldorf 0–5 Bayern Munich Werder Bremen 0–5 Borussia Dortmund Greuther Fürth 1–6 Borussia Dortmund Hannover 96 1–6 Bayern Munich |
Highest scoring | Bayern Munich 9–2 Hamburger SV |
Longest winning run | 14 games Bayern Munich |
Longest unbeaten run | 25 games Bayern Munich |
Longest winless run | 17 games Greuther Fürth |
Longest losing run | 6 games 1899 Hoffenheim |
Highest attendance | 80,645 12 games
Borussia Dortmund 2–1 Werder Bremen Borussia Dortmund 3–0 Bayer Leverkusen Borussia Dortmund 5–0 Borussia M'gladbach Borussia Dortmund 1–2 Schalke 04 Borussia Dortmund 0–0 VfB Stuttgart Borussia Dortmund 3–1 Greuther Fürth Borussia Dortmund 1–4 Hamburger SV Borussia Dortmund 3–1 Hannover 96 Borussia Dortmund 5–1 SC Freiburg Borussia Dortmund 2–0 Mainz 05 Borussia Dortmund 1–1 Bayern Munich Borussia Dortmund 1–2 1899 Hoffenheim |
Lowest attendance | 14,425 Greuther Fürth 0–3 Mainz 05 |
Average attendance | 42,421 |
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The 2012–13 Bundesliga was the 50th season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. The season began on 24 August 2012 with the season opening match at Westfalenstadion involving defending champions Borussia Dortmund and SV Werder Bremen and ended with the last games on 18 May 2013, with a winter break between the weekends around 15 December 2012 and 19 January 2013.Bayern Munich managed to secure the championship of the 2012–13 season after only 28 match days, beating their previous record by two matches.
The league comprises eighteen teams: The best fifteen teams of the 2011–12 season, the best two teams from the 2011–12 2. Bundesliga and the winners of the relegation play-off between the 16th-placed Bundesliga team and the third-placed 2. Bundesliga team.
Notably, in the 2012–13 season, there are no teams located in the former East Germany, including the capital city, Berlin.
1. FC Köln and 1. FC Kaiserslautern were relegated to the 2012–13 2nd Bundesliga after finishing in one of the bottom two spots of the table at the end of the 2011–12 season. Köln were relegated to the second level after four Bundesliga seasons, while Kaiserslautern ended a two-year tenure in the top flight.
The two relegated teams will be replaced by SpVgg Greuther Fürth and Eintracht Frankfurt. Greuther Fürth will make their Bundesliga debut while also returning to the top level after 49 seasons, as predecessors SpVgg Fürth missed out on qualification for the Bundesliga at the end of the 1962–63 season. In turn, Eintracht Frankfurt make an immediate comeback to the league after being relegated at the end of the 2010–11 season.