2006–07 Bundesliga

The Bundesliga 2006/07 was the 44th season of the German top flight football in the men. It started on 11 August 2006 with the play of FC Bayern Munich vs. Borussia Dortmund and ended on 19 May 2007. Was German champion VfB Stuttgart in the second division had to dismount the first FSV Mainz 05, Alemannia Aachen and Borussia Moenchengladbach.

  • 2.1 Final Table
  • Table 2.2 History
  • 2.3 Cross table
  • 2.4 scorers

Course of the season

Cup decision

Winning the title of VfB Stuttgart was a surprise to many; the team of coach Armin Veh and manager Horst Heldt was reorganized and at the same time, so that it was considered the youngest team in the league at best as a candidate for a place in the UEFA Cup before the season starts. After the team with a home defeat against 1 FC Nuremberg same came in the first game end of the table and after another home defeat against Borussia Dortmund had an unsatisfactory for VfB start to the season, seemed to be during the playing time at first nothing to win the title of Swabia to suggest: As favorites were the four winners of season 2005/ 06 - FC Bayern Munich, Werder Bremen, Hamburger SV and FC Schalke 04 -, with the exception of the Hamburg played along already to the first match days above and also to the end of the season in the fight were involved for the championship.

In the first round it shone especially Werder Bremen, which had been amplified before the season with Brazilian playmaker Diego and the German center-back Per Mertesacker and according to many experts played the best football in the league. In particular, the Away Wins in Bochum, Mainz and Frankfurt, as Werder each scored six goals, the team's coach Thomas Schaaf made ​​fast to the favorites to win the title. Since Werder however always allowed weaknesses, the team was never able to deduct from their pursuers and was the winter break even on points with league leaders Schalke. The Gelsenkirchen were also started moderately in the season, however, had after the 0-3 at Stuttgart on the ninth day - launched a series of 13 games without defeat, which led to the beginning of the season top of the table - the beginning of the comeback of the VfB.

Bayern Munich played Meanwhile, the worst season since the season 1994/95; despite the change of coach Felix Magath to Ottmar Hitzfeld after two days of the season, the Munich were only in fourth and qualified for the first time in ten years, not for the UEFA Champions League. In particular, the ten- season defeats, many of them against relegation candidates, robbed the Bavaria latest five games left in the season of all championship dreams. Schalke 04 led the table to continue, two points behind for the Gelsenkirchen was Werder Bremen in second place, Stuttgart also followed with two points distance. However, since the Schwaben won their last eight season games and the two competitors on the last match day twice each patzten (Schalke defeated away in Bochum and Dortmund, Bremen lost in Bielefeld and against Frankfurt ), VfB secured the 34th game by a 2-1 win over Energie Cottbus his fifth championship. It was the first title for the Swabians since the DFB Cup in 1997, in the final of the VfB his time also won against Cottbus.

Relegation battle

With the exception of teams of Bayer 04 Leverkusen and 1 FC Nuremberg, who fought to the end of the season for the fifth place, put the other twelve teams in the league to a few games remaining in the relegation battle, which was outstanding so far in this constellation. In this case, all the teams had in common that they both had longer periods of weakness as well as hit series; apart from Borussia Moenchengladbach, which although started with four home wins in the season, was up to the winter break, but slipped into the depths of the table and FSV Mainz 05, who stayed in the relegation zone from 9 to 21 game day, was no association over longer periods of the relegation zone.

In the first round Hannover 96 launched first with zero points from their first three games and the first coaching change of Peter Neururer to Dieter Hecking weak, but could later settle into midfield in the league. For this remained mainly Mainz 05 and Hamburger SV well below their potential, the only recorded one win and knocked wintered at the last two places. However, since both teams started ( Hamburger SV with the new coach Huub Stevens) with winning streaks in the second half, quickly one of the most exciting relegation decisions developed in the history of the Bundesliga. Borussia Dortmund and Arminia Bielefeld saved, for example, only the second coaching change of the season - in Dortmund were initially Bert van Marwijk and Jürgen Röber failed, so that the previously laid-off from Hamburger SV Thomas Doll had to save the team from relegation, when Arminia it straightened after crashing into the relegation zone under Thomas von Heesen and Frank Geideck only the Bielefeld "Century coach " Ernst Middendorp.

Sovereign secured the two climbers from VfL Bochum and Energie Cottbus in the league; both mainly played away surprisingly strong and possessed also with Theofanis Gekas and Sergiu Radu about as cheap as successful striker. The third promoted team from Aachen had to descend to it; after the team seemed already rescued after 26 Round with 33 points, took them out of the last eight games to within a point. Also Mainz 05 could not pinpoint end of the season and rose after three years Bundesliga belonging to the second division from. Hamburger SV drew after a strong second half ( in the back round in second behind the champion from Stuttgart) nor in the international competition and qualified through the Intertoto Cup for the UEFA Cup.

Statistics

Final Table

Table History

Cross Table

The cross table presents the results of all games this season represents the home team is listed in the left column and the visiting team in the top row.

Top scorers

Just as surprising as the championship success of the VfB Stuttgart was winning the top scorer of the Greek striker Theofanis Gekas, who moved only during the current season and Panathinaikos Athens to VfL Bochum and took there at first base in the Bundesliga. Behind Gekas were the Swiss Alexander Frei from Borussia Dortmund and Roy Makaay Bayern Munich with 16 hits second in the scoring charts; both, however, were already become top scorer in the major European leagues, free, 2005 in France and Makaay in Spain in 2003.

Average attendance

The average attendance in 2006/ 07 amounted to 39 957 spectators, the second-best value in Bundesliga history after 2005/06. Viewers Croesus Borussia Dortmund ( 72 652 spectators ) was also in this season against Bayern Munich ( 68 465 ) and Schalke 04 ( 61 348 ). At the bottom of the rankings to Energie Cottbus was an average of 16,070 paying guests only.

Used referee

The champion team of VfB Stuttgart

1. FSV Mainz 05 Diego Ribas da Cunha Eintracht Frankfurt 2007–08 UEFA Champions League 2007–08 UEFA Cup 2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup 2005–06 DFB-Pokal Mohamed Zidan Miroslav Klose Felix Brych Herbert Fandel Peter Gagelmann Knut Kircher Markus Merk Florian Meyer Babak Rafati Markus Schmidt (referee) Peter Sippel Wolfgang Stark Michael Weiner (referee) Timo Hildebrand Mario Gómez 2006–07 UEFA Champions League 2006–07 UEFA Cup 2006–07 Belgian First Division 2006–07 A PFG 2006–07 FA Premier League 2007 Meistriliiga 2007 Veikkausliiga 2006–07 Ligue 1 2006–07 Superleague Greece 2007 League of Ireland 2006–07 Serie A 2007 Kazakhstan Premier League 2006–07 Luxembourg National Division 2006–07 Montenegrin First League 2006–07 Eredivisie 2007 Tippeligaen 2006–07 Ekstraklasa 2006–07 Primeira Liga 2006–07 Liga I 2007 Russian Premier League 2006–07 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio 2006–07 Scottish Premier League 2007 Allsvenskan 2006–07 Swiss Super League 2006–07 Welsh Premier League 2006–07 DFB-Pokal 2006–07 DFB-Pokal (women)
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