2011–12 Bundesliga
The Bundesliga 2011/12 was the 49th season of the German top flight football in the men. On the 32nd of 34 match days Borussia Dortmund defended the championship.
The season began on August 5, 2011 with the play of reigning champions Borussia Dortmund vs. Hamburger SV ( 3-1 ) and ended with the final day on May 5, 2012. Between 10 and 15 May 2012, closed the Relegation between Hertha BSC and Fortuna Dusseldorf (1:2 and 2:2 ) to. From December 19 2011 to January 20, 2012, the season was interrupted by the winter break. Promoted FC Augsburg is the 51 participants since founding the Bundesliga.
Germany overtook in the preseason Italy in the UEFA five year ranking, which is why again could qualify four teams for the UEFA Champions League for the first time since the 2001/ 02 season: The first three season were directly qualified for the UEFA Champions League 2012/13, the Fourth -placed participated in the play-offs to qualify for the UEFA Champions League 2012/13 part. Since both finalists of the DFB Cup were 2011/12 already safely qualified for the Champions League, qualified in addition to the teams ranked five and six and the seventh- for UEFA Europa League 2012/13.
Winter champions after the 17th Round was the FC Bayern Munich. As German champions Borussia Dortmund was on the 32nd Round fixed after a 2-0 victory against Borussia Mönchengladbach, FC Bayern Munich was on the same Gameday as runners-up and the first FC Kaiserslautern be the first relegated firmly.
- 2.1 Final Table
- Table 2.2 History
- 2.3 Cross table
- 2.4 Relegation
- 2.5 scorers
- 2.6 Scorer List
- 2.7 Most Assists ( assists)
- Table 2.8 spectators
- 5.1 Records
- 5.2 Maximum values of the season
Course of the season
Top group
Borussia Dortmund managed under coach Jürgen Klopp to defend the championship. The start to the season was not outstanding; Depression was the eleventh place in the table after match days five and six. After the fourteenth Round Table leadership was taken over for a day, then again on the twentieth. From then on, BVB remained until the end of the season at the top. The 81 points earned meant a new Bundesliga record, which was, however, has offered the following season from FC Bayern. In addition, Dortmund since the 1988/89 season won for the first time the DFB Cup.
The Munich under Jupp Heynckes started with a home defeat to Mönchengladbach in the season. But after the Matchday they stood at the top. The Autumn Cup was won; However, on the twentieth Gameday they lost the championship lead at Dortmund. A transient third place could be corrected so that the runner-up at Bayern went.
The reigning champions FC Schalke 04 lost the first game 0-3 to Stuttgart and was after the first day together with Cologne Table. However, the table situation improved again soon. On September 22 coach Ralf Rangnick resigned because of burnout. His successor was Huub Stevens, who had coached the miners from 1996 to 2002. Schalke took then over large parts of the season, third place and held this holds also in the final table. Striker Klaas -Jan Huntelaar was top scorer with 29 goals. Borussia Mönchengladbach played under Lucien Favre a strong season and ranked almost continuously in the top four places. Also at the end was fourth.
Midfield
Bayer 04 Leverkusen started under coach Robin Dutt in the season, which had previously been recruited from SC Freiburg. The club played but below the own requirements. Dutt was replaced on April 1 by the coaching team of Sami Hyypia and Sascha Lewandowski. In the end it was the fifth place for the work of self. VfB Stuttgart finished sixth under Bruno Labbadia. Hannover 96 ended the season with Mirko Slomka in seventh place, thus reaching as last year the European Cup. The coached by Felix Magath Wolfsburg finished the season starting in eighth; the majority of the season, he had spent it on lower courts. Werder Bremen finished under Thomas Schaaf at the end of the ninth; while the placement had deteriorated gradually in the course of the season and especially on the last match day.
The 1st FC Nuremberg under Dieter Hecking finished second in the final table in tenth place. For winter break, the Franks had still been ranked 15th. Top scorer was Tomas Pekhart and Daniel Didavi, where a series of six hits was succeeded on five consecutive game days. After the season, defender Philipp Wollenberg left the club in Leverkusen. The seven million euro transfer fee meant a new transfer record for the first FC Nuremberg. TSG 1899 Hoffenheim finished the season in eleventh place. Except for the fourth place in the standings after match days six and seven she had spent the whole year in the midfield. The first pre-season newly signed Holger Stanislawski was replaced on December 9 by Markus Babbel.
Relegation battle
Similarities, there were at SC Freiburg. Again, the new coach Marcus Sorg was already released in December and replaced by assistant coach Christian Streich. However, the Breisgauer were found at this time in the middle of a relegation battle. From the twenty-third to the twenty-seventh Round, they managed then work your way up from last to thirteenth place in the table. By the end of the season to improve succeeded in twelfth place. The FSV Mainz 05 launched under Thomas Tuchel heavily in the season and was after the second match of the league. However, it was followed by a crash, which leveled off at the stop place thirteen in the further course.
FC Augsburg spent his first year ever in the Bundesliga and played for the first time since the Oberliga Süd in 1963 again top notch. However, he was involved from the beginning in the relegation battle. From the twelfth to the twenty-second match days, Bavarian Swabia were consistently on a direct relegation zone, in the end they did manage to save themselves in fourteenth place. Ascent coach Jos Luhukay occurred in connection back to the season, and was succeeded by Mark Weinzierl. Hamburger SV played a poor season spent in the first round with six games at end of table. Coach Michael Oenning was replaced already on September 19 by Rodolfo Esteban Cardoso. However, this did not have a coaching license, therefore, took on 10 October, the sporting director Frank Arnesen also an interim basis as coach. On October 17 Thorsten Fink has been committed. Under him, although the league has been reached, place fifteen meant, however, the worst ever earned final position in the history of HSV.
Neuaufsteiger Hertha BSC replaced on December 18 by Markus Babbel, Michael Skibbe. This had been on February 12 soft self and was replaced by legendary coach Otto Rehhagel. Here, the club had actually developed only towards the end of the season to relegation candidates. On the final day nor the improvement achieved in the relegation place. In the playoffs, which stood out mainly because of excesses of the fans, the league did not succeed. The 1st FC Cologne rose after four years in the Bundesliga affiliation as Penultimate again. The pre-season Ståle Solbakken was replaced newly signed on 16 April by Frank Schaefer. Your strongest phase had the Cologne in the middle of the season. Striker Lukas Podolski left the club after the season for Arsenal. Also the 1st FC Kaiserslautern was located throughout the season in a relegation battle. On March 20, coach Marco Kurz was replaced by Krassimir Balakov. But even this could not prevent the Palatinate were consistently in last place from the 24th game day.
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, the visiting team on the top line.
Expulsion
The two play-offs between the sixteenth day of the Bundesliga and the third in the Bundesliga 2 were held on 10 May 2012 and 15 May 2012 and live on the TV channel Das Erste, The First HD as well as the pay-TV broadcaster Sky to Sky programs Sport HD 1, Sky 3D and Sky Sports broadcast live. In the second game came in stoppage time to riots when thousands of fans stormed the field before the final whistle and, among others, Bengal lights lit. Referee Wolfgang Stark interrupted then the game. Only with great effort the fans of stewards and police were driven back and the game will kick off after a circa 20-minute break for about one and a half more minutes of playing time. Previously the game had to be twice interrupted due ignited in the stands Bengal fireworks were thrown onto the field. Due to the events in the second leg of the DFB has received several inquiries from teams, event organizers and also for misconduct individual players on both sides. After the game Stark filed a criminal complaint for assault against the player Levan Kobiaschwili Hertha BSC, is said to have hit him on the way into the cabin.
Fortuna Dusseldorf was more than a month on a temporary basis as a Bundesliga side in the 2012/13 season. Hertha BSC appealed the summary of the result on 16 May a protest. The DFB confirmed the timely receipt of protest and has been, dealt with it on Friday, May 18. Since the evidence claimed much time the judgment was first followed on May 21. The official celebration of Fortuna Dusseldorf ascent, which was scheduled for May 19 has been canceled. The appeal of Hertha BSC was rejected in the first instance, but Hertha BSC went against the decision to appeal. The DFB Federal Court confirmed on May 25, the first-instance judgment. Hertha announced in advance to want to go with a renewed defeat again in appeal, but rejected the club members at a meeting. The next instances would have been the permanent arbitration court and on the International Sports Court of Arbitration. On 19 June 2012, announced by Hertha BSC, insert no further protest against the validity of the second leg, thus the final descent to the 2nd Bundesliga was official.
Top scorers
With the same number of hits, the players are listed in alphabetical order. With his 29 goals Klaas-Jan Huntelaar is the first Dutch top scorer in the Bundesliga history.
Scorer list
With the same number of points scorer, players are listed alphabetically.
Most Assists ( assists)
With the same number of assists the players are listed in alphabetical order.
Viewers table
With 1.36886 million visitors throughout the season Borussia Dortmund had again most viewers, surpassing the number from the previous season with 1.34556 million viewers. Also the total number of visitors to the stadium was higher than ever with 13,805,496.
Venues
Sponsors
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- The match FC Augsburg vs SC Freiburg on the opening day was the 803 pairing in Bundesliga history.
- The match between 1 FC Köln and 1 FSV Mainz 05, which was scheduled for November 19, 2011, was canceled after the scheduled referee Babak Rafati for this game had been canceled at short notice due to a suicide attempt. The game was then rescheduled on 13 December 2011.
Records
- Borussia Dortmund took with 81 points until then highest ever score in one season.
- With 25 wins this season, BVB put next to a previous all-time record of Bayern Munich ( from the 1972/73 season ).
- Dortmund stayed with 28 games in Serie longest within a season unbeaten.
- With an average of 80 522 spectators at the Signal Iduna Park are a new visitor record in Bundesliga history was set up, which means the same for the 2011/12 season also Europe-wide optimum.
- After coming Stephan Hain reached on 28 January 2012 for FC Augsburg at the game against 1.FC Kaiserslautern 20 seconds, the fastest goal of a Einwechselspielers Bundesliga history. The record he shares with the Australian Dave Mitchell, who scored the final score at 1-1 on November 8, 1986 for 20 seconds after coming on for Eintracht Frankfurt during the game against the team FC Homburg. Both goals were scored in the 65th minute.
Maximum values of the season
- The biggest win of the season 2011/12 was the 7:0 FC Bayern Munich vs SC Freiburg on Matchday 5 (10 September 2011).
- The highest-scoring games of the season with eight goals were: Werder Bremen vs SC Freiburg ( 5-3 on Matchday 3, August 20, 2011), Bayern Munich vs. TSG 1899 Hoffenheim ( 7:1 on 25 Matchday 10 March 2012) and Borussia Dortmund vs VfB Stuttgart ( 4:4 28 Game Day on 30 March, 2012 ).
The champion team Borussia Dortmund
- Goal: Roman Weidenfeller (32 / - ); Mitchell Langerak (2 / -)
- Defence: Mats Hummels ( 33/1 ); Chris Leo (7 / - ); Patrick Owomoyela (11/ 1); Łukasz Piszczek (32/ 4); Felipe Santana ( 13/1); Marcel Schmelzer ( 28/1 ); Neven Subotic (25 / -)
- Midfielder Sven Bender ( 24/1 ); Jakub Błaszczykowski (29/ 6); Antônio da Silva (5 / - ); Mario Götze (17/ 6); Kevin Grosskreutz (31/ 7); İlkay Gündoğan (28/ 3); Shinji Kagawa (31/ 13); Kehl (C) (27/ 3); Kringe (1 / - ); Moritz Leitner (17 / - ); Ivan Perisic (28/ 7)
- Attack: Lucas Barrios (18/ 4); Robert Lewandowski (34/ 22); Mohamed Zidan (2 / -) ( from the winter break at Mainz 05 under contract )
- Coach: Jürgen Klopp
Coaching change
Germany Sascha Lewandowski ( Trainer)