At the weekend, the 2000th game day in the history of the Bundesliga is on the agenda. Before the anniversary, we will provide an overview of important facts and figures:
Crazy facts before the 2000th match day of the Bundesliga
17,969 – that’s how many games the German elite class has seen since the first game in August 1963. In the outcome of all these encounters, home field advantage was indeed of great importance. Finally, 9052 games were won by the hosts (50.4 percent). 4316 games went to the guests (24 percent), 4601 matches ended in a draw (25.6 percent).
34 – according to this number everything is actually aligned. However, a season did not always end after 34 matchdays. In the first two seasons, 16 teams were at the start, it only went up to the 30th matchday. And after reunification, the league saw 38 rounds for a single season.
3.06 – this is the average of goals scored per match. That makes a total of 54,987 hits to admire. The 32nd matchday in the 1983/84 season was particularly impressive – 53 goals were scored at that time. This seems to be a record for all time, because no other matchday has seen more than 47 goals. Incidentally, the fewest goals were scored on matchday 26 in 1989/90 and in round 20 of the 1998/99 season – the game device only found its way into the goal eleven times.
0 – in fact, there has never been a matchday where all away teams could win. The guests were close on matchday 6 of the 2019/20 season with eight away wins. There were nine home wins in seven match days, most recently in round 19 of the 1989/90 season. The highest number of draws in a matchday was seven – most recently on matchday 21 of the 2020/21 season.
485,210 – never before have more fans made the pilgrimage to the stadiums than on the 33rd match day of the 2009/10 season. On average there were 53,912 spectators in the nine stadiums. By the way, that was May 1st at the time – on which there are no longer any games due to the police being overwhelmed. The corona pandemic caused negative visitor numbers – there were zero spectators on 37 match days.
829 – after so many matchdays, record champions FC Bayern Munich were at the top of the table. A look at second place shows the extent of this record. Borussia Dortmund ranks there with “only” 179 match days. Hannover 96 is ahead in the “south” of the table. After 110 match days, Lower Saxony held the Red Lantern in their hands, followed by Schalke 04 (105) and Hertha BSC (95).
3 – that’s how many coaches lost their job at most after a match day. But that happened three times – on the 11th matchday in 1983/84, on the 27th matchday in 1991/92 and on the 19th matchday in 2006/07. The “victims” included Dietrich Weise, Felix Magath and Jupp Heynckes.
8th – this number of professionals were sent to the shower early on match day 3 of the 2013/14 season. There have never been more sending offs in a round. By the way, Helmut Rahn saw the first red card. The “Boss” got it on the 4th day of the inaugural season 1963/64. There was at least one sending off on more than half of the match days (55.6 percent).
2.51 – this is the average number of penalties awarded per matchday so far. The record is held by the 12th round of the 1971/72 season. On this matchday, the referees pointed to the spot twelve times. The shooters failed most often on matchday 7 of the 2016/17 season, when five penalties were not converted.