Annual Bundesliga tables: Only St. Pauli with fewer defeats than BVB

1st and 2nd Bundesliga

In Dortmund’s current crisis it is hard to imagine, but if you take all the points scored in the Bundesliga in 2023, BVB under coach Edin Terzic would have been just one win short of celebrating the annual championship. They had to let FC Bayern and Bayer Leverkusen go shortly before the end. In the 2nd Bundesliga, FC St. Pauli ensures very clear conditions.

The fact that BVB is so high despite the current winless streak of four Bundesliga games and only one win from the last eight games is due to the strong second half of the previous season, which almost resulted in the championship title. From January to May 2023, 46 points were achieved. In the new season from August to December only 27. A total of 73 points is the third best result in the Bundesliga annual table. However, the Black and Yellows only suffered four defeats in the calendar year, while Bayern and Bayer suffered five each.

With its 13th win of the season, already a new first half record in the club’s history, Bayer Leverkusen was able to take 74 points in the calendar year. Bayern, who even played one less game due to the loss of the game against Union Berlin, beat BVB by three points and are at the top of the annual table. Leverkusen only recorded 32 points in 19 games in the first half of the year, while FC Bayern had 37.

FC St. Pauli in 2023 with even fewer defeats than BVB

FC St. Pauli achieved almost as many points as Bayern in 34 league games this year in the 2nd Bundesliga. The Hamburgers are also the only ones who undercut BVB’s defeat record. Coach Fabian Hürzeler’s team only left the field as losers twice, both in the second half of last season, once against Braunschweig and once against HSV, who they still clearly beat on points in the annual table. The brown-whites got 74 points from the Hamburg center. HSV, based in the Bahrenfeld district, is only 63. In the current season, St. Pauli and Bayer Leverkusen are the only teams in German professional football that are still undefeated.

The annual table is always a strange view for teams that only played half a series in the league because they were then either promoted or relegated. 1. FC Heidenheim still achieved something remarkable in 2023: Not only are the Württembergers not last or penultimate in the first division annual table despite significantly fewer games, they also outperform 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the second division, although the “Red Devils “Played twice as many games in the lower house as the FCH.

The disproportion of games played in the first league, where Darmstadt and Heidenheim, as promoted teams, only played 16 games in the second half of the year, while last season’s relegated teams, Schalke and Hertha, played 19 in the first half of the year, is also due to the 2022 World Cup In the winter tournament in Qatar, the last two match days of the first half of the 2022/23 season had to be played in January. In addition, the 17th matchday of the current season will no longer take place in 2023.

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