2006–07 Bundesliga

Bundesliga

Season	2006–07
Champions	VfB Stuttgart 3rd Bundesliga title 5th German title
Relegated	Mainz 05 Alemannia Aachen Borussia M'gladbach
Champions League	VfB Stuttgart Schalke 04 Werder Bremen
UEFA Cup	Bayern Munich Bayer Leverkusen 1. FC Nuremberg (via domestic cup)
Intertoto Cup	Hamburger SV
Matches played	306
Goals scored	837 (2.74 per match)
Top goalscorer	Theofanis Gekas (20)
Biggest home win	Hannover 5–0 Hertha
Biggest away win	Bochum 0–6 Bremen
Highest scoring	Frankfurt 2–6 Bremen
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

The 2006–07 Bundesliga was the 44th season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. It began on 11 August 2006 and ended on 19 May 2007. Bayern Munich were the defending champions.

Team changes from 2005–06

Three teams from the 2nd Bundesliga were promoted at the end of last season:

• VfL Bochum (champions)
• Alemannia Aachen (runners-up)
• Energie Cottbus

The three teams relegated were:

• 1. FC Kaiserslautern
• 1. FC Köln
• MSV Duisburg

Season overview

VfB Stuttgart began the campaign with the youngest squad of the Bundesliga and were widely seen as a competitor for an UEFA Cup berth. They started up with a 0–3 home defeat against Nuremberg and even dropped in reach of the relegation zone after another home defeat against Borussia Dortmund during the third round.

During the rest of the season the team managed to stabilize in the upper third of the table, eventually winning the last eight games of the season while competitors Schalke 04, Werder Bremen and Bayern Munich struggled. Stuttgart went on to claim their third championship in the Bundesliga and fifth German championship overall with a 2–1 home victory against Energie Cottbus during the last round of the season.

One week after winning the league championship, Stuttgart failed to win the Double after losing the domestic cup Final against Nuremberg with a score of 2–3.

Manager Armin Veh who claimed his first championship as a Bundesliga coach was elected German Football Manager of the Year while striker Mario Gomez was named German Footballer of the Year in 2007.

Team overview

Aachen

Hertha BSC

Bielefeld

Bochum

Bremen

Cottbus

Dortmund

Frankfurt

Hamburg

Hannover

Leverkusen

Mainz

Mönchengladbach

Bayern

Nuremberg

Schalke

Stuttgart

Wolfsburg

Location of teams in the 2006–07 Fußball-Bundesliga

Team	Venue	Capacity
Alemannia Aachen	Tivoli	21,300
Hertha BSC	Olympic Stadium	74,228
Arminia Bielefeld	Schüco Arena	28,008
VfL Bochum	Ruhrstadion	31,328
SV Werder Bremen	Weserstadion	42,358
FC Energie Cottbus	Stadion der Freundschaft	22,450
Borussia Dortmund	Signal Iduna Park	80,708
Eintracht Frankfurt	Commerzbank-Arena	52,300
Hamburger SV	HSH Nordbank Arena	57,274
Hannover 96	AWD-Arena	49,000
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	BayArena	22,500
1. FSV Mainz 05	Stadion am Bruchweg	20,300
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Borussia-Park	54,067
FC Bayern Munich	Allianz Arena	69,901
1. FC Nuremberg	Easy Credit Stadion	47,559
FC Schalke 04	Veltins-Arena	61,673
VfB Stuttgart	Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion	58,000
VfL Wolfsburg	Volkswagen Arena	30,122

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of departure	Replaced by	Date of Appointment
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Horst Köppel	30 June 2006[1]	Jupp Heynckes	1 July 2006[2]
Hannover 96	Peter Neururer	30 August 2006[3]	Dieter Hecking	10 September 2006[4]
Alemannia Aachen	Dieter Hecking	7 September 2006[4]	Michael Frontzeck	12 September 2006[5]
Borussia Dortmund	Bert van Marwijk	18 December 2006[6]	Jürgen Röber	19 December 2006[7]
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Jupp Heynckes	31 January 2007[2]	Jos Luhukay	1 February 2007[8]
Bayern Munich	Felix Magath	31 January 2007[9]	Ottmar Hitzfeld	1 February 2007[10]
Hamburger SV	Thomas Doll	1 February 2007[11]	Huub Stevens	3 February 2007[12]
Arminia Bielefeld	Thomas von Heesen	11 February 2007[13]	Frank Geideck	12 February 2007[14]
Borussia Dortmund	Jürgen Röber	12 March 2007[7]	Thomas Doll	13 March 2007[11]
Arminia Bielefeld	Frank Geideck	13 March 2007[14]	Ernst Middendorp	14 March 2007[15]
Hertha BSC	Falko Götz	10 April 2007[16]	Karsten Heine	11 April 2007[17]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	VfB Stuttgart (C)	34	21	7	6	61	37	+24	70	2007–08 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Schalke 04	34	21	5	8	53	32	+21	68
3	Werder Bremen	34	20	6	8	76	40	+36	66	2007–08 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
4	Bayern Munich	34	18	6	10	55	40	+15	60	2007–08 UEFA Cup First round
5	Bayer Leverkusen	34	15	6	13	54	49	+5	51
6	1. FC Nürnberg	34	11	15	8	43	32	+11	48	2007–08 UEFA Cup First round ^1
7	Hamburger SV	34	10	15	9	43	37	+6	45	2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
8	VfL Bochum	34	13	6	15	49	50	−1	45
9	Borussia Dortmund	34	12	8	14	41	43	−2	44
10	Hertha BSC	34	12	8	14	50	55	−5	44
11	Hannover 96	34	12	8	14	41	50	−9	44
12	Arminia Bielefeld	34	11	9	14	47	49	−2	42
13	Energie Cottbus	34	11	8	15	38	49	−11	41
14	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	9	13	12	46	58	−12	40
15	VfL Wolfsburg	34	8	13	13	37	45	−8	37
16	Mainz 05 (R)	34	8	10	16	34	57	−23	34	Relegation to 2. Fußball-Bundesliga
17	Alemannia Aachen (R)	34	9	7	18	46	70	−24	34
18	Borussia Mönchengladbach (R)	34	6	8	20	23	44	−21	26

Source: kicker.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹ 1. FC Nuremberg won the DFB Cup 2006-07 and thus qualified for the First Round of UEFA Cup 2007–08.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away

AAC

BSC

BIE

BOC

BRE

COT

DOR

FRA

HAM

H96

LEV

MAI

MGL

FCB

NUR

S04

STU

WOL

Alemannia Aachen

0–4

2–0

2–1

2–2

1–2

1–4

2–3

3–3

1–4

2–3

2–1

4–2

1–0

1–1

0–1

2–4

2–2

Hertha BSC

2–1

1–1

3–3

1–4

0–1

0–1

1–0

2–1

4–0

2–3

2–1

1–2

2–3

2–1

2–0

2–2

2–1

Arminia Bielefeld

5–1

2–2

1–3

3–2

3–1

1–0

2–4

1–1

3–1

0–0

1–0

0–2

2–1

3–2

0–1

2–3

0–0

VfL Bochum

2–2

1–3

2–1

0–6

0–1

2–0

4–3

2–1

2–0

1–3

0–1

2–0

1–2

0–2

2–1

2–3

0–1

Werder Bremen

3–1

3–1

3–0

3–0

1–1

1–3

1–2

0–2

3–0

2–1

2–0

3–0

3–1

1–0

0–2

2–3

2–1

Energie Cottbus

0–2

2–1

2–0

0–0

0–0

2–3

0–1

2–2

0–1

2–1

2–0

3–1

0–3

1–1

2–4

0–0

3–2

Borussia Dortmund

0–0

1–2

1–1

1–1

0–2

2–3

2–0

1–0

2–2

1–2

1–1

1–0

3–2

0–0

2–0

0–1

1–0

Eintracht Frankfurt

4–0

1–2

0–3

0–3

2–6

1–3

1–1

2–2

2–0

3–1

0–0

1–0

1–0

2–2

1–3

0–4

0–0

Hamburger SV

4–0

1–1

1–1

0–3

1–1

1–1

3–0

3–1

0–0

0–0

2–2

1–1

1–2

0–0

1–2

2–4

1–0

Hannover 96

0–3

5–0

1–1

0–2

2–4

2–0

4–2

1–1

0–0

1–1

1–0

1–2

1–2

0–3

1–1

1–2

2–2

Bayer Leverkusen

3–0

2–1

1–2

1–4

0–2

3–1

2–1

2–2

1–2

0–1

1–1

1–0

2–3

2–0

3–1

3–1

1–1

Mainz 05

1–3

1–1

1–0

2–1

1–6

4–1

1–0

1–1

0–0

1–2

1–3

3–0

0–4

2–1

0–3

0–0

1–2

Borussia Mönchengladbach

0–0

3–1

1–0

0–2

2–2

2–0

1–0

1–1

0–1

0–1

0–2

1–1

1–1

0–0

0–2

0–1

3–1

Bayern Munich

2–1

4–2

1–0

0–0

1–1

2–1

2–0

2–0

1–2

0–1

2–1

5–2

1–1

0–0

2–0

2–1

2–1

1. FC Nürnberg

1–0

2–1

1–1

1–1

1–2

1–0

1–1

2–2

0–2

3–1

3–2

1–1

1–0

3–0

0–0

4–1

1–1

Schalke 04

2–1

2–0

2–1

2–1

2–0

2–0

3–1

1–1

0–2

2–1

0–1

4–0

2–0

2–2

1–0

1–0

2–0

VfB Stuttgart

3–1

0–0

3–2

1–0

4–1

2–1

1–3

1–1

2–0

2–1

3–0

2–0

1–0

2–0

0–3

3–0

0–0

VfL Wolfsburg

1–2

0–0

2–3

3–1

0–2

0–0

0–2

2–2

1–0

1–2

3–2

3–2

1–0

1–0

1–1

2–2

1–1

Source:
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Theofanis Gekas	VfL Bochum	20
2	Alexander Frei	Borussia Dortmund	16
	Roy Makaay	Bayern Munich
4	Kevin Kurányi	Schalke 04	15
5	Mario Gómez	VfB Stuttgart	14
	Marko Pantelić	Hertha BSC
	Sergiu Radu	Energie Cottbus
	Mohamed Zidan	1. FSV Mainz 05
9	Cacau	VfB Stuttgart	13
	Diego	Werder Bremen
	Miroslav Klose	Werder Bremen

Champion squad

VfB Stuttgart

Goalkeepers: Timo Hildebrand (33); Michael Langer (1). Defenders: Matthieu Delpierre (33); Ricardo Osorio (27 / 1); Serdar Tasci (26 / 2); Ludovic Magnin (22 / 1); Fernando Meira (20 / 3); Arthur Boka (19 / 1); Andreas Beck (4); Markus Babbel (2). Midfielders: Roberto Hilbert (34 / 7); Pável Pardo (33 / 1); Thomas Hitzlsperger (30 / 7); Antônio da Silva (28); Sami Khedira (22 / 4); Christian Gentner (15); Daniel Bierofka (12); Alexander Farnerud (9); Silvio Meißner (1). Forwards: Cacau (32 / 13); Marco Streller (27 / 5); Mario Gómez (25 / 14); Benjamin Lauth (11 / 1); Jon Dahl Tomasson (4); Bernd Nehrig (1). (league appearances and goals listed in parentheses) Manager: Armin Veh. On the roster but have not played in a league game: Dirk Heinen; Alexander Stolz; Heiko Gerber; Danijel Ljuboja . Transferred out during the season: Silvio Meißner (to 1. FC Kaiserslautern); Danijel Ljuboja (on loan to Hamburger SV); Bernd Nehrig (on loan to SpVgg Unterhaching); Jon Dahl Tomasson (on loan to Villarreal).

References

1. Horst Köppel at fussballdaten.de (German)
2. Jupp Heynckes at fussballdaten.de (German)
3. Peter Neururer at fussballdaten.de (German)
4. Dieter Hecking at fussballdaten.de (German)
5. Michael Frontzeck at fussballdaten.de (German)
6. Bert van Marwijk at fussballdaten.de (German)
7. Jürgen Röber at fussballdaten.de (German)
8. 2006–07 Bundesliga at fussballdaten.de (German)
9. Felix Magath at fussballdaten.de (German)
10. 2006–07 Bundesliga at fussballdaten.de (German)
11. Thomas Doll at fussballdaten.de (German)
12. Huub Stevens at fussballdaten.de (German)
13. Thomas von Heesen at fussballdaten.de (German)
14. Frank Geideck at fussballdaten.de (German)
15. Ernst Middendorp at fussballdaten.de (German)
16. Falko Götz at fussballdaten.de (German)
17. Karsten Heine at fussballdaten.de (German)

External links

• Official site of the DFB (German)
• Kicker.de (German)
• Official site of the Bundesliga (German)
• Official site of the Bundesliga