The Bundesliga is a professional association football league located in Germany, operating as its primary football competition. Comprising of 18 teams, it operates much like the Premier League in the UK, having a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga. And like the Premier League, it has its own seasons for matches to occur in. If you want to find out more about the German and Austrian Bundesliga teams, then you’re in the right place. Join us for a look at past and present teams in the Bundesliga.
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Map of Bundesliga Teams 2022
The Bundesliga teams of 2022 are scattered around Germany, from North to South, East to West. You can view these FIFA 22 Bundesliga teams below and find out exactly where they are based in the country, too. Take a look at our map of Bundesliga teams for 2022.
- FC Augsburg – Augsburg
- Bayer 04 Leverkusen – Leverkusen
- Bayern Munich – Munich
- VfL Bochum – Bochum
- Werder Bremen – Bremen
- Borussia Dortmund – Dortmund
- Borussia Mönchengladbach – Mönchengladbach
- Eintracht Frankfurt – Frankfurt
- SC Freiburg – Freiburg im Breisgau
- Hertha BSC – Berlin
- 1899 Hoffenheim – Sinsheim
- 1. FC Köln – Cologne
- RB Leipzig – Leipzig
- Mainz 05 – Mainz
- Schalke 04 – Gelsenkirchen
- VfB Stuttgart – Stuttgart
- Union Berlin – Berlin
- VfL Wolfsburg – Wolfsburg
FC Augsburg
Fußball-Club Augsburg 1907 e. V., which is the full name of this Bundesliga team, bases itself out of Augsburg in Bavaria. The team was founded in 1907 and it was known as BC Augsburg from 1921 through to 1969. It is also the largest football club in Swabian Bavaria, having more than 18,800 members! FC Augsburg was promoted to the Bundesliga in 2011, after spending a lot of time fluctuating between the second and third divisions, and it has remained in the prime football league ever since then. The club’s colours are red, green and white, and this can be seen on the kits.
- Location: Augsburg
- Manager: Markus Weinzierl
- Captain: Jeffrey Gouweleeuw
- Ground: WWK Arena
- Last Season’s League Position: 14th
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, also known as simply Bayer Leverkusen or Leverkusen, bases itself in the city of Leverkusen, found in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Employees of the pharmaceutical company Bayer AG founded the team back in 1904, and it originally existed as one of the best-known departments of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen – a sports club featuring members who participated in various sports. The team was first promoted to the Bundesliga in 1979, and it has remained there ever since. It has finished in the runner-up position five times, but never won the league.
- Location: Leverkusen
- Manager: Gerardo Seoane
- Captain: Lukáš Hrádecký
- Ground: BayArena
- Last Season’s League Position: 3rd
Bayern Munich
Basing itself out of Munich, Bavaria, Bayern Munich operates in the Bundesliga as the most successful club in German football history. Munich has won a total of 32 national titles – a record – with 10 of these being consecutive wins since 2013. The team was founded in 1900 by 11 footballers, under the leadership of Franz John. It had its greatest period of success during the 1970s, winning the European Cup on three consecutive occasions. Bayern Munich were promoted to the Bundesliga in 1965 under the tutelage of Zlatko Čajkovski.
- Location: Munich
- Manager: Julian Nagelsmann
- Captain: Manuel Neuer
- Ground: Allianz Arena
- Last Season’s League Position: 1st
VfL Bochum
The lengthy name of Verein für Leibesübungen Bochum 1848 Fußballgemeinschaft, is usually quite helpfully referred to as VfL Bochum. It is based out of Bochum in the North Rhine-Westphalia state. As it happens, it is one of the oldest sports organisations in the world, claiming origins that date back to July 1848. Bochum has spent 35 seasons in the Bundesliga, starting in 1971 after climbing its way up through the ranks of the third and second divisions in Germany. Today, the football department of VfL Bochum incorporates 2,200 members.
- Location: Bochum
- Manager: Thomas Reis
- Captain: Anthony Losilla
- Ground: Vonovia-Ruhrstadion
- Last Season’s League Position: 13th
Werder Bremen
Werder Bremen often goes by the simple name of Bremen, which is the city that it is based in. Founded way back in 1899, the club is best known for its association football team, which shares the record for most seasons played in the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich. The team has been German champions four times over. Werder Bremen also has a long-time rivalry with fellow north-German club Hamburger SV.
- Location: Bremen
- Manager: Ole Werner
- Captain: Marco Friedl
- Ground: Weserstadion
- Last Season’s League Position: Promoted from 2. Bundesliga
Borussia Dortmund
Another team from the North Rhine-Westphalia state, Borussia Dortmund has won eight league championships, as well as five DFB-Pokals, a single UEFA Champions League, one UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup and a single International Cup. It was founded in 1909 by a set of eighteen football players based in Dortmund, and it serves as part of a large membership-based sports club featuring more than 145,000 members. Borussia Dortmund has a long rivalry with its Ruhr neighbours Schalke 04, and it first entered the Bundesliga in 1962.
- Location: Dortmund
- Manager: Edin Terzić
- Captain: Marco Reus
- Ground: Westfalenstadion
- Last Season’s League Position: 2nd
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Mönchengladbach has won five League titles, three DFB-Pokals and two UEFA Europa League titles in its history of playing. The team was founded in 1900 and its name was derived from a Latinized form of Prussia – a popular name for German clubs in the former Kingdom of Prussia. Mönchengladbach joined the Bundesliga in 1965 and had a large portion of its success in the 70s. Its main rivals are 1. FC Köln and Borussia Dortmund.
- Location: Mönchengladbach
- Manager: Daniel Farke
- Captain: Lars Stindl
- Ground: Borussia-Park
- Last Season’s League Position: 10th
Eintracht Frankfurt
This football club was founded in March 1899, and throughout its history, it has won the German championship once. It served as one of the founding members of the Bundesliga upon its inception, and it has spent a total of 54 seasons within the top division. This figure makes Eintracht Frankfurt the seventh longest participating club in the Bundesliga. The majority of its seasons, Frankfurt has finished the league at the top half of the table.
- Location: Frankfurt
- Manager: Oliver Glasner
- Captain: Sebastian Rode
- Ground: Deutsche Bank Park
- Last Season’s League Position: 11th
SC Freiburg
SC Freiburg stands for Sport-Club Freiburg e.V. The football club bases itself out of Freiburg im Breisgau in Baden-Württemburg. It was most recently promoted to the Bundesliga in 2016, after coming out on top of the table in 2. Bundesliga. SC Freiburg is able to trace its origins back to 1904, with two football clubs being set up in the form of Freiburger Fußballverein 04 and FC Schwalbe Freiburg. It was in 1912, after several name changes and adjustments, that both teams merged and have been operating as SC Freiburg ever since.
- Location: Freiburg im Breisgau
- Manager: Christian Streich
- Captain: Christian Günter
- Ground: Europa-Park Stadion
- Last Season’s League Position: 6th
Hertha BSC
The Hertha BSC football club is based in the locality of Westend, which can be found in Berlin. Founded in 1892 and also being a founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900, Hertha BSC exists as one of the oldest clubs around. It won the German championship in both 1930 and 1931, and it goes by the name of Die Alte Dame in German, meaning “The Old Lady”. Hertha BSC narrowly avoided being relegated in last season’s Bundesliga.
- Location: Berlin
- Manager: Sandro Schwarz
- Captain: Marvin Plattenhardt
- Ground: Olympiastadion
- Last Season’s League Position: 16th
1899 Hoffenheim
This football club bases itself out of Hoffenheim, a village found in the Sinsheim municipality of Baden-Württemburg. As its name suggests, it was founded in 1899, but began life as a gymnastics club. It was only in 1945 that it was reborn in its current state. 1899 Hoffenheim was a fifth division side in 2000, but it swiftly rose to prominence in the German football league system, thanks to the financial backing of Dietmar Hopp. By 2008, Hoffenheim was in the Bundesliga, and it finished in third place in the 2017-18 season, marking its best result yet.
- Location: Hoffenheim
- Manager: Andre Breitenreiter
- Captain: Benjamin Hübner
- Ground: Rhein-Neckar-Arena
- Last Season’s League Position: 9th
1. FC Köln
Also known as FC Cologne in English, this team was formed in 1948 when two other clubs in Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07 merged. The team returned to the Bundesliga after the 2018-19 season, having been relegated to the lower division the previous season. 1. FC Köln has won the Bundesliga twice – the first time in 1964 and again in 1978. It also has a team nickname Die Geißböcke, meaning The Billy Goats, and this refers to the club’s mascot – a male goat named Hennes, which can be seen on its logo.
- Location: Cologne
- Manager: Steffen Baumgart
- Captain: Jonas Hector
- Ground: RheinEnergieStadion
- Last Season’s League Position: 7th
RB Leipzig
RasenBallsport Leipzig e.V., literally translating to Lawn Ball Sports Leipzig and more commonly known as RB Leipzig, bases itself out of Saxony. It also goes by the name of Red Bull Leipzig, thanks to being founded in 2009 by the initiative of the company Red Bull GmbH. They purchased the playing of fifth-tier side SSV Markranstädt, having the goal to advance the team to the Bundesliga within eight years. RB Leipzig entered the top-tier league in the 2016-17 season.
- Location: Leipzig
- Manager: Domenico Tedesco
- Captain: Péter Gulácsi
- Ground: Red Bull Arena
- Last Season’s League Position: 4th
Mainz 05
Founded in 1905, Mainz 05 bases itself out of the city of Mainz in Rhineland-Palatinate. It was most recently promoted to the Bundesliga prior to the 2009-10 season, and the team’s biggest rivals are another local side in Eintracht Frankfurt, as well as 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Mainz 05 wasn’t an early entrant to the Bundesliga and was actually a second division team for most of the 1960s through to the 2000s. By the end of the 2010-11 season of the Bundesliga, they finished with their best position to date – fifth.
- Location: Mainz
- Manager: Bo Svensson
- Captain: Silvan Widmer
- Ground: MEWA Arena
- Last Season’s League Position: 8th
Schalke 04
Schalke 04 won the 2. Bundesliga division last season, meaning that it was promoted to the premier of German football leagues for the 2022-23 season. The football club was formed in 1904, which is where the 04 in its name comes from, and it has been one of the most popular teams in Germany’s football scene throughout its existence. It had its most successful period back in the 1930s and 40s and has won seven German championship titles.
- Location: Gelsenkirchen
- Manager: Frank Kramer
- Captain: Danny Latza
- Ground: Veltins-Arena
- Last Season’s League Position: Promoted from 2. Bundesliga
VfB Stuttgart
Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., more commonly known as VfB Stuttgart, has won the national championship five times, with its most recent victory coming in the 2006-07 season. The football club was founded in 1912, thanks to a merger of predecessor sides Stuttgarter FV and Kronen-Club Cannstatt. VfB Stuttgart was one of the first 16 clubs to make up the original Bundesliga in 1963, and it went on to earn mid-table results on average in proceeding decades. Last season, it finished close to the bottom of the league table, though.
- Location: Stuttgart
- Manager: Pellegrino Matarazzo
- Captain: Wataru Endo
- Ground: Mercedes-Benz Arena
- Last Season’s League Position: 15th
Union Berlin
This football club is quite a newbie to the Bundesliga, despite it having its origins way back in 1906. It was then that its predecessor FC Olympia Oberschöneweide was founded. Between 2009 and 2019, the team competed in the 2. Bundesliga division, and it was promoted to the premier division after defeating VfB Stuttgart in the relegation play-offs in 2019. For the proceeding season, it became a part of the Bundesliga and has remained within the division since then.
- Location: Berlin
- Manager: Urs Fischer
- Captain: Christopher Trimmel
- Ground: Stadion An der Alten Försterei
- Last Season’s League Position: 5th
VfL Wolfsburg
Basing itself out of Lower Saxony, VfL Wolfsburg was created out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers based in Wolfsburg. The football team has won the Bundesliga once in history, which came about in the 2008-09 season. Dating back to 1938 and going by the name of Stadt des KdF-Wagen back then, it was the Volkswagen works team that became engaged in football initially. Wolfsburg entered the Bundesliga in 1997 for the first time and the team has continued to play excellent football since then.
- Location: Wolfsburg
- Manager: Niko Kovač
- Captain: Maximilian Arnold
- Ground: Volkswagen Arena
- Last Season’s League Position: 12th
Teams Relegated from the Bundesliga in 2024
Because the Bundesliga operates in a similar way to various other football leagues, teams will be relegated from the division at the end of every season. It is the lowest placed teams that suffer this fate, and in the 2021-22 season, two teams were subjected to relegation to the 2. Bundesliga division. Hertha BSC managed to win 2-1 on aggregate against Hamburger SV in the relegation play-offs, meaning that both clubs remainder in their respective leagues as a result.
The teams relegated from the Bundesliga in 2024 were:
- Arminia Bielefeld
- Greuther Fürth
Teams Promoted to the Bundesliga in 2024
And when teams are relegated, that leaves space open for two teams to be promoted from 2. Bundesliga to the topflight division of German football. While it is true that very often three teams will be promoted and relegated, because of the outcome of the relegation play-offs between Hertha BSC and Hamburger SV, only two teams exchanged leagues.
The teams promoted to the Bundesliga in 2022 were:
- Schalke 04
- Werder Bremen
List of All Bundesliga Teams
There have been many teams that have been involved in the Bundesliga throughout the years of its operation. This includes German Bundesliga teams and Austrian teams in the Bundesliga, too. Take a look at this collection of all the Bundesliga teams to have ever played in the top-tier of German football.
German Bundesliga Teams
German teams in the Bundesliga are highly prominent, with several of them having been in the league for the entirety of its operation. Take a look below at all the Germans teams in the Bundesliga throughout history.
- FC Kaiserslautern
- FC Köln
- FC Nürnberg
- FC Saarbrücken
- FC Union Berlin
- FSV Mainz 05
- Alemannia Aachen
- Arminia Bielefeld
- Bayer 04 Leverkusen
- Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin
- Borussia Dortmund
- Borussia Mönchengladbach
- Borussia Neunkirchen
- Dynamo Dresden
- Eintracht Braunschweig
- Eintracht Frankfurt
- F.C. Hansa Rostock
- FC 08 Homburg
- FC Augsburg
- FC Bayern Munich
- FC Energie Cottbus
- FC Ingolstadt 04
- FC Schalke 04
- FC St. Pauli
- Fortuna Düsseldorf
- Hamburger SV
- Hannover 96
- Hertha BSC
- Karlsruher SC
- KFC Uerdingen 05
- Kickers Offenbach
- MSV Duisburg
- RB Leipzig
- Rot-Weiss Essen
- Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
- SC Fortuna Köln
- SC Freiburg
- SC Paderborn 07
- SC Preußen Münster
- SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin
- SG Wattenscheid 09
- SpVgg Greuther Fürth
- SpVgg Unterhaching
- SSV Ulm 1846
- Stuttgart Kickers
- SV Darmstadt 98
- SV Waldhof Mannheim
- SV Werder Bremen
- Tennis Borussia Berlin
- TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
- TSV 1860 München
- VfB Leipzig
- VfB Stuttgart
- VfB Bochum
- VfB Wolfsburg
- Wuppertaler SV
Austrian Bundesliga Teams
Austria has its own Bundesliga, which operates in much the same way as the German Bundesliga. As with the German league, it serves as the top-tier football league in Austria for teams to be in. It began with the 1974-75 season, and it has been won the most by the two mammoth teams from Vienna – FK Austria Wien and SK Rapid Wien. There are twelve Austrian teams in the Bundesliga each season. Take a look at the list of Bundesliga teams to have ever played in this premier division of Austrian football below.
- Admira Wacker Wien
- Austria Wien
- Brigittenauer AC
- FC Wacker Innsbruck
- FC Swarovski Tirol
- FC Tirol Innsbruck
- FC Wien
- First Vienna FC
- Floridsdorfer AC
- Grazer AK
- Hakoah Vienna
- LASK
- Rapid Wien
- Red Bull Salzburg
- SC Rudolfshügel
- SC Wacker Wien
- SK Admira Wien
- Sturm Graz
- SV Ried
- VÖEST Linz
- Wiener AC
- Wiener AF
- Wiener Sport-Club
Teams in the Bundesliga with the Most Title Wins
If you were to look at the Bundesliga teams map, you could find out where each club is located. Yet this doesn’t give you an insight into which of those FIFA 22 Bundesliga teams have won the most titles. With the competition being contested since it began operating back in the 60s, a number of teams are likely to have experienced multiple victories. While Bundesliga Berlin teams are quite successful in the league, they haven’t won nearly so many titles as others. Take a look at the football teams with the most title wins below.
| Bundesliga Winners | Titles | Seasons Champions |
| FC Bayern Munich | 31 | 1968–69, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1993–94, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22 |
| Borussia Dortmund | 5 | 1994–95, 1995–96, 2001–02, 2010–11, 2011–12 |
| Borussia Mönchengladbach | 5 | 1969–70, 1970–71, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77 |
| SV Werder Bremen | 4 | 1964–65, 1987–88, 1992–93, 2003–04 |
| VfB Stuttgart | 3 | 1983–84, 1991–92, 2006–07 |
| Hamburger SV | 3 | 1979–80, 1981–82, 1982–83 |
| 1. FC Köln | 2 | 1963–64, 1977–78 |
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 2 | 1990–91, 1997–98 |
| 1. FC Nürnberg | 1 | 1967-68 |
| VfL Wolfsburg | 1 | 2008-09 |
| Eintracht Braunschweig | 1 | 1966-67 |
| TSV 1860 München | 1 | 1965-66 |
Bundesliga Berlin Teams
Within the Bundesliga, there are various teams from across Germany participating in football. But how many of these clubs come from the capital city of Berlin? As it happens, six clubs from Berlin participate in football within the country. Yet in the Bundesliga, the number of teams from Berlin stands at just two. Those two are also known as the two primary football clubs in Berlin, with one of them, Hertha BSC, being a founder of the DFB, which was played in the West German system during the Cold War.
The two Bundesliga teams in FIFA 22 from Berlin are:
- Hertha BSC
- Union Berlin
Final Thoughts on Bundesliga Teams Map and All Bundesliga Teams
There are numerous tams in the Bundesliga, and this makes it one of the most enjoyable and exciting football leagues around the world. You can see them all on the Bundesliga teams map, with clubs coming from all over Germany to participate in top-tier football matches. It’s not about the number of teams in Bundesliga that make it so thrilling, though. It’s the sheer level of football played by these teams, and we hope our guide to these Bundesliga teams in FIFA 22 will provide an insight into these.
