2005–06 Bundesliga

Bundesliga

Season	2005–06
Dates	5 August 2005 – 13 May 2006
Champions	Bayern Munich 19th Bundesliga title 20th German title
Relegated	1. FC Kaiserslautern MSV Duisburg 1. FC Köln
Champions League	Bayern Munich Werder Bremen Hamburger SV
UEFA Cup	Schalke 04 Bayer Leverkusen Eintracht Frankfurt
Intertoto Cup	Hertha BSC
Matches played	306
Goals scored	861 (2.81 per match)
Top goalscorer	Miroslav Klose (25)
← 2004–05 2006–07 →

The 2005–06 Bundesliga was the 43rd season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. It began on 5 August 2005 and concluded on 13 May 2006.

Teams

Eighteen teams competed in the league – the top fifteen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the 2. Bundesliga. The promoted teams were 1. FC Köln, MSV Duisburg and Eintracht Frankfurt. 1. FC Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt returned to the top flight after an absence of one year while MSV Duisburg returned in the top flight after an absence of six years. They replaced VfL Bochum, Hansa Rostock and SC Freiburg, ending their top flight spells of three, ten and two years respectively.

Team overview

Hertha BSC

Bielefeld

Bremen

Dortmund

Duisburg

Frankfurt

Hamburg

Hannover

Kaiserslautern

Köln

Leverkusen

Mainz

Mönchengladbach

Bayern

Nürnberg

Schalke

Stuttgart

Wolfsburg

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Location of teams in Bundesliga 2005–06

Stadia and locations

Club	Location	Ground	Capacity
Arminia Bielefeld	Bielefeld	SchücoArena	26,600
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Leverkusen	BayArena	22,500
FC Bayern Munich	Munich	Allianz Arena	75,000
Borussia Dortmund	Dortmund	Westfalenstadion	68,600
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Mönchengladbach	Stadion im Borussia-Park	54,067
MSV Duisburg*	Duisburg	MSV-Arena	31,502
Eintracht Frankfurt*	Frankfurt am Main	Commerzbank Arena	62,000
Hamburger SV	Hamburg	AOL Arena	62,000
Hannover 96	Hanover	AWD-Arena	60,400
Hertha BSC	Berlin	Olympiastadion	76,000
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Kaiserslautern	Fritz Walter Stadion	41,500
1. FC Köln*	Cologne	Müngersdorfer Stadion	46,000
1. FSV Mainz 05	Mainz	Stadion am Bruchweg	20,300
1. FC Nürnberg	Nuremberg	Frankenstadion	44,700
FC Schalke 04	Gelsenkirchen	Arena AufSchalke	61,973
VfB Stuttgart	Stuttgart	Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion	53,700
SV Werder Bremen	Bremen	Weserstadion	42,100
VfL Wolfsburg	Wolfsburg	Volkswagen Arena	30,000

(*) Promoted from 2. Bundesliga.

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Arminia Bielefeld	Thomas von Heesen	Saller	Krombacher
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Michael Skibbe	Adidas	RWE
FC Bayern Munich	Felix Magath	Adidas	Deutsche Telekom
Borussia Dortmund	Bert van Marwijk	Nike	E.ON
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Horst Köppel	Lotto	Kyocera
MSV Duisburg*	Heiko Scholz (caretaker)	Uhlsport	Iceline Tiefkühl
Eintracht Frankfurt*	Friedhelm Funkel	Jako	Fraport
Hamburger SV	Thomas Doll	Puma	Abu Dhabi Investment Group
Hannover 96	Peter Neururer	Diadora	TUI Group
Hertha BSC	Falko Götz	Nike	Arcor
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Wolfgang Wolf	Kappa	Deutsche Vermögensberatung
1. FC Köln*	Hanspeter Latour	Adidas	Gerling-Konzern
1. FSV Mainz 05	Jürgen Klopp	Lotto	DBV-Winterthur
1. FC Nürnberg	Hans Meyer	Adidas	mister*lady Jeans
FC Schalke 04	Mirko Slomka	Adidas	Victoria Versicherung
VfB Stuttgart	Armin Veh	Puma	EnBW
SV Werder Bremen	Thomas Schaaf	Kappa	KiK
VfL Wolfsburg	Klaus Augenthaler	Nike	Volkswagen/Volkswagen TSI

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bayern Munich (C)	34	22	9	3	67	32	+35	75	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Werder Bremen	34	21	7	6	79	37	+42	70
3	Hamburger SV	34	21	5	8	53	30	+23	68	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
4	Schalke 04	34	16	13	5	47	31	+16	61	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
5	Bayer Leverkusen	34	14	10	10	64	49	+15	52
6	Hertha BSC	34	12	12	10	52	48	+4	48	Qualification to Intertoto Cup third round
7	Borussia Dortmund	34	11	13	10	45	42	+3	46
8	1. FC Nürnberg	34	12	8	14	49	51	−2	44
9	VfB Stuttgart	34	9	16	9	37	39	−2	43
10	Borussia Mönchengladbach	34	10	12	12	42	50	−8	42
11	Mainz 05	34	9	11	14	46	47	−1	38
12	Hannover 96	34	7	17	10	43	47	−4	38
13	Arminia Bielefeld	34	10	7	17	32	47	−15	37
14	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	9	9	16	42	51	−9	36	Qualification to UEFA Cup first round
15	VfL Wolfsburg	34	7	13	14	33	55	−22	34
16	1. FC Kaiserslautern (R)	34	8	9	17	47	71	−24	33	Relegation to 2. Bundesliga
17	1. FC Köln (R)	34	7	9	18	49	71	−22	30
18	MSV Duisburg (R)	34	5	12	17	34	63	−29	27

Source: kicker.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	BSC	DSC	SVW	BVB	DUI	SGE	HSV	H96	FCK	KOE	B04	M05	BMG	FCB	FCN	S04	VFB	WOB
Hertha BSC	—	1–0	1–2	0–0	3–2	2–0	4–2	1–1	3–0	2–4	1–5	3–1	2–2	0–0	1–1	1–2	2–0	3–0
Arminia Bielefeld	3–0	—	0–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–2	4–1	0–0	3–2	1–0	2–0	0–2	1–2	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–1
Werder Bremen	0–3	5–2	—	3–2	2–0	4–1	1–1	5–0	0–2	6–0	2–1	4–2	2–0	3–0	6–2	0–0	1–1	6–1
Borussia Dortmund	2–0	2–0	0–1	—	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	2–1	2–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	2–1	1–2	0–0	3–2
MSV Duisburg	2–1	1–1	3–5	1–1	—	0–1	0–2	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–3	0–0	1–1	1–3	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0
Eintracht Frankfurt	1–1	3–0	0–1	2–0	5–2	—	1–2	0–1	2–2	6–3	1–4	0–0	0–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–1
Hamburger SV	2–1	2–1	1–2	2–4	2–0	1–1	—	1–1	3–0	3–1	0–2	1–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	0–2	0–1
Hannover 96	2–2	0–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	2–1	—	5–1	1–0	2–2	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	3–3	2–4
1. FC Kaiserslautern	0–2	2–0	1–5	3–3	5–3	1–2	0–3	1–0	—	2–2	2–2	0–2	3–0	1–1	1–3	0–2	1–1	3–2
1. FC Köln	0–1	4–2	1–4	0–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	1–4	2–3	—	0–3	1–0	2–1	1–2	3–4	2–2	0–0	3–0
Bayer Leverkusen	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–2	2–1	0–1	0–0	5–1	2–1	—	1–2	2–1	2–5	2–2	1–1	1–1	4–0
Mainz 05	2–2	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–3	0–0	0–2	4–2	3–1	—	3–0	2–2	4–1	1–0	1–2	5–1
Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–2	2–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	4–3	0–0	2–2	4–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	—	1–3	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–1
Bayern Munich	3–0	2–0	3–1	3–3	4–0	5–2	1–2	1–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	3–0	—	2–1	3–0	3–1	2–0
1. FC Nürnberg	2–1	2–3	3–1	1–2	3–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	3–2	2–1	1–1	3–0	5–2	1–2	—	1–1	0–1	1–0
Schalke 04	0–0	3–1	2–1	0–0	3–0	2–0	0–2	2–0	2–1	1–1	7–4	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	—	3–2	2–2
VfB Stuttgart	3–3	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–2	1–2	2–2	1–0	2–3	0–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	—	2–1
VfL Wolfsburg	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	0–3	2–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	—

Source: DFB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Overall

• Most wins – Bayern Munich (22)
• Fewest wins – MSV Duisburg (5)
• Most draws – Hannover 96 (17)
• Fewest draws – Hamburger SV (5)
• Most losses – 1. FC Köln (18)
• Fewest losses – Bayern Munich (3)
• Most goals scored – Werder Bremen (79)
• Fewest goals scored – Arminia Bielefeld (32)
• Most goals conceded – 1. FC Kaiserslautern and 1. FC Köln (71)
• Fewest goals conceded – Hamburger SV (30)

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Miroslav Klose	Werder Bremen	25
2	Dimitar Berbatov	Bayer Leverkusen	21
3	Halil Altıntop	1. FC Kaiserslautern	20
4	Roy Makaay	Bayern Munich	17
5	Róbert Vittek	1. FC Nürnberg	16
6	Ivan Klasnić	Werder Bremen	15
7	Michael Ballack	Bayern Munich	14
8	Ebi Smolarek	Borussia Dortmund	13
9	Marcelinho	Hertha BSC	12
	Lukas Podolski	1. FC Köln
	Michael Thurk	1. FSV Mainz 05
	Ioannis Amanatidis	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Diego Klimowicz	VfL Wolfsburg

External links

• 2005–06 Bundesliga on kicker.de