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The Teams of the Bundesliga

August 8, 2006

The Season Resumes!

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The Season Resumes!

The 2006-2007 Bundesliga campaign promises to be one of the tightest in memory -- with almost every team vying for a title, battling for a spot in international competitions or fighting against relegation. So what have the clubs done to improve during the winter break? And what are their prospects for the months to come?

DW-WORLD.DE gives you up-dated profiles of all 18 German top flight teams.

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Reports & Analysis

1. FC Nuremberg

Nuremburg head into the season's second half in a very respectable seventh place -- they look certain to avoid relegation and could challenge for a UEFA Cup place.
August 8, 2006

Alemannia Aachen

Alemannia Aachen, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to remain in the top division. Although this message will not self destruct, there is a chance you will.
August 8, 2006

Arminia Bielefeld

Arminia Bielefeld haven't set the Bundesliga on fire thus far, but coach Thomas von Heesen has the small club playing solid, workmanlike soccer.
August 8, 2006

Bayer Leverkusen

Although Leverkusen hibernated in sixth place, no one's been particularly happy with this season.
August 8, 2006

Bayern Munich

August 8, 2006

Borussia Dortmund

After a mediocre first half, Dortmund are hoping new coach Jürgen Röber can breath some life into a promising, but inexperienced squad.
August 8, 2006

Borussia Mönchengladbach

While spending the winter in the relegation zone, Mönchengladbach decided to invest another 3.25 million euros in an already expensive squad.
August 8, 2006

Eintracht Frankfurt

Tenth place in the league, a spirited campaign in the UEFA Cup and a spot in the German Cup quarter-finals have revived enthusiasm in Frankfurt for the city's biggest club.
August 8, 2006

Energie Cottbus

It wasn't often pretty, but Cottbus ended the first half of the season in fifteenth place -- out of the relegation zone. Staying up is the team's only goal this season, but coach Petrik Sander knows it won't be easy.
August 8, 2006

FSV Mainz 05

Bottom-of-the-table Mainz did the only rational thing they could in the winter break, going on a shopping spree and giving their roster a face-lift.
August 8, 2006

Hamburg SV

August 8, 2006

Hanover 96

Hanover ended 2006 in eleventh place. That's pretty much where they were last season, and the season before that, and the season before that…
August 8, 2006
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