2010–11 Bundesliga

Bundesliga

Season	2010–11
Dates	21 August 2010 – 15 May 2011
Champions	Borussia Dortmund 4th Bundesliga title 7th German title
Relegated	Eintracht Frankfurt FC St. Pauli
Champions League	Borussia Dortmund Bayer Leverkusen Bayern Munich
Europa League	Hannover 96 Mainz 05 Schalke 04 (via domestic cup)
Matches played	306
Goals scored	894 (2.92 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mario Gómez (28)
Biggest home win	Stuttgart 7–0 M'gladbach
Biggest away win	FC St. Pauli 1–8 Bayern
Highest scoring	L'kusen 3–6 M'gladbach FC St. Pauli 1–8 Bayern
Average attendance	42,101[1]
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

The 2010–11 Bundesliga was the 48th season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. It began on 20 August 2010 and concluded on 14 May 2011.^[2] The winter break was in effect between weekends around 18 December 2010 and 15 January 2011.^[3] The defending champions were Bayern Munich. The league had also updated its logo for the season. The official match ball was Adidas Torfabrik 2010.

Borussia Dortmund earned its seventh league title with two games to spare on 30 April 2011, beating 1. FC Nürnberg 2–0 at home.^[4][5] FC St. Pauli and Eintracht Frankfurt were relegated to the 2011–12 2. Bundesliga.

Teams

At the end of the 2009–10 season, VfL Bochum and Hertha BSC were directly relegated after finishing in the bottom two places of the league table. They were replaced by 1. FC Kaiserslautern, champions of the 2009–10 2. Bundesliga, and runners-up FC St. Pauli. Kaiserslautern returned to the Bundesliga after four years, and St. Pauli re-entered the top division after eight years.

A further place in the league was decided through a two-legged play-off. As in the previous year, 1. FC Nürnberg had to compete, although they were the Bundesliga team this time. FC Augsburg was the 2. Bundesliga's representative. Nuremberg won both matches on aggregate, 3–0, and thus defended their Bundesliga spot.

This was the first-ever season since reunification without any teams from either the former East Germany or West Berlin, since Hertha BSC was relegated.

Stadiums and locations

Several stadiums were undergoing long-term reconstruction work, among them Mercedes-Benz Arena, Millerntor-Stadion and Weserstadion. The capacities of EasyCredit-Stadion and Fritz-Walter-Stadion were also slightly increased during the off-season, while Hamburg's biggest arena was renamed Imtech Arena.

Bayern

Bremen

Dortmund

Frankfurt

Freiburg

Hamburg

Hannover

Hoffenheim

K'lautern

Köln

Mainz

M'gladbach

Nürnberg

Schalke

St. Pauli

Stuttgart

Wolfsburg

Leverkusen

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Locations of teams in the 2010–11 Fußball-Bundesliga

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity[6]	Average attendance[7]
Bayer Leverkusen	Leverkusen	BayArena	30,210	28,627
Bayern Munich	Munich	Allianz Arena	69,000	69,000
Borussia Dortmund	Dortmund	Signal Iduna Park	80,552[8][9]	79,250
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Mönchengladbach	Borussia-Park	54,057	45,676
Eintracht Frankfurt	Frankfurt	Commerzbank-Arena	51,500	47,336
SC Freiburg	Freiburg	Badenova-Stadion	24,000	23,047
Hamburger SV	Hamburg	Imtech Arena	57,000	54,445
Hannover 96	Hanover	AWD-Arena	49,000	43,948
1899 Hoffenheim	Sinsheim	Rhein-Neckar-Arena	30,150	29,858
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Kaiserslautern	Fritz-Walter-Stadion	49,780	46,378
1. FC Köln	Cologne	RheinEnergieStadion	50,000	47,752
Mainz 05	Mainz	Stadion am Bruchweg	20,300	20,170
1. FC Nürnberg	Nuremberg	EasyCredit-Stadion	48,548	42,019
Schalke 04	Gelsenkirchen	Veltins-Arena	61,673	61,248
FC St. Pauli	Hamburg	Millerntor-Stadion	24,487 ^Note 1	24,274
VfB Stuttgart	Stuttgart	Mercedes-Benz Arena	39,950 ^Note 2	38,847
Werder Bremen	Bremen	Weserstadion	42,100 ^Note 3	37,464
VfL Wolfsburg	Wolfsburg	Volkswagen Arena	30,000	28,909

Notes:

1. Millerntor-Stadion was undergroing reconstruction and expansion.
2. Mercedes-Benz Arena was converted to a football-only stadium during the 2009–10 and 2010–11 seasons. As a consequence, the usual capacity of 58,000 was reduced to 39,950 for the 2010–11 season.
3. Weserstadion was undergoing minor reconstruction during the season, with varying reduced capacities during that time.

Personnel and sponsorships

Team	Head coach	Team captain[10]	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Bayer Leverkusen	Jupp Heynckes	Simon Rolfes	Adidas	TelDaFax
Bayern Munich	Andries Jonker (caretaker)	Philipp Lahm[11]	Adidas	T-Home
Borussia Dortmund	Jürgen Klopp	Sebastian Kehl	Kappa	Evonik
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Lucien Favre	Filip Daems	Lotto	Postbank
Eintracht Frankfurt	Christoph Daum	Chris	Jako	Fraport
SC Freiburg	Robin Dutt	Heiko Butscher	Nike	Ehrmann
Hamburger SV	Michael Oenning	Heiko Westermann	Adidas	Emirates
Hannover 96	Mirko Slomka	Steve Cherundolo	Under Armour	TUI
1899 Hoffenheim	Marco Pezzaiuoli	Andreas Beck	Puma	TV Digital
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Marco Kurz	Srđan Lakić^[citation needed]	Do You Football	Allgäuer Latschenkiefer
1. FC Köln	Volker Finke	Lukas Podolski[12]	Reebok	REWE
Mainz 05	Thomas Tuchel	Nikolče Noveski	Nike	Entega
1. FC Nürnberg	Dieter Hecking	Andreas Wolf	Adidas	Areva
Schalke 04	Ralf Rangnick	Manuel Neuer	Adidas	Gazprom
FC St. Pauli	Holger Stanislawski	Fabio Morena	Do You Football	Ein Platz an der Sonne
VfB Stuttgart	Bruno Labbadia	Matthieu Delpierre	Puma	Gazi
Werder Bremen	Thomas Schaaf	Torsten Frings	Nike	Targobank
VfL Wolfsburg	Felix Magath	Marcel Schäfer[13]	Adidas	Volkswagen

In addition, all matches featured one match ball as Adidas presented a new ball called "Jabulani Torfabrik" ("Goal Factory"). Previously, the home team was responsible for supplying the match ball.^[14] More often than not, it was provided by the kitmakers for the teams.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
VfL Wolfsburg	Lorenz-Günther Köstner	End of tenure as caretaker	30 June 2010[15]	Off-season	Steve McClaren	1 July 2010[15]
Hamburger SV	Ricardo Moniz	End of tenure as caretaker	30 June 2010[16]		Armin Veh	1 July 2010[17]
VfB Stuttgart	Christian Gross	Sacked	13 October 2010[18]	18th	Jens Keller	13 October 2010[18]
1. FC Köln	Zvonimir Soldo	Sacked	24 October 2010[19]	18th	Frank Schaefer	24 October 2010[19]
VfB Stuttgart	Jens Keller	Sacked	11 December 2010[20]	16th	Bruno Labbadia	12 December 2010[21]
1899 Hoffenheim	Ralf Rangnick	Mutual consent	2 January 2011[22]	8th	Marco Pezzaiuoli	2 January 2011[23]
VfL Wolfsburg	Steve McClaren	Sacked	7 February 2011[24]	12th	Pierre Littbarski	7 February 2011[24]
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Michael Frontzeck	Sacked	13 February 2011[25]	18th	Lucien Favre	14 February 2011[26]
Hamburger SV	Armin Veh	Sacked	13 March 2011[27]	8th	Michael Oenning	13 March 2011[27]
Schalke 04	Felix Magath	Sacked	16 March 2011[28]	10th	Ralf Rangnick	17 March 2011[29]
VfL Wolfsburg	Pierre Littbarski	End of tenure as caretaker	18 March 2011[30]	17th	Felix Magath	18 March 2011[30]
Eintracht Frankfurt	Michael Skibbe	Sacked	22 March 2011[31]	14th	Christoph Daum	22 March 2011[31]
Bayern Munich	Louis van Gaal	Sacked	9 April 2011[32]	4th	Andries Jonker (caretaker)	9 April 2011[32]
1. FC Köln	Frank Schaefer	Resigned	27 April 2011[33]	14th	Volker Finke	27 April 2011[33]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Borussia Dortmund (C)	34	23	6	5	67	22	+45	75	Qualification to Champions League group stage
2	Bayer Leverkusen	34	20	8	6	64	44	+20	68
3	Bayern Munich	34	19	8	7	81	40	+41	65	Qualification to Champions League play-off round
4	Hannover 96	34	19	3	12	49	45	+4	60	Qualification to Europa League play-off round
5	FSV Mainz 05	34	18	4	12	52	39	+13	58	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
6	1. FC Nürnberg	34	13	8	13	47	45	+2	47
7	1. FC Kaiserslautern	34	13	7	14	48	51	−3	46
8	Hamburger SV	34	12	9	13	46	52	−6	45
9	SC Freiburg	34	13	5	16	41	50	−9	44
10	1. FC Köln	34	13	5	16	47	62	−15	44
11	1899 Hoffenheim	34	11	10	13	50	50	0	43
12	VfB Stuttgart	34	12	6	16	60	59	+1	42
13	Werder Bremen	34	10	11	13	47	61	−14	41
14	Schalke 04	34	11	7	16	38	44	−6	40	Qualification to Europa League play-off round[a]
15	VfL Wolfsburg	34	9	11	14	43	48	−5	38
16	Borussia Mönchengladbach (O)	34	10	6	18	48	65	−17	36	Qualification to relegation play-offs
17	Eintracht Frankfurt (R)	34	9	7	18	31	49	−18	34	Relegation to 2. Bundesliga
18	FC St. Pauli (R)	34	8	5	21	35	68	−33	29

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

1. Schalke 04 as winners of the 2010–11 DFB-Pokal qualified for the play-off round of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.

Results

Home \ Away	SVW	BVB	SGE	SCF	HSV	H96	TSG	FCK	KOE	B04	M05	BMG	FCB	FCN	S04	STP	VFB	WOB
Werder Bremen	—	2–0	0–0	2–1	3–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	4–2	2–2	0–2	1–1	1–3	2–3	1–1	3–0	1–1	0–1
Borussia Dortmund	2–0	—	3–1	3–0	2–0	4–1	1–1	5–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	4–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–0
Eintracht Frankfurt	1–1	1–0	—	0–1	1–3	0–3	0–4	0–0	0–2	0–3	2–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	0–2	3–1
SC Freiburg	1–3	1–2	0–0	—	1–0	1–3	3–2	2–1	3–2	0–1	1–0	3–0	1–2	1–1	1–2	1–3	2–1	2–1
Hamburger SV	4–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	—	0–0	2–1	2–1	6–2	2–4	2–4	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	4–2	1–3
Hannover 96	4–1	0–4	2–1	3–0	3–2	—	2–0	3–0	2–1	2–2	2–0	0–1	3–1	3–1	0–1	0–1	2–1	1–0
1899 Hoffenheim	4–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	4–0	—	3–2	1–1	2–2	1–2	3–2	1–2	1–1	2–0	2–2	1–2	1–3
1. FC Kaiserslautern	3–2	1–1	0–3	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–2	—	1–1	0–1	0–1	3–0	2–0	0–2	5–0	2–0	3–3	0–0
1. FC Köln	3–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	3–2	4–0	1–1	1–3	—	2–0	4–2	0–4	3–2	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–3	1–1
Bayer Leverkusen	2–2	1–3	2–1	2–2	1–1	2–0	2–1	3–1	3–2	—	0–1	3–6	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	4–2	3–0
Mainz 05	1–1	0–2	3–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	4–2	2–1	2–0	0–1	—	1–0	1–3	3–0	0–1	2–1	2–0	0–1
Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–4	1–0	0–4	2–0	1–2	1–2	2–0	0–1	5–1	1–3	2–3	—	3–3	1–1	2–1	1–2	2–3	1–1
Bayern Munich	0–0	1–3	4–1	4–2	6–0	3–0	4–0	5–1	0–0	5–1	1–2	1–0	—	3–0	4–1	3–0	2–1	2–1
1. FC Nürnberg	1–3	0–2	3–0	1–2	2–0	3–1	1–2	1–3	3–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	—	2–1	5–0	2–1	2–1
Schalke 04	4–0	1–3	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	3–0	0–1	1–3	2–2	2–0	1–1	—	3–0	2–2	1–0
FC St. Pauli	1–3	1–3	1–3	2–2	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	3–0	0–1	2–4	3–1	1–8	3–2	0–2[a]	—	1–2	1–1
VfB Stuttgart	6–0	1–3	1–2	0–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	2–4	0–1	1–4	1–0	7–0	3–5	1–4	1–0	2–0	—	1–1
VfL Wolfsburg	0–0	0–3	1–1	2–1	0–1	2–0	2–2	1–2	4–1	2–3	3–4	2–1	1–1	1–2	2–2	2–2	2–0	—

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

1. The FC St. Pauli v Schalke 04 match from 1 April 2011 was suspended after 87 minutes and a score of 0–2 due to an assistant referee being hit by a beverage cup thrown from the stands. The match was abandoned and later awarded on 5 April 2011 to Schalke 04 with a score of 0–2.^[34][35]

Relegation play-offs

Borussia Mönchengladbach as 16th-placed team faced 3rd-placed 2. Bundesliga side VfL Bochum in a two-legged play-off. The winner on aggregate score after both matches earned a spot in the 2011–12 Bundesliga.

19 May 2011

20:30 CEST

Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–0	VfL Bochum
De Camargo 90+3'	Report (in German)

Borussia-Park, Mönchengladbach

Attendance: 54,057

Referee: Günter Perl (Pullach)

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25 May 2011

20:30 CEST

VfL Bochum	1–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Nordtveit 24' (o.g.)	Report (in German)	Reus 72'

rewirpowerSTADION, Bochum

Attendance: 28,650

Referee: Peter Gagelmann (Bremen)

Borussia Mönchengladbach won 2–1 on aggregate and retained its Fußball-Bundesliga spot for the 2011–12 season.

Statistics

Top scorers Source: bundesliga.de Archived 5 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Rank Player Club Goals 1 Mario Gómez[36] Bayern Munich 28 2 Papiss Cissé SC Freiburg 22 3 Milivoje Novaković 1. FC Köln 17 4 Lucas Barrios Borussia Dortmund 16 Theofanis Gekas Eintracht Frankfurt Srđan Lakić 1. FC Kaiserslautern 7 André Schürrle Mainz 05 15 8 Didier Ya Konan Hannover 96 14 9 Lukas Podolski 1. FC Köln 13 Raúl Schalke 04

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