Betting on the Germany. Bundesliga — Germany's top division
The Germany. Bundesliga is the top division of German football. Eighteen clubs meet home and away across 34 rounds, with 3 points for a win and 1 for a draw, and this 18-team format has stayed untouched since 1992-93. The Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL) has run the competition since 2001, taking over from the German FA (DFB), and the league carries no title sponsor in its name — unlike the 2. Bundesliga below it.
⚽ Season 2026-27: dates and matchdays
The campaign runs from 28 August 2026 to 22 May 2027. Defending champions Bayern Munich opened it at home against Stuttgart on Friday 28 August at 20:30. A typical round starts with that Friday-night fixture, packs most games into Saturday — 15:30 kick-offs plus a headline match at 18:30 — and closes with Sunday-afternoon football. Once a matchday begins, prices move ball by ball on the in-play football page.
🏆 What each place in the table decides
The champions lift the Meisterschale, the silver plate handed to Germany's title winner. Every other zone of the standings carries its own outcome:
Final position | Outcome |
|---|---|
1-4 | Champions League league phase 2027-28 |
5 | Europa League league phase |
6 | Conference League play-off round |
16 | Two-leg relegation play-off against the third-placed 2. Bundesliga side |
17-18 | Direct drop to the 2. Bundesliga |
The DFB-Pokal winner also books a Europa League place; when that club already sits in the top five, the ticket passes to sixth and the Conference League play-off spot moves down to seventh. The 2026-27 relegation play-off is set for 27 and 31 May 2027.
Champions and records
Bayern Munich have won more than half of all Bundesliga seasons, and counting the pre-1963 era their haul reaches 35 German championships. Nuremberg sit second across all eras with 9 — only one of them, in 1967-68, inside the Bundesliga years — while Dortmund hold 8 overall. Within the league era itself, the ladder looks like this:
Club | Bundesliga titles since 1963 |
|---|---|
Bayern Munich | 34 |
Borussia Dortmund | 5 |
Borussia Mönchengladbach | 5 |
Werder Bremen | 4 |
Hamburger SV | 3 |
VfB Stuttgart | 3 |
The 2025-26 title followed the familiar script: Bayern sealed it on 19 April 2026 with a 4:2 win over Stuttgart, their second championship in a row.
New faces and the derby calendar
Three clubs came up for 2026-27: Schalke 04, back after 3 years away, SV Elversberg, the 59th club in league history and a top-flight debutant, and SC Paderborn, who beat Wolfsburg in the play-off. St. Pauli, Heidenheim and Wolfsburg went down — the first relegation in Wolfsburg's history, an ever-present in the elite since 1997. Der Klassiker between Bayern and Dortmund remains the headline fixture of German football, and Schalke's promotion restores the Revierderby against Dortmund, the oldest and fiercest rivalry in the Ruhr. Other sports and sections start from the 1xBet Mauritania home page.
Betting on the Bundesliga from Mauritania
Throughout 2026, every round is priced days ahead in the pre-match football section, from the title market down to the relegation scrap. The first step is to create a 1xBet account; in Mauritania, deposits and withdrawals run on cryptocurrency — USDT on several networks, BTC, ETH and other major coins — or cash.