Football Bundesliga 2008/09

Bundesliga 2008/09
master	VfL Wolfsburg
Champions League	VfL Wolfsburg FC Bayern Munich
Champions League qualification	VfB Stuttgart
Europa League qualification	Hertha BSC Hamburger SV Werder Bremen
Cup winners	Werder Bremen
Relegation ↓	Energie Cottbus (0-2 and 0-3 against 1. FC Nürnberg )
Relegated	Energie Cottbus Karlsruher SC Arminia Bielefeld
Teams	18th
Games	306 + 2 relegation games
Gates	894  (ø 2.92 per game)
spectator	12,822,484  (ø 41,904 per game)
Top scorer	Grafite ( VfL Wolfsburg )
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League leader

Bottom of the table

The 2008/09 Bundesliga was the 46th season of the top German division in men's football. The season began on August 15, 2008 with the reigning champions FC Bayern Munich's home game against Hamburger SV (2-2) and ended on May 23, 2009 with the 34th matchday. Simultaneously with the elite class of the DFL also launched the 2. Bundesliga in the 2008/09 season .

The premier matchday of the new 3rd league had already been held three weeks earlier , and the introduction of this was the first time in 16 years that the mode of the Bundesliga was changed significantly. At the end of the season, as between 1982 and 1991, relegation games took place between the sixteenth in the table in the Bundesliga and the third in the second division, the winners of which are eligible to play for the Bundesliga in the 2009/10 season.

VfL Wolfsburg won the German championship for the first time and secured the title on matchday 34 with a 5-1 win at home against Werder Bremen . VfL is the first club in 39 years to be added to the list of German football champions . Descent had to Arminia Bielefeld , the Karlsruher SC and FC Energie Cottbus , who said in the relegation matches 1. FC Nuremberg defeated.

Season course

Championship decision

VfL Wolfsburg celebrates the championship after the last matchday

VfL Wolfsburg became champions of the 2008/09 season, which was considered a surprise for many. This success was closely linked to coach Felix Magath , who had already led Lower Saxony to fifth in the UEFA Cup a year earlier - in the previous two seasons, Wolfsburg almost relegated as 15th. A few game days before the end, however, Magath announced that he would work for Schalke 04 in the coming season, despite the title fight. After the end of the first half of the season Wolfsburg was only ninth, as the best team in the second half of the season they caught up and won the title. VfL was similarly ambivalent in other respects: In the away table, he was only eighth, but in his own stadium he only missed two points. The highest victories there were the 5: 1 against FC Bayern Munich, the 5: 1 against Werder Bremen and the 4: 0 against 1899 Hoffenheim.

FC Bayern Munich, classified by many as a favorite, played below the expectations of many after the double last year. Without even leading the table, the Munich team, who had replaced their new coach Jürgen Klinsmann with Jupp Heynckes five game days before the end , had a chance of winning the championship in the last game, but ended the season without a title.

Measured against their own expectations, VfB Stuttgart had a weak start to the season, which led to the dismissal of the master coach from 2007, Armin Veh . His successor was Markus Babbel , who did not yet have a coaching license. Under him, the Swabians were able to work their way up to the championship fight, but lost the direct duel for second or first place - depending on the result from Wolfsburg - at Bayern Munich with 1: 2 on the last matchday.

Another surprise besides VfL Wolfsburg was Hertha BSC. For the first time in the club's history, the Berliners coached by Lucien Favre even led the table for several match days in the second half of the season. On the final days of the match, however, they gambled away qualifying for the Champions League and finished fourth (0-0 against Schalke, 4-0 at Karlsruher SC).

midfield

Hamburger SV under coach Martin Jol , who came at the beginning of the season, played for the championship for a long time. The so-called North German Festival Weeks were a special highlight of the season , when Hamburg had to face arch-rivals Werder Bremen four times within 19 days in various competitions, with HSV being eliminated in both the DFB Cup and the UEFA Cup. In the end, Bremen won 2-0 in the Bundesliga home game on May 10th. However, Hamburg stayed in the league ahead of Bremen for the first time in six years. The 3: 2 in Frankfurt in the 90th minute on the last match day meant fifth place ahead of Dortmund, which under new coach Jürgen Klopp was able to improve significantly with sixth place in the table, even if the hoped-for international starting position failed to materialize. The 59 points of BVB meant the highest number in the history of the Bundesliga, with which the fifth place in the table was ever missed.

The promoted 1899 Hoffenheim had won the autumn championship in the first half of the season with great media attention . In the second half of the season, Ralf Rangnick's team was clearly weaker and slipped to seventh place. FC Schalke 04, led by Fred Rutten , which started with certain title ambitions, fell short of many expectations and demands from the start, which led to the coach's dismissal. With the eighth place Schalke did not reach a European competition for the first time in nine years. Bayer Leverkusen, who had already changed coach a year earlier because of seventh place, also failed to achieve their goals under Bruno Labbadia . The Werder Bremen team, on the other hand, weakened from the start and finished in tenth place, the worst place in ten years. In the UEFA Cup , however, she made it to the final, and by winning the DFB Cup , she finally made it into international competition. Hannover 96 was also unable to achieve its goal of qualifying for the Europa League. The Lower Saxony suffered this season with a slightly above-average home record, especially from their weakness away from home.

Relegation battle

Bottom of the table was Arminia Bielefeld; the dismissal of Michael Frontzeck and the employment of Jörg Berger for a game could not prevent this, on the contrary: For a long time, East Westphalia were in 16th place in the table, which entitles them to relegation. On the last day of the match they slipped to last place with a 2-2 win against Hannover 96. The second direct relegated team was as penultimate in the table of Karlsruher SC under coach Edmund Becker . Bojan Prašnikar , who was able to save FC Energie Cottbus from relegation in the previous year, finished with his team in the relegation place and lost to 1. FC Nürnberg in the two play-offs (0: 3 and 0: 2), with the coach already announced his resignation after the first leg. More successful was Hans Meyer , who had already replaced Jos Luhukay as coach of the current bottom of the table Borussia Mönchengladbach in the first half of the season and who led the “foals” to 15th place, but had his contract terminated after the season. VfL Bochum, who finished fourteenth in the end, had been on a relegation zone on a few days. The season was not very spectacular for Hannover 96, 1. FC Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt, which took positions eleven to thirteen in the final table, which is particularly a success for the newly promoted Cologne.

The low scores of the teams in positions 13 to 15 were remarkable: never since the introduction of the third relegated team in 1974 has a team with less than 34 points (calculated according to the three-point rule ) managed to stay in the league. This season, however, three teams achieved this: Frankfurt, Bochum and Mönchengladbach. (In the following season, two more teams, Hanover and (via relegation) Nuremberg; 2012/13 then FC Augsburg and TSG Hoffenheim via relegation, 2013/14 VfB Stuttgart and HSV via relegation, 2018 / 19 of FC Schalke and FC Augsburg and 2019/20 SV Werder Bremen on relegation.)

statistics

Closing table

An overview of the participating clubs

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	VfL Wolfsburg	34	21st	6th	7th	080:410	+39	69
2.	FC Bayern Munich (M, P)	34	20th	7th	7th	071:420	+29	67
3.	VfB Stuttgart	34	19th	7th	8th	063:430	+20	64
4th	Hertha BSC	34	19th	6th	9	048:410	+7	63
5.	Hamburger SV	34	19th	4th	11	049:470	+2	61
6th	Borussia Dortmund	34	15th	14th	5	060:370	+23	59
7th	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (N)	34	15th	10	9	063:490	+14	55
8th.	FC Schalke 04	34	14th	8th	12	047:350	+12	50
9.	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	34	14th	7th	13	059:460	+13	49
10.	Werder Bremen	34	12	9	13	064:500	+14	45
11.	Hannover 96	34	10	10	14th	049:690	−20	40
12.	1. FC Cologne (N)	34	11	6th	17th	035:500	−15	39
13.	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	8th	9	17th	039:600	−21	33
14th	VfL Bochum	34	7th	11	16	039:550	−16	32
15th	Borussia Mönchengladbach (N)	34	8th	7th	19th	039:620	−23	31
16.	Energy Cottbus	34	8th	6th	20th	030:570	−27	30th
17th	Karlsruher SC	34	8th	5	21st	030:540	−24	29
18th	Arminia Bielefeld	34	4th	16	14th	029:560	−27	28

German champion and participation in the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League : VfL Wolfsburg

Participation in the UEFA Champions League: FC Bayern Munich

Participation in the Champions League qualification: VfB Stuttgart

DFB Cup winner and participation in the qualification for the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League : SV Werder Bremen

Participation in the qualification for the UEFA Europa League: Hertha BSC, Hamburger SV

Participation in the relegation games against the third placed in the 2nd Bundesliga: FC Energie Cottbus

Relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga 2009/10 : Karlsruher SC, Arminia Bielefeld

(M)	German champion 2007/08
(P)	DFB Cup winner 2007/08
(N)	Promoted from the 2nd Bundesliga 2007/08

Table history

Relegation

Energie Cottbus reached 16th place in the 2008/09 season and competed on May 28th and 31st, 2009 against the third place in the 2nd Bundesliga, 1. FC Nürnberg . Energie Cottbus was defeated by the "Club" in both games and was relegated.

date		Result		Gates
May 28, 2009	Energy Cottbus	0: 3 (0: 1)	1. FC Nuremberg	0: 1 Boakye (13th), 0: 2 Eigler (56th), 0: 3 Boakye (89th)
May 31, 2009	1. FC Nuremberg	2: 0 (2: 0)	Energy Cottbus	1-0 Eigler (29th), 2-0 Mintál (37th)
Total:	Energy Cottbus	0: 5	1. FC Nuremberg

Crosstab

The crosstab shows the results of all games this season. The home team is listed in the left column, the visiting team in the top row.

2008/09
VfL Wolfsburg		5: 1	4: 1	2: 1	3-0	3-0	4-0	4: 3	2: 1	5: 1	2: 1	2: 1	2: 2	2-0	3-0	3-0	1-0	4: 1
FC Bayern Munich	4: 2		2: 1	4: 1	2: 2	3: 1	2: 1	0: 1	3-0	2: 5	5: 1	1: 2	4-0	3: 3	2: 1	4: 1	1-0	3: 1
VfB Stuttgart	4: 1	2: 2		2-0	1-0	2: 1	3: 3	2-0	0: 2	4: 1	2-0	1: 3	2-0	2-0	2-0	2-0	3: 1	0-0
Hertha BSC	2: 2	2: 1	2: 1		2: 1	1: 3	1-0	0-0	1-0	2: 1	3-0	2: 1	2: 1	2-0	2: 1	0: 1	4-0	1: 1
Hamburger SV	1: 3	1-0	2-0	1: 1		2: 1	1-0	1: 1	3: 2	2: 1	2: 1	0: 1	1-0	3: 1	1-0	2-0	2: 1	2-0
Borussia Dortmund	0-0	1: 1	3-0	1: 1	2-0		0-0	3: 3	1: 1	1-0	1: 1	3: 1	4-0	1: 1	2: 1	1: 1	4-0	6-0
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	3: 2	2: 2	0-0	0: 1	3-0	4: 1		1: 1	1: 4	0-0	2: 2	2-0	2: 1	0: 3	1-0	2-0	4: 1	3-0
FC Schalke 04	2: 2	1: 2	1: 2	1-0	1: 2	1: 1	2: 3		1: 2	1-0	3-0	1-0	1-0	1-0	3: 1	4-0	2-0	0-0
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	2-0	0: 2	2: 4	0: 1	1: 2	2: 3	5: 2	2: 1		1: 1	4-0	2-0	1: 1	1: 1	5-0	1: 1	0: 1	2: 2
Werder Bremen	2: 1	0-0	4-0	5: 1	2-0	3: 3	5: 4	1: 1	0: 2		4: 1	3: 1	5-0	3: 2	1: 1	3-0	1: 3	1: 2
Hannover 96	0: 5	1-0	3: 3	2-0	3-0	4: 4	2: 5	1-0	1-0	1: 1		2: 1	1: 1	1: 1	5: 1	0-0	3: 2	1: 1
1. FC Cologne	1: 1	0: 3	0: 3	1: 2	1: 2	0: 1	1: 3	1-0	0: 2	1-0	2: 1		1: 1	1: 1	2: 4	1-0	0-0	1: 1
Eintracht Frankfurt	0: 2	1: 2	2: 2	0: 2	2: 3	0: 2	1: 1	1: 2	0: 2	0: 5	4-0	2: 2		4-0	4: 1	2: 1	2: 1	1: 1
VfL Bochum	2: 2	0: 3	1: 2	2: 3	1: 1	0: 2	1: 3	2: 1	2: 3	0-0	0: 2	1: 2	2-0		2: 2	3: 2	2-0	2-0
Borussia Monchengladbach	1: 2	2: 2	1: 3	0: 1	4: 1	1: 1	1: 1	1-0	1: 3	3: 2	3: 2	1: 2	1: 2	0: 1		1: 3	1-0	1: 1
Energy Cottbus	2-0	1: 3	0: 3	1: 3	1: 2	0: 1	0: 3	0: 2	3-0	2: 1	3: 1	0: 2	2: 3	1: 1	0: 1		1-0	2: 1
Karlsruher SC	2: 1	0: 1	0: 2	4-0	3: 2	0: 1	2: 2	0: 3	3: 3	1-0	2: 3	0: 2	0: 1	1-0	0-0	0-0		0: 1
Arminia Bielefeld	0: 3	0: 1	2: 2	1: 1	2: 4	0-0	0: 2	0: 2	2: 1	2: 2	2: 2	2-0	0-0	1: 1	0: 2	1: 1	1: 2

List of goalscorers

In the first half of the season, Hoffenheim's Vedad Ibišević caused a sensation with 18 goals, but he suffered a serious injury during the winter break and was out for the rest of the season. The top scorer was Grafite from champions VfL Wolfsburg with 28 goals. Grafite and his teammate Edin Džeko broke several Bundesliga records this season: For the first time in Bundesliga history, they managed to have two players from the same club each scoring over twenty goals. With their goals on the last matchday, they also became the most successful striker duo in Bundesliga history. With a total of 54 of 80 goals scored, both strikers played a key role in VfL Wolfsburg's title win. Dethroned record holders were Bayern Gerd Müller with 40 and Uli Hoeneß with 13 goals in the 1971/72 season.

The most successful goalscorer of the 2008/09 season: Grafite

Pl.	Nat.	player	society	Gates
1		Graphite	VfL Wolfsburg	28
2		Edin Džeko	VfL Wolfsburg	26th
3		Mario Gomez	VfB Stuttgart	24
4th		Patrick Helmes	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	21st
5		Vedad Ibišević	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	18th
6th		Claudio Pizarro	Werder Bremen	17th
7th		Milivoje Novakovič	1. FC Cologne	16
8th		Demba Ba	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	14th
		Luca Toni	FC Bayern Munich
10		Kevin Kuranyi	FC Schalke 04	13
		Artur Wichniarek	Arminia Bielefeld

Scorer list

Pl.	Nat.	player	society	total	Gates	templates
1		Graphite	VfL Wolfsburg	39	28	11
2		Edin Džeko	VfL Wolfsburg	36	26th	10
3		Mario Gomez	VfB Stuttgart	32	24	8th
4th		Zvjezdan Misimović	VfL Wolfsburg	27	7th	20th
5		Patrick Helmes	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	26th	21st	5
6th		Vedad Ibišević	1899 Hoffenheim	25th	18th	7th
7th		Demba Ba	1899 Hoffenheim	21st	14th	7th
		Stefan Kießling	Bayer 04 Leverkusen		12	9
		Franck Ribery	Bayern Munich		9	12
10		Luca Toni	Bayern Munich	20th	14th	6th
		Alexander Frei	Borussia Dortmund		12	8th

Most assists

Zvjezdan Misimović set a new record with his 20 assists. The kicker has been recording the number of assists since 1988, the record so far was 17.

Pl.	Nat.	player	society	templates
1		Zvjezdan Misimović	VfL Wolfsburg	20th
2		Mesut Özil	Werder Bremen	15th
3		Arnold Bruggink	Hannover 96	13
		Marko Marin	Borussia Monchengladbach
5		Franck Ribery	Bayern Munich	12
		Bastian Schweinsteiger	Bayern Munich
7th		Martin Fenin	Eintracht Frankfurt	11
		Graphite	VfL Wolfsburg
		Tamás Hajnal	Borussia Dortmund
10		Tranquillo Barnetta	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	10
		Edin Džeko	VfL Wolfsburg
		Christian Gentner	VfL Wolfsburg
		Markus Steinhöfer	Eintracht Frankfurt

Spectator table

The highest average attendance in the league was in Signal-Iduna-Park at 74,830

Energie Cottbus had the lowest average with 16,709 spectators per game

With 1,272,108 visitors during the entire season, Borussia Dortmund had the most spectators and thus exceeded its own record from the 2007/08 season with 1,232,669 spectators.

	society	spectator	per game	workload
01.	Borussia Dortmund	1,272,108	74,830	92.89%
02.	FC Bayern Munich	1,173,000	69,000	100 , 0 %
03.	FC Schalke 04	1,043,580	61,387	99.84%
04th	Hamburger SV	931.165	54,774	96.10%
05.	Hertha BSC	886,668	52,157	70.10%
06th	VfB Stuttgart	883,646	51,979	91.19%
07th	1. FC Cologne	838,300	49,311	97.89%
08th.	Borussia Monchengladbach	805.397	47,376	87.63%
09.	Eintracht Frankfurt	799.200	47.011	89.89%
10.	Hannover 96	711.616	41,859	85.42%
11.	Werder Bremen	686.376	40,375	95.32%
12.	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	477,300	28,076	98.00%
13.	Karlsruher SC	477.113	28,065	94.50%
14th	VfL Wolfsburg	465.929	27,407	91.36%
15th	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	442,750	26,044	75.00%
16.	VfL Bochum	433,762	25,515	81.45%
17th	Arminia Bielefeld	398,900	23,465	85.95%
18th	FC Energie Cottbus	284,047	16,709	73.46%
total		13,010,857	42,519	94.50%

Venues

society	Stadium (sponsor name)	capacity		society	Stadium (sponsor name)	capacity
Borussia Dortmund	Westfalenstadion (Signal Iduna Park)	80,552		Hannover 96	AWD arena	49,000
Hertha BSC	Olympiastadion Berlin	74,400		Werder Bremen	Weser Stadium	42,358
FC Bayern Munich	Allianz Arena	69.901		VfL Bochum	Ruhrstadion (Rewirpowerstadion)	31,328
FC Schalke 04	Veltins Arena	61,482		VfL Wolfsburg	Volkswagen Arena	30,000
Hamburger SV	Volksparkstadion (HSH Nordbank Arena)	57,000		Karlsruher SC	Wildlife Park Stadium	29,699
VfB Stuttgart	Mercedes-Benz Arena	57,000		Arminia Bielefeld	SchücoArena	27,300
Borussia Monchengladbach	Borussia Park	54,067		TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Carl Benz Stadium / Rhein Neckar Arena	27,000 / 30,000 1
Eintracht Frankfurt	Commerzbank Arena	52,300		Energy Cottbus	Friendship Stadium	22,746
1. FC Cologne	Rheinenergiestadion	50,374		Bayer Leverkusen	BayArena / LTU arena	22,500 / 51,500 2

¹ Until the completion of the Rhein-Neckar-Arena in January 2009, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim played their home games in the first half of the season in Mannheim's Carl-Benz-Stadion.

² Because of the ongoing expansion and renovation work on the BayArena, Bayer Leverkusen played its home games in the second half of the season in the Düsseldorf LTU arena.

The championship team at VfL Wolfsburg

1.

VfL Wolfsburg

Goal : Diego Benaglio (31 / -); André Lenz (5 / -) Defense : Andrea Barzagli (34 / -); Marcel Schäfer (34 / -); Sascha Riether (28/2); Alexander Madlung (24/3); Jan Šimůnek (17 / -); Peter Pekarík (16 / -); Cristian Zaccardo (14/1); Ricardo Costa (11/3); Rodrigo Alvim (2 / -); Sergei Karimov (1 / -); Daniel Reiche (1 / -) Midfield : Christian Gentner (34/4); Zvjezdan Misimović (33/7); Josué (33 / -); Ashkan Dejagah (27/3); Makoto Hasebe (25 / -); Sebastian Schindzielorz (6 / -) Attack : Edin Džeko (32/26); Grafite (25/28); Caiuby (9/1); Yoshito Ōkubo (9 / -); Alexander Esswein (4 / -) Trainer : Felix Magath

* Mahir Sağlık (8/1), Jonathan Santana (6 / -) and Jacek Krzynowek (4 / -) left the club during the season.

Trainers and officials

society	Trainer	Assistant coach	Manager / Sports Director	President / Chief Executive Officer	Chairman of the supervisory board / administrative board
Hertha BSC	Lucien Favre	Harald Gämperle	Dieter Hoeneß	Werner Gegenbauer	Bernd Schiphorst
Arminia Bielefeld	Michael Frontzeck	Frank Geideck Frank Eulberg	Detlev Dammeier	Hans-Hermann Schwick	Hans-Hermann Schwick
VfL Bochum	Marcel Koller	Frank Heinemann Nicolas Michaty	?	Thomas Ernst Ansgar panning	Werner Altegoer
Werder Bremen	Thomas Schaaf	Matthias Hönerbach Wolfgang Rolff	Klaus Allofs	Jürgen L. Born	Willi Lemke
Energy Cottbus	Bojan Prašnikar	Guido Hoffmann Franklin Bittencourt	Steffen Heidrich	Ulrich Lepsch	Friedhelm Wiegelmann
Borussia Dortmund	Jürgen Klopp	Željko Buvač Peter Krawietz	Michael Zorc	Hans-Joachim Watzke	Reinhard Rauball
Eintracht Frankfurt	Friedhelm Funkel	Armin Reutershahn	?	Heribert Bruchhagen	Herbert Becker
Hamburger SV	Martin Jol	Cornelius Jol Željko Petrović Ricardo Moniz Michael Lindemann Claus Reitmaier	Dietmar Beiersdorfer	Bernd Hoffmann	Horst Becker
Hannover 96	Dieter Hecking	Dirk Bremser	Christian Hochstätter	Martin child	Rainer Feuerhake
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Ralf Rangnick	Peter Zeidler Achim Sarstedt Tomislav Marić	Jan Schindelmeiser	Jochen A. Rotthaus	?
Karlsruher SC	Edmund Becker	Ralf Becker	Rolf Dohmen	Hubert H. Raase	Peter Mayer
1. FC Cologne	Christoph Daum	Roland Koch	Michael Meier	Wolfgang Overath	Rolf Martin Schmitz
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Bruno Labbadia	Eddy Sözer	Rudi Völler	Wolfgang wooden houses	?
Borussia Monchengladbach	Jos Luhukay (until October 5, 2008) Christian Ziege (October 5 to 17, 2008) Hans Meyer (since October 18, 2008)	Markus Gellhaus (until October 5, 2008) Jürgen Raab Christian Ziege (October 19 to December 15, 2008)	Christian Ziege (until October 18, 2008) Max Eberl (since October 19, 2008)	Rolf Königs	?
FC Bayern Munich	Jürgen Klinsmann (until April 27, 2009) Jupp Heynckes (since April 27, 2009)	Martin Vasquez (until April 27, 2009) Hermann Gerland (since April 27, 2009)	Uli Hoeneß	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Franz Beckenbauer
FC Schalke 04	Fred Rutten (until March 26, 2009)	Michael Büskens Youri Mulder	Andreas Mueller	Josef Schnusenberg	Clemens Tönnies
VfB Stuttgart	Armin Veh (until November 23, 2008) Markus Babbel (since November 23, 2008)	Alfons Higl Markus Babbel (until November 23, 2008) Christian Kolodziej Rainer Widmayer (since November 23, 2008)	Horst Heldt	Erwin Staudt	Dieter Hundt
VfL Wolfsburg	Felix Magath	Seppo Eichkorn Bernd Hollerbach	Felix Magath	?	Hans Dieter Pötsch

Used referees

(Status: end of season 2008/09)

Surname	Born	Regional association	Number d. Games				annotation
Deniz Aytekin	07/21/1978	Bavaria	10	36	1	2	Newbie
Felix Brych	08/03/1975	Bavaria	18th	54	0	1	FIFA referee
Jochen Drees	03/15/1970	southwest	14th	51	2	2
Herbert Fandel	03/09/1964	Rhineland	14th	56	5	2	FIFA referee until the end of 2008, the last Bundesliga season
Helmut Fleischer	March 22, 1964	Bavaria	16	50	2	0
Peter Gagelmann	06/09/1968	Bremen	16	57	5	0
Manuel Graefe	09/21/1973	Berlin	18th	87	1	2	FIFA referee
Michael Kempter	01/28/1983	South Baden	18th	82	0	2
Thorsten Kinhöfer	06/27/1968	Westphalia	20th	86	2	3	FIFA referee
Knut Kircher	02/02/1969	Württemberg	17th	64	1	0	FIFA referee
Florian Meyer	11/21/1968	Lower Saxony	20th	83	2	0	FIFA referee
Günter Perl	December 23, 1969	Bavaria	16	52	1	1
Babak Rafati	05/28/1970	Lower Saxony	15th	57	2	2	FIFA referee
Markus Schmidt	08/31/1973	Württemberg	12	54	0	2
Marc Seemann	04/20/1973	Lower Rhine	08th	26th	0	2
Peter Sippel	06.10.1969	Bavaria	16	64	2	3	FIFA referee
Wolfgang Stark	11/20/1969	Bavaria	20th	55	3	0	FIFA referee
Lutz Wagner	May 27, 1963	Hesse	10	33	2	2
Michael Weiner	03/21/1969	Lower Saxony	18th	64	0	2	FIFA referee
Guido Winkmann	11/27/1973	Lower Rhine	10	45	1	2	Newbie

Kick-off times

In the 2008/09 season, the individual matches on a matchday were usually kicked off as follows:

• An encounter on Friday at 8:30 p.m.
• Six matches on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. (as well as all matches from the last two game days)
• Two encounters on Sunday at 5:00 p.m.

In English weeks there were also Tuesday and Wednesday games.

In order to ensure that no club only has a day of rest between national and international games, it was possible for the first time this season to have a Saturday game on Sunday and a Sunday game on Saturday.

Web links

• Season review on bundesliga.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ game plan at bundesliga.de: http://www.bundesliga.de/media/native/dfl/spielplan/bl-saison_2008-2009.pdf
2. ↑ List of goalscorers at kicker online
3. ↑ List of scorers at kicker online
4. ↑ Zvjezdan Misimovic: The Foreman (kicker online, June 15, 2009)
5. ↑ Goal assists at kicker online
6. ↑ table of viewers on kicker online