A-Juniors Bundesliga

This article covers the A-Junior-Bundesliga. For the A-Juniors-Handball-Bundesliga, see A-Jugend-Bundesliga (Handball) .

A-Juniors Bundesliga
Association	German Football Association
First edition	2003
hierarchy	1st League
Teams	42 (14 per season)
master	Borussia Dortmund
Record player	Kevin Kerr (80)
Record scorer	Federico Palacios (47 goals)
Current season	2019/20
Website	www.dfb.de
Qualification for	Championship finals
↓ After association Preference: A-Junior Regionalligen (II) 0Northern 0Northeast 0Southwest A-Junior association leagues (II) 0means Rhein League 0Lower Rhine League Westphalia League A-Junior Oberligen (II) Hessenliga Baden-Württemberg Bayernliga 0 0 0 0

The A-Juniors Bundesliga (also A-Youth Bundesliga or U19 league ) is the highest German league for U19 - soccer teams . It was founded in 2003 and is divided into the North / Northeast, South / Southwest and West squadrons, each with 14 teams. At the end of the season, their three season winners and one of the three runners-up will play off the German A youth champions , who have qualified for the UEFA Youth League since the 2014/15 season .

The A-Juniors regional leagues were the forerunners of the A-Juniors Bundesliga . In the summer of 2003, the regional leagues north and north-east as well as south and south-west were merged into Bundesliga relays. The Regionalliga West remained unchanged and was only upgraded.

Graduation

Teams from the North German and Northeast German Football Associations play in the North / Northeast relay . The regional leagues North and Northeast are subordinate to the Bundesliga season. The champions of these two regional leagues are promoted directly. The runners-up play the third promoted team in the first and second leg.

Teams from the South German and South West German Football Associations play in the South / Southwest relay . The upper leagues of Hesse and Baden-Württemberg, the Regionalliga Südwest and the Bayernliga are subordinate to the Bundesliga relay. The champions of the Bayernliga and Oberliga Baden-Württemberg are promoted directly to the Bundesliga. The champions of the Regionalliga Südwest and Oberliga Hessen determine the third promoted player in the first and second leg.

Teams from the West German Football Association play in the West season . The Bundesliga relay is subordinated to the Westphalia, Lower Rhine and Middle Rhine leagues, the champions of which are promoted to the Bundesliga.

mode

Each team plays twice against all other teams of its relay; once at your own place and once away. A win is rewarded with three, a draw with one point. The last three teams placed in the relays at the end of the season are relegated.

The semi-finals of the final round will be played in the first and second leg, the final in one game. Until the 2007/08 season , the three season winners and the runner-up of the season south played for the German championship in this final round. Since the beginning of the 2008/09 season, however, it is no longer the runner-up of the southern season that qualifies automatically, but the runner-up of the season that had the most successful participants in the final round in three previous seasons. To determine this, a performance table is created in which three points are awarded for the German championship, two points for participation in the final and one point each for the two losing semi-finalists. In relation to the relay, which has two participants, only the points of the best placed are counted. If two seasons have the same number of points, the result of the previous season decides.

The performance table for the 2020 championship is calculated from the results of the 2017, 2018 and 2019 game years:

year	North / Northeast	South / southwest	west
2017	1	2	3
2018	3	1	2
2019	1	2	3
All in all	5	5	8th

The West season would have provided two representatives for the 2020 finals, which did not take place.

Season winner and champion

The respective masters are printed in bold.

season		North / Northeast	South / southwest	west		Runner-up 1
2003/04		Hannover 96	FC Bayern Munich	VfL Bochum		SpVgg Greuther Fürth (S / SW)
2004/05		Hertha BSC	VfB Stuttgart	VfL Bochum		SpVgg Greuther Fürth (S / SW)
2005/06		Hertha BSC	Sc freiburg	FC Schalke 04		FC Bayern Munich (S / SW)
2006/07		Werder Bremen	FC Bayern Munich	Bayer 04 Leverkusen		1. FC Kaiserslautern (S / SW)
2007/08		VfL Wolfsburg	VfB Stuttgart	1. FC Cologne		SC Freiburg (S / SW)
2008/09		Werder Bremen	Sc freiburg	Borussia Dortmund		1. FSV Mainz 05 (S / SW)
2009/10		Hansa Rostock	VfB Stuttgart	Bayer 04 Leverkusen		1. FSV Mainz 05 (S / SW)
2010/11		VfL Wolfsburg	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Bayer 04 Leverkusen		TSV 1860 Munich (S / SW)
2011/12		VfL Wolfsburg	FC Bayern Munich	FC Schalke 04		Hertha BSC (N / NO)
2012/13		VfL Wolfsburg	FC Bayern Munich	FC Schalke 04		Hansa Rostock (N / NO)
2013/14		VfL Wolfsburg	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	FC Schalke 04		Hanover 96 (N / NO)
2014/15		RB Leipzig	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	FC Schalke 04		Karlsruher SC (S / SW)
2015/16		Werder Bremen	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Borussia Dortmund		TSV 1860 Munich (S / SW)
2016/17		VfL Wolfsburg	FC Bayern Munich	Borussia Dortmund		FC Schalke 04 (W)
2017/18		Hertha BSC	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	FC Schalke 04		Borussia Dortmund (W)
2018/19		VfL Wolfsburg	VfB Stuttgart	FC Schalke 04		Borussia Dortmund (W)
2019/20 2		Werder Bremen	FC Bayern Munich	1. FC Cologne		none

¹ Team that took part in the finals as runner-up

²Since the 2019/20 season did not end normally due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the respective season winners were only determined after applying the quotient rule ; the championship finals did not take place.

Participant season 2019/20

Season north / northeast 1. FC Union Berlin Dynamo Dresden FC St. Pauli Hamburger SV Hannover 96 Energy Cottbus (N) Hertha BSC Holstein Kiel (N) 1. FC Magdeburg Niendorfer TSV RB Leipzig Chemnitzer FC (N) VfL Wolfsburg Werder Bremen

Season south / southwest 1. FC Heidenheim 1. FC Kaiserslautern SpVgg Greuther Fuerth (N) 1. FSV Mainz 05 Eintracht Frankfurt FC Augsburg FC Bayern Munich Karlsruher SC Sc freiburg SSV Ulm 1846 (N) Kickers Offenbach (N) FC Ingolstadt 04 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim VfB Stuttgart

Season West 1. FC Cologne Alemannia Aachen Bayer 04 Leverkusen Borussia Dortmund Borussia Monchengladbach FC Viktoria Cologne (N) FC Schalke 04 Fortuna Dusseldorf Wuppertaler SV (N) MSV Duisburg Prussia Munster Rot-Weiß Oberhausen Arminia Bielefeld (N) VfL Bochum

(N) = climber

List of record players

The record player after appearances is Kevin Kerr with 80 games in the A-Juniors Bundesliga.

The record goalscorer is Federico Palacios with 47 goals, which he scored in 43 games. Haluk Türkeri scored the most goals in a season with 35 goals in the 2004/05 season , one of them in the final round of the championship.

Record players after appearances

rank	player	Games	for clubs 1	from 2	until 2
01.	Kevin Kerr	80	Arminia Bielefeld (80 games)	2004	2008
02.	Pascal Itter	75	1. FC Nürnberg (48) FC Schalke 04 (27)	2010	2014
03.	Sebastian Langkamp	72	FC Bayern Munich (72)	2004	2007
04th	Michael Mayr	71	TSV 1860 Munich (45) SpVgg Greuther Fürth (26)	2006	2009
05.	Philipp Schubert	70	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt (70)	2004	2007
06th	Shaban Ismaili	69	VfB Stuttgart (69)	2005	2008
	Suleyman Çelikyurt	69	VfL Wolfsburg (69)	2005	2008
	Meritan Shabani	69	FC Bayern Munich (69)	2015	2018
09.	Marcel Sobottka	68	FC Schalke 04 (27) Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (24) SG Wattenscheid 09 (17)	2010	2013
10.	Stefan Riess	67	FC Bayern Munich (67)	2004	2007
	Sevdail Selmani	67	Bayer 04 Leverkusen (67)	2005	2008
3 The order of the clubs depends on the number of games. 4th The period from the player's first to last bet is given.

Record players by goals

rank	player	Games	for clubs 3	from 4	to 4
01.	Federico Palacios Martínez	47	VfL Wolfsburg (47 goals)	2011	2013
02.	Muhammed Kiprit	45	Hertha BSC Berlin (45)	2016	2018
03.	Konstantinos Mitroglou	43	Borussia Mönchengladbach (38) MSV Duisburg (5)	2004	2007
04th	Fabian Baker	42	Borussia Moenchengladbach (42)	2007	2009
	Nico Empen	42	FC St. Pauli (42)	2013	2015
06th	Haluk Türkeri	41	VfL Bochum (41)	2003	2005
	Manuel Wintzheimer	41	FC Bayern Munich (41)	2016	2018
08th.	Felix Schröter	40	FC Schalke 04 (30) TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (10)	2013	2015
	Johannes Eggestein	40	Werder Bremen (40)	2015	2016
	David Otto	40	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (40)	2015	2018
3 The order of the clubs depends on the number of goals. 4th The period from the player's first to last bet is given.

Youngest players used

Note: The youngest players used are given based on their age when they first played in the A-Junioren-Bundesliga.

rank	player	Age	date	for club
01.	Youssoufa Moukoko	14 years 8 months 22 days	08/11/2019	Borussia Dortmund
02.	Lennie Maeder	15 years 1 month 016 days	08/16/2019	Chemnitzer FC
03.	Laurin Mack	15 years 1 month 017 days	02/03/2019	Sc freiburg
04th	William Ehrhardt	15 years 2 months 17 days	11/23/2019	Chemnitzer FC
05.	Felix Hacker	15 years 3 months 08 days	02/07/2016	TSG Sprockhövel
06th	Dominik Dedaj	15 years 3 months 13 days	07/12/2019	FC Ingolstadt 04
	Selome Victor Hounyovi-Huschka	15 years 3 months 13 days	04/13/2007	Borussia Dortmund
08th.	Brian Gheorghiu	15 years 4 months 13 days	11/01/2008	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
09.	Bobby Wood	15 years 4 months 15 days	03/30/2008	TSV 1860 Munich
10.	Mika Hanraths	15 years 4 months 27 days	10/31/2014	Fortuna Dusseldorf

References and comments

All data as of February 25, 2020

1. ↑ Bundestag decides to end the season of junior competitions , dfb.de, accessed on May 25, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b} vmLOGIC - Volker Mallmann: The football studio
3. ↑ Bochum's U19 record scorer looking for a club. In: RevierSport . July 3, 2019, accessed February 25, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Performance data of Haluk Türkeri by seasons. In: transfermarkt.de . Retrieved February 25, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Youngest players used in the A-Junioren-Bundesliga North / Northeast. In: transfermarkt.de . Retrieved February 25, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Youngest players used in the A-Junioren-Bundesliga West. In: transfermarkt.de . Retrieved February 25, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Youngest players used in the A-Junioren-Bundesliga Süd / Südwest. In: transfermarkt.de . Retrieved February 25, 2020 . 

See also

• German soccer championship of the A-Juniors
• B-Junior Bundesliga
• B-Juniorinnen-Bundesliga