2016–17 Bundesliga

Bundesliga
Season	2016–17
Dates	26 August 2016 – 20 May 2017
Champions	Bayern Munich; 26th Bundesliga title; 27th German title
Relegated	FC Ingolstadt; Darmstadt 98
Champions League	Bayern Munich; RB Leipzig; Borussia Dortmund; 1899 Hoffenheim
Europa League	1. FC Köln; Hertha BSC; SC Freiburg
Matches played	306
Goals scored	877 (2.87 per match)
Top goalscorer	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang; (31 goals)
Biggest home win	Bayern Munich 8–0 Hamburger SV
Biggest away win	VfL Wolfsburg 0–6 Bayern Munich
Highest scoring	RB Leipzig 4–5 Bayern Munich
Longest winning run	8 games; RB Leipzig
Longest unbeaten run	17 games; 1899 Hoffenheim
Longest winless run	12 games; Hamburger SV
Longest losing run	8 games; Darmstadt 98
Highest attendance	81,360; 11 games
Lowest attendance	13,521; FC Ingolstadt v VfL Wolfsburg
Attendance	12,704,627 (41,518 per match)
	← 2015–16 2017–18 →

It began on 26 August 2016 and ended on 20 May 2017. Bayern Munich were the defending champions. Fixtures for the 2016–17 season were announced on 29 June 2016.

Bayern Munich won their 26th Bundesliga title with three games to spare, becoming the first team to win 5 consecutive titles. RB Leipzig became the runners-up, only a year after its promotion last season from the 2015–16 2. Bundesliga.

Teams

A total of 18 teams participated in this edition of the Bundesliga. VfB Stuttgart and Hannover 96 were relegated to 2016–17 2. Bundesliga. Former Bundesliga champion Stuttgart were relegated to the second level after 39 years, whereas Hannover 96 finished a 14-year stint in the top level. They were replaced by 2. Bundesliga champion SC Freiburg and 2. Bundesliga runner-up RB Leipzig. Freiburg immediately returned to the Bundesliga, whereas RB Leipzig made its debut. Finally Eintracht Frankfurt, 16th of Bundesliga faced 1. FC Nürnberg, third of 2. Bundesliga in a Bundesliga play-off. Eintracht won 2–1 on aggregate and remained in the top level.

RB Leipzig was the first team from the former East Germany to play in the Bundesliga since the relegation of Energie Cottbus after the 2008–09 season.

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
FC Augsburg	Augsburg	WWK Arena	30,660
Bayer Leverkusen	Leverkusen	BayArena	30,210
Bayern Munich	Munich	Allianz Arena	75,000
Borussia Dortmund	Dortmund	Signal Iduna Park	81,360
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Mönchengladbach	Borussia-Park	54,057
Darmstadt 98	Darmstadt	Jonathan-Heimes-Stadion am Böllenfalltor	17,000
Eintracht Frankfurt	Frankfurt	Commerzbank-Arena	51,500
SC Freiburg	Freiburg im Breisgau	Schwarzwald-Stadion	24,000
Hamburger SV	Hamburg	Volksparkstadion	57,000
Hertha BSC	Berlin	Olympiastadion	74,475
1899 Hoffenheim	Sinsheim	Wirsol Rhein-Neckar-Arena	30,150
FC Ingolstadt	Ingolstadt	Audi Sportpark	15,000
1. FC Köln	Cologne	RheinEnergieStadion	49,968
RB Leipzig	Leipzig	Red Bull Arena	42,959
Mainz 05	Mainz	Opel Arena	34,000
Schalke 04	Gelsenkirchen	Veltins-Arena	62,271
Werder Bremen	Bremen	Weser-Stadion	42,100
VfL Wolfsburg	Wolfsburg	Volkswagen Arena	30,000

Borussia Mönchengladbach

Locations of the 2016–17 Bundesliga teams

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
FC Augsburg	Manuel Baum	Paul Verhaegh	Nike	WWK
Bayer Leverkusen	Tayfun Korkut	Lars Bender	Jako	Barmenia Versicherungen
Bayern Munich	Carlo Ancelotti	Philipp Lahm	Adidas	Deutsche Telekom
Borussia Dortmund	Thomas Tuchel	Marcel Schmelzer	Puma	Evonik
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Dieter Hecking	Lars Stindl	Kappa	Postbank
Darmstadt 98	Torsten Frings	Aytaç Sulu	Jako	Software AG
Eintracht Frankfurt	Niko Kovač	Alexander Meier	Nike	Krombacher
SC Freiburg	Christian Streich	Mensur Mujdža	Hummel	Schwarzwaldmilch
Hamburger SV	Markus Gisdol	Gōtoku Sakai	Adidas	Fly Emirates
Hertha BSC	Pál Dárdai	Vedad Ibišević	Nike	bet-at-home.com
1899 Hoffenheim	Julian Nagelsmann	Pirmin Schwegler	Lotto	SAP
FC Ingolstadt	Maik Walpurgis	Marvin Matip	Adidas	Media Markt
1. FC Köln	Peter Stöger	Matthias Lehmann	Erima	REWE
RB Leipzig	Ralph Hasenhüttl	Dominik Kaiser	Nike	Red Bull
Mainz 05	Martin Schmidt	Stefan Bell	Lotto	Kömmerling
Schalke 04	Markus Weinzierl	Benedikt Höwedes	Adidas	Gazprom
Werder Bremen	Alexander Nouri	Clemens Fritz	Nike	Wiesenhof
VfL Wolfsburg	Andries Jonker	Diego Benaglio	Nike	Volkswagen

Coaching changes

Team	Outgoing	Manner	Exit date		Position in table	Incoming	Incoming date		Ref.
Team	Outgoing	Manner	Announced on	Departed on	Position in table	Incoming	Announced on	Arrived on	Ref.
Bayern Munich	Pep Guardiola	End of contract	20 December 2015	30 June 2016	Pre-season	Carlo Ancelotti	20 December 2015	1 July 2016
FC Ingolstadt	Ralph Hasenhüttl	Signed for RB Leipzig	6 May 2016			Markus Kauczinski	6 May 2016
RB Leipzig	Ralf Rangnick	Appointed as sporting director	6 May 2016			Ralph Hasenhüttl	6 May 2016
Schalke 04	André Breitenreiter	Sacked	14 May 2016			Markus Weinzierl	2 June 2016
FC Augsburg	Markus Weinzierl	Signed for Schalke 04	24 May 2016			Dirk Schuster	2 June 2016
Darmstadt 98	Dirk Schuster	Signed for FC Augsburg	2 June 2016			Norbert Meier	10 June 2016
Werder Bremen	Viktor Skrypnyk	Sacked	18 September 2016		18th	Alexander Nouri	18 September 2016
Hamburger SV	Bruno Labbadia		25 September 2016		16th	Markus Gisdol	25 September 2016	26 September 2016
VfL Wolfsburg	Dieter Hecking		17 October 2016		14th	Valérien Ismaël	17 October 2016
FC Ingolstadt	Markus Kauczinski		6 November 2016		17th	Maik Walpurgis	12 November 2016
Darmstadt 98	Norbert Meier		5 December 2016		16th	Torsten Frings	27 December 2016
FC Augsburg	Dirk Schuster		14 December 2016		13th	Manuel Baum	14 December 2016
Borussia Mönchengladbach	André Schubert		21 December 2016		14th	Dieter Hecking	21 December 2016
VfL Wolfsburg	Valérien Ismaël		26 February 2017		14th	Andries Jonker	27 February 2017
Bayer Leverkusen	Roger Schmidt		5 March 2017		9th	Tayfun Korkut	6 March 2017

Home \ Away	AUG	BSC	BRE	DAR	DOR	FRA	FRE	HAM	HOF	ING	KÖL	LEI	LEV	MAI	MÖN	MUN	SCH	WOL
FC Augsburg	—	0–0	3–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	4–0	0–2	2–3	2–1	2–2	1–3	1–3	1–0	1–3	1–1	0–2
Hertha BSC	2–0	—	0–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–3	1–0	2–1	1–4	2–6	2–1	3–0	1–1	2–0	1–0
Werder Bremen	1–2	2–0	—	2–0	1–2	1–2	1–3	2–1	3–5	2–1	1–1	3–0	2–1	1–2	0–1	1–2	3–0	2–1
Darmstadt 98	1–2	0–2	2–2	—	2–1	1–0	3–0	0–2	1–1	0–1	1–6	0–2	0–2	2–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	3–1
Borussia Dortmund	1–1	1–1	4–3	6–0	—	3–1	3–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	6–2	2–1	4–1	1–0	0–0	3–0
Eintracht Frankfurt	3–1	3–3	2–2	2–0	2–1	—	1–2	0–0	0–0	0–2	1–0	2–2	2–1	3–0	0–0	2–2	1–0	0–2
SC Freiburg	2–1	2–1	2–5	1–0	0–3	1–0	—	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–4	2–1	1–0	3–1	1–2	2–0	0–3
Hamburger SV	1–0	1–0	2–2	1–2	2–5	0–3	2–2	—	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–4	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–1	2–1
1899 Hoffenheim	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	1–0	2–1	2–2	—	5–2	4–0	2–2	1–0	4–0	5–3	1–0	2–1	0–0
FC Ingolstadt	0–2	0–2	2–4	3–2	3–3	0–2	1–2	3–1	1–2	—	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–2	0–2	1–1	1–1
1. FC Köln	0–0	4–2	4–3	2–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	3–0	1–1	2–1	—	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–3	0–3	1–1	1–0
RB Leipzig	2–1	2–0	3–1	4–0	1–0	3–0	4–0	0–3	2–1	0–0	3–1	—	1–0	3–1	1–1	4–5	2–1	0–1
Bayer Leverkusen	0–0	3–1	1–1	3–2	2–0	3–0	1–1	3–1	0–3	1–2	2–2	2–3	—	0–2	2–3	0–0	1–4	3–3
Mainz 05	2–0	1–0	0–2	2–1	1–1	4–2	4–2	3–1	4–4	2–0	0–0	2–3	2–3	—	1–2	1–3	0–1	1–1
Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–1	1–0	4–1	2–2	2–3	0–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–2	1–2	2–1	1–0	—	0–1	4–2	1–2
Bayern Munich	6–0	3–0	6–0	1–0	4–1	3–0	4–1	8–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	3–0	2–1	2–2	2–0	—	1–1	5–0
Schalke 04	3–0	2–0	3–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–3	1–1	0–1	3–0	4–0	0–2	—	4–1
VfL Wolfsburg	1–2	2–3	1–2	1–0	1–5	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	3–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–0	1–1	0–6	0–1	—

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich	Werder Bremen	6–0	26 August 2016
Joel Pohjanpalo	Bayer Leverkusen	Hamburger SV	3–1	10 September 2016
Javier Hernández	Bayer Leverkusen	Mainz 05	3–2	24 September 2016
Anthony Modeste	1. FC Köln	Hamburger SV	3–0	30 October 2016
Salomon Kalou	Hertha BSC	Borussia Mönchengladbach	3–0	4 November 2016
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang⁴	Borussia Dortmund	Hamburger SV	5–2	5 November 2016
Danny Latza	Mainz 05	Hamburger SV	3–1	17 December 2016
Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich	Hamburger SV	8–0	25 February 2017
Anthony Modeste	1. FC Köln	Hertha BSC	4–2	18 March 2017
Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich	FC Augsburg	6–0	1 April 2017
Thomas Delaney	Werder Bremen	SC Freiburg	5–2	1 April 2017
Mario Gómez	VfL Wolfsburg	Bayer Leverkusen	3–3	2 April 2017
Max Kruse⁴	Werder Bremen	FC Ingolstadt	4–2	22 April 2017

2016–17 Bundesliga

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Personnel and kits

Coaching changes

League table

Results

Relegation play-offs

First leg

Second leg

Statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Clean sheets

References

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bayern Munich (C)	34	25	7	2	89	22	+67	82	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	RB Leipzig	34	20	7	7	66	39	+27	67
3	Borussia Dortmund	34	18	10	6	72	40	+32	64
4	1899 Hoffenheim	34	16	14	4	64	37	+27	62	Qualification for the Champions League play-off round
5	1. FC Köln	34	12	13	9	51	42	+9	49	Qualification for the Europa League group stage
6	Hertha BSC	34	15	4	15	43	47	−4	49	Qualification for the Europa League group stage
7	SC Freiburg	34	14	6	14	42	60	−18	48	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round
8	Werder Bremen	34	13	6	15	61	64	−3	45
9	Borussia Mönchengladbach	34	12	9	13	45	49	−4	45
10	Schalke 04	34	11	10	13	45	40	+5	43
11	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	11	9	14	36	43	−7	42
12	Bayer Leverkusen	34	11	8	15	53	55	−2	41
13	FC Augsburg	34	9	11	14	35	51	−16	38
14	Hamburger SV	34	10	8	16	33	61	−28	38
15	Mainz 05	34	10	7	17	44	55	−11	37
16	VfL Wolfsburg (O)	34	10	7	17	34	52	−18	37	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
17	FC Ingolstadt (R)	34	8	8	18	36	57	−21	32	Relegation to 2. Bundesliga
18	Darmstadt 98 (R)	34	7	4	23	28	63	−35	25	Relegation to 2. Bundesliga

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Borussia Dortmund	31
2	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich	30
3	Anthony Modeste	1. FC Köln	25
4	Timo Werner	RB Leipzig	21
5	Mario Gómez	VfL Wolfsburg	16
6	Andrej Kramarić	1899 Hoffenheim	15
6	Max Kruse	Werder Bremen	15
8	Arjen Robben	Bayern Munich	13
9	Vedad Ibišević	Hertha BSC	12
10	Serge Gnabry	Werder Bremen	11
	Florian Niederlechner	SC Freiburg
	Javier Hernández	Bayer Leverkusen
	Lars Stindl	Borussia Mönchengladbach
	Sandro Wagner	1899 Hoffenheim

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Manuel Neuer	Bayern Munich	14
2	Oliver Baumann	1899 Hoffenheim	12
3	Rune Jarstein	Hertha BSC	11
4	Lukáš Hrádecký	Eintracht Frankfurt	10
4	Yann Sommer	Borussia Mönchengladbach	10
6	Roman Bürki	Borussia Dortmund	9
6	Péter Gulácsi	RB Leipzig	9
8	Koen Casteels	VfL Wolfsburg	8
8	Ralf Fährmann	Schalke 04	8
10	Marwin Hitz	FC Augsburg	7