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World Soccer Talk writer Ismail Ansar joins us for the 2024/25 Bundesliga preview. It’s a season that holds much promise after what happened last season.
In years before the brilliance of Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen side won the Bundesliga last season, Bayern Munich had a vice-like grip on the German league for over a decade. Bayern had won 11 league titles in a row.
That number has been matched or surpassed by just six other teams throughout the history of European top-flight football. Croatian side Dinamo Zagreb has matched the 11-in-a-row achievement, while Bulgarian side Ludogorets, Belarusian club BATE Borisov, and Norwegian outfit Rosenborg have all surpassed it by winning their respective divisions 13 times in a row at one point. Meanwhile, Lincoln Red Imps of the Gibraltar National League and the now-defunct Latvian club Skonto Riga have both won 14 consecutive titles in their respective countries.
Bayern Munich meets Bayer Leverkusen
Despite Bayern Munich’s 11 Bundesliga titles in a row, empires eventually always fall. Whether that be due to being conquered by a newer and more powerful enemy, the empire’s economic health nosediving, or internal conflict, change always happens. Last year we saw that with Bayer Leverkusen’s incredible season. At the same time, Bayern’s fall also came at the hand of well-documented internal conflict among the club’s hierarchy, alongside years of spending large sums of money on superstar signings that have left other areas of the squad in need of attention.
Following Bayer Leverkusen’s title win last year, can Xabi Alonso’s team kickstart what could be a modern dynasty by claiming a second league title win this season, or will they undergo a fate similar to that of Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen, and Kaiserslautern – all clubs who have pipped Bayern Munich to the Bundesliga title within the last 30 years, only to suffer declining fortunes in the aftermath?
With the addition of a new…
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Author : Ismail Ansar
Publish date : 2024-08-22 20:58:40
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