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The Bundesliga is easy to sum up, and wrong to sum up that way: Bayern win it. For a decade that was nearly true, then a team in Leverkusen went a whole season without losing a game. Between those two facts sits a league with huge stadiums, cheap tickets, a rule that stops billionaires from owning clubs outright, and some of the best goalscoring numbers in football. These 20 questions run from easy to proper pub-quiz cruelty. Facts are stated as of the end of the 2025-26 season.
Quick answers
- Top scorer: Gerd Müller, 365 goals.
- Single-season record: Robert Lewandowski, 41 in 2020-21.
- Longest title streak: Bayern, 11 (2012-13 to 2022-23).
Easy round: 6 questions
- Which club has won the most Bundesliga titles? — Bayern Munich, by a distance.
- Who is the league’s all-time top scorer? — Gerd Müller, 365 goals in 427 matches.
- Who scored 41 goals in a single Bundesliga season? — Robert Lewandowski, for Bayern in 2020-21.
- Which club ended Bayern’s run of titles in 2023-24? — Bayer Leverkusen.
- Who managed Leverkusen that season? — Xabi Alonso.
- Which English striker has won the Bundesliga top-scorer award three seasons running, 2023-24 to 2025-26? — Harry Kane, with 36, 26 and 36 goals.
If you want the English side of the story, our Premier League trivia is next door.
Medium round: 8 questions
- How many consecutive Bundesliga titles did Bayern win from 2012-13? — Eleven, the last in 2022-23.
- What did Leverkusen win in 2023-24 that they had never won before? — The Bundesliga. They went unbeaten in all 34 games.
- In which year did the Bundesliga start? — 1963-64, the first champions being 1. FC Köln.
- Which newly promoted club won the title in 1997-98, under Otto Rehhagel? — Kaiserslautern.
- Which Bundesliga title-winning side of 2008-09 had Edin Džeko and Grafite up front? — Wolfsburg, coached by Felix Magath.
- Which coach won back-to-back titles with Dortmund in 2010-11 and 2011-12? — Jürgen Klopp, adding the DFB-Pokal in 2012 for a double.
- Which Bayern coach won a treble in 2012-13? — Jupp Heynckes. Hansi Flick did the same in 2019-20.
- What does the “50+1” rule mean? — Club members must keep a majority of the voting rights, so outside investors cannot take control.
Hard round: 6 questions
- Whose record of 40 Bundesliga goals in a season did Lewandowski break? — Gerd Müller, who scored 40 in 1971-72.
- Which club was the only one to play every Bundesliga season until it was relegated in 2018? — Hamburg. Their stadium famously had a clock counting the years.
- In 2001-02 Leverkusen finished second in the league, lost the DFB-Pokal final to Schalke and the Champions League final to Real Madrid. What was the nickname? — “Neverkusen.”
- In May 2001 Schalke celebrated a title that Bayern snatched four minutes later. Whose goal did it? — Patrik Andersson’s, at Hamburg.
- How quickly did Lewandowski score five against Wolfsburg in September 2015? — In nine minutes, after coming on as a substitute at half-time.
- What is the biggest win in Bundesliga history? — Borussia Mönchengladbach 12-0 Borussia Dortmund, in 1978.
Why the Bundesliga makes good quiz material
It is the goals. Müller’s 365, Lewandowski’s 41, Kane’s three straight scoring titles: the league rewards strikers, and strikers produce numbers that are easy to remember and hard to argue with. If you like this style, try the football records quiz and the Champions League trivia, where Bayern and Dortmund show up again.
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