Even though they couldn't win another title Bayern still celebrated especially since their women won the Bundesliga title as well.
So congratulations to Bayern for their 25th title.
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After spending loads of money on Gustavo, de Bruyne and Schurrle, Wolfsburg finally made it to the champions league finishing 2nd behind Bayern.
The surprise team of the season was Borussia Monchengladbach, who managed to play a brilliant second half of the season which saw them take 39 points from 17 games to finish third and qualify directly for the CL group stages.
The other surprise was Augsburg, who finished 5th and will play in the Europa League group stages.
While those two teams were surprises two other heavyweights in Dortmund and Schalke dissapointed and finished 7th and 6th respectively.
Though that's enoug for last season and now let's have a look at the upcoming year.
Winning the league but going out in the semifinals of both the Champions League and German Cup will surely lit a fire under Bayern's management, especially with no real backup for either Ribery or Robben on their team.
Incoming:
Joshua Kimmich(CM/RB Leipzig)
Jan Kirchhof(CM-CB/Schalke)
Julian Greene(Winger/Hamburg)
Pierre-Emil Hojbjerg(CM/Augsburg)
Outgoing:
Xherdan Shaqiri(Winger/Inter)
After their great season, which saw Wolfsburg not only finish 2nd in the league but also manage to make it to the quater finals of the europa leauge and winning the german cup, the Wolves will now have to prove that their able to sustain their success.
Incoming:
Max Kruse(ST/Gladbach)
Koen Castels(GK/Bremen)
Outgoing:
Vaclav Pilar(CM/Pilsen)
That wonderful year will now be the past but the team(and fans) can look forward to champions league football while they try to finish for a fith season in a row with a single digit spot in the league. The losses of Christoph Kramer and Max Kruse will be tough to fill but in Lars Stindl the club already found a great player while also being able to sign Thorgan Hazard permanently and extend Granit Xhaka and Patrick Herrmann.
Incoming:
Lars Stindl(Midfielder/Hannover)
Thorgan Hazard(OM/Chelsea)
Tobias Sippel(GK/Kaiserslautern)
Outgoing:
Max Kruse(ST/Wolfsburg)
Christoph Kramer(CM/Leverkusen)
Thorben Marx(CM/Career End)
Filip Daems(LB/Westerlo)
Like last year, Leverkusen was able to secure 4th place and a shot at the Champions League with a playoff matchup. They certainly would've liked to qualify directly for the CL but were beaten out by Gladbach.
Incoming:
Andre Ramalho(CB/Salzburg)
Christoph Kramer(CM/Gladbach)
Kyriakos Papadopoulos(CB/Schalke)
Outgoing:
Gonzalo Castro(CM/Dortmund)
Simon Rolfes(CM/Career End)
Arkadiusz Milik(ST/Ajax)
Stefan Reinartz(CM/Frankfurt)
Phillip Wollscheid(CB/Stoke City)
Probably the biggest surprise of the season saw Augsburg, the team with the second lowest budget, qualify for Europe thanks to finishing fith in the league.
Incoming:
Outgoing:
Dominik Kohr(Leverkusen)
Thanks to a terrible second half of the season Schalke only finished 6th in the league and can thank Wolfsburg for beating Dortmund at the cup final, so they don't have to play any qualifying rounds for the Europa League.
Incoming:
Matija Nastasic(CB/Manchester City)
Outgoing:
Kevin-Prince Boateng(Midfielder/somehwer else)
Christian Fuchs(LB/Leicester City)
Jan Kirchhof(CB/Bayern)
Kyriakos Papadopoulos(CB/Leverkusen)
After a terrible start to the season, which saw BVB at last place after the start of the second half of the season, the team managed to climb back the table and finish 7th place, which helps them qualify for the third round of Europa League quailification.
The team will also have to re-invent themselves not just thanks to a really bad season but also thanks to a coaching change with Thomas Tuchel taking over from long time manager Jurgen Klopp.
Incoming:
Gonzalo Castro(CM/Leverkusen)
Julian Weigle(CM/1860 Munich)
Moritz Leitner(CM/Stuttgart)
Marvin Duksch(ST/Paderborn)
Jonas Hofmann(CM/Mainz)
Outgoing:
Sebastian Kehl(Career End)
The league also welcomes FC Ingolstadt for the first time in Bundesliga history, while SV Darmstadt 98 made it back to the Bundesliga after more then 30 years.
So this is the new Bundesliga thread. Let's have fun and discuss everything about the league.
