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Fußball-Bundesliga
Season	2006–07
Champions	VfB Stuttgart; 3rd Bundesliga title; 5th German title
Relegated	1. FSV Mainz 05; Alemannia Aachen; Bor. Mönchengladbach
Champions League	VfB Stuttgart; Schalke 04; Werder Bremen
UEFA Cup	Bayern Munich; Bayer Leverkusen; Nuremberg (via domestic cup)
Intertoto Cup	Hamburger SV
Goals scored	837
Average goals/game	2.73
Top goalscorer	Theofanis Gekas (20)
Biggest home win	Hannover 96 5–0 Hertha BSC Berlin
Biggest away win	VfL Bochum 0–6 Werder Bremen
Highest scoring	Eintracht Frankfurt 2–6 Werder Bremen
	← 2005–06 2007–08 →

Fußball-Bundesliga 2006–07 was the 44th season of the Fußball-Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. It began on 11 August 2006 and ended on 19 May 2007. Bayern Munich were the defending champions.

[edit] Team changes from 2005–06

Three teams from the 2nd Bundesliga were promoted at the end of last season:

VfL Bochum (champions)
Alemannia Aachen (runners-up)
Energie Cottbus

The three teams relegated were:

[edit] Season overview

VfB Stuttgart began the campaign with the youngest squad of the Bundesliga and were widely seen as a competitor for an UEFA Cup berth. They started up with a 0–3 home defeat against Nuremberg and even dropped in reach of the relegation zone after another home defeat against Borussia Dortmund during the third round.

During the rest of the season the team managed to stabilize in the upper third of the table, eventually winning the last eight games of the season while competitors Schalke 04, Werder Bremen and Bayern Munich struggled to have Stuttgart claim their third championship in the Bundesliga and fifth German championship overall with a 2–1 home victory against Energie Cottbus during the last round of the season.

One week after winning the league championship, Stuttgart failed to win the Double after losing the domestic cup Final against Nuremberg with a score of 2–3.

Manager Armin Veh who claimed his first championship as a Bundesliga coach was elected German Football Manager of the Year while striker Mario Gomez was named German Footballer of the Year in 2007.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Team overview

Location of teams in the Bundesliga 2006-07

Team	Venue	Capacity
Alemannia Aachen	Tivoli	21,300
Hertha BSC	Olympic Stadium	74,228
Arminia Bielefeld	Schüco Arena	28,008
VfL Bochum	Ruhrstadion	31,328
SV Werder Bremen	Weserstadion	42,358
FC Energie Cottbus	Stadion der Freundschaft	22,450
Borussia Dortmund	Signal Iduna Park	80,708
Eintracht Frankfurt	Commerzbank-Arena	52,300
Hamburger SV	HSH Nordbank Arena	57,274
Hannover 96	AWD-Arena	49,000
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	BayArena	22,500
1. FSV Mainz 05	Stadion am Bruchweg	20,300
Borussia Mönchengladbach	Borussia-Park	54,067
FC Bayern Munich	Allianz Arena	69,901
1. FC Nuremberg	Easy Credit Stadion	47,559
FC Schalke 04	Veltins-Arena	61,673
VfB Stuttgart	Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion	58,000
VfL Wolfsburg	Volkswagen Arena	30,122

[edit] League table

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Stuttgart (C)	34	21	7	6	61	37	+24	70	UEFA Champions League 2007-08 Group stage
2	Schalke 04	34	21	5	8	53	32	+21	68	UEFA Champions League 2007-08 Group stage
3	Werder Bremen	34	20	6	8	76	40	+36	66	UEFA Champions League 2007-08 Third qualifying round
4	Bayern Munich	34	18	6	10	55	40	+15	60	UEFA Cup 2007-08 First round
5	Bayer Leverkusen	34	15	6	13	54	49	+5	51	UEFA Cup 2007-08 First round
6	Nuremberg	34	11	15	8	43	32	+11	48	UEFA Cup 2007-08 First round ¹
7	Hamburg	34	10	15	9	43	37	+6	45	UEFA Intertoto Cup 2007 Third round
8	Bochum	34	13	6	15	49	50	−1	45
9	Borussia Dortmund	34	12	8	14	41	43	−2	44
10	Hertha BSC	34	12	8	14	50	55	−5	44
11	Hannover 96	34	12	8	14	41	50	−9	44
12	Arminia Bielefeld	34	11	9	14	47	49	−2	42
13	Energie Cottbus	34	11	8	15	38	49	−11	41
14	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	9	13	12	46	58	−12	40
15	Wolfsburg	34	8	13	13	37	45	−8	37
16	Mainz (R)	34	8	10	16	34	57	−23	34	Relegation to 2. Fußball-Bundesliga
17	Alemannia Aachen (R)	34	9	7	18	46	70	−24	34
18	Mönchengladbach (R)	34	6	8	20	23	44	−21	26

Source: kicker.de
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored.
¹ 1. FC Nuremberg won the DFB Cup 2006-07 and thus qualified for the First Round of UEFA Cup 2007–08.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

[edit] Results

Home \ Away¹	AAC	BSC	BIE	BOC	BRE	COT	DOR	FRA	HAM	H96	LEV	MAI	MGL	BMU	NUR	S04	STU	WOB
Alemannia Aachen		0–4	2–0	2–1	2–2	1–2	1–4	2–3	3–3	1–4	2–3	2–1	4–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–4	2–2
Hertha BSC	2–1		1–1	3–3	1–4	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	4–0	2–3	2–1	1–2	2–3	2–1	2–0	2–2	2–1
Arminia Bielefeld	5–1	2–2		1–3	3–2	3–1	1–0	2–4	1–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	0–2	2–1	3–2	0–1	2–3	0–0
Bochum	2–2	1–3	2–1		0–6	0–1	2–0	4–3	2–1	2–0	1–3	0–1	2–0	1–2	0–2	2–1	2–3	0–1
Werder Bremen	3–1	3–1	3–0	3–0		1–1	1–3	1–2	0–2	3–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	3–1	1–0	0–2	2–3	2–1
Energie Cottbus	0–2	2–1	2–0	0–0	0–0		2–3	0–1	2–2	0–1	2–1	2–0	3–1	0–3	1–1	2–4	0–0	3–2
Borussia Dortmund	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	2–3		2–0	1–0	2–2	1–2	1–1	1–0	3–2	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–0
Eintracht Frankfurt	4–0	1–2	0–3	0–3	2–6	1–3	1–1		2–2	2–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	1–3	0–4	0–0
Hamburg	4–0	1–1	1–1	0–3	1–1	1–1	3–0	3–1		0–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–2	0–0	1–2	2–4	1–0
Hannover 96	0–3	5–0	1–1	0–2	2–4	2–0	4–2	1–1	0–0		1–1	1–0	1–2	1–2	0–3	1–1	1–2	2–2
Bayer Leverkusen	3–0	2–1	1–2	1–4	0–2	3–1	2–1	2–2	1–2	0–1		1–1	1–0	2–3	2–0	3–1	3–1	1–1
Mainz	1–3	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–6	4–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–3		3–0	0–4	2–1	0–3	0–0	1–2
Mönchengladbach	0–0	3–1	1–0	0–2	2–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–2	1–1		1–1	0–0	0–2	0–1	3–1
Bayern Munich	2–1	4–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–2	0–1	2–1	5–2	1–1		0–0	2–0	2–1	2–1
Nuremberg	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–2	3–1	3–2	1–1	1–0	3–0		0–0	4–1	1–1
Schalke 04	2–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	3–1	1–1	0–2	2–1	0–1	4–0	2–0	2–2	1–0		1–0	2–0
Stuttgart	3–1	0–0	3–2	1–0	4–1	2–1	1–3	1–1	2–0	2–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–3	3–0		0–0
Wolfsburg	1–2	0–0	2–3	3–1	0–2	0–0	0–2	2–2	1–0	1–2	3–2	3–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–1

Source:^{[citation needed]}
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

[edit] Top goalscorers

20 goals

Theofanis Gekas (VfL Bochum)

16 goals

15 goals

Kevin Kurányi (Schalke 04)

14 goals

13 goals

[edit] Champion Squad

VfB Stuttgart
Goalkeepers: Timo Hildebrand (33); Michael Langer (1). Defenders: Matthieu Delpierre (33); Ricardo Osorio (27 / 1); Serdar Tasci (26 / 2); Ludovic Magnin (22 / 1); Fernando Meira (20 / 3); Arthur Boka (19 / 1); Andreas Beck (4); Markus Babbel (2). Midfielders: Roberto Hilbert (34 / 7); Pável Pardo (33 / 1); Thomas Hitzlsperger (30 / 7); Antônio da Silva (28); Sami Khedira (22 / 4); Christian Gentner (15); Daniel Bierofka (12); Alexander Farnerud (9); Silvio Meißner (1). Forwards: Cacau (32 / 13); Marco Streller (27 / 5); Mario Gómez (25 / 14); Benjamin Lauth (11 / 1); Jon Dahl Tomasson (4); Bernd Nehrig (1). (league appearances and goals listed in parentheses) Manager: Armin Veh. On the roster but have not played in a league game: Dirk Heinen; Alexander Stolz; Heiko Gerber; Danijel Ljuboja . Transferred out during the season: Silvio Meißner (to 1. FC Kaiserslautern); Danijel Ljuboja (on loan to Hamburger SV); Bernd Nehrig (on loan to SpVgg Unterhaching); Jon Dahl Tomasson (on loan to Villareal).