Werder Bremen snatched top spot in the German Bundesliga after crushing Freiburg 6-0 on Saturday, as young playmaker Mesut Ozil stole the show.
VfL Stuttgart coach Markus Babbel is under increased pressure after the Bundesliga team were knocked out of the German Cup by second-flight Greuther Furth on Tuesday.
Defender turned striker Daniel van Buyten scored an 88th minute winner for Bayern Munich to give them a much-needed 2-1 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt to revive their Bundesliga title challenge.
Bayer Leverkusen retained top spot in the German Bundesliga after coming away from second-placed Hamburg with a 0-0 draw on Saturday night.
Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich are locked together at the top of the German Bundesliga after both won 3-0 at home on Tuesday -- with Hertha Berlin keeping up the pressure just a point adrift.
Bayern Munich had Franck Ribery sent off in the second half as they slipped to a 1-0 home defeat to Schalke 04 which dents their Bundesliga title hopes.
Bayern Munich suffered a humiliating 5-1 defeat to new leaders VfL Wolsburg which leaves their Bundesliga title defense on the rocks as they slip to fourth place.
Bayern Munich stepped up their Bundesliga title defense with a 1-0 win over Karlsruhe on Saturday as leaders Hertha Berlin lost 2-0 in Stuttgart.
Ruhr Valley neighbors and rivals Schalke and Borussia Dortmund shared a 1-1 draw in Gelsenkirchen on Friday, a result that benefited neither side in their attempts to climb up from their mid-table positions in the Bundesliga.
A late double from Miroslav Klose lifted Bayern Munich to a 3-1 win over Borussia Dortmund to keep the pressure on Bundesliga leaders Hoffenheim.
Werder Bremen snatched top spot in the German Bundesliga after crushing Freiburg 6-0 on Saturday, as young playmaker Mesut Ozil stole the show.
VfL Stuttgart coach Markus Babbel is under increased pressure after the Bundesliga team were knocked out of the German Cup by second-flight Greuther Furth on Tuesday.
Defender turned striker Daniel van Buyten scored an 88th minute winner for Bayern Munich to give them a much-needed 2-1 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt to revive their Bundesliga title challenge.
Bayer Leverkusen retained top spot in the German Bundesliga after coming away from second-placed Hamburg with a 0-0 draw on Saturday night.
Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich are locked together at the top of the German Bundesliga after both won 3-0 at home on Tuesday -- with Hertha Berlin keeping up the pressure just a point adrift.
Bayern Munich had Franck Ribery sent off in the second half as they slipped to a 1-0 home defeat to Schalke 04 which dents their Bundesliga title hopes.
Bayern Munich suffered a humiliating 5-1 defeat to new leaders VfL Wolsburg which leaves their Bundesliga title defense on the rocks as they slip to fourth place.
Bayern Munich stepped up their Bundesliga title defense with a 1-0 win over Karlsruhe on Saturday as leaders Hertha Berlin lost 2-0 in Stuttgart.
Ruhr Valley neighbors and rivals Schalke and Borussia Dortmund shared a 1-1 draw in Gelsenkirchen on Friday, a result that benefited neither side in their attempts to climb up from their mid-table positions in the Bundesliga.
A late double from Miroslav Klose lifted Bayern Munich to a 3-1 win over Borussia Dortmund to keep the pressure on Bundesliga leaders Hoffenheim.
Bayern Munich have gone top of the Bundesliga table, despite Stuttgart midfielder Sami Khedira scoring an injury-time equalizer to seal a 2-2 draw with the defending champions.
With war on the horizon, Neven Subotic's Serbian family fled Bosnia in 1990 when he was 18 months old and settled in Schömberg, a small town in Germany's Black Forest. As refugees with few options, the family moved into the attic of the clubhouse of a local soccer team that his father joined.
With war on the horizon, Neven Subotic's Serbian family fled Bosnia in 1990 when he was 18 months old and settled in Schömberg, a small town in Germany's Black Forest. As refugees with few options, the family moved into the attic of the clubhouse of a local soccer team that his father joined.
Bundesliga new boys Hoffenheim shocked previous leaders SV Hamburg with a 3-0 win on Sunday to top the German standings.
Bayern Munich's dismal start to the Bundesliga season continued on Saturday as they were held to a home 3-3 draw by struggling VfL Bochum.
Newly-promoted Hoffenheim sit atop the Bundesliga after two rounds after beating Borussia Moenchengladbach 1-0 on Saturday for their second straight win.
Schalke made an impressive start to their Bundesliga campaign as two goals from Kevin Kuranyi saw them beat Hannover 3-0 on Saturday while newly-promoted Hoffenheim also won 3-0 at Energie Cottbus.
Liverpool have completed the signing of Swiss international right-back Philipp Degen on a free transfer from Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund.
German Jurgen Rober has joined the list of coaches who have decided not to join Scottish Premier League club Hearts.
Bundesliga Borussia Dortmund appointed Juergen Klopp on Friday to attempt to restore their flagging fortunes.
Borussia Dortmund coach Thomas Doll has resigned following their worst league finish in 20 years, finishing 13th, and despite taking the club to the German Cup final.
Patrick Mueller has been named in Switzerland's provisional 26-man squad for Euro 2008, despite not having played an official match all season.
Germany striker Kevin Kuranyi fired Schalke up to joint second in the Bundesliga, while Bayern Munich have a golden chance to put one hand on the league title if they beat Stuttgart on Sunday.
Bayern Munich are beginning to pay the price for the success that has kept them on target to pick up four trophies this season.
Luca Toni's brace gave Bayern Munich their 14th German Cup triumph with a 2-1 extra time defeat of Borussia Dortmund in Berlin.
Luca Toni scored twice as Bayern Munich staged a 3-1 comeback win at Eintracht Frankfurt to restore their 10-point advantage at the top of the Bundesliga on Wednesday.
German League leaders Bayern Munich scored four times in the opening 22 minutes on their way to a 5-0 drubbing of Borussia Dortmund on Sunday.
French international Franck Ribery coolly converted a second-half penalty to help 10-man Bayern Munich to a 3-1 win over Bochum on Sunday to put his side nine points clear at the top of the German Bundesliga.
Brazilian midfielder Tinga helped book Borussia Dortmund's place in the German Cup final for the first time in 19 years with a 3-0 win over 10-man Carl Zeiss Jena on Tuesday.
Miroslav Klose's 10th league goal of the season was sufficient to give Bayern Munich a 1-0 victory away to Schalke, which maintained their four-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga.
Hamburg's German Bundesliga title bid suffered a big blow after being held 1-1 at home by 10-man Hanover on Saturday.
Bayern Munich coach Ottmar Hitzfeld has confirmed that he will take charge of the Swiss national team after Euro 2008.
German international goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has decided not to leave Arsenal and sign for Borussia Dortmund.
Borussia Dortmund crushed hapless Arminia Bielefeld 6-1 on Friday to continue their recent Bundesliga resurgence.
Bayern Munich registered a first win in four matches to remain one point clear at the top of the German league, beating VfL Wolfsburg 2-1 at home on Saturday.
Werder Bremen battled to a 1-1 draw at Schalke 04 on Saturday to maintain second place in the Bundesliga but are still trailing leaders Bayern Munich by five points.
Werder Bremen striker Hugo Almeida scored twice in 54 seconds in an impressive 4-1 defeat of German champions Stuttgart.
Finnish defender Petri Pasanen sent Werder Bremen shooting up the Bundesliga table with a second-half free-kick which gave them a 2-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt.
Arminia Bielefeld sent Borussia Dortmund into the Bundesliga relegation zone when they struck late to win a tense derby 1-0 on Friday.
Juergen Roeber has quit as coach of Bundesliga strugglers Borussia Dortmund after only eight matches in charge of the German club.
Hamburg SV have scored fewer goals than any Bundesliga club this season and the Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper has discovered one possible cause -- the goals in their home stadium could be too small.
Bayern Munich slipped to fourth place in the Bundesliga after they could manage no better than a 0-0 draw at home to lowly Bochum on Tuesday.
Alexander Frei scored twice and set up the third goal to lead Borussia Dortmund to a rousing 3-2 victory over champions Bayern Munich as the Bundesliga restarted after a six-week winter break.
Liverpool's English League Cup quarterfinal against Arsenal was postponed on Tuesday because of heavy fog.
Borussia Dortmund have parted company with coach Bert van Marwijk, half a season ahead of his scheduled departure from the Bundesliga club.
Feyenoord will be walking a tight-rope in more ways than one when they face Wisla Krakow of Poland in their decisive UEFA Cup Group E match in Rotterdam on Wednesday.
Schalke 04 brushed aside Mainz 4-0 to move level on points with Werder Bremen at the top of the Bundesliga on Saturday, while Bayern Munich revived their title challenge with a frantic 3-2 win at Bayer Leverkusen.
Werder Bremen and Bayern Munich are in the sort of form to produce a classic when they meet in the Bundesliga on Saturday -- provided their powers of recovery are up to it.
Borussia Moenchengladbach moved top of the Bundesliga for at least one night thanks to a 1-0 win at home to Borussia Dortmund on Friday.
Jonas Kamper's 84th minute goal gave Armenia Bielefeld a surprise 2-1 victory over German champions Bayern Munich on Saturday.
Midfielder Benjamin Huggel has been recalled to the Swiss squad after completing a four-match ban for his part in the brawl that followed the World Cup playoff win over Turkey in November.
Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech won the Golden Ball award as the Czech Republic's player of the season for the second time in a row, beating five-times winner Pavel Nedved of Italian champions Juventus.
Czech Republic international midfielder Tomas Rosicky has joined Arsenal from Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund.
Czech Republic coach Karel Brueckner has included several injured players in his 23-man World Cup squad on Monday.
Germany coach Juergen Klinsmann has spung a World Cup surprise by naming uncapped Borussia Dortmund attacking midfielder David Odonkor in his 23-man squad for the finals.
Borussia Dortmund defender Christian Woerns has been banned for four matches for elbowing Nuremberg striker Stefan Kiessling in the face.
Bayern Munich closed to within two points of a 20th German league title when they came from behind to beat VfB Stuttgart 3-1 on Wednesday.
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Spanish first division club Atletico Madrid are close to an agreement on the transfer fee for Borussia Dortmund's Tomas Rosicky and would also like to sign Bayern Munich striker Roy Makaay, news reports said on Thursday.
Bayern Munich stretched their Bundesliga lead to nine points with a 3-1 victory away to Duisburg.
Germany coach Juergen Klinsmann has called striker Oliver Neuville into his squad for Wednesday's World Cup warm-up against the United States in Dortmund.
Germany coach Juergen Klinsmann has surprisingly called up FSV Mainz defender Manuel Friedrich for a World Cup warm-up against the United States next week.
Germany coach Juergen Klinsmann will alternate goalkeepers Oliver Kahn and Jens Lehmann in the two warm-up games that will help determine his squad for the World Cup finals.
Bayern Munich won 2-1 away to Borussia Dortmund on Saturday to strengthen their grip on the Bundesliga going into the six-week mid-season break.
Borussia Dortmund midfielder Lars Ricken will miss the rest of the season after becoming the fourth player at the club to suffer a cruciate knee ligament rupture.
Coach Juergen Klinsmann again omitted Christian Woerns when he named his squad for Germany's friendly against France on November 12.
Bayern Munich equaled their own Bundesliga record of 13 consecutive victories with a 2-1 win at Nuremberg which kept them two points clear of Werder Bremen and SV Hamburg at the top of the table.
The Czech Republic have recalled Sparta Prague playmaker Lukas Zelenka for their World Cup Group One qualifier against Armenia on Wednesday.
Sparta Prague playmaker Lukas Zelenka has been named in a Czech Republic squad for the first time for their World Cup qualifiers against Andorra and Macedonia next month.
Bayern Munich celebrated their latest Bundesliga title win and marked their final game at the Olympic Stadium with an imposing 6-3 hammering of Nuremburg, while Schalke failed to clinch second place as they went down 2-1 at home to Borussia Dortmund.
South Africa striker Delron Buckley has signed a four-year contract with Borussia Dortmund sealing an end-of-season transfer from Bundesliga rivals Arminia Bielefeld.
Debt-ridden Borussia Dortmund have won a stay of execution after investors in the fund that controls their tadium approved a rescue plan.
Germany have called up 33 players for fitness tests later this month, giving a hint of coach Juergen Klinsmann's plans for the 2006 World Cup.
Germany's Schalke 04 may be in even bigger financial trouble than Bundesliga rivals Borussia Dortmund a report to appear on Wednesday suggests.
Borussia Dortmund, Germany's only publicly-listed club, have warned that their finances are in a perilous condition.
Borussia Dortmund have received another blow to their hopes of Bundesliga survival with the news that Brazilian striker Ewerthon will be out for two months with a shin injury.
Bayern Munich finished the first half of the German Bundesliga season as honorary "winter champions" after rallying from 2-0 down to earn a 2-2 draw with Stuttgart.
Wolfsburg bounced back from last week's 4-0 setback at Nuremberg with a 3-0 defeat of close rivals Stuttgart which moved them three points clear at the top of the German Bundesliga.
Holders Werder Bremen needed extra-time to reach the quarterfinals of the German Cup with a hard-fought 3-1 victory over second division Eintracht Trier on Tuesday.
Bulgarian striker Martin Petrov scored all four goals as Wolfsburg rallied from a two-goal deficit to stay top the Bundesliga with a 4-3 win over Mainz.
Stuttgart moved to the top of the Bundesliga with a 2-0 home win over Borussia Dortmund, but 63,000 fans in Munich saw Bayern slump 1-0 at home to Schalke.
Borussia Dortmund, European champions in 1997, have reported the highest-ever debt in German football history.
Borussia Dortmund's new major shareholder Florian Hamm has threatened the Bundesliga club with grave consequences if it does not improve its financial position quickly.
Bayern Munich scored twice in the last two minutes to snatch a 2-2 draw with arch rivals Borussia Dortmund in front of 83,000 fans at the Westfalen Stadium on Saturday.
Bayern Munich warmed up for the Bundesliga campaign by crushing Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 in the German League Cup semifinals on Wednesday.
Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund have agreed to take back banished Nigerian international Sunday Oliseh on a one-year deal.
Kevin Kuranyi scored twice as Germany extended their unbeaten run against Switzerland to 16 games with a 2-0 win in a high-tempo and combative clash in Basel.
Rudi Voeller has backed the players that helped Germany reach the 2002 World Cup final in his 22-man squad for the 2004 European championships in Portugal.
Brazilian striker Marcio Amoroso has started a week-long trial period with Celtic, the Scottish champions said on their website on Tuesday.
Runaway Bundesliga leaders Werder Bremen moved eight points clear at the top despite being held to a 0-0 draw at home by Hanover 96 on Sunday.
Borussia Dortmund dealt a near-fatal blow to Bayern Munich's title hopes with a 2-0 win over the defending champions.
Borussia Dortmund have terminated their contract with injury-plagued Marcio Amoroso "with immediate effect and in agreement" with the Brazilian striker.
Eintracht Frankfurt coach Willi Reimann has been handed a five-match touchline ban for pushing an official during Saturday's defeat by Borussia Dortmund.
Borussia Dortmund playmaker Tomas Rosicky will miss the Czech Republic's Euro 2004 warmup against Ireland next week.
German club Borussia Dortmund on Friday fired Nigerian international Sunday Oliseh with immediate effect in the wake of a head-butting affair.
Two goals from Roy Makaay boosted Bayern Munich's Bundesliga title challenge as they won 3-1 at Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday.
Werder Bremen closed in on the Bundesliga title with a 2-0 home win over Borussia Dortmund on Saturday to keep them seven points clear of Bayern Munich, who beat Vfl Wolfsburg 2-0.
Borussia Dortmund, one of Europe's biggest and best-supported clubs, reported losses of $37.3 million for the six months to December 2003.
Werder Bremen moved nine points clear at the top of the Bundesliga table with a 1-0 triumph over Kaiserslautern but they needed a last-minute penalty from Brazilian Ailton to snatch victory.
German leaders Werder Bremen needed a last-minute winner to maintain their momentum at the top of the Bundesliga, beating Borussia Moenchengladbach 2-1.

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