Fußball-Bundesliga 2000–01

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The Bundesliga 2000–01 season was widely considered^{[by whom?]} as the season with the most dramatic championship decision in league-history.

Contents 1 34th match day 2 Statistics 3 Top scorers 4 Champion Squad

[edit] 34th match day

When the last match day started Bayern Munich was in the lead to Schalke 04 by three points. As the goal-difference of Bayern was three goals worse than those of Schalke, Bayern needed at least a tie at their away-match at Hamburger SV to get the championship – under the condition, that Schalke were winning their home-match against SpVgg Unterhaching. Schalke indeed managed to win in a turbulent match, after lying behind by 0-2. After they tied the match by half-time, Unterhaching took the lead again in the 68th minute. Schalke stroke back by two goals in the 72nd and 73rd minute and finally won by 5-3.

The match in Hamburg began 5 minutes late, as spectators had thrown things onto the ground. There had been no goals until the 90th minute. At this time Sergej Barbarez scored for Hamburg with a header. Schalke took the lead in the “imaginable” table at the same moment. The news became quickly public at Gelsenkirchen and the match in the Parkstadion ended shortly after.

Most Schalke supporters obviously believed that their team had gained the first championship since 1958 and crowds of people ran onto the infield celebrating this. Then the stadium television showed live pictures from Hamburg. The three minutes of injury-time in Hamburg had not been over. So Bayern had still the chance to strike back.

Then the people in Gelsenkirchen could see that the Hamburg goalkeeper (and former Schalke player) Mathias Schober took a back-pass by his team-mate Tomáš Ujfaluši into his hands. So referee Markus Merk gave an indirect free-kick for Bayern about eight meters from the Hamburg goal. There were discussions and protests which postponed the match for another minute. The tension was very high because every player and spectator knew that the whole season would be decided in this single moment.

Stefan Effenberg played the ball to Bayern defender Patrik Andersson, who shot the ball through the wall of Hamburg defenders into the net for his first and only goal for the club. Thus the match ended 1-1.

Bayern won their 17th title finishing one point ahead of Schalke.

Schalke believed for 3 minutes and 43 seconds that they would earn their 8th title. Instead they became the first “champion of hearts” in the history of the Bundesliga, as many supporters, even of other teams, felt for them.

[edit] Statistics

The final table of Germany's Bundesliga of football, Season 2000–01

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bayern Munich	34	19	6	9	62	37	+25	63	UEFA Champions League 2001-02 Group stage
2	Schalke 04	34	18	8	8	65	35	+30	62
3	Borussia Dortmund	34	16	10	8	62	42	+20	58	UEFA Champions League 2001-02 Third qualifying round
4	Bayer Leverkusen	34	17	6	11	54	40	+14	57
5	Hertha BSC	34	18	2	14	58	52	+6	56	UEFA Cup 2001-02 First round
6	Freiburg	34	15	10	9	54	37	+17	55
7	Werder Bremen	34	15	8	11	53	48	+5	53	UEFA Intertoto Cup 2001 Third round
8	Kaiserslautern	34	15	5	14	49	54	−5	50
9	Wolfsburg	34	12	11	11	60	45	+15	47	UEFA Intertoto Cup 2001 Third round
10	Köln	34	12	10	12	59	52	+7	46
11	1860 Munich	34	12	8	14	43	55	−12	44	UEFA Intertoto Cup 2001 Second round
12	Hansa Rostock	34	12	7	15	34	47	−13	43
13	Hamburg	34	10	11	13	58	58	0	41
14	Energie Cottbus	34	12	3	19	38	52	−14	39
15	Stuttgart	34	9	11	14	42	49	−7	38
16	Unterhaching	34	8	11	15	35	59	−24	35	2. Fußball-Bundesliga
17	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	10	5	19	41	68	−27	35
18	Bochum	34	7	6	21	30	67	−37	27

Updated to games played on September 25, 2008
Source: bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored.
P = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points;
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

[edit] Top scorers

Goals	Player	Team
22	Sergej Barbarez	Hamburger SV
	Ebbe Sand	FC Schalke 04
19	Claudio Pizarro	SV Werder Bremen
16	Michael Preetz	Hertha BSC Berlin
15	Élber Giovane	FC Bayern München
	Oliver Neuville	Bayer Leverkusen
14	Ailton	SV Werder Bremen
13	Émile Mpenza	FC Schalke 04
12	Paul Agostino	TSV 1860 München
	Carsten Jancker	FC Bayern München
	Andrzej Juskowiak	VfL Wolfsburg
	Ulf Kirsten	Bayer Leverkusen

[edit] Champion Squad

1.

FC Bayern Munich

Goalkeepers: Oliver Kahn (32); Bernd Dreher (1); Stefan Wessels (1). Defenders: Thomas Linke (27); Willy Sagnol (27); Samuel Kuffour (23 / 1); Patrik Andersson (22 / 1); Bixente Lizarazu (15). Midfielders: Hasan Salihamidžić (31 / 4); Mehmet Scholl (29 / 9); Thorsten Fink (24 / 1); Michael Tarnat (23 / 1); Jens Jeremies (21 / 1); Stefan Effenberg (20 / 4); Ciriaco Sforza (20); Owen Hargreaves (14); Michael Wiesinger (6); Thomas Strunz (5). Forwards: Élber Giovane (27 / 15); Paulo Sérgio (26 / 5); Carsten Jancker (25 / 12); Alexander Zickler (24 / 3); Roque Santa Cruz (19 / 5); Antonio Di Salvo (6); Berkant Göktan (1). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) Manager: Ottmar Hitzfeld. On the roster but have not played in a league game: Sebastian Backer; Andrew Sinkala ; Sławomir Wojciechowski . Transferred out during the season: none.

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