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The German Football Association (German: Deutscher Fußball-Bund [ˈdɔʏtʃɐ ˈfuːsbalˌbʊnt]; DFB [ˌdeːʔɛfˈbeː] ⓘ) is the governing body of football, futsal, and beach soccer in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction for the German football league system and is in charge of the men's and women's ...
Bundesliga ([ˌeːɐ̯stə-]), is a professional football league in Germany located at the top of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga. Seasons run from August to May. Games are played on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, with a focus on ...
The national association is the German Football Association (or Deutscher Fußball-Bund) headquartered in Frankfurt. The DFB was founded in 1900 in Leipzig, by the representatives of 86 clubs. Today, the association has some 31,000 member clubs which field 170,000 teams with over 2 million players: these numbers include 870,000 female members ...
The German football league system, or league pyramid, refers to the hierarchically interconnected league system for association football in Germany that in the 2016–17 season consisted of 2,235 leagues in up to 13 levels having 31,645 teams, in which all divisions are bound together by the principle of promotion and relegation.
The organisation is a subsidiary of the Ligaverband, which acts as a representative for the 36 professional clubs in the top two leagues of German football. Today the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga are operated by the DFL, but jointly hosted by the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund, DFB) and the Ligaverband.
Leverkusen's Granit Xhaka, centre, argues with referee Tobias Stieler during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen at the Signal-Iduna Park in Dortmund ...
In addition to the German Football Association (DFB), footballers were organized into associations, which also organized German football championships. The Arbeiter-Turn- und Sportbund (ATSB), for example, organized championships between 1919 and 1932. It even had its own national team, which played a total of 77 international matches.
The Germany national football team (German: Deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft or Die Mannschaft) has represented Germany in men's international football since 1908. [1] The team is governed by the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund), founded in 1900.