Why Germany's Biggest Clubs Keep Getting Relegated

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  @kyrkosekaterinaris1328 · 3 years ago

  Why does this happen? Because their football is healthy. If you don&apos;t have a good enough team, you will get relegated. It seems big clubs in most countries are not &quot;allowed&quot; to fail, their relegation is seen as a disaster and most of the time will be given a helping hand to stay up.<br><br>Congratulations to Germany for still doing it right. Nobody deserves a &quot;free pass&quot;.

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  @Machinationstudio · 3 years ago

  You can crawl back from relegation, but you cannot crawl back from selling your club.

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  @puer4787 · 3 years ago

  As a big HSV fan this video was excellent.<br><br>The part about the second Bundesliga being fun is no joke. HSV has a HIGHER attendance in the second division than we did in the first division. The fanbase is 100% behind the club qnd we&apos;re enjoying the season, our team and our games.

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  @toph8298 · 3 years ago (edited)

  The mismanagement of some German clubs is really frustrating. &nbsp;Clubs like Hamburg and Schalke should be giants in the Bundesliga and even possibly a force in Europe. &nbsp;Seeing 1860 Munich struggling against Bayern’s B team sums up how polarised those two clubs have become.

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  @nathanb286 · 3 years ago

  Some of the relegations seem to be self inflicted, Schalke for example went from playing Man City to relegation fodder in a few season. Hamburg’s relegation had been coming for a long time, with them finishing in the top half once in their last 7 Bundesliga seasons

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• LE

  @leafstorm3306 · 3 years ago

  As a german im really thankful that you&apos;re bringing that topic to an international audience. Keep up the great work!

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  @ManuelAlejandroRZ · 3 years ago (edited)

  History and tradition, that&apos;s why I fell in love with German football. I&apos;m from Mexico but I&apos;ve never felt prouder to be a Schalke fan especially in these dark times. That passion at every game home and away is just something else. I&apos;m aware it&apos;s not easy with the way modern football works but I hope to see all these giants in the top flight someday again. Massive respect to all of them.

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  @leometz7287 · 3 years ago

  As a Kaiserslautern Fan, you didn&apos;t fully explain the insanity of our Stadium. It&apos;s capacity is almost 50.000, in a city with only 100.000 inhabitants. And even more insane, when you look at a map and see that the city is in the middle of a forest and no big city is anywhere nearby

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  @tommcdonald1873 · 3 years ago

  The parity in the German Football once you get beyond Bayern and Dortmund (and Maybe Liepzig) is extremely competitive all the way down to 3. Bundesliga. Even teams like Frankfurt have had to spend a year or two in the .2 bundesliga and even Bayern spent a year in the .2 back during 1860&apos;s Reign. I do think raising the number of teams in both Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga tgo 20 would be a good idea because German football is so competitive.

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  @christopherudeh2735 · 3 years ago

  Yes the number of former heavy hitters that are in or have been in the german lower leagues is astonishing, however i believe the Premier league would be having a similar tale if not for the 1992 rebranding. Afterall, clubs like Nottingham forest, wednesday, Leeds etc were all heavy hitters in the old english top division league.

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• FI

  @fistofren3483 · 3 years ago

  In Germany we have a say: &quot;Liebe kennt keine Liga&quot; which means &quot;Love does not know any league&quot;.

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  @lwandomadikizela2213 · 3 years ago

  In summary: Why Germany&apos;s biggest clubs suffer the hardest bar Bayern Munich?<br> 1. No clubs in the Bundesliga can compete against Bayern Munich in terms of financial revenue and members.<br>2. Hamburg and Schalke were in decline after years of poor management from top to bottom. <br>3. 50+1 rule as positive impact on fan engagement and keeping the football tradition alive however it also brings a negative impact like limiting how much the club can spend on recruitment, club infrastructure and youth academies.<br>4. The talent pool of young prospects are running dry like Schalke and 1860 Munich and brought in dross players along the way. <br><br>I&apos;ve always admire the Bundesliga in terms of fans being 100% to their clubs regardless how well or badly run it is. Fan apathy is almost non existent in German football and they always keep traditions alive. Sure the Bundesliga is stale since 2013 but I always have major respect for the fan base that would rather stick with the club through thick and thin than to have a similar outcome at Ligue 1 with PSG being ran by Qatar and win multiple silverware. That&apos;s why I will keep watching the Bundesliga because of the fans supporting their clubs and like I said, I admire and respect that.

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