German Football in General

How do you rate football in general? Well, a good place to start is with the actual structure of the sport, and football in Germany is organised somewhat differently to the beautiful game in England – well, perhaps it is fairer to say that England differs from the rest of the world, as there are far more full time professional outfits plying their trade in English leagues than in any other country. The Premiership sits at the top of the tree, followed by the three Football League divisions, and the Football Conference (which is where you find the first semi-professional teams) below that. Regionalisation is only introduced at level 6 of this football pyramid in ...  Read the complete review

The German Bundesliga is produces some of the most exciting European club football you can see, with attacking football appearing to be the norm, there are hardly any goalless games and a lot are high scoring (my favourite side Hamburg SV have had a couple of 4-4’s, a 3-3, and some 3-2 results already this season). The German league is strange in that it only has two top divisions with regional leagues feeding Division Two, and it is not unheard of for small part-time clubs to attain a place in Division One and even get as far as qualifying for Europe nor for amateur clubs to reach the Cup Final. All the big clubs run an amateur side and these play in ...  Read the complete review