Bayer Leverkusen

In 2013 2014, the German Bundesliga season ended with Bayern Munich as the champions, Borussia Dortmund as the runners-up, and Schalke 04 in third place. Bayer Leverkusen and VfL Wolfsburg rounded out the top five. Now, in the wake of the opening week of 2015 - 2016 Bundesliga play, it's as if we've found a time warp back to the 2013 2014 season, for how similar today's standings look like the final rankings from that season.

Indeed, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, and Schalke 04 are the opening week's top three performing football clubs. Bayer Leverkusen, meanwhile, are in fifth, while VfL Wolfsburg are just outside the top five, at sixth place. Talk about déjà vu.

Two Returns to the Top

For Bayern Munich, returning to the top of the Bundesliga table is more or less a foregone conclusion at this point. The soccer club has won 25 German championship titles since inception, including six of the past 10 Bu

Few football clubs in history have had quite the frustrating run that Bayer Leverkusen have. On July 1^st, the team marked its 111^th anniversary. And yet, in those 111 years, Bayer have never once won a national championship. They've come close, of course, landing in second place on the Bundesliga table on numerous occasions. But Leverkusen's consistently thwarted attempts at title victory have become the source of many jokes and superstitions in German soccer, and you can bet that the football club's long-suffering fans are tired of it. Keep reading this Bayer Leverkusen team profile to find out more about the team's long and interesting history.

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Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride

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