Q 01/05

How many clubs play in the Bundesliga each season?

A) 18

B) 16

C) 14

D) 12

Answer · why

A) 18

That makes 34 matchdays; the league briefly had 20 clubs in 1991-92 to absorb the East German teams.

Q 02/05

Which newly elected DFB president presided over the Bundesliga's creation in July 1962?

A) Peco Bauwens

B) Hermann Gösmann

C) Hermann Neuberger

D) Sepp Herberger

Answer · why

B) Hermann Gösmann

He had been elected that very day; play began in 1963-64.

Q 03/05

Which 1962 World Cup result helped spur the creation of a national league in West Germany?

A) A 3-1 final loss to Brazil

B) Elimination by Chile in the group

C) A 1-0 quarter-final loss to Yugoslavia

D) A 4-0 defeat to Hungary

Answer · why

C) A 1-0 quarter-final loss to Yugoslavia

National coach Sepp Herberger had long argued Germany needed to catch up with the centralised leagues of Italy, Spain and England.

Q 04/05

How many clubs were selected for the first Bundesliga season in 1963-64?

A) 18

B) 20

C) 22

D) 16

Answer · why

D) 16

Forty-six applied; the sixteen were picked on results, finances and regional representation from five Oberligen.

Q 05/05

Who were the first Bundesliga champions in 1963-64?

A) Hamburger SV

B) Borussia Dortmund

C) 1860 Munich

D) 1. FC Köln

Answer · why

D) 1. FC Köln

Meidericher SV, now MSV Duisburg, and Eintracht Frankfurt were joint runners-up.