Season Points 1999-00 11.071 2001-02 13.500 | 1998-99 6.357 2000-01 11.062 2002-03 9.142 | |
German football clubs hold the 3rd place in UEFA ranking and represented by 4 clubs in UEFA Champions League and 3 clubs in UEFA Europa League. The last years the German football has risen and that can be confirmed from the appearance two German clubs in the final of 2013-14 Champions League. The German football has won the interest all of Europe because the majority of associations are financially healthy and the spectators in stadiums have been rising.
During first years of European competitions Germany was divided to West and East Germany. So initially the German football represented by two countries and two different championships, the Bundesliga and the DDR-Oberliga. After the German reunified on October 1990, Bundesliga became the league for all of Germany. West German football clubs have entered European association football competitions since season 1955-56, when Rot-Weiss Essen took part in European Cup competition. East German football clubs have entered European association football competitions two years later, since season 1957-58, when FC Erzgebirge Aue took part in European Cup competition.
So far, the German clubs have won 7 times the Champions League/European Cup (Bayern, Dortmund and Hamburg), 6 times the Europa League/UEFA Cup (Mönchengladbach, Bayern, Eintracht Frankfurt, Leverkusen, Schalke), 5 times the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (Bayern, Bremen, Dortmund, Hamburg, Magdeburg), 1 times the UEFA Super Cup (Bayern), 9 times the UEFA Intertoto Cup (Karlsruhe, Schalke,Stuttgart, Bremen, Hamburg and Hertha).