Signings, standout players and more: key news from the 2025/26 Bundesliga

The Bundesliga kicks off this Friday (21) with one other version, that includes a match between Bayern Munich and Leipzig on the Allianz Enviornment.

The brand new season brings excellent news each on and off the sector.

And whereas the title race has a transparent favourite, the opposite desk battles promise a extremely balanced competitors.

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OneFootball will provide help to put together for the championship, highlighting a few of the foremost causes to keep watch over the German elite.

Costliest signings

The arrival of Colombian Luis Díaz tops the record by a large margin.

We level out right here all of the arrivals that value greater than 20 million euros.

The record is predicated on data from Transfermarkt and the quoted values are in Euros.

Luis Díaz (ahead 🇨🇴): Liverpool ➡️ Bayern Munich for 70 million

Jarrell Quansah (defender 🇬🇧): Liverpool ➡️ Bayer Leverkusen for 35 million

Malik Tillman (midfielder 🇺🇸): PSV ➡️ Bayer Leverkusen for 35 million

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Jobe Bellingham (midfielder 🇺🇸): Sunderland ➡️ Borussia Dortmund for 30.5 million

Loic Badé (Defender 🇫🇷): Sevilla ➡️ Bayer Leverkusen for 25 Million

Ritsu Doan (Ahead 🇯🇵): Freiburg ➡️ Eintracht Frankfurt for 21 million

Jonathan Burkardt (Ahead 🇩🇪): Mainz ➡️ Eintracht Frankfurt for 21 million

Costliest gross sales

Liverpool seems because the protagonist once more, concerned within the two costliest transfers.

We record right here all of the arrivals that value greater than 20 million euros.

The record is predicated on data from Transfermarkt and the quoted values are in Euros.

Florian Wirtz (midfielder 🇩🇪): Bayer Leverkusen ➡️ Liverpool for 125 million

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Hugo Ekitiké (Ahead 🇫🇷): Eintracht Frankfurt ➡️ Liverpool for 95 million

Benjamin Sesko (Ahead 🇸🇮): Leipzig ➡️ Manchester United for 76.5 Million

Jamie Gittens (ahead 🇬🇧): Borussia Dortmund ➡️ Chelsea for 56 million

Jeremie Frimpomg (right-back 🇳🇱): Bayer Leverkusen ➡️ Liverpool for 40 million

Mathys Tel (Ahead 🇫🇷): Bavaria Munich ➡️ Tottenham for 35 million

Enzo Millot (Midfielder 🇫🇷): Stuttgart ➡️ al-Ahli for 28 million

Kingsley Coman (ahead 🇫🇷): Bayern Munich ➡️ Al-Nassr for 25 million

Ritsu Doan (Ahead 🇯🇵): Freiburg ➡️ Eintracht Frankfurt for 21 million

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Jonathan Burkardt (Ahead 🇩🇪): Mainz ➡️ Eintracht Frankfurt for 21 million

Amine Adli (ahead 🇲🇦): Bayer Leverkusen ➡️ Bournemouth for 21 million

Tremendous Bavarian assault

The offensive sector was the spotlight of Bayern Munich final season, the primary with Vincent Kompany answerable for the workforce.

The workforce scored an unimaginable 99 targets within the 34 rounds of the Bundesliga.

Within the final part of the Champions League, it was solely behind Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund on this side.

And now Luis Díaz arrives so as to add one other heavy choice to the squad.

The issue is that the squad additionally misplaced so much numerically with the departures of Kingsley Coman, Leroy Sané and Thomas Müller.

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As well as, Jamal Musiala will miss a superb a part of the season attributable to an damage suffered within the Membership World Cup.

Is the present squad sufficient to compete not just for the Bundesliga, but in addition for the European title?

Restructuring in Leverkusen

Champion in 2024, Bayer Leverkusen is present process an entire overhaul on this window.

A number of key items from the historic marketing campaign that led to the Bundesliga title have left the membership, together with coach Xabi Alonso.

See under the principle gamers who left Leverkusen:

Florian Wirtz ➡️ Liverpool

Jeremie Frimpong ➡️ Liverpool

Granit Xhaka ➡️ Sunderland

Jonathan tah ➡️ Bayern Munich

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Lukas Hradecky ➡️ Monaco

Erik ten Hag arrives as a alternative and could have the tough process of main this restructuring.

What’s Dortmund’s id?

The marketplace for Borussia Dortmund was much less busy than in different latest seasons.

Niko Kovac continues the work began originally of 2025 needing to indicate the true id of his workforce.

Dortmund had an unimaginable remaining stretch of the Bundesliga final season, profitable seven of the final eight rounds.

However the participation within the Membership World Cup was not encouraging.

Can the workforce keep within the Bundesliga’s prime 4 with out main scares this time?

Giants are again

The 2 groups that moved up from the second to the primary division are previous acquaintances of the German fan.

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Hamburg is again after seven seasons of nightmare within the 2. Bundesliga.

The membership within the north of Germany, Champions League champion in 1981, was accompanied within the promotion by Cologne, the primary champion within the historical past of the Bundesliga.

Along with custom, the 2 carry giant fan bases and rely on them to remain within the elite.

Brazilians arriving

The switch window remains to be open, however we already know that two Brazilians shall be new within the 2025/26 Bundesliga.

The ahead Rômulo was employed by Leipzig after a superb season with Göztepe, from Turkey.

Revealed by Athletico, he now has the prospect to fill the hole left by Benjamin Sesko, who was bought to Manchester United.

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At Wolfsburg, the Brazilian reinforcement was Vinícius Souza, purchased from Sheffield United.

Ex-Flamengo, he was already a starter within the new workforce within the season opener, for the German Cup.

Verify under all of the Brazilians within the Bundesliga squads up to now:

Rômulo: ahead | Leipzig | 23 years previous

Vinícius Souza: Defensive Midfielder | Wolfsburg | 26 Years Outdated

Yan Couto: Proper-Again | Borussia Dortmund | 23 Years Outdated

Arthur: right-back | Bayer Leverkusen | 22 years previous

Kauã Santos: Goalkeeper | Eintracht Frankfurt | 22 Years Outdated

Rogério: left-back | Wolfsburg | 27 years previous

Bernardo: defender | Hoffenheim | 30 years previous

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Leo Scienza: midfielder | Heidenheim | 26 years previous

Semiautomatic offside

The refereeing could have an important ‘reinforcement’ for the 2025/26 Bundesliga season.

The know-how of semiautomatic offside shall be utilized in all matches of the championship.

The instrument has already been used within the German second division, which began in early August.

The opposite novelty for refereeing is that every one choices taken with the assistance of VAR shall be introduced by the referee by the stadium’s loudspeakers.

This characteristic has already been utilized in some video games from the second half of final season, however shall be accessible in all matches.