If Makoto Hasebe makes his 380th Bundesliga appearance when Eintracht Frankfurt go to Darmstadt on Matchday 18, the 40-year-old will be among the five oldest players ever to feature in the German top flight.
With 60 seasons in the books, the Bundesliga has given fans at home and abroad some of the best football the world has seen since its foundation in 1963. Europe’s best attended league, the one with the most goals and a relentless record champion in Bayern Munich.
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Schalke - the club who gave the world Manuel Neuer, Mesut Özil and Leroy Sane to name but a few - have been relegated from the Bundesliga for only the fourth time in their history, slipping into the second tier with four games left of a difficult 2020/21 campaign.
bundesliga.com pays tribute to the Royal Blues - seven-time German champions, founding Bundesliga members and the home of one of the finest youth academies in world football…
Bundesliga journey
Winners of six German titles in the pre-war years, and champions again in 1958, Schalke were among 16 founding members of the inaugural Bundesliga in 1963.