The 1975–76 Bundesliga was the 13th season of the Bundesliga, West Germany's premier football league. It began on 9 August 1975 and ended on 12 June 1976.

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were the defending champions.

Competition modus

Every team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. If two or more teams were tied on points, places were determined by

goal difference Goal difference, goal differential or points difference is a form of tiebreaker used to rank sport teams which finish on equal points in a league competition. Either "goal difference" or "points difference" is used, depending on whether matches ar ...

and, if still tied, by goals scored. The team with the most points were crowned champions while the three teams with the fewest points were relegated to their respective

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divisions.

Team changes to 1974–75

VfB Stuttgart, Tennis Borussia Berlin and Wuppertaler SV were relegated to the

after finishing in the last three places. They were replaced by

Hannover 96 Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896, commonly referred to as Hannover 96 (), Hannover, HSV or simply 96, is a German professional football club based in the city of Hanover, Lower Saxony. They played in the Bundesliga for a total of 30 years betwe ...

, winners of the 2. Bundesliga Northern Division, Karlsruher SC, winners of the Southern Division and Bayer 05 Uerdingen, who won a two-legged promotion play-off against FK Pirmasens.

Team overview

;Notes #The VfL Bochum played six of their 1976 home games at

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in Herne and one at the Westfalenstadion in

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because the field at their Stadion an der Castroper Straße had become unplayable due to the 1976–1979 expansion of the stadium.

League table

Results

Top goalscorers

;29 goals * Klaus Fischer ''(

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)'' ;23 goals *

Erich Beer Erich "Ete" Beer (born 9 December 1946) is a German former football player and coach. Career Beer was born in Neustadt bei Coburg. He started his career at SpVgg Ebing and played until 1968 with VfL Neustadt, until a move to the Bundesliga ...

''(

Hertha BSC Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e. V., commonly known as Hertha BSC (), and sometimes referred to as Hertha Berlin, Hertha BSC Berlin, or simply Hertha, is a German professional football club based in the locality of Westend of the borough of Charl ...

)'' *

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''(

FC Bayern Munich Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), also known as FC Bayern (), Bayern Munich, or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional men's football team, which play ...

)'' ;22 goals * Klaus Toppmöller ''( 1. FC Kaiserslautern)'' ;18 goals * Horst Hrubesch ''( Rot-Weiss Essen)'' ;17 goals *

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''( 1. FC Kaiserslautern)'' ;16 goals * Wolfgang Frank ''(

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)'' * Bernd Hölzenbein ''( Eintracht Frankfurt)'' * Allan Simonsen ''(

)'' ;15 goals * Johannes Löhr ''(

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)'' * Bernd Nickel ''( Eintracht Frankfurt)''

Champion squad

References

External links

DFB Bundesliga archive 1975/1976
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