Interesting facts about German football clubs: (a) they usually are part of much larger all-encompassing sports clubs that will field teams in all sorts of different sports, and (b) with two very notable exceptions, all German clubs are required to be 50%+1 fan owned.
Also, neither Mike nor Tim speak German, so please do not crucify us if we get the club names' pronounciation wrong.
Clubs we focused on in today's discussion:
| Bayer 04 Leverkusen | FC Bayern Munich | Borussia Dortmund | Borussia Monchengladbach |
| Dresdner SC | Eintracht Frankfurt | Hamburger SV | 1. FC Kaiserslautern |
| 1. FC Koln | 1. FC Nurnberg | FC Schalke 04 | VBF Stuttgart |
| SV Werder Bremen | VFL Wolfsburg |
Clubs we mentioned in passing:
| TSV 1860 Munich | Fortuna Dusseldorf | SpVgg Greuther Furth | Hannover 96 |
| Hertha BSC | Karlsruher FV | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | Rot-Weiss Essen |
| BFC Viktoria 1889 | FSV Frankfurt | FC St. Pauli | Waldhof Mannheim |
| Stuttgarter Kickers |
Next time: we finish Europe's Big 4 with Italy.
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