The Bundesliga features 18 teams.
The 18 teams play a home-and-away double round-robin format with 34 matches.
The winner of the Bundesliga receives a "salad plate"; the bottom two teams are relegated to the German Bundesliga (Bundesliga 2); the bottom three teams play a play-off against the third-place finishers of the Bundesliga 2, with the winners taking part in the next season's Bundesliga. The top four teams in the Bundesliga qualify for the UEFA Champions League, while the fifth and sixth teams qualify for the Europa League.
