What is Germany's soccer team called?

What is the biggest club in Germany?

The answer depends on what you're talking about.

The Football Association of Germany (DFB) says Bayern Munich is the largest club in Germany. But what about revenue and success? That would come in second place. The DFB uses a different definition of club size than some people, including the German league.

In Germany, clubs have been defined as "Klubs" since the mid-18th century, which is a pretty long time. At the time, a man named Martin Luther was the leader of the Protestant Reformation.

The term "Klub" refers to a group of people that work together to reach a goal. It comes from a German word "Club" meaning to work together.

The term is used for anything from a sports team to a religious congregation. So in Germany, there are over 30 million members of the club.

The clubs were initially for the common man to get together to play games or drink beer together. In the past 300 years, Germany has had many revolutions. Each one has changed how the German clubs were formed. The clubs haven't been connected for a very long time, and this new structure hasn't always been stable.

There have also been many wars and revolutions that caused great changes to the German clubs. The DFB is based in Frankfurt, the capital of Germany. The German Soccer Association, or DFB, took over from the old German Football Association, which was founded in 1889 and dissolved in 1943 during World War II.

The new DFB has brought more stability to the clubs and a set of uniform laws to Germany. From the rules and regulations, they determined what the size of a club should be, the number of players, the number of members and other things.

Some clubs have been around since before the beginning of modern Germany, while others are just getting off the ground.

How many football teams are there in Germany?

Germany's Bundesliga, as you might have heard of, boasts 25 teams.

The top five clubs (Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, FC Schalke 04, VfB Stuttgart and Werder Bremen) make up just 17% of its total revenue. The average attendance per game at the top ten clubs is nearly 35,000. That's more than double the average of 14,000 in the US Major League Soccer. The top five have combined win percentage of 0.76, compared to MLS' 0.65.

Why doesn't MLS sell a lot of tickets? Partly because many fans have yet to watch MLS live, but also because a) it has no single-entity TV contract, b) it only has one team in each media market, and c) the teams are all located in one of the most affluent corners of the US. Does any of this sound familiar? Well, this is what German soccer looks like. That league has an average crowd of 26,000, less than half of MLS, and nearly 5 times fewer teams. It has a higher top-five win percentage at 0.82. It's supported by nearly 50% of its clubs only 15% of its clubs, or 12 out of 43 teams, make up more than 1/4 of its total revenue.

When I first wrote this article about the comparison, there were more than 20 comments telling me how wrong I was. Most were American soccer fans who are more used to the American model where a small group of rich teams dominate. The comment threads were generally filled with comments from a few fans who could understand the point I was trying to make. Yet most fans seemed to have a problem with me for saying how bad the American system is.

How can anyone expect anything good from a system where fans pay a ridiculous sum for something they don't own (or even know the price)? How can we expect people to care when the majority of fans cannot afford tickets to watch their teams? How can we expect our club teams to work hard or to care if they aren't paid to be competitive? Let's take a look at why the American system might not be working. I'll start off with the good news for MLS fans.

Good News. The American system actually works well in certain ways.