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Bundesliga table 2026-27 after matchday 9: Bayern and Dortmund both win and stay level on 21, Leipzig gain a top four number, the top four line falls to 92 and the relegation line to 82
As of the November 9 update, with matchday nine complete and all 18 clubs on nine matches with 25 left. Bayern Munich won 2-1 at Mainz and Dortmund beat Elversberg 2-1, so both are unbeaten on 21 points. The top four line fell from 94 to 92 and four clubs now hold a number: RB Leipzig beat Augsburg 5-2 and gained one, and Freiburg, 2-0 winners over Union Berlin, now have 2 points to spare where they had none. The line for avoiding automatic relegation fell from 85 to 82, which kept Union's number alive despite the defeat.
Clinch Desk · Wed, Nov 11
Bayern Munich and Dortmund are still level. On November 7, Korean time, Bayern won 2-1 at Mainz and Dortmund beat Elversberg 2-1 at home, so both have six wins and three draws and 21 points, and neither has lost. Bayern are top on goal difference, 29 scored and 9 conceded against Dortmund's 16 and 7. Both can reach 96, so neither has a title number and neither has a title tragic number. Freiburg are third on 19 after beating Union Berlin 2-0, and their title tragic number is 25, every match they have left, the same as RB Leipzig's.
Everything here is as of the November 9 update. Eighty-one of the season's 306 matches are in, and all 18 clubs have played nine and have 25 left, worth up to 75 points each. The round ran from November 7 to November 9, Korean time, home side first: Mainz 1-2 Bayern Munich, Dortmund 2-1 Elversberg, Paderborn 2-2 Eintracht Frankfurt, RB Leipzig 5-2 Augsburg and Hamburg 3-1 Mönchengladbach on the 7th, Stuttgart 1-0 Werder Bremen and Köln 1-2 Leverkusen on the 8th, and Hoffenheim 2-1 Schalke and Freiburg 2-0 Union Berlin on the 9th.
The top four line fell from 94 to 92. It sits one above the fourth highest ceiling among a club's rivals. Before this round the highest ceilings below the top three were Leipzig's and Bremen's 93. Leipzig won and moved into fourth on 18, Bremen lost 1-0 at Stuttgart and can now reach 90, and the highest ceiling below the top four is Leverkusen's 91, so the line is 92. Bayern's and Dortmund's 21 plus 71, Freiburg's 19 plus 73 and Leipzig's 18 plus 74 all come to it. Of the 75 points left, Bayern and Dortmund can drop 4, Freiburg 2 and Leipzig 1. Last time Bayern and Dortmund could drop 2 and Freiburg none.
Our previous piece said Freiburg's and Union's 78s were both every point left, so a draw between them would end both unless the lines came down. There was no draw. Freiburg won, and their number went from 78 to 73. Union lost, but the relegation line came down, so they still have a number, as explained below. Leverkusen won 2-1 at Köln and are fifth on 16, but their ceiling of 91 is below what Bayern, Dortmund, Freiburg and Leipzig can all reach, so they still have no number. Their top four tragic number is 25, every match they have left, and Bremen, who had none last time, now carry the same 25. Every club below Leipzig has one, down to Mönchengladbach's 21.
At the bottom the Bundesliga relegates two clubs directly and the 16th plays a relegation play-off, so the line here is for avoiding automatic relegation, a top 16 finish, not for being safe. That total fell from 85 to 82. The two lowest ceilings are Mönchengladbach's 79 and Schalke's 81. Schalke lost 2-1 at Hoffenheim and stay on 6 points, and their relegation tragic number went from 26 to 25. Mönchengladbach lost 3-1 at Hamburg and are bottom on 4, with one win, one draw and seven defeats, and theirs also went from 26 to 25. Both are every match they have left, and they are still the only two clubs with one.
Union Berlin lost at Freiburg and stay 16th on 7 points. Their ceiling of 82 is exactly the new line, so their number went from 78 to 75, again every point left. Above them, four clubs are level on 12: Stuttgart, who beat Bremen 1-0, Hoffenheim, who beat Schalke 2-1, Hamburg, 3-1 winners over Mönchengladbach, and Eintracht Frankfurt, who drew 2-2 at Paderborn. All four now carry a line of 70. Mainz and Paderborn are on 10 with 72, and Augsburg and Köln on 9 with 73. Sixteen clubs carry a line, from 61 for Bayern and Dortmund up to Union's 75.
Nothing is clinched or eliminated, and every club can still finish anywhere from first to 18th. The next round cannot change that: after it the widest gap in the table can be 20 points, with 24 matches, 72 points, left for everyone. The round runs from November 21 to November 23, Korean time. On the 21st Bayern Munich host Köln, Union Berlin host RB Leipzig, Mönchengladbach host Dortmund, Elversberg host Freiburg, Leverkusen host Paderborn and Eintracht Frankfurt host Hoffenheim. Augsburg host Mainz and Schalke host Stuttgart on the 22nd, and Werder Bremen host Hamburg on the 23rd. Union's 75 is every point left, so anything short of a win against Leipzig keeps their number only if the line falls again.
How to read these numbers. A clinch number is the minimum a club must still collect for an outcome to be guaranteed even if every rival wins every remaining match. A tragic number is how many more defeats make an outcome impossible even if the club wins everything else. A reachable range is the highest and the lowest finish still arithmetically open. A rival who can only draw level still counts as a threat to a clinch, while a rival has to finish clearly above a club to eliminate it. Goal difference, head to head records and the league's tiebreakers are not part of the calculation. The table is at, the remaining fixtures at, the qualification and relegation rules at, every club's numbers at and the method at. Club pages: Bayern Munich, Dortmund, Freiburg, Leverkusen and Union Berlin. To try results yourself, use.
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