Yea even after their incredible league win - a first in their history they sit 16th on the list of Germany’s most successful clubs. They literally had won nothing apart from that single Uefa/Europa League trophy.
Reaching a CL was a fantastic achievement for them - but in actual successes they are total minnows and don’t see why you would only limit things to start from the ONLY time in history they even featured in any final in that competition..?
Think Villarreal really.
https://onefootball.com/en/news/the-10-smallest-footballing-cities-to-win-a-european-trophy-38834104
The list you refer to as 37..? I don’t get to that number. It’s simple to my eye - those titles in that second list dominated by Spain are accounted for in 2018 and are from the turn of the century. So 17 European seasons and 2 comps per season = 34 titles CL and EL. There are 34 titles in that list.
No..?
Zenit and Galatasary are the Russian and Turkish sides to win. This is all European competition BTW and I used that because on that marker Leverkusen have actually managed a title. Lots of teams have featured in the CL who were minnows also - Leicester City as actual league champions did it.
Domination of the biggest prize can also be judged by looking at who is teaching the most semi finals. Which teams are going the deepest into the tournament.
And this little video does a decent visual job of representing that.
I guess the point is German football clubs are very well accounted for across all
European football. Obviously Bayern tower over them all but the Bundesliga is not a shyte league
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