All-time Bundesliga midfielders bracket

The greatest midfielders in Bundesliga history, by their honours. Fill out a all-time Bundesliga midfielders bracket.

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Lothar Matthäus1979–2000

2

Toni Kroos2007–2014

3

Lukas Podolski2003–2012

4

Bastian Schweinsteiger2002–2015

5

Mesut Özil2006–2010

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Joshua Kimmich2013–2015

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David Alaba2010–2021

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Michael Ballack1999–2012

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Granit Xhaka2012–2025

10

Matthias Sammer1990–1992

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Uli Hoeneß1970–1979

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Xabi Alonso2014–2017

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André Schürrle2009–2013

14

Günter Netzer1963–1973

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Pierre Littbarski1978–1993

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Pierre-Emile Højbjerg2013–2016

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Wolfgang Overath1962–1977

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Ivan Rakitić2007–2011

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Charles Aránguiz2015–2023

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Aleksandar Dragović2016–

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Sami Khedira2006–2010

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Exequiel Palacios2020–2026

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Andreas Herzog1992–2001

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Claudio Reyna1994–1999

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Lee Jae-sung2021–

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Corentin Tolisso2017–2022

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Juan Arango2009–2014

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Hans Schäfer1948–1965

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Anatolii Tymoshchuk2009–2013

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Rainer Bonhof1970–1983

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Olaf Thon1983–2002

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Julian Draxler2011–2015

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Dani Olmo2020–2024

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Herbert Wimmer1966–1978

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Thomas Hitzlsperger1989–2010

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Bernhard Cullmann1969–1984

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Heinz Flohe1966–1979

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Arturo Vidal2015–2018

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Christoph Kramer2011–2024

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Mark van Bommel2006–2011

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Leon Goretzka2013–2026

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Dorinel Munteanu1995–1999

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Niko Kovač1996–2003

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Thiago Alcântara2013–2020

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Torsten Frings1997–2011

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Denis Zakaria2017–2022

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Mehmet Scholl1992–2007

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Florian Wirtz2020–2025

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Hakan Çalhanoğlu2014–2017

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Michael Bradley2008–2011

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Owen Hargreaves2000–2007

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Thorgan Hazard2014–2019

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Miroslav Karhan2007–2011

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Naby Keïta2016–2018

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Martin Harnik2007–2020

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Marc Wilmots1996–2003

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Krasimir Balakov1995–2003

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Steven Zuber2014–2020

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Hasan Salihamidžić1998–2007

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Konrad Laimer2017–2023

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Hajime Hosogai2011–2017

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Christoph Baumgartner2019–2023

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Andreas Möller2000–2003

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Yasuhiko Okudera1977–1986

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Dietmar Hamann1993–1998

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Ali Karimi2003–2011

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Gerald Asamoah1999–2015

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Ellyes Skhiri2019–

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Robbie Kruse2013–2017

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SE

Stefan Effenberg1987–2002

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Theodor Gebre Selassie2012–2021

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Uli Stielike1972–1977

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Marko Marin2006–2012

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Zlatko Junuzović2012–

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Pável Pardo2006–2009

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Lars Bender2009–2021

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Bernd Schuster1978–1996

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David Raum2021–2022

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Florian Grillitsch2015–2025

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Zvonimir Soldo1996–2006

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Hansi Müller1975–1982

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Simon Rolfes2002–2015

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UR

Uwe Rahn1980–1990

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Christopher Nkunku2019–

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Sergej Barbarez1993–2008

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Søren Lerby1983–1992

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Jens Jeremies1998–2006

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Romano Schmid2019–2026

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Alessandro Schöpf2014–2021

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Dieter Herzog1976–1983

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Ciriaco Sforza1995–2002

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Daniel Jensen2004–2011

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Helmut Haller1957–1979

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YB

Yıldıray Baştürk2001–2010

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Mario Basler1993–1999

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Christian Poulsen2002–2006

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MB

Marco Bode1989–2002

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JK

Jupp Kapellmann1970–1979

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Carsten Ramelow1996–2008

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Dunga1993–1995

Top all-time Bundesliga midfielders — November 2026

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A knockout bracket: pick the winner of every matchup, round by round, until one is left.

The greatest midfielders in Bundesliga history, by their honours.

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