Bundesliga Table Predictor 2026/27

The Bundesliga Table Predictor is a free, browser-based tool that lets you drag all 18 clubs into your predicted 2026/27 final order — Champions League places, Europa League, Conference League, the relegation play-off spot, and straight relegation are colour-coded. Your table auto-saves locally, and once the season kicks off 28 August 2026 the tool pulls live standings from the official Bundesliga table and scores your prediction after every matchweek. Updated 2026-07-27.

How the Bundesliga Table Predictor Works

This tool lets you predict where all 18 clubs will finish in the 2026/27 Bundesliga. The list starts in last season's finishing order, with the three promoted clubs — Schalke 04, SV Elversberg and SC Paderborn — placed at the bottom. Drag any club up or down (or use the arrow buttons on mobile) until the table matches your prediction. The coloured left edge shows the stakes at each position: the top four qualify for the Champions League, fifth place goes to the Europa League, sixth to the Conference League, 16th enters the relegation play-off against a 2. Bundesliga side, and the bottom two are relegated straight down.

Your predicted table is saved automatically in your browser, so you can close the page and come back to tweak it. Once the season kicks off on Friday 28 August 2026, the panel under the table wakes up: it pulls the real Bundesliga standings and scores your prediction — how many clubs you placed in the exact right spot, how many within one place, and your average error across the table. Come back after each matchweek to watch your accuracy climb (or your title pick collapse).

Why predict the table before the season?

Predicting the final table is a decades-old ritual for Bundesliga fans — every August, pundits, podcasts and group chats lock in their order, even with Bayern Munich's dominance making the top spot the easiest pick in Europe. It is also the fairest way to run a season-long prediction contest with friends: everyone submits a table on day one, and you settle up in May. This predictor gives you a clean, shareable table plus automatic scoring so nobody has to tally it by hand.

The 2026/27 Bundesliga: Who's In

The 2026/27 Bundesliga features the 15 clubs that stayed up from 2025/26 plus three promoted sides. VfL Wolfsburg (lost the relegation play-off), 1. FC Heidenheim and FC St. Pauli went down; Schalke 04 and SV Elversberg won automatic promotion from 2. Bundesliga, and SC Paderborn came up by beating Wolfsburg in the relegation play-off. That gives reigning champions Bayern Munich, runners-up Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig and VfB Stuttgart at the top of most predictions, plus the usual European-chasing pack of Bayer Leverkusen, Eintracht Frankfurt and Freiburg, and a fresh relegation scrap involving the promoted trio and the Bundesliga's traditional strugglers.

How the Champions League and relegation places work

Germany's top four finishers qualify directly for the UEFA Champions League league phase. In seasons where German clubs perform strongly in Europe, the country can earn a fifth Champions League place through UEFA's coefficient ranking — so a strong European year can bump fifth place up into the Champions League too. Fifth place otherwise enters the Europa League (the DFB-Pokal winner also gets a Europa League spot, bumping the league's 6th-place finisher down if they'd have qualified anyway), and 6th (or 7th, if the cup winner finished in the top six) takes the Conference League place.

Relegation works differently here than in most of Europe's other major leagues: the bottom two clubs — 17th and 18th — go straight down to 2. Bundesliga. The club that finishes 16th does not go down automatically — instead it plays a two-legged relegation play-off against the third-placed team in 2. Bundesliga, with the winner earning (or keeping) a Bundesliga place for 2027/28. It's one of German football's most nerve-shredding traditions, and this predictor marks that 16th spot with its own distinct "Play-off" tag rather than lumping it in with straight relegation.

Tips for a Sharper Prediction

Bayern Munich have won the title in most recent seasons, so the real skill in a Bundesliga prediction contest is usually the battle for 2nd through 6th and the fight to avoid that 16th-place play-off spot. Weigh summer transfer business heavily — a marquee signing or a key sale can move a mid-table side several places. Promoted clubs historically struggle in the Bundesliga: be realistic about Schalke 04, Elversberg and Paderborn, especially Elversberg, who would be playing top-flight football for the first time in their history. Look at fixtures, European commitments, and managerial changes over the summer — and remember that a play-off place (16th) is arguably scarier for fans than the bottom two, since it comes down to a single two-legged tie in May.

Share Your Table and Settle It in May

Use Copy My Table to grab a text version of your prediction for WhatsApp, Reddit or your group chat, or Download Image to save a clean graphic of your table. Challenge your friends to submit theirs before matchweek one — then let this tool's automatic scoring decide who called it best when the real season plays out. Pair it with our La Liga table predictor and Serie A table predictor if you follow more than one European league, our Premier League table predictor for England, the UCL league phase simulator for the European season, the transfer fee calculator to value the summer's big moves, and the football salary calculator to see what the stars earn.