“Bundesliga Home Challenge” concluded
22 April 2020 – Last weekend, the “Bundesliga Home Challenge” organised by the DFL was concluded after 116 individual games and 480 goals. Over four match days, 29 clubs from the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 as well as a team of referees played a part in bridging the football-free period.
Besides numerous players from the two top leagues of German professional football and the team of referees, players who are involved with the clubs were also able to put their console skills to the test, which increased the total number of players to 110. As a finale on the fourth weekend, there was a derby match day featuring a multitude of local derbies and some classic clashes such as Borussia Dortmund – FC Schalke 04, Borussia Mönchengladbach – 1. FC Köln and Hamburger SV – FC St. Pauli.
The “Bundesliga Home Challenge” was broadcast nationally and internationally by a large number of media partners. In Germany, media outlets including Pro7/ran, Sky, DAZN, Bild and Sport1 broadcast the home challenge online and on television. On average, the action reached more than two million users on each match day. All the highlights and the top statistics from the four match days are available at bundesliga.com.
The „Bundesliga Home Challenge“ was played in the football simulation FIFA 20 by EA SPORTS exlusively on PlayStation 4 in the “85 mode“. This mode guarantees that all teams have the same player rating of 85, so all teams have the same chance of winning. The “Bundesliga Home Challenge” did not influence any official league standings. Meanwhile in the Virtual Bundesliga, the VBL Grand Final, which originally had been planned for March as an event attended in person, was postponed due to the spread of the coronavirus.
The following clubs and players from the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 participated in the Bundesliga Home Challenge:
FSV Mainz 05: Jonathan Burkhardt / Leandro Barreiro / Florian Müller / Daniel Brosinski, 1. FC Köln: Noah Katterbach / Rafael Czichos, 1. FC Nürnberg: Tim Handwerker / Felix Schimmel, 1. FC Union Berlin: Keven Schlotterbeck / Julius Kade, Bayer 04 Leverkusen: Adrian Stanilewicz / Nadiem Amiri / Wendell, Borussia Dortmund: Achraf Hakimi / Eldin Todorovac / Leonardo Balerdi /, Borussia Mönchengladbach: Jonas Hofmann, DSC Arminia Bielefeld: Amos Pieper / Andreas Voglsammer, Eintracht Frankfurt: Nils Stendera, FC Augsburg: Marco Richter, FC Schalke 04: Nassim Boujellab, FC St. Pauli: Luca Zander / Marvin Knoll, Hamburger SV: Tim Leibold / Sonny Kittel, Hannover 96: Jannes Horn / Julian Korb, Hertha BSC: Pascal Köpke / Maximilian Mittelstädt, Holstein Kiel: Dominik Schmidt, RB Leipzig: Tom Krauss / Nordi Mukiele, SC Freiburg: Mark Flekken / Nico Schlotterbeck, SC Paderborn 07: Marlon Ritter / Lucas Fiedler, SG Dynamo Dresden: Justin Löwe / Marcel Gramann/ Baris Atik, Marco Terrazzino, SpVgg Greuther Fürth: Timothy Tillman, SSV Jahn Regensburg: Tom Baack / Federico Palacios, SV Darmstadt 98: Felix Platte / Erich Berko, SV Wehen Wiesbaden: Sascha „M_0cki“ Mockenhaupt / Sidney Friede, SV Werder Bremen: Davie Selke / Milos Vejlkovic / Maximilian Eggestein, TSG Hoffenheim: Munas Dabbur, VfL Bochum 1848: Ulrich Bapoh / Vitaly Janelt, VfB Stuttgart: Atakan Karazor, VfL Wolfsburg: Lino Kasten, Schiedsrichter-Team: Deniz Aytekin / Daniel Schlager / Martin Petersen