The Bundesliga trends so far in 2024/25

• Defending champions Bayer Leverkusen went through the whole of last season unbeaten domestically, but this term every team has already lost at least once.
  
  
• With 445 goals across the first 15 matchdays (3.30 per game), the Bundesliga is averaging over three goals per match for the seventh consecutive year.
  
  
• For context, there were only two seasons with an average of three goals per game or more in the 30 years from 1988 to 2018.

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• Goalkeepers have only saved an average of 66 percent of shots this season, continuing a steady decline in recent years; in 2007/08 it was 72 percent.
  
  
• Of the 43 penalties awarded so far, only 28 have been scored. That conversion rate of 65 percent is the lowest in the last 45 years – it was 63 percent across the entire 1979/80 campaign.

• Freiburg have missed all three of the spot-kicks they have been given, while Leverkusen and VfB Stuttgart have missed three out of four. 
  
  
• Only 2,866 fouls have been awarded in the Bundesliga so far this season, a record low since detailed data collection began in 1992.
  
  
• Conversely, more players have been sent off (24) in 2024/25 than at the same stage in any of the last five seasons.
  
  
• A total of 87 goals have been scored from crosses from open play, 24 more than after Matchday 15 last season.
  
  
• Five of Florian Wirtz’s crosses have led to goals – a league high

• Conversely, only 92 goals have been scored from set pieces, which is the lowest tally at this stage of a campaign since 2016/17 (83).
  
  
• St. Pauli are the only team not to have scored from a dead-ball situation this term. Wolfsburg lead the way with 10.

• Borussia Dortmund have the highest average attendance so far this season with 81,365. They are followed by Bayern Munich (75,000), Bundesliga 2 side Schalke (61,256) and Stuttgart (59,250).