The calendar for the 2024/25 season has already been set. As revealed in the schedule adopted by the executive committees of the German Football Association (DFB) and the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga, the opening match of the Bundesliga will take place on August 23, 2024, while Bundesliga 2 will begin three weeks before, on August 2. 2024.
The Olympic tournament will start on July 24, 2024, two days before the opening ceremony on the Seine River in Paris, and will end in the Parc des Princes on Friday, August 9. Therefore, this will affect the players under 23 years old (born after January 1, 2001), with the possibility of each team having up to three players born before that date. Even so, Germany failed to qualify for the Olympic Games, after being eliminated in the group stage of the Euro 2023 Under-21 Championship.
The opening match of the Bundesliga will take place on Friday, August 23, 2024. Until the German top division reaches the winter break after matchday 15 (December 20 to 22, 2024), the course of the championship will be interrupted for three international breaks (from September 2 to 10, from October 7 to 15 and from November 11 to 19). The Bundesliga will begin the new year with matchday 16 (January 10-12, 2015) and an interweekly matchday. The grand finale will take place on May 17, when the nine matches of matchday 34 will be played simultaneously.
The DFB Cup final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin will be played seven days later, on Saturday, May 24, 2025. The promotion matches to the Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga and 3. Liga are scheduled from May 22 to 27 .
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