Steffen Baumgart

Bayern Munich are obviously heavily favoured to win the Bundesliga again this season after winning nine out of 10 games to start the season. Still, their impressive run is not the current starting record in the Bundesliga. Vincent Kompany’s team is incredibly dominant, but so were many FC Bayern teams...

After nearly six rounds in the 2025/2026 Premier League campaign, many tactical battles and ideas have stood out, offering coaches, analysts, and fans around the world a chance to explore new ideas or revisit old ones through a different lens. Set-pieces are among the trends in which the Premier League...

Borussia Dortmund started their 2025/2026 Bundesliga campaign dropping points against St. Pauli. However, they've kicked on for the second matchday by recording a comfortable three-nil victory over Union Berlin. This win took Die Schwarzgelben to fourth place on the table, exactly where they finished the previous season after an impressive...

Union Berlin were on quite the ride for a few years as a club, having achieved a higher league finish for six consecutive seasons, which included a promotion to the Bundesliga and even UEFA Champions League football. But ever since their top-four finish in 2022/23, which earned them that place...

FC Koln have become one of the stronger teams in the Bundesliga following the appointment of Steffen Baumgart in 2021. In his first season in charge of Koln, he helped them climb up to a seventh-place finish in the league, earning them a Europa Conference League spot. Halfway into the...

The Bundesliga continues to pump out fascinating games week-in-week-out, with Koln and Bayer Leverkusen taking centre stage this past weekend. These sides have been two of the more tactically interesting teams this season and following this draw they sit in eighth and fourth place in the league, respectively. Leverkusen in...

Coming into the 2021/22 Bundesliga season, both sets of fans for Hoffenheim and FC Koln were hoping for better a showing as both teams flattered to deceive. Last season, Hoffenheim finished 12th, which is far from their desired destination of European football, while Koln finished in 16th and remained in...

Steffen Baumgart will be a familiar name to any followers of the German Bundesliga due to his stellar work with SC Paderborn. Baumgart brought Paderborn up into the top flight of German football playing a high-tempo, attractive brand of football, with an emphasis on intriguing pressing structures, following back-to-back promotions...