Borussia Dortmund bounced back from their defeat to Bayer Leverkusen on the opening day of the season by winning 3-1 at Stuttgart today to leave their hosts rooted to the bottom of the Bundesliga.

Patrick Herrmann scored twice as Borussia Moenchengladbach swept to its first win over Bayer Leverkusen for 16 years in an emphatic 6-3 away victory in the Bundesliga on Sunday.

Isaac Vorsah's late goal gave Hoffenheim a 1-0 victory at newly-promoted St Pauli on Saturday - and top spot in the Bundesliga.

Mainz recovered from three goals down to shock Wolfsburg 4-3 on Saturday and spoil the Bundesliga return of Brazilian superstar Diego.

Schalke's suffered a second successive Bundesliga defeat as they lost at home against Hannover to remain without a point.

Promoted Kaiserslautern stunned Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich with two goals in 60 seconds to win 2-0 on Friday and go top of the table with six points from two games.

Michael Ballack made a triumphant return to Bundesliga action on Sunday afternoon as his Bayer Leverkusen side cruised to a 2-0 win at Borussia Dortmund.

Mainz beat Stuttgart 2-0 to begin its Bundesliga campaign on Sunday with a victory against a team it had never defeated in the championship in nine previous attempts.

A Ruud van Nistelrooy double led Hamburg to a 2-1 victory over Schalke in the German Bundesliga.

Mohammadou Idrissou marked his Borussia Monchengladbach debut with a goal his team could only draw 1-1 against Nurnberg.

Hoffenheim fought back from an early goal down to strike four times in 23 minutes and crush Werder Bremen 4-1 on Saturday, in an impressive show of attacking football at the start of the season .

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Bayern Munich needed an injury time goal to get their Bundesliga campaign off to a winning start with a 2-1 victory against VfL Wolfsburg on Friday night.

Bayern Munich won their first silverware of the new season by beating Schalke to lift the Supercup.

Bayern Munich on Saturday stayed on course for a historic treble when they won the German Cup by beating the defending champions Werder Bremen 4-0 in the final in Berlin.

Christian Eigler's 85th-minute goal gave Nurnberg a slender advantage in their two-legged Bundesliga play-off against Augsburg.

The former Chelsea striker Claudio Pizarro helped Werder Bremen into the Champions League on the final day of the Bundesliga season.