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Bundesliga: which clubs have shared the most players?

This season's Bundesliga clubs, paired up and ranked by the number of footballers who played for both. At the top: Eintracht Frankfurt – Stuttgart, 40 players.

Bundesliga: club pairs with the most shared players

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1Eintracht Frankfurt – Stuttgart40Joachim Löw, Filip Kostić, Omar Marmoush
2Bayer Leverkusen – Köln37Bernd Schuster, Andriy Voronin, Michael Rensing
3Bayern München – Stuttgart34Jürgen Klinsmann, Philipp Lahm, Mario Gómez
4Borussia Dortmund – Köln32Jürgen Kohler, Neven Subotić, Thomas Häßler
5Hoffenheim – Stuttgart32Kevin Kurányi, Vedad Ibišević, Steven Zuber
6Eintracht Frankfurt – Hamburger SV28Naohiro Takahara, Uwe Bein, Filip Kostić
7Bayern München – Schalke 0428Manuel Neuer, Leroy Sané, Hamit Altıntop
8Schalke 04 – Stuttgart28Jens Lehmann, Holger Badstuber, Kevin Kurányi
9Hamburger SV – Werder Bremen28Eljero Elia, Frank Ordenewitz, Martin Harnik
10Borussia Dortmund – Stuttgart27Jens Lehmann, Matthias Sammer, Kevin Großkreutz
11Borussia Mönchengladbach – Schalke 0427Breel Embolo, Kō Itakura, Mike Hanke
12Hamburger SV – Schalke 0426Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting, Michael Gregoritsch, Dennis Aogo
13Augsburg – Stuttgart26Hajime Hosogai, Gregor Kobel, Ermedin Demirović
14Borussia Dortmund – Eintracht Frankfurt25Mario Götze, Michy Batshuayi, Kevin-Prince Boateng
15Borussia Dortmund – Werder Bremen25Niclas Füllkrug, Nuri Şahin, Sokratis Papastathopoulos
16Bayern München – Hamburger SV25Franz Beckenbauer, Jérôme Boateng, Ivica Olić
17Hamburger SV – Stuttgart25Gotoku Sakai, Khalid Boulahrouz, Filip Kostić
18Hamburger SV – Köln24Uwe Bein, Frank Ordenewitz, Artjoms Rudņevs
19Borussia Dortmund – Schalke 0424Jens Lehmann, Kevin-Prince Boateng, Christoph Metzelder
20Bayern München – Borussia Mönchengladbach24Lothar Matthäus, Marcell Jansen, Yann Sommer
21Bayer Leverkusen – Bayern München23Toni Kroos, Michael Ballack, Jonathan Tah
22Bayer Leverkusen – Hamburger SV23Heung-min Son, Jonathan Tah, Niko Kovač
23Bayern München – Borussia Dortmund23Robert Lewandowski, Mats Hummels, Mario Götze
24Schalke 04 – Werder Bremen23Mesut Özil, Aggelos Charisteas, Mladen Krstajić
25Freiburg – Stuttgart23Joachim Löw, Dennis Aogo, Ermedin Demirović
26Köln – Stuttgart22Ron-Robert Zieler, Serhou Guirassy, Marco Streller
27Augsburg – Bayern München22Takashi Usami, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Piotr Trochowski
28Mainz – Schalke 0422Loris Karius, Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting, Ádám Szalai
29Eintracht Frankfurt – Köln21Uwe Bein, Uwe Rahn, Ellyes Skhiri
30Bayern München – Köln21Lukas Podolski, Claudio Pizarro, Jürgen Kohler
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Source: Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia club articles and player infoboxes (years at each club). Youth spells and appearances that look unplayed are left out; volunteer-kept records can contain gaps or errors.