The German Bundesliga 2025/2026 will take place from 27 September to 26 April 2026 in Germany. It is a 16-team round-robin tournament with time control of 100 min/40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from Germany, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.
Some of the best players in the world will participate in the current German Bundesliga season – Magnus Carlsen (FC St. Pauli), Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (SC Viernheim), Fabiano Caruana, Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri, Vincent Keymer, Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Richard Rapport, and Viswanathan Anand (OSG Baden-Baden), Vladimir Fedoseev (FC Bayern München), Arjun Erigaisi (SV Deggendorf), etc.
The teams are SC Viernheim, Sfr. Wolfhagen, OSG Baden-Baden, Düsseldorfer SK, SK Kirchweyhe, SC Heimbach-Weis-Neuwied, SV Werder Bremen , SG Solingen, FC Bayern München, Schachfreunde Deizisau, Hamburger SK, MSA Zugzwang, SV Deggendorf, FC St. Pauli, USV TU Dresden, SF Berlin. Scroll down for the full team participants list.
More European team championships: German Women’s Bundesliga 2025/2026 / Slovenian Team Championship 2025 / Dutch Meesterklasse 2025/2026 / Hungarian Superleague 2025/2026
German Bundesliga 2025/2026 Participants
Number
Name
Fed
Rating
Title
SC Viernheim
1
Nodirbek Abdusattorov
UZB
2748
GM
2
Jan-Krzysztof Duda
POL
2729
GM
3
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
AZE
2741
GM
4
Chithambaram VR. Aravindh
IND
2711
GM
5
Parham Maghsoodloo
IRI
2692
GM
6
Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus
TUR
2646
GM
7
Jorden Van Foreest
NED
2692
GM
8
Alexey Sarana
SRB
2686
GM
9
David Anton Guijarro
ESP
2625
GM
10
Anton Korobov
UKR
2616
GM
11
Dr. Bassem Amin
EGY
2636
GM
12
Dennis Wagner
GER
2608
GM
13
Georg Meier
URU
2596
GM
14
Igor Kovalenko
UKR
2669
GM
15
Rainer Buhmann
GER
2548
GM
16
Dinara Wagner
GER
2400
IM
17
Bayastan Sydykov
KGZ
2357
FM
18
Yuxuan Meng
GER
1808
Sfr. Wolfhagen
1
Andreij Volokitin
UKR
2628
GM
2
Maksim Chigaev
ESP
2638
GM
3
Ruslan Ponomariov
UKR
2622
GM
4
Yuriy Kryvoruchko
UKR
2632
GM
5
Ihor Samunenkov
UKR
2550
GM
6
Yuri Kuzubov
UKR
2600
GM
7
Vladimir Onischuk
UKR
2607
GM
8
Alexander Motylev
ROU
2595
GM
9
Dr. Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko
UKR
2569
GM
10
Vladimir Baklan
UKR
2552
GM
11
Platon Galperin
SWE
2494
GM
12
Li Min Peng
SUI
2499
GM
13
Volodymyr Vetoshko
UKR
2513
GM
14
Egor Bogdanov
UKR
2510
GM
15
Eytan Rozen
ISR
2508
IM
16
Evgeny Zanan
ISR
2504
GM
17
Vadym Petrovskiy
GER
2424
IM
18
Kemal Bashirov
GER
2231
FM
OSG Baden-Baden
1
Fabiano Caruana
USA
2789
GM
2
Alireza Firouzja
FRA
2754
GM
3
Anish Giri
NED
2746
GM
4
Viswanathan Anand
IND
2743
GM
5
Levon Aronian
USA
2744
GM
6
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
FRA
2738
GM
7
Vincent Keymer
GER
2751
GM
8
Javokhir Sindarov
UZB
2722
GM
9
Richard Rapport
HUN
2711
GM
10
Nihal Sarin
IND
2693
GM
11
Nikita Vitiugov
ENG
2666
GM
12
Rustam Kasimdzhanov
UZB
2675
GM
13
Radoslaw Wojtaszek
POL
2661
GM
14
Etienne Bacrot
FRA
2637
GM
15
Alexei Shirov
ESP
2616
GM
16
Alexander Donchenko
GER
2624
GM
17
Bennet Hagner
GER
2445
IM
18
Timur Kocharin
GER
2318
FM
Düsseldorfer SK
1
Volodar Murzin
FID
2670
GM
2
Victor Bologan
MDA
2601
GM
3
Antonios Pavlidis
GRE
2577
GM
4
Casper Schoppen
NED
2552
GM
5
Mikhail Kobalia
FID
2531
GM
6
Ulf Andersson
SWE
2519
GM
7
Twan Alexander Burg
NED
2498
GM
8
Arthur Pijpers
NED
2490
GM
9
Ravi Haria
ENG
2491
GM
10
Robin Swinkels
NED
2479
GM
11
Aarav Dengla
IND
2468
IM
12
Andrey Orlov
FID
2474
GM
13
Alexander Berelowitsch
GER
2480
GM
14
Hampus Sörensen
SWE
2440
IM
15
Felix Levin
GER
2415
GM
16
Francesco de Gleria
GER
2383
IM
17
Philipp Leon Klaska
GER
2306
FM
18
Hewei Li
GER
2017
SK Kirchweyhe
1
Ivan Saric
CRO
2655
GM
2
Alexandr Predke
SRB
2609
GM
3
Ante Brkic
CRO
2594
GM
4
Robert Markus
SRB
2553
GM
5
Borki Predojevic
BIH
2565
GM
6
Erik Van den Doel
NED
2559
GM
7
Sasa Martinovic
CRO
2551
GM
8
Hrvoje Stevic
CRO
2526
GM
9
Bojan Maksimovic
BIH
2536
IM
10
Zoran Jovanovic
CRO
2500
GM
11
Robert Zelcic
CRO
2448
GM
12
Ivan Zaja
CRO
2415
GM
13
Petar Genov
BUL
2410
GM
14
Blazimir Kovacevic
CRO
2379
GM
15
Tobias Kügel
GER
2393
IM
16
Klaudia Kulon
POL
2361
IM
17
Sanjin Culum
BIH
2444
IM
18
Valentin Genov
BUL
2020
CM
SC Heimbach-Weis-Neuwied
1
Leon Livaic
CRO
2554
GM
2
Aram Hakobyan
ARM
2625
GM
3
Martin Krämer
GER
2574
GM
4
Lorenzo Lodici
ITA
2560
GM
5
Jakub Kosakowski
POL
2549
GM
6
Jorge Joao Viterbo Ferreira
POR
2504
GM
7
Stepan Zilka
CZE
2524
GM
8
Grzegorz Nasuta
POL
2502
GM
9
Jan Krejci
CZE
2509
GM
10
Martin Neugebauer
SVK
2505
IM
11
Lukas Winterberg
GER
2424
IM
12
Sven Tica
CRO
2431
IM
13
Tomas Kraus
CZE
2397
GM
14
Tomas Polak
CZE
2443
GM
15
Yevgeniy Roshka
UKR
2507
IM
16
Tim Ronge
GER
2283
FM
17
Julius Ohler
GER
2316
FM
18
Arnold Spuling
GER
1873
SV Werder Bremen
1
Haik M. Martirosyan
ARM
2628
GM
2
Velimir Ivic
SRB
2630
GM
3
Luke J McShane
ENG
2615
GM
4
Laurent Fressinet
FRA
2602
GM
5
Szymon Gumularz
POL
2590
GM
6
Aditya Mittal
IND
2589
GM
7
Alexander Areshchenko
UKR
2598
GM
8
Bobby Sky Cheng
AUS
2596
GM
9
Zahar Efimenko
UKR
2565
GM
10
Lucas van Foreest
NED
2525
GM
11
Zbynek Hracek
CZE
2539
GM
12
Vlastimil Babula
CZE
2496
GM
13
Nikolas Wachinger
GER
2450
IM
14
Spartak Grigorian
GER
2430
IM
15
Jari Reuker
GER
2390
IM
16
Lara Schulze
GER
2324
FM
17
Collin Colbow
GER
2433
IM
18
Max Weidenhöfer
GER
2205
CM
SG Solingen
1
Pentala Harikrishna
IND
2704
GM
2
David Navara
CZE
2653
GM
3
Max Warmerdam
NED
2591
GM
4
Erwin L’Ami
NED
2616
GM
5
Markus Ragger
AUT
2569
GM
6
Loek Van Wely
NED
2628
GM
7
Surya Shekhar Ganguly
IND
2573
GM
8
Jan Smeets
NED
2566
GM
9
Predrag Nikolic
BIH
2546
GM
10
Alexander Krastev
GER
2424
IM
11
Alexander Naumann
GER
2469
GM
12
Dr. Florian Handke
GER
2526
GM
13
Georg Halvax
AUT
2440
IM
14
Jörg Wegerle
GER
2405
IM
15
Jonas Roseneck
GER
2391
IM
16
Markus Schäfer
GER
2360
IM
17
Luisa Bashylina
GER
2107
WFM
18
Merlin Mänken
GER
2157
FC Bayern München
1
Vladimir Fedoseev
SLO
2731
GM
2
Kirill Alekseenko
AUT
2674
GM
3
Jaime Santos Latasa
ESP
2620
GM
4
Pouya Idani
IRI
2599
GM
5
Alan Pichot
ESP
2588
GM
6
Nijat Abasov
AZE
2587
GM
7
Jan Subelj
SLO
2545
GM
8
Valentin Dragnev
AUT
2539
GM
9
Alvar Alonso Rosell
ESP
2538
GM
10
Felix Blohberger
AUT
2513
GM
11
Joseph Girel
FRA
2501
GM
12
Klaus Bischoff
GER
2428
GM
13
Oliver Kurmann
SUI
2413
IM
14
Linus Johansson
SWE
2412
IM
15
Michael Fedorovsky
GER
2390
IM
16
Philip Lindgren
SWE
2384
IM
17
Svenja Butenandt
GER
2189
WFM
18
Daniel Hepp
GER
1939
Schachfreunde Deizisau
1
Matthias Blübaum
GER
2671
GM
2
Dmitrij Kollars
GER
2647
GM
3
Benjamin Gledura
HUN
2646
GM
4
Daniel Dardha
BEL
2624
GM
5
Gata Kamsky
FRA
2606
GM
6
Tamas Banusz
HUN
2586
GM
7
Sergei Movsesian
ARM
2600
GM
8
Jules Moussard
FRA
2591
GM
9
Adam Zoltan Kozak
HUN
2565
GM
10
Rustem Dautov
GER
2552
GM
11
Abhijeet Gupta
IND
2511
GM
12
Alexander Graf
GER
2500
GM
13
Ruben Gideon Köllner
GER
2526
IM
14
Michal Krasenkow
POL
2490
GM
15
Zdenko Kozul
CRO
2495
GM
16
Mihail Marin
ROU
2431
GM
17
Archisman Ganguly
GER
1846
18
Julius Lücke
GER
1797
Hamburger SK
1
Frederik Svane
GER
2643
GM
2
Nils Grandelius
SWE
2648
GM
3
Rasmus Svane
GER
2620
GM
4
Leon Luke Mendonca
IND
2615
GM
5
Niclas Huschenbeth
GER
2591
GM
6
Luis Engel
GER
2560
GM
7
Jan Gustafsson
GER
2591
GM
8
Robert Kempinski
POL
2545
GM
9
Jonas Lampert
GER
2536
GM
10
Gabor Papp
HUN
2498
GM
11
Julian Kramer
GER
2487
GM
12
Konstantin Peyrer
AUT
2488
IM
13
Nico Zwirs
NED
2432
IM
14
Dirk Sebastian
GER
2423
IM
15
Thies Heinemann
GER
2418
GM
16
Tom-Frederic Woelk
GER
2404
IM
17
Isaac Garner
GER
2387
18
Jakob Weihrauch
GER
2265
FM
MSA Zugzwang
1
Pavel Eljanov
UKR
2682
GM
2
Leonardo Costa
GER
2544
GM
3
Dominik Horvath
AUT
2557
GM
4
Vitaly Kunin
GER
2507
GM
5
David Shengelia
AUT
2480
GM
6
Stefan Bromberger
GER
2489
GM
7
Valentin Baidetskyi
AUT
2483
IM
8
Stefan Kindermann
AUT
2449
GM
9
Gudmundur Kjartansson
ISL
2422
GM
10
Gerald Hertneck
GER
2420
GM
11
Robert Zysk
GER
2373
IM
12
Arthur Kruckenhauser
AUT
2338
FM
13
Frank Zeller
GER
2319
IM
14
Alexander Raykhman
GER
2359
IM
15
Julian Jorczik
GER
2378
IM
16
Erasmus Gerigk
GER
2286
FM
SV Deggendorf
1
Arjun Erigaisi
IND
2771
GM
2
Aleksandar Indjic
SRB
2650
GM
3
Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan
IND
2591
GM
4
Diptayan Ghosh
IND
2573
GM
5
Gleb Dudin
HUN
2574
GM
6
Gupta Sankalp
IND
2559
GM
7
Venkataraman Karthik
IND
2571
GM
8
Martin Petrov
BUL
2533
GM
9
Egor Krivoborodov
GER
2534
GM
10
Boban Bogosavljevic
SRB
2446
GM
11
Aleksander Delchev
SRB
2406
GM
12
Nikola Sedlak
SRB
2380
GM
13
Dalibor Stojanovic
BIH
2434
GM
14
Dusan Popovic
SRB
2468
GM
15
Miroslav D Miljkovic
SRB
2413
GM
16
Dominic Wisnet
GER
2255
FM
17
Nataliya Movchan
UKR
1667
18
Pia Schatt
GER
FC St. Pauli
1
Magnus Carlsen
NOR
2839
GM
2
Nikolaos Theodorou
GRE
2646
GM
3
Jonas Bjerre
DEN
2651
GM
4
Marc Andria Maurizzi
FRA
2610
GM
5
Elham Amar
NOR
2584
GM
6
David W L Howell
ENG
2668
GM
7
Bartosz Socko
POL
2577
GM
8
Jesper Sondergaard Thybo
DEN
2573
GM
9
Mads Andersen
DEN
2564
GM
10
Peter Heine Nielsen
DEN
2617
GM
11
Igor Janik
POL
2528
GM
12
Aljoscha Feuerstack
GER
2452
IM
13
Benedict Krause
GER
2421
IM
14
Can Ertan
TUR
2356
IM
15
Jonah Krause
GER
2337
FM
16
Frank Sawatzki
GER
2340
FM
17
Triona Eberle
GER
2010
USV TU Dresden
1
Thai Dai Van Nguyen
CZE
2660
GM
2
Mateusz Bartel
POL
2581
GM
3
Roven Vogel
GER
2534
GM
4
Jergus Pechac
SVK
2537
GM
5
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
ROU
2577
GM
6
Peter Michalik
CZE
2562
GM
7
Juraj Druska
SVK
2457
IM
8
Jens-Uwe Maiwald
GER
2416
GM
9
Maximilian Neef
GER
2466
IM
10
Uwe Bönsch
GER
2456
GM
11
Raj Tischbierek
GER
2412
GM
12
Paul Hoffmann
GER
2366
IM
13
Jakov Loxine
GER
2387
IM
14
Gernot Gauglitz
GER
2373
IM
15
Hans Möhn
GER
2370
FM
16
Gengchun Wong
GER
2240
FM
17
Ruben Lutz
GER
2306
FM
18
David Fruth
GER
2098
SF Berlin
1
Wojciech Moranda
POL
2543
GM
2
Jacek Tomczak
POL
2547
GM
3
Arturs Neiksans
LAT
2584
GM
4
Maxim Vavulin
GER
2545
GM
5
Jan Klimkowski
POL
2520
GM
6
Lukas Dotzer
AUT
2468
IM
7
Jonasz Baum
POL
2446
IM
8
Marius Fromm
GER
2406
IM
9
Emil Schmidek
GER
2432
IM
10
Raphael Lagunow
GER
2433
IM
11
Ilja Schneider
GER
2417
IM
12
Magnus Ermitsch
GER
2414
IM
13
Sebastian Poltorak
POL
2405
IM
14
Leonid Sawlin
GER
2395
IM
15
Rainer Polzin
GER
2393
GM
16
Lars Thiede
GER
2356
IM
17
Christian Zobel
GER
2212
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