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German Bundesliga 2025/2026 LIVE

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 2025/2026Slovenian 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 CM