Bundesliga History and Highlights Bundesliga is the current iteration of the top-tier domestic football league in Germany. In its first two seasons, Bundesliga was a 16-team affair. But, it moved to an 18-team format later on. Bayern Munich is the most successful team in Bundesliga history, having won it on 31 occasions and finishing second-best ten times. German football did not have a professional football system before World War II. In 1949, the West German football regulatory body Deutscher Fußball Bund, better known as DFB, introduced semi-professionalism and divided the top-tier football structure into five regional divisions. Each of these regional leagues was called an Oberliga.