They have won the Bundesliga four times, the German Cup six times and were crowned the European Cup Winners' Cup. In the long 57 seasons of the Bundesliga, they played for 56 seasons, only missing the top flight in the 1980/81 season, overpowering Bayern and Hamburg, the team with the most seasons in the Bundesliga.
This bundesliga first-year team, the number one senator in bundesliga history and one of the 12 champions of the Bundesliga, is Werder Bremen. They are Bundesliga champions in the 03/04 season, German Cup champions in the 08/09 season, Champions League teams in the 10/11 season, but now they are in the Relegation Zone in the Bundesliga - 1 draw and 5 losses in the last 6 games, 1 win, 1 draw and 9 losses in the last 11 games, 2 wins, 6 draws and 12 losses in the last 20 games, and now they have 18 points in one less game, ranking second to the bottom, 4 points behind the bottom third place Düsseldorf, and 8 points behind the safety zone.
Now that the Bundesliga is about to restart, Bremen will face Bayer Leverkusen at home. In the 9th round of the Bundesliga season 18/19, Bremen defeated Bayer Leverkusen 2-6 at home.
Bremen has tasted fiasco in recent seasons, 0-7 Bayern at home, 0-6 Bayern away, 1-6 Bayern away, 0-6 Wolfsburg away, 0-6 Stuttgart away, and five 0-5 defeats, all of which have happened to Bremen in the past decade.
After finishing third in the Bundesliga in the 09/10 season, in the next 10 years, Bremen's best league ranking is only 8th, away from the title competition, away from European competition, the biggest shining point of this team is probably the 41-year-old myth pizarro. In 1999, the 20-year-old Pizarro landed in five major leagues from Peru, the first stop was the Bundesliga team Bremen, Pizarro has played for Bremen four times in 1999-2001, 2008-2012, 2015-2017, 2018 so far, 317 appearances for Bremen, scoring 153 goals, is the team's first scorer in history. Pizarro was also the first foreign goalscorer in Bundesliga history until he was overtaken by Levan last March.
Last summer, Pizarro was determined to retire at the end of the season. Today, with veteran Pizarro bidding farewell to the Bundesliga, it is likely that the veteran Bundesliga team Bremen is facing the biggest relegation crisis in 40 years.
In the distant 1964/65 season, the second season in the history of the Bundesliga, Bremen overwhelmed the defending champions Cologne, and won the Bundesliga title for the first time in the history of the team. For the next 15 years, Bremen wandered into the lower middle and lower reaches of the country until they were relegated, but they also welcomed back a legendary coach, Otto Rehagel, and later the creator of the Kaiser miracle and Greek mythology. In April 1981, Rehagel took over from Bremen and led the team to win the Bundesliga with a wave of seven consecutive wins, quickly returning to the Bundesliga, and in the 1982/83 season he led the team to a runner-up in the Bundesliga.
After leading the team to two second places in the Bundesliga, in the 1987/88 season, Rehagel led the team to beat Bayern and Cologne to win the Bundesliga championship for the second time!
Rehagel coached Bremen for 14 years, creating the most glorious period in Bremen's history: 1988/89 German Super Cup champion, DFB-Pok runner-up; 1989/90 DFB-Pok runner-up, UEFA Cup Semi-Finals; 1990/91 German Cup winner; 1991/92 Cup Winners' Cup; 1992/93 Bundesliga champion, UEFA Super Cup runner-up; 1993/94 German Cup winner, German Super Cup winner; 1994/95 Bundesliga runner-up, German Super Cup winner...
Bremen have won a total of 16 titles in their history, nine of which are from the Rehagel era, including 2 Bundesliga titles and 1 European Cup Winners' Cup.
Nine years later, in the 03/04 season, the Bremen meritorious defender Thomas Schaff, who played in the Bremen first team for 14 years, experienced the Rehagel era, played only for Bremen in his life, and retired in 1994, led Bremen to beat Bayern by 6 points and won the Bundesliga for the fourth time, at the same time, they also won the German Cup, crowning the only Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal double in the history of the team!
That Bremen team, the Bundesliga Golden Boot with 28 goals in a single season, Elton nicknamed "Ball Lightning", the Croatian goalscorer Krasnic with 13 goals and 11 assists, Miku who missed the French national team with 10 goals and 8 assists, and Charleistas, who was a hit in the European Championship that summer, and Charlestias, who was uneven for teammate Miku, as well as N. Valdes, Borowski, Ernst, Ismail, Kirstadzic, Davara, Bauman and other famous players.
Schaff is another meritorious coach of Bremen after Rehagel, he assisted Rehagel as a player, served as an assistant coach after retiring, then served as the coach of the second team of the team, and took over from Bremen in 1999, coaching for the same 14 years!
Bremen in the Schaff period was not only a strong team in the Bundesliga, but also a regular in European competitions. In the first leg of the 1/8 Champions League final in 2005/06, Borovsky and Miku scored in the last five minutes to help Bremen beat Juventus 3-2, and in the second leg, Miku opened the scoring 13 minutes away from home. However, Trezeguet's equalising goal and Emerson's 88th-minute leak-out ended Bremen's further advances.
Between 03/04 and 07/08, Bremen finished in the top three of the Bundesliga for five consecutive seasons, and they also played in the Champions League for five consecutive seasons. Bremen at this time was in the spotlight for one person – Miloslav Klose, who joined Bremen in the summer of 2004 and spent three seasons here scoring 63 goals, including 40 appearances for Bremen in 05/06, contributing a staggering 31 goals + 17 assists, winning the Bundesliga Golden Boot, and at the end of the season, he won the Golden Boot at the home world cup.
Although Bremen's best record in the Champions League at this time was only in the round of sixteen, they made a breakthrough in the UEFA Cup. In the 06/07 season, Bremen reached the final four and was eventually doubled by espanyol. In the 08/09 season, Bremen eliminated ac Milan, Saint-Etiennes, Udinese and Hamburg all the way in the UEFA Cup to meet Miner Donetsk in the final, although Naldo once equalized for Bremen, but the Miners still won the last League Cup in extra time.
The 08/09 season was almost the final peak of Bremen, who beat Bayer Leverkusen in the DFB-Pokal to win the title. At the heart of this Bremen team is Brazilian midfielder Diego, who contributed 21 goals + 11 assists to Bremen that season, peruvian sharpshooter Pizarro, Portugal international Almeida, Swedish shooter Rosenborg, knife defender Naldo, Germany international Flynns, tall defender Mertesack, main goalkeeper Wiser and others, representing the glory of that Bremen team.
After finishing third in the Bundesliga + runners-up in the DFB-Pokal in 2009/10, Bremen entered a 10-year silence. In the summer of 2012, the meritorious coach Schaff left, and Bremen has changed managers frequently since then. This season, Bremen has faced an injury crisis since the beginning of the season, and head coach Kofirth even had to promote players from the second team to complete the registration of the substitute list. Bremen are currently digging too deep, they still have 10 games left, but the opponents include Bayer Leverkusen, Freiburg, Borussia Moncheng, Schalke, Wolfsburg, Bayern Munich and other top 8 teams.
What's more, after the restoration of the Bundesliga, there is no 100% possibility of finishing, once the crisis occurs again, the Bundesliga will officially end, with the immediate ranking as the final result, Bremen's fate, is already less fierce.
(Mu Yue)