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 2025/2026 / 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 | CM |