Bundesliga Winner Without Bayern Munich

Bayern Munich have been dominant in the Bundesliga, bagging every league title in their way since 2013 and securing 29 in total.

Despite being rampant in the German top flight, the club have still had to work hard for their titles. In 2012/13, Jupp Heynckes prevented Jurgen Klopp's Borussia Dortmund from winning a third consecutive league title. In 2018/19, Dortmund took the title race to the final day before the Bavarians side's terrific achievement this season, winning all but one game after the winter break.

In recent years the competition for second place has been entertaining. RB Leipzig have shot up through the ranks while Dortmund have been ever-present in the top four since Jurgen Klopp departed the club in 2015.

Here we take a look at the Bundesliga winner without Bayern, and see who will finish as runners-up to the German giants.

Borussia Dortmund's success could be entirely dependent on whether manager Lucien Favre is able to keep Jadon Sancho at the club.

The youngster has become one of the stars of the Bundesliga and has attracted interest from some of Europe's biggest clubs. Should Sancho leave Germany, it will leave a huge void in the team considering the Englishman was involved in 33 goals last season - only Robert Lewandowski had a hand in more.

Elsewhere in the squad, there is lots of anticipation surrounding Erling Haaland going into his first full season at Dortmund following his January move from RB Salzburg. The Norwegian goal machine nailed down his starting place in the team with 16 goals in his first 18 games at the club and is quickly become the main man in the Bundesliga, behind Lewandowski.

Despite regularly finishing in the top three, with eight top three finishes in the last 10 seasons, Dortmund must not take for it granted that it is definitely going to happen again. If they were to lose Sancho this summer, the money will have to be reinvested wisely in another productive winger to give them the best chance of a third consecutive second-place finish.

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RB Leipzig's progression through the German football pyramid since they were founded in 2009 has made many non-Leipzig fans envious of what they have achieved in such a short space of time.

Back in 2018, the club made a huge statement to prove their ambition by confirming that young manager Julian Nagelsmann was going to join the club from Hoffenheim a year later. The German coach took his Leipzig side to the Champions League semi-finals last season and he finished third in the Bundesliga for a second time. The next step for the club is to try and establish themselves as the best club in Germany behind Bayern Munich.

However, one stumbling block in Leipzig's way going into the new season is that they will have to cope without having Timo Werner. The German striker has been the club's top scorer in every season since they became a Bundesliga team in 2016, netting 28 goals last campaign - only Lewandowski scored more.

Going into the new season, Yussuf Poulsen and new signing Hwang Hee-chan will be trusted to lead the line for Leipzig as they try to make up for Werner's absence in the hope of becoming the best team in Germany next season behind Bayern.

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Now that Kai Havertz has departed for Chelsea, Bayer Leverkusen will struggle to continue to move forward in a positive fashion. The young German star was the main man for the club last season, as they battled for the Champions League spots all season, eventually finishing fifth.

Peter Bosz's side finished outside of the top four places in last season's Bundesliga which has made the prospect of Leverkusen keeping their star man all the more precarious.

Last season, Leverkusen would have been eight points worse off if it was not for Havertz's goals, although, that would have still resulted in a fifth place finish.

It's tough to predict the club's finish this campaign without their young superstar anymore, and finishing as the Bundesliga winners behind Bayern is certainly a tough ask.

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Borussia Monchengladbach have a rather strong squad at their disposal. The Foals' excellent start to the campaign last season saw them top the Bundesliga in December after Matchday 14 and finish the season qualifying for the Champions League.

With Yann Sommer in goal, the goalkeeper made seven clean sheets last season as well as Marcus Thuram and Alassane Plea leading the line, Monchengladbach have become a force to be reckoned with.

One are that may be cause for concern to Marco Rose is that his side, back in the 2016/17 season, found it a huge struggle to find positive results in the league while also playing in the Champions League.

Now that much has changed at the club, Rose can realistically expect for there not to be a repeat of what happened at the club four years ago. New signings at the club include former Newcastle loanee, Valentino Lazaro, on loan from Inter Milan, a player with Bundesliga experience from his time at Hertha Berlin. The Austrian player is versatile and can play in a range of positions around the park making him a very useful addition to this Monchengladbach side.

With Champions League football on the horizon at Borussia Park, the competition may be treated as a priority by the club so they would do well if they were to qualify for the Champions League again next season. The long odds do suggest that being the Bundesliga's best team outside of Bayern might be a little too much out of reach but, as they proved last season, this team are capable of exceeding expectations.

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