How did the Bundesliga clubs prepare for the Bundesliga's 2024 restart?
bundesliga.com details each team's winter schedule as the league campaign got back under way following the mini hiatus.
The Bundesliga's winter break explained!
- Return to training: 2 January (open session)
- Training camp: 14-18 January Faro, Portugal
- Friendly matches: 1-1 draw at Basel
- Matchday 17: 3-1 victory over Hoffenheim
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- Return to training: 3 January
- Training camp: N/A
- Friendly matches: 4-1 win vs. Venezia
- Matchday 17: 1-0 win away az Augsburg
- Return to training: 2 January
- Open session: 4 January (10:00 CET)
- Friendly matches: 5-2 win at Eintracht Frankfurt
- Matchday 17: 0-0 draw at home versus Union Berlin
- Return to training: 2 January
- Training camp: 2-7 January in La Manga, Spain
- Friendly matches: 1-0 win vs St. Gallen
- Matchday 17: 1-0 defeat at home against Eintracht Frankfurt
- Return to training: 2 January
- Training camp: N/A
- Friendly matches: 2-5 loss vs. Freiburg, 14 January vs. Sandhausen
- Matchday 17: 1-0 win away at Leipzig
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- Return to training: 2 January
- Training camp: N/A
- Friendly matches: 2-0 win vs. Arminia Bielefeld
- Matchday 17: 0-0 draw away at Union Berlin
- Return to training: 2 January
- Training camp: 3 - 9 January in Marbella, Spain
- Friendly matches: 2-2 vs. AZ Alkmaar, 3-3 vs. Standard Liège
- Matchday 17: 3-0 win away at Darmstadt
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- Return to training: 2 January
- Training camp: 2-7 January in Almancil, Portugal
- Friendly matches: 3-2 win at Schalke
- Matchday 17: 1-1 draw away at Mainz
- Return to training: 2 January
- Training camp: N/A
- Friendly matches: 3-2 win vs. Go Ahead Eagles
- Matchday 17: 3-1 victory at home over Stuttgart
- Return to training: 2 January
- Training camp: N/A
- Friendly matches: 3-1 loss vs. Eintracht Braunschweig
- Matchday 17: 1-1 draw away at Bochum
- Return to training: 1 January (open session)
- Training camp: 2-7 January in Marbella, Spain
- Friendly matches: 2-1 win vs. Feyenoord
- Matchday 17: 1-1 draw at home versus Wolfsburg
- Return to training: 2 January
- Training camp: N/A
- Friendly matches: 1-0 loss at Augsburg
- Matchday 17: 3-0 loss away at Bayern
- Return to training: 2 January
- Training camp: N/A
- Friendly matches: 4-4 draw at Rot-Weiss Essen
- Matchday 17: 1-1 draw at home against Heidenheim
- Return to training: 2 January
- Training camp: N/A
- Friendly matches: 1-0 win vs. Hoffenheim
- Matchday 17: 1-0 loss at home against Leverkusen
- Return to training: 1 January
- Training camp: 2-9 January in Algorfa, Spain
- Friendly matches: 2-0 win vs. Paderborn
- Matchday 17: 1-1 draw away at Cologne
- Return to training: 2 January
- Training camp: N/A
- Friendly matches: 6-1 win vs. Greuther Fürth
- Matchday 17: 3-1 defeat away at Gladbach
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- Return to training: 2 January
- Training camp: N/A
- Friendly matches: 2-1 win vs. Groningen, 2-0 win vs. Vitesse Arnhem
- Matchday 17: 1-1 draw at home with Bremen
- Return to training: 2 January
- Training camp: 2-7 January in El Saler, Spain
- Friendly matches: 2-1 loss vs. Holstein Kiel
- Matchday 17: 3-0 defeat at home to Dortmund
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Here is an overview of friendly fixtures involving Bundesliga 2 teams:
Friday 5 January
Karlsruhe 4-0 Ulm
Fortuna Düsseldorf 0-2 Nijmegen
Saturday 6 January
Wehen Wiesbaden 2-1 Sandhausen
Hertha Berlin 2-0 Erzgebirge Aue
Genclerbirligi 1-4 Kaiserslautern
Darmstadt 1-2 Holstein Kiel
Magdeburg 2-2 Dynamo Dresden
Sunday 7 January
Hamburg 2-2 PSV Eindhoven
Monday 8 January
Twente 2-2 Osnabrück
Fortuna Düsseldorf 6-2 Dordrecht
Heidenheim 2-0 Paderborn
Tuesday 9 January
Holstein Kiel 1-1 St. Truiden
Schalke 1-1 Recreativo Huelva
Zürich 0-4 Hannover
Sepsi OSK 2-1 Magdeburg
Karlsruhe 1-3 Luzern
Wednesday 10 January
LASK 2-1 Hansa Rostock
Greuther Fürth 0-1 Ingolstadt
Nuremberg 0-3 Club Brugge
Hertha Berlin 0-3 Mechelen
Elversberg 2-2 Antequera
Kaiserslautern 0-3 Dynamo Dresden
Thursday 11 January
Hamburg 2-2 Zürich
Genk 1-2 Paderborn
Friday 12 January
MTK Budapest 2-4 Magdeburg
Wehen Wiesbaden 2-2 St. Truiden
Arminia Bielefeld 0-3 Rödinghausen
Osnabrück 1-3 St. Pauli
Saturday 13 January
Eintracht Braunschweig 1-0 Jahn Regensburg
Hannover 3-2 Holstein Kiel
Eupen 1-3 Schalke
Arminia Bielefeld 2-2 Fortuna Düsseldorf
Karlsruhe 3-1 Nuremberg
Elversberg 3-2 Red Bull Salzburg
Hertha Berlin 1-0 Rangers
Sunday 14 January
Greuther Fürth 2-2 Basel
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