Bundesliga clubs' winter break plans
The Bundesliga is back on 10 January, with players training again and facing friendly tests before the restart. bundesliga.com runs through the schedule of each of the 18 sides in the coming days...
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Training starts: 2 January
Friendly match: vs. Red Bull Salzburg (Salzburg, 6 January at 6pm)
Training starts: 2 January
Friendly match: Leverkusen 2-0 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
Training starts: 2 January
Friendly match: Mainz 3-1 Frankfurt
Training starts: 2 January
Friendly match: vs. FK Banik Most Sous (Leipzig, 6 January at 12pm)
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Training starts: 2 January
Friendly match: Mainz 3-1 Frankfurt
Training starts: 2 January
Friendly match: None planned
Training starts: 2 January
Friendly match: Bremen 2-3 Twente
Training starts: 2 January
Friendly match: Gladbach 2-2 Nijmegen
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Training starts: 2 January
Friendly match: None planned
Training starts: 2 January
Friendly match: Stuttgart 2-2 Ajax
Training starts: 2 January
Friendly match: None planned
Training starts: 2 January
Friendly match: Union Berlin 1-2 Holstein Kiel
Training starts: 2 January
Friendly match: vs. Hoffenheim (Hoffenheim, 6 January at 2pm)
Training starts: 3 January
Friendly match: Eintracht Braunschweig 2-1 Pauli
Training starts: 3 January
Friendly match: vs. Augsburg (Hoffenheim, 6 January at 12pm)
Training starts: 1 January
Friendly match: None planned
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Training starts: 1 January
Friendly match: Union Berlin 1-2 Holstein Kiel
Training starts: 2 January
Friendly matches: Bochum 1-0 Heracles, Bochum 6-2 Wuppertal
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