| Season | 1983–84 |
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| Dates | 12 August 1983 – 26 May 1984 |
| Champions | VfB Stuttgart 1st Bundesliga title 3rd German title |
| Relegated | Kickers Offenbach 1. FC Nürnberg |
| European Cup | VfB Stuttgart |
| Cup Winners' Cup | FC Bayern Munich |
| UEFA Cup | Hamburger SV Borussia Mönchengladbach SV Werder Bremen 1. FC Köln |
| Goals scored | 1,084 |
| Average goals/game | 3.54 |
| Top goalscorer | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (26) |
| Biggest home win | Bayern Munich 9–0 Offenbach (13 March 1984) |
| Biggest away win | Nürnberg 0–6 Stuttgart (27 April 1984) |
| Highest scoring | Uerdingen 4–6 Köln (10 goals) (19 May 1984) Offenbach 3–7 Bremen (10 goals) (11 May 1984) |
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The 1983–84 Bundesliga was the 21st season of the Bundesliga, the premier football league in West Germany. It began on 12 August 1983[1] and ended on 26 May 1984.[2] Stuttgart won the championship. Defending champions, Hamburg finished second. The 1983–84 Bundesliga season holds the record for most goals scored in a Bundesliga season.
Every team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. If two or more teams were tied on points, places were determined by goal difference and, if still tied, by goals scored. The team with the most points were crowned champions while the two teams with the fewest points were relegated to 2. Bundesliga. The third-to-last team had to compete in a two-legged relegation/promotion play-off against the third-placed team from 2. Bundesliga.
Karlsruher SC and Hertha BSC were directly relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after finishing in the last two places. They were replaced by SV Waldhof Mannheim and Kickers Offenbach. Karlsruhe and Hertha BSC were eventually joined in demotion by relegation/promotion play-off participant FC Schalke 04, who lost on aggregate against Bayer 05 Uerdingen.
On the 32nd game day of the season 53 goals were scored in 9 games, marking the highest number of goals ever scored in a single game day of the Bundesliga. The 1983–84 season is also the season in which the most goals of the course of the whole season were scored, 1084 in total.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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| 1 | VfB Stuttgart (C) | 34 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 79 | 33 | +46 | 48 | Qualification to European Cup first round |
| 2 | Hamburger SV | 34 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 75 | 36 | +39 | 48 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round[a] |
| 3 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 34 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 81 | 48 | +33 | 48 | |
| 4 | Bayern Munich | 34 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 84 | 41 | +43 | 47 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round |
| 5 | Werder Bremen | 34 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 79 | 46 | +33 | 45 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round[a] |
| 6 | 1. FC Köln | 34 | 16 | 6 | 12 | 70 | 57 | +13 | 38 | |
| 7 | Bayer Leverkusen | 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 34 | |
| 8 | Arminia Bielefeld | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 40 | 49 | −9 | 33 | |
| 9 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 34 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 54 | 69 | −15 | 32 | |
| 10 | Bayer 05 Uerdingen | 34 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 66 | 79 | −13 | 31 | |
| 11 | Waldhof Mannheim | 34 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 45 | 58 | −13 | 31 | |
| 12 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 34 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 68 | 69 | −1 | 30 | |
| 13 | Borussia Dortmund | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 54 | 65 | −11 | 30 | |
| 14 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 34 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 63 | 75 | −12 | 29 | |
| 15 | VfL Bochum | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 58 | 70 | −12 | 28 | |
| 16 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 34 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 45 | 61 | −16 | 27 | Qualification to relegation play-offs |
| 17 | Kickers Offenbach (R) | 34 | 7 | 5 | 22 | 48 | 106 | −58 | 19 | Relegation to 2. Bundesliga |
| 18 | 1. FC Nürnberg (R) | 34 | 6 | 2 | 26 | 38 | 85 | −47 | 14 |
| Home \ Away | DSC | BOC | EBS | SVW | BVB | F95 | SGE | HSV | FCK | KOE | B04 | WMA | BMG | FCB | FCN | KOF | VFB | B05 |
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| Arminia Bielefeld | — | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 |
| VfL Bochum | 2–3 | — | 3–1 | 3–3 | 2–2 | 6–1 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–4 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 |
| Eintracht Braunschweig | 2–0 | 3–1 | — | 1–2 | 5–0 | 4–1 | 4–3 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 4–4 | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| Werder Bremen | 3–0 | 5–2 | 4–0 | — | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 8–1 | 1–2 | 5–2 |
| Borussia Dortmund | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–3 | — | 6–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 0–3 | 2–1 |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf | 0–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 3–4 | 7–0 | — | 4–2 | 2–3 | 1–5 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 |
| Eintracht Frankfurt | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | — | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 1–3 | 2–2 |
| Hamburger SV | 2–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 7–2 | 5–2 | 0–2 | — | 3–2 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 6–0 | 0–2 | 2–2 |
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 6–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 3–3 | 2–2 | 5–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | — | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 5–2 |
| 1. FC Köln | 2–3 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–4 | 5–2 | 1–0 | 7–0 | 1–4 | 1–4 | — | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 |
| Bayer Leverkusen | 0–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 4–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | — | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–5 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 |
| Waldhof Mannheim | 0–2 | 3–3 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–3 | — | 2–3 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 6–1 | 2–2 | 1–4 |
| Borussia Mönchengladbach | 3–0 | 4–2 | 6–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 3–2 | 4–2 | 3–1 | 3–0 | — | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 7–1 |
| Bayern Munich | 3–1 | 5–1 | 6–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 5–2 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 6–0 | 4–0 | — | 4–2 | 9–0 | 2–2 | 3–2 |
| 1. FC Nürnberg | 2–0 | 3–1 | 4–2 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–6 | 3–4 | 1–3 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 2–4 | — | 4–0 | 0–6 | 2–4 |
| Kickers Offenbach | 2–2 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 3–7 | 0–0 | 5–1 | 2–1 | 0–4 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 4–3 | 2–3 | 3–1 | — | 1–2 | 3–2 |
| VfB Stuttgart | 1–0 | 4–2 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 6–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 5–1 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 7–0 | 5–1 | — | 4–0 |
| Bayer Uerdingen | 1–3 | 1–2 | 4–0 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 5–2 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 4–6 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 3–2 | — |
Eintracht Frankfurt and third-placed 2. Bundesliga team MSV Duisburg had to compete in a two-legged relegation/promotion play-off. Frankfurt won 6–1 on aggregate and remained in the Bundesliga.
| MSV Duisburg | 0–5 | Eintracht Frankfurt |
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| Report link (in German) |
Svensson  23'Müller 53'Falkenmayer 68'Tobollik 78'Krämer 80' |
Attendance: 29,000
Referee: Wilfried Heitmann (Drentwede)
| Eintracht Frankfurt | 1–1 | MSV Duisburg |
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| Müller 83' |
Report link (in German) |
Schlipper 80' |
Attendance: 42,000
Referee: Hans-Peter Dellwing (Trier)
Thomas Allofs (1. FC Kaiserslautern) Friedhelm Funkel (Bayer 05 Uerdingen) Dieter Schatzschneider (Hamburger SV) Herbert Waas (Bayer 04 Leverkusen)| VfB Stuttgart |
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| Goalkeepers: Helmut Roleder (29); Armin Jäger (6).
Defenders: Guido Buchwald (34 / 3); Bernd Förster (31 / 2); Karlheinz Förster (captain; 29 / 2); Günther Schäfer (26 / 2); Hans-Peter Makan (24 / 1); Rainer Zietsch (10). Manager: Helmut Benthaus. On the roster but have not played in a league game: none. |
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