60 years of the Bundesliga: Kießling, Vollborn & Co. in big football quiz on Sky

24 August 1963 is a historic date in German sport: On that day, football was played for the first time in the Bundesliga, the new top-flight in Germany where the best clubs competed for the German title in a competition organised nationally rather than regionally. That was the start of a unique success story. The network of football museums and club archives organised a "Day of action of German football history" for today's 60th anniversary of the Bundesliga. The main event: The German Football League (DFL) and the pay-TV channel Sky organised a big football quiz at the German Football Museum in Dortmund. A Bayer 04 team took part fielding exciting questions around the history of the leak. The quiz is broadcast by Sky at 19.00 CEST tonight Thursday 24 August and will also be available on the broadcaster's YouTube channel.

Stefan Kießling (Club representative), Rüdiger Vollborn (Bayer 04 record appearance maker), Meinolf Sprink (Director of Fans/Community) and Sebastian Pöschke (Home end committee member and Bayer 04 fan) took part for Bayer 04. The quiz hosts were the football comedian Ben Redelings and TV presenter Thomas Wagner. The three rounds of questions are answered by representatives from a total of 21 current and former Bundesliga clubs including archivists, historians, directors and club legends. Bayer 04 record appearance maker Rüdiger Vollborn: "It was a fun and entertaining evening with unusual questions – and also unusual answers," revealed the 60-year-old.

Werkself fans who want to see how Vollborn and Co. got on, and test their own knowledge at the same time, can watch the quiz from 19.00 CEST on this Thursday night both as highlights on TV as well as on the Sky YouTube channel.

Talk under the cross with Rolfes, Vollborn and Gelsdorf

Other events for the "Day of action of German football history" are being held at many clubs that helped shape the history of the most popular sport in Germany. The league anniversary will also be celebrated in Leverkusen tonight: Werkself fans can delve into the Bundesliga history of Bayer 04 at a "Talk under the Cross" at the 19zerofour lounge at the BayArena from 19.00 CEST. Sporting managing director Simon Rolfes, Bayer 04 record appearance maker Rüdiger Vollborn and Jürgen Gelsdorf (former player, coach, head of youth at Bayer 04 and Silver Lions ambassador) will reminisce together. The host for the talk is stadium announcer Tobias Ufer.

Entrance is free of charge but please register beforehand by sending an email to ruediger.vollborn@bayer04.de. Doors open at 18.30 CEST.

Photos: @fussballmuseum/Stephan Schütze

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