Bundesliga Betting Predictions, Top Scorer, 1-18, Odds 2025/26

Read our expert insights, predictions and tips for the 2025/26 Bundesliga season as we look at odds for the winner, promotion, relegation and the top goalscorer, as well as a 1-18.

After a decent go at the predictions last season, we are back with this season's predictions for the upcoming Bundesliga campaign. I have also signed up to stick my neck out a little more with a 1-18, so stay tuned for that.

I have reviewed the statistics, teams, and transfers, and I think I've compiled a decent list of odds. So, without further ado, let's get into it.

Who Will Win the Bundesliga?

It looks pretty obvious who will win the Bundesliga this season, which is a little frustrating for neutrals. However, it will not be a bad thing for fans of this club. So, it is no surprise that I have picked Bayern Munich to win the Bundesliga.

The Bavarian outfit are a class above all of the German sides, and Bayer Leverkusen's success looks more like an outer-worldly anomaly rather than a sign of Bayern's grip really slipping. Of course, the season was narrated around their stumbles, rather than Xabi Alonso's success, for the most part.

Last season, business resumed as usual. Vincent Kompany's side strolled to the title, and there were no real shocks. This season, it will probably be even less of a shock, with rivals losing key players or not strengthening to match the Bavarians' level.

It is a boring pick, but at the price, it is a clear choice, and I would be daft to go against it. It is another, like for PSG with Ligue 1, shot that can be paired with things to maybe add some extra value.

Who Will Get Top 4 in the Bundesliga?

The fact that bookmakers are not even offering Each Way markets for the Bundesliga makes it a really unattractive league to bet on with outrights, which is a shame. Unfortunately, that then remains with the Top Four markets.

There, as you may expect, is not a heap of value here either. However, we can try to find pockets of opportunity, perhaps.

Behind Bayern, I quite like the look of RB Leipzig, who I think have replaced their outgoing players the best of the top four. As the model normally does, the club have invested in young stars, and each looks promising.

Johan Bakayoko and Arthur Vermeeren look pretty standout from this summer's recruitment, and both will look to immediately come into the side this year. Whilst new striker Romulo will hope to fill the big boots left vacant by Benjamin Sesko.

For what it is worth, a few bookmakers have them at 9/2 to win the league without Bayern Munich, which could offer us a little bit of value. However, this might be a little bit of a reach.

Following them, I think Borussia Dortmund will finish third. Barring Jamie Gittens, they have not lost much from their team of last season, and I think that the Englishman can be replaced enough, especially with the year's arrivals.

Jobe Bellingham joins from Sunderland and will try to walk the same path that his brother did after moving to Germany a few years ago. However, whether he will do so is another question entirely.

Then, I cannot see why Bayer Leverkusen are the favourites this year, behind the Bavarian giants. Yes, they have spent quite heavily, and Jarell Quansah and Malik Tillman are big moves. However, the loss of Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong is substantial.

Players like that are special, and with Erik ten Hag also arriving this summer, there is a lot of change to oversee in the squad. Right now, I don't think they are a good bet for that second spot, especially not at the price of 7/4.

Who Will Be Relegated From the Bundesliga?

With the top end of the table looked at, now we need to look at the bottom side of the division, and there are some interesting teams in the relegation picture, in my eyes.

Unfortunately, there are no relegation odds available for the Bundesliga; however, this area will be updated when the odds become available. For now, though, we can certainly make predictions on the basis that there will be, based on the winner market.

Right now, Heidenheim and St Pauli are the only teams that are 1000/1 to win the league in the Bundesliga, insinuating that these are/will be the favourites to go down from the bookmakers.

Honestly, I don't think there can be any disagreement with this at the moment, either. Starting with St Pauli, who I think will be bottom. Last season, they just avoided relegation, and I don't think they will be so lucky.

This summer, the investments made have not been superb and that causes me to worry a little. It will be tight, but I just don't see them having the quality to stay up once again, as magical as it would be.

Then, I also think that Heidenheim will face a drop this year after finishing in the relegation play-off last season. A late goal from Leo Scienza kept them up last year, as they faced Elversberg on May 26.

Like St Pauli, they have not recruited well enough for me and look really vulnerable to the drop this year. Money has not been spent, and this only looks to be going one way for me this year, as unfortunate as that may be.

Who Will Be the Bundesliga Top Scorer?

I have sided with the favourites an awful lot in the lead-up to the new season, and I am going to do so once more here. So, I am picking Harry Kane to be the Bundesliga's top scorer for the 2025/26 season.

The Englishman slowed a little last year, but still scored a respectable 26 goals as Bayern won the league title, the first of his career. In fact, this tally was still enough to win the golden boot as Patrik Schick and Serhou Guirassy both bagged 21.

With neither side really strengthening, I can only see Kane adding to his collection of trophies and getting another golden boot this season.