Scorigami

SCORIGAMI: Bor. Monchengladbach 12, Borussia Dortmund 0 is the first 12-0 game in Bundesliga history

Final · April 29, 1978

Bundesliga got a brand-new final score on April 29, 1978. Bor. Monchengladbach beat Borussia Dortmund 12-0, and in every Bundesliga game since 1963, no game had ever ended that way before.

Where 12-0 sits among nearby Bundesliga scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 8-4, 1. FC Koln over TeBe Berlin on February 26, 1977, 1 year and 2 months earlier. This is Bundesliga's 1st new final score of the 1977 season, and the grid now holds 71.4 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 13-0 had still never happened and 12-1 had still never happened. It lands on the high-scoring frontier of the grid, the sparse territory that only fills in on the rare night the points pile up.

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