Bundesliga tickets

Each sale belongs to the home club. Clubs announce the on-sale dates for their next home games on their own websites, sell through their own online ticket shops and set the rules: who buys first, how many tickets one person may take and whether any seats ever reach a public sale. Before planning a trip, go straight to the home club's site rather than a search result, and look up the sale dates for the match you want.

What the status in the table tells you

• Not on sale yet: the club has not opened its sale for that fixture. Watch its ticket news for the on-sale date.
• Ballot or members' sale open: the club is serving its own members first, either by drawing lots among their applications or by letting them into the shop before anyone else. That phase is closed to non-members.
• On sale: the club still has seats. This is the face-value route, and normally the better deal.
• Sold out at the club: nothing is left at the box office. If the club runs its own ticket exchange, look there first; otherwise resale is the remaining route.

Buying from the UK

Open an account on the club's ticket shop before the sale starts, and check how tickets are delivered, by email, in an app or by post, because that decides how late you can safely buy. Seats in the away section are sold by the visiting club, not by the hosts, so if you follow the away side, your own club's ticket pages are the place to look.

Kick-off times shown as TBC have not been fixed yet. Keep travel bookings flexible until the time is confirmed, and check it again in the week of the match.

A league has no final: the title is settled over the whole season, so the tickets fans chase are the meetings between the leading clubs and the old rivalries. Der Klassiker between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich is the headline fixture, while the Revierderby between Dortmund and Schalke 04 is the Ruhr's own derby.

Demand is not only about the biggest names. Several of Bayern's home games already show as sold out at the club, and when one of the big clubs visits a smaller ground, the few seats that come up for resale tend to start high.

Every fixture in the table opens its own page, such as Bayern Munich v Augsburg, where resale prices are set out stand by stand next to the club's latest sale status.

In every row, the price is the lowest resale listing on Hellotickets at the last check, and the label beside it is the home club's own sale status, so you can tell at a glance whether the club still has seats.

For the fixtures on this page, resale listings begin at £73.

The spread between matches is wide. Der Klassiker and the derbies start well above an ordinary league game, and so can the big clubs' trips to small stadiums, where only a handful of seats are resold.

Sellers set their own prices, which can be above face value, and the final price is shown before you pay. Read the delivery details on each listing, and look at a club's own exchange too, where it has one. Hellotickets' position is: "Every ticket is authenticated. If there's ever an issue, you're protected by our refund policy."