GERMANY

Bundesliga

The most prohibitive favorite in the major European leagues is Bayern Munich, which has won three straight Bundesliga titles, none by fewer than 10 points. (It clinched last season’s title, the club’s 25th, in April; in 2014, it wrapped it up in March.) While Bayern has many talented home-grown players, it also relies on the blunt-force strategy of simply buying its rivals’ best players every summer, including Mario Götze in 2013 and Robert Lewandowski in 2014. Both came from Dortmund, the 2012 Bundesliga champ, which soon tumbled down the table without them.