"Schalke" started the season with a crushing failure (VIDEO) © EuroFootball.com

Yesterday's match between Borussia Dortmund and Hamburger kicked off the 49th season of the German Bundesliga, and today six more games of the first round were played.

Last year's UEFA Champions League semi-finalists from Gelsenkirchen, Schalke's footballers, suffered a 3-0 defeat against Stuttgart away from home.

In other matches, "Wolfsburg", "Hannover", and Bremen's "Werder" teams added the first three points to their tournament table. Nurnberg's team, while the match between newcomers to the league, Augsburg and Freiburg, ended in a 2-2 draw.

Results:

"Koln" 0 - 3 "Wolfsburg" 17' [0 - 1] P. Helmes 85' [0 - 2] M. Schafer 90' [0 - 3] P. Helmes 79' M. Novakovic was sent off the field ("Koln") "Augsburg" 2 - 2 "Freiburg" 48' [0 - 1] P. Cisse 54' [1 - 1] S. Molders 56' [1 - 2] C. Makiadi 81' [2 - 2] S. Molders "Hannover" 2 - 1 "Hoffenheim" 15' [1 - 0] J. Schlaudraff 18' [1 - 1] S. Salihovic (from a penalty kick) 30' [2 - 1] M. Abdellaoue (from a penalty kick) "Stuttgart" 3 - 0 Gelsenkirchen's "Schalke" 37' [1 - 0] Cacau 56' [2 - 0] M. Harnik 89' [3 - 0] S. Okazaki "Bremen" "Werder" 2 - 0 "Kaiserslautern" 60' [1 - 0] M. Rosenberg 81' [2 - 0] M. Rosenberg Berlin's "Hertha" 0 - 1 "Nurnberg" 80' [0 - 1] T. Pekhart