5 teams that were more entertaining than the eventual League Champions

#2 Bayer Leverkusen '01/02 (Champions - Borussia Dortmund)

Zidane's wonder strike in the Champions League final didn't exactly help matters.

Bayer Leverkusen had a sensational campaign in '01/02 as they became only the second side in the history of football to not only finish runners-up in the league but also lose the final of both the Champions League and domestic cup.

Not the kind of stat you want associated with your side if you from Leverkusen, but revisiting their brilliant performances of the season in discussion will give the faithful a lot of reasons to be proud.

Bayer Leverkusen in 2002 could boast of players of tremendous ability in their side, with Michael Ballack in midfield and Dimitar Berbatov up-front. The spine of the team was incredibly strong, and along with the management, they managed to conjure up a formula that would see them achieve their best results in recent history.

Bayer found themselves leading the table more often than not in the season and their failure to win against the big boys - Bayern and Dortmund - with a win and a draw each was probably the reason they lost out on their first league title since '79.

The side from Leverkusen were on course for the league title with just 4 games to go, but successive draws to Schalke and Bayern left Dortmund with an opening. They rushed through it, winning all of their last 4 games and clinching the German title with a solitary point.

Bayer Leverkusen's misery was far from complete as they lost the domestic cup final to Bayern Munich before succumbing to a Zinedine Zidane special in the Champions League final.

The '01/02 season must've left the side wondering about what could've been. However, they haven't completely recovered from the campaign as they've failed to hit the lofty standards they'd set around the start of the millennium.