The invention relates to a bipolar plate (1) for an electrochemical
system, having a rectangular basic shape, in which three ports (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16), in particular two working agent ports (11, 13, 14, 16) and one
coolant port (12, 15), are arranged adjacent to one another on each of the plate narrow sides (4, 5), the
coolant port (12, 15) being located between the working agent ports (11, 13, 14, 16), and the
coolant port (12, 15) being located between the working agent ports (11, 13, 14, 16). The plate (1) has a plate longitudinal side (2, 3) and has a port longitudinal side (18) aligned in parallel with the plate narrow side (4, 5), and each working agent port (11, 13, 14, 16) has a port longitudinal side (20) aligned in parallel with the plate longitudinal side (2, 3), with a rectangular effective field (10) positioned between three ports (11, 12, 13) on one plate narrow side (4) and three ports (14, 15, 16) on the opposite plate narrow side (5), the active field (10) has two active field longitudinal sides (22, 22 '), each of which is arranged parallel to the plate longitudinal sides (2, 3); the effective field (10) has linear channels (10a) for guiding the flow of the working agent and the coolant parallel to the effective field longitudinal sides (22, 22 '). The product of the length (L18) of the port longitudinal side (18) of the coolant port (12, 15) and the length (L20) of the port longitudinal side (20, 20 ') of one of the two working agent ports (11, 13, 14, 16) adjacent to the coolant port (12, 15) is at least six times the product of the length (L19) of the port narrow side (19) of the coolant port (12, 15) and the length (L21) of the port narrow side (21) of the working agent port (11, 13, 14, 16).