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Bayern begin the league phase of the 2026/27 Champions League with a home game against Bodø/Glimt. The Bavarians boast a proud record of progressing beyond this stage and want to keep that going this year. “We want to finish in the top eight. That’s the clear objective,” declared board member for sport Max Eberlfollowing August’s draw. An opening win at home will certainly help the cause, and their recent continental results at the Allianz Arena bode well there. You have to go back to December 2013 and a 3-2 defeat to Manchester City for the last time Bayern lost a Champions League game at home in the group stage/league phase – a run of 38 games that’s produced 36 wins.

Bayern proved almost impossible to stop in front of goal in Europe in 2025/26, striking 43 times in 14 matches. It left them just shy of the competition’s all-time record of 45 held by Barcelona from 1999/2000 and equalled by Paris Saint-Germain last season, although the champions played three fixtures more. Put as goals per game, Vincent Kompany’s men were some way out in front at an average of 3.06 to PSG’s 2.65.

Long run of opening wins

Bayern have won their Matchday 1 fixture in the Champions League in all 23 seasons they’ve featured in the competition since a 3-2 loss to Deportivo La Coruña in 2002/03. Read more about that record run here:

Bayern’s remarkable run in Champions League openers

More facts on Bayern vs. Bodø/Glimt

8 games unbeaten – Bayern have never before faced Bodø/Glimt in a competitive fixture but are unbeaten in their eight European encounters with Norwegian opposition (W6, D2).

3 games without a win – Bodø/Glimt are yet to beat a German team in three previous meetings. The Norwegians lost 6-1 on aggregate to Werder Bremen in the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup but drew 2-2 away at Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League last season.

30th qualification – Bayern are competing in the main stage of the Champions League for the 30th time overall and 19th year in a row. Only Real Madrid and Barcelona have appeared in the competition more often (both 31).

899 goals – Bayern have scored a total of 899 goals so far in the European Cup and Champions League. They are on the verge of becoming only the second team after Real Madrid to reach 900. Los Blancos lead the way on 1,137 goals.

33 goals – No player has scored more Champions League goals than Harry Kane (33) since the striker joined Bayern in summer 2023.

7 games in a row – Kane has also scored in each of his last seven appearances in the Champions League. The last player to net in more consecutive games in the competition was also a Bayern man, namely Robert Lewandowski who went nine in a row between November 2020 and November 2021.

Read more about Bodø/Glimt’s rise here:

Bodø/Glimt: The system behind the sensation