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Champions vs. cup winners: every year, the Supercup clash signals the start of the new season. Because FC Bayern Munich won both titles, runners-up Borussia Dortmund move up to take part. The showdown takes place next Saturday (22 August, 8:30 p.m.) at Signal Iduna Park.

Only for the second time in history, the match will be played under the name “Franz Beckenbauer Supercup.” In December 2024, the DFL and DFB agreed on the renaming in order to duly honor the honorary captain and world champion, who had passed away in January of the same year.

With Dortmund and Munich, the two clubs facing each other are also the ones that have appeared most often overall in the Supercup. BVB will be involved for the 13th time. But FCB clearly surpass that mark with their 19th final appearance in total. The Black and Yellows have six titles to their name, Bayern eleven.

This year marks the 10th edition of this classic fixture in the Supercup. Borussia and Bayern first met in 1989 at Kaiserslautern’s Betzenberg. 16,000 spectators watched a turbulent match in which the lead changed hands several times. Alan McInally made it 1:0 for Munich before Günter Breitzke equalized. Roland Grahammer restored Bayern’s lead to make it 2:1 before the break.

Möller makes Köppel celebrate

After the restart, Breitzke struck again to make it 2:2. Jürgen Wegmann then put the Westphalians ahead for the first time. But the southern Germans refused to give in and made it 3:3 through Radmilo Mihajlovic. The final word in the match, however, belonged to Andreas Möller, who produced the 4:3 winner for head coach Horst Köppel’s team.

Borussia and Bayern did not meet again in the Supercup until 2012. That was also due to a 12-year break from 1997 to 2009, during which the competition was replaced by the League Cup until 2007. More “Classikers” followed in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021. Munich won the title five times, BVB four times.

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Borussia have been waiting in vain for a home win against FC Bayern for more than seven years. Their last home victory came, of all occasions, in the Supercup. In August 2019, Paco Alcácer and Jadon Sancho fired BVB to a 2:0 win. A spicy side note: sitting on the record champions’ bench at the time was none other than Niko Kovac, who now oversees sporting matters in Dortmund.

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