Will Dortmund extend their proud run away at St. Pauli? | OneFootball

In two days, the time has come: Borussia Dortmund is kicking off the Bundesliga season 2025/26. The first opponent is FC St. Pauli, who will also be the host on Saturday evening. For the Borussians, it's not just about securing three points, but also about extending a remarkably long streak that no other Bundesliga team can currently boast.

The match at FC St. Pauli is BVB's opening game of the new season. Borussia Dortmund has not lost such opening games since 2014, even more: Since the defeat against Bayer Leverkusen at that time, BVB has won every first game of a new season in the Bundesliga.

In 2014/15, and thus of course in late summer 2014, it was the last time that BVB did not leave the field as the winner in its first game of the season. This last opening defeat was suffered due to two goals by Karim Bellarabi and Stefan Kießling, to which BVB could not respond with a goal of their own. The Leverkusen goals came particularly early and particularly late.

Bellarabi's goal to make it 1:0 is still the fastest goal in Bundesliga history, scored just nine seconds after the start of the match at Signal Iduna Park. Only in stoppage time did Kießling seal the deal with his 2:0. The BVB coach was still Jürgen Klopp at the time, which underlines how long ago this slip-up was.

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Will BVB's streak continue in Hamburg?

Currently, no other Bundesliga team that has been playing in the Bundesliga since 2014 has such a winning streak in opening games. However, FC Bayern Munich has been unbeaten for longer than BVB, having last lost an opening game in 2011/12 when they lost 0:1 at home to Borussia Mönchengladbach. Because the Bavarians only drew 1:1 against the same opponent in the 2021/22 opener, this time in Mönchengladbach, Bayern's opening game winning streak is significantly shorter.

Things have been going in the opposite direction for Werder Bremen for ages. The Hanseatic team has been waiting since 2013 for a win in the first game of the season. Back then, they won 1:0 against newly promoted Eintracht Braunschweig, with Junuzovic scoring. The upcoming task at Eintracht Frankfurt does not exactly raise hopes that this black streak will end this season. Quite the contrary for BVB, who go into the game against FC St. Pauli as favorites and want to land their eleventh consecutive opening win there.

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