Borussia Mönchengladbach welcome champions Bayer Leverkusen for the opening game of the 24/25 Bundesliga season. There is an explosive duel in the 2nd series.
At the start of the 24/25 Bundesliga season Westschlager: Borussia Mönchengladbach and the champions Bayer Leverkusen will play the opening match. The date for the Rhineland duel is August 23 (8:30 pm).
FC Bayern kicks off Saturday (August 24, 2024) with an away game at VfL Wolfsburg. The last time there was a Bundesliga opener without FC Bayern was twelve years ago. At that time, Borussia Dortmund, as defending champions, beat Werder Bremen 2-1.
Last season, Leverkusen won 3-0 in Mönchengladbach. The second half of the season saw a 0-0 draw – the only Bundesliga game of the season in which a double winner did not score for Bayer.
Bayern against BVB at the end of November
The classic between Munich and BVB will first take place in Dortmund on matchday 12, the weekend from November 29 to December 1.
Borussia starts the season on matchday 1 with a home game against Eintracht Frankfurt. Other Champions League participants RB Leipzig and VfB Stuttgart will start against VfL Bochum and SC Freiburg. The duels between Leverkusen and Bayern will take place on days 5 and 22.
2nd league: Cologne against HSV
Even before the start of the Bundesliga, the ball is rolling again at club level. The first round of the DFB Cup starts on August 16, the Supercup between double winners Leverkusen and runners-up Stuttgart takes place a day later.
The schedulers also had a blast in the 2nd Bundesliga: 1. FC Köln will host Hamburger SV three weeks earlier on August 2nd. It is the first meeting that HSV coach Steffen Baumgart had with his former club 1. FC Köln.