Bayern Munich is definitely the king of the Bundesliga. He certainly didn’t wait for the end of the football championship to make it known. The Bavarian club indeed secured a 35th German championship title on Sunday.
Nine days before a trip to Paris in the semi-final first leg of the Champions League, Bayern did not miss their first title shot, offered on a plate by Borussia Dortmund on Saturday (defeat at Hoffenheim 2-1). In front of 75,000 spectators at the Allianz Arena, the teammates of Joshua Kimmich, captain in the absence of Manuel Neuer, won 4-2 against Stuttgart, a seventh victory won after being behind. With four days remaining, the club has 79 points and is now out of reach of BVB (64).
Guerreiro, Jackson, Davies and Kane scorers
As usual this season, Bayern put on a show against Stuttgart, with goals from Raphaël Guerreiro (31st), Nicolas Jackson (33rd), Alphonso Davies (37th) and Harry Kane (52nd).
Since Borussia Dortmund’s double in 2011 and 2012, Bayern have won 13 of the last 14 German league titles. The only one that escaped him returned to Bayer Leverkusen, at the end of an exceptional season, concluded without a single defeat in 34 Bundesliga days, a feat that no other German club, not even Bayern, has managed to achieve.
Now for the German Cup
Last season, the Munich residents were crowned champions three days from the end, watching the defeat of Leverkusen one Sunday late afternoon, in a restaurant. This season, no “Sofa-Meister”, but the celebrations were much more measured at the end of the match (a T-shirt to celebrate the coronation), because unlike the 2024/25 financial year, the Munich residents are still in the race on all counts.
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They will barely have time to breathe before they return to Bayer Leverkusen on Wednesday, in the semi-finals of the German Cup. The 20th and last coronation (the record) in Pokal dates back to 2020, an eternity for the club which had clearly made it one of the objectives at the start of the 2025/26 season.
But it is especially towards the Champions League that the appetite of Bayern supporters has whetted during the season, with a domination of their players until eliminating Real Madrid in the quarter-finals on Wednesday, while the club remained on four consecutive eliminations (2014, 2017, 2018, 2024) in C1 against the Merengue. Thanks to their successes in Madrid (2-1, the match to be rewatched here) and in Munich (4-3, the return match there), they earned the right to face PSG, defending champion, in the semi-finals. The first leg will take place at the Parc des Princes on April 28, and the return will take place at the Allianz Arena on May 6.
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