The DFL has the opening matches of the 2024/25 Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga seasons, and the full schedule will be published on Array
The Bundesliga season will kick off with defending champions Bayer Leverkusen making a short trip to Mönchengladbach to face Borussia Mönchengladbach at Borussia Park. Last season, Leverkusen won the opener at Borussia Park 3-0 before the second leg at the BayArena was one of the only times Die Werkself failed to score all season with a 0-0 draw.
In the 2. Bundesliga, the newly relegated 1. FC Köln faced the dinosaur of the league Hamburg. The two groups have not met on a professional stage since 2022, when Hamburg beat Cologne in the DFB Cup. The first time these two teams met in the league in the second division was in 2018/19, when Hamburger won 1-0 and drew the second leg.
The first match of the season is the DFL Super Cup, which will take place on the same weekend as the opening of the DFB-Pokal and in which Leverkusen will host VfB Stuttgart.
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Bayer Leverkusen know their opponents in the opening match of the 2024/25 Bundesliga
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