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Full focus on duel with Chelsea
Bayern Munich’s head coach Hansi Flick does not look beyond his team’s Champions League duel against Chelsea on Saturday.
The DFL publishes its framework schedule for the 2020/2021 season. Champions Bayern Munich must first play against Schalke 04. The new season should start in mid-September.
Dhe German champions FC Bayern Munich is playing their first game of the 2020/21 Bundesliga season against FC Schalke 04. This is evident from the schedule published by the German Football League on Friday. Whether the game is also the opening game of the new season depends on Bayern’s performance in the Champions League. Should Munich reach the final of the premier class on August 23, they would not start the new season on September 18 with the Friday game, but on the following Monday, according to the DFL announcement.
In this case, the season would begin on Fridays with the encounter between Borussia Dortmund and Borussia Mönchengladbach. In the second division, two matches will be played at the start of the coming season on September 18: Hamburger SV is expecting Fortuna Düsseldorf, SSV Jahn Regensburg will face 1. FC Nürnberg.
1st matchday (18. – 21. September)
FC Bayern – Schalke 04
Borussia Dortmund – Borussia Mönchengladbach
RB Leipzig – Mainz 05
VfL Wolfsburg – Bayer Leverkusen
Eintracht Frankfurt – Arminia Bielefeld
Union Berlin – FC Augsburg
1. FC Cologne – 1899 Hoffenheim
Werder Bremen – Hertha BSC
VfB Stuttgart – SC Freiburg
2nd matchday (25. – 28. September)
Borussia Mönchengladbach – Union Berlin
Bayer Leverkusen – RB Leipzig
1899 Hoffenheim – FC Bayern
SC Freiburg – VfL Wolfsburg
Hertha BSC – Eintracht Frankfurt
Schalke 04 – Werder Bremen
Mainz 05 – VfB Stuttgart
FC Augsburg – Borussia Dortmund
Arminia Bielefeld – 1. FC Cologne
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