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Event | DFL-Supercup | ||||||
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Date | 17 August 2021 | ||||||
Venue | Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund | ||||||
Man of the Match | Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich) [1] | ||||||
Referee | Sascha Stegemann (Niederkassel) [2] | ||||||
Attendance | 24,742 [3] | ||||||
The 2021 DFL-Supercup was the 12th edition of the German super cup under the name DFL-Supercup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal competitions. The match was played on 17 August 2021. [4]
The match featured Borussia Dortmund, the winners of the 2020–21 DFB-Pokal, and Bayern Munich, the champions of the 2020–21 Bundesliga. [5] The match was hosted by Borussia Dortmund at the Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund. [4]
Bayern Munich were the defending champions, having won the 2020 edition 3–2 against Borussia Dortmund. [6] Bayern won the match 3–1 for their 9th DFL-Supercup title. [1]
In the following table, matches until 1996 were in the DFB-Supercup era, since 2010 were in the DFL-Supercup era.
Team | Qualification | Previous appearances (bold indicates winners) |
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Borussia Dortmund | 2020–21 DFB-Pokal winners | 11 ( 1989 , 1995 , 1996 , 2011, 2012, 2013 , 2014 , 2016, 2017, 2019 , 2020) [a] |
Bayern Munich TH | 2020–21 Bundesliga champions | 14 ( 1987 , 1989, 1990 , 1994, 2010 , 2012 , 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019, 2020 ) [b] |
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In the 41st minute, Serge Gnabry crossed from the left for Robert Lewandowski to put Bayern Munich ahead with a header from six yards out to the left of the net. Thomas Müller made it 2–0 in the 49th minute with a close range finish to the net after the ball had been played in from the left by Alphonso Davies and back-healed to him by Lewandowski. Marco Reus made it 2–1 in the 64th minute with a right foot finish from outside the penalty area to the top right corner of the net. [7] Lewandowski scored his second in the 74th minute with a low finish to the right corner of the net from inside the penalty area after the ball broke to him after an error by Dortmund defender Manuel Akanji. [8]
Borussia Dortmund | 1–3 | Bayern Munich |
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Man of the Match: Assistant referees: [9] |
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