Watch Bayern Munich vs VFB Stuttgart for FREE as the Bundesliga champions kick-off the new season at the Allianz Arena, with FourFourTwo bringing you all the details on live streams and TV channels, wherever you are in the world.
- Date: Friday, 28 August
- Kick-off time: 7:30pm BST / 2:30pm ET / 4:30am AEST (Sat)
- Watch for FREE: BBC iPlayer (UK / Fandango (US)
- Live Streams: beIN SPORTS (AUS)
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Bayern will be aiming to sweep all before them once again after winning the league and cup double last term, with Harry Kane leading an attack that scored an incredible 122 goals in just 34 Bundesliga games.
Stuttgart know where the goal is too, though, with striker Deniz Undav finishing as the second-top scorer behind Kane in 2025/26 (although he did hit 17 fewer goals), a season in which they also reached the DFB-Pokal final.
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Bayern Munich vs VFB Stuttgart: Preview
Bayern Munich remain the team to beat in the Bundesliga, so it is fitting that Vincent Kompany's free-scoring side kick-off the 2026/27 campaign with this Friday-night clash at home to VFB Stuttgart.
Die Roten breezed to a league and cup double last season, with England captain Harry Kane scoring just the 61 goals in all competitions to claim his third successive Torjägerkanone (literally translated as the 'goal hunter cannon').
Surprisingly, the striker wasn't on the scoresheet as Bayern beat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the German Supercup last weekend, in a game that saw summer signing Nathaniel Brown find the net on his competitive debut.
The new recruit from Eintracht Frankfurt started in an attacking midfield role in that game and could do the same again, while Morocco striker Ismael Saibari is also set to make his league debut after his arrival from PSV Eindhoven. At the other end of the experience scale, 40-year-old Manuel Neuer is expected to play in goal as he begins his 16th season at the Allianz Arena.
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While it is hard to look past Bayern's brilliance, Stuttgart were arguably the big success story of the Bundesliga last season, finishing fourth to seal a return to the Champions League and reaching their second successive DFB-Pokal final.
Their tally of 71 league goals was bettered only by the Bavarians, with striker Deniz Undav scoring 19 of those and taking his form into World Cup 2026, where he found the net three times for Germany.
Head coach Sebastian Hoeness has added more firepower to his squad, in the form of centre forward Dzenan Pejcinovic from Wolfsburg, while attacking midfielder Bilal El Khannouss has joined from Leicester City.
It looks set to be the toughest league debut imagineable for the summer arrivals, but Stuttgart will believe they can hurt Bayern.
FourFourTwo's prediction
Bayern Munich 3-1 VFB Stuttgart
Both teams know where the goal is, but Bayern are specialists in outscoring the opposition.
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