2021 DFL-Supercup

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]

2021 DFL-Supercup

German Supercup
Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund hosted the match.
Event	DFL-Supercup
Borussia Dortmund Bayern Munich 1 3
Date	17 August 2021 (2021-08-17)
Venue	Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund
Man of the Match	Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)[1]
Referee	Sascha Stegemann (Niederkassel)[2]
Attendance	24,742[3]
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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]

Teams

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)
Borussia Dortmund	2020–21 DFB-Pokal winners	11 (1989, 1995, 1996, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020)[a]
Bayern MunichTH	2020–21 Bundesliga champions	14 (1987, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)[b]

1. Winners of the unofficial 2008 German Supercup. One-time runners-up in the DFL-Ligapokal.
2. Runners-up in the unofficial 2008 German Supercup. Six-time winners and one-time runners-up in the DFL-Ligapokal.

Background

Match

Summary

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]

Details

17 August 2021 (2021-08-17)

20:30 CEST

Borussia Dortmund	1–3	Bayern Munich
Reus 64'	Report	Lewandowski 41', 74' Müller 49'

Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund

Attendance: 24,742^[3]

Referee: Sascha Stegemann (Niederkassel)

Borussia Dortmund

Bayern Munich

GK 1 Gregor Kobel RB 30 Felix Passlack  84' CB 28 Axel Witsel CB 16 Manuel Akanji LB 14 Nico Schulz DM 8 Mahmoud Dahoud  32' CM 22 Jude Bellingham  84' CM 7 Giovanni Reyna  78' AM 11 Marco Reus (c)  25' CF 9 Erling Haaland CF 18 Youssoufa Moukoko  58' Substitutes: GK 35 Marwin Hitz MF 6 Thomas Delaney MF 20 Reinier  84' MF 39 Marius Wolf  84' MF 46 Marco Pašalić  78' MF 47 Antonios Papadopoulos FW 21 Donyell Malen  58' FW 27 Steffen Tigges FW 36 Ansgar Knauff Manager: Marco Rose

GK 1 Manuel Neuer (c) RB 44 Josip Stanišić  87' CB 2 Dayot Upamecano CB 4 Niklas Süle  23' LB 19 Alphonso Davies CM 6 Joshua Kimmich CM 8 Leon Goretzka RW 11 Kingsley Coman  49' AM 25 Thomas Müller  73' LW 7 Serge Gnabry  73' CF 9 Robert Lewandowski  88' Substitutes: GK 26 Sven Ulreich DF 3 Omar Richards DF 15 Chris Richards DF 20 Bouna Sarr  87' DF 23 Tanguy Nianzou MF 24 Corentin Tolisso  73' MF 42 Jamal Musiala  73' FW 10 Leroy Sané  83'  49' FW 13 Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting  90+3'  88' Manager: Julian Nagelsmann

Man of the Match: Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)[1] Assistant referees:[9] Mike Pickel (Mendig) Frederick Assmuth (Cologne) Fourth official:[9] Florian Badstübner (Windsbach) Video assistant referee:[9] Tobias Welz (Wiesbaden) Assistant video assistant referee:[9] Robert Wessel (Berlin)

Match rules[10][11] 90 minutes. Penalty shoot-out if scores level. Nine named substitutes, of which up to five may be used.[note 1]

See also

• 2021–22 Bundesliga
• 2021–22 DFB-Pokal

Notes

1. Each team was given only three opportunities to make substitutions, excluding substitutions made at half-time.