Champs League Big Match Features:Borussia Vs Bayern,History

 
Wembley is the stage for an all-German occasion as Borussia Dortmund meet Bayern Munich in the Uefa Champions League final. Live action on SS3 from 7:30pm (CAT, GTM +2).
Bayern will arrive in London determined to erase the pain of losing last season's final at their home stadium. Having also lost the 2010 showpiece, the Bavarian side will be hoping to get the better of a Dortmund team they have already beaten to this season's Bundesliga title.
Bayern, seeking their fifth European crown, beat Barcelona convincingly in the semifinals but Jürgen Klopp's enterprising Dortmund outfit overcame Real Madrid in the last four and are bidding to repeat their 1997 triumph in their only previous Champions League final appearance.

Previous meetings

The clubs' only European fixtures came in the 1997/98 quarterfinals with Dortmund, then defending champions, coming out on top. After a goalless first leg in Munich, Dortmund prevailed 1-0 in the return through Stéphane Chapuisat's 109th-minute goal.
The lineups for that second leg on 18 March 1998 were:
Dortmund: Klos, Júlio César, Reuter (Zorc 105), Kohler, Heinrich, Feiersinger, Freund (Ricken 79), Möller, But, Chapuisat, Decheiver (Schneider 119).
Bayern: Kahn, Babbel, Kuffour, Matthäus (Strunz 111), Nerlinger (Lizarazu 111), Scholl, Hamann, Fink, Tarnat, Élber (Zickler 101), Jancker.
The two clubs have met in 100 competitive fixtures with 45 wins for Bayern, 26 for Dortmund and 29 draws.
Bayern are unbeaten against Dortmund in four meetings in 2012/13, including 1-1 home and away draws in the Bundesliga. On 1 December in Munich, Mario Götze (74) cancelled out a Toni Kroos (67) goal, while in Dortmund on 4 May, Bayern's Mario Gomez (23) wiped out Kevin Grosskreutz's 11th-minute effort in a fixture where Rafinha was sent off.
Bayern beat Dortmund 2-1 in the German Super Cup in Munich on 12 August – Mario Mandžukic (6) and Thomas Müller (11) scoring before Robert Lewandowski (75) reduced the arrears. Jupp Heynckes' men also defeated Dortmund in the German Cup, Arjen Robben (43) hitting the lone goal of their quarter-final on 27 February.
In past German Cup final meetings, Bayern beat Dortmund 2-1 in 2008 but Dortmund gained revenge with an emphatic 5-2 victory last season. Shinji Kagawa (3), Mats Hummels (41pen) and Lewandowski (45, 58, 81) struck for Dortmund with Robben (25pen) and Franck Ribéry (75) replying.
The lineups for that final encounter on 12 May 2012 were:
Dortmund: Weidenfeller (Langerak 34), Piszczeck, Subotic, Hummels, Schmelzer, Kehl, Blaszczykowski (Perišic 84), Grosskreutz, Gündogan, Kagawa (Bender 81), Lewandowski.
Bayern: Neuer, Lahm, Boateng, Badstuber, Alaba (Contento 69), Ribéry, Luiz Gustavo (Müller 46), Schweinsteiger, Kroos, Robben, Gomez.
Bayern's biggest Bundesliga win was an 11-1 defeat of Dortmund in 1971/72 in which Uli Hoeness, now club president, scored twice.

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Match background

Bayern are seeking to join Liverpool on five European Cup wins and become the joint-third most successful club in the competition's history behind Real Madrid CF and AC Milan.
Bayern's record in European Cup finals is four wins and five defeats:

• 1974: 4-0 v Club Atlético de Madrid, Brussels (replay after 1-1 draw)
• 1975: 2-0 v Leeds United AFC, Paris
• 1976: 1-0 v AS Saint-Étienne, Glasgow
• 1982: 0-1 v Aston Villa FC, Rotterdam
• 1987: 1-2 v FC Porto, Vienna
• 1999: 1-2 v Manchester United FC, Barcelona
• 2001: 1-1 v Valencia (5-4 on penalties), Milan
• 2010: 0-2 v FC Inter Milan, Madrid
• 2012: 1-1 v Chelsea FC (3-4 on penalties), Munich

Bayern also won the 1967 European Cup Winners' Cup and 1996 Uefa Cup finals.
Dortmund beat Juventus 3-1 in Munich in their only previous Champions League final in 1997. Lars Ricken, now Dortmund's youth team coordinator, scored the third goal 60 seconds after coming off the bench and Michael Zorc, now their sporting director, was another late substitute.
Dortmund's then coach Ottmar Hitzfeld led Bayern to the finals in 1999 and 2001.
Dortmund also won the 1966 European Cup Winners' Cup final but lost Uefa Cup finals in 1993 and 2002.
A Bayern victory would make Heynckes the 19th coach to have won the European Cup twice, following his 1998 success with Real Madrid. He would also become only the fourth to have triumphed with two different clubs after Ernst Happel (Feyenoord 1970, Hamburger SV 1983), Hitzfeld (Dortmund 1997, Bayern 2001) and José Mourinho (FC Porto 2004, Inter Milan 2010).
Heynckes' first season of European competition as a coach ended with defeat in an all-German final as his VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach side fell to Eintracht Frankfurt on away goals in the 1980 Uefa Cup final. All four semifinalists that season were German – while Mönchengladbach beat VfB Stuttgart, Bayern lost 5-3 on aggregate to Eintracht.
Bayern have won four and lost three of seven Uefa competition ties against German rivals. This includes victories against Dynamo Dresden and FC Magdeburg in European Champion Clubs' Cup ties in 1973/74 and 1974/75 respectively – seasons that ended with Bayern crowned European champions.
Bayern's most recent European encounter with Bundesliga rivals was the 6-0 aggregate win against Kaiserslautern in the 1998/99 Champions League quarterfinals.
Bayern have already won once in London this season, beating Arsenal 3-1 in the round of 16. It was their first victory from six visits to London where their record now reads W1 D2 L3. Bayern's overall record in England is W3 D7 L6.
Like Bayern, Dortmund have won just once in London – 2-1 at West Ham United in the 1965/66 European Cup Winners' Cup semifinals en route to lifting their first European trophy. They have returned there twice since, losing Champions League group games to Arsenal in 2002/03 and again last season.
Dortmund drew 1-1 at Manchester City in this season's group stage; their record in England is W2 D1 L4.
While Dortmund won only one of six games outside Germany en route to the final, Bayern were victorious in four – including the last three against Arsenal, Juventus and Barcelona.
This is the seventh European Cup final at Wembley, and the second since the stadium was rebuilt:

• 1963 AC Milan 2-1 SL Benfica
• 1968 Manchester United 4-1 SL Benfica (aet)
• 1971 AFC Ajax 2-0 Panathinaikos
• 1978 Liverpool FC 1-0 Club Brugge KV
• 1992 Barcelona 1-0 Sampdoria UC (aet)
• 2011 Barcelona 3-1 Manchester United

This is the fourth Champions League final between teams from the same country. Real Madrid beat Valencia in 2000, Milan overcame Juventus in 2003, and Manchester United beat Chelsea in 2008. Of the three winning teams only United had finished above their final victims in their domestic championship.
Dortmund's shoot-out record in Uefa competition is:

• 3-1 v Rangers, 1999/2000 Uefa Cup third round
• 6-5 v AJ Auxerre, 1992/93 Uefa Cup semifinals

Bayern's shoot-out record is:

• 3-4 v Chelsea FC, 2011/12 Champions League final
• 3-1 v Real Madrid CF, 2011/12 Champions League semifinal
• 5-4 v Valencia CF, 2000/01 Champions League final
• 9-8 v PAOK FC, 1983/84 Uefa Cup second round
• 4-3 v Åtvidabergs FF, 1973/74 European Cup first round

Dortmund prevailed 5-4 in the only previous penalty shoot-out between the sides following a 2-2 draw in the 1992/93 German Cup second round.
Dortmund fans will hope history is about to repeat itself. In 1997 when they won the Champions League following two seasons as German champions, Bayern had just reclaimed the Bundesliga trophy and Stuttgart won the German Cup. Bayern have already won this season's German title and face Stuttgart in the Cup final on 1 June.

Team ties

Klopp has faced Bayern 20 times as coach of 1. FSV Mainz 05 and Dortmund. His record reads W5 D4 L11.
As coach of Real Madrid, Heynckes dethroned holders Dortmund during the Spanish club's triumphant 1997/98 Champions League campaign, winning 2-0 on aggregate in the semi-finals. As a coach in Germany, Heynckes' record against Dortmund is W20 D13 L11.
Heynckes faced Dortmund 15 times as a player for Mönchengladbach, winning six, drawing six and losing three.
On 29 April 1978, he scored five times when Gladbach beat Dortmund 12-0 to record the biggest winning margin in Bundesliga history.
Heynckes won each of the three all-German European ties he played in for Mönchengladbach. He scored a hat-trick in a 7-1 quarter-final home success against Kaiserslautern en route to the 1973 Uefa Cup final.
Bayern's sporting director Matthias Sammer won the 1997 Champions League with Dortmund. As coach, he led Dortmund to the Bundesliga title and the Uefa Cup final in 2002.
Besides steering both clubs to the Champions League title, Hitzfeld also won Bundesliga honours with Dortmund (1995, 1997) and Bayern (1999–2001, 2003, 2008). Other coaches to have served the two teams are Erich Ribbeck, Pál Csernai, Otto Rehhagel and Udo Lattek.
Götze will join Bayern from Dortmund on 1 July. In 2009 Hummels made the opposite journey, signing for Dortmund after two seasons in Munich.
Sven Bender and Moritz Leitner both began their careers with TSV 1860 Munich.

Dortmund

The competition's last unbeaten record ended when Dortmund lost to Real Madrid in their semifinal second leg, the 12th match of their campaign.
Robert Lewandowski became the first player to score four goals in a European Cup semifinal in the first leg and the ninth to manage four in a Champions League game; Lionel Messi is the only man to score five.
Lewandowski has scored ten times in this season's competition, fewer only than Cristiano Ronaldo (12).
Dortmund have scored 296 goals in Uefa competition.
Of the 32 teams who contested this season's competition, only five had a poorer pass completion rate than BVB's 66%, while only four mustered less than their 46% share of possession.
Roman Weidenfeller and Marcel Schmelzer have played every minute of Jürgen Klopp's team's campaign. Marco Reus and Lewandowski have also featured in all 12 games.

Miscellaneous

Last Saturday's 2-1 home loss to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim left Dortmund four games without a win, their worst run since August/September 2011. They have not gone five matches without victory since August/September 2009.
Weidenfeller was sent off nine minutes from time against Hoffenheim, his first red card in 283 Bundesliga appearances. Indeed, he had only been dismissed once before in his professional career, in a German Cup game in October 2006.
Mario Götze has not played since suffering a torn hamstring during the second-leg loss to Madrid. Mats Hummels went off with an ankle injury against Hoffenheim while Patrick Owomoyela, who will leave the club at the end of the season, is out with a muscle injury picked up on 7 May.
Lukasz Piszczek will undergo surgery on a persistent hip problem after Saturday's final and is expected to be sidelined for five months. He was out for half a year after a similar problem in 2008 while at Hertha BSC Berlin.
Lewandowski has scored 22 goals in his past 24 outings for Dortmund, and between December and April he registered in 12 successive Bundesliga games, a club record.
Dortmund have won just three of their last ten games away from home.
Götze will join Bayern in July after the Bundesliga champions triggered his €37m release clause. He has scored 19 goals for club and country this season, two more than he managed in the two previous campaigns combined.
Sebastian Kehl (until summer 2014), Neven Subotic (2016), Kevin Grosskreutz (2016), Weidenfeller (2016), Sven Bender (2017) and Schmelzer (2017) have all agreed contract extensions this year.
Reus scored every goal in a 3-0 win against Eintracht Frankfurt on 16 February, becoming the first German player to record a hat-trick at home for Dortmund since Günter Breitzke in 1986.

Bayern

Jupp Heynckes' side are the top scorers in this season's competition with 29 goals, ahead of Real Madrid (26) and Dortmund (23).
Mario Gomez has scored 23 Champions League goals for Bayern, surpassing Giovane Elber's previous club record of 22. Gomez has 26 in total, including three for VfB Stuttgart.
Bayern have won 100 corners; 26 more than any other team in this season's competition.
The German club have scored 299 goals in the Champions League, group stage to final. They have conceded 399 goals in Uefa competition, scoring 749.
David Alaba's quarterfinal, first-leg opener against Juventus was timed at 25.02 seconds, the seventh fastest goal in Champions League history.
Claudio Pizarro's 16-minute hat-trick against LOSC Lille on matchday four was the third fastest in Champions League history. Manuel Neuer has played every minute of Bayern's campaign; Thomas Müller has also featured in all 12 games.

Miscellaneous

Last Saturday, in Heynckes' final Bundesliga game as Bayern boss, his side won 4-3 at the club where he began his career as player and coach: VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach. For the first time ever Bayern conceded three goals in the opening ten minutes of a top-flight game, and were trailing 3-1 at one point. Franck Ribéry scored twice and provided two assists.
Bayern conceded just seven times away from home in the Bundesliga this season, winning 15 out of 17 in all, surpassing the record for most away victories in a campaign that had stood at 11.
Bayern also set Bundesliga records this season for most points (91, surpassing Dortmund's haul of 81 last term), biggest winning margin (25 points), best goal difference (+80), clean sheets (21) and most wins (29). Their 14-match winning run – all in 2013, which ended with a 1-1 draw at Dortmund on 4 May – is a record within one campaign.
Bayern sealed their 23rd German title on 6 April with a record six games remaining having become autumn champions (the side top after 17 matches going into the winter break) with a record three games to spare.
Heynckes' side have won 24 of their last 26 matches in all competitions.
Bayern have won 44 of their 52 games this season, compared to Dortmund's 29 victories in 51 outings. Neuer's understudy Tom Starke has kept four clean sheets in as many outings this term.
Bayern will meet Stuttgart on 1 June in what is their 19th German Cup final, bidding for a 16th title (Werder Bremen are the second most successful with six wins).
Pizarro became only the second player in Bundesliga history to have a part in six goals in a single game – he scored four and got two assists – in Bayern's 9-2 home defeat of Hamburger SV on 30 March.
On 16 January Bayern announced that Josep Guardiola will succeed Heynckes on a three-year deal this summer.
Holger Badstuber (ruptured knee ligaments, out since 1 December) is expected to be out for a further ten months after a setback in his rehabilitation while Toni Kroos (adductor injury, 2 April) is unlikely to feature again this term.
Mario Götze will join from Dortmund in July after the Bundesliga champions triggered the €37m release clause in the 20-year-old's contract. Jan Kirchhoff, a 22-year-old who can play at the back or as a holding midfielder, will link up from FSV Mainz 05 this summer on a three-year deal.
Bayern's eight straight Bundesliga victories at the start of the season was a new record, surpassing the mark of seven set by themselves (1995/96), Kaiserslautern (2001/02) and Mainz (2010/11).
Bayern started the season with nine straight victories in all competitions – the last time they began with even six, in 2000/01, they claimed the Champions League.

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Uefa Champions League final: Did you know?
Spain are the most successful nation with six triumphs, one more than Italy. Spain's wins – 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2009 and 2011 – came from nine final dates while Italy were victorious in 1994, 1996, 2003, 2007 and 2010 from their 11 appearances. England emerged victorious in 1999, 2005, 2008 and 2012 and were losing finalists in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011 while Germany were winners in 1997 and 2001 and runners-up in 1999, 2002, 2010 and 2012.
No team has played in more finals than AC Milan as 2007 marked their sixth appearance. They equalled Real Madrid’s record of three victories with that triumph against Liverpool in Athens, a mark Barcelona matched in 2011 thanks to a final defeat of Manchester United.
Italy with 26 has the most appearances per nation in all-time European Cup finals – of those 12 have ended in victory and 14 in defeat. England has recorded 12 wins from 19 final appearances. Spain has 22 final appearances (13 wins/nine defeats), Germany 15 (six wins), Portugal nine (four wins) and the Netherlands eight (six wins).
There have been three previous finals between teams from the same country: in 2000 Real Madrid beat Valencia 3-0 at the Stade de France, three years later AC Milan defeated Juventus on penalties at Old Trafford and in 2008 Manchester United overcame Chelsea in Moscow, also on spot kicks.
In the previous 20 Champions League finals, there have been 14 outright wins and six matches decided on shoot-outs. A total of 51 goals have been scored with the most common results being 2-1 and 1-1, which have happened on four occasions; three finals have finished 1-0.
Fifteen European Cup finals have gone to extra time. The finals of 1958, 1968, 1970 and 1992 were decided in the additional period, while the 1974 showpiece between Bayern Munich and Club Atlético Madrid ended 1-1 after 120 minutes with Bayern subsequently winning a replay. The other ten finals were settled by a penalty shoot-out after extra time: in 1984, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2012 when Chelsea FC defeated Bayern 4-3 in the shoot-out after a 1-1 draw.
Milan's 4-0 win against FC Barcelona in the 1994 final remains the biggest winning margin and the Rossoneri were also involved in the highest scoring showpiece when they shared six goals with Liverpool in 2005 before penalties.
In terms of the European Cup, Madrid's 7-3 defeat of Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960 remains the most impressive while Bayern (1974 v Club Atlético de Madrid) and Milan (1989 v Steaua Bucuresti) also recorded 4-0 successes.
No player has scored a hat-trick in a Champions League final. Daniele Massaro (Milan 1994), Karlheinz Riedle (Borussia Dortmund 1997), Hernán Crespo (Milan 2005), Filippo Inzaghi (2007) and Diego Milito (2010) all struck twice. In European Cup terms, Ferenc Puskás scored four goals in Madrid's 7-3 defeat of Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960, when Alfredo di Stéfrano found the net three times; Puskás scored another final hat-trick in 1962 with Pierino Prati (Milan 1969) the only other player to have managed a final hat-trick.
Only Raúl González (Madrid 2000 and 2002), Samuel Eto'o (Barcelona 2006 and 2009) and Lionel Messi (Barcelona 2009 and 2011) have scored in two Champions League finals – part of an exclusive club of 16 players to have found the net in more than one European Cup showpiece. Alfredo di Stéfano and Puskás lead the list having each scored seven goals for Madrid.
Paolo Maldini's goal 51 seconds into the 2005 showpiece is the fastest in a Champions League final.
Jens Lehmann (2006) and Didier Drogba (2008) are the only players to be dismissed in a European Cup final.
Clarence Seedorf is the only player to win the European Cup with three clubs (AFC Ajax 1995, Real Madrid 1998, AC Milan 2003, 2007). Liverpool's Bob Paisley (1977, 1978, 1981) is the only coach to win three times.
Ottmar Hitzfeld (Borussia Dortmund 1997, Bayern 2001), Ernst Happel (Feyenoord 1970, Hamburger SV 1983) and José Mourinho (FC Porto 2004, Inter Milan 2010) are the only coaches to win the trophy with two clubs.
No team has successfully defended the Champions League trophy with AC Milan (1989, 1990) the last club to win consecutive European Champion Clubs' Cups. Milan (1994, 1995), AFC Ajax (1995, 1996), Juventus (1996, 1997) and Manchester United (2008, 2009) have all returned to the final as holders only to lose.
Only two teams have ever won the Champions League on home soil: Borussia Dortmund (1997, final in Munich) and Juventus (1996, final in Rome), while Manchester United lost the 2011 final in London and 12 months later Bayern were beaten in the showpiece in their own stadium, the Fußball Arena München.