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 Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund hosted the match. | |||||||
| Event | DFL-Supercup | ||||||
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| 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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The2021 DFL-Supercup was the 12th edition of the Germansuper cup under the nameDFL-Supercup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season'sBundesliga andDFB-Pokal competitions. The match was played on 17 August 2021.[4]
The match featuredBorussia Dortmund, the winners of the2020–21 DFB-Pokal, andBayern Munich, the champions of the2020–21 Bundesliga.[5] The match was hosted by Borussia Dortmund at theSignal Iduna Park inDortmund.[4]
Bayern Munich were the defending champions, having won the2020 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 MunichTH | 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 forRobert 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 byAlphonso 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 defenderManuel Akanji.[8]
| Borussia Dortmund | 1–3 | Bayern Munich |
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Man of the Match: Assistant referees:[9] |
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