FC Bayern welcomes RB Leipzig: Bundesliga starts on August 22nd!

FC Bayern welcomes RB Leipzig: Bundesliga starts on August 22nd!

An exciting football year is just around the corner: Bayern Munich will play the opening game of the 63rd Bundesliga season against RB Leipzig on Friday, August 22nd, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. in the Allianz Arena. The German Football League (DFL) recently announced this. The game is aimed primarily at fans who can look forward to a thrilling duel, which will be broadcast live on Sky and on free TV on SAT.1. The announcement has noticeably increased enthusiasm for football and the anticipation for the new season is growing.

Just one day after this full announcement of the opening match, the DFL will also publish the complete schedules for the Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga on June 27th at 2:00 p.m. For fans there is also an interactive game in the official Bundesliga app that is running until this point. In the game plan puzzle “What’s the Match?” Participants have the chance to guess another game from the first day of play. If you take part, you can win five official game balls from Derbystar.

More exciting encounters

Fans can look forward to another interesting encounter on matchday one when Eintracht Frankfurt hosts SV Werder Bremen. These games show that the Bundesliga is planning a brilliant start to the new season. It will also be exciting for newly promoted Hamburger SV, who will face Bayern Munich on matchday 3 after not being able to compete against the record champions for seven years.

The broadcast rights of the Bundesliga have always been a hot topic that affects us all. In the future, it will now be decided on which platforms the games can be followed. As history shows, the media landscape has changed significantly when it comes to football broadcasts. While in the early years it was mainly ARD and ZDF that broadcast the games as summaries, today we are in a time where pay-TV providers such as Sky and DAZN often take over the broadcast rights and offer us more live games. This development reflects the trend towards commercialization of sport and also means higher costs for fans for concentrated football entertainment.

It remains to be seen how transmissions will develop in the coming years. Future technologies such as streaming services and OTT services could also become more important. The discussion about a unified platform is already underway and could significantly change football reporting.

No matter how everything turns out, one thing remains certain: the anticipation of the new exciting duels and the football fever remains unbroken. Diverse games and exciting encounters await us in the coming season!

Find out more about the exciting developments in the Bundesliga on dfl.de and Yahoo Sport. For deeper insights into the development of broadcasting rights, take a look at [Digital Fernsehen](https://www.digital Fernsehen.de/news/contente/ Fernsehenen/war-frueher-alles-besser-entwicklung-der-uebertragungsrechte-fuer-die-bundesliga-1111434/).