Opening games and opening goals: the first season scorers in Bundesliga history
For the first time in over a decade, Bayern Munich won't be raising the curtain on the new Bundesliga season. This year it's Bayer Leverkusen against Borussia Mönchengladbach to open 2024/25, so who will get the new campaign off on the right note?
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The Bundesliga season has opened with a standalone Friday game featuring the defending champions since 2002. It's therefore little surprise that a Bayern player has scored the first goal of a season 15 times since then. Thomas Müller, for one, has opened the scoring on no fewer than three occasions (2010, 2014 and 2018) - a record.
It's very unlikely that he or the record champions will be able to add to those numbers this year, after Leverkusen dethroned the Bavarians with an unbeaten domestic campaign and will now open the new season with a trip to near rivals Gladbach.
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