Olise the orchestrator as Bayern edge Klassiker curtain-raiser

Bayern Munich lifted the first piece of silverware on offer in Germany this season, withstanding a late Borussia Dortmund fightback to win 2-1 in the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup at Signal Iduna Park on Saturday. Michael Olise was the star of the show, teeing up Nathaniel Brown's opener on his competitive Bayern debut before adding a nonchalant winner of his own just before half-time.

Niko Kovac's Dortmund, playing on home soil, responded after the interval and set up a grandstand finish through Fabio Silva's goal off the bench. But any hopes of a comeback were dealt a major blow when Ramy Bensebaini was sent off for a lunge on another Bayern debutant, Ismael Saibari, and Maximilian Beier squandered a huge stoppage-time chance to force a penalty shootout, blazing high over Manuel Neuer's crossbar in the 93rd minute.

Brown and Olise strike before the interval

Amid a low-key start, neither team truly threatened in front of goal until the 28th minute, when Vincent Kompany's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal champions took the lead. Olise brilliantly brought Joshua Kimmich's raking pass down on his chest before slipping the ball into Brown, who finished low past Gregor Kobel.

Kobel kept Dortmund's deficit at one when he sprang to his left to keep out Luis Diaz's drive, and Kovac's side were denied an equaliser by the offside flag when Bensebaini headed home at the other end. Brown was close to a brace soon afterwards, but it was Olise who got the second goal in first-half stoppage time, latching onto a loose pass from Jobe Bellingham before scampering into the area and finishing with the outside of his left boot.

Dortmund's fightback falls short

Having managed only one shot in the first half, Dortmund showed more impetus after the break, with Konstantinos Karetsas forcing a sharp save from Neuer. Silva pulled one back with 15 minutes to play, finishing from Daniel Svensson's left-sided centre via a slight deflection, but Bensebaini's red card and Beier's late miss condemned the hosts to defeat.

Olise maintains dazzling form: The Frenchman arrived at the Supercup off the back of a 2025-26 campaign in which he registered more assists than any other player from Europe's top five leagues (26) before breaking the single-tournament assist record at the 2026 World Cup with seven. On Saturday he created the joint-most chances of any player on the pitch (four, including the assist for Brown's goal, level with Diaz), played the joint-most passes into the final third (31, level with Kimmich), and scored the decisive goal.

Bayern's victory also secured a landmark moment for Neuer, who tied Thomas Muller for the most Supercup appearances by any player (12) and became the competition's first nine-time champion. Dortmund, meanwhile, became only the second team to lose in three straight Supercup appearances, after Bayern did so between 2013-14 and 2015-16 – BVB also lost in 2019-20 and 2020-21 in their previous two outings.