Trips to Munich are an ominous prospect in European competition for Belgian clubs. Ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League meeting at the Allianz Arena with Club Brugge, Bayern have hosted five different teams from Belgium and won them all, with only Anderlecht even scoring a goal, way back in March 1986. fcbayern.com has the key stats and facts ahead of the third competitive meeting between Germany’s record champions and Brugge.
Solid European defence
Bayern’s defensive record at the Allianz Arena is seriously impressive in the initial stages of the Champions League. They have conceded only 17 goals in the last 35 home games in the group stage/league phase. Manuel Neuer & Co. have kept 22 clean sheets in that run.
It’s a solid foundation upon which Bayern’s attack has also been able to flourish, scoring in 47 of the last 48 home Champions League group/league fixtures. The one blip was the 0-0 draw with Copenhagen in November 2023. Across the remaining 47 matches, the Bavarians have netted 148 goals at an average of 3.14 per game.
The glut of goals over the past few seasons is in no small part thanks to the form of Harry Kane, whose 22 goals scored and 27 goal involvements (five assists) are both the most of any player in the competition since his Bayern debut in the Champions League in September 2023. The 32-year-old already has four goals over the first two games of this continental campaign.
Demichelis and Pizarro the scorers
This will be the third competitive meeting between Bayern and Brugge. The pair previously met in the group stage of the Champions League in 2005/06. Claudio Pizarro scored in a 1-1 draw in Belgium, while Martin Demichelis netted the only goal of the night in Munich.
We spoke with former Belgian defender Daniel Van Buyten about Brugge:
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