A trip to Stuttgart is anything but easy for Bayern, whose opponents in the Bundesliga this weekend have won their first five home league games of the season for the first time since 1992/93. They join Bayern and RB Leipzig as the only teams yet to drop points on their own turf this campaign. But if there’s any team that knows what it takes to win at the MHPArena, then it’s Vincent Kompany’s men, who are looking for their third victory of 2025 at the stadium, after winning 3-1 in the Bundesliga in February and 2-1 in the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup in August. Here’s all the key facts and stats ahead of the latest instalment of this classic fixture.
Bayern’s record total
Bayern and Stuttgart have met each other 112 times before in the Bundesliga. FCB have won an impressive 71 of them, which is more than any other team has beaten an opponent in the history of Germany’s top flight.
Add in August’s Supercup and Bayern have won 15 of the last 16 competitive meetings with Stuttgart. The one exception was a 3-1 loss in the Bundesliga in May 2024.
Impressive numbers
Bayern’s total of 34 points from 12 games has equalled the best start to a season in Bundesliga history, tied with the FCB team of 2015/16 and Bayer Leverkusen’s side of 2023/24. It’s form that’s helped keep Bayern top of the Bundesliga table for now 44 matchdays in a row, which is a run no team has previously managed before in Germany’s top division. And given the eight-point lead over Leipzig in second place, that record will be extended by at least a few more weeks. In fact, that advantage is the biggest a team has had at the summit after 12 matchdays in the era of three points for a win, tied with the Munich treble winners of 2012/13.
Double or nothing
Kompany’s team have managed to score at least two goals in every single Bundesliga game this season and now 20 in a row spanning multiple campaigns, which equals the best run in the league’s history set by Pep Guardiola’s side 12 years ago. The current total of 44 goals, however, is a new benchmark after 12 rounds of fixtures.
Stuttgart’s attack has also been in good form, though. They, Bayern and Borussia Dortmund are the only teams to have scored in every Bundesliga game so far this season, making it only the second time this century (after 2020/21) that VfB have avoided drawing a blank over the first 12 matchdays.
Undav vs. Díaz
Two of the Bundesliga’s in-form forwards will also face off on Saturday afternoon. Luis Díaz got a goal and an assist in the 3-1 win over St. Pauli to take him to 12 goal involvements in as many Bundesliga appearances. Since data collection began in 2004/05, the only three players to contribute more goals in their first dozen outings in Germany’s top flight are Erling Haaland (13), Diego (14) and Harry Kane (23).
As for Stuttgart, they’ve been reliant on the form of the fit-again Deniz Undav, who’s scored the club’s last six goals in the league – a feat no player has ever before achieved for VfB. The Germany forward boasted seven goals and two assists in November, meaning he posted the most goal involvements of any player across Europe’s top five leagues last month, ahead of Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappé (eight).
Unbeaten away year in sight
Bayern haven’t lost a single Bundesliga away game in 2025, winning 10 and drawing four of their 14 assignments on the road. They have two matches remaining if they are to complete a calendar year unbeaten away from home for the third time, after 1986 and 2013.
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