Feyenoord vs Bayern München facts

Two points separate Feyenoord and Bayern München in the league phase of the UEFA Champions League ahead of their Matchday 7 meeting in Rotterdam.

The Dutch club have ten points with three wins from their first six fixtures, including a 4-2 home defeat of Sparta Praha on Matchday 6, with Bayern on 12. Vincent Kompany's team have responded to defeats on both Matchdays 2 and 3 with three successive victories, most recently 5-1 at Shakhtar Donetsk.

Previous meetings

2001/02 Champions League first group stage
Feyenoord 2-2 Bayern
Bayern 3-1 Feyenoord
A goal early in each half from Giovane Elber (13, 50) helped Bayern to a Matchday 3 draw in Rotterdam, Pierre van Hooijdonk (38) and Jon Dahl Tomasson (45+1) having turned the game in Feyenoord's favour.

Two Roque Santa Cruz goals (30, 90+1) gave Bayern the points in Munich on Matchday 5, Feyenoord's Johan Elmander (25) having cancelled out Ulrich van Gobbel's 12th-minute own goal.

Form guide

Feyenoord

Record vs German clubs: W15 D10 D10 F55 A56
Home record vs German clubs: W12 D4 L3

Feyenoord kicked off this season with a 0-4 defeat at home to German champions Bayer Leverkusen – their heaviest loss against a Bundesliga team in Rotterdam and their joint-biggest Champions League loss.

Feyenoord's previous meetings with a German club came in the 2021/22 UEFA Europa Conference League group stage, when they beat Union Berlin 3-1 at home and 2-1 away.

That made it four successive victories – and six games unbeaten (W5 D1) – and three wins in a row at home against Bundesliga teams, a run that was ended by Leverkusen.

Feyenoord have won 12 of their 19 home matches against German teams in Rotterdam, and also triumphed in the 2002 UEFA Cup final at their own stadium, beating Borussia Dortmund 3-2.

The Rotterdammers are making their seventh appearance in the Champions League proper, appearing in the competition for successive seasons for the first time since 2002/03. This is only the third time they have featured in the last 22 campaigns.

European champions in 1970, Feyenoord have never reached the Champions League knockout rounds, although they did make the second group stage in 1999/2000.

In 2023/24, Feyenoord were third in Group E behind Atlético de Madrid and Lazio. Arne Slot's side moved across to the Europa League but lasted a single tie, losing to Roma in the knockout round play-offs (1-1 h, 1-1 a aet, 2-4 pens).

This season's defeats by Leverkusen and Salzburg (1-3) on Matchdays 1 and 4 respectively made it three in Feyenoord's last 21 home European fixtures (W15 D3) – all in their last five games (W1 D1).

Champions of the Netherlands for the 16th time in 2022/23, Feyenoord were second behind PSV Eindhoven in 2023/24. The Rotterdam club did lift the Dutch Cup for the 14th time, and the first since 2017/18, before Slot departed for Liverpool.

Bayern

Record vs Dutch clubs: W12 D6 L4 F46 A31
Away record vs Dutch clubs: W4 D3 L4

Bayern's last games against a Dutch club came in the 2018/19 group stage, when they drew 1-1 at home to Ajax before a 3-3 draw in Amsterdam.

That made it eight games unbeaten against Eredivisie opponents (W4 D4), since a 2-1 loss at PSV Eindhoven in the 1999/2000 Champions League first group stage – one of only two reverses in Bayern's last 18 matches against Dutch teams, home and away (W10 D6).

A 1-0 win at PSV in the 2016/17 group stage is Bayern's only victory in their last six away games against Dutch clubs (D3 L2).

Bayern have featured in the Champions League proper in every season since 2008/09, reaching the knockout rounds in each one of those campaigns.

This is Bayern's 28th campaign in the Champions League proper, level with Porto and fewer only than Barcelona and Real Madrid (both 29).

A 0-1 defeat at Aston Villa on Matchday 2 this season ended Bayern's record unbeaten run of 41 Champions League group/league phase matches (W37 D4).

After winning five of their six games in the 2023/24 group stage, Bayern edged past Lazio (3-1 aggregate) and Arsenal (2-2 a, 1-0 h) but conceded two late second-leg goals to lose their final to Real Madrid (2-2 h, 1-2 a).

The six-time European champions have reached the quarter-finals or better in 12 of their last 13 Champions League campaigns, the exception a last-16 elimination by Liverpool in 2018/19.

A 4-1 loss at Barcelona on Matchday 3 is one of six in Bayern's last 38 away Champions League matches (W25 D7) but was their third away European defeat in a row, a club first, prior to their Matchday 6 win at Shakhtar.

A side coached by Thomas Tuchel were third behind Bayer Leverkusen and Stuttgart in the 2023/24 Bundesliga. It was the first time Bayern had failed to win the title since 2011/12 and their lowest league placing since 2010/11, when they were also third.

Tuchel was replaced by Kompany in the summer.

Links and trivia

Has played in Germany:
Timon Wellenreuther (Karlsruher 2010–13, Schalke 2013–17)

International team-mates:
In-beom Hwang & Min-jae Kim (South Korea)
Luka Ivanušec & Josip Stanišić (Croatia)
Ayase Ueda & Hiroki Ito (Japan)
Gernot Trauner & Konrad Laimer (Austria)

Have played together:
Timon Wellenreuther & Leon Goretzka (Schalke 2014/15, 2016/17)

Latest news

Feyenoord

Feyenoord have won three of their six games in all competitions since Matchday 6, losing two. They drew 1-1 at Willem II on Saturday.

Those defeats came in their last fixture of 2024 – 0-3 at Dutch champions and Eredivisie leaders PSV Eindhoven on 22 December – and the first of 2025, 1-2 at home to Utrecht on 12 January.

That was the first time Feyenoord had lost successive league games since May 2021, those two defeats as many as in their previous 40 Eredivisie matches (W29 D9).

Feyenoord have scored three goals or more in ten of their last 18 matches.

Brian Priske's side were 4-1 victors at third division Rijnsburgse Boys in the last 16 of the Dutch Cup on 15 January. They will visit PSV in the last eight.

Santiago Giménez scored twice and has nine goals in ten games since he returned on Matchday 5 after two months out with a thigh injury.

Ayase Ueda came on in the 89th minute at Willem II, his first appearance since going off with a hamstring problem in a 0-2 home defeat against Ajax on 30 October.

Quinten Timber (knee) has missed all three of Feyenoord's games this year while Bart Nieuwkoop sat out two with a groin problem before being an unused substitute on Saturday.

Jordan Lotomba has been ruled out by a leg fracture since 5 December.

Inbeom Hwang has not played since 17 December.

Bayern

On Saturday Leon Goretzka scored twice as Bayern made it four successive Bundesliga victories, with 14 goals scored, by beating Wolfsburg 3-2 in Munich.

Bayern lost 2-1 in Mainz on 14 December, their first Bundesliga defeat this season. They have since beaten Leipzig 5-1 – both teams scoring in the first two minutes for the first time in Bundesliga history – and, in 2025, won 1-0 at Borussia Mönchengladbach on 11 January and 5-0 against Hoffenheim four days later before Saturday's victory.

Leroy Sané scored four goals in his last five Bundesliga games, including two against Hoffenheim; Jamal Musiala has 12 goals in his last 17 games for club and country.

Harry Kane, who converted penalties against Gladbach and Hoffenheim, has 16 goals in this season's Bundesliga and 25 in 28 games for club and country this season. The striker has converted his last 27 penalties in all competitions.

Josip Stanišić (out since 19 August, knee) was an unused substitute on Saturday.

Daniel Peretz has been missing since 8 January with a kidney problem.

Sacha Boey has been sidelined since 16 December with an ankle injury.

João Palhinha has been out since mid-November after suffering an adductors injury in training with Portugal.

Summer signing Hiroki Ito (out since 28 July, broken metatarsal) needed another operation on 5 November.