After four years of absence, Bayern Munich returns to the last four of the Champions League on Tuesday April 30 with a “20-star” semi-final against Real Madrid, and maintains its dream of seeing Wembley again in the final, as during the triumph of 2013. Bayern holds 14 titles, a record, and 6 for Bayern, the third most successful club in C1.
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Entering the pitch of the Allianz Arena on Tuesday evening (where the final of the 2025 edition will take place), two of the finest winners in European football will face each other, with stars in their eyes and on the jerseys.
Taking into account the 2024 edition, Bayern and Real will have played 29 of the 69 finals (11 for the Germans and 17 for the Spaniards for the moment). And the two clubs have faced each other 26 times, almost always in the knockout phase, but strangely never in the final on neutral ground.
Bayern stripped of national title for first time since 2013
“ We definitely have our chance. I don’t want to use the traditional phrase “It’s 50/50”, but it’s 50/50 », Mischievously slipped Bayern sporting director, Max Eberl, after Munich’s victory on Saturday against Frankfurt in a championship match without stakes. Indeed, Europe remains the only opportunity to win a trophy this season for Bayern, dispossessed of the national title for the first time since 2013 by Bayer Leverkusen, while the German Cup is no longer relevant. since the fall (released in the sixteenth by Saarbruck, resident of the 3rd division).
On the pitch, Bayern prepared for this first round against Real Madrid with two successes in the Bundesliga, one in Berlin against the Union (5-1) and one at home against Frankfurt (2-1).
Towards a fifteenth crown for Real?
Facing Real, almost assured of winning the La Liga title and determined to win a fifteenth European crown, Thomas Tuchel, the Bavarian coach is wary of an opponent capable of accelerating in a fraction of a second. “ If we watch their goals and pause 10 seconds before, we don’t always see them coming “, he warned.
The Madrilenians eliminated Manchester City, defending champion in the quarter-finals, in this way and constitute a last and immense obstacle for the Munich people towards Wembley, where they won their fifth star in 2013 in an 100% German final against Borussia Dortmund , a remake of which is always possible when approaching the last four (BVB faces Paris SG on Wednesday May 1 for the first leg). The Bavarians have still not won a single victory in their last seven meetings against the Spaniards (1 draw, 6 defeats, all in the knockout phase).
Bayern Munich and Real Madrid have offered the C1 in the past duels at the top in the quarters or semi-finals which have entered the legend of the competition.