Best starts to a season

Vincent Kompany’s team became only the second in history to have won their opening nine matches of a Bundesliga season – after Pep Guardiola's Bayern class of 2025/26 – but their goal difference of +29 made it the outright best start.

Watch: Bayern race on with ninth win over Leverkusen 

However, after they were held to a 2-2 draw at Union Berlin, the record for longest winning run to begin a season in Germany’s top flight remained at 10 games, set by Guardiola’s aforementioned team of 2015/16 before they drew their 11th fixture.

Kompany's men have got back to winning ways since, though, and have again taken the record on goal difference.

They are tied on 37 points with Guardiola's side, ahead of the Bayern class of 2023/24 and also the only team to complete a Bundesliga season without defeat, Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen in that same season, on 35 each..

The all-time points record stands at 91 by Jupp Heynckes’ treble winners of 2012/13. The goals record of 101 came from Bayern’s class of 1971/72.

Watch: Bayern keep winning with five-star display in Stuttgart

Best starts to a Bundesliga season by matchday:

Numbers correct following Matchday 13 of 2025/26

*denotes tied on points with other teams. 

Matchday 1: Bayern Munich, 2020/21 – 3 points*, +8 goal difference

Matchday 2: Borussia Dortmund, 1994/95 – 6 points*, +9 goal difference

Matchday 3: Bayern Munich, 2022/23 – 9 points*, +14 goal difference

Matchday 4: Bayern Munich, 2025/26 – 12 points*, +15 goal difference

Matchday 5: Bayern Munich, 2025/26 – 15 points*, +19 goal difference

Matchday 6: Bayern Munich, 2025/26 – 18 points*, +22 goal difference

Matchday 7: Bayern Munich, 2025/26 – 21 points*, +23 goal difference

Matchday 8: Bayern Munich, 2025/26 – 24 points*, +26 goal difference

Matchday 9: Bayern Munich, 2025/26 – 27 points*, +29 goal difference

Matchday 10: Bayern Munich, 2015/16 – 30 points, +29 goal difference

Matchday 11: Bayern Munich, 2025/26 – 31 points*, +33 goal difference

Matchday 12: Bayern Munich, 2025/26 – 34 points*, +35 goal difference

Matchday 13: Bayern Munich, 2025/26 – 37 points*, +40 goal difference

Matchday 14: Bayern Munich, 2015/16 – 40 points, +37 goal difference

Matchday 15: Bayern Munich, 2013/14 – 41 points, +32 goal difference

Matchday 16: Bayern Munich, 2013/14 – 44 points, +34 goal difference

Matchday 17: Bayern Munich, 2013/14 – 47 points, +35 goal difference

Matchday 18: Bayern Munich, 2013/14 – 50 points, +37 goal difference

Matchday 19: Bayern Munich, 2013/14 – 53 points, +42 goal difference

Matchday 20: Bayern Munich, 2013/14 – 56 points, +44 goal difference

Matchday 21: Bayern Munich, 2013/14 – 59 points, +48 goal difference

Matchday 22: Bayern Munich, 2013/14 – 62 points, +52 goal difference

Matchday 23: Bayern Munich, 2013/14 – 65 points, +56 goal difference

Matchday 24: Bayern Munich, 2013/14 – 68 points, +61 goal difference

Matchday 25: Bayern Munich, 2013/14 – 71 points, +62 goal difference

Matchday 26: Bayern Munich, 2013/14 – 74 points, +64 goal difference

Matchday 27: Bayern Munich, 2013/14 – 77 points, +66 goal difference

Matchday 28: Bayern Munich, 2013/14 – 78 points, +66 goal difference

Matchday 29: Bayer Leverkusen, 2023/24 – 79 points, +55 goal difference

Watch: Bayer Leverkusen - Bundesliga Invincibles

Matchday 30: Bayern Munich, 2012/13 – 81 points, +75 goal difference

Matchday 31: Bayern Munich, 2012/13 – 84 points, +76 goal difference

Matchday 32: Bayern Munich, 2012/13 – 85 points, +76 goal difference

Matchday 33: Bayern Munich, 2012/13 – 88 points, +79 goal difference

Matchday 34: Bayern Munich, 2012/13 – 91 points, +80 goal difference

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