In the German Bundesliga, the matches of the first round have already been played. All the league leaders have started the season triumphantly.
The defending champions "Werder" players, at home, after a fierce battle, managed to defeat the "Schalke" team only in the last minutes of the match. Vice-champion "Bayern" also started successfully - the Munich club beat "Hamburger" 0-2 away. Leverkusen's "Bayer" team managed to recover after a unsuccessful start of the match and also earn three points, with a winning goal scored by Franca already in the referee's added time.
All results:
- 1 - 0 84'
- 2 - 1 15' (0 - 1) 49' (1 - 1) 91' (2 - 1)
- 1 - 2 32' (1 - 0) 43' (1 - 1) 64' (1 - 2)
- 0 - 0
- 0 - 2 22' 71'
- 2 - 2 6' Gilberto (1 - 0) 44' (2 - 0) 65' (2 - 1) 70' (2 - 2)
- 1 - 3 12' (0 - 1) 58' Ferydoon Zandi (1 - 1) 61' Robert Vittek (1 - 2) 84' Lars Muller (1 - 3)
- 0 - 0
- 4 - 2 20' (1 - 0) 30' (2 - 0) 49' Christof Babatz (2 - 1) 51' Silvio Meissner (3 - 1) 75' Tamas Bodog (3 - 2) 78' (4 - 2)