Only one week left and we will know who will succeed the Portuguese national team at the European Championship. There are only four teams left in the race: Spain, Italy, Denmark and England will fight for the European champions in 2021. The final of the tournament will take place on July 11th at London’s Wembley Stadium. Then the participating national players go on vacation – but not for long, because the new football season 2021/22 is getting closer and closer. Just like the first appearance of the new national coach Hansi Flick, who will take on the German national team at the beginning of September against Liechtenstein as the successor to Joachim Löw in his new role. The SPORTBUZZER shows the football calendar until the Flick debut.
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Olympic Games (July 22nd to August 1st)
The black, red and gold flags and DFB jersey can stay outside – because the next football highlight will take place with German participation. The Olympic Games soccer tournament will take place in Japan on July 22nd. U21 national coach Stefan Kuntz will go on the hunt for the gold medal with a young team. Under the aegis of the DFB, it would be the first – the GDR won the only German football gold in 1976 with a final victory against Poland in Montreal. Germany achieved the best placement of a DFB delegation five years ago in Rio de Janeiro, at that time it was enough silver behind Brazil. Traditionally, a U23 team travels to the Olympics, up to three players can be older. Kuntz will announce his Olympic squad on Monday (July 5th). Stars like Maximilian Arnold (VfL Wolfsburg), Max Kruse (Union Berlin) and Benjamin Henrichs (RB Leipzig) have hope. Germany will face Brazil (July 22), Saudi Arabia (July 25) and the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire (July 28) in the group stage, with the final taking place in Yokohama on August 7.
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First matchday of the 2nd Bundesliga (July 23 to 25)
Almost at the same time as the Olympics, the 2nd Bundesliga starts its season – with the cracker between Schalke 04 and Hamburger SV on July 23, one day after the Germans’ first Olympic appearance. On the first day of the match there will also be the prestigious duels between Werder Bremen and Hannover 96 and FC St. Pauli against Holstein Kiel. The other game days will be from July 30th to August 1st (2), from August 13th to 15th (3), August 20th to 22nd (4) and from August 27th to 29th (5), after that is international break.
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First round of the DFB Cup (August 6th to 9th)
The first round of the DFB Cup will be played after the second matchday in the second division and one week before the start of the Bundesliga. The draw on Sunday evening gave the top teams mostly easy games. The top division club Bremer SV and the third division club SV Wehen-Wiesbaden have drawn the top lots FC Bayern and defending champion Borussia Dortmund (with their new coaches Julian Nagelsmann and Marco Rose). The defeated finalist RB Leipzig meets second division SV Sandhausen. Borussia Mönchengladbach around the new coach Adi Hütter will meet the traditional club 1. FC Kaiserslautern am Betzenberg in what is probably the most tingling game on the Betzenberg.
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UEFA Super Cup (August 11)
The duel between the winner of the Champions League and the winner of the Europa League traditionally marks the start of the European Cup season. Thomas Tuchel and his Chelsea FC (with the German national players Kai Havertz, Timo Werner and Antonio Rüdiger will face the Spanish representative FC Villarreal, who surprisingly won the Europa League. The game will be played in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the historic Windsor Park.
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First Bundesliga matchday (August 13th to 15th)
Seven days after the first form check in the cup, the Bundesliga starts the new season. The German champions FC Bayern Munich opened the season on Friday evening with a guest appearance at Borussia Mönchengladbach, after which the co-favorites Borussia Dortmund (home game against Eintracht Frankfurt) and RB Leipzig (guest appearance at Mainz 05) also intervene in the action. Newcomers are VfL Bochum (visiting Wolfsburg) and Greuther Fürth, who have to travel to VfB Stuttgart. Incidentally, the English Premier League will start on the same weekend – including a duel between two German coaches: Newcomer Norwich meets with Daniel Farke against Jürgen Klopp and Liverpool FC.
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DFL-Supercup (17. August)
The DFL Supercup between the German champions and the DFB Cup winners will take place again this time after the Bundesliga opener. In Dortmund’s Signal Iduna Park, the cup winner BVB enjoys home rights against the champions FC Bayern. The kick-off is at 8.30 p.m.
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Playoffs Conference League and European Cup draw (August 19 and 26/27)
On August 19, things will get serious for Union Berlin in Europe. The Eiserne will be competing in the first edition of the newly created Europa Conference League, the final field of which will be determined in the playoffs on August 19 and 26. UEFA has also made sure that teams eliminated early in higher competitions are more gentle. So a club that is in the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League fails and thus “relegates” to the playoff games for the group stage of the Europa League, in case of another defeat automatically play in the Conference League group stage.
On August 26th, the composition of the group stage in the premier class will be drawn. From a German point of view, FC Bayern, Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig and VfL Wolfsburg have qualified. The next day, the same procedure follows in the Europa League, where Bundesliga representatives Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayer 04 Leverkusen are seeded for the group stage.
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First international game period with Hansi Flick (September 2nd to 8th)
The first international game period concludes the first phase of the season. On September 2nd, the new national coach, Hansi Flick, will make his debut, taking on the legacy of Joachim Löw. In Kybunpark in St. Gallen, Switzerland, Liechtenstein is the first opponent of the Flick era in the World Cup qualification, followed by against the current leaders of the German qualifying group Armenia (September 5 in Stuttgart) and Iceland (September 8 in Reykjavik ).
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