Borussia Dortmund will host the supercup-2026" rel="tag">Franz Beckenbauer Supercup 2026 at the Westfalenstadion, giving Niko Kovac’s side a title match in front of its own crowd on 22 August at 20.30 Uhr. The venue decision, announced by the DFL on Wednesday, 27 May, also means Dortmund’s DFB-Pokal appearance will be moved to 1 or 2 September.
That is the date fans and the club were waiting for because Dortmund are already in the competition after Bayern München beat Stuttgart in the Pokalfinale and completed a double, opening the path for the Bundesliga runner-up to take part in the Supercup. For Kovac, the reward is clear: a home setting for one of the first major domestic matches of the season, and a schedule that now has to absorb a cup tie just as the league calendar begins to gather pace.
The choice is notable because the DFL did not send the match to the champion’s ground, even though Bayern have hosted the Supercup in recent years. Instead, it kept the traditional hosting model and put the game in Dortmund, where the match will fall on the same weekend as the first round of the DFB-Pokal. That will leave Dortmund with a compressed start to the campaign and no time to ease into the season.
The fixture itself carries plenty of history. Since the Supercup was relaunched for the 2010/2011 season, Dortmund and Bayern have met nine times in the final duel. Bayern have won five of those meetings, Dortmund three. The clubs have been the central attraction of the competition for years, and this latest meeting will again come with a trophy and a full stadium attached.
The financial stakes are modest by top-tier standards but still enough to matter: the DFL paid three million euros to the winner and two million euros to the loser in the previous year. What remains unknown is the opponent Dortmund will actually face in the 2026 edition, but the venue and date already set up a familiar rivalry in a less familiar setting — a home final in Dortmund, with the season’s first cup hurdle pushed back to early September.
