German Supercup | |||||||
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Event | DFL-Supercup | ||||||
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Date | 12 August 2018 | ||||||
Venue | Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt | ||||||
Man of the Match | Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)[1] | ||||||
Referee | Marco Fritz (Korb)[2] | ||||||
Attendance | 51,500[3] | ||||||
Weather | Partly cloudy 24 °C (75 °F) 36% humidity[4] | ||||||
The 2018 DFL-Supercup was the ninth edition of the German super cup under the name DFL-Supercup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal competitions. The match was played on 12 August 2018.[5]
The DFL-Supercup featured Eintracht Frankfurt, the winners of the 2017–18 DFB-Pokal, and Bayern Munich, the winners of the 2017–18 Bundesliga and two-time defending champions of the DFL-Supercup.
Bayern Munich won the match 5–0 for their third consecutive and seventh overall title.
Besonders Robert Lewandowski avancierte mit drei Treffern zum überragenden Spieler des Spiels (transl. Notably Robert Lewandowski advanced with three goals as the outstanding player of the match)