Dortmund showdown on Saturday evening

The German Football League (DFL) has published the final match schedule for Bundesliga matchdays 7 to 16. Bayern will play six of their fixtures at the conventional time of 3.30 pm CET on Saturday afternoon, with two matches on Saturday evening at 6.30 pm, one on a Sunday evening at 5.30 pm, and one on a Wednesday at 8 pm. The date and kick-off time of the last fixture of the first half of the programme, the meeting with Mönchengladbach on 14, 15 or 16 December, will be assigned in early November.

The DFL has billed the eagerly-awaited showdown against Borussia Dortmund as the top match of the weekend, to take place at 6.30 pm on Saturday 1 December. The other Saturday evening fixture is the meeting with Hamburg on 3 November.

The Sunday game is on 28 October when Bayer 04 Leverkusen visit the Allianz Arena. Exactly a month later, on 28 November, Bayern play their midweek league fixture away to Freiburg.

The remaining Bundesliga matches, against Hoffenheim, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Nürnberg, Hannover and Augsburg, are all at the standard German top flight kick-off time of 3.30 pm on Saturday.

Click here for the fixture schedule in full.