Bayern München vs Celtic facts

It is advantage Bayern München in the UEFA Champions League knockout phase play-offs as they welcome Celtic for the second leg.

Goals either side of half-time from Michael Olise (45) and Harry Kane (49) gave Bayern victory as they bid to reach the last 16 for a 17th successive season although Celtic, in their first knockout tie for 12 years, have hope thanks to Daizen Maeda's 79th-minute strike.

Previous meetings

Matches 5
Bayern wins 4
Celtic wins 0
Draws 1
Bayern goals 9
Celtic goals 3

2003/04 Champions League group stage
Bayern 2-1 Celtic
Celtic 0-0 Bayern
Alan Thompson gave Celtic a Matchday 1 lead in Munich, but two late Roy Makaay goals (73,86) turned the game in Bayern's favour before a goalless draw in Glasgow on Matchday 5.

2017/18 Champions League group stage
Bayern 3-0 Celtic
Celtic 1-2 Bayern
Thomas Müller, Joshua Kimmich and Mats Hummels gave Bayern a comfortable Matchday 3 win in Germany; their win in Scotland two weeks later ended Celtic's hopes of reaching the last 16, Javi Martínez with a 77th-minute winner three minutes after Callum McGregor had cancelled out Kingsley Coman's first-half opener.

Form guide

Bayern

Record vs Scottish teams: W11 D6 L3 F31 A16
Home record vs Scottish teams: W6 D3 L0

Those 2017 games against Celtic were Bayern's last against a team from Scotland before this tie.

The 3-0 win against Celtic made it five successive wins against Scottish visitors in Munich; Bayern have kept six clean sheets in their ten home games with Scottish sides, conceding only four goals – and never more than one in a game.

The German club have won their last four games against Scottish opponents and are unbeaten in 14 (W10 D4), since a 1-0 loss at Hearts in the 1988/89 UEFA Cup quarter-final first leg – a tie Bayern went on to win 2-1 on aggregate.

Bayern's last knockout tie against a Scottish club was a 7-3 aggregate success against Aberdeen in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup round of 32 (2-2 a, 5-1 h), making their record in two-legged ties W4 L2 with wins in the last four.

The Munich club's first game against Scottish opponents was a 1-0 defeat of Rangers in the 1967 European Cup Winners' Cup final in Nuremberg.

Beaten by Real Madrid in last season's semi-finals, six-time European champions Bayern have reached the quarter-finals or better in 12 of their last 13 Champions League campaigns, the exception a last-16 elimination by Liverpool in 2018/19.

Bayern have won 24 of their last 29 home Champions League games, drawing four – the only loss a 2-3 reverse to Paris Saint-Germain in the 2020/21 quarter-final first leg. This season they have beaten GNK Dinamo 9-2 – the first time a team had scored nine goals in a Champions League game – Benfica and Paris, both 1-0, and Slovan Bratislava 3-1 in Munich.

Bayern have lost only one of their 28 UEFA ties in which they won the away first leg, most recently beating Paris Saint-Germain in the 2022/23 round of 16 (1-0 a, 2-0 h). That includes three where the away first leg finished 2-1, the last against Sevilla in the 2017/18 quarter-finals (0-0 h).

Bayern's record in six UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W5 L1:
4-3 v Åtvidaberg, 1973/74 European Cup first round
9-8 v PAOK, 1983/84 UEFA Cup second round
5-4 v Valencia, 2000/01 Champions League final
3-1 v Real Madrid, 2011/12 Champions League semi-final
3-4 v Chelsea, 2011/12 Champions League final
5-4 v Chelsea, 2013 Super Cup

Celtic

Record vs German clubs: W5 D5 L21 F25 A55
Away record vs German clubs: W0 D3 L12

Celtic had already played two fixtures against German opponents in this season's Champions League before this tie, losing 7-1 at Borussia Dortmund on Matchday 2 before a 3-1 home defeat of Leipzig.

That Matchday 4 success ended Celtic's run of five successive defeats against Bundesliga opponents, with four goals scored and 19 conceded.

A 2-1 UEFA Europa League group stage win against Leipzig in November 2018 is Celtic's only other victory in their last 18 games against German opponents (D3 L13) and one of only two in the last 11 they have not lost.

The Hoops have never won in Germany, where they have lost their last five matches and ten of the last 12.

This is Celtic's first knockout tie since a 5-4 aggregate win against Stuttgart in the 2002/03 UEFA Cup fourth round that made their two-legged record against Bundesliga clubs W2 L5.

The Glasgow side have won only one of their last 15 European away games, losing 11. This season they have gone down at Dortmund on Matchday 2 before 0-0 draws at UEFA Europa League holders Atalanta and GNK Dinamo and a 2-4 Matchday 8 loss at Aston Villa.

Home and away, Celtic have won only six of their last 41 games in the Champions League proper (D9 L26) – but four of the last ten.

Celtic have lost the first home leg of a UEFA tie nine times previously and have recovered to win only one – against Dinamo Moskva in the third qualifying round of the 2009/10 Champions League (0-1 h, 2-0 a). The sole previous 1-2 defeat helped end their defence of the European Cup in the 1967/68 first round against Dynamo Kyiv (1-1 a).

Celtic's record in three UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W1 L2:
4-5 v Inter, 1971/72 European Cup semi-final
4-5 v Valencia, 2001/02 UEFA Cup third round
4-3 v Spartak Moskva, 2007/08 Champions League third qualifying round

Links and trivia

Have played together:
Harry Kane & Kasper Schmeichel (Leicester 2013)

Cameron Carter-Vickers was a Tottenham player between 2009 and 2022, with Harry Kane and Eric Dier both at the club – although Carter-Vickers never made a first-team appearance.

International team-mates:
Alphonso Davies & Alistair Johnston (Canada)
Hiroki Ito & Daizen Maeda, Reo Hatate (Japan)
Min-jae Kim & Hyun-jun Yang (South Korea)

Schmeichel saved Kane's penalty in the UEFA EURO 2020 semi-final; the striker converted the rebound to give England a 2-1 extra-time win against Denmark at Wembley and was also on target against Schmeichel's Danes in a 1-1 group stage draw at EURO 2024.

Kane's has now scored 17 club goals past Schmeichel, a total that includes a four-goal haul on 18 May 2017 and a hat-trick on 21 March 2015, both in the Premier League for Tottenham against Leicester.

Latest news

Bayern

Bayern stayed eight points clear in the Bundesliga with a 0-0 draw at second-placed Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday.

Vincent Kompany's side had won their previous seven league games and scored 23 goals.

Harry Kane converted two penalties in 3-0 win at home to Werder Bremen on 7 February, making it 29 successful spot kicks in a row in all competitions.

Kane has 21 goals in this season's Bundesliga and 32 in 35 games for club and country.

Kane scored 55 goals in his first 50 Bundesliga games – a new record.

Bayern have scored at least three goals in nine successive home Bundesliga games.

Summer signing Hiroki Ito (out since 28 July, broken metatarsal) made his Bayern debut as a late substitute in Glasgow and started on Saturday.

João Palhinha missed the last three games due to illness.

Alphonso Davies has been sidelined since 22 January with a hamstring injury.

Daniel Peretz has been missing since 8 January with a kidney problem.

On Friday Bayern announced that Jamal Musiala has signed a contract extension until 2030; Manuel Neuer (2026) and Davies (2030) have also agreed new deals.

Celtic

Celtic were 3-0 winners at home to Dundee United on Saturday, making it 24 goals in their last seven Scottish Premiership games.

The Scottish champions have won 22 of their 26 league games this season, the sole defeat a 3-0 loss at Glasgow rivals Rangers on 2 January – ending the Hoops' 27-match unbeaten league run (W24 D3).

Celtic have kept 13 clean sheets in their last 21 matches in all competitions; they conceded 18 goals in the other eight.

A second-half substitute on Saturday, Daizen Maeda had scored in his previous four appearances, seven goals in all, and has nine in eight in all competitions.

Paulo Bernardo is likely to be out for up to five weeks with an ankle injury suffered on 8 February.

James Forrest is back in training having been out since the League Cup final with a foot injury.